How can we "ask for help"
when
trust has become
impossible.
No secure core of
responsibility,
will to truth. Poison fruit of
amoral
post-modern tree. So cynical,
unwilling
to be alive, really feel, heal,
grow.
Blatant disrespect doesn't come
from
a place of strength, but
bravado.
It's easier to remember what and
how
when we understand
why.
Humanity in all our complexity,
all our simplicity,
animals to preprogrammed
machines.
mythology on the public stage for
us all to experience as reality:
"The foundation myth is
believed to have been reenacted every other year during the Agrionia. Here the
women of Thebes were organized into three dance groups and rushed off to Mount
Cithaeron with ritual cries of “to the mountain!” As “mad women,” they pursued
and killed, perhaps by dismemberment (sparagmos), the ‘king’, possibly
represented by a goat. The #maenads may have eaten the meat of the goat raw
(omophagia) or sacrificed it to Dionysus. Eventually the women would be freed
from the madness and return to Thebes and their usual lives, but for the time of
the festival they would have had an intense ecstatic experience. The Agrionia
was celebrated in several Greek cities, but especially in Boeotia. Each Boeotian
city had its own distinct foundation myth for it, but the pattern was much the
same: the arrival of Dionysus, resistance to him, flight of the women to a
mountain, the killing of Dionysus’ persecutor, and eventual reconciliation with
the god.”
I have recently (NY magic?) been
experimenting with the mantra: Become calm
It's not a command to gain
calmness but to find myself as one with calmness.
1/20-21/21
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