DM>      How do we capture and contain those true "few ideas" 
 DM>      into a "meaning package" or even hint that there is any 
 DM>      meaning. How ??? ....being some specific? 
By taking the vision, whether of a dream, intoxication, or long 
meditation, and comparing it with that of others who have had 
the same experience of a vision, and extracting allegory from 
it with some expectation of universality... a rational, careful 
process undertaken *after* the vision was experienced. 
 
To be sure, there are cultural artifacts as well as instinctive 
ones within man's own genome.  Campbell did a pretty good job of 
pointing out how the interpretations varied with culture, and how 
similar cultures, civilized, nomadic, or hunter, used the same 
kind of visions, but interpreted them in ways typical of culture. 
 
My thinking has been recently trying to reconstruct the thinking 
of the ancient Aryan shamen based on the artifacts dug up, and a 
few written reports from cultures where Aryan shamen still lived 
into this century, as in Siberia.  Some of this cosmology dates 
from the Cro-magnon caves in France; some of the iconography was 
still in use this century. 
 
One of those ideas was that to the extent that God has what we 
would call a personality, that that personality is not male, nor 
autocratic... characteristic of the Sumerian city state heirarchy 
some 4-5 millennia ago.  One of those ideas was that God created 
all right, but that it was not part of a cognative plan, but that 
she simply 'gave birth' to the world as we know it. 
 
The universal birth process is more like evolution, and a natural 
life process.  And, that we are created not to fulfill the 'will' 
of God, but to fulfill our own destiny, as any mother would wish. 
 
I think, given what we know of the origin of the universe, and of 
life, that this view is far more coherent with the facts as we 
see them than the patriarchal tryanny of the Judaic/Christian God 
in his heaven with a host of sychophants.  The shamanistic view 
was not a cosmology organized to pander to the sensibilities of a 
totalitarian government. 
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