Genius shall be the meaning of Gaia!
This is my magickal motto. A magickal motto is the highest expression of an aspirant's aspiration. For Aleister Crowley it was, "I shall endure unto the end". For Nietzsche it was, "The overman shall be the meaning of the earth!". The nature of the motto is as Da Vinci put it, "There is no higher mastery than self-mastery." Amen.
Let me explain the terms. Genius is what the Greeks called daemon. It is divine inspiration. I correspond this to the Christian son of the holy trinity. In my chaotopia the Lord is known as Felix. Gaia is then the holy spirit. Gaia and Felix implies the relationship between the human being and the solar system. To realize this knowledge and conversation is self-mastery. This is the purpose of the Great Work.
Then there is Chaos. In Greek cosmogony Chaos is the formless void before all creation. Gaia is the daughter of Chaos. I correspond Chaos with the ineffable and eternal Tao, and Gaia with the Tao that can be spoken and the mother of the ten-thousand things. To realize Chaos is to be the Ipsissimus. To realize the knowledge and conversation with Gaia is to attain the grade of Magus. The Magus is the one who can utter the Logos. Thus I consider Terence McKenna and Derrida to have been tapping into the insights of the Magus. In yoga this would be the Ajna chakra. Chaos would be the Sahasrara, as Jung rightly understood.
Ralph Abraham presented his Holy Trinity: Chaos, Gaia, Eros.
Eros for me corresponds to Felix. It is the fuller understanding of the sacred nature of human sexuality rather than the very limited concept of the Id.
The issue of correspondence is difficult and I can only sketch out very briefly the mythological connections.
The issue I have today is with poverty consciousness, or Saturn consciousness. In the face of environmental catastrophe many people have been advocating Saturn consciousness of contraction. Basically people are saying we should consume less, live with less, that there is something wrong with materialism and capitalism. There is something wrong indeed. But I think poverty consciousness is dangerous now. We in fact need more Jupiter consciousness. Jupiter is expansion, whereas Saturn is contraction. We have been living with excess Saturn consciousness for far too long.
Living humbly does not mean living with material impoverishment. On the other hand I think that debauchery and baby-boomer style consumerism is also a manifestation of impoverished consciousness. The only thing that expanded were options, not people's consciousness.
If humanity is to live in harmony with Gaia, and eventually perhaps out into space then what we need is more Jupiter consciousness. This I call wealth consciousness. And true wealth consciousness is not blind consumerism but intelligent mastery of co-existence with the environment. I've argued elsewhere that the human brain evolved to do just this. Think evolution, in a general overview manner. Life proliferates on Earth. One of the principle process of evolution of course is natural selection. Natural selection says that it is not the strongest but the fittest that survives. Is it any wonder then that humans have thrived to become 7 billion strong for thousands of years thus far? The most adaptable shall inherit the Earth.
Intelligence is flexibility, adaptability. We are problem solvers. Saturn consciousness provides the necessary rigid discipline to survive. But it is Jupiter consciousness that actually solves problems.Curtailing human appetite is counter-productive and dangerous. If we don't solve problems now, there may be no future for humanity. Abundance is intelligent living with the environment. We need better technology, better trade systems, more and more solutions. Big solutions. Greater stochastic tinkering should be called for.
More intelligence, more solutions.
This is my magickal motto. A magickal motto is the highest expression of an aspirant's aspiration. For Aleister Crowley it was, "I shall endure unto the end". For Nietzsche it was, "The overman shall be the meaning of the earth!". The nature of the motto is as Da Vinci put it, "There is no higher mastery than self-mastery." Amen.
Let me explain the terms. Genius is what the Greeks called daemon. It is divine inspiration. I correspond this to the Christian son of the holy trinity. In my chaotopia the Lord is known as Felix. Gaia is then the holy spirit. Gaia and Felix implies the relationship between the human being and the solar system. To realize this knowledge and conversation is self-mastery. This is the purpose of the Great Work.
Then there is Chaos. In Greek cosmogony Chaos is the formless void before all creation. Gaia is the daughter of Chaos. I correspond Chaos with the ineffable and eternal Tao, and Gaia with the Tao that can be spoken and the mother of the ten-thousand things. To realize Chaos is to be the Ipsissimus. To realize the knowledge and conversation with Gaia is to attain the grade of Magus. The Magus is the one who can utter the Logos. Thus I consider Terence McKenna and Derrida to have been tapping into the insights of the Magus. In yoga this would be the Ajna chakra. Chaos would be the Sahasrara, as Jung rightly understood.
Ralph Abraham presented his Holy Trinity: Chaos, Gaia, Eros.
Eros for me corresponds to Felix. It is the fuller understanding of the sacred nature of human sexuality rather than the very limited concept of the Id.
The issue of correspondence is difficult and I can only sketch out very briefly the mythological connections.
The issue I have today is with poverty consciousness, or Saturn consciousness. In the face of environmental catastrophe many people have been advocating Saturn consciousness of contraction. Basically people are saying we should consume less, live with less, that there is something wrong with materialism and capitalism. There is something wrong indeed. But I think poverty consciousness is dangerous now. We in fact need more Jupiter consciousness. Jupiter is expansion, whereas Saturn is contraction. We have been living with excess Saturn consciousness for far too long.
Living humbly does not mean living with material impoverishment. On the other hand I think that debauchery and baby-boomer style consumerism is also a manifestation of impoverished consciousness. The only thing that expanded were options, not people's consciousness.
If humanity is to live in harmony with Gaia, and eventually perhaps out into space then what we need is more Jupiter consciousness. This I call wealth consciousness. And true wealth consciousness is not blind consumerism but intelligent mastery of co-existence with the environment. I've argued elsewhere that the human brain evolved to do just this. Think evolution, in a general overview manner. Life proliferates on Earth. One of the principle process of evolution of course is natural selection. Natural selection says that it is not the strongest but the fittest that survives. Is it any wonder then that humans have thrived to become 7 billion strong for thousands of years thus far? The most adaptable shall inherit the Earth.
Intelligence is flexibility, adaptability. We are problem solvers. Saturn consciousness provides the necessary rigid discipline to survive. But it is Jupiter consciousness that actually solves problems.Curtailing human appetite is counter-productive and dangerous. If we don't solve problems now, there may be no future for humanity. Abundance is intelligent living with the environment. We need better technology, better trade systems, more and more solutions. Big solutions. Greater stochastic tinkering should be called for.
More intelligence, more solutions.
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