I'm always impatient with intellectual discourse, it leaves me cold, and when I attempt to construct one, it doesn't feel authentic. It's just not my kind of thing. Yes, I like to determine which ideas and formulas are valid, and useful, and which are not, but I'm a romantic, and so I like to numenize them, make them into potent symbols, images, slogans, full of magic, mystery, mysticism. My mind generates these readily, whereas discursive writing is laborious, and impossible if I don't feel it, but writing either goes or it doesn't, while making a decent drawing of an image, and from that into a finished object for display, well, that's torture, and takes forever. But here, I will write about an image-- though some day, I'll probably make a display-object of it-- I'll add it to the list of images to process.
Recently, it came to me to put the man-figure which the German Romantic artist Fidus used to symbolize Man as the conveyer of cosmic Geist (vital spirit-energy), inside the ecology symbol (eco-logo, Edhlifrith takn or bind-ring). This man-figure, which I described in "The Drygand as a Tree", now would represent the Drygand, or anyone like him, upholding the Edhli-- the Biosphere-- on the one hand, and being joined to it in harmony, on the other, this being the necessary, ideal relationship of Man to Nature-- not just 'one with Nature', which notion can easily become 'I am Nature, so I can do whatever is natural to me (i.e., whatever I want), and not 'apart from Nature', like a steward (an external manager), but rather a subtle relationship with Nature which includes both our naturalness, and also our alienness, those aspects of us that make us very dangerous to Nature. In short, of a monster who turns his powers to good purpose, which is the best we can do, and not easy of accomplishment.
Unfortunately, as long as we exist, we will be monsters capable of ultimate evil, and yet also of great good. Time will reveal whether the good in us can stably control the evil in us, our power over Nature. We need to go all-out and see if we can do this, instead of, like many do, just give up before we've even tried our darndest. This is the Age of Ecology we're living in, after all-- 40 A. E. now-- and that is what is required of us, to organize as a species to save this planet from our monstrous selves. This, then, is the reality-movie of our time, and we must not be merely spectators and critics of it, but its academy award-winning performers-- or vanish forthwith from the screen forever! A great movie with a happy ending, or the death of cinema? It's up to us!
The Shaggy Mythos is evolving Deep Ecology religion, creative intuitive as well as rational intellectual, which draws on worldwide mythology and folklore as well as scholarly labors of thought, to uncover and reveal the truth of things. Herein you will learn of Feorgen of the Wyke, the Drygand and his Lode, the Searuvel and Dilgoth, and of the Menning and its Menschen, who all play their part in the titanic struggle of our time to save the Biosphere and thus ourselves-as-Ecological-Self.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
The Trewita
Trewita means 'druid' in Eormennisch: 'wita' meaning 'wise man', and 'trew' meaning 'true' and 'tree', both of which are applicable since the Trewita is both a true man and, as such, like a tree, as he is grounded in the earth, by which we mean the Edhli (Biosphere), while he reaches up into the sky, by which we mean the Immynd (Imagination). He dwells in the heolor (balance) of Edhli and Immynd which is called the Twyrymet (dual reality). And so he does not live unrooted as most all humans do, heedless of the primacy of the Edhli and of their responsibility to keep it whole and safe, who live in an unnatural world where their minds run mad, unmoored from their true nature, leading them to harm the living world that created them and on which they depend for life no matter how they try to go beyond it, live apart from it.
But the Trewita's mind is bound to the Edhli and so for him the Edhli-immynd drenches all the world, investing it with magisch rynedom (magical mystery), which is the birthright of the human animal, but which civilized man lives without, knowing not what he is missing.
Civilized man, no matter the wealth he thinks he has, is impoverished, and in his mad blindness he destroys the rich Living World which is his true reality, thereby growing madder and madder without experience or knowledge of it, until he destroys himself in his madness.
But the Trewita sees life as it is and knows his true nature, as much as can be known by man. And because of this, he is good, and works good.
But the Trewita's mind is bound to the Edhli and so for him the Edhli-immynd drenches all the world, investing it with magisch rynedom (magical mystery), which is the birthright of the human animal, but which civilized man lives without, knowing not what he is missing.
Civilized man, no matter the wealth he thinks he has, is impoverished, and in his mad blindness he destroys the rich Living World which is his true reality, thereby growing madder and madder without experience or knowledge of it, until he destroys himself in his madness.
