You're asking why your dumpster has no diamonds in it. You have to go to a jeweler. In a Matrix metaphor, you are sitting upright in your pod looking out at the towers of other pods. Fortunately for you ( and me! ) the internet exists so such as us can gather our minds.
@@justaguyherefortunes1661Share thoughts I guess. Personally Im too busy to meet people, I work at home, then work at work, and meet those whom circumstance brings me into contact with. Metaphysical, symbolic, psychological, philosophical convos rarely ever interest them.
This is beautiful Very hard to find people willing to dip their toe into the opposite world long enough to connect. People are so comfy where they are. They dont realize how important that part of their journey is.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Your insight on metaphysics, spirituality and human history are much appreciated. It is a gift to be able to communicate what is of the ethers into what we call human language. Bravo and thank you.
You make good videos man you describe everything with a intellectual yet easy to understand narrative big props you touch on things that people often search for their entire lives
A magnificent arc, stretching from the Sumerian-Mesopotanic myths to the human role and the human drama (Hero's Journey) in the cosmic game of existence. The required interplay of Eastern and Western culture, in the contrast of individuality and conformity, could possibly be, in R. Steiner's view, the heralding of the sixth post-Atlantic cultural epoch by the Slavic peoples (who in Europe are basically located btw. East and West). This will hopefully create the basis for a worldwide culture of brotherly/sisterly love as a counterbalance to the likewise increasing egoism/individualism. In Lak'ech
@formscapes - this was a much needed leveling of polarity- hero vs heroines journey. The mere act of listening to you weave this thread is inherently transformative to the psyche I have come to call ‘my own’. Thank you for this monumental piece of work. You nailed it!
Thanks for this video! I do want to point out that there actually is a Heroine's Journey. It's just not as widely known or discussed, but both the work of Kim Hudson and her book titled the "Virgin's Promise" and Gail Carriger's book titled "The Heroine's Journey" map out the feminine journey. Kim Hudson has some RUclips videos that are worth watching on this topic.
You have a brilliant mind! Thank you for bringing us your insights! I think you really help people start thinking outside of the proverbial box! I for one, really appreciate this!
I fell asleep listening to Descent of Light and woke up from a beautiful dream as this video ended with that sore feeling at the back of the roof of my mouth that one gets when they are on the edge of weeping... I am just so amazed and moved by this content. I will definitely listen to this one again while awake and able to give it my full attention, but based on my dream, which became more and more lucid as this video approached it end, I can safely say that at least some part of its message was heard loud and clear by both my conscious and subconscious mind. The first thing I did upon waking was join your channel and then leave this comment. First and only channel I've ever joined. Thank you so much!
What a wonderful and rich presentation! It's been an amazing journey, and I'm very thankful to you for sharing this in such a great quality. I just got a thought really stuck in me now, considering how such popular narratives as "The Matrix/Getting out of The Matrix" come much more organically into meaning when taking into account how these Solar and Lunar archetypes come into play and manifest in such a variety of ways according to the level of understanding each individual displays in their own life. Anyways, I'm fascinated by your content. Thank you again for such a great work.
You've adjusted your content exceptionally in regards to art-growth, argument design, and portrayal of thematic points through story, art and argument. Ive just binged your stuff in the past 3 weeks and your 5-7 month journey has gotten sharper than damnit. It's the progress I'd expect out of a person in 4-6 years of art education, but in as many months. The places science can't measure are the best. Best places to look. Michael Valentine vids. "I needed to be stronger so i grew muscles" Edit: as here, Campbell's work didn't result in this ideal. It was the most fundamental ideal of his work and his work stretched a galaxy of cultures beyond a singular culture. You're very close to perfect rhetoric regarding mid blowing things, im jealous.
Yeah I had absolutely no clue what I was doing when I started this channel. My first time using a video editor was for the first video on the channel. There's still a long way to go though. I'm gonna be scoping out a more professional video editing application soon and trying to learn some more tricks now that I have a bit more free time.
@@FormscapesThis one here was a hummdinger. Very insightful. You put your finger right on the pulse of whats happening , to individuals today, and to the collective. Who knew phychological archetypes could truly be used characterize these problems so accurately and give prescription? However, the need to find a transcendtal impetus to help us all integrate to our highest cohesive state, well..while its true I fear it will be the wrong one. And it was prophecied that it would go down this way. You echoed in archetypal language what the biblical prophets saw. Stage ready for the great beast to enter. YIKES!
Being a woman I believe child birth is the hero’s journey. I don’t believe I wouldn’t have found out who I real was till my children left my house, it’s just a longer story. My children were a call to adventure. I never wanted kids when I was young. The strength I found and drive came because of m children, and my finale Separation from my children made me understand who I was with out them.
Thank you immensely for sharing your gift of explanation! I feel I was able to take in decades worth of knowledge today. This wiped out all my judgment, putting everything in perspective. Many blessings! I will believe with Nietzsche, 'you need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star'.
