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.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Right Mind
What goes on in your mind is all-important, and you are responsible for maintaining it as best you can, for it makes or breaks the world. It matters vitally, far beyond 'for myself in my here-and-now', for 'my group', 'my species', but for the whole life-world, to survive and thrive henceforth. And for this, religion is crucial-- the right kind of religion for the right kind of mind, because only through us can God manifest to save the world.
Monday, April 25, 2016
The Wrong God
The received religious orthodoxy of the present day is "It's all good," a kind of liberal soft-nihilism indistinguishable from "It doesn't matter." It's motivated by political expediency-- the powers don't want religious ideologies and religious conflict hampering the realization of their agendas (which could only tenuously be described as religious).
I think I comprehend why they must do this and sympathize to an extent-- except that their agendas are catastrophic, ecocidal-- just war by other means; a war everyone loses--'mutually assured destruction'.
Inasmuch as a religion's conception of God epitomizes a worldview, a civilization, a culture, its ethos, values, ideas, way of life, the predominant Gods (the atheist-materialist one, too) are the wrong God-- all hopeless, all catastrophic. There is a right God, though. And do we need him now.
I think I comprehend why they must do this and sympathize to an extent-- except that their agendas are catastrophic, ecocidal-- just war by other means; a war everyone loses--'mutually assured destruction'.
Inasmuch as a religion's conception of God epitomizes a worldview, a civilization, a culture, its ethos, values, ideas, way of life, the predominant Gods (the atheist-materialist one, too) are the wrong God-- all hopeless, all catastrophic. There is a right God, though. And do we need him now.
Thursday, April 21, 2016
God and Man
Feorgen Life-God, Pantheos, Eco-- by any name the one true God. He has let Man have his head, do as he would, with his humanist God, humanist culture, but can't anymore. The one true God is ecologically moral, and so must Man become, or go extinct by his own hand. Drygand is Feorgen's agent, at work among men though Feorgen and Drygand are one. Drygand is God-within-- survival instinct become Self-archetype: EcoSelf. He seeks by means fair or foul to possess the humanist ego, so to save the world. And he needs our help.
Monday, April 18, 2016
Witch Hunt Reversal
The Last Witch Hunter (2015) with Vin Diesel, Elijah Wood, Rose Leslie, and Michael Caine. A Deep ecologist might see things in this movie that ordinary people wouldn't, possibly deriving from the formative influences on one or more of the three writers. Sort of anti-Deep Ecology, generally, this movie. It seems like black propaganda, but maybe it's just entertainment-- or is there a difference.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Religious Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology is little more than an idea. For some, it's ideology, or philosophy, but as religion, it's like a coloring or flavoring of an established religion. But for me, it is religion-- accept no substitutes.
But what sort of religion might actually work in the state we're in now? I think it has to be simple, coherent, stable: a clear-cut meme resistant to cooptation. It has to make simple common sense, not be dependent on beliefs or associations: basic, pure, comprehensible, easily transportable, a contagious option, not dependent on authorities, institutions, sacred objects, scriptures, requiring no expensive gear or tithes, just a few symbolic image-ideas that can be easily called to mind.
Being religion, it has to work-- it has to be essential, crucial, central, orienting, deeply serious and meaningful, helpful, hopeful, practical, universal. It has to make shift as a reliable guiding 'tradition'- easy enough for each to improvise if it indeed has power for you, if it delivers, keeps you going. Easy, then, for some; for others, some effort required. But it's religion! What do you want? Pre-packaged, from a coin-operated dispenser? Make your own!
But what sort of religion might actually work in the state we're in now? I think it has to be simple, coherent, stable: a clear-cut meme resistant to cooptation. It has to make simple common sense, not be dependent on beliefs or associations: basic, pure, comprehensible, easily transportable, a contagious option, not dependent on authorities, institutions, sacred objects, scriptures, requiring no expensive gear or tithes, just a few symbolic image-ideas that can be easily called to mind.
Being religion, it has to work-- it has to be essential, crucial, central, orienting, deeply serious and meaningful, helpful, hopeful, practical, universal. It has to make shift as a reliable guiding 'tradition'- easy enough for each to improvise if it indeed has power for you, if it delivers, keeps you going. Easy, then, for some; for others, some effort required. But it's religion! What do you want? Pre-packaged, from a coin-operated dispenser? Make your own!
Monday, April 11, 2016
EcoMan
EcoMan draws his extraordinary power from a certain physical sympathy with Nature. His body and soul are so delicately attuned to the harmony of the natural world that a touch of his hand or a turn of his head may send a thrill vibrating through the universal framework of things, and conversely his divine organism is acutely sensitive to such slight changes of environment as would leave ordinary mortals wholly unaffected. --slightly altered excerpt from J. G. Frazer's classic The Golden Bough.
Self Manifest
The Self archetype manifests as a culture-field: EcoSelf. EcoSelf is an internal personal mazeway-model of reality and its civilizational system: the Menning, to replace the current planetary extermination system, the Searuvel.
Menning= ecological culture-civilization.
Searuvel= the evil machine.
Menning= ecological culture-civilization.
Searuvel= the evil machine.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Pantheology
The Great Pan is Pantheos: "All-God", God of Nature; also known as Feorgen: "Life-God", Father Earth.
The Drygand is his agent among humans, his Animus, embodying his animating intention and purpose: to will a new Ideal for Man, a new aspiration for which to always strive: Ecology, a new way, the only way, for Man: to save Nature, and so survive, is our destiny, how we can evolve within the matrix of Life, our meaning: to integrate with the Body and Mind of God.
The Drygand is his agent among humans, his Animus, embodying his animating intention and purpose: to will a new Ideal for Man, a new aspiration for which to always strive: Ecology, a new way, the only way, for Man: to save Nature, and so survive, is our destiny, how we can evolve within the matrix of Life, our meaning: to integrate with the Body and Mind of God.
Friday, April 1, 2016
The Animal Archetype
The way to the Eco-Self lies through the archetype of the Inner Animal, a step back to move forward, a return to Source, instinctive more than socialized, towards Nature rather than Culture, subscending the human so as to transcend it.
Become the Animal deep inside yourself, at one with Nature, the undifferentiated Animal in you, Uroboros, Pan-Chimaera Totem, Chthonic Phallos Daimon, with all the basic traits full spate, light and dark, and organizing Intelligence will cast them all in a high-energy interaction-System: transhuman Eco-Self.
Follow the Way of the Inner Animal archetype to the Eco-Self.
Become the Animal deep inside yourself, at one with Nature, the undifferentiated Animal in you, Uroboros, Pan-Chimaera Totem, Chthonic Phallos Daimon, with all the basic traits full spate, light and dark, and organizing Intelligence will cast them all in a high-energy interaction-System: transhuman Eco-Self.
Follow the Way of the Inner Animal archetype to the Eco-Self.
Eco-Self and my-self
The Drygand, Eco-Self, is the Daimon-within who once roused will try to take charge of the Psyche. But the my-self must meet him, as hero who contends with Dragon, and mediate a mutual modus operandi, a modus vivendi, for best strongest order-- the culmination: a dual-Monism, the daimonic grounded in the ordinary.