Michael Sylvester wrote:
> And how about the Rorschach Inkbot projective tests?
> A white dude spills ink forming ambiguous figures and we include
> these as scientifically valid from the psychodynamic perspective
> and yet the magical configurines and hypotheses of other
> cultures are discredited.
> Dig?
Apples and oranges, Michael.
If you were comparing some of the "new age" symbolic interpretations (based
on "channeling revelations") or psychic dream interpretations to those
"magical configurines and hypotheses," it would be a reasonable argument.
But the proper comparison would not be to such instances but rather to those
aspects of non-Eurocentric cultures that demonstrate a scientific, versus
metaphysical (or, in many cases, superstitious) focus.
Rick
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