The Origin of Religion

Anthropologist e b tyler was a quaker. His theory about the origin of religion, working with these primal people, was that they perceived the spirit as existing outside the body. So if this spirit can exist outside the body, then how is it going to communicate with us? It communicated with dreams. You take that idea all the way ialso taught philosophy. And you take that all the way up through the history of philosophy to de art and his famous, i think therefore i am a,. starts with having a dream of some one who is dead speaking to him. The land of dreams being our communication from the land of the dead.