okay, here's my idea:
now I don't want this to be taken too literally, this is just I fun concept
I had, but I think it should have some far reaching implications.
Assume there is one of these threads of consciousness, we all think alike.
I hope to teach English someday, and I have studied the Monmouth
extensively, the idea that all mythology, fables, stories, have collective
themes regardless of where they appear in the world.

I got to thinking, what if religion worked the same way.

If we understood how the collective unconscious works, we could identify the
exact themes that should appear in any religion, there are of course, many
obvious ones: The man/god, a descent into the underworld, a fall from
paradise, a great flood,

We could also identify unqiue traits, things that don't spring from the
collective unconcious. I realize that the discussion of religion holds a
shaky place on a science forum, but what if there was some way to identify
traits of a religion that did not spring purely from the mind of it's
believers. To put it simply, (and some what naively) what if we could
discover what religions "made up" and what, if anything, really happened.

I hope you understand what I'm getting at here
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abe Baruck" <abe.baruck@...>
To: <whirlpower@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: [whirlpower list]


> Will,
> Truth is a slippery word. The collective unconscious is a concept, a
> intangible theory that can't be proven scientifically.
> But ask yourself, are there not a multitude of common myths and symbols,
> realized through dreams and art that recur infinitely throughout the
> ages. With so many people having such similar affinity to these points
> of interest, there would seem to be some sort of thread that connects
> all beings of consciousness throughout evolution.
> The whirlpool could be taken as one of those points.
>
> A. Baruck
>
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> Behalf Of Spindle
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> Hello all,
> My name is will dooling, I am a high school senior who is rarely taken
> seriously, so I am being a bit cautious about an idea I have, I think i
> have the key to just about everything...
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> more later, but I need to know from you guy's...
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> How much truth is there behind the theory of the collective unconscious.
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