[yossarian]

Originally Posted by moviestar

You have a similar realiy to mine thef0x. Let me add something here.

Everything we experience in our concious mind that we can define, label or point out and describe it as some singular entity comes from mythos. Mythos is a Greek term used for describing a collection of myths, stories and legends about the world. Mythos is the entire accumulated knowledge of humankind. Everything comes from it: demons, devils, angels, good, evil, God. Every word you use, every label that you attach to something you experience comes from this knowledge.
There is no thought in your mind that is yours. You cannot honestly say that a thought is entirely your own. Every thought you have is only there because someone has thought it in the past (this concept explains also psychic abilities, I can write about it if it interests anyone).

Your entire perception of reality is dictated by the myths that were carried on by the people that lived before you.

To understand this better, let's take an old philosophical metaphor.

Suppose there is a child born, that cannot see, cannot hear, cannot smell, cannot taste, cannot feel. That means it doesn't have any senses with which it can experience the world. Now, does this child have any thoughts?

The answer is no. Without experience there is no thought.

My point is: would astral worlds and all kinds of entities in them (like demons) exist and would it be possible for you to experience them without the knowledge that you have about them?

The answer is again no. If I am right that proves that alternate realities are just creations of our minds, creations of the knowledge of humankind. There is nothing spooky about them.

so who came up with the first myth?

If humans can only conceive of what they experience, then all of these mythical creations from Abominable Snowmen to Zombies must be real.