Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00667)

In a message dated 8/29/2004 3:17:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
th.paijmans@wxs.nl writes:
For a more balanced view, see

http://www.intersurf.com/~chalcedony/geofact.shtml

Regards,

Theo
While I am in no position to know the ultimate truths on these matters, 
remember that these matters are always highly political. Nearly everyone, when 
presented with information that does not fit into one's memetic jigsaw puzzle, 
will begin to attempt to debunk and what one wants to believe one will almost 
always find information to support. This, of course, may apply to the BBC's 
interpretation as well yet I believe there is other potent cultural evidence that 
India, Afghanistan, and Tibet are indeed among the areas that have hosted 
human habitation for the very longest.

Is the Hopi Deity Kokopelli an Ancient Hindu God?
http://www.viewzone.com/kokopeli.html

There is a sense when dealing with people reared in the culture of India that 
we are dealing with something nearly unrecognizably old. In other words, I 
doubt that many would know something that old if we saw it with our own eyes.

I am going to head onto tricky ground here but before I do I must ask the 
group a question:

Do you believe (any of you) that an archetype or spirit or a god is a thing 
with enough historical cumulative force to be a thing evolved beyond a pure 
imagining? Whether or not they were given birth to by humans or not, do they 
have a momentum and/or a force?

I believe it would be the same to ask what exactly the power of myth is.

More specifically, whether these things are disembodied Jungian aspects of 
the psyche or what the @#*~ ever, are truths available to the human mind via 
these 'entities' ?


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