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acceptance said:
Mostly from Dorothy Milne Murdock AKA 'Acharya S'. Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth has also been influential.
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Are these writers or youtubers or something? I hold there is generally more value in myths than most of what is taught as fact when it comes to philosophy and science and other obsessions people in higher learning seem to hold.
 
VonBonfire said:
Are these writers or youtubers or something? I hold there is generally more value in myths than most of what is taught as fact when it comes to philosophy and science and other obsessions people in higher learning seem to hold.
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Both were writers. Acharya is more devoted to the whole "Christ conspiracy" idea, and Joseph Campbell was a professor and writer covering comparative religion and mythology. He did a PBS series in the '80's called "The Power of Myth" that was very popular. It might sound negative and critical but it isn't — he just doesn't believe it is literal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acharya_S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
 
acceptance said:
Both were writers. Acharya is more devoted to the whole "Christ conspiracy" idea, and Joseph Campbell was a professor and writer covering comparative religion and mythology. He did a PBS series in the '80's called "The Power of Myth" that was very popular. It might sound negative and critical but it isn't — he just doesn't believe it is literal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acharya_S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
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I am listening to Acharya right now. She is repeating a lot of claims I have heard in the past.
 
VonBonfire said:
I am listening to Acharya right now. She is repeating a lot of claims I have heard in the past.
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Feel free to debunk any claims. I always think the best way to seek truth is to debate both sides of a matter. I don't feel strongly about her work, but I recall it making me wonder.
 
VonBonfire said:
... I also think migration was possible using log rafts riding trade winds as demonstrated by Thor Heyerdahl in his book "Kon Tiki".
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"Kon Tiki" was the name of both the original documentary film (1950) and the dramatised version (2012) but not the book.

The book always had the word "Expedition" in it, whether simply "The Kon-Tiki Expedition" or "The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas ".

Only reason I know this stuff is that it was the first serious book I read cover-to-cover when I was a kid.

VonBonfire said:
The movie is pretty good too but I don't think it's in english.
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You're thinking of the dramatised version, released in 2012.

The original movie was a 1950 documentary that won an Oscar in 1951. Heyerdahl's commentary was translated into English.
 
acceptance said:
Feel free to debunk any claims. I always think the best way to seek truth is to debate both sides of a matter. I don't feel strongly about her work, but I recall it making me wonder.
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You are talking about taking on a lot of material there so I'd have to really dig into it a ways. A lot of what she is saying so far was repackaged for the zeitgeist movie (a rather poorly done film that is full of error) and has already been debunked by quite a few people. They/her make claims kinda like "Christ is just a repackaged sun god, sol invictus whose birthday is Dec 25". I used to believe that. Well, the Russian orthodox church is on the old calendar and orthodox Christmas is Jan 7, not Dec 25th, just as an example. The new calendar is called new because it is very new, 1923......

Some of the debunking I'd be doing would be using scripture and I'm not sure that would satisfy you. She does seem to have gotten shot down by other scholars who study the same fields, so there is that. I'll have to do more listening but truthfully I think you'd be best served looking up her claims for yourself if you haven't already, and see what you find. I don't think I have time or willpower to dig super deep but I will probably look at a few more of her claims just for general knowledge in case it gets brought up elsewhere.
 
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