BRIEF SUMMARY
This has been on a back-burner and is presented as it comes and incomplete but hopefully it will give some ideas.
Everyone has their own ways of seeing the world and seeking truth or meaning. All this is trying to do is see whether something important has got missed along the way, so that things are not really as they seem, perhaps not at all.
Some people proclaim emphatically that all belief systems are due to things called memes. Certainly the approach seems worthy of consideration. We might extend it to memes that cannot be analysed from a printed page, such as musical, pictures, visions or thoughts.
Perhaps interpersonal problems occur if our own meme-types don't fit other people's and we wander in quandary seeking better memes or meaning.
For sure, we act in accordance with our own beliefs. But might we also be acting in accordance with someone else's? You may or may not believe that magic or 'magick' works. After all, look at stage magicians and how we know that what they do is illusion. But people have been interested in magic of the other kind and things occult down the ages. Perhaps they knew a thing or two! Perhaps they just did not allow scepticism to act as a resistor and get in the way.
Or is it a natural phenomenon, that atmospheres build up in a place over time, which may get triggered by certain times, cycles, events, individuals or practices such as ritual, or a psychic tuning, or meditation?
Can we say the same applies to a group, that it has qualities which build up naturally over time - a group mind? Or does it get built by design with strong emotion and intent, so we might use the term egregor to describe it? Some might say that is not a totally correct use of the word egregor, but does that matter? A little flexibility and things can go a long way. Phenomena do not necessarily fall into a mutually exclusive Either/Or argument.
Does something like this affect more than just one grouping? Affect us, for instance, like a kind of broadcast - this time of invisible memes, symbols, something? See the dynamics page for thoughts on cults and exiting.
Masks & Masquerade Page added July 2013
What did the Ancient Greeks or other civilisations know about the human psyche?
Does it have relevance today when we look at reasons for our malaise?
We all behave differently at times. Are we faking all of it, some of it, at the mercy of things outside of ourselves? How many selves do we have - 'on any normal day'? What about the days that really are abnormal? Go to fakeidentity.html Page added August 2013
