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Recieved: 2001/07/26 20:53
Subject: [K-list] Peachy Dolls & ideas
From: David Harrell
On 2001/07/26 20:53, David Harrell posted thus to the K-list:
--- In Kundalini-GatewayATnospamy..., "Nina" <murrkisATnospamm...> wrote:
>Yes, David, but where do the ideas -come from-?
>
>How is it that individuals can come up with the same solution given no
>prompting?
Who knows?
Where does *consciousness* come from?
What is consciousness?
How much does a thought weigh? ;-)
I don't claim to know. I think it's plausible that there is a
"collective unconscious" of some kind. You could even interpret some
teachings of the Bible to yield that. (For instance, Messiah/Christ is said
to be the "second Adam," and all believers in him become part of his
mystical body, directed by his mind, or the Holy Spirit. If it is so for the
second, heavenly Adam, it may very well have been the same for
the first, earthly Adam and his progeny. There may very well be a
collective spirit of Adam, or mankind.
However, in the light of the Bible's teachings, the collective
unconscious would still be every bit as fallen in nature--and in need
of redemption--as was Adam. And it would still be a part of the
creation, not the Creator. So I'm
not one to be in awe of such concepts.
But then again, people coming up with similar or identical ideas may
not be a sign of a collective
anything, just a sign that we all have a common Creator who
hard-wires
many of the same archetypes into the unconscious of each human being
he
creates, so that sooner or later it's inevitable that two or more human
beings somewhere will express them in the same way. It may depend on your
bias. Evolutionists think the
superficial similarities
between apes and humans prove that the latter evolved from the
former. Intelligent design advocates would say it just indicates that
both species were designed by the same Designer.
It could be that people who are "wired" similarly--who are
of
the same temperaments and process information the same way--are
likely
to come up with the same ideas. I have a circle of spiritual brothers
and sisters who score close to me on the Myers-Briggs personality
type
test (I'm INFP--introverted/intuitive/feeling/perceiving), and we
often
come up with the same ideas about things. Some of this may be due to
a
spiritual connection. (I would certainly hope so.) But then some may
simply be due to the fact that similarly wired people, given the same
data, will yield the same output.
So what do I think about where the ideas come from?
I'm an agnostic. I don't know. :)
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