But the Trewita sees life as it is and knows his true nature, as much as can be known by man. And because of this, he is good, and works good.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Coming of the Edhli-menning
(glossary follows text)
Certain menschen there were who saw Dilgoth approaching as the Searuvel began to spread over the entire Earth, devouring the wild Edhli to make itself ever mightier so as to grow ever faster. These Edhli-menschen did not know it, but they were at the forefront of the evolution of the Edhli-mind, the Wolken, which had become ever more intelligent and complex from the beginnings of Life. But with the evolution of Man, it had grown ever faster. And but now, the twisted machine-animal mind of the Searuvel threatened the self-evolution of Life on Earth, and even Life itself if the full Dilgoth occurred. The Edhli-menschen, influenced by the Wolken, rapidly evolved, themselves, into the Alfar, and the idea of an ecological civilization, the Edhli-menning, began to form among them as the response to the Searuvel civilization of the West that had become global. And as well, within the Wolken, the Lodestone formed as a powerful agent of transformation and guidance to come to seat at the center of each Alf-mensch and drive the coming of the Edhli-menning to re-cover the Earth and devour the Searuvel as it had devoured the wild Edhli. When the Twayne brought the Lodestone to the Drygand, who is the active aspect of the Wolken, he too was transformed by it, into the great Edhlifridha, protector of the wild Edhli and champion of the Edhli-menning. And he enlisted many of the Alfar to be fellow Kynechts, Halleths in this great Sake to win back the Earth to Edhli-frith. Others of the Alfar, closer by nature to the Wolken, became Menning-bodas, messengers and spokesmen for the new civilization. And the mighty struggle to save the Earth from the terrible evil that had overrun it was waged!
menschen= persons.
the Dilgoth= the current extinction event.
the Searuvel= the evil machine.
the Edhli= living Nature, the Biosphere.
the Wolken= the great Cloud of Being-mind that covers the Earth.
the Alfar= the Nature-romantics.
the Drygand= the primordial Pan-chimaera.
Edhli-frith= Nature-preservation.
kynecht= knight, fighter.
halleth= holy knight.
sake= a contention, cause.
boda= druid, proclaimer, redesman.
Certain menschen there were who saw Dilgoth approaching as the Searuvel began to spread over the entire Earth, devouring the wild Edhli to make itself ever mightier so as to grow ever faster. These Edhli-menschen did not know it, but they were at the forefront of the evolution of the Edhli-mind, the Wolken, which had become ever more intelligent and complex from the beginnings of Life. But with the evolution of Man, it had grown ever faster. And but now, the twisted machine-animal mind of the Searuvel threatened the self-evolution of Life on Earth, and even Life itself if the full Dilgoth occurred. The Edhli-menschen, influenced by the Wolken, rapidly evolved, themselves, into the Alfar, and the idea of an ecological civilization, the Edhli-menning, began to form among them as the response to the Searuvel civilization of the West that had become global. And as well, within the Wolken, the Lodestone formed as a powerful agent of transformation and guidance to come to seat at the center of each Alf-mensch and drive the coming of the Edhli-menning to re-cover the Earth and devour the Searuvel as it had devoured the wild Edhli. When the Twayne brought the Lodestone to the Drygand, who is the active aspect of the Wolken, he too was transformed by it, into the great Edhlifridha, protector of the wild Edhli and champion of the Edhli-menning. And he enlisted many of the Alfar to be fellow Kynechts, Halleths in this great Sake to win back the Earth to Edhli-frith. Others of the Alfar, closer by nature to the Wolken, became Menning-bodas, messengers and spokesmen for the new civilization. And the mighty struggle to save the Earth from the terrible evil that had overrun it was waged!
menschen= persons.
the Dilgoth= the current extinction event.
the Searuvel= the evil machine.
the Edhli= living Nature, the Biosphere.
the Wolken= the great Cloud of Being-mind that covers the Earth.
the Alfar= the Nature-romantics.
the Drygand= the primordial Pan-chimaera.
Edhli-frith= Nature-preservation.
kynecht= knight, fighter.
halleth= holy knight.
sake= a contention, cause.
boda= druid, proclaimer, redesman.