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Re: Supernature
Feb 11, 2005, 20:40
< Now I'm wondering if at least some, prime candidate stone rows, or even just this one site were mainly scientific as opposed to religious structures of their day. >

Science and religion were the same thing. Western culture again is still stuck in the political creation of the Church which separated science and religion in the 15-16th centuries. From thereon, science became sterilised and the ideas on spirit/gods etc, the province of the Church. This separatist worldview - of science from religion - is one of the main causes of the present ecopsychic dilemma we're in at the moment. How can the observer be separate from the thing observed? This is what puzzles aboriginal and mystical traditions - cos the very notion is a nonsense (though a rather clever ego-construct).

The astronomy of sites relates to the 'whole picture of reality' dream. Sky and land are intimately connected. The gods above communed and related to those of measured agriculture, calendar, creation. Check out the spirit-lore of such alignments. Also check out Eliade's "Patterns in Comparative Religion" and "Myth & Reality"; la Barre's "Ghost Dance"; Neumann's "Consciousness"; Devereux's "Symbolic Landscapes", etc.
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