Dragon-Meld

The Winged Dragon flies to the Heights, and the Chthonic Dragon burrows to the Depths.  If they meld into one, you have a shamanic traveller over the gamut of the tiered Cosmos of the Psyche: the Drygand.  At the height of the Psyche is the most modern mode of ego-consciousness: the ecological.  In the depth you have the primordial Unconscious, the preserve of the survival instincts, which express consciously as evolved archetypal forms.  In Jungian psychology, the crisis of modern man derives from the dualist divorce of our 'civilized' ego-consciousness and the archaic Unconscious.  'Ecology', as a revival of monist synthesis and unity in cultural compensation for dualist analysis and differentiation, has provided us with a way to extract ourselves from the modern dilemma.  By 'Ecology', I mean a broad definition that includes the rational analytic science of ecology, as well as the monist synthetic cultural and Nature-preservationist movement of Deep Ecology.  And the means to apply the natural laws of Ecology so as to reunite the ego and Unconscious, and Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in harmony is through a kind of open shamanic experiencing of the tiers of the psychic cosmos as an integral self-regulating system which establishes an equilibrium-seeking free flux of all elements in the psyche-engaged-with-the-real-world.  And this is one aspect of what the archetypal Drygand represents, as a guiding model for Mennings, a sort of shamanic Ally to aid ego and Unconscious, Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in melding into a self-regulating system that can be characterized as ecological and that acts ecologically.

chthonic= subterranean, underworldly. pronounced 'kthonic'.
Mennings= people of the Menning, the ecological culture-civilization.