Tuesday, July 19, 2005

To Icelanders, power of elves is inescapable

"Despite having seen the elf only once in 15 years -- enough time to determine that she was 'bigger than life and dressed like my grandmother, in a 1930s national costume' -- Hakonardottir, 67, has no doubt of her existence." (Via Technoccult.)

Intriguingly, a recurring motif among "abductees" is seeing dead relatives -- sometimes in an otherworldly context. Either "they" have the ability to adapt to our prevailing assumptions -- magical or technological -- or our minds readily create a contextual "reality" for nonhuman encounters based on available memes. Either way, we're not seeing behind the curtain.
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3 comments:

Ken said...

Question: If little humanoids who are closer to the energies of the earth actually exist, what would that do to our theory of human evolution?

11:17 AM
Ken said...

"If little humanoids who are closer to the energies of the earth actually exist, what does that do to science in general!?"

I'm not sure it will do anything to science except overthrow some existing assumptions and paradigms. Science can *potentially* explain everything. I think C.G. Jung would have a hey day with the notion that beings might exist which maintain closer ties to the energies of the earth.

I stated a while ago that I think the theory of evolution which we have at present constitutes a mere sliver of a much more complex totality. IMO the origin and development of life possess many dimensions to it of which we are as yet completely ignorant. Our present biological theories only explain a facet of this multi-faceted reality.

Perhaps the story of human evolution, for instance, was not merely the simple, one-dimensional, roughly linear affair that we assume. Suppose many other factors were involved -- such as the influence of a *collective dream-state* which had a hand in shaping the development not only of human beings but of all organisms?

And how about Jung's theory of syncronicity? We puzzle over the fact that the Face on Mars would indicate that the Martians (if they ever existed) looked so much like us. Could there be a nexus between physics and the psyche which would explain *why* our Martian neighbors happened to have evolved into beings who resemble us so strikingly? Could the mere proximity of Earth to Mars have anything to do with it, without any *biological* connection existing between life forms on the two planets?

We could even theorize that perhaps the Face is, after all, natural -- but that it carries the striking resemblance to a human face because the collective dream-state can effect even the geology on a nearby planet.

Oh, that there we an Einstein today who could mathematically prove such things -- and take science where science has never gone before!

8:48 PM
Mac said...

Rupert Sheldrake's "morphogenetic fields"?

10:12 PM

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