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Recieved: 1999/10/27 03:50
Subject: Re: [K-list] RE: fate, destiny, subtle body and soul
From: Adele Chatelain
On 1999/10/27 03:50, Adele Chatelain posted thus to the K-list:
Hi LyN,
Wow! A great post on synchronicity. Isn't it amazing?
On of my most humbling experiences (you scientists out
there, be patient with me) was finding out we humans can
only see within a certain spectrum of light; we cannot see
infarred, for example.
This seems fair enough, but when I first heard it it
really sent me into an altered state! I thought to myself,
well, if we can't see what some other living beings can see,
then perhaps our other perceptions/senses limit us, also.
That
brought me to the thought about time and space (of course!
:-) HA!
What if it's just our senses that make objects appear to be
real?
But that's another story! Back to time and space.
From what I understand in my browsing through the
literature
I toldyou about yesterday and after talking to a few
Anthropologists
it seems that both Time AND Space are a cultural construct.
For example, according to them, it was the calendar
that brought in the 7 day week. When the missionaries went
to
so-called Primitive cultures, they instituted something
called
SUNDAY. Once they did all this it took away cyclic time and
presented linear time. It also shifted power away from
the leaders of the 'tribe' and placed the power in the
hands of the missionaries. Now, no flames, please. This
is all documented and I'm only stating what I've either
read or what Anthropologists have told me.
There were other societies that had a calendar (like
the
Aztecs, which you mentioned, LyN), but the particular set-up
like
we have today, which we take for granted is the RIGHT
way...was
only a social construct.
I'm told that the cultures in Bali, as well as Native
Americans,
or any agraian culture uses cyclic time, but nowadays they
use BOTH.
I'm also told by a colleague here that her husband, who
is Mexican, runs on 'cyclic' time, which drives her nuts
sometimes.
He's never "On Time" for appointments, etc, but to him it
isn't
a case of being never 'On Time', but rather, he lives in the
NOW all the time and rarely uses the concept of the Arrow of
Time
(Linear Time).
What was interesting, too, is that once the concept of Time
changes,
so does the concept of Space. If any of you are interested
in
this subject (Space), there's an excellent book (very
readable) called
HIDDEN DIMENSIONS by Hall. He talks about different
cultures
and how they understand 'space' in realtionship to each
other.
Thanks again for sharing your information LyN. Gave me a
lot
to think about.
Adele
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