From Gods to God

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Spirit World
2. Chapter Two - The First Named Gods
3. Chapter Three - Divine Order and God-Kings
4. Chapter Four - Mesopotamian Remix
5. Chapter Five - Cycles, Karma, and Infinite Forms
6. Chapter Six - The God of the Mountain
7. Chapter Seven - Human Gods for Human Problems
8. Chapter Eight - Rebrand Everything
9. Chapter Nine - The War for One God
10. Chapter Ten - Gods Go Global
11. Chapter Eleven - Enlightenment and the God Recession
12. Chapter Twelve - The Modern Age

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Spirit World (PREHISTORY – ~3000 BCE) Before gods had names, they had presence. We didn’t worship Zeus or Yahweh or Shiva. We worshiped the wind that knocked down trees. The river that didn’t stop. The eyes we thought we saw in the dark. This was animism, the belief that everything was alive with spirit. Not “gods” yet. No thrones or rules. Just a world that breathed back when we looked at it. We carved faces into stone. We wore feathers and bones. We buried our dead with tools and food just in case they needed them later. We weren’t sure if the dead stopped, or if they just moved. So we kept them close. Ancestor spirits weren’t scary. They were part of the tribe. In some...