Ther Human Story: topic suggestions

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The tenth item I noted was the question of "theomatics":

http://theomatics.com/

You may have noticed that several ancient nations used the same symbols for numbers and letters; it turns out that a word or phrase written in such a language has a numerical equivalent (adding the number value of the characters) and in the case of the Bible at least, words and phrases with similar or ralated meanings have codes which bear some relation to eachother.

The authors of the website view this as an indication that God wrote the Bible since man would not be capable of such a thing. I don't believe that. What I DO believe is that in past ages, human brains and minds were capable of things they no longer are other than in extreme cases, and writing in numeric codes may have been part of that. This fits into the sort of thing I mentioned in items 4 - 7 earlier, i.e. Jaynsiabn phenomena.

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I mean, other than that, if somebody can look at this image:



and NOT see the two equilateral triangles, then there really IS something wrong with his or her eyes. I mean, I'm not really into exaggeration or making things up.

[Sparky]

Artists make use of the brain's ability to be fooled, illusion.

Perception is part of the human condition.

Delusion is part of perception. Seeing what one wants to see is why hunters shoot, logs, mules, and each other, when hunting for deer.

Delusion is usually not something a person initiates, but comes as a result of unanticipated consequences, is a genetic predisposition, or comes about from indoctrination in an ideology that does not reflect the real universe. And part of the delusion is that it is others who are at fault, do not understand, or at it's worst, "are out to do harm."

I suggest that it is the human mental condition, delusion, which more adequately describes the persistent and dogmatic interpretation of an illusion into something which other's can not see, not some corrected eye problem.

But, till better images can be obtained of these anomalies, it is all subjective, and dismissive positions on either side are logical fallacies.

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Item eleven in my little list of topics was the question of a a relationship between Julian Jaynes' findings and the little booklets which Al de Grazia and Hugh Crossthwaite wrote dealing with electrostatic and plasma physics phenomena in ancient times, which may be viewed here:

http://www.bearfabrique.org/Catastrophism/degrazia.html

In other words, could the "bicameral age" which Jaynes described have come to an end not due to societal evolution as per Jaynes himself, but due to a final collapse of a former electrostatic field of some sort?

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The final topic I mentioned as appropriate for any sort of a neo-catastrophism confab dealing with "the human question" or anything like that is the question of EVP. That is, the question of whether or not EVP is real, and what relationship if any there might be between EVP and the kinds of things which Al de Grazia and Hugh Crosthwaite describe.

The old website for the American EVP Association is:

http://atransc.org/

That has its original content as well as links to the newer site. I do not agree with Dave Talbott's view of this topic as "wildly speculative"; speculative for sure but there is nothing wild about it and it is well motivated. From reading Julian Jaynes and Al de Grazia and Hugh Crossthwaite's works we understand that things like prophecy and oracles involved trance states (to overcome consciousness) and static electricity, and a machine which has no consciousness in the first place and can generate white noise might well be a modern equivalent of old-time religious practices.

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Actually, they made a movie called "White Noise" about five or six years ago which can be found on DVD. The movie in and of itself was nothing to write home about but the special feature section of the DVD gave a casual viewer a fairly accurate idea of some of the techniques which were being used in EVP studies, enough so to almost justify at least the cost of renting the dvd from netflix or blockbusters.

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