--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As far as I can tell, human consciousness has not differed > > > greatly from those people who lived during the vedic ages, > > > or the time of Moses in the desert. IMHO, the human > > > consciousness has always been the same throughout the ages. > > > > I beg to differ, that consciousness has evolved along with > > everything else can't really be disputed. Originally I would > > have thought that we haven't changed much since we left Africa...
Richard/Hugo, I was going to write a response to this earlier, even though I'm running out of posts, that said, "You lost John here, Richard. He wouldn't consider for a moment that humans came from Africa. Instead, he'd follow the Maharishi dogma and insist that they came from India." But then I thought, "No, better to save my post for something else. Even John couldn't be so out of it as to believe that the Creation myths in what he laugh- ably calls the "vedic literature" were accurate, or had any truth to them, much less Truth. Oh me of little faith... :-) > > then I read The Origin of Consciouness in the Breakdown of the > > Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes and the world changed, many > > things became clear that once were mysteries. > > At the present time, most learned individuals are relying on Darwin's > theory of evolution to describe how humans have developed from the > primordial organisms on earth. Pope John Paul II believed in this > theory as well. As such, he considered the story of Adam and Eve > to be a myth. > > Nonetheless, as I continue to read the passages of the vedic > literature, it is also conceivable that Darwin's theory may be > wrong. John, meet Sarah Palin. You two have a lot in common. You're both ignorant hicks who believe in fairytales. > According to the vedic theory, human beings were created as > offsprings of the prajapatis, the universal progenetors or cosmic > executives. In turn, these progenetors were created from the body > of Brahma. Brahma similarly came from the navel of Vishnu. So, > there is a direct link from the divine. I cannot bring myself to comment. I am shocked speech- less that any intelligent human being, on this forum or any other, would give voice to such superstitious twaddle as if there could be the slightest truth in it.
