The Drygand, dark Nature God, is trying to manifest in Man. A trickster god with all means at his disposal, insidious beguiler, hidden insinuator, slippery-fluctuous fellow, trying to become Man, trying to wake us up, by means fair and foul-- he's scary.
But Man resists awakening; he's afraid, of the influx of knowledge, and the incessant demands of the bettering Self, and the transfiguration to a greater moral girth, and Consciousness!
But like with a python, the more Man resists, the tighter the grip. Or he can accept the inevitable.
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.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Monday, November 17, 2014
The Transformation of the Mythic Primordial World-Serpent
The mythic primordial World-Serpent, the defender of the Tree of Life, culture-hero, civilizer of the human species, presided over a Golden Age of stability and good order. He tamed the wild biologic drives through his cunning and wisdom, his fertile creativity, his magic power, and harnessed them toward good order. He was a guide and wisdom-teacher to the worthy.
The basis for religion is the rite of offering of oneself to the god, founded on the survival-logic of reciprocity: you give so that you may get-- ultimately, the good order of balance and harmony of Man and Nature that one finds in pagan monist-pluralist religion: Nature is good to us if we are good to It.
But now there is no such religion, no such rite. We have a world culture of childish stupidity and irresponsibility, with consequent catastrophe for Man and Nature growing inexorably closer.
The Drygand is the mythic primordial World-Serpent reworked by the Wolken in response to the crisis, the vitalist biologic God of Good order. He now is Haelend-- savior-- and Eormen-Teev-- Supreme God. The survival-logic of the rite of reciprocity is now given force under a moral mandate of dualist-monotheist religion:"Save the Earth!" This is the higher purpose given to man, to bring him from his witless childhood into responsible maturity. The Drygand, as culture-hero and civilizer of modern Man, as wisdom-teacher and guide, by helping us both to take a giant step back, into primal archaic mind, thus reclaiming the long-buried powers of Nature-mind, and using these to drive us to take one giant step forward, into scientific, activist, and religious Ecological Mind, we evolve the Menning, the ecological civilization founded on the survival-logic of the rite of offering, that we might yet preserve both Man and Nature, and achieve a Grenegold Age of stability and good order.
Perform the rite of offering with your life and show your worth.
The basis for religion is the rite of offering of oneself to the god, founded on the survival-logic of reciprocity: you give so that you may get-- ultimately, the good order of balance and harmony of Man and Nature that one finds in pagan monist-pluralist religion: Nature is good to us if we are good to It.
But now there is no such religion, no such rite. We have a world culture of childish stupidity and irresponsibility, with consequent catastrophe for Man and Nature growing inexorably closer.
The Drygand is the mythic primordial World-Serpent reworked by the Wolken in response to the crisis, the vitalist biologic God of Good order. He now is Haelend-- savior-- and Eormen-Teev-- Supreme God. The survival-logic of the rite of reciprocity is now given force under a moral mandate of dualist-monotheist religion:"Save the Earth!" This is the higher purpose given to man, to bring him from his witless childhood into responsible maturity. The Drygand, as culture-hero and civilizer of modern Man, as wisdom-teacher and guide, by helping us both to take a giant step back, into primal archaic mind, thus reclaiming the long-buried powers of Nature-mind, and using these to drive us to take one giant step forward, into scientific, activist, and religious Ecological Mind, we evolve the Menning, the ecological civilization founded on the survival-logic of the rite of offering, that we might yet preserve both Man and Nature, and achieve a Grenegold Age of stability and good order.
Perform the rite of offering with your life and show your worth.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Assertion
The simple moral assertion that the Biosphere is primary, the Cosmic God, seems to be the essential, nonreducable basis for 'Good Order' in the human realm, without which we continue our compulsive spasm toward universal destruction. This entity is the Ecological Self, the intelligent power for good order permeating all of Life. And we are meant to participate in its manifestation.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Wish Fulfilment
A God is wishful thinking-- we want and we need a God, and so we will a God, and hope that he will then exist for us, if we yearn for him hard enough. And we might get our wish, but not exactly the way we wanted-- a God is a powerful Being, and makes demands on us-- so be careful what you wish for...
Monday, November 3, 2014
The Workable New
The major world religions and their gods seem incapable of evolving past their heavy-laden traditions and institutions, and thus the civilizations they support. Oddly, it is among both the more credulous and the unbelievers that one finds an openness to new religious ideas-- both groups are looking for something that works for them, though they may end up finding quite different things-- one hopes not.
In a time when apocalypse is at hand, isn't it time for a new Time? a new God? a new Man? a new Civilization?
In a time when apocalypse is at hand, isn't it time for a new Time? a new God? a new Man? a new Civilization?