Eco-Neotene

Part of humans' survival advantage is a prolonged development period in which we remain neotenous-- open to acculturative imprinting from experience and instruction.  Therefore we can be fitted to survive in novel circumstances.  And on into maturation we can remain neotenous to the extent of being able to recognize and respond creatively to and learn from novel challenges.  Many cultures do everything they can to suppress neoteny after the essential early molding is accomplished. But in the West, particularly, constant innovation requires permanent neoteny, as we have created a culture, and thus a world, in permanent revolution-- with catastrophic consequences impending.  But we can use our neoteny to respond creatively to the challenges and remake ourselves, as needed, to counter the catastrophe, with help from the best in us: Eco-Self.  We need to remain neotenous, even protean, to find and make ourselves what we must be, for the survival of Life.  We must retain our maturing phase, toward post-adolescent transformation, to quickly evolve to a higher level of complex integration so that we can remake our species to stop the destruction-- in short, we must adapt or go extinct, along with much else of the Biosphere.

The Drygand, of course, is the messianic-millennial culture-hero shaman-prophet representing the Eco-Self, whose role is to inspire the neotenous creative genius by which we can effectively respond to the crisis.

Neoteny= retention in adults of traits characteristic of the young: physiological, anatomical, and/or mental; delayed or partial maturation.

Tacit

God is tacit, God is latent.implicit.potential.  So seek him down in uncertain trance, in the daimonic liminal field; realize while there your extraordinary trans-personhood, inflated-possessed of his genius.

Over-soul

The Over-soul is the daimonic-divine power, the over-driving force for Life-survival, the ecological imperative, the source of world eco-order, the living Ideal, the uniting Mystery: I-and-Thou.

Over-belief

What is our Meta-myth, our Over-belief?  That of the One, Life-God within-without: Nature-Mind: Eco-Self.  The others, even if still strong, are seen to be inimical to salvation.

Edge Way

Whether he likes it or not, Man is dominant-- every thing we do matters.  So we must be cautious, we must balance on a knife's edge as we make our way, or we destroy the Biosphere and ourselves.  This is a hard way.  So we must keep faith with God, and accept his help, else we fall, to the ruin of All.

Just Know

Some things you just know to be true (or not true), you just get it, through an intelligence not argument.  Tacit understanding becomes seeing.  This is how the wisdom of Ecology awakens to danger.  Vague uneasiness becomes alarm and the drive to act to save the good.

Ecological Intelligence

Under severe selection pressure, humans were forced to make an evolutionary leap, outstripping the rest of Nature's ability to coevolve to cope with it.  The human species' mental evolution continues to leap forward, forcing a decisive reaction by the Biosphere, with an unpredictable outcome for both humans and Earth.  The problem with humans is that they don't care about the survival of other species unless their immediate survival would be threatened-- a fatal flaw in human mentality, insuring our eventual extinction.  The only possibility for human survival is for those with greater ecological-intelligence to differentiate from and dominate the less intelligent-- don't let the idiots win.

Eco-pax Neotype

The ecology symbol is the neotype of the undifferentiated Self-archetype, the new idea-image imprinting its transformative pattern on the matrix of the human psyche, to encompass it within its shaping influence.  It is a simple integrating mythic mandala, a strange eco-attractor inexorably drawing the tragic instinctual drives of the human species into a complex refluxive system, a benign looping knotwork of ecological equilibrium that tames destructive human nature finally to a strong enduring equilibrium state of sane eco-pax.

The Dragon Archetype

The Dragon archetype of the ecological Unconscious represents Eco-Self.  He is the Totem of Life-on-Earth, who holds the ancient ecological wisdom, who drives one to inform this wisdom with modern ecological knowledge and to devote oneself to saving Life on Earth.

"Who Am I!"

In a world now frittered to bits, sometimes the mind intrudes on the flux of ephemera and demands, "Who am I!  WHO AM I!"

We have lost identity-- selfhood-- eroded by the intense but shallow audio-visual chaos we inhabit. But the mind will not be denied.  It demands that you find your self, your true identity, who you are-- you must search for it, beneath the insubstantial surface, and go deep to find it, because your core-identity is your alter-ego-- mythic, mystical, intuitive, introverted, authentic, in touch with the Daimonic-- Nature-and-God-- by way of your inner daimon.  Only your inner daimon can give you back your lost identity, your soul, your character, your meaning, your purpose.  And he is THOU, intent on you, an emanation of God, the Self.  Only God can return you your soul, because he is I AM, from whom comes who you are.