everything wrote:if it were all true, then what? how far back do we try to go? what do we want answered? ... before written history (that we know of) there were surely influences. ... also how did the neanderthals fight? relate to nature? The Way?
Old ideas of physical culture and internal body-methods that were once natural, innate states of being in pre-ancient peoples.
Ancient Greeks wrote about the ideas having to do with Pneuma as mind-body states, and the internal intricacies of tension/release, contraction and expansion, mind-intent etc...
Before that (neandethal?), it probably isn't/wasn't so much about fighting, per se. More to do with listening and awareness, and perception, as a conduit through which a connection with the visceral energetics of being alive and in the world, and responding naturally and spontaneously to the realm and extent of one's range and 'frequency' of the energetics at work in their world. blah blah blah