I’ve just been carefully re-reading the brilliant article posted on SOTT this week by Neil Maves entitled ‘Epidemic depression as a wake up call to humanity’.
http://www.sott.net/article/295289-Epidemic-depression-as-a-wake-up-call-to-humanity
If you’re reading this Neil, then thank you. What an immensely inspiring piece of work! I strongly recommend that everyone read and digest what he has outlined. Strange how you know something but you don’t fully become conscious of it until someone generously distils a range of thoughts and connections into a visionary format that has immediate and (hopefully) lasting effect on one’s consciousness.
Much of what Neil outlines in the piece will be familiar to many on this forum, being a distillation of the direction of understanding that the work of Laura has been helping us all to grasp. I still thank Neil for putting it into such clear and logical – and yes inspiring - format. It’s indeed a wake up call for anyone who still allows their doubts and psychological foibles to dominate their being instead of grasping the need at this time for collective, conscious action of mind and effort to create a fully operational and effective network in line with the creativity and necessary processes for change and transformation within the Universe.
The C’s have been gently but forcibly pushing (or should I say encouraging or calling) for us to individually take up personal responsibility for becoming fully committed to what this network stands for – to quote Neil:
“Gurdjieff was apt to say in his teachings that 200 conscious beings sharing an aim could change the world. It makes one wonder if the ripple effects from such a network are what the psychopathic elite of the planet really fear and why they are trying so feverishly to create a reality that is so dark that it coerces us to forfeit our will, our power to choose. With the alarm clock of disillusionment ringing so loudly, the only way they can maintain power is to numb us with their nihilistic cacophony. The ability to choose is the greatest superpower of all and should not be forgotten.”
I wanted, however, to raise a thought for comment that struck me to do with the emergence of mythology and archetypes into our distant past and their ongoing role today.
In the article Neil briefly but effectively examines the theories of Richard Sheldrake in his great book ‘The Science Delusion’ in which he posits the importance of what he terms ‘morphogenic fields’ and ‘morphic resonance’ which interact with the material world and transmit and generate movements of ideas. Again to quote from Neil’s article:
“This effect is best summarized by the much publicized '100th monkey' syndrome, where once a critical mass of creatures learns a certain skill, it becomes much easier for others to learn that skill and it can be transmitted, apparently 'psychically', to an unrelated tribe of similar creatures in a distant place. Sheldrake also introduces examples such as the synthesis of crystals, where once crystals have been synthesized in one place, they spontaneously become easier and easier to synthesize under the same conditions elsewhere in the world. He calls this phenomenon 'morphic resonance', whereby a certain structure is introduced to the 'information field', and the more energy and frequency that is put into trying to access that particular form, the more powerful the information field becomes and the easier it manifests into material reality everywhere.”
What this immediately brought to mind was the near universal fundamental uniformity of motifs that lie at the bedrock of most global myths. No matter where you look, if you strip away the obvious additions and superfluous detail influenced by time and place, one finds the same essential themes and structures of expression. Historians and anthropologists have struggled for decades with this baffling issue, with many theories put forward to explain this reflecting two basic point of view – either dissemination via an ancient central source or effective influence via ages of migration and cultural contact.
Of late a third approach has gained traction based on the theory that humans world wide experienced identical (or at least highly inter connected versions of) catastrophic environmental change (e.g. cometary bombardment, interaction with bi-products thereof, and a resulting re-shaping of their world) that so strongly affected them that they were all inspired to create similar stories as vessels to express and mirror what it was they all witnessed, irrespective of where they stood upon the earth. This cosmological view is one I would strongly share, for my own study of world wide myth increasingly convinces me that primal myth is fundamentally (1) cosmic in theme (2) reflective of the above so below philosophy (3) heavily indebted to actual extreme phenomena that took place in an atmospheric and earth based environment completely different to the one we regard as normal. I wouldn’t go so far as to say myths are in some way always about the sky but I would come very close to it!
