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Post by Level on Mar 20, 2005 21:17:14 GMT
A thread clean up
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Post by Level on Mar 20, 2005 21:22:29 GMT
Hubert (N. Z.) Full Member
« Reply #9 on: 03/19/2005 at 16:19:19 » <br>One could also argue that the " great deluge of Noah" is fiction too!! which could cloud the issue as seen by intellectualls of that time. Undoubtably some catastrophy did occur in some part of the world. That together with time and circumsatnces would easily have hidden/destroyed records pertaining to the "root-races" Whistler mentions. The Dead Sea Scrolls is but one example of LOST accounts coming to light.
If further reading is required on Root Races see Theosophical literature such as the Secret Doctrine or Isis Unveilled by Blavatsky, The First Principles of Theosophy by Jinaradadasa, and The Earth & Its Cycles by E.W.Preston. Ernest Wood also has written on the subject. I think Edgar Cayce has also commented on the subject. Logged
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Post by Seeker on Mar 20, 2005 21:59:52 GMT
This raises interesting issues... Channelled Information like "John Smith' of Morman fame, or St Patrick with his voices, Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana, of the Ratana church, Edgar Cayce, Colin Fry, Doris Stokes, Moses etc etc. Because the information they spread was "Channelled' Can any of it be fact, some of it, or none of it.
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Post by whistler on Mar 20, 2005 22:19:27 GMT
That is interesting .. We have scientists over here debating Should people live near High Voltage Pylons One highly qualified scientist says yes you can live right under them. The other equally qualified scientist says no it is very dangerous.. I don’t know if either received the information by chanelling. Or both studied and learnt from text books But I guess one will be Fact and one Fiction. Bit Like Channelled Information
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Post by ruffashlar on Mar 25, 2005 8:37:17 GMT
I don't believe that, just because a word for something exists, that the thing itself must logically exist.
Channelling, for example. I prefer to say, "Ideas popping into one's head". They might be coming from outside, such as from one's wooden Indian spirit guide. Or, they might be something you just made up on the spot without thinking about it.
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Post by taylorsman on Mar 25, 2005 9:24:18 GMT
Ruff I have sent you an answer by PM. Love your description.
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Post by Hubert (N. Z.) on Mar 26, 2005 1:00:27 GMT
Isn't that how Intuition works. A "new" idea springs into mind and a new discovery presents itself. No matter how hard the Amazonian primitives, still alive today, try, they could not at present invent television. WE know what it is but to them the screen just presents pygmies accros the screen!
Some of Rudolf Steiner's theorys on animal husbandry, or more particularly "erradication of pests" are now being experimented with here in "God's Own" (NZ) with remarkable success!
It all adds to the sum total of our knowledge. For gods' sake we even have a "FLAT EARTH" society extant in the world???
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Post by jmd on Mar 26, 2005 4:29:33 GMT
Given that the Flat Earth society is on the other side, we don't have to worry too mjuch about them, Hubert... they'll fall off!
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Post by Hubert (N. Z.) on Mar 26, 2005 4:46:37 GMT
Precisly, jmd, my point however is that we have people here commenting that ONLY provable facts or repeatable experiments should be the basis of any discussion, that such things as "channelled" or intuitive perception is suspect. From time to time, I deal in natural healing. The end result is always different for each individual, sometimes as a result of their own "closed" thinking. I regularly have acupunture treatments, for a variety of ailments - from stress to slipped disks. It works every time, even when doctors & osteopaths have failed. I know it is not a placebo, as no pills are taken, and a pinched nerve does not occur in the mind.
Thus I am open to other rationalities, other than always repeatable "scientific" conventions.
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Post by jmd on Mar 26, 2005 5:01:24 GMT
Personally, I have no doubts of the existence of various spiritual beings, and find frameworks of reference that assumes a physicalist model simply limiting.
Of course many things may be explained by physical means, but to abuse Ockham's razor to cut off that which is not desired goes beyond its proper application.
...but I'm confused as to what is (are) the item(s) of discussion(s) in this thread.
Is my confusion due to a split from another thread, or a altered opening post???
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Post by ruffashlar on Mar 28, 2005 3:16:15 GMT
The thread has been Levelled
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