A " fossilized " story?

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Members,

 

I've been reading Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, by Doctor Richard

Thompson. http://sacreduniverse.com/ The book is about Vedic, ancient Hindu

cosmography.

 

He makes some nice points throughout the book, however, there is a comment

on my mind which is very broad in its application. As followers of ancient

scriptures, I think that it is very appropriate for us:

 

 

" De Santillana and Von Dechend refer to the idea of a fossilized story, a

story which has lost its context and is embedded, like a fossil in a rock,

in a foreign cultural matrix. An example is the story of Jack in the

Beanstalk, which refers to a man-eating giant that lives in the sky. This

story has survived out of context as a nursury tale, but it may refer to the

near-Earth abodes of the Rakshashas and Bhutas in the [ Puranic ] hierarchy

of worlds."

 

Rakshashas are a type of demon and Bhutas are ghosts- in the Puranic

hierarchy, their worlds lie about 800 miles above the surface of the Earth.

A world of ghosts is obviously going to be on some type of subtle or astral

plane.

 

Maybe it is possible that this Jack had his body imbued with subtle energies

in some way such that he was able to experience these realms, who knows.

 

Anyway, the fossilized story is an interesting concept. In relation to the

hollow Earth theory and inner shell communities, I keep thinking of the Pied

Piper of Hamelin.

 

But for all of our Vedic studies, this is an interesting concept. Some

things seem so out of context when we read the Vedic literature, and that is

because most of what we read is out of context. Without the context of

reincarnation, karma and contact with the demigod culture which fostered the

Vedic civilization, the Vedic literature, to the modern mind, can seem

old-fashioned, constrictive and fanatic.

 

Maybe young children from Hindu families, growing up in modern America, are

experiencing some type of cross-cultural conflict of this type.

 

YS,

 

Dharmapada Dasa

 

Dharma/Dean