GTOW Part V – Journeys Without Destinations.
The Age of Enantiodromia and what exactly is Diabetes anyway?
Good morning everyone,
The ‘Lingua Franca’ of our current Western Culture is quite blatantly psychological. Anything that you say, anything you might think, anything which you might choose to write, is framed within a psychological sensibility. To an extent, one might say, “So what? This is just what we are doing as a culture.” Well, okay, to an extent, I can agree. But I would take a position from something that Elon Musk said in a recent interview. Elon pointed out that if you continue to make laws which make situations illegal, you eventually reach the stage where everything is illegal. I believe that we are rapidly approaching a similar ‘everything’ point on the issues of the psychological, cultural and intellectual framework.
If everything becomes a matter of psychological opinion, derived from an intellectual state of diagnosis, then there is a diagnostic for everything, and everything becomes some form of diagnosed (mental) illness. I sense that this is rapidly approaching a state of enantiodromia, where the entire framework has become so over-heated, or ridiculous, that it flips and turns into something completely different. Or, we just abandon the whole mess and travel in the opposite direction. This is not going to be a comfortable situation for many people, but if our culture does flip and go this other way, we may find some new forms of liberation which we cannot see or achieve because of the diagnostic, psychological opinion wars in which we have all been engaged.
For example, everyone would know of the diagnostic term ‘Oedipal Complex’. It’s from Freudian theory and it basically describes a desire for sexual involvement with the opposite sex parent, in conjunction a sense of rivalry with the same sex parent. As far as that goes, it’s probably something which psychologists can use when ‘treating’ their patients. But, it is also severely reductionist and it reduces us. I would also say that sexual desire is a very complex matter, and always has been, as far back as we can trace anything which we know about the state of being human.
To this end, I have recently been listening to Stephen Fry’s ‘Heroes’ on audiobook. It contains a very thorough telling of the whole Oedipus story in Stephen’s slightly campy, but robust language, replete with a cast of complex and intermingled characters in a wonderfully detailed emotional landscape which is set within a mythic and heroic cultural field. Freud’s diagnostic ‘Oedipal Complex’ is shallow and cold, the Hellenistic Oedipal story is a wonderfully energizing exploration of the rich context of human life and desire, including all of the complexities of sexual interests.
I would extend that exploration to the possibility that we are coming to the end of the Cartesian “I think, therefore I am” intellectual way of defining ourselves because it all becomes a matter of cold, calculating, diagnostic thought in the end. We explored some of these issues recently at The Sara Is Sensate. (HERE, and HERE). The enantiodromia aspect would be the matters of returning to a richer and warmer understanding of our actual human roots, in a cultural and authentically wholistic sense.
Currently, there is certain engagement with some matters of the ‘Other Ways of Knowing’ of the Aboriginal native people of Australia, or the American native Indians, or the methods of the Aztec and Columbian native peoples. What is also now happening, is the search into the native ways of ancient Europe and the peoples of that land and their cultural myths. So much of what we thought we knew about the European cultural history, is now being re-examined and understood within a larger, richer and warmer context.
Brian C. Muraresku’s monumental exploration of European or Hellenistic sacred ‘Pharmaka’ in ‘The Immortality Key’, is a classic example. The whole book is an enantiodromia-like counterpoint to the current turning away from what is called ‘Big Pharma’, which book also has an interesting synchronicity point in that it was being finalized to publication during the current lock-down crisis. Yes, that crisis, the one which has everyone rethinking the entire concept of industrial pharmaceuticals. Go The Other Way, as we say at The Sara Is Sensate, towards a richer, warmer, more life-giving field of immersive understanding.
To look at this sort of issue from a different point of view, recently we had St Patrick’s day; which led me to investigate the origins of that particular celebration. Now, I could be a little biased here because I pretty much dislike the Christian religion, in the context of what it has done to the 'Native' religions or traditional Spirit paths of the European peoples (which, broadly speaking, are Celt/Viking across the upper lands, and Anatolian/Greek across the lower lands of the Mediterranean and Spain). Happily for my thirst for enquiry with regard to such matters, there is a huge amount of modern Archaeological work, (including all sorts of advanced DNA analysis in Archeo-botany and Archeo-chemistry) going on these days, which means that a much broader and richer story of who we really are is now becoming apparent.
The tale of St Patrick is part of a traditional story, in a classical Christian propaganda way, which also covers up a pogrom against a European 'Earth-centric’ religion, in which the ancient, native ways of Ireland were 'taken over' and denatured by Christianity, ‘In the name of the Lord’. The whole St Patrick story is basically hiding a sort of Irish Inquisition, led by a character who 'Drove the snakes out of Ireland in the name of Christ'. All of this happened in the classic pogrom era of the 3rd and 4th Centuries AD.
The clue to the whole lie is that Ireland has no actual snakes per se, in common with most of the far North or far South regions of Earth. Snakes are cold-blooded creatures; they simply cannot survive in regions where it snows every winter. The 'Snakes' in the myth were actually the Druids and the many books of the Celtic paths which were burned during the desecration of the traditional sacred places like Groves and Caves. So as usual, it is an example of the classic methods of the Christian Church in action. Repent, or die! Saving the world from itself, by destroying it, because God.