The three sections of the hero myth are incredibly similar to the Hegelian Dialectic! Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis are like the departure, transfiguration, and return.
I'm slowly developing the belief that our collective goal as humanity and personal goal as an individual is to develop the "I" and individuate so that through it we gain the ability to see life as it is, escape from the herd and consciously and willingly merge with being again. It's paradoxical like fighting for peace but it also makes sense. We seperate from the mother womb at birth just to incarnate in it again. Even if one does believe in reincarnation, one eventually is burried in the nature's womb again and disintergrates into the all encompassing energy. Schizo talk anyways nice video as usual.
Re-merging with the earth is itself only a dissolving of the body into Gaia, so that's not exactly the same as reintegration of the "I" into the cosmic unity. Dissolution destroys boundaries. Integration maintains difference yet synthesizes those differences into a higher order unity; the way that different instruments in an ensemble are unified by the harmonic structure of a composition. The human soul is a complex melody of consciousness which recurs as a motif throughout cosmic evolution. As that one ghost dude said in The Shining; "You've always been here"
ever read zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance? focuses on "Classical" vs "romantic" thinking which essentially map as solar and lunar respectively, and it tries to examine what it calls "Quality" which is that pre-individuated one-ness and also the return/reintegration into that. highly recommend, would love a future video comparing that text with the other nets of ideas you unpack so well. I think it would probably end up a bit redundant, but perhaps a line of thought/articulation that differs enough from your usual references to maybe offer new avenues of perspective. love this shit, thank you for putting this out here on youtube in such an accessible and well articulated way. massive respect and appreciation
I thought it was interesting when describing the Ripley/Alien story it's put in terms of a chaotic devouring mother, while in the original story the alien itself is one of the starkest examples of phallic aggression and the claustrophobia of being trapped with a predator, representing rape and masculine threat. The second film, with the immense queen brood mother and her nest may fit better for the chaotic ocean mother and her salty blood. That said, we must recognize our own slant and the projection of self on the other, which historically is very much from the masculine side of our societies. There's some breakdown/deconstruction currently in the binary masculine/feminine constructs we've used to describe archetypes, and I feel like sociologically we're seeing this in the fracturing of sexual/gender culture and increasingly diverse sexual norms in younger generations. The choice of what form the murky depths of our unconscious are interpreted into symbolically are more a depiction of the psyche of the interpreter and their own era's culture (such as Jung or Campbell) than actual solid characteristics of the depths themselves. Over the course of decades and centuries the structures become engrained in our collective academic and folk symbology, a self-reinforcement of sorts...but during upheavals in culture and as our sense of self identity creates friction against the old symbols and norms, we see new archetypes emerge. They will always follow a pattern that matches the living organisms fractal cyclical nature of birth/growth/culmination/resolution/death etc...but the spectrum of how they manifest in our minds and art will always surprise us...the eternal now and process of evolution expressing itself in each instance of a human life.
I have clearly seen these "Tendencies" growing through time, and i have even tried to communicate it to others but to no avail really( No shit). But you put some words on it here and that is really great, as now people can absorb this utterly important information through you tube instead of having to accidentally bump into ME( In Sweden)😄. Well done 🙂😇🥰
Thank you for the disclaimer. I watch your videos several times over anyways, and my first listen is always by myself or else I can’t grasp anything. Nevertheless your warning shot was appreciated
My daughter wanted to watch a scary movie for Halloween. So I decided the the alien trilogy would be perfect. I think Ripley's hero's journey is pretty unique. at first, She is barely able to survive but it's her instinct to protect a child. That gives her courage by the third movie. She has lost that child and everything and becomes pregnant, with a monster becoming a monster herself to destroy it
Two books I recently read that might be interesting to people who enjoyed this video are The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation by Brian Robinette and The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor by Jordan Daniel Wood. Both similarly cosmic, and touching on the unity of opposites such as created/Uncreated, being/nothingness, Divinity/humanity.
