To the best of my ability I write about my experience of the Universe Past, Present and Future
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Purple said, "I see in your mind the dilemma."
Purple
said, "I see in your mind the dilemma. What is causing this is the
magical thinking that humans have engendered since they evolved from the
animals of earth and other planets in order to cope with unbelievably
bad experiences smashing into the purely logical and technical aspects
of all this."
Have you ever entertained the scenario that other Galactic Civilizations are far in advance of us creating spiritual situations and religions here on earth? Why would they do this?
They would do this to change the behavior of humans in various ways or maybe just to study what they would do in different situations? Or they might do this to prevent human extinction. My thought is the last one likely is the most obvious one. Since we are considered to be like the Grizzly Bears and Deer and Wolves of Yellowstone (only for all of Earth Galactic Park instead) this makes complete sense to me.
If you study the "Cargo Cults" of the Pacific Islanders during World War II all this makes a lot more sense.
The U.S. Army is still likely worshipped by some of the more remote Islanders in the Pacific.
The term "cargo cult" was introduced to the field of anthropology during and after World War II. More recent scholarship on cargo cults has challenged the ...
Oct 20, 2022 — Within that context, ethnographers argued, cargo cults had emerged as a way for local leaders to consolidate their power, relieve social stress, ...
May 1, 2009 — The cult
rarely disappears, so long as the social situation which brings it into
being persists. At this point it should be observed that cults ...
Western sociologists specializing in Melanesian religions say all the cargo cults are based on a curious mixture of native and Christian beliefs and rituals.
And although almost all the cargo cults have disappeared over the decades ... In 1964, one cargo cult on New Hanover Island in Papua New Guinea offered the ...
by L Lindstrom · 2018 · Cited by 33 — Cargo cult echoes. Several Melanesian movements remain active but, whatever their 'cargoist' heritage, these certainly no longer are cargo cults ...
This religion, known as the Cargo Cult, held that if the proper ceremonies were performed shipments of riches would be sent from some heavenly place. It was all ...
A Cargo Cult
is a group of people worshiping, by way of imitative ritual, some
misunderstood object as a deity. The name comes from a documented effect
that ...
Feb 21, 2023 — A history of cargo cult, the term, and anthropological discourse about cargo cults. Tanna's John Frum Movement provides a case study ...
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