Post by KG on Jan 31, 2006 14:31:29 GMT -5
Within the realms of various nutty groups of people on the internet, (which we could be considered to be part of) there are a lot of explainations for various experiences. These experiences are similar in some ways from one group to another, yet people choose very different ways to clasify them. We choose to explain these occurances in different ways, because truely they are unexplainable.
We have the otherkin theory, the alien theory, theories based on many different ancient civilizations, various prophets, and various religious theories, some with very different gods, goddesses, angels and demons. There are various wars and struggles described in all these theories. If you read enough of these theories, and accounts though you start finding common threads. You notice that goddesses in greek myth seem an awful lot like goddesses in scandanavian myth. You see that Christ, Krishna, and Buddha were all trying to tell us the same thing. You also see that there is a lot of similarity between the alien abductee, the victim of demonic attack, and certain astral experiences. We see similarites in the various entities involved, and we see patterns if we study enough.
The fact is that no matter how nutty people's explaination sound to an outsider, all these people are experiencing something. People who experience these things gravitate into groups who choose similar explainations, for their situations. They may attach their own religious beliefs to their experiences, or they may choose one of many quasi-scientific explainations. They tend to stay in their groups and develop their theories, growing more deeply intrenched in their explaination, while snubbing those who explain their experiences differently, thinking of them wacky, or even heretical.
I found this article by accident, and I found it captivating. The writer claims to have done extensive research of various experiences, and come up with some common themes from his particular group. Just because we explain our experiences in a different way than they do, doesn't mean their experiences are less real. I see some common ground in experience.
I am not in anyway endorsing his theoretical system, but I do think he has made some amazing observations. He obviously doesn't differentiate as we do, between astral, etherial, and physical... and the article is quite confusing in that way, but still very interesting.
www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/races.htm
We have the otherkin theory, the alien theory, theories based on many different ancient civilizations, various prophets, and various religious theories, some with very different gods, goddesses, angels and demons. There are various wars and struggles described in all these theories. If you read enough of these theories, and accounts though you start finding common threads. You notice that goddesses in greek myth seem an awful lot like goddesses in scandanavian myth. You see that Christ, Krishna, and Buddha were all trying to tell us the same thing. You also see that there is a lot of similarity between the alien abductee, the victim of demonic attack, and certain astral experiences. We see similarites in the various entities involved, and we see patterns if we study enough.
The fact is that no matter how nutty people's explaination sound to an outsider, all these people are experiencing something. People who experience these things gravitate into groups who choose similar explainations, for their situations. They may attach their own religious beliefs to their experiences, or they may choose one of many quasi-scientific explainations. They tend to stay in their groups and develop their theories, growing more deeply intrenched in their explaination, while snubbing those who explain their experiences differently, thinking of them wacky, or even heretical.
I found this article by accident, and I found it captivating. The writer claims to have done extensive research of various experiences, and come up with some common themes from his particular group. Just because we explain our experiences in a different way than they do, doesn't mean their experiences are less real. I see some common ground in experience.
I am not in anyway endorsing his theoretical system, but I do think he has made some amazing observations. He obviously doesn't differentiate as we do, between astral, etherial, and physical... and the article is quite confusing in that way, but still very interesting.
www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/races.htm