Ragnarok

Searuvel's cold, calculating, coercive intellect erodes the Soul, drives him into the Underworld, and the technological monsters Searuvel has created and released overwhelm the World, corrupting and weakening the upholding gods of civilization, devastating Nature.

But in the Underworld, the stress of crisis forces Soul, in the Cauldron of Making, to flash-evolve to a higher level of power and complexity as integral Eco-Self of the Menning.  And thus Wyrd is turned.

He returns guised as Drygand to battle Searuvel in shamanic contention.  Searuvel has eroded the foundation of his own power by devastating the Earth and Man, and the remnant of mankind remaining, led by Drygand Eco-Self, throws him over, stopping his Dilgoth.  And now Searuvel, Evil Machine, is put in his proper place, driven underground and contained there, never to rise again.

And Drygand Eco-Self the Soul, the Good, presides as Wise Guide to his Mennings, the godly tribe of the children of Men.

And the World starts to recover, begins even to flourish again, re-making, re-making and changing.

Searuvel= the Evil Machine.
Menning= ecological culture-civilization.
Drygand= were-serpent chimaera.
Dilgoth= the current extinction event.

Three Bits

The prodigal is received back by the Host upon presentation of the broken-off half of the token of Ecology.  The token, then mended, seals the covenant of Man and God in a Symbol of wholeness which Man is duty-bound to honor, aided by the Drygand's Lode, in making and keeping the Menning of the emergent fullness of Eco-Self.

Man plays God, and in compensation God plays Man, and Drygand God-man is the synthetic result-- transcendent Good including but subordinating evil.  And menning is Man-god, his human counterpart.  The ultimate crisis of human evil demands this transcendent synthesis, for the survival of all Life.

In the mythic primeval dream-time, transcendent Good could prevail: primal goodness, rightness, oneness, that was a trance which kept us within mete bounds.

Menning= ecological culture-civilization.
menning= a citizen of the Menning.

The Apotropaic Drygand

The ancient Romans were given to wearing a phallic amulet to protect them from the 'evil eye', a look of baleful effect if it caught one's eye.  To their mind, the phallus preempted this malevolent glare, as it had the power to compel attention, thus depotentiating it before it could do harm.

In like wise, the Drygand, the chthonic phallic serpent, neutralizes the pitiless beam of the Searuvel, the evil machine, whose great artificial cyclops-eye hypnotizes with the fatal fascination of technological power.  For even a work of artifice cannot resist the Drygand's rapt snake-stare, the erotic undulations of his lower snake-half, and the shocking counter-rational apparition of this were-snake chimaera.

The wild and fearsome Drygand is our one sure defense against the enslaving allure of ever more advanced and powerful technological simulacra for what is natural, animal, and human in our dear Biosphere-sanctuary.  For once we have been imprinted with the awe-ful sight of this monstrous creature, we are forever immune to the chill glare of the Searuvel.

apotropaic= intended to ward off evil, as with an amulet.

Pragmatic Deep Ecology

Mystics may experience God, but still not know what he thinks and wants of them.  On the other hand, with the Self, the ego-mind is part of it and so instead of having God tell us what he thinks and wants of us (which can happen in dream and trance, though usually in cryptic symbolic form), we must work out, ourselves, as best we can, what he must think and want of us. God is the sort of God who must exist, to rescue us from ourselves, and Nature from us.  If we had no such God at hand, we would have to invent him (Voltaire), figure out what kind of God he must be, what is needed.  And then we must accept, 'choose to believe', the best model of him we can surmise and the essential "over-beliefs" that accompany it.  And then we must 'as-if' this God into being in our minds, hoping that this effort is rewarded with a reply, help from 'the other side', having tried to open ourselves to his influence, his 'invasions'.  And in return for his help, we must strive to fulfill his demands of us. And so, Selfhood emerges in the interaction, and man and Nature may yet be saved.

The Self encompasses both ego and Unconscious(/Nature/God)-- no Self, then, without the involvement of both (i.e., no detached ego), because the Self is Unconscious/Nature/God become self-aware in ego-consciousness.  So we must rely on thought plus intuitive knowledge, creative 'genius', supplied by the Unconscious, in working out the mind of God.  A mystic may have absolute beliefs due to or affirmed by his experiences of the sacred, but those less gifted must settle for a pragmatic belief, which actually might be prompted by God though we remain unaware of it, as in the monist worldview of Deep Ecology ego-mind and Eco-mind are a continuum, so what is of me and what is of God?  It may not much matter which, if the resulting behavior is the same: acting to save the Biosphere and ourselves. 

Concept

The experience of the One is like a white page, expectant.  A symbol appears on it, of the Oneness of the Bios, all living things, and this is Ecology.  Within this symbol, a pattern forms of all life connected, a pattern self-consistent and coherent.

The Symbol sits at the center of one's being, coordinating one's character in accordance, and one is then one with the One, the Bios, the microcosm then harmonized with the Macrocosm.