I do fear that the popularity of The Da Vinci Code has caused readers and viewers to forget its purpose. Many people said the movie was “fascinating,” and “made me think,” but most of those thoughts were lost by the time they pulled into the driveway. My friends, generally pretty intelligent, were lost when I tried to have a deep discussion about the religious meaning and implications of the movie. To most, The Da Vinci Code will simply be an exciting thriller.
In that lies the paradox of The Da Vinci Code: Brown wrote a thriller plot to get people to read his non-fiction studies but the people often choose to look no further than the plot. Congratulations?
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1 - Heloise
Occultism does not equal intellectualism--how Dan Brown gets is wrong
I have written here on my blog theosophy_talks_truth before about the mistakes that Ken Wilbur made
in his books when he gets into talking about physics. I can say the
same but more about the novel writings of Dan Brown.
There are many books out there that discuss how much he dropped the
ball when it comes to the "occult" in his books. He seems to confuse
intellectualism with occultism. He does not get symbols right. There
is no such thing as a "symbologist." Scientists do not recognize
symbols as being a source of knowledge. They create symbols as tools
to help them and other to communicate, pure and simple.
Everyone knows that astrologers use the symbols for the planets and
that physicists use many symbols for their equations, but that is
not an occult thing to do people. It is simply a shorthand. Symbols
are tools not occult wisdom. And that is where Dan Brown strains the
context.
Science however does recognize "patterns." The study of patterns, as
I propose in my book "Dinner With da Vinci" is a bonifide scientific
study. I do not see the hoopla about symbols, it is practically
meaningless to a real scientist like myself. Brown is obviously an
English major who gets in over his head when he tries to take on the
world of the occult.
Heloise
2 - Heloise
Occultism does not equal intellectualism--how Dan Brown gets it wrong (correction)
I have written before on my blog http://www.theosophy_talks_truth a yahoo group
about the mistakes that Ken Wilbur made
in his books when he uses physics to bolster his points. I can say the same but more about the novel writings of Dan Brown.
There are many books out there that discuss how badly he dropped the ball when it comes to the "occult" in his books. He seems to confuse intellectualism with occultism. He does not get symbols right. He has literally created something out of nothing. And that violates the law of conservation of matter!! There is no such thing as a "symbologist." Scientists do not recognize symbols as a source of knowledge. They create symbols as tools to help them and others to communicate, pure and simple.
Everyone knows that astrologers use the symbols for the planets and that physicists use many symbols for their equations, but that is not an occult thing to do people. It is simply a shorthand--a language of communication. A language which is obviously a "closed book" for Brown. Symbols are merely good tools not occult wisdom. And that is where Dan Brown strains the
context.
Science however does recognize "patterns." The study of patterns, as I propose in my upcoming book "Dinner With da Vinci" (available July 15th),is a bonifide part of science. Even the fibonacci sequence he touts is really about how patterns in nature are formed and the numerical sequence is correctly written: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8... but he does not use the ellipses nor the zero. I do not see the hoopla about symbols, it is practically meaningless to a real scientist like myself. Brown is obviously an English major who gets in over his head when he tries to take on the world of the occult.
Heloise
3 - Joey
I come from a long lineage of Masonry. Having read the book, it sounded a lot like conversations I had overheard, and books laying around the house I had read...
Ohhh Ahhhh!!! EerieWierd!!!
I don't think Brown did anything beyond what Masonry has had laid out for centuries.
Therefore I actually suspect that Dan Brown isn't original in his "theories" about anything.
4 - O.T.O
The bible is the truest form of information given to man. Its to bad people dont use it to educate ourselves.
5 - Heloise
It's official folks: "Dinner With Da Vinci: The Road Royale Through Rebirth" has been published (July 15, 2006) and is now available online
At Amazon
Netemara aka Leslie J. McClinton
Unleases the rebirth genie from the bottle.
Heloise