Saturday, May 12, 2007
The Structure of Myth
(6)
Very strange stuff: for the second time tonight I was required to do a 'word verification.' Something strange is going on, but I don't know what. In any case it is time to wrap this up.
Before leaving you tonight I should like to cite The Joyous Cosmology, by Alan Watts. As you may or may not know, Alan Watts was all about Modern Mysticism. He saw Modern Mysticism as the natural outcome of the clash between ancient religion - mostly Ancient Eastern Religion - and Modern Culture (Modernity) including modern chemistry. Watts saw 'Eastern Religion' in terms of The Psychedelic Experience. Watts thought that Eastern Religion had its origin in ancient chemistry (or ancient botany) and that the human psychedelic experience was a true revelation from God.
That is to say that Watts eventually came to the conclusion that The Creator, realizing that after The Creation, He (She) would no longer exist, invented a method by which we might track back to the truth of the matter of our origin and therefore to HiR, who no longer existed, having died for some reason or other in The Beginning - possibly during The Big Bang: our mother longed for us to know from whence we came. Toward that end She invented the natural psychedelics. She knew that we would eventually figure it all out as we tripped our brains out in the 20th Century.
Furthermore She knew she would die during childbirth, and that we would eventually realize what had happened, and that we would love Her.
Nighty night.
Very strange stuff: for the second time tonight I was required to do a 'word verification.' Something strange is going on, but I don't know what. In any case it is time to wrap this up.
Before leaving you tonight I should like to cite The Joyous Cosmology, by Alan Watts. As you may or may not know, Alan Watts was all about Modern Mysticism. He saw Modern Mysticism as the natural outcome of the clash between ancient religion - mostly Ancient Eastern Religion - and Modern Culture (Modernity) including modern chemistry. Watts saw 'Eastern Religion' in terms of The Psychedelic Experience. Watts thought that Eastern Religion had its origin in ancient chemistry (or ancient botany) and that the human psychedelic experience was a true revelation from God.
That is to say that Watts eventually came to the conclusion that The Creator, realizing that after The Creation, He (She) would no longer exist, invented a method by which we might track back to the truth of the matter of our origin and therefore to HiR, who no longer existed, having died for some reason or other in The Beginning - possibly during The Big Bang: our mother longed for us to know from whence we came. Toward that end She invented the natural psychedelics. She knew that we would eventually figure it all out as we tripped our brains out in the 20th Century.
Furthermore She knew she would die during childbirth, and that we would eventually realize what had happened, and that we would love Her.
Nighty night.
