thevenusian
Dagobah Resident
Re: Electric Universe/Thunderbolts Project Convention in Las Vegas January 2012
Well, yes, I basically agree with you.
What Talbott is saying, which echoes what Velikovsky said is that people gradually lost that connection simply because the original events which the myths were describing (which were huge, dramatic, impossible to miss and sometimes traumatic) weren't happening anymore. So they no longer made sense and became 'myths.'
The implications of this are that over time any group with the intention and ability to co-opt the stories could 'guide' them to mean whatever they wanted.
This doesn't necessarily mean that every myth was corrupted with ill-intent, but some form of 'selection and substitution' took place inevitably. What we've learned from the cognitive studies shows that often, if pressed for an explanation and we're not sure, we'll just make something up. Kind of sobering to consider that might well be close to how all major religions got their start.
Buddy said:Could this be interpreted as, over a relatively short period of time historically speaking, people lost connection with their memory of their real collective history, or that dense-with-accurate-information-encoded-in-metaphor, powerful mythological/poetic consciousness (my interpretation)? If so, does the introduction of "gods and whatnot" represent 'selection and substitution' with new, relatively worthless myths, so to speak? Paleo-Ponerology?
Well, yes, I basically agree with you.
What Talbott is saying, which echoes what Velikovsky said is that people gradually lost that connection simply because the original events which the myths were describing (which were huge, dramatic, impossible to miss and sometimes traumatic) weren't happening anymore. So they no longer made sense and became 'myths.'
The implications of this are that over time any group with the intention and ability to co-opt the stories could 'guide' them to mean whatever they wanted.
This doesn't necessarily mean that every myth was corrupted with ill-intent, but some form of 'selection and substitution' took place inevitably. What we've learned from the cognitive studies shows that often, if pressed for an explanation and we're not sure, we'll just make something up. Kind of sobering to consider that might well be close to how all major religions got their start.