This book presents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of the emergence of the concept of God through the evolution of human consciousness. Moving beyond traditional theological boundaries, it traces the idea of the divine from the earliest individual spiritual experiences, through collective rituals, institutional religious authority, philosophical reflection, and finally to contemporary neuroscientific interpretations of transcendence and meaning.
The work argues that the relationship between humanity and God is not one-directional, but rather a deeply intertwined and reciprocal journey. Human beings have shaped symbols, myths, rituals, and doctrines in their attempt to understand existence, while the concept of God has simultaneously shaped human consciousness by providing values, moral order, symbolic immortality, and frameworks of meaning. Throughout history, humanity has encountered the divine at different stages of cognitive and social development, through multiple experiential channels such as vision, trance, ritual, reason, and inner awareness.
Religion, within this perspective, is no longer viewed solely as a heavenly revelation imposed from outside, nor merely as a social construct. Instead, it emerges as a dynamic mirror of human consciousness and an ongoing existential quest to understand life, death, and purpose. The book maintains a balanced and neutral stance, presenting God not only as a transcendent external reality, but also as an inner symbolic structure embedded within collective consciousness and essential for the formation of ethics, order, and meaning.
From a research-oriented standpoint, the book further proposes that the origins of religion-and even earlier, the concept of a supreme source-are closely linked to out-of-body experiences. These include near-death experiences, shamanic journeys, and consciously induced astral states. Within this framework, the experience of Adam is interpreted as most likely shamanic in nature, representing an early form of altered consciousness rather than a purely literal historical event.
The study also explores the possibility that ancient Sumerian beings, known as the Anunnaki, may have played a role in humanity's genetic or civilizational development. This hypothesis is examined in parallel with Qur'anic discourse, whose distinctive plural and executive style may symbolically point to non-human agents of execution and obedience. In this interpretation, the Anunnaki can be seen as functionally analogous to angels-not as objects of worship, but as agents within a larger cosmological order.
Ultimately, this book offers a bold yet carefully reasoned synthesis of anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, and consciousness research, inviting the reader to reconsider the origin of religion and the enduring human encounter with the idea of God.
