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Yes. Memes are definitely in the same category. The main distinction is whether people associate them as being autonomously conscious in their own right. That's really just a matter of the form people choose to visualise when they consider the idea. Whether it's inanimate, or animate, is purely an imaginary distinction, and when it comes to things like a pet rock, or a religious icon, the distinction can blur very quickly.
Another element to it (which is admittedly speculation) is whether there is a non-corporeal or at least as yet unproven connection between the minds of different people (eg. collective unconscious, psychic realm, astral plane, whatever, etc). That being the case, then it's quite possible that these entities are in fact like a cross-roads of the minds/imaginations of everyone who shares the idea. And I speculate that since in the case of deities, people imagine them to be individuals, that is how the express themselves to those who encounter them in states of trance, dreams, etc. In fact they may well be a conglomerate of all the minds of all the people who imagine that being, merely appearing as an individual, because that's in keeping with everyone's expectation. This can lead to very uncanny and inexplicable transfers of knowledge across the boundaries of time and space. This idea is consistent with my experience, and to some extent with my experiments, but again, it's anecdotal and subjective, so I can't claim it as more than personal speculation.
That said, here's an interesting and humorous account of phenomena of this nature.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/pointedlypagan/2013/01/darth-vader-luke-skywalker-and-thought-forms/
Yes. Memes are definitely in the same category. The main distinction is whether people associate them as being autonomously conscious in their own right. That's really just a matter of the form people choose to visualise when they consider the idea. Whether it's inanimate, or animate, is purely an imaginary distinction, and when it comes to things like a pet rock, or a religious icon, the distinction can blur very quickly.
Another element to it (which is admittedly speculation) is whether there is a non-corporeal or at least as yet unproven connection between the minds of different people (eg. collective unconscious, psychic realm, astral plane, whatever, etc). That being the case, then it's quite possible that these entities are in fact like a cross-roads of the minds/imaginations of everyone who shares the idea. And I speculate that since in the case of deities, people imagine them to be individuals, that is how the express themselves to those who encounter them in states of trance, dreams, etc. In fact they may well be a conglomerate of all the minds of all the people who imagine that being, merely appearing as an individual, because that's in keeping with everyone's expectation. This can lead to very uncanny and inexplicable transfers of knowledge across the boundaries of time and space. This idea is consistent with my experience, and to some extent with my experiments, but again, it's anecdotal and subjective, so I can't claim it as more than personal speculation.
That said, here's an interesting and humorous account of phenomena of this nature.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/pointedlypagan/2013/01/darth-vader-luke-skywalker-and-thought-forms/