Religions Timeline

Looking at timeline and origin of major religions I have a feeling that we are running out of ideas. There was nothing new in many hundreds years.

Are we going to have any new religions in the near future?

See: http://www.sacred-texts.com/time/origtime.htm

Silencium Universi

Solipsistic brains also seek union with spirits larger than those of other minds and societies. Once embarked in this direction minds encounter no logical barriers to finding spirits in animals, rocks and plants, in the least particles of physics, in Gaia, or in the entire universe. The safest course for a brain may be to act as if there were others "out there", in what mathematicians call "Pascal's wager". If it is mistaken, it suffers mere loneliness, but if it is correct, it gains early warning of opportunities and dangers. The same scenario is played for the same reason on a world-wide scale by cosmologists like Carl Sagan in search of extraterrestrial intelligence. The tenacity with which humans hold to the belief that something out there cares, despite what Stanislav Lem (1983) called the "silencium universi", clearly manifests an important aspect of intentional dynamics.

The excerpt from *Societies of Brains* by Walter J. Freeman