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Topic: The Archaic Revival
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Valus
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posted May 20, 2009 06:01 PM
 
As the Renaissance was a return to the values of classical antiquity, so, Terence McKenna believed that the coming age (some call it the Age of Aquarius) will exhibit a similar rebirth, but it will be a return to the values of so-called primitive societies, and will be marked by the re-appreciation of the visionary type, the dreamers of the deepest dreams, as the rightful central movers in society; -- rather than their continued disinheritance, as marginal types who are not pulling their own weight in a society built, like a house of cards, on superficial and patriarchal value-systems. According to McKenna (who many people believe was a kind of modern prophet), true psychological and spiritual health, for society as a whole, will only come when these deeper cultural frameworks have been recognized and re-oriented towards the appreciation of mystery, subtlety, nuance, depth, and imagination.
An excerpt from McKenna's "Eros And Eschaton":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2nXANft_-E&NR=1 IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted May 20, 2009 06:11 PM
well i hope he's right but it will take some seriously heavy breakdown i think before the "producers of value" allow it!IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted May 22, 2009 02:28 AM
i foresee such a breakdown, dont you?
the values are already breaking down,
and people are starting to question.IP: Logged |
katatonic
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posted May 22, 2009 11:24 AM
yes of course you are right. more than that i am seeing a DIVERGENCE in consciousness between those that want to preserve the status quo and those who are starting to rise above it...sometimes i see the WORLD as schizophrenic, with more and more levels of consciousness operating as on a split screen projection. whether this will eventually leave some behind and create an entire new dynamic i am not sure...IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted May 22, 2009 04:10 PM
The status quo is revealing its inadequacies, I think, even to the people who are still struggling to preserve it. The very business of this struggle, which they would rather not "have to" endure, is involving them in all sorts of contradictions. So, the division is also within them, and the journey has begun for them, too. And when they argue with you, can you not see the faint, but hopeful glimmer that winks out of their eye, as if to say, "yes, yes, tell me how it is!,"? They are desperate for the truth, but they dont know how to ask, so they oppose -- and they hope that your defense will be both their destruction and their salvation. They repeat the old paradigms, but see how they shuffle their feet and look away. Arent they, at the same time, trying to conceal and reveal their uncertainty? They cannot admit it, but neither can they truly desire to hide it any longer. Their doubts whisper through the cracks in their smiles, and in the breezy manners they try to affect, to no avail, with strange peels of nervous laughter. They are falling apart. And they know it. Yes, the world out there is also the world in here.. The collective unconscious is that place within the individual where the whole world is churning, like some alchemical melting pot. The Schizophrenic is the one who "falls" into the unconscious -- including, but perhaps not limited to, the part which may be called the collective unconscious. In this sense, it may be imagined that he/she falls into the world -- not as some have fallen and are at the mercy of social institutions, in their most immediate, present and material forms, but, really, the schizophrenic has fallen into the spirit of the world, and found him/herself at the mercy of the ghosts and ideologies of past and present (and maybe even future) institutions. The person who begins to question the bigger picture, and to look closely at the outer world, also must reconcile what she sees with her own inner prejudices and orientations. As she sees into the world, she also sees into the history and spirit of the world, and, so, into her own collective unconscious. Like the schizophrenic, she enters on an inner journey and, like the schizophrenic, she may emerge with greater clarity and wisdom. If she doesnt get lost. It's a big, mad world down there; down here. IP: Logged | |
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