John Seed has said that the tendency for humans to split-apart from Nature must be very strong, as is seen in the central role of the emphasis on human interconnectedness with Nature in long-sustained aboriginal cultures. This emphasis seems due to the recognition that there's a fundamental flaw in human nature requiring extraordinary care and diligence, as if it is an 'innate depravity' of Man. Therefore the myth of the eternal battle of Good Order against Chaotic Disorder, which must be extremely ancient and still prevails, has often placed humans in the role of chaotic agents, if also in that of good agents.
In civilizations, however, it is organized religion, in the division of function characteristic of civilizations, that has the especial concern to preserve Good Order against Chaos, however that be framed, but with the consequent weakening of the integration and holistic focus of simpler societies. Yet as long as civilization dominates the world, it is still religion which must be the strong force for humanity's sense of interconnection with Nature. And yet over much of this world now, religion is no longer a determining strong force, and even so, it is only marginally concerned, if that, with maintaining the good order of Nature against the misbehavior of humanity. Yet at this time, as many now know, this misbehavior is destroying Nature at a rate that threatens the survival of humanity, and of the Biosphere itself, and it is this that is the crisis of our era. Given this massive crisis, it simply stands to reason that a religious concern with the battle of Good Order against (human) Chaos must dominate (yes, dominate) all other religious or any other concerns. An ecological reframing of this myth in global eco-religion must have priority for world civilization, because only religion is a strong enough force to inexorably transform human hearts and minds and the ethos, ideals, worldview, lifeways, and essential structures of civilization, and this is absolutely required to preserve a functioning Biosphere and thus human survival. It is really that simple. It is the precondition for acting decisively to save the Earth and our species.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Halebote Stone
(word-help below)
The sickness of Man grew the Searuvel, and now the Searuvel's rootworks reach thoroughly through the gumen world, holding men in a net of sickness.
But the Snake-stone chers attor to halebote. That is, the Lodestone held by every one of the Drygandalfs chers Evil to Good. If you have the Lodestone, given by the Drygand, you can see the sickness, and fight it, and even cherrenge it to good halebote to ernern the Blessed Edhli.
Halebote= medicine ('health remedy').
Searuvel= the Evil Machine.
Gumen= human (pronounced 'you-men').
Snake-stone= the gem in the head of the Serpent, which can turn (cher) poison (attor= venom) to medicine.
Lodestone= the gem (Erkanstan) of the Drygand, set by him in the head of each of his Alf-thanes (Drygandalfs).
Cherrenge= change, convert.
Ernern= rescue, deliver.
Edhli= Biosphere.
The sickness of Man grew the Searuvel, and now the Searuvel's rootworks reach thoroughly through the gumen world, holding men in a net of sickness.
But the Snake-stone chers attor to halebote. That is, the Lodestone held by every one of the Drygandalfs chers Evil to Good. If you have the Lodestone, given by the Drygand, you can see the sickness, and fight it, and even cherrenge it to good halebote to ernern the Blessed Edhli.
Halebote= medicine ('health remedy').
Searuvel= the Evil Machine.
Gumen= human (pronounced 'you-men').
Snake-stone= the gem in the head of the Serpent, which can turn (cher) poison (attor= venom) to medicine.
Lodestone= the gem (Erkanstan) of the Drygand, set by him in the head of each of his Alf-thanes (Drygandalfs).
Cherrenge= change, convert.
Ernern= rescue, deliver.
Edhli= Biosphere.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
The Grene Sun of the Menning
(word-help below)
A wyndeflet of cloud in the heart of the Wolken slow-spins in stillness. Its inwinding wheeling heart-sings in bliss, as it is a womb where beds the waxing Sun of Life-- the Grene Sun which will light the Menning as it grows and overwhelms the Searuvel that wracks our World. The living light will shine throughout the Edhli from the Leafy Head of Neorxna who comes to show the Menning to Men, as he is the Bode of the the Menning.
Wyndeflet= disc, flat coil.
Wolken= the Mind-Being of the Edhli (Biosphere).
Menning= the coming Ecological Civilization.
Searuvel= the Evil Machine.
Neorxna= an avatar of the Wolken, called Neorxna the Boda (the Bode (herald) of the Menning).
