Truth

We are all slaves to the Machine we have made.  Now it makes us.  We think we are saving ourselves by working the Machine.  But we will become monsters, to better serve the Machine, which we think we control, to serve ourselves.  But the Machine is destroying the planet, and when the Biosphere goes, so do the monsters.

Tell me that all this is not true.

Earth Day, 43 A.E.

Stay true to the Earth, the primordial Earth-- the great Power, Living Earth.

Cleave to it, live its deep-dark Power and hear the ancient Song of the Earth-- of the Mystery of Life, Life-Heritage in the voidness of Time-Space.

Dwell in its Power.  Earth.

Wykewisen

Wyke: from OEng wic> MEng -wick/-wich= dwelling. MEng wikien= to dwell.  wik(en)inge= domicile.
Wyke= Biosphere (~eco- from Gk. oikos= house).
Wykewisen= Deep Ecology. wisen~ wisdom. wisen as in wisenheimer.
Wykewiser= Deep Ecologist. wiser= wise one.
Wykewissen= Ecological Science. Ger. wissen= knowledge, wissenschaft= science.

Hal Ingend of the Menning

Hal Twayneson is the immixed whole of his fathers' two natures-- Wildiar's wild shamanic creativity and Bilwit's mild sacred-kingly stability.  To the Menning, Hal brings the creative fermentation of the one and the enduring sustaining-power of the other, and as he is the Orgyte, the manifestation of the strong harmonious balance of the Twayne, both stagnation and chaos are avoided, and common-weal is ensured.  He is thus Hal the Ingend, regenerating the Menning as needed, while sustaining the saving-power of its ecological ethos, as did Lord Ing in the ancient days.  He is Lord Ing remade.

Hal= foster-son of the Twayne: Wildiar and Bilwit.
Ingend= the ever-begetter of good ecological order.  Ger. jungen= to bring forth the young, of animals. *Ingwaz= the Vanic god of fertility and prosperity, the model of the Sacred King.
Menning= the coming ecological culture-civilization.  Ice. menning= culture, civilization.

The saw for today: "You cannot sustain what you cannot renew."

Tulking Thule

Neorxna the Bode, the leafy head, the Tulking Thule, shows what he beholds-- he forebodes the Tocume, and the way toward the Menning.

You must see the future before you can make it.  Let Neorxna loom within.

Neorxna= an emanation of the Wolken, Biospheric Mind.
Bode= prophet.
Tulk= interpreter, spokesman. OIce. tulkr.
Thule= cultic speaker, sage.
Tocume= the future.
Menning= the coming ecological civilization.

Ecology is IT

Ecology is the foundational and integrating idea for the survival of Man on Earth.  It is prophetic, in that the prophet attempts to preserve his culture in a new form that can survive new, catastrophic circumstances, and to do this, he must re-form the cultural model (mazeway) by presenting a simple, comprehensible yet comprehensive form of the old culture, stripped down and geared up for survival.  In our present situation, where everything we do systemically worsens the Ecocatastrophe that will inevitably bring our world culture down, only the core idea of Ecology as the basis for a new mazeway could possibly save us-- and the world that supports us.  And as obvious as this would seem, it takes something like a religious conversion for individuals to clearly know its truth and be compelled by it.  And that is exactly IT-- Ecology provides the necessary religious culture for survival, in whatever forms it takes.  It is the religion of the future.  That is the prophetic message for our time.

The Alfaeren, Farers of the Deep

The origin of the word 'elf' is unknown.  It might be related to Latin 'albus'(white) or 'alp'(high mountain) which might itself be derived from 'albus' or a Celtic equivalent, referring then to the white peaks of high mountains.  Mythos etymology is loosey-goosey, and so 'elf' might be related to Sanscrit 'alvar'(a South Indian Hindu sect), meaning 'one who dives deep'.  Perhaps, then, 'alp' and 'alvar' both refer to great vertical length-- high/deep.  Anyway, I prefer Old Norse 'alfar'(elves) to 'elves'(cutesy connotation and used-up by now) or 'alf''.  'Alfar', besides just being a plural form, could be read as 'Alfaer'(alf + faery, or 'all-farer' suggesting shamanism(far-traveler)).  And I see the Alfaeren as some kind of shaman-- one who dives deep into the sacred mythopoetic realm of the Wolken, the Mind of the Biosphere.  Maybe a warrior-shaman, maybe a woo-woo shaman.

I like the word 'deep', as in 'deep mind', 'deep thinker', 'Deep Ecology', and 'deep elves'(Tolkien-- in The Hobbit?).  As opposed to 'shallow', as in 'the shallows that are present-day planetary culture, in which one may easily drown'.  I see the Alfaeren as ambiguous beings-- are they(we) human, or are they spirit-emanations of the Wolken?  Well, either or both, but Deep.  Perhaps 'deep' is related to Sanscrit 'deva'(god), ultimately.