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IAB

August 06, 2001 02:08PM

<HTML>We have seen recently that the Orthodox Academic disciplines do not appear to have any sense of the necessity for human beings to have a humanistic view of the past.

They assume that fact and only facts will suffice to to unravel the past, in essence a strict fact based knowledge base which only further undermines peoples already fragile sense of who they are and what it means to exist, it therfore follows that Religion, mythology and ritual are fundemental elements of human consciouness and society, these factors have long served as a means of providing answers to explain the world and humans place in it.

Mircea Eliade has stated so eloquently regarding our common humanity, " do what he will , he is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish the past, since he himself is a product of the Past".

Eliade Mircea, The Sacred and the Profane, The Nature of Religion, New York, Harcourt Bruce Jouanovich, 1959.

Pure science can never bring inner peace, it does not resolve existensial problems and cannot satisfy the need for profoundly moving experiences.

In the same way, rational science steals dreams, removes magic and destroys the soul.

Jung was often asked his opinion on all sorts of matters from life after death to the existence of God.
Once in a conversation with a Jesuit priest, Jung exclaimed, " It is quite clear God exists, but why are people always asking me to prove this pyschologically?"

In fact Jung believed that it was pointless to speculate in intellectual ways about things that were unprovable. Jung accepted that our understanding of the Divine came through spiritual experincce mediated by feeling, intuition, and sensation.

That is exactly why sceince and Archaeology will never win over the masses, people need belief systems, not fact, fact and more fact.

Regards,

Ian</HTML>

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Subject	Author	Posted
Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 06, 2001 02:08PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Derek Barnett	August 06, 2001 02:18PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 06, 2001 02:24PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Derek Barnett	August 06, 2001 02:43PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 10:29AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	JoeRoyle	August 07, 2001 10:47AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 11:06AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	ISHMAEL	August 07, 2001 09:02AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Katherine Reece	August 07, 2001 09:08AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	JoeRoyle	August 07, 2001 09:54AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 10:16AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	JoeRoyle	August 07, 2001 10:29AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 11:20AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 01:20PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 02:14PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 03:18PM
Re: Thanks	Claire	August 07, 2001 04:11PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	ISHMAEL	August 08, 2001 09:29AM
Re: Ishmael	Claire	August 08, 2001 11:27AM
Re: Ishmael	ISHMAEL	August 09, 2001 08:01AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Litz	August 07, 2001 03:24PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Claire	August 07, 2001 04:19PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Greg Reeder	August 06, 2001 03:47PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Graham'O	August 06, 2001 04:04PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Joanne	August 06, 2001 06:13PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Greg Reeder	August 06, 2001 10:57PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Don Barone	August 07, 2001 05:36AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Greg Reeder	August 07, 2001 10:24AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Joanne	August 07, 2001 07:36AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 09:38AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Katherine Reece	August 07, 2001 10:15AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Joanne	August 07, 2001 02:19PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 02:28PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 03:26PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Joanne	August 07, 2001 05:48PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 10:41AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Garrett Fagan	August 07, 2001 12:45PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 01:00PM
Re: Reasons for a new path	IAB	August 07, 2001 10:37AM
Well Ian	D.Przezdziecki	August 06, 2001 09:22PM
Re: Well Ian	Mattcarps	August 07, 2001 05:04AM
Re: Well Ian	IAB	August 07, 2001 10:53AM
Re: Well Ian	IAB	August 07, 2001 10:51AM
Re: Reasons for a new path	Greg Reeder	August 07, 2001 03:32PM

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