HERE ARE SOME BOOKS THAT WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THAT MIND
To download and read a free copy of Alice Hickey- http://justinspringbooks.blogspot.com/
Anyone seeking to understand the nature of the preliterate oral poetry that gave birth to all of the world's great myths (and that now feed much of our alternative thinking) should read this book. No ancient legend or myth can be correctly understood without understanding how and why these great story poems were created.
To download and read a free copy of this book:
http://outwardjourneytext.blogspot.com/
The Witnesses Log Myth is a contemporary creation myth spoken spontaneously from the unconscious, which is how all preliterate (oral) poems were made. It is an excellent example of the nature of those great oral myth/poems.
A free video version of The Witnesses Log can be seen at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/soulspeakspring#grid/user/17B15AE75AE11984
CARL JUNG AND JULIAN JAYNES
Jung was a scientific psychologist who championed the importance of the unconscious mind in living a complete life. Jung saw the terms unconscious mind, psyche, and soul as essentially interchangeable. In the course of his monumental investigations, he shed new light on ancient ways of thinking, but most importantly on the psychic world, a major component of preliterate culture, consciousness and art.
Carl Gustav Jung 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth.[1] Though not the first to analyze dreams, he has become perhaps one of the most well known pioneers in the field of dream analysis. Much of his life's work was spent exploring Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts.
Many pioneering psychological concepts were originally proposed by Jung, including the Archetype, the Collective Unconscious, the Complex, and synchronicity.
The groundbreaking work of Julian Jaynes revealed the true nature of the consciousness of preliterate man.
The following is a brief outline of Jaynes' thought and influence.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jaynes argued that the change from this mode of thinking (which he called the bicameral mind) to {modern}consciousness occurred over a period of centuries about three thousand years ago and was based on the development of special types of linguistic cognition and the emergence of writing as an alternative means of social control.
Jaynes's theory has been influential to philosophers, psychologists, and psychiatrists and has been cited in hundreds of scientific and popular books. It was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978. In the late 1990s, Jaynes's ideas received renewed attention as brain imaging technology confirmed many of his early predictions.
Whitley Strieber doesn't mind going far out with his guests, who can really be on the fringe at times, and he can be a bit of a showman, but I love listening to him because he's one of the few investigators who has actually had an alien experience and is still trying to honestly figure it out.
Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country/Dreamland web page where audio and video broadcasts back to 2002 can be accessed.
Joseph Campbell plays it a bit close to the vest, as you might expect from an academic, but Campbell knew more about myths than anyone and knew how to explain them to a general public. His books are excellent. His YOUTUBE channel is well worth viewing if you want an introduction to the true nature of preliterate myths and their continuing effect upon us.
Joseph Campbell's Youtube Page.
Both of these preliterate humans were just as bright as we are. But there were a few critical differences.
Early humans had a much different consciousness. They did not have the reflective mind space that we have that allows us to imagine future paths.
In its place, they heard guiding psychic voices they took to be the Gods. In addition, they had easy access to their unconscious minds and the psychic realm.
They were not so much concerned with logically examining the world but intuitively imitating it through art. Oral story poetry, cave paintings, and sculpture were the primary forms.
We have only transcribed remnants of the great flood of oral poetry that once filled those cultures.
Some of the sculptures and paintings have survived intact. A few are shown below and are critical to understanding preliterate cultures.
The large number of female figures are from the very early (60,000-10,000BC) Mother Goddess period that preceded the rise of the male Gods.
But first let us consider the 17,000 year old drawing at Lascaux.
The 17,000 year old cave drawings at Lascaux in France.
My own take on the incredible art produced by the people who painted Lascaux is two fold. One: not all preliterate peoples advanced uniformly. Some seem to have developed highly sophisticated cultures while others didn't. Two: preliterate man was a naturally artistic creature who experienced sudden bursts in creative insight because he always worked from the unconscious, which is unpredictable in its projected visions.
HERE ARE SOME DAZZLING EXAMPLES OF THAT ART THAT HAVE SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF OVER 30,000 YEARS OF TIME.
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