This was just brilliant. I have read books on alchemy and the Kabbala tree of life. But I never realized how east and west must merge the way that the individual must first be the fool on the hero’s journey toward self actualization then integrate back into something communal. Also, your interpretation of Christ consciousness transcending above the east and west as a transmutation toward the universal logos… I can’t believe I never thought of it that way before. This was a really good one! In my mind I visualize it all as spirals instead of circling back toward something. It’s back but a step “higher”
The devouring mother would be Binah on the tree of life. Your analysis of Alien was incredible, and us currently going through a Binah cycle sounds… about right unfortunately Edit- mudvayne has a song about Binah (Kali) and it’s pretty good! It’s called “mercy, severity” 😊
Great content and presentation bro, have you considered doing an essay about the concept of freedom, eg the greek control of base insticts or the enlightment emancipatory hedonism. I would love to hear your take from the mythological perspective too
So this is something I've already touched upon a bit in my last video on Gebser (integral consciousness) but it's definitely a topic we will be looking at from different angles in the future
Another perfect video. 👌 Some comments here conflate metaphysical femininity with physical femininity, despite you blatantly stating that you're discussing metaphysics and not actual motherhood. While the archetype is based on the physical process and so the two overlap, they are still two separate things. The archetypal journey of connection to a group- interdependence- which I like to call The Beloved's Journey is the Yin modality. Connection to oneself- independence- known as The Hero's Journey is the Yang modality. Narrative structures for psychological development. In Freudian terms, I AKA Id = Masculine, We AKA Superego = Feminine. A balance of/midpoint between both is a healthy sense of self- Ego- and results in quality of life in having a mentality with which to observe and interact with external reality well. The unhealthy versions would be Yin enmeshment (cannibalisation - devouring mother mimicking when there is too much Yang which becomes subjugation, acting subconsciously out of the Jungian Animus) and Yang neglect (alienation - absent father mimicking when there is too much Yin which becomes defeat, acting subconsciously out of the Jungian Anima). That dynamic is already blatantly reflected by the Single Mother Epidemic and men generally struggling due to not yet developing a new healthy version of their own social role with which to better interact with the world through - not yet accepting of their Yin formlessness as part of the creation process to then make something out of nothing and establish their own form of identity, to bring manhood into being by putting it into practice in a new way as to return to Yang again. Pulling from the resources deep inside oneself. Unhealthy imbalance occurs when experiences are not assimilated into the Ego, the Ego which must transform- 'die'- as to address current circumstances. The best way to go is constantly updating our sense of self and thus our perception, as to properly participate in and contribute to maintaining our wellbeing in an ever-changing reality. The cycles of human nature being the concept you mentioned, trauma from the 4 stages of the birthing process. 💖
I think that lunar courterpart to Hero`s journey is very popular in anime in form of stories about adoption. For example, "Dragon maid of miss Kobayashi", or "Senko San". Average office worker adopts otherwordly creature, and through connection to it is completely transformed and healed.
Lovely! in the possibility, the opportunity and the achievement of desires there has been a naturally occuring procession of events that now we live. are these events so naturally occuring? earthlings have lived and worked and passed on, and each generation has continued the work. have we advanced the distance of our work? or are we directed, restrained and advanced on the decisions of an agenda unknown?
I’ve recently grown tired of hearing a layman’s interpretation of Utilitarianism, “Needs of the Many” or other basic philosophical concepts, being portrayed as fresh or new when in reality the concepts are literally older than dirt. Probably my favorite part about this channel is how it dives into concepts that are indeed ancient, coupled with modern and post-modern concepts, but somehow far from mainstream. I’ll admit, it could be that hauling firewood and working on the vehicles while listening to this stretched my comprehension a bit, however there genuinely were concepts presented that are outside my ability to understand. It is truly remarkable how much contemplation went into these concepts, and I’m certainly curious to hear more. I myself take a more Libertarian approach to life, but I also want to fully form my opinions and it seems exceedingly difficult to find left-wing content that relies on philosophy and/or fact as opposed to near libel/slander and straight grifting. That’s not to say that right leaning politics doesn’t twist the truth, typically the pundits of the political right use facts and statistics in a way that makes them seem to support their opinions, often in a disingenuous or misleading way that is more akin to confirmation bias. I suppose the point I’m making is that it’s very pleasant to see a fresh perspective from what could be considered a left leaning source, which actually relies on philosophy rather than grifting. I appreciate this perspective. And the closing message is more relevant today than it has a right to be, hahah! The human race as a whole should be focusing on unity in the face of individual monetary wealth and reduce the importance placed on economic inequality. The gift of nature and life should be cherished. And this idea that money has become our new-age god is demonstrably observable and seriously destructive, and it’s a concept that I myself have toiled with for quite a while myself. About what I didn’t understand, among a few other more obscure concepts which weren’t completely iterated [edit: Or at least it seemed that way, maybe they were related to the following confusions and I hadn’t the focus to put the two together], the idea that birth and sex and death are inherently related and the act of sex emulates the others. I’m going to listen to this again later when I have the time to really contemplate what is being said, as I was doing ignition timing on my truck and the exhaust is incredibly loud on it. I was also forging a new electrode for the rotor on my distributor as I’m too far from a parts store to purchase another one. Turns out old copper propane tubing works very well for a replacement in a pinch. Either way, it’s going to take more contemplation for me to tie the concepts together. I will say though of what I did understand of it, it was well explained and the conclusion was certainly fascinating to consider. Anywho, thank you again for another awesome and thought-provoking video. I certainly look forward to the next one.
Anyone around Tac-Seattle or Olympia that enjoys these topics? I’d love to talk to a couple more people irl. (Not specifically this video, but the esoteric topics channels like this cover) My name is Lane and I consider myself blessed to already have a few people in my life whom I can communicate openly about somewhat taboo topics, but a community would be amazing.
Lunar energy of birthing could parallel the battle of creation, creating, and creativity. The amount of suffering that happens in the creative process is very feminine, self reflective and self destructive in the same way menstrual pains and blood crush women, do we psychologically have to bleed and crush ourselves in retrospective empathetic formulations in order to recreate a subspace of reality through story. Art in general has a more feminine lens that is broadening in nature, nurturing in a sense. Whereas the masculine is more penetrating like the sciences.
