The Pre-Babel Age and the Vedas

"This is Dr Irving Finkel, a renowned Assyriologist at the British Museum. He suggests writing may have existed thousands of years earlier than we’re taught. "

Walter Cruttenden (@WalterCrut)(* 2/2/26
It may be true, but if the pre-Babel age was really an age of telepathy and clairvoyance (as suggested by the Vedic saints and sages) then writing which formally starts about 3100BC may be a devolution rather than an evolution of consciousness. You only need to spell things out for people when they don’t already know. Still in an age of telepathy some symbols may have been helpful to some people.

Oh gosh. While the speculative notion of a "Golden Age" of telepathy is a poetic narrative, it relies on an unfalsifiable premise. Where is the evidence of this? To suggest that writing represents a "devolution" of consciousness is in my view a misinterpretation. In reality, the transition from oral or hypothetical "intuitive" cultures to literate ones was not a retreat from power, but a massive cognitive expansion. Writing served as the first "external hard drive," allowing for the storage of complex data—astronomical cycles, legal codes, and mathematics—that far exceeded the capacity of any single biological brain or even orally transmitted (and transmutable) mythological cycle. It looks a bit like Cruttenden has been influenced by the Hamlet's Mill crowd (cf Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechen 2015).
Furthermore, treating the Vedic Siddhis or the Tower of Babel as literal historical markers is a category error. These traditions function as profound spiritual metaphors or allegories for linguistic diversity, not as chronological records of a lost psychic baseline.

By framing literacy as a symptom of ignorance, the American author overlooks its true function: temporal transcendence. Writing did not emerge because we "forgot" how to communicate; it emerged because we finally had something to say to the future. Duh.

And no, a few symbols scratched on a stone do not equal writing, except perhaps to the same extent as a three-year old's drawing of blobs with a smile and two vertical lines below (symbolising in their opinion [my/a] granddad) is a pictograph of the word.

* self describes as "Author entrepreneur focused on precession and cycles of consciousness. Rancho Mirage", CA" (USA). BinaryResearchInstitute.org. Author of "Lost Star of Myth and Time" (2005) and "The Great Year" (2003).