Theos-Talk Archives (October 2004 Message tt00192)

Dear Leon,

Perhaps it's a failing of mine to enthuse about a book when I have 
just started it, not waiting until it's digested and I can discuss 
the thesis and evidence. So I'll post in detail next week after 
finishing it. Halfway through now, I can strongly disagree with:

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, leonmaurer@a... wrote:
> This (let's call it "geneticology":-) seems to fall into the same 
category as 
> phrenology, iridology, astrology, chiromancy, psychoanalysis, 
etc. -- some of 
> which became so popular around the time of HPB. 
> 
and allay your concern that Hamer is trying to:

> scientifically explain all the inner workings of the human psyche -

One tidbit that I find downright eerie is that studies of siblings 
who vary on scores in the self-transcendence scale identifies a 
particular genetic difference that strongly correlates. The more 
spiritually-oriented sibling usually has a C in a sequence where the 
less spiritually-oriented has an A.

What's so weird and eerie about this is that Gurdjieff teaches about 
three kinds of influences to which we can respond: Work influences 
which uplift us, Life influences which blind us to spiritual 
reality, and mixed influences. He calls Work influences C 
influences and Life influences A influences, which corresponds 
precisely to the names of the genetic difference Hamer finds between 
siblings. Odd coincidence!

(This was a by-product of research on cigarette smoking and 
nonsmoking siblings, BTW.)

More later,

Paul