The One Idea

Only a very simple, clear, strong Idea can act as a growth-germ and seed-crystal for precipitating a culture resynthesis when the old culture has devolved to manifest hopelessness.

A developmental synthesis creates a higher simplicity that constellates a stronger equilibrium state than the previous.

And Ecology is the one simple, powerful, reasonable Idea with the self-evident survival value to win out over all the other tried-and-found-wanting contenders.

The Idea of a culture of Ecology-on-all-levels has the integral simplicity and rational fitness to our world-historical plight of worsening biospheric apocalypse to precipitate the long-overdue worldwide conversion to a new ethos of Hope.

Remolding the Forms

"It is imperative that we remold these archetypal forms into ideas which are adequate to the challenge of the present."  --Carl Jung.

Ecology is the crucial, essential Idea of the modern world.  Therefore, the transhuman ecoshaman must rework the received archetypal forms in the liminal twilight realm where the conscious ego-mind encounters the uncanny Unconscious, inducing creative adaptation of these highly-charged motivating expressions of the instinctual drives (fear, rage, lust) into powerful foundational idea-images of a new cultural ethos of survival-oriented "Ecology-on all-levels", to actuate an evolved Menning of mythic ecological Soul.

The Uttermost Means

Deeper in the Psyche than the collective Self of humankind lies the deepest, biospheric Self, which holds within it Man-in-Nature: the total, ecologic Self, in which the timeless Life-drive of biologic organism and the greatest human intelligence combine, to devise the uttermost means of Life-survival: the Menning.

The Mythic Snake

The mythic Snake represents the deep, chthonic Mind-- that of Man and that of Nature.  His form evolved from that of the actual reptile to one more chimaeric, and so, numinous, otherworldly, such as the Dragon in all his forms, or as a winged were-wyrm such as is seen in the Hindu Naga, the Greek Agathos Daimon (good genius), and the Aztec Quetzalcoatl.  These winged man-snakes are symbolic of the Self, the integrated Psyche, being both of the earth and of the sky, of Nature and of Man, animal and human, primordial and modern, the unconscious and the conscious minds.  And in the Drygand, the mythic Snake has become the archetype of the Ecological Psyche in our Age of Ecology.

The Hornbora

The Hornbora bears the ever-welling Fullhorn, and tips from it the Samen-mead, the Life-flowod of the deep nennings.  He is the Ful-filler to all who may drink deep.

Hornbora(OEng)= horn-bearer.
Fullehorn(Ger)= horn of plenty.  Ful(OEng)= cup.
Samen= the Life-germ, elixir of life.
Nenning(ONor)= energy.

The Bind-ring of Twaynes

The Wykumbol-- the ecology symbol or ecologo-- is a wide oval whose ends are joined by a horizontal line.  The line divides the oval into identical halves suggesting higher and lower parts of a whole.  Among the pairs (twains) suggested by this are:

the Sky(-dragon) and the Earth(-dragon).
the Spirit and the Soul.
the conscious Ego-mind and the Unconscious mind.
the Civilized and the Primitive.
the Will and the Instincts.

The Wykumbol can be considered as a bind-ring that forms a whole of these opposites, as well as an interrelated whole of all the pairs of opposites.  The Wykumbol also symbolizes the Drygand's Lode-Stone and of course the Wyke (Biosphere) itself, and the Wyke-sake (Ecology movement).

Wykumbol= Wyke(dwelling> Biosphere) +Kumbol (sign, symbol, banner).
Sake= a cause, movement.

Dragon-Meld

The Winged Dragon flies to the Heights, and the Chthonic Dragon burrows to the Depths.  If they meld into one, you have a shamanic traveller over the gamut of the tiered Cosmos of the Psyche: the Drygand.  At the height of the Psyche is the most modern mode of ego-consciousness: the ecological.  In the depth you have the primordial Unconscious, the preserve of the survival instincts, which express consciously as evolved archetypal forms.  In Jungian psychology, the crisis of modern man derives from the dualist divorce of our 'civilized' ego-consciousness and the archaic Unconscious.  'Ecology', as a revival of monist synthesis and unity in cultural compensation for dualist analysis and differentiation, has provided us with a way to extract ourselves from the modern dilemma.  By 'Ecology', I mean a broad definition that includes the rational analytic science of ecology, as well as the monist synthetic cultural and Nature-preservationist movement of Deep Ecology.  And the means to apply the natural laws of Ecology so as to reunite the ego and Unconscious, and Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in harmony is through a kind of open shamanic experiencing of the tiers of the psychic cosmos as an integral self-regulating system which establishes an equilibrium-seeking free flux of all elements in the psyche-engaged-with-the-real-world.  And this is one aspect of what the archetypal Drygand represents, as a guiding model for Mennings, a sort of shamanic Ally to aid ego and Unconscious, Man and Biosphere, and the archaic-primitive and the modern-civilized in melding into a self-regulating system that can be characterized as ecological and that acts ecologically.

chthonic= subterranean, underworldly. pronounced 'kthonic'.
Mennings= people of the Menning, the ecological culture-civilization.