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The History Channel has been broadcasting a program that proposes the great pyramids in Egypt and South America as well as other mysterious structures around the world were built by technology provided by alien beings from another world and not by ancient earthly man's abilities. My latest blog post Ancient Alien Theory vs Jung's Archetypes addresses this phenomenon with the argument that Jung's archetypes will explain much of the similarities. I want to first present a couple of simple ideas. The first, which I've discussed many times, is an idea of the German anthropologist Adolf Bastian. He recognized that throughout the mythologies and religious systems of the world, the same images, the same themes are constantly recurring, appearing everywhere. He called these "Elementary Ideas", Elementargedanken". But he recognized also that wherever they occurred, they appeared in different costumes with different applications and different interpretations. He called these provincial differences "Folk Ideas", or "Ethnic Ideas" - Volkgedanken.. Now this is a very important distinction. It divides our subject into two quite different departments. Historians and ethnologists are interested in the differences, and one can study the mythologies and the philosophies of the world with an accent on these differences. On the other hand, the problem emerges of the Elementary Ideas. Why are they everywhere? This is a psychological problem, and it's a problem that separates us in our discussion of comparative forms from the whole research having to do with differences. Now in giving the story of the Oriental system, I want to insist on the elementary aspect. These 'elementary ideas that Bastian presented are Jung's archetypes. And they explain how cultures around the world in different times, not connected by diffusion or any other way of sharing knowledge would have similar images in their language, art, constructions and myths. I used this as a blog article because it does involve something we Jungians are well aware of {archetypes} and because the ancient aliens theory does not do justice to the science that requires evidence beyond pure speculation. There are many who feel Jung's archetypes are just as unprovable but my experience with working with dreams leaves no doubt in my mind Jung got it right. I have provided links to the Ancient Aliens videos for viewing. I also have presented what I believe to be sound arguments that address other aspects of the hypothesis of ancient aliens providing the technology and advice to ancient man. There is an experiment I will be trying with my latest blog to see how fast it moves up in the Google listings. Because Myths-Dreams-Symbols has a high ranking in so many categories with the search engines, any links I create and add to my site will be picked up by the search engine 'spiders' and often move up very fast in the rankings. This is of great benefit since links at MDS become very valuable. I have been offered to sale my site solely because of its ranking. Here how it works. Type Ancient Aliens Theory in your Google search box and the results will show The History Channel listed first. Since I just today made a link to my page it is not even listed and it will take 3-4 weeks to move up the rankings. I have tried this before and it has worked. In fact my last blog prior to the ancient aliens Physical Fitness, Psychology & Wholeness is listed #1 when you use the keywords physical fitness, psychology, wholeness, listed 7th with the keywords physical fitness, psychology, listed 1st with the keywords physical fitness, wholeness and listed 13th with the keywords psychology, wholeness. These are results as of today and will change since I have taken them off my main page at Myths-Dreams-Symbols. When I had the original blog The Language of Dreams listed on the main page it moved up very fast but is not listed high since I removed it. Jerry ![]() ![]() Age & Gender & Location {Required}: 60 Murfreesboro, Tn Have You Posted Before? Date of Last Post {Use Search and Your Post Name to Help Find Last Post} Male How Did You Find the Dream Forum? Yes Jan 13th, 2011 - 10:33 AM
hello, thanks for the great blogging Jerry. I don't suppose we should take much offense to this man's alien theories of ancient civilization, since the concept of elementary ideas and archetypes are not of much popular interest, and are not as immediately exciting as aliens and ufos. Not even Archaelogy or National Geographic has much to say about purely mythological iconography or literature from antiquity. If it were true that aliens helped build Cheops and Giza etc., I think it would be very contradictory for them not to impart advanced medicine, energy, and the number system that I believe we ended up getting from India fairly late. Age & Gender & Location {Required}: 33 Montana Have You Posted Before? Date of Last Post {Use Search and Your Post Name to Help Find Last Post} male How Did You Find the Dream Forum? yes Jan 22nd, 2011 - 8:08 PM
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Jerry ![]() ![]() Age & Gender & Location {Required}: 60 Murfreesboro, Tn Have You Posted Before? Date of Last Post {Use Search and Your Post Name to Help Find Last Post} Male How Did You Find the Dream Forum? Yes Jan 23rd, 2011 - 10:41 AM
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