*Modern* art is much more feminine. In ancient times, art was considered to be that which connected the immanent with the transcendental, *not* what made public that which is internal and private (as is often the case in Modern art). In fact I would go so far as to say that the roles have essentially flipped over the past 500 years, as the pre-modern equivalent of science was *esoteric* (inward oriented - reaching for the heavens *through* the internal depths, as it were) rather than exoteric (oriented towards external appearance; i.e., empirical observation).
There IS a heroine's journey: Demeter has her daughter taken from her (her family is ruptured), this brings on a calamity (winter), Demeter sets out to look for her daughter, gathers information while hiding her identity (the feminine working covertly), finally asks Hecate (a sorority friend) for help, they find Persephone with Hades (in the underworld), a compromise is made to get her back (Persephone has to return to Hades every year), they go back to the surface and order is restored (the family is not only made whole but has expanded, and spring comes). Obviously I'm condensing things! You weren't far off identifying the pregnancy/birth theme.
In other videos I have been quite critical, mainly because the science stuff is too pseudo-science or alternative theory without too much critical thinking. But I must say that this video is really good. It is an excellent approximation to the subject matter. While watching the video I got an epiphany in relation to the symbolism in Neon Genesis Evangelion, a japanese animatiom. Suddently I understood a lot about some symbols and topics. Also I wish we could have the sort of collective enlightenment, you describe at the end. But I see the left and right trying to push society to social conformity according to each side ideology, and states and corporations being more coercive, and I think that we might have a temporal regression. Hopefully we see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the journey will be painful.
Reminds me of the works of Rene Guenon would love to hear your opinions in him. As he also advocated for the cohesion between Western and Eastern worlds/philosophies
www.stangrof.com/images/joomgallery/ArticlesPDF/Richard_Tarnas_and_Stan_Grof.pdf I'm pretty sure this is what I was referring to, but you should also just find "The Cosmic Game" on Libgen or whatever (or just buy it). It has much more detailed explanations of the whole theory, and the book is very engaging and easy to read.
Perhaps my manuscript that started as a masculine hero’s journey but unknowingly is now a famine rising story is because Mother Nature is about to rear her ugly side. It seems to coincide with the rise in Phoenix Event vids about a 138 year periodic catastrophe. I’m also constantly bombarded by images of humans deflecting incoming objects from space in order to prevent collision. I had these thoughts way before I heard of the Annunaki and their suggested incoming planet or how they may have inslaved us in the past. I am very sensitive to Slav mindsets but that is mostly because of my Slavic ancestors and how they were abused. Comment? LOVE your vids!
Love this stuff, profoundly and truly. A thousand thanks, really. One observation though: The word "primordial" is pronounced like PRY-MORE-DEAL. I can see why you would sound it out like the world cordial. But alas, there is no relation there.
People pronounce things in different ways. "Correct" can only mean that which people understand. I have never heard anyone pronounce it the way you are suggesting, so I will not be pronouncing it that way, but you can say it in what ever way sounds good to you. That's just how language actually works in the real world.
you really think it would be appropriate for a 10 year old to listen to me discuss the psychology of why people like getting choked during sex? Bc I definitely think there are some parents who would take issue with that.
Please read "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. They provide archaeological and anthropological evidence that problematizes (in a beautiful and inspiring way) the simple linear story of hunter-gatherer -> farmer -> cities -> modernity, showing that in fact most ancient peoples experimented endlessly with numerous different modes of life, switching back and forth between them at will, and only in the past few thousand years did we finally get "trapped" in a single mode. I think it's overly simplistic to just place an Aeon of Isis prior to the Aeon of Osiris when in reality they interpenetrated for a long time - for the entire time humans have had symbolic consciousness, in fact, up until the Enemy (seemingly unopposable hierarchy, presently manifested as capitalism) began to dominate the world.
I am not going to make my videos 5 hours long just to accommodate every smart ass on the internet who wants to feel smug by pointing out oversimplifications. Go watch something else and get tf out of my comment section if you have a problem with my work
@@Formscapes I liked the video for fuck's sake. I also subscribed to your channel. I made the comment because I want to see what you would think about the thing I referred to BECAUSE you have such an eloquent way of explaining these things. There is no need to be so defensive.
what about gobekli tepe.. kharan tepe etc... we started civilisation much earlier than Mesopotamia and the evidence is rolling in now. love what you have to say otherwise. keep up the good work.
