Xris wrote:Did I read somewhere that the natural rhythm or the frequency of the Earth is the same as the frequency of the brain in deep meditation? Maybe we are the expression of nature and as mother Earth is our host we experience a certain relationship. But maybe it's just more wishful, wistful thinking.

Aonghus wrote:
And why would you assume he wasn't?

Quotidian wrote:Why the condescension, if I might ask?

Aonghus wrote: I'm not confusing instinct with memory, I'm arguing that there might be an overlap. If you believe they're two entirely different things, then I think you should explain how and why. Muttering vaguely about different brain states or 'the usual meanings of words" is hardly going to convince me.

Pel wrote:
I think Belinda likes to use religious terminology as metaphors. On the other hand I do believe in Demons.

Mudora wrote:No, not really. I have to have a purpose to MY life or I won't be satisfied. I'm unconcerned with other people's search for meaning, for now. I will not stop looking, and I am in the middle of living.

Belinda wrote:Public and private rituals are for self appeasement, but it is hard for anybody to avoid all ritual behaviour in the context of proper behaviour in society, civilised or not.

When the human need for ritual behaviour is channeled by the powerful and clever into conformist behaviour then we have to be on the look out for the Devil.Unfortunately many of us, me included, are manipulated into conforming and there needs to be a constant battle against laziness and fear of standing alone against what is bad.

Quotidian wrote:I think that for many, life is the result of 'fortuitous circumstances' - that things just happened to combine in such a way to kick-start the Darwinian process of evolution, which happens to have given rise to H Sapiens, among other things. And that is a view of life that I don't much like.