This is wonderful, thank you for sharing what I've been thinking for many years. Now my goal is to start people realizing how powerful the imagination is, and how it can start a reform. A powerful tool was taken away from humanity when we were told "it's just your Imagination". It is actually the beginning of creation. I'm really resonating with your work. Thank you.
So yeah, the church changed that for their political gains. They also invented the idea of the virgin birth in order to make Jesus seem like he's a super human son of god.
As for the hyperdimensional or alien aspect, I've heard of this before and wondered why it's so hard to get anything solid on this. Today we have cameras everywhere and yet still it's just a blurry shot or a jet fighter following a dot in the past revealed video. Turns out that pilot was a "contractor", not military. Hmm, what 3 letter agency gets to fly our military jets? 😂
It wasn't until I saw this, that it connected that UFOs etc could be an archetype of sorts that is very real to those that experience it. It also explains why the evidence is never there.
"Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur examines UFOs and a wide variety of “paranormal” phenomena from a rather unique angle. Although Harpur never fully defines the daimonic—“the daimonic that can be defined is not the true daimonic,” as Lao-Tse would say—it seems to exist both inside us and outside us. Like the Greek daemon and unlike the Christian demon, it takes both good/healing and bad/terrifying forms, depending on our commitment to rationalistic ego states.
In a sense, the daimonic is like the collective unconscious of Carl Jung, inside us as a part of our total self that the ego wishes to deny, outside us in all the other humans who ever existed and in the dreams, myths, and arts of all the world. But Harpur follows Irish poet (and Golden Dawn alumnus) W. B. Yeats as often as he follows Jung, and traces some of his ideas back to Giordano Bruno and the alchemical/hermetic mystics of the Renaissance. The daimonic is just a bit more personalized and individualized than Jung’s species unconscious.
Harpur’s major thesis is that unless we recognize the daimonic (make friends with it, Jung would say) it takes increasingly malignant and terrifying forms. For instance, the Greys of UFO abduction lore, he says, are deliberately mirroring our ego-centered and “scientistic” age—showing no emotions of the humans they experiment upon, just as the ideal science student feels no emotion and has no concern with the emotions of the animal being tortured in his laboratory."
Despite dealing with many subjects common to conspiracy theories, this book does not quite fit into that category. We are the conspirators, so to speak. We have repressed the most creative part of ourselves and now it is escaping in terrifying forms."
This is wonderful, thank you for sharing what I've been thinking for many years. Now my goal is to start people realizing how powerful the imagination is, and how it can start a reform. A powerful tool was taken away from humanity when we were told "it's just your Imagination". It is actually the beginning of creation. I'm really resonating with your work. Thank you.
So glad!
There's an interesting documentary about how Jesus was likely based on Julius Caesar, who was quite the reformer (which is why they killed him).
https://youtu.be/gvga-98x6Nk
So yeah, the church changed that for their political gains. They also invented the idea of the virgin birth in order to make Jesus seem like he's a super human son of god.
As for the hyperdimensional or alien aspect, I've heard of this before and wondered why it's so hard to get anything solid on this. Today we have cameras everywhere and yet still it's just a blurry shot or a jet fighter following a dot in the past revealed video. Turns out that pilot was a "contractor", not military. Hmm, what 3 letter agency gets to fly our military jets? 😂
It wasn't until I saw this, that it connected that UFOs etc could be an archetype of sorts that is very real to those that experience it. It also explains why the evidence is never there.
https://library.lol/main/F0FFF93E5BDCCCD182B46BCC074E05BB
"Daimonic Reality by Patrick Harpur examines UFOs and a wide variety of “paranormal” phenomena from a rather unique angle. Although Harpur never fully defines the daimonic—“the daimonic that can be defined is not the true daimonic,” as Lao-Tse would say—it seems to exist both inside us and outside us. Like the Greek daemon and unlike the Christian demon, it takes both good/healing and bad/terrifying forms, depending on our commitment to rationalistic ego states.
In a sense, the daimonic is like the collective unconscious of Carl Jung, inside us as a part of our total self that the ego wishes to deny, outside us in all the other humans who ever existed and in the dreams, myths, and arts of all the world. But Harpur follows Irish poet (and Golden Dawn alumnus) W. B. Yeats as often as he follows Jung, and traces some of his ideas back to Giordano Bruno and the alchemical/hermetic mystics of the Renaissance. The daimonic is just a bit more personalized and individualized than Jung’s species unconscious.
Harpur’s major thesis is that unless we recognize the daimonic (make friends with it, Jung would say) it takes increasingly malignant and terrifying forms. For instance, the Greys of UFO abduction lore, he says, are deliberately mirroring our ego-centered and “scientistic” age—showing no emotions of the humans they experiment upon, just as the ideal science student feels no emotion and has no concern with the emotions of the animal being tortured in his laboratory."
Despite dealing with many subjects common to conspiracy theories, this book does not quite fit into that category. We are the conspirators, so to speak. We have repressed the most creative part of ourselves and now it is escaping in terrifying forms."