The Doom Machine

Hypertrophy is the equilibrium state of the present world.  In the fatal marriage of High Tech Man and Biosphere, hypertrophy progresses to the Omega Point-- the End.  Man has tried to triumph over life in the state of Nature for the bettering of human existence.  But stupid, inexorable human nature defeats the dream of rationalized perfection--"Just keep tinkering with the Machine until we get it right."  But the mad logic of growth results in extinction, when hypertrophy surpasses the limits to growth.  As the fear of our collective demise increases, everything is done to speed up the hypertrophy, to outrun the mechanical horses of the Apocalypse (to buy some more time, only to make the final plunge one to a much deeper depth of Hell on Earth).  We've known from the early 1970s, at least, where we were headed, and done nothing sufficient to stop the Machine, mainly because short-term, near-at-hand concerns of self-interest always prevailed-- the 'Limits to Growth' of human wisdom-- and it always trumps long-term survival.  So, "Bye bye, humans, bye bye, world."

Makers of the New God

The purpose of the Twayne, why they were brought together and joined in love, was to bring the New God into being.  They must find him a form suitable to be born into, an expression of his Idea: of Ecos melded with Eros.  But there will be other forms, to follow--  for there will be many distinct avatars of EcoEros, all over the Earth.

The Making of the New God

We must make in our inner mind-body a temple for the new God, EcoEros, perhaps as a tree-cathedral in a forest, with a part-carven blasted tree, the Irminsul, as the idol for him to enter, so that he may act in us and through us in the world.  We must give him the proper form to enter, conceptual and visual, which has to come from a mutual labor of our conscious and Unconscious, ultimately-- intellectual and intuitive.  When the form is right, that will be clear.  And then we may call him in to enter, offer him of our vital force to prime his powers.  And in the moonlit night with the starlight winking through the tree-tops, we may present ourself to him, asking to serve his will.

Maker of Dead Things

Man is a tool-user by nature.  Therefore he is always prone to possession by the thing-making mind, that makes of living substance dead things of use to him.  He uses images and ideas to make tools and weapons and machines, to gain power-over, to convert life to dead things.  And so he walks a narrow road between life-giving and death-dealing, always a threat to the living world, the ultimate killer.  And he is so thoughtless of his power to convert life to death, because it is part of his nature.

Man!  Know thyself! as the evil being that you are, the ultimate killer who stalks Life itself, so that what is life-giving in you, of Eros, may keep the death-dealer in check.  It is a hard thing to know, one's evil nature, but it is the only source of hope, for us, for Life.

In The Spell

Unless one dwells in the spell of the Nonrational-- of romanticism, of the numinous, of mysticism, of magic, of mystery, of intuition, of wisdom, of power and strength and struggle, of religion, of holism, of ecology, of emotion, of the sensuous, of enjoyment, of esthetics, of passion, of vision, of the imagination, of the Deep, of the ancient, of tradition, of the Earth, of Nature, of biology, of instinct, of sex, of love, of the Dream, of creativity, of hope, of joy and ecstasy and bliss, of goodness and morality, of quest and its fulfilment, of striving and victory-- one lacks the inspired power to prevail.  And it all comes from Eros, Great God of Love and Life-Urge and Wisdom.

Love-Leads

Through human love, and love of nonhuman life, we can access the cosmic love that is Eros.  All love leads on to the One Love, the Love of All Life: EcoEros.

Treasures of Verden

The treasures of Verden are the symbol-objects that when combined magically (i.e., worn and borne by Drygand), recreate mankind as ecological.  Wildiar and Bilwit, the Twayne, together seek them all.

Verden (Dan, Norw)= earth [~Biosphere/Wyke].

Not Wise

Man is smart but not wise-- wisdom is elusive, inscrutable, to the rational intellect, and we aren't even looking.  Behold the man: way beyond his station and getting it all wrong.  Perhaps he should return to where he could see-- and know.

Nonrational Intelligence

Summon the forces of nonrational consciousness for the rescue of AllLife.  EcoSelf is beyond the grip of rationalistic debunkery.  Skirt the trap of rationalism-- go to intelligence beyond computer logic-- to intuitive grasp.  

Straight to EcoGod

Go straight to EcoGod, in the Deep Mind, to this Holon, the Ecological Self, the archetype that unites Man with Nature.

Chthonic Snake

The Drygand is the synthesis of Man and Snake, conscious and Unconscious, the chthonic Snake uniting Man and Nature, the mythopoetic subliminal Self.

Search

They search desperately for the Great Good: the necessary, numinous, invigorating Ideas, the intuitive, mythic Ideas: the Old Wisdom lost.  To bring back EcoEros to counter Machine Mind and debased android mind.  Search in old tomes, in Nature, in Love, in Deep Mind.  The young witya and his knightly protector search for the great redeeming Ideas.

The Wrong Sort

Biological existence is about reproduction.  Feeding and escaping being fed upon are just a way to survive to reproduce successfully.  One lives to breed and send out offspring to continue the line.  But when life is easy and one can enjoy it, life has another purpose: taking pleasure in being alive.  It's a temptation that can result in untimely death, if you're not careful. That really is the problem: not being smart enough or well-controlled enough to preserve life: one's own and of the life-matrix in which one lives.  Some lines are smart and controlled by their intelligence: most are not.  And the Nots call the shots-- woe is us: the Dictatorship of the Wrong Sort.

Live In Dream

One must live in dream, for the powerful saving Symbol to come, and to work.

Chimaera Integrate

Chimaeras are of conscious and unconscious analogues conjoined.  The weirdness of these emergent entities is due to the ill fit of the parts.  But this gives way to a new unification as the complementary halves integrate: the Self harmonizes them.

Pan-Chimaera

Chimaeras arise in the deep mind, their segments fused together with great energy, so they hold great power.  Then they rise to the join of deep mind with aware conscious mind.  A zoo of chimaeras gather there, and form a shocking Pan-Chimaera, the Drygand.  When Drygand unifies his chimaerical incongruities, the undifferentiated EcoGod is formed in him, the One, in all his unleashed power to do good.

Psychic Physics

The psyche is a continuum.  When difference is overrode, the wholeness flows freely, all false boundaries erased, as unification begets energy: which is merely undifferentiated matter.

Meant To Be

EcoGod is the inner pagan Daimon: the Soul, the Self, Eros.  The strong conscious ego was hard won, but now it must combine with the unconscious Daimon.  The conscious ego is impoverished-- to be possessed by the Soul is to live richly, fully.  The numinous powers within are pagan, primitive-- this is the way back; there is no way forward, no way at all.  The future is in the primeval: Nature-God becomes self-conscious in us, as was meant to be, in Love forever.

Sixties Jung

It's a shame that Carl Jung didn't live another ten years, because the Sixties were so Jung!  And as he felt very close to Nature and liked to live without electricity or running water and to chop wood for heat and cooking, he would have been very supportive of the burgeoning environmental movement, and would have had some very powerful statement to make at the first Earth Day, 1970.  He might even have become a Deep Ecologist!

The Doctrine of Holism

Ahem!  Harrumph!  The Doctrine of Holism states that God is a biological Organism-- the Biosphere, in fact-- which is not distinguished from Biospheric Mind, as Mind and Nature are One System!