the swastika

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Maybe the swastika spread, but maybe it did not spread but arose

spontaneously in a number of places.

 

Carl Jung has described quite well how archetypes exist in the

unconscious and spontaneously arise into consciousness, in dream or

other forms.

 

The aboriginal describe their legends as the dreamtime, referring to

the time of creation. The rainbow serpent is not dissimilar to the

kundalini, and one can suppose they had some actual spiritual

development in their culture

 

Either each culture has a different spiritual experience, and a

different creator, or theres one creator and people everywhere

experience that one creator; but when it comes to describing that

experience it takes different forms according to the culture.

 

I for one cannot see that one person in one culture can experience

samadhi, and that the spiritual experience described elsewhere can be

different. Sure the vedic culture has language and descriptions of it

lackign elsewhere, but regardless of its description and verbal

understanding, the inner experience is the same.

 

Spirituality transcends culture.

 

Perhaps merlin was a rishi. if he had spiritual powers, why not. its

not so far fetch considering the powers ascribed to him.

 

Like if you take 5 artists and they all paint the same landscape you

will see very different pictures.

 

Vedic culture is the most intact, but this does not invalidate other

cultures, but at the root of all we can see the universality.

 

Tama and Raja guna's in vedic, Ying and Yang in China, different

descriptions of the same thing.

 

Today we have sidled towards materialism so there are no gods, but

only money and comforts. Therefore any religious symbols are mere

decoration.