PRIMAL LANGUAGE AND
WORLD-EMERGENCE--II
Aboriginal Dreamtime
In still another illustration, it seems to me that the Aboriginal
Dreamtime is also based in the same numinous level of emergence.
With this interpretation the Dreamtime is a magical, shamanic
metaphor for depth psychic levels where worlds emerge, where all
species magically communicate, where spirits are, where all
boundaries are translucent and permeable, resistant to derived
precision definitions from the culture of Logic. The after-death
Bardo is a Tibetan way of being within the archetypal with death
as transitional discontinuity between an individual's series of
immersive worlds. There truly is marvelous wonder in these
way-down recesses of being, this closeness to Source, Matrix or
Generatrix; this proximity to realms of the Divine Comedy, the
Cloud of Unknowing, or wisdom teachings of so many traditions.
We imagine with beauty that Indra does indeed smile through
His infinite net of luminous pearls each reflecting all the
others. We picture the shaman beckoning souls in the Pleiades to
greet new beings arising from this realm of wonders and sometime
dark opposites. We empower the Arihant of the Jains beckoning
karma-layered souls to rise with rapture to the top of the
universe, to remain eternally in rapture. The Tao smiles as the
glory and beauty of all buddhas fill worlds without exception,
focusing the wonder of koans expressing the ordinary in
exceptional ways..
Ancientness and Continuity
How many hundreds of thousands of years did that subliminal
pre-human world last, with its palpable, thrusting, exploring
consciousness? Have we advanced or have we fallen? What
incredible continuity we have with that aeons-long coming forth
of human awareness and individual focus! I think all of that
subliminal power is here, inside, shaped by and infusing what we
call the archetypal; it is in me, in you, in every person; great
adapts have it, as does every person, including the darkest
fascist torturing mind, although the latter neither knows nor
wants to know. We say we've exceeded the primordial level in our
advancement but actually we're only shaping it in greater detail
than before, with more outer constructs and inner barriers, and
could it be that our luminous power has diminished? Let us
choose to the contrary, to assume the movement from Neanderthal
to Cro-Magnon was a fully useful one. In some ways I'm not so
sure.
How little we know of the shapes of emergence! For instance,
what can we say about the natural energy of thoughts as they
arise and recede? Or of flashing numinous images coursing
as shakers of our private worlds? What do we really know of
turnings of inner movements? Or even yet of margins between
numinous realms and wondrous spheres? And yet we are learning
swiftly about these in terms of meditative endeavor and
exploration into shadings and roots of consciousness. Current
research suggests these are based quite possibly on
quantum-physics-like phenomena with collapsing of the wave
function; and focus on microtubules. Of course these processes
and structures are "based" on deeper energies approaching the
level of Mystery we know so very little about. But consider also
the message of Deepak Chopra.
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VIEW OF CREATIVE FANTASY
There are two views concerning the Source of Worlds. One is
that the Source is "within," residing within and perhaps as the
human psyche. The second view is that the Source is "without,"
residing at a special external place or realm. There are many
variations of these points of view that have been explored for
millennia the world over--and may be explored for yet millennia
more. The former view is primarily eastern, the latter primarily
western. Joseph Campbell characterizes the eastern view as
involving a primal energy as ultimate Mystery, energy from which
all else coalesces or emerges, including gods and goddesses
themselves; whereas the western view involves a single God as
source of all, with nothing "behind," but possibly with
subsidiary divine beings such as archangels, for example. These
are both marvelous views. What matters here is that the goal and
purpose of MYTHSEEKER can be stated based either way.
In either view MYTHSEEKER places the participant in touch with a
personally-chosen mythic path expressive of primal myth,
referring to the level of myth that shapes the nature of world
and nature and path of the human being. Such myth may--and
certainly often does--give rise to ritual or ceremony as ways to
partake of it; in this fabric blendings are involved of
archetypal life patterns within world myth and the great systems
of meditation and inner quest.
We posit that there is a luminous matrix of energy deep within
the psyche. It can be meditatively experienced in many ways--for
instance as beautiful, variegated white light; or as luminous
blackness; or as intense color; or as marvelous sound with
melody, or harmony or rhythm. The matrix is said to be
self-luminous and can be experienced on the liminal level viewed
as existing beneath full consciousness, where liminal processes
continually create a person's world. This matrix is taken to be
intelligent, expressing the deepest fount of spirituality.
Indeed it is the source and extent of each person's awareness.
The matrix expresses archetypal energy within each individual as
creative fantasy--creative intelligence, the source of each
person's world of experience and of all individual endeavor.
Creative fantasy changes ones world in ways to deepen spiritual
participation; not necessarily that the person is "being
spiritual," but rather in the sense that all experience is
ultimately guided. This views creative fantasy as fundamental
energy by which a person's world is created and by which that
world can be changed in desired ways and fashions.
The matrix continually creates each person's awareness of being
an individual entity, continually creating involvement in an
individual world or in different worlds over time--although
"time" is itself a construct. Indeed, the matrix creates the
fabric of time, space, centeredness (groundedness) for the
person, all aspects of this world comprised as it is of pairs of
opposites. The matrix is fully aware of one's nature, one's
needs, one's degree of openness to spiritual endeavor and
striving; and it guides the person in accordance with spiritual
purpose. The seeming total presence of the emergent world is
called maya. The matrix, the emergence of worlds, the roots of
primal energy, the nature and role of primal myth--all these are
closely intertwined.
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