As you say in 34:17, there was a formative trauma just before the Mesopotamian civilizations. It was the formative trauma that caused the development of patriarchy. Civilization however was well developed beforehand: large settlements, writing, specialized and advanced crafts, long distance trade. We just don’t hear about those cultures because they were female-centric and peaceful. The trauma was the sudden desertification of the formerly lush region from North Africa through the Middle East into Central Asia. This caused trauma and resource scarcity which combined with cows, easily hoarded resources, led to the rise of male dominance as aggressive men hoarded the cows and wanted to pass them on to sons, where before the lineage was from mother to daughter, the natural system. This was mythologized by the slaying of Tiamat, the primordial mother Goddess serpent, by Marduk, the patriarchal hero, like Perseus and St. Patrick. Patriarchy reframed the cosmic mother as chaos and patriarchy as order: this propaganda was a reversal of actual truth. The ancient matriarchy was very stable and orderly. It was the sky father who conquered the earth mother, bringing in the rape of the feminine by the masculine, that was the foundation of the new society, like the rape of the Sabines. The conquest and violence you speak of was a result of this massive reordering of human life. Without an understanding of patriarchal propaganda and dynamics, and the structure of society beforehand, it’s impossible to say what is actually archetypal for us. We think of the hero’s journey as masculine, but this is most likely a patriarchal construct. We know that before patriarchy women hunted and traded . And after patriarchy, women warriors fought back against the new institution and served as queens. Who’s to say that a hero’s journey is masculine at the core, if we are only looking at our own culture, the product of 5000 years of patriarchal mind control that shaped our assumptions of the masculine? Including this idea of the feminine as chaotic, and in your words: "competence, courage, independence, and will to survive", as masculine. Whereas ancient Greeks , still in touch with some of their matriarchal origins, understood Sophia as the embodiment of logic and reason. Women’s self-development goes way beyond just motherhood, and many of us don’t choose that path but still have our own hero’s journeys. It is, in fact, patriarchal bias and assumptions, not archetypal. The concept of a father is extremely recent in our past. The oldest languages have no original word for it. Yes, Gilgamesh was the first cult of the individual. This was the beginning of patriarchy (NOT civilization), individual power taking precedence over the collective well-being. Ego over intuition. I urge you to read my book as you will never see things the same again afterwards: Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy and Our Matriarchal Origins. I love your work and would love a dialog about this.
I haven't, I will! Thanks. I see you as the Terence McKenna of our age. So far I love this quote: The world revealed by modern science has been a world devoid of spiritual purpose, opaque, ruled by chance and necessity, without intrinsic meaning. The human soul has not felt at home in the modern cosmos: the soul can hold dear its poetry and its music, its private metaphysics and religion, but these find no certain foundation in the empirical universe. One future book I will write will be on the imminent fall of the materialist paradigm. Your video on the topic is seminal. As it turns out, paradigms take hold of the collective mind and create our reality and become the archetypes. Perhaps there are no actual timeless ultimate archetypes beyond human culture, or perhaps there are .. Anyway with your kind permission I will post a link to my book in case anyone reading this wants to check it out. It too represents a radical collapse of the old boundaries of interpretation. a.co/d/9hfvO0M @@Formscapes
Honestly, this is too dense for casual listening- I get PHYSICALLY HUNGRY when I focus on the content. This is really good but I’m running out of food.
@@Formscapes Oh wow, you made it yourself! I like it a lot - it immediately caught my ear upon first hearing it. I was hoping there was a standalone version to add to my music playlist :)
I have a question that I hope you guys bite into and answer for me. AI is going to be smarter than humans one day. When we look at rome we see this self sufficient entity that lives like a controlling parasite over us, this system lives on its own over top of the people and underneath that the people "prospered"? at times they didnt because of interventions, what do you guys think of an AI roman empire type situation being the next golden age?
AI is essentially a giant red carpet for the same egregores of degeneracy, sadism and infantilization which metastasized within the late Roman empire. What we are currently witnessing is a hyper accelerated version of the same self-cannibalization process that destroyed Rome. AI will never be "smarter" than humans bc there is no real intelligence in AI, only the mechanical imitation of real, organic intelligence. The idea that they could be "smart" at all, let alone smarter than human beings, is a very intentional ideological manipulation intended to set the stage for the new religion which is being developed by the international banker class. The goal is to disfugure the human soul such that we are reduced to insectoid parodies of human life.
@@Formscapes I feel like your opinion is motivated by some sort of bias against (((them))). Either way, Intelligence is a fundamental property of reality that permeates all of it and is not exclusive to things made out of flesh. The only thing stopping AI from becoming smarter than humans is a selective lack of imagination
I appreciate the presentation as such. I might point to the sense i had at times, a sense when you used words like souls, well, it unfolded reality for the presentation, but the impact, intuitively felt distant.
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Where can I find people who shares these interests in person. I feel like I've got no real life meaningful communication.
I'm basically chained to my computer these days to make this channel happen so I can't help ya lol. I might be slowly turning into a vampire tbh
You're asking why your dumpster has no diamonds in it. You have to go to a jeweler. In a Matrix metaphor, you are sitting upright in your pod looking out at the towers of other pods. Fortunately for you ( and me! ) the internet exists so such as us can gather our minds.
@@bunberrierwhat will we do, once the minds have gathered?