Having said that, I have long regarded myth to be a multilayered, multi-functioning information source. That is they are structured to contain multiple levels of meaning at one and the same time – both physical and metaphysical – which in their interaction offer the deepest, most resonant source of understanding about the nature of our age old condition. They invite us to journey into these layers – set out rather like those within an onion, or perhaps a labyrinth, with the surface designed to hook into our imaginations and peak our story-minded interest whilst offering layer upon layer of further meaning that one must tease out if one wants to find the richest understanding buried at their heart. All the layers run concurrently and all are valid, but the total meaning is only realised when/if one develops the ability and the tool kit (e.g. wide ranging objective knowledge and discernment) to decode and unpeel all and every level simultaneously. The sum is then truly greater than the individual parts.
That is why I remain wary of the tendency emerging in the catastrophic field of research which simply states ‘the myths are fundamentally about actual events, which when you have cracked the scientific primer, reveal hard facts about something that actually occurred’. This is clearly a key layer to their meaning, and one not that easily identified from just their surface. Hence the ridiculous amount of dead-end academic work in this field that never even gets close to acknowledging the scientific veracity of these bizarre seeming stories. For example if one does not acknowledge the electric universe theory or the resulting understanding of the nature of comets as electrically charged bodies, then the various sun gods and planetary ‘personalities’ will make no sense at all other than as perverse psychological pictures reflective of the naïve ancient mind (an ancient mind by the way that was able to invent maths, science, geometry, writing, art, etc). But the opposite is also perhaps true. If one only looks to the myths as purely sources of scientific, 3rd density reality (albeit radical and forward thinking in nature) then one is equally in danger of missing other, perhaps deeper levels of resonant meaning that are far more metaphysical in nature. Yes the psychoanalytical and new age movements too often turn myth into a vacuous meanders full of psychobabble and wishful thinking as much as academics do with their sun gods, and fertility rites and agricultural seasonal obsessions. But the exoteric is reflective of the esoteric and visa versa. There is, as Neil’s article so poignantly reveals, a deep level of overarching truth that permeates the actions of the universe that is in fact ‘divinely’ motivated. This brings to mind the words of Fulcanelli in ‘The Dwellings of the Philosphers’ regarding Alchemy (perhaps an offshoot – or practical science - relating to myth): “(you) will never learn this sublime science by means of books… that it can only be learned through divine revelations, hence it is called the divine art…”
So when I read Neil’s piece it struck me that the ‘release’ of mythic form into our domain, perhaps via the archetypal realm, was a conscious effect from a higher ‘divine’ realm to inject high level, transformative information into our world. That the original seeds may well have been planted, as with Sheldrake’s crystals, into one place at one time – maybe via a particular group or network of conscious thinkers (much as the Cassiopaeans have done via Laura to generate this network). I have long posited that certain so called ancient mystery schools or shamanically driven groups in the far distant past were the most likely source of the introduction of the mythic form (perhaps from the North?). By the time, post the Atlantean collapse, it entered the re-build civilisations such as Sumeria, Babylonia, Egypt and then on into Greece, much of the original understanding and creative inspiration had been diluted, perverted or lost. But even these societies, driven though they increasingly were by STS urges, were in so many fundamental ways, mythically derived and driven. It was as if the ‘crystal’ had taken root and they could not help but continue the process of dissemination long after the original inspiration had been discarded.
The inexorable move to monotheism and eventually Christianity and then materialistic science signed a final death knell to this process. But the myths have survived, albeit in fractured, Stalinised forms, and they still speak to people today. Like crop circles, they are always morphically in resonance with our DNA and we can’t escape their call.
I have long wondered about a rebirth of mythic form. It seems strange to me that such a force lost its inspiring ability to generate new models of seeing the world – when did anyone last effectively use myth as a means of creative expression that transcended time and place and became universal? Shakespeare springs to mind – his work is fundamentally mythic in form and purpose despite what the Shakespeare industry would have us believe. But beyond ‘him’ (whoever he really was – again I suspect part of a network) I struggle.
Maybe it requires the return of the ‘goddess’ for such an act to occur, for I think it was ‘she’ that was the inspiring origin and the motivational force behind most true myth. Perhaps our mind has been so plastically altered by environmental and cultural influences that we can no longer access the well from which these story impulses originally emerged (I think now of the Arthurian tales of the sacred well guarded by priestesses who were defiled and raped). But maybe such a time will come again. Maybe this network is part of that return to grace. Maybe, once the ‘chaos has come again’, we will see such forms once more burst forth, morphically, to once again inspire and guide us out of dark times.