A wyndeflet of cloud in the heart of the Wolken slow-spins in stillness. Its inwinding wheeling heart-sings in bliss, as it is a womb where beds the waxing Sun of Life-- the Grene Sun which will light the Menning as it grows and overwhelms the Searuvel that wracks our World. The living light will shine throughout the Edhli from the Leafy Head of Neorxna who comes to show the Menning to Men, as he is the Bode of the the Menning.
Wyndeflet= disc, flat coil.
Wolken= the Mind-Being of the Edhli (Biosphere).
Menning= the coming Ecological Civilization.
Searuvel= the Evil Machine.
Neorxna= an avatar of the Wolken, called Neorxna the Boda (the Bode (herald) of the Menning).
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Free the Nenning
It is said that the melding of unlikes frees Nenning (energy). A melding of Life-kinds (chimaera), then, such as in the Dragon, holds great nenning, and the Drygand, melded of all life-kinds, has the greatest.
Likewise the melding of Man and Edhli (all life) in Edhlifrith Menning (ecological civilization), frees the greatest nenning, looses the Drygand to bring back Edingaldor (reenchantment) of the World.
Likewise the melding of Man and Edhli (all life) in Edhlifrith Menning (ecological civilization), frees the greatest nenning, looses the Drygand to bring back Edingaldor (reenchantment) of the World.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Neorxna of the Shaggy Head
(word-help below)
Neorxna the Boda, of the shaggy Head, looks from the Threshhold of the Tocume (future), where Tocume blends with Agone (past). His Arising Mind rides the eddies and flows of time-tracks in their welter, borne on the Wholeness of Edhli-mind. With thwaerly smeath (intricate subtlety) he seeks to settle on a Byzen (pattern, model) by which the Menning can bild (develop) in betterness henceforth, as a Lode (guide) in his mind that glows-out to his fellow Newolds, who can work the Byzen into Santh (reality), make the Greening Way toward a Menning upon the Eorth of thwaerisch Heolor (harmonious balance) and frithful Onenge (peaceful integration) and ever-stadhol (long-term stability).
Neorxna= the Greening One, the Bode (herald) of the future ecological civilization (the Edhli-menning).
Edhli-mind= the Wolken, mind and ferth (psyche) of the Edhli (Biosphere), of which Neorxna is an avatar.
Newold ('new-old')= those who stand in the Threshhold where ancient and far-future times combine in liminality (Tucumagone).
Neorxna the Boda, of the shaggy Head, looks from the Threshhold of the Tocume (future), where Tocume blends with Agone (past). His Arising Mind rides the eddies and flows of time-tracks in their welter, borne on the Wholeness of Edhli-mind. With thwaerly smeath (intricate subtlety) he seeks to settle on a Byzen (pattern, model) by which the Menning can bild (develop) in betterness henceforth, as a Lode (guide) in his mind that glows-out to his fellow Newolds, who can work the Byzen into Santh (reality), make the Greening Way toward a Menning upon the Eorth of thwaerisch Heolor (harmonious balance) and frithful Onenge (peaceful integration) and ever-stadhol (long-term stability).
Neorxna= the Greening One, the Bode (herald) of the future ecological civilization (the Edhli-menning).
Edhli-mind= the Wolken, mind and ferth (psyche) of the Edhli (Biosphere), of which Neorxna is an avatar.
Newold ('new-old')= those who stand in the Threshhold where ancient and far-future times combine in liminality (Tucumagone).
Friday, September 30, 2011
A Mythic/Religious Scheme of the World-Plight
Sky God vs. Dragon becomes Searuvel vs. Drygand...
In the olden days, the Sky God and his minions sought to slay the primordial Dragon (the forces of wild Nature incarnate). And so the Dragon became a rare and endangered species.
Because of his victory, the Sky God gradually morphed into the Searuvel (the mad undead Evil Machine), the capitalist techno-industrial global civilization, of insanely greater power than the Sky God ever had.
The evolution and success of the Searuvel accelerated the destruction of Life on Earth. The Wolken (the mind of Nature, the world-girdling Edhli-Mind) was perturbed, and so re-formed the ancient titanic Dragon as the ecological Drygand, so that the forces of wild Nature could fight back against the Searuvel, to weaken its hold, to halt its terrible progress, and to replace it with the Edhli-menning, the Ecological Civilization.