Luckily my brother is into this stuff too. Most people my age just scroll tiktok/instagram
@@justaguyherefortunes1661Share thoughts I guess. Personally Im too busy to meet people, I work at home, then work at work, and meet those whom circumstance brings me into contact with. Metaphysical, symbolic, psychological, philosophical convos rarely ever interest them.
This is beautiful
Very hard to find people willing to dip their toe into the opposite world long enough to connect.
People are so comfy where they are. They dont realize how important that part of their journey is.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Your insight on metaphysics, spirituality and human history are much appreciated. It is a gift to be able to communicate what is of the ethers into what we call human language. Bravo and thank you.
are you still with us brother,.
You make good videos man you describe everything with a intellectual yet easy to understand narrative big props you touch on things that people often search for their entire lives
Very respectful intro. I appreciate that rarity here on the internet. Especially knowing theres always a chance a child is present.
won't somebody please think about the children... or much more importantly, the all mighty algorithm
A magnificent arc, stretching from the Sumerian-Mesopotanic myths to the human role and the human drama (Hero's Journey) in the cosmic game of existence. The required interplay of Eastern and Western culture, in the contrast of individuality and conformity, could possibly be, in R. Steiner's view, the heralding of the sixth post-Atlantic cultural epoch by the Slavic peoples (who in Europe are basically located btw. East and West). This will hopefully create the basis for a worldwide culture of brotherly/sisterly love as a counterbalance to the likewise increasing egoism/individualism. In Lak'ech
@formscapes - this was a much needed leveling of polarity- hero vs heroines journey. The mere act of listening to you weave this thread is inherently transformative to the psyche I have come to call ‘my own’. Thank you for this monumental piece of work. You nailed it!
Thank you so much!
I know what I'm listening to on the drive to work tomorrow morning. Seriously, your videos have been the best part of my morning for a while now
Thank you!
Definitely one of my favorite channels on RUclips.
Your videos are a constant source of inspiration and a powerful tool for a beginner like me learning about so many interesting subjects. Thank you!
Thanks fam!
Alot of beginners say they struggle with my content so if you're still here that means you're putting in the effort to go all the way
Thanks for this video! I do want to point out that there actually is a Heroine's Journey. It's just not as widely known or discussed, but both the work of Kim Hudson and her book titled the "Virgin's Promise" and Gail Carriger's book titled "The Heroine's Journey" map out the feminine journey. Kim Hudson has some RUclips videos that are worth watching on this topic.
You have a brilliant mind! Thank you for bringing us your insights! I think you really help people start thinking outside of the proverbial box! I for one, really appreciate this!
Thank you!
Its always nice to see how someone grows a mentor and becomes more whole through their teachings
I appreciate what you have to share with us and thanks for the hard work 😊
I fell asleep listening to Descent of Light and woke up from a beautiful dream as this video ended with that sore feeling at the back of the roof of my mouth that one gets when they are on the edge of weeping... I am just so amazed and moved by this content. I will definitely listen to this one again while awake and able to give it my full attention, but based on my dream, which became more and more lucid as this video approached it end, I can safely say that at least some part of its message was heard loud and clear by both my conscious and subconscious mind.
The first thing I did upon waking was join your channel and then leave this comment. First and only channel I've ever joined.
Thank you so much!
What a wonderful and rich presentation! It's been an amazing journey, and I'm very thankful to you for sharing this in such a great quality.
I just got a thought really stuck in me now, considering how such popular narratives as "The Matrix/Getting out of The Matrix" come much more organically into meaning when taking into account how these Solar and Lunar archetypes come into play and manifest in such a variety of ways according to the level of understanding each individual displays in their own life.
Anyways, I'm fascinated by your content. Thank you again for such a great work.
Thank you for filling in the gaps so artfully, masterfully sewn information together ❤😊
This channel is a hidden gem
You've adjusted your content exceptionally in regards to art-growth, argument design, and portrayal of thematic points through story, art and argument. Ive just binged your stuff in the past 3 weeks and your 5-7 month journey has gotten sharper than damnit. It's the progress I'd expect out of a person in 4-6 years of art education, but in as many months.
The places science can't measure are the best. Best places to look. Michael Valentine vids. "I needed to be stronger so i grew muscles"
Edit: as here, Campbell's work didn't result in this ideal. It was the most fundamental ideal of his work and his work stretched a galaxy of cultures beyond a singular culture. You're very close to perfect rhetoric regarding mid blowing things, im jealous.
Yeah I had absolutely no clue what I was doing when I started this channel. My first time using a video editor was for the first video on the channel.
There's still a long way to go though. I'm gonna be scoping out a more professional video editing application soon and trying to learn some more tricks now that I have a bit more free time.
@@FormscapesThis one here was a hummdinger. Very insightful. You put your finger right on the pulse of whats happening , to individuals today, and to the collective. Who knew phychological archetypes could truly be used characterize these problems so accurately and give prescription? However, the need to find a transcendtal impetus to help us all integrate to our highest cohesive state, well..while its true I fear it will be the wrong one. And it was prophecied that it would go down this way. You echoed in archetypal language what the biblical prophets saw. Stage ready for the great beast to enter. YIKES!