Any comments anyone or am I off the page here!
http://www.sott.net/article/295289-Epidemic-depression-as-a-wake-up-call-to-humanity
If you’re reading this Neil, then thank you. What an immensely inspiring piece of work! I strongly recommend that everyone read and digest what he has outlined. Strange how you know something but you don’t fully become conscious of it until someone generously distils a range of thoughts and connections into a visionary format that has immediate and (hopefully) lasting effect on one’s consciousness.
Much of what Neil outlines in the piece will be familiar to many on this forum, being a distillation of the direction of understanding that the work of Laura has been helping us all to grasp. I still thank Neil for putting it into such clear and logical – and yes inspiring - format. It’s indeed a wake up call for anyone who still allows their doubts and psychological foibles to dominate their being instead of grasping the need at this time for collective, conscious action of mind and effort to create a fully operational and effective network in line with the creativity and necessary processes for change and transformation within the Universe.
The C’s have been gently but forcibly pushing (or should I say encouraging or calling) for us to individually take up personal responsibility for becoming fully committed to what this network stands for – to quote Neil:
“Gurdjieff was apt to say in his teachings that 200 conscious beings sharing an aim could change the world. It makes one wonder if the ripple effects from such a network are what the psychopathic elite of the planet really fear and why they are trying so feverishly to create a reality that is so dark that it coerces us to forfeit our will, our power to choose. With the alarm clock of disillusionment ringing so loudly, the only way they can maintain power is to numb us with their nihilistic cacophony. The ability to choose is the greatest superpower of all and should not be forgotten.”
I wanted, however, to raise a thought for comment that struck me to do with the emergence of mythology and archetypes into our distant past and their ongoing role today.
In the article Neil briefly but effectively examines the theories of Richard Sheldrake in his great book ‘The Science Delusion’ in which he posits the importance of what he terms ‘morphogenic fields’ and ‘morphic resonance’ which interact with the material world and transmit and generate movements of ideas. Again to quote from Neil’s article:
“This effect is best summarized by the much publicized '100th monkey' syndrome, where once a critical mass of creatures learns a certain skill, it becomes much easier for others to learn that skill and it can be transmitted, apparently 'psychically', to an unrelated tribe of similar creatures in a distant place. Sheldrake also introduces examples such as the synthesis of crystals, where once crystals have been synthesized in one place, they spontaneously become easier and easier to synthesize under the same conditions elsewhere in the world. He calls this phenomenon 'morphic resonance', whereby a certain structure is introduced to the 'information field', and the more energy and frequency that is put into trying to access that particular form, the more powerful the information field becomes and the easier it manifests into material reality everywhere.”
What this immediately brought to mind was the near universal fundamental uniformity of motifs that lie at the bedrock of most global myths. No matter where you look, if you strip away the obvious additions and superfluous detail influenced by time and place, one finds the same essential themes and structures of expression. Historians and anthropologists have struggled for decades with this baffling issue, with many theories put forward to explain this reflecting two basic point of view – either dissemination via an ancient central source or effective influence via ages of migration and cultural contact.
Of late a third approach has gained traction based on the theory that humans world wide experienced identical (or at least highly inter connected versions of) catastrophic environmental change (e.g. cometary bombardment, interaction with bi-products thereof, and a resulting re-shaping of their world) that so strongly affected them that they were all inspired to create similar stories as vessels to express and mirror what it was they all witnessed, irrespective of where they stood upon the earth. This cosmological view is one I would strongly share, for my own study of world wide myth increasingly convinces me that primal myth is fundamentally (1) cosmic in theme (2) reflective of the above so below philosophy (3) heavily indebted to actual extreme phenomena that took place in an atmospheric and earth based environment completely different to the one we regard as normal. I wouldn’t go so far as to say myths are in some way always about the sky but I would come very close to it!
Having said that, I have long regarded myth to be a multilayered, multi-functioning information source. That is they are structured to contain multiple levels of meaning at one and the same time – both physical and metaphysical – which in their interaction offer the deepest, most resonant source of understanding about the nature of our age old condition. They invite us to journey into these layers – set out rather like those within an onion, or perhaps a labyrinth, with the surface designed to hook into our imaginations and peak our story-minded interest whilst offering layer upon layer of further meaning that one must tease out if one wants to find the richest understanding buried at their heart. All the layers run concurrently and all are valid, but the total meaning is only realised when/if one develops the ability and the tool kit (e.g. wide ranging objective knowledge and discernment) to decode and unpeel all and every level simultaneously. The sum is then truly greater than the individual parts.
