MGC - I've got my galoshes on mgc - here's a pair for you, lets wade on in. (LorrB leans over and whispers in mgc's ear... couldn't you hit P with his questions sometimes..)
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Paul - I listed some of my profound famous people and everyone ignored them. So I figured I got them all wrong. So far as I can tell from my chosen list they all had either in depth knowledge of their subject, heartfelt feelings (empathy) for their fellow beings and some had deep enough pockets to do something about things in general... provide new industry/employment/education for the poor.
I threw dear old Edgar Cayce in because though he died in the year I was born, he changed my life completely. His ability to access the Akashic records led to cures for the incurables, and many of his unusual treatments for the time are now common practice. That and his readings re reincarnation/karma - the Perfect Law, imo.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
personally i see the muse as 1 (that is many), namely the source of inspiration (aka the collective).. therefor 1 could assume that there would be no muse without humans.. as the first conscious soul prolly created the muse by itself, u could say it is impossible to be called human if the muse is yet to be created.. do chimps xperience the muse?
"From the Heliconian Muses let us begin to sing, Who hold the great and holy mount of Helicon, And dance on soft feet about the deep-blue spring And the altar of the almighty son of Cronos, and, When they have washed their tender bodies in Permessus Or in the Horse's Spring or Olmeius, Make their fair, lovely dances upon highest Helicon And move with vigorous feet" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Helicon
Here the Muses are located by place and are said to sing, dance and bathe. Thus the semi-historical goddesses are confounded with the beings who are the actual sources of inspiration.
The use of physical beings to represent non-physical entities is common in ancient accounts
i tend not to rely on ancient accounts to much when it comes to these matters..
Wise choice...
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say, Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. -The Last Samurai
They say Japan was made by a sword. They say the old gods dipped a coral blade into the ocean, and when they pulled it out four perfect drops fell back into the sea, and those drops became the islands of Japan. I say, Japan was made by a handful of brave men. Warriors, willing to give their lives for what seems to have become a forgotten word: honor. -The Last Samurai
One of the characteristics of some profound humans is a habit of very close observation of nature. Therefore I wonder if it is possible to be profound without having a strong intellect?
For example, there is a stereotype of the ferryman being wise by listening to the river
I think then that we have established that the Muses have nothing to do with profundity in humans. From where else might profundity emerge?
now hang on,.. i didnt say that at all.. imo the muses ( as semi godesses) r a visualisation of the muse (source of inspiration).. what is the relation between inspiration and profundity?