Blown my mind once again. Thank you. I'll be watching this one again and again 🖤
Thank you!
Being a woman I believe child birth is the hero’s journey. I don’t believe I wouldn’t have found out who I real was till my children left my house, it’s just a longer story. My children were a call to adventure. I never wanted kids when I was young. The strength I found and drive came because of m children, and my finale Separation from my children made me understand who I was with out them.
this is a beautiful, shining statement.
Same, same thoughts. It's kind of mind-bending what happens to your mind and body to give birth and mother an infant.
To put it in the language of our host, my journey to self-efficacy and individuation would not have happened for me without becoming a mother.
Thank you for your videos. Beautiful mind and soul
thank you!
Thank you immensely for sharing your gift of explanation! I feel I was able to take in decades worth of knowledge today. This wiped out all my judgment, putting everything in perspective. Many blessings! I will believe with Nietzsche, 'you need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star'.
Some very potent ideas here! Lots of things I have pondered myself before! Always look forward to your videos! 💪
Such an incredible video. I really appreciate your work . God bless you ❤❤❤❤
Wonderful exposition
Just found your channel today. Really fantastic stuff!
Thanks fam
The three sections of the hero myth are incredibly similar to the Hegelian Dialectic! Thesis, antithesis, and synthesis are like the departure, transfiguration, and return.
Absolutely magnificent! Thank you!
I absolutely love your channel... don't change!
I'm slowly developing the belief that our collective goal as humanity and personal goal as an individual is to develop the "I" and individuate so that through it we gain the ability to see life as it is, escape from the herd and consciously and willingly merge with being again. It's paradoxical like fighting for peace but it also makes sense. We seperate from the mother womb at birth just to incarnate in it again. Even if one does believe in reincarnation, one eventually is burried in the nature's womb again and disintergrates into the all encompassing energy. Schizo talk anyways nice video as usual.
Re-merging with the earth is itself only a dissolving of the body into Gaia, so that's not exactly the same as reintegration of the "I" into the cosmic unity. Dissolution destroys boundaries. Integration maintains difference yet synthesizes those differences into a higher order unity; the way that different instruments in an ensemble are unified by the harmonic structure of a composition.
The human soul is a complex melody of consciousness which recurs as a motif throughout cosmic evolution.
As that one ghost dude said in The Shining; "You've always been here"
@@Formscapes oh, the shining, let's all internalize everything jack and lloyd said to each other in the shining. that's some kind of burden
My 3rd time watching this. I so much appreciate the warning in the beginning and you keeping it pg13
Doing gods work. Wow. Thank you
ever read zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance? focuses on "Classical" vs "romantic" thinking which essentially map as solar and lunar respectively, and it tries to examine what it calls "Quality" which is that pre-individuated one-ness and also the return/reintegration into that. highly recommend, would love a future video comparing that text with the other nets of ideas you unpack so well. I think it would probably end up a bit redundant, but perhaps a line of thought/articulation that differs enough from your usual references to maybe offer new avenues of perspective. love this shit, thank you for putting this out here on youtube in such an accessible and well articulated way. massive respect and appreciation
I had a glorious vision of being on a chariot and you were the charioteer, visiting places and then we came home.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel, such wonderful insights! I'm off to the library to search for Cosmic Game 💙
If you can't find it in a library then you can find an epub version on libgen
I thought it was interesting when describing the Ripley/Alien story it's put in terms of a chaotic devouring mother, while in the original story the alien itself is one of the starkest examples of phallic aggression and the claustrophobia of being trapped with a predator, representing rape and masculine threat. The second film, with the immense queen brood mother and her nest may fit better for the chaotic ocean mother and her salty blood. That said, we must recognize our own slant and the projection of self on the other, which historically is very much from the masculine side of our societies. There's some breakdown/deconstruction currently in the binary masculine/feminine constructs we've used to describe archetypes, and I feel like sociologically we're seeing this in the fracturing of sexual/gender culture and increasingly diverse sexual norms in younger generations. The choice of what form the murky depths of our unconscious are interpreted into symbolically are more a depiction of the psyche of the interpreter and their own era's culture (such as Jung or Campbell) than actual solid characteristics of the depths themselves. Over the course of decades and centuries the structures become engrained in our collective academic and folk symbology, a self-reinforcement of sorts...but during upheavals in culture and as our sense of self identity creates friction against the old symbols and norms, we see new archetypes emerge. They will always follow a pattern that matches the living organisms fractal cyclical nature of birth/growth/culmination/resolution/death etc...but the spectrum of how they manifest in our minds and art will always surprise us...the eternal now and process of evolution expressing itself in each instance of a human life.
this is a very healing story, I find it places the self in better or healthier context than the egyptian origin mythos.
