--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes I was aware of this. Much of it, from what I had read in the > past, seems to be part scientific materialist vs. higher states of > consciousness debate.
Yeah, none of the material I cited had anything to do with resistance to the idea of higher states of consciousness. It wasn't even mentioned. There was a *lot* of resistance, however, to the thesis of a book by a man named Temple that claimed the Dogon were told about the Sirius system by a bunch of extraterrestrials from Sirius on a visit to Earth. (Actually I guess one could consider Temple's thesis an example of resistance to the idea of knowledge obtained through higher states of consciousness, although none of what I read *about* Temple's book suggested such a position on his part.) It would be virtually impossible for a hard- > core materialistic scientist to understand the states of > consciousness these peoples were accessing. If that's what they were, in fact, doing. > There are a number of tribes in Africa in which the majority > of the people are spiritually > awake. Or at least there were. Many in Mali are being destroyed by > infection of Islam and other Abrahamical "religions" which don't > support or even allow such "pagan" or "primitive practices. > > This the relevance of the song and it's theme of scientific > materialism and the limitations of the waking state. I have no problem at all with this theme, to the contrary. It's just not at all clear that the Dogon notions about Sirius are an example of transcending such limitations. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
