A primitive inability to understand forces that we now comprehend

A manashi or traditional storyteller at Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, July 2002.
© Simon Garbutt

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The Voice of the Peoples
Sep 02, 2010

Most scholars have traditionally assumed that mythology arose from a primitive inability to understand forces that we now comprehend. But an alternative view has gained considerable support from plasma science. This view holds that our forebears witnessed intense electrical phenomena beyond anything occurring today.

‘Plasma mythology’ works from the understanding that many myth lines, including the global themes of creation mythology, were ultimately based on eye-witness accounts of complex near-earth plasmas accompanying prehistoric geomagnetic storms of unimaginable magnitude. As such, plasma mythology effectively represents a contemporary revival of the ‘nature schools’ of mythology that were in vogue in the academic world until the meteoric rise of Freud’s and Jung’s ideas. The extraordinary advantage of a naturalist theory of myth, especially a catastrophist one, is that it does not make a mockery of the traditional insistence of indigenous cultures that creation mythology embodies true history. On the contrary, in contrast to the dominant theories of the 20th century, plasma mythology offers an approach that traditional non-western societies can potentially sympathise with.