[MD] New Age++

[ian glendinning]

Gav, hang on .. three points ...

(1) "we couldn't build the pyramids today. it is an engineering feat beyond us"

And other urban myths and apocryphal hyperbole.
Utter bollocks in fact.
Have you seen, say, the 3-Gorges Dam - like close-up ?
Makes the pyramids mere pimples.

We might not choose to build the pyramids the same way (depending on
the project specs) but it's nothing we "couldn't" do.

(2) Now, women - I know what you mean - My original masters degree
thesis involved a survey (in an engineering company) and it had only
about 5% women in the sample. If you read my analysis, you'll find it
is still possible (from sub-samples within the whole) to recognise
significant positive creative differences (relevant to my subject)
from the women that were lost in the skewed analysis of the overall
averages.

(3) I think we all agree New-Age is about connecting with the lost
value of lost myths, but it's not about swallowing lost myths whole
and discarding new knowledge (with the bathwater).

A certain Mr Loggins sent me a link to this site (which I've not read
yet), but it includes the quote from Authentic Science (
www.plumbell.com )

"Despite the excessive naivety rife within the New Age movement, the
intelligent scientist can't toss the entire 5,000 year history of
mysticism aside."

Careful with that barrel of tar and feathers will you.

Love you all.
Ian

On 1/17/06, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> yo dave,
> what about the technologies behind the pyramids,
> stonehenge etc. we couldn't build the pyramids today.
> it is an engineering feat beyond us.
> what i am saying is that there is knowledge, of all
> kinds, that we have forgotten, or has been repressed
> (see 'burning witches' for one).
>  the new age is about reconnecting with this mythic
> AND intellectual knowledge.
> maybe the task of world-bridging philsophers like our
> good selves is to accomodate these new technologies
> and intellectual frameworks within a larger scientific
> metaphysical framework that satisfies us all.
> otherwise the schism widens....on the one side largely
> masculine 'scientific' skeptics; weakness: cynicism,
> close-mindedness, hubris, ego.
> on the other: largely feminine intuitive awareness and
> openness; weakness: a fine line between ingenousness
> and credulity.
> a balance must be struck! and at the mo the balance is
> still too far over to the cynical male.
> honestly at the mo i am astounded at how the chicks
> just seem a hell of a lot smarter and 'with it' than
> the guys. also it seems that more girls are being born
> than boys (anecdotal i know)......interesting eh?
>
>
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