UM-Bot Posted April 24, 2008 #1 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Anthony North: The history of the paranormal has been plagued with the Devil and his cohorts of Demons. Offering a direct link between phenomena and culture, perhaps we need to understand just what the Devil is. In one sense, he is the fallen angel, forever causing trouble, and in another he is a Jungian 'archetype' -the trickster, forever to be found in various cultural clothes throughout world mythology. He is also the guy with whom we have a pact. View: Full Article | Source: Beyond the Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mademoiselle Posted April 25, 2008 #2 Share Posted April 25, 2008 I don't think so . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silmarillion Posted April 25, 2008 #3 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Truncated quote. Well, it seems to me that the devil is really Loki, the Norse "trickster god"? Anthony North: The history of the paranormal has been plagued with the Devil and his cohorts of Demons. Offering a direct link between phenomena and culture, perhaps we need to understand just what the Devil is. In one sense, he is the fallen angel, forever causing trouble, and in another he is a Jungian 'archetype' -the trickster, forever to be found in various cultural clothes throughout world mythology. He is also the guy with whom we have a pact. : Sell your soul to the Devil and you get rewards -but don't worry, it will come at a price, eventually. And in this sense, he is part of our psychology. Our urge to do wrong, knowing it is -well -wrong. ... We can, of course, blame culture for this. After all, it is culture that maintains stories of the Devil. But we can go deeper still. A peculiarity of our existence is the fact that we advance. This is the process of history itself, forever changing the focus of culture and society. If we didn't do so, we would not have evolved our society in the way we have. Why does social evolution occur? : I think the central element of change is that we are never happy with what we've got. View: Full Article | Source: Beyond the Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theQ Posted May 15, 2008 #4 Share Posted May 15, 2008 All the visuals and actions and even the concept itself is all man-made.....what a vivid imagination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swbf2 Posted May 15, 2008 #5 Share Posted May 15, 2008 LOL the devil is from the video from tenacious d's tribute video! ZOMG THEY LIKE MY FAV BAND! LINK anyways yeah i like the article how it is connecting the devil to the human brain's pshyolgy stuff but yeah i doubt the devil has a halo , unless it is like a black halo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffreyCharlesArcher Posted June 12, 2008 #6 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Another example of the twisted history and pop-culture of the West: the very term, "Devil" is a Persian distortion of the Sanskrit term for God (or Goddess?), Deva (Devi). After Abraham and Sarah (read: Brahma and Saraswati, Hindu creator God and Divine consort) were exiled, all sorts of twists (and potential perversions, and at best "eminations) of India's ancient religion/science have developed in the so called West. Krishna, whose followers are the gopis (ten thousand milkmaid lovers) is analogous to Christ (though not a name Jeshua ben Joseph would have ever been called in his lifetime, as is a Greek word), whose followers are called the "Bride of Christ" in the NT. Names and symbols associated with Siva are quite succinctly echoed in Islam: crescent moon in Siva's hair, crescent moon representative symbol of Islam; Siva's name, Mahadev, strikingly similar to the awaited "Mahdi" of the Shiites (Shiva's followers are Shivites); and two of the five Pillars of Islam are names of Siva's wife, "Kalima" and "Ummah." The real story of the divine and humanity is writ between the lines, and the three major (telescoping) Western religions are obviously at least presaged by the wisdoms of India, if not distorted eminations or dispersions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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