(08-07-2011, 04:16 PM)zenmaster Wrote: According to the material, Ra claims authorship of the major arcana archetypes 2.6 billion years ago. They later related this core info to the ancient Egyptians, as a teaching aid. To attempt to understand the various relationships necessarily requires some self-reflection as to what is actually going on with this concept we call 'mind'. I always suspected that since mind is primary to matter, 1D 'archetypal principles' could also be derived from this understanding in manner such that these insights inform a new, more comprehensive physical theory.
Even more interesting. My memories of ancient Egypt are clear and I see myself performing tasks with human beings where all learned various things. I can also remember building complexes, clothing styles, the large and small ships (essentially the same thing on different scales), our technologies, and so on. I have no memory of Tarot though. Not that this fact is important or particularly relevant.
I am away on holiday in a few days, but will make time to look up the arcana soon. One question comes to mind, which is; have the archetypes changed over the millennia so as to dilute the information contained in the Tarot? Obviously, these days people produce new Tarot sets for their own pleasure, or to re-invent the medium to appeal to more people. Archetypical detail and information need not necessarily be affected by how it is portrayed, but I wonder.
I have begun a new thread for this topic on this page as it may outgrow this thread.