Re: Re: VMs: Pleiades Occultation Further Date Refinement

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Dennis,  
  
=======  You wrote:  

>	I am not joking.  Kennedy and Churchill discussed this idea 
>at some length, which is why I am bringing it up.     So no, 
>it is not Ruggish.  :-)   I myself may have suggested it in 
>the past.

Well, so you are three now :-).

>
>	The visions of Hildegard of Bingen are now widely believed 
>to have been inspired by migrainous imagery.  

She may as well had migraine - why not? - but I bet there was a number of 
painters who put stars  on their pictures without having migraine. How we 
then recognizes which stars are only artistic license and which are  
"migraine dependent"?
 Of course there are other symptoms of migraine effects discussed in the article
you listed. Why don't   you carry  on the study a  let us know - after all it should
 show in other  parts of the VM, as probably K+C noticed. Of course, visions can be 
 caused also by other  factors: head or eye injury, schizophrenia or other mental 
 sickness,  drugs and last but not least those coming directly from  
 Heaven :-).

>	This is just my point.  Most of the star patterns in the 
>VMs don't seem to follow any "constellation", they are just 
>random collections.  This would suggest that they were 
>inspired by something besides real or mythic celestial images.

Not necessarily - the inaccuracy for instance. As for randomness, 
even that needs to be proven. As for inspiration - true, but almost
anything  will do. 


>	No, I think the 'Pleiades' could be an exception.

Well, why exception? The author momentarily had no migraine? 
And if one exception, why not more of those?
 
Jan
 





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