The Third Stage: the Ecological Naga

The Snake Cycle reaches closure, let us say, with the third stage, of the Ecological Naga.  The Naga, being half man and half snake, is a symbol of the synergism of ego-mind and Unconscious under the Self, the central coordinating archetype of the human psyche.  The two previous stages, of the undifferentiated, monist Uroboros and of the split, dualist Dragon, are both assimilated into the transcendent synthesis that is the Naga.  The importance of the Naga-stage is in the channeling of the great psychic power of the primordial survival drive of the Unconscious to conform to the guidance of ecological wisdom by the Self in the transformation of the human psyche and the development of ecological culture-civilization.  Such mental/cultural restructuring has occurred in the past in the sort of shamanic transformation which produces a prophet in a time of cultural extremis, such as described by Anthony F. C. Wallace, in which the mind spontaneously reorganizes itself in accordance with core values promising of survival of the people, essentially rapid-scanning its contents in deep trance and resynthesizing the old culture-model into a powerful, simple, comprehensible new one, providing then the best answer to the crisis of breakdown.  With the ascendance of the Ecological Self, such rapid evolution, of the Menning, can be expected to occur in many minds, achieving various levels of realization, creating a population of powerfully charismatic, wise individuals whose very presence can inspire others to undergo some degree of transformation themselves.

This, then, is the great hope: that the primordial Serpent Power will be engaged by the Ecological Self to thrust up to remake mankind for the survival of all Life on Earth.  And already there are individuals who have undergone this Change. The question remains: what can a person do to experience this transformation himself.