Conversion

Lurking below, the Drygand-within.  Invite him in, and he takes possession.  It's quick, was waiting, ready.  The Lode constellates, the Idea reconfigures all, throughout.  Much is lost, more gained.  All is deeply strange but soon feels normal-- a new identity, a new world, with a new God.  A tipping point at which the Ground tilts, overturns, disintegrates, reforms in a new configuration-- the right one.  The Lode and its Daimon hold sway.  You cannot go back, the new state is time-forward.  A complete transformation-- a forced conversion when one's world collapses.  In the terror of extremis, the logic is 'change or die'.  Change, then.

Rearrange

A disintegrated, ill-fit system, when overloaded with psychic energy, spontaneously rearranges for a level of least stress-- best coherence and reality-fit.  A stronger, more stable equilibrium state, then, that spreads by contagion easily for that reason.

Ur-God

Pan-Hermes, Rudra-Shiva, Baal-El, Ing-Woden-- all are from the Chthonic Phallos Daimon, Ur-God of fertility, life, greed, sex, force, death, change, stability.

Theology

The Great Good God is the Biosphere's tribal Totem, its Agathos Daimon: guardian Genius, and Self-archetype of cosmic order: Ecoordo.  He is neither all-knowing nor all-powerful, but embodies the survival Urge, and its Will, and the inherent Wisdom of vast eons of Life on Earth.  And he can be our God, if we choose to bind ourselves to him, bind our fate to the fate of the Biosphere.  And so, we become transhuman, and find our place, where we fit in the whole Scheme, to 'be among' the interacting network of life-forms who are his charges and his Body, our self-interest lying in his Self-interest.

Daimons

The ancient Greek daimons were differentiated from gods, who were human-form, with human personalities, and had their own myths and cults.  Daimons were usually vaguer, unseen, or appearing as weird creatures, not persons, and not worshiped.  They may have prevailed before the gods of civilization came along.  Yahweh seems to have been more a daimon than a god like Baal, say, but a daimon who became eventually the God, a God who was not like a Greek god, or other polytheistic gods of the ancient world.  A daimon is of the Unconscious, the Unknown-- unknowable, not a person, incomprehensible, often appearing in multiple forms, or as animals or chimaeras, or strange natural phenomena, and were without their own myths and cults.

The Drygand is, like archaic Yahweh, more of a daimon than a god, but unlike him, a daimon who became the Daimon.  

God of Spring

The Drygand has been known to appear in this vernal season as Frey the Fertile, who rides about the land to waken life-forms from winter's sleep.  Or he may appear as ithyphallic Hermes of the herm-pillar.  Or as a splendid naked youth, the Kouros, who in his dithyramb dances Spring into full flower. Or as unclothed Adam of the full fledged Garden.  Or as the leaf-clad Green Man, King of the May.

All are manifestations of the vital erotic God of Spring, of Life resurrected, of Life triumphant over inimical conditions, and so of the Drygand, who brings hope for the survival of All Life.

Boundary Transforms

The Self serves as intermediary at the boundary layer between the domains of the conscious ego and the Unconscious.  This layer is a selectively permeable membrane across which mental content transforms as it passes through.  This interface is where the two domains interact, intercommunicate.  The Self, being a transformer, represents the unconscious mind to the conscious ego.  Inasmuch as the ego can accept influences coming through this membrane it becomes more permeable.  The Self, the unitive progressive force in the psyche, can enable an interaction between ego and Unconscious which is a sort of conversation in which the ego 'listens' to the voice of the Deep and replies, as it were.  In this way both the ego and Self become stronger, more developed, and more integrated.  The Unconscious 'speaks' cryptically, in imagery as well as words, and this can be interpreted both intuitively and intellectually.  But the ego can only know the Unconscious by this mediated means, and can surmise its own effect on the Unconscious only through apparent changes in what comes across, and also by changes in its own self.  Though material coming across can come from different sources, the Self is Meta-archetype of Wholeness that can subtly permeate much of this traffic, and whose teleological purpose can steer the development of the whole psyche.

The above is my own attempt to model Jung's concepts.  How mythic and how realistic it is, I don't know.

Death and Resurgence

The wild Nature God was killed by rationalist philosophy and monotheism.  "The great God Pan is dead!" was heard.  Fierce Yahweh, sky god of scrubland and mountain, lost his weird vital numinous power.  Rigid institutional systems of thought and moral stricture killed the primal Shaman God.

But the God that was, is back.  He slept and dreamed in a hidden catacomb til there came a readiness for him, a dire need, as the civilization that drove him to his grave is failing, as people can no longer bear its clutch, and go running for the hills.  But his time is no more, the world has changed and can't go back.  So if he is to return to preside, it must be in a new form, taking account of what has prevailed since he's been gone.

And so, he returns twofold-- logical and analogical, rational and nonrational, of dualism and monism, moral and meta-moral, of clear sense and of mythopoesy, complete.  He is yet the primal Nature God, with all the old wild magical-mystical force, but informed by the complex systematization of civilization and its body of acquired knowledge, his new myth the Myth of Eco-Self, of "I am I AM" of man and God oned in Nature.  And this means we must converse I-and-I, to be of one Mind in covenant, because only in this way can God remain with us.  If we need him to stay, we must become his people, we must find what it is he wants of us and we must strive to work it in the world, with his help.  We must enter the mind-space where our being can meet with his Being, dwell together, commune with the Mystery, approach the Presence!

Mete Bounds

A species can overgrow the limits of its niche and overrun the environment if not held in check by limiting forces.  What holds us back? --not enough!  Limiting forces can come from within us, from Nature-within, the 'self''-limiting Eco-Self.  Will these forces be conscious and ego-determined, or of source unknown and autonomous-- or perhaps rather both-- as perhaps it's up to the Eco-Self, which integrates the ego and the Unbeknownst, to hold the chaotic-destructive human species in check, to set limits, and keep us within the mete bounds of Eco-order. 

Unbeknownst= the Unconscious, the Mystery.

Core Identity

  The Core Identity of the biospheric Eco-Self is a nebular constellation morphing around an equilibrium attractor: Ecology. It's also a world-girdling cloud of interconnected ideas, imagery, and rules: Feorgen.  This Big Identity of Life-on-Earth, with its systemic wisdom-intelligence, is the analog-structure for human psychic economy and culture: Menning.

Feorgen= biospheric mind (God).
Menning= ecological culture-civilization.

Collapse and Constellation

Get too far out from the Source, too complex, too contradictory-divergent, and things can disintegrate, fall back toward the center-point, and its charged uniting Idea reconstellates according to the impinging forces of the moment to a morphing formation for steady-state order that possesses the field and induces integration according to its attractor pattern.  And so from the failure of the old comes a fresh form of life, elegant and strong.

Note: This is meant to be more evocative than rational!