They did this sort of thing hundreds of times over the centuries, in countries all over the globe (which they also mistakenly thought was flat, at the time, despite everyone else’s knowledge at the time that the world was a globe). So, when the Irish celebrate 'St Patrick's day in this day and age, they are actually holding a Wake or a funeral event, for the loss of the heritage ways which were native to the lands of their own bloodlines.
This is also interesting in terms of the cycles of time and the ways in which various issues in life come around and around, again and again through the ages. There is an emerging theory that CvvD is actually a synthesized and weaponized reptile venom molecule. Stories about snakes again… disguised as something else… again. Two prominent proponents of these matters are Dr. Bryan Ardis and Dr. Tau Braun. You can look them up on ‘X’ or Rumble if you want to investigate this theory further.
The Sigil or graphic which you see on these pages is another expression of the same ancient concepts. It is a personal symbol taken from old Celtic spirit thought and it is also reflective of my personal astrological chart, which is triple fire in nature. The three intertwined figures aren't snakes however. As explained above, there are no snakes in actual Celtic myth because the Northern homelands just don't have such reptiles. But in the same way that China and Cambodia have mythological lions, but never any actual lions, the Celts have mythological dragons woven through many of their myths.
The three symbols are therefore intertwined young dragons, facing outwards against whatever may come. That is, they are protective in a mythological and personal way, a mechanism for you to protect your own soul, for yourself, rather than for the purposes of some sort of externalised concept of ‘god’. When I was publishing to the old web back in the Millennium era, many wrote to me asking for permission to use the Sigil design, mostly for personal tattoos or other talismanic uses. Of course, I gave my permission, as a way of spreading the love, one could say.
You might ask, why now, why are all of these interconnected and ancient concepts coming to a point of regeneration at this particular time in human history when everything is now about technology? Well, the theories on such matters would be legion, but who knows really. However, I do have a thought bubble for you.
Let’s assume for a moment that souls have cycles, embodying time and time again as they travel through the ages. Then, as the long march of time itself comes around, we arrive at the second half of the 20th century and the early decades of the 21st century. In this period, we each of us have travelled the earth far more than perhaps, all of our ancestors, or soul embodiments, put together. This is principally because of the mechanical vehicles now available to us. Planes, trains, cars, buses, ferries, ships… everyone is travelling far and wide all of the time, which could be a metaphorical representative of a spiritual compression and re-working of all our past life journeys put together. This would stand in stark contrast to previous generations and incarnations, where most people, most of the time, barely travelled further than a small 10 mile circle around the parcel of land where they were born and lived and died.
Now you might say, well that’s all very well for the Buddhists or the Hindu, because they believe in re-incarnation. But if you take a moment to think about it, so do the ‘Messiah / Prophet’ based ‘Sun Cult’ religions, only they don’t actually make this dynamic clear to you. But the concept does actually exist within their holy stories. For example, there is the Christian Jesus, who died and was resurrected, and who then leaves, promising to return again, someday, sometime, hopefully sometime soon, if we just pray hard enough. Okay, so if he was born with a soul, then left, does he eventually return with the same soul? Of course he does. He left as the ‘Son’ (Sun) of God, he’ll return as the ‘Son’ (Sun) of God. Soul cycles in action, built into the actual stories if you can see them from all the snakes. At least for some…
To end our post today, let’s finish with the medical concept of Diabetes. I was talking with an Endocrinologist recently, a man who had been a part of the official medical team for the national athletics organization here. Of course, he was academically trained in the usual scientific way, but his field of work gave him extraordinary access to some of the most elite humans you could possibly imagine. As they aged, most of them became diabetic, despite all of the best possible advice and availability of food, nutrition and everything else which the modern world can provide.
We discussed this anomalous situation together for a while and he expressed his theory that a genetic (or soul cycle) memory of past famine exposure, had been triggered by the nutritional emptiness of modern packaged and industrialized food. He specifically mentioned the Cromwell era in England as an example, which through various mechanisms including yet another ‘Inquisition’ type Christian war, triggered a very bad famine in the Northern lands of the UK and Ireland in particular. It was his belief that the bloodborne memory of this period in Irish history had left a particularly hard to treat sensitivity to the diabetic response in their lives. The cycles of time and, and the ways in which various issues in life come around and around, through the ages.
It has been said by people who are far more famous and erudite than I, that if we make everything about trauma, then that in itself becomes the trauma, and the process itself will eventually take us out. I would suggest that it is time to move away from the purely psychological, the relentlessly diagnostic, the never-ending trauma trope; and move our lives towards a larger field of understanding and a more peaceful, more personal, sense of immersion into the full spectrum of life.
Meanwhile, I went to the Ramadan celebrations here in Lakemba, Sydney. We’re going again tomorrow night. Something Lunar, something not ‘Sun Cult’, because Islam’s guiding light is Venus, or as it is sometimes called, the Morning Star. It’s quite a different sensibility towards life and I enjoy that.
Meanwhile, please send the address of this SubStack to anyone you may know, who might possibly have an interest in the discussion, and drop by the Substack sometime to send me a comment or leave a note.
Best regards, and remember your soul and the Dragons!
Larry