The Drygand possesses the primordial (raw) energies of Nature, but they are combined and focused (refined) to the urge-purpose to rescue the Edhli (Biosphere) from the onslaught of the Searuvel.
The Sky God people's "good order" was always a threat to the good order of the Edhli. But the Searuvel people's "good order" is massively more catastrophic.
The Drygand's people seek to halt the destruction, weaken the incredible force of the Searuvel, and turn its evil drive to the growth of the holy Menning-- to change Evil to Good-- by which humankind can then survive, as fierce protectors of the Edhli and its Menning.
In the olden days, the Sky God and his minions sought to slay the primordial Dragon (the forces of wild Nature incarnate). And so the Dragon became a rare and endangered species.
Because of his victory, the Sky God gradually morphed into the Searuvel (the mad undead Evil Machine), the capitalist techno-industrial global civilization, of insanely greater power than the Sky God ever had.
The evolution and success of the Searuvel accelerated the destruction of Life on Earth. The Wolken (the mind of Nature, the world-girdling Edhli-Mind) was perturbed, and so re-formed the ancient titanic Dragon as the ecological Drygand, so that the forces of wild Nature could fight back against the Searuvel, to weaken its hold, to halt its terrible progress, and to replace it with the Edhli-menning, the Ecological Civilization.
The Drygand possesses the primordial (raw) energies of Nature, but they are combined and focused (refined) to the urge-purpose to rescue the Edhli (Biosphere) from the onslaught of the Searuvel.
The Sky God people's "good order" was always a threat to the good order of the Edhli. But the Searuvel people's "good order" is massively more catastrophic.
The Drygand's people seek to halt the destruction, weaken the incredible force of the Searuvel, and turn its evil drive to the growth of the holy Menning-- to change Evil to Good-- by which humankind can then survive, as fierce protectors of the Edhli and its Menning.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Deep Ecology is the One True Religion (Really)
The Celestial Sky God of the Enlightenment, He of reason and philosophy, natural law, science and technology, has essentially faded away into His own Cosmos. He has destroyed religion for most of the educated classes and left us nothing but a void of secular humanism. But since the world civilization He left has engendered the accelerating destruction of the Biosphere and the downfall of Man, we are faced with the stark catastrophic failure of this whole civilizational phase.
Faced with this, the obvious Answer is Deep Ecology as the moral absolute, the unifying principle, and the final phase of religion. Deep Ecology is being constructed from elements of the Old Nature Religions of Earth, of their myth, their lore, their teachings, and of the culture-ways of tribal peoples, and of the findings of ecological science, and of the ecologistic works of culture by modern Nature Romantics, and with the example and teachings of ecological activist leaders, all in as far as they bear ecological wisdom and have the power to inspire Ecological Civilization.
Deep Ecology will take many forms, as it is born in the deep psyche of individuals, as the suppressed Shadow within rises to the challenge of All Life under threat of extinction-- the Drygand within, then, rises rampant, electrifies and mobilizes the total Psyche in service to the defense of All Life. And in numberless individuals around the world, by inspired intuition and by will and deep thought and effort, a personal vision and a personal mythos can be forged which bear the Drive of the unleashed Life-energies, to flood forth and drench the Earth in the New Age of Ecology.
Faced with this, the obvious Answer is Deep Ecology as the moral absolute, the unifying principle, and the final phase of religion. Deep Ecology is being constructed from elements of the Old Nature Religions of Earth, of their myth, their lore, their teachings, and of the culture-ways of tribal peoples, and of the findings of ecological science, and of the ecologistic works of culture by modern Nature Romantics, and with the example and teachings of ecological activist leaders, all in as far as they bear ecological wisdom and have the power to inspire Ecological Civilization.
Deep Ecology will take many forms, as it is born in the deep psyche of individuals, as the suppressed Shadow within rises to the challenge of All Life under threat of extinction-- the Drygand within, then, rises rampant, electrifies and mobilizes the total Psyche in service to the defense of All Life. And in numberless individuals around the world, by inspired intuition and by will and deep thought and effort, a personal vision and a personal mythos can be forged which bear the Drive of the unleashed Life-energies, to flood forth and drench the Earth in the New Age of Ecology.
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