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Print: $47.95 Download: $12.95 How our myths may be used to subjugate and subvert our populations as well as set them free. What we can do to protect ourselves and improve our education. This is a book that seeks collective knowledge and shared wisdom.
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This book seeks collective wisdom. This is the first edition of a group project dealing with myth and how it influences critical thinking. Mythic Thinking that is harming our society...In 1958 there was a documentary done for Disney called "White Wilderness" In it they showed scenes of Lemmings; small rodents, jumping off of cliffs. The whole thing was made up .
Lemmings do not commit suicide. However, it had been shown in countless High Schools as if it were fact. A generation grew up believing that Lemmings commit suicide. They often use the metaphor judgmentally that a group of people is acting like Lemmings. When we use arbitrary beliefs that may or may not be true to base our actions for, against, or with other people we will usually come up with actions that seem unfair to most people. The idea that "slaves had no souls" was used to say that the people who were enslaved could be brutalized because they were to be considered as things. Because the mythic thinking that was used is that the existence of souls is a proved fact and slaves were thus things. We can eat things, hunt things and use things to do whatever we want with because they are things and not humans.
In the case of the slaves, it allowed the slave owners to rape, murder, herd, breed, and use those people in any brutal way they could think of and under any conditions imaginable. A "Lyth" is a lie that has come from mythic thinking. The lie has no basis in fact. The lie is used to hide the truth. The lie is used in an effort to maintain power or to subjugate people in such a way as to get power without due process. The intent of my research and writing is to use Collective Wisdom to uncover mythic thinking that may be holding societies back or may be in some cases actually allowing them to prosper. Not "all" mythic thinking is bad; it may seem illogical when in fact it is "a-logical." One can look at Logic as one looks at Morals if we take "innovation" into consideration. In studying morality there is moral, immoral and amoral. Moral is that which the society has deemed to be good and beneficial to the growth of the society. Immoral, on the other hand is that which destroys or in some way, makes a society deteriorate as a whole.
True innovation invigorates a society and yet it often upsets it at the same time. Amoral, is the phenomenon that occurs when what is observed does not fit in either of the first two categories. We often refer to small children as being amoral because they have not yet learned societies' morals. They have no intent of doing wrong. Thus, their actions are amoral instead of being immoral. Myths are stories that normally cannot be proved or disproved. They usually deal with aspects of reality that seem truly incredible such as monsters, fairies, elves, gods and phenomenon that are next to impossible in our reality. Having a small group of people who are knowledgeable on a subject combined with a large group who are interested and have the basic facts can as a group when directed properly come up with a solution to problems that to most seem irresolvable and often are to mere individuals. We eventually will be using a variety of surveys, focus groups, co-relational studies, empirical comparative analysis grids. How You Become a Co-Author or Author of your own work concerning the subject; here is the web site for submission of your work.
http://thelythoflemmings.neuralpreneural.com
If it is accepted, you will be directed to a web site that will allow you to set up your work on it. Your work will be featured in this book. If you want, you can then write more on the topic of your choice. This work will be sold through this book as well as from your web site. Also see this video on the 1958 lemmings scam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY
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