New Wights for Old

If, in our time, the ancient wights are gone from the land, then we have a clear field for invention, to get them right-- that is, ecological. Reinvent them? Why not. We need them, but in the right form.

The conscious mind and the Deep Mind, however you want to see it, need to cooperate on this project, in a Jungian way. Images come to us, and if we sense they are right, if they work, if they're strong, and magical-mystical, we go with it. It has to be acceptable to the Deep Mind as well as to the conscious mind, and so there's a cycling between them, forming something that meets the common need.

I've tried to do this with the Mythos. I've imbibed ancient and folk models, and tried to engage in this cyclic process of culture-creation, reforming old wights and gods and such to be deep-ecological, as well as fitting and workable elsewise. It's a 'way', a questing, in a time of mazeway resynthesis-- which is completely not what early cultures did, with their self-evolved stable mazeway. But we've lost the religiousness-- a sense of awe, of the magical-mystical, of greater wiser powers than our own. And we need the spiritual power of religiousness to help us save the Biosphere. The old, established religions just aren't ecological, and they are fading away almost everywhere because they don't fit with the modern world. But then, pre-civilizational, tribal, animist-shamanic religion doesn't fit, either. We need to find what will better fit with the modern, but moreso, with the culture-civilization we must have if we are to support rather than destroy the Biosphere, but that also helps drive us towards it, now and in the near future. So we need to rethink the spiritual/religious in a rational, practical way; but without the cooperation of the Deep Mind, it just won't work, and the Deep Mind can't be forced. We must stay in quest mode, sensitive to unconscious promptings, open to numinous sendings, inspirations of ideas, of images, of communications of beings. And if it fits a new ecological mazeway, if it has great draw and power and potential, then we should try it and see if it proves-out. But these things grow and change, or are replaced by more promising models. The idea is that we progress through the changes, and that it doesn't just work for our ownself, but, as it has a richness of the Deep Mind, is of finer substance and allure, it has resonance in the wider world-- New wights for old, and the newfangled really is better than the antique.

'If there were no wights, we would have to invent them.'