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(In »Irreducible multiplicity – syntheism as a process religion«)

We see clearly how the sacrificial act itself as a condition for life expresses itself as the collective sacrifice throughout history. Sacrifice was developed by nomadic society as a response to nature’s devastating power over mankind. The sacrifice was the tribe’s way of trying to buy independence and room to manoeuvre from the gods. However, all organisms invariably sacrifice part of themselves for the sake of their own survival. Only through such an act of sacrifice can the being attain independence from its environment. Independence per definition means of course a cloning of what is independent from precisely the bigger phenomenon from which it now stands independent. The great trauma is of course what remains after the self-sacrifice; it is the perceptional protection against an overabundance of stimuli; it is the foundation for the new self in what is independent. It is thanks to the trauma that the being becomes functional, manages to exploit its environment for its own survival, and thereby also assures itself of resources for its future reproduction.