That is why I remain wary of the tendency emerging in the catastrophic field of research which simply states ‘the myths are fundamentally about actual events, which when you have cracked the scientific primer, reveal hard facts about something that actually occurred’. This is clearly a key layer to their meaning, and one not that easily identified from just their surface. Hence the ridiculous amount of dead-end academic work in this field that never even gets close to acknowledging the scientific veracity of these bizarre seeming stories. For example if one does not acknowledge the electric universe theory or the resulting understanding of the nature of comets as electrically charged bodies, then the various sun gods and planetary ‘personalities’ will make no sense at all other than as perverse psychological pictures reflective of the naïve ancient mind (an ancient mind by the way that was able to invent maths, science, geometry, writing, art, etc). But the opposite is also perhaps true. If one only looks to the myths as purely sources of scientific, 3rd density reality (albeit radical and forward thinking in nature) then one is equally in danger of missing other, perhaps deeper levels of resonant meaning that are far more metaphysical in nature. Yes the psychoanalytical and new age movements too often turn myth into a vacuous meanders full of psychobabble and wishful thinking as much as academics do with their sun gods, and fertility rites and agricultural seasonal obsessions. But the exoteric is reflective of the esoteric and visa versa. There is, as Neil’s article so poignantly reveals, a deep level of overarching truth that permeates the actions of the universe that is in fact ‘divinely’ motivated. This brings to mind the words of Fulcanelli in ‘The Dwellings of the Philosphers’ regarding Alchemy (perhaps an offshoot – or practical science - relating to myth): “(you) will never learn this sublime science by means of books… that it can only be learned through divine revelations, hence it is called the divine art…”
So when I read Neil’s piece it struck me that the ‘release’ of mythic form into our domain, perhaps via the archetypal realm, was a conscious effect from a higher ‘divine’ realm to inject high level, transformative information into our world. That the original seeds may well have been planted, as with Sheldrake’s crystals, into one place at one time – maybe via a particular group or network of conscious thinkers (much as the Cassiopaeans have done via Laura to generate this network). I have long posited that certain so called ancient mystery schools or shamanically driven groups in the far distant past were the most likely source of the introduction of the mythic form (perhaps from the North?). By the time, post the Atlantean collapse, it entered the re-build civilisations such as Sumeria, Babylonia, Egypt and then on into Greece, much of the original understanding and creative inspiration had been diluted, perverted or lost. But even these societies, driven though they increasingly were by STS urges, were in so many fundamental ways, mythically derived and driven. It was as if the ‘crystal’ had taken root and they could not help but continue the process of dissemination long after the original inspiration had been discarded.
The inexorable move to monotheism and eventually Christianity and then materialistic science signed a final death knell to this process. But the myths have survived, albeit in fractured, Stalinised forms, and they still speak to people today. Like crop circles, they are always morphically in resonance with our DNA and we can’t escape their call.
I have long wondered about a rebirth of mythic form. It seems strange to me that such a force lost its inspiring ability to generate new models of seeing the world – when did anyone last effectively use myth as a means of creative expression that transcended time and place and became universal? Shakespeare springs to mind – his work is fundamentally mythic in form and purpose despite what the Shakespeare industry would have us believe. But beyond ‘him’ (whoever he really was – again I suspect part of a network) I struggle.
Maybe it requires the return of the ‘goddess’ for such an act to occur, for I think it was ‘she’ that was the inspiring origin and the motivational force behind most true myth. Perhaps our mind has been so plastically altered by environmental and cultural influences that we can no longer access the well from which these story impulses originally emerged (I think now of the Arthurian tales of the sacred well guarded by priestesses who were defiled and raped). But maybe such a time will come again. Maybe this network is part of that return to grace. Maybe, once the ‘chaos has come again’, we will see such forms once more burst forth, morphically, to once again inspire and guide us out of dark times.
Any comments anyone or am I off the page here!
