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Old 11-26-2008, 10:46 AM   #4
Hammaduersnes

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Before I do the research and barrage you with links, (not today I've got to get off the computer) I just wanted to clarify that when I said 'dogma' I didn't mean 'rules'- I meant 'description of reality based on religious or contemporary thought.' For example, the idea of astral planes the theosophists had is compared to the idea that the earth is flat (which is not a right comparison, I agree, but it is the one most westeners have) and that astral planes were physically stacked on top of each other in a hierarchical position- nowadays we don't think that way, or 'believe' that way- we speak of range of physicality, or focus of awareness, or frequency shifting, or degree of psychological distance- terms that make more sense to us as people of our time-but describe the same (or same enough) experience; until of course some other person makes another discovery about the universe and the model changes- and so will our descriptive vocabulary when it does.
I didn't mean archaic as 'wrong' or 'outmoded'. More like less and less comprehensible.
So hurry up and write that article- for the young ones that come after us.
Tomorrow I'll try to give you a bunch of links, have fun.
Cheers.

ps. Here's the first one.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10282


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