Spirituality, although it has always been surrounded by mysticism and uncertainty, has been an integral part of the human psyche since the emergence of the modern man (Buckman 31). There is evidence that even Homo sapiens from the Paleolithic era (ca. 120,000 BC - 8,000BC) believed in a spiritual world. These archaic human beings engaged in mortuary practices similar to modern ones, burying their dead in sleeping positions and surrounding them with ritual artifacts. Intricately fashioned jewelry and symbolic paintings suggest their belief in an afterlife, while precautions such as ritual decap...

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