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“Shane! Shane come back! Come back Shane!”

It is accounted among the wise that at any given moment we have an infinite number of possible actions available to us and further more each of these actions would bring into being any of an infinite number of universes. Add to them the many universes we have already traversed – some real, some not so real is in not unusual that a degree of weariness happens to weigh the psyche down and this, along with the dew covered wings of the muse bring moments of silence, however brief to the hills and valleys and halls of eternity.

Fortunately there are few aware of just the way things really are. We have seen many sights, I and the reader. Personally my flaw is to think, like a foreign speaking bachelor in Paris. It’s nice, but I wish there were some one to share these things with.

Let us rest our weary minds then for a moment. Though virtually no one is reading this blog I like to think that in al fairness someone, the even many, may catch up. I won’t be your friend. I won’t degrade the idea by pretending it is so. Machines are not your friends. The internet is not your friend.

And image I think of sometimes is the castle of the sleeping beauty, She was enchanted by a wicked witch, made to sleep for a hundred years. In the early versions of the tale much is a made of the castle she sleeps in, covered in corpses, bones sticking through torn uniform on thorn bushes . Finally Prince Charming comes along –a chap who’s sole virtue is a damn good sense of timing.

I’d like to look a little further into charming attributes. Yes, he had a good sense of timing, but he also survived when hundreds, thousands died. Remembering your lessons you know that the true heroic act is achieved not out of desire for however noble a good, but out of manifestation of the heroes being.

That’s the point isn’t it? Studies of front line soldiers reveal that the number who actually pull the trigger with intent to harm is very small. If you look at a generations worth of artists it’s much the same, a few produce some things of merit and the rest imitate them. It’s like the Bell curve and chaos theory.

And even as we observe ourselves in a mirror if we are too close all we can hope to see is the face with a foreshortened image of the rest of the body.

What we discussed in recent essays explains a great deal and I happy to discover that in fact I have been traversing terrain unfamiliar to other explorers, namely the creation of mythical advances in societies that parallel those in individuals. This however I don’t regard as the major element of the investigations. A key, but not sole element in the creation of myth is the retention of dignity.

It is incidentally crucial to define myth for our usage. I refer to myth in terms of Weapons of Mass destruction, Austerity Economic’s , Facebook, etc In other works these are old corporate interests tarted-up in the costumes of new corporate entities.

As has been noted the real tragedy is not the existence of a Reagan, but the inability of people to recognize it. To complain of the first does little good as long as the second is a viable myth.

There are so many post Freudian analysts that they have aman for the- the apostates. I don’t wish to vover familiar ground by hasten to remind the reader that the final perspective must be from two directions and they in turn stem from the inner and outer zones of being.

People will change by genetic modification, by chemotherapy and by enhanced learning conditions with the result of a world being torn apart

The environment will change as successively more experiences fall into the commodity description and thus creating a world of haves and have nots.

 

In order to help people deal with these changes, to assuage the pain new myths will be born. The simple minded will think that these new mythical world historical figures are created by charismatic personalities who draw and repel the minds and dedication of the neediest *and* the strongest among us. This is not the correct understanding.

The great myths are found in personalities that are empty. They are like valleys through which intermittent rivers flow. Propagandists liken the monadic elements to memes, information segments that need only the presence of a framework upon which to organize itself into order to coalesce into that which we call being.

The propagandists and mind shapers therefore believe one either control the information reaching the being , or the framework into which this information is shaped and attain the results in terms of control that one desires.

There are certain basic laws in this kind of scientific investigation. They cannot be proven because they seem to exist on such an elementary level. One could go so far as to say they are laws born of perfect equilibrium. Confucius, who was not a scientist, nevertheless says the key to existence is reciprocity.

It’s a story for another day and someone perhaps wiser then I, but nature, or God seems to have some set ideas and we trifle with them at our peril. The great law, As Above, so below can be put into gentler more inclusive terms basically ,you don’t get to take something without putting something back.

( It occurs to me that the entire difficulty with Satan stems from this. We may empathize with his good intentions but the fact is he did not make the universe and therefore…

I spoken to a few musical moguls who just don’t get it. I’d love to give them control – but it would be a bad idea)

It is for this reason I choose to avoid speaking in terms of memes, or realities dedicated to serving set purposes or ends when we speak of the factors that create and feed the mythical constructs of humanity. Although most of the time our attempts to control the thinking of others works, we just do not and cannot not if it will be permanent.

It is as if we get to talk to God he explains that the universe was a mistake. A product of the law of unintended circumstances. He wanted to build a garage for his second car and wound up with a greenhouse.

In any case it doesn’t seem to hurt to think of myth food as a form of chi”. This way when in conventional usage the propagandist err’s in seeking to create a virtual being we can explain it as being a problem, or miscoding , stems from the depths of the propagandist.

Note I use the term propagandist whereas in the past the term magician was used. Both gild the lily, which is to say that in the vast number of actual instances of this sort of thing what we are talking about is psychological conditioning - A parent wants their daughter to marry well, a factory owner wants a war to sell his goods etc

 

In conclusion I suppose I should be thankful in a way because my undergraduate psych experience was so unfull filling I never had my interest deadened by weeks of listening to people complain about their spouses, and bosses and ungrateful children. Complaints always directed at the wrong people.

I feel as if I am at a podium having finished the presentation – but sill here. In my other life as THE ALF I’ve experienced the phenomenon of submitting material, getting no response and seeing it used a few months later. That also happened – a lot- in media commentary. But I find myself surprising sanguine about the thought of any of this work being incorporated in to others.

The theme of myths as compensatory mechanisms is prefaced all through Mircea Ellliedes work – only he did say it. Campbell has done a great deal of work to bring the universality of myth to our attention but my reasearch probably owes as much to Freud who gives us an awareness both of the uniqueness of personal myths ( aka dream) and the , if you will, logic by which the means of controlling the individual can be used to control societies.

If Civilization is to be measure by it’s discontents might not we say the same thing around.

It shows you what an outcast Freud was because in actual practice one of the assumptions of civilization is that it has no outcasts – it’s is allegedly a big tent and to be branded an apostate, a discontent, to be excommunicated, is to forgo all claims to justice or the right to live.

Well I know that life