Fwd: new age babble

Mon Jan 21 21:30:56 CST 2008

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> From: Edward Schreiber <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
> Date: January 21, 2008 10:30:32 PM EST
> To: Ann Hale <annehale at swva.net>
> Subject: Re: new age babble
>
> I think this is a great email, thank you Ann.
> Ed
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Ann Hale wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Ann Hale
>> To: Adam Blatner
>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: new age babble
>>
>> I had hoped that by mentioning Barbara Hand Clow there would be  
>> comments from people who have read her books or heard her speak.   
>> I respect the connection I made to her delivery, content and  
>> spirit when she was speaking. I appreciated all the energy and  
>> information she gave to her audience, which resonated within me at  
>> a deep level.   I have followed the work of Gregg Braden, a  
>> geophysicist, who has similar views and training  to Barbara Hand  
>> Clow, both of whom are tuned in in ways that I personally  
>> appreciate.  I don't experience fear when I listen to them.
>> Quite the opposite.  I believe they are on track.
>>
>> It is certainly not everyone's way of experiencing the future, or  
>> the past.  I regret that by mentioning her name on this listserve,  
>> that I opened the door for ridicule of her life work. (Any others  
>> who want to jump on the woo-woo bandwagon, please do it by back  
>> channel so that further damage of her reputation is avoided.  
>> annehale at swva.net
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Adam Blatner
>> To: list at grouptalkweb.org
>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 5:41 PM
>> Subject: new age babble
>>
>>   Adam responding to the mention of the Mayan Code book and its  
>> author:
>>           Garden of Eden theory? That's the key, here: A common  
>> new age mythos, a neo-Rousseau-ean romanticization of the noble  
>> savage. Anthropological evidence suggests that warfare has been a  
>> constant throughout both history and pre-history in all cultures.  
>> The idea that there was a time when all this was due to a time  
>> when people "experienced themselves as being at one with their  
>> planet" --- where is the evidence for this? It doesn't ring true  
>> to any set of data that I can imagine.
>>
>>        How did we get to a "higher" consciousness from 200,000  
>> years to 100,000 years ago? Etc.
>>
>>        ... The Galactic?     influence the Galactic Underworld?    
>> Whoooeeee...
>>
>>           Well, it is instructive to know that this sort of thing  
>> is going on. I thought the cult of the Flying Spaghetti Monster  
>> was weird---and the instigators of that were   doing it  
>> intentionally as a joke--- but this???
>>
>>        I get real embarrassed at the confusion in our culture  
>> between cultivating an open mind and letting one's brains spill out.
>>
>>          Warmly, Adam
>>
>> Barbara Hand Clow.( The Mayan Code: Time Acceleration and  
>> Awakening the World Mind by Barbara Hand Clow )
>>       "How have we gotten to this critical juncture? Why are 1999  
>> through 2011 so critical for the survival of our species? My  
>> recent book Catastrophobia (2001) theorizes that we are afflicted  
>> with a crippling, species-level, post-traumatic stress syndrome  
>> that I call "catastrophobia". This trauma complex developed 11,500  
>> years ago as the result of a great cosmic catastrophe in our solar  
>> system. This malaise in the collective psyche of our species  
>> deepened during thousands of years after the 9500 BC cataclysm,  
>> when our ancestors endured starvation and horrific environmental  
>> stress. Before this time during the Regional Underworld-100,000 BC  
>> through AD 2011--Earth was the Garden of Eden; we experienced  
>> oneness with our planet. These events that separated us from  
>> nature are deeply buried in our minds. Just like adults who once  
>> endured early-childhood abuse that they've largely forgotten, we  
>> must heal ourselves by recovering these memories and understanding  
>> how they have changed us.
>>       Catastrophobia presents evidence that Earth's axis did not  
>> tilt very much before 9500 BC, when the cosmic disaster  
>> disarranged the whole solar system. Therefore, AstroFlash! is  
>> structured by seasonality--equinoxes and solstices-because once  
>> the axis tilted, early humans quickly learned how to maximize  
>> their potential by arranging their lives by the seasons.  
>> Seasonality is not taken into account much in modern times, but it  
>> actually has a huge influence on human consciousness. George W.  
>> Bush invaded Iraq exactly during the Spring Equinox of 2003  
>> because the Elite knew this moment had formative potential. This  
>> was also Day Tree of the Galactic, so this invasion caused events  
>> that will influence the rest of the Galactic Underworld."
>>
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