Re: A question

[Gerd Groenewold <venator@win.bright.net>]

John M Stroup wrote:
> 
> Your points are well taken.  What one makes of these items depends, of
> course, on the interpretive framework....and these matters are not
> entirely unknown to the guild members who deal with/dispose of religious
> matters academically; see for example (besides C.G. Jung) Festinger's
> _When Prophecy Fails_ (early saucer cult from perspective of cognitive
> dissonance theory) and very recently James R. Lewis, ed., _The Gods Have
> Landed:  New Religions from Other Worlds_ (SUNY, 1995).

I will have to see if I can get a chance to get a look at some of this
material at some point.  It is a subject that is not necessarily of
extreme interest to me in and of itself, but it does hold some
interest.  My familiarity with this material is because I know a guy who
is really a true believer in this type of thing, in fact, he is the one
who first introduced me to Jünger, believe it or not, although at the
time he was only familiar with EJ by reputation.

>--Was your main
> quotation echoed from one of the recent maillist postings that I have not
> yet had time to read in detail?  I was not clear on the exact source....?

It was from _Aladdin's Problem_, quoted by Thomas Friese on this list.

> Anyhow, these materials are capable of many readings from the point of
> view of cultural decoding, to remain for the moment at the level of the
> regrettably banal.

Agreed.

GERD