Hello,
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Ernest Heilman, P.H.D. in History, Mathmatics, and cultural anthropology, and professor in the occult studies department of Carnegy Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My credentials in the occult community are well known to any with the means to discover them, and any without has no need to know them. Thus, I shall not bore you by listing such positions here, nor draw undue attention to my fellows in such orders as I belong by speaking of them in circles unsecured as this one. Although if you have discovered this forum, it is likely you are already a brother to me though such an order, or referred here by one who has invested strict confidence in your abilities and repute, suitable for the important work at hand. I would like to welcome you to this forum, and pray our work here may benefit our respective orders towards the Great Work of shepherding the difficult passage of mankind to this new and troubled age.
The premis of our work here, as you should all well know, involves the tracking and reporting of popular modern folk tales and mythologies, more commonly referred to as "urban legends" by the amature scholar. The thesis we shall persue begins with the following assumptions, each of which the focus of intensely persued scholory work, proofs of which are available in published dissertation by my hand available through the references below:
Given: There are powerful occult forces at work in the shaping of our world, herefor to be called The Aeons (Signs of Meta Cultural Influence in Historic Societies University of Pittsburgh, 1982)
Given: Man is able to perceive the movements of these Aeons through his collective unconscious. (Masking the Gods: The Formation of Indigenous Mystical Tradition Stanford, 1986)
Given: These perceptions are rarely clear, filtered through relevant local culture and custom to be interpreted as mythological figures, dieties, monsters, and legends. Masking the Gods: The Formation of Indigenous Mystical Tradition Stanford, 1986)
Given: Knowledge of these perceptions is preserved in religious or mystical traditions, legends, and superstitous folk lore. Perpetuation of Religion as Cultural Data Storage Carnegy Mellon, 1997)
Thesis: That the study of the emergence of new forms of folk lore may give insight to the movement of the Aeons, and study of the patterns of the appearance of such legends give insight not only to where they have been, but where such forces may be headed in the future.
I have already collected a fair body of work on the subject, which I am still collating through statistical analysis at present. It is my hope that the discoveries and reports of others preforming this work shared here may benefit the work of all, that we gain a greater understanding of the forces that command the destiny of this world, that we might use this knowledge to great benefit for the future of mankind, and our respective societies.
I thank you for your participation, and look forward to sucessful work together in the future.
Namaste,
Frater Heilman |
