tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post6005813832950083134..comments2016-08-22T12:00:03.978+01:00Jeremy[email protected]Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-44263806668692408292007-11-03T15:58:00.000+01:002007-11-03T15:58:00.000+01:00Jeremy the question I asked is the right one as it is the one I wanted an answer to. You chose not to answer the question - that's fine. Trying to dodge an answer with something that belongs in Wheen's 'Mumbo Jumbo' is the wrong answer.Mike[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-44178313753324733302007-10-29T09:56:00.000+01:002007-10-29T09:56:00.000+01:00well put JeremyAnonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-61919181426076127422007-10-25T21:51:00.000+01:002007-10-25T21:51:00.000+01:00@ Mike: mythic patterns of thought structure our thinking, most of the time without our being aware of it. By the same token, there are energies in objects, just as there are energies in minds. As quantum mechanics and more recently, M-Theory, have shown, objectivity is the biggest myth of all.<BR/><BR/>So the question of whether one believes in 'this stuff' is not the right question. Belief (in western science, in some form of African mythic horizon) is always structured by desire and by the way in which one relates pre-cognitively to the world. Some people are drawn to the idea that one day Science will produce the ultimate theory; others are drawn to the idea that one paradigm will simply cede to the next.<BR/><BR/>That said, the Ifa Divination system is one of the most sophisticated combinations of mathematics and metaphysics ever devised by humans, and deserves a certain degree of awe..Jeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07506241936615649754[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-19524302912387174542007-10-25T18:41:00.000+01:002007-10-25T18:41:00.000+01:00Jeremy do you actually believe in this stuff or is it just an interest from a social/anthropological point of view?Mike[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-70370960991671155022007-10-23T01:53:00.000+01:002007-10-23T01:53:00.000+01:00Fascinating, if I am in Nigeria next year, I will certainly be coming along!"world babalawo conference"? what the hell do the discuss? The latest politics in their world? Dammmmmmn I 'd like to know!Waffarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06039619178621668954[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8686769.post-70596858089882043992007-10-22T23:02:00.000+01:002007-10-22T23:02:00.000+01:00I want to make a similar trip next year. How did you organise this? I don't like in nigeria.Anonymous[email protected]