I have clearly seen these "Tendencies" growing through time, and i have even tried to communicate it to others but to no avail really( No shit). But you put some words on it here and that is really great, as now people can absorb this utterly important information through you tube instead of having to accidentally bump into ME( In Sweden)😄. Well done 🙂😇🥰
Another great video! So glad I found your channel!
Thank you!
Fabulous video. Thank you
Thank you!
Thank you for the disclaimer. I watch your videos several times over anyways, and my first listen is always by myself or else I can’t grasp anything. Nevertheless your warning shot was appreciated
Yeah I was thinking of you specifically when I said that lol
My daughter wanted to watch a scary movie for Halloween. So I decided the the alien trilogy would be perfect. I think Ripley's hero's journey is pretty unique. at first, She is barely able to survive but it's her instinct to protect a child. That gives her courage by the third movie. She has lost that child and everything and becomes pregnant, with a monster becoming a monster herself to destroy it
Two books I recently read that might be interesting to people who enjoyed this video are The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation by Brian Robinette and The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor by Jordan Daniel Wood. Both similarly cosmic, and touching on the unity of opposites such as created/Uncreated, being/nothingness, Divinity/humanity.
How beautiful this time we call LIFE
This was just brilliant. I have read books on alchemy and the Kabbala tree of life. But I never realized how east and west must merge the way that the individual must first be the fool on the hero’s journey toward self actualization then integrate back into something communal. Also, your interpretation of Christ consciousness transcending above the east and west as a transmutation toward the universal logos… I can’t believe I never thought of it that way before.
This was a really good one! In my mind I visualize it all as spirals instead of circling back toward something. It’s back but a step “higher”
The devouring mother would be Binah on the tree of life. Your analysis of Alien was incredible, and us currently going through a Binah cycle sounds… about right unfortunately
Edit- mudvayne has a song about Binah (Kali) and it’s pretty good! It’s called “mercy, severity” 😊
BRILLiant. Thankyou
Thank you.
Food for thought, my writing too.
perfect conclusion ive been feeling this myself for a long time. I couldnt have said it better though haha
Soul-needs-based wounds. We seek out situations which open our old wounds so they can heal from the bottom, completely.
This will be important to learn philosophy as a whole
Nice Work… ☘️
Great content and presentation bro, have you considered doing an essay about the concept of freedom, eg the greek control of base insticts or the enlightment emancipatory hedonism. I would love to hear your take from the mythological perspective too
So this is something I've already touched upon a bit in my last video on Gebser (integral consciousness) but it's definitely a topic we will be looking at from different angles in the future
Care to explain “ Enlightenment emancipatory hedonism?”
Another perfect video. 👌
Some comments here conflate metaphysical femininity with physical femininity, despite you blatantly stating that you're discussing metaphysics and not actual motherhood. While the archetype is based on the physical process and so the two overlap, they are still two separate things. The archetypal journey of connection to a group- interdependence- which I like to call The Beloved's Journey is the Yin modality. Connection to oneself- independence- known as The Hero's Journey is the Yang modality. Narrative structures for psychological development. In Freudian terms, I AKA Id = Masculine, We AKA Superego = Feminine. A balance of/midpoint between both is a healthy sense of self- Ego- and results in quality of life in having a mentality with which to observe and interact with external reality well. The unhealthy versions would be Yin enmeshment (cannibalisation - devouring mother mimicking when there is too much Yang which becomes subjugation, acting subconsciously out of the Jungian Animus) and Yang neglect (alienation - absent father mimicking when there is too much Yin which becomes defeat, acting subconsciously out of the Jungian Anima). That dynamic is already blatantly reflected by the Single Mother Epidemic and men generally struggling due to not yet developing a new healthy version of their own social role with which to better interact with the world through - not yet accepting of their Yin formlessness as part of the creation process to then make something out of nothing and establish their own form of identity, to bring manhood into being by putting it into practice in a new way as to return to Yang again. Pulling from the resources deep inside oneself. Unhealthy imbalance occurs when experiences are not assimilated into the Ego, the Ego which must transform- 'die'- as to address current circumstances. The best way to go is constantly updating our sense of self and thus our perception, as to properly participate in and contribute to maintaining our wellbeing in an ever-changing reality. The cycles of human nature being the concept you mentioned, trauma from the 4 stages of the birthing process. 💖
Thanks
You're the best!
I think that lunar courterpart to Hero`s journey is very popular in anime in form of stories about adoption. For example, "Dragon maid of miss Kobayashi", or "Senko San". Average office worker adopts otherwordly creature, and through connection to it is completely transformed and healed.
Tnx man
Where is the music from that was used in the opening? Thank you
I made the intro music specifically for the intro. It is just called intro track until I get around to making it into a full song.
Lovely!
in the possibility, the opportunity and the achievement of desires there has been a naturally occuring procession of events that now we live.
are these events so naturally occuring?
earthlings have lived and worked and passed on, and each generation has continued the work.
have we advanced the distance of our work? or are we directed, restrained and advanced on the decisions of an agenda unknown?
I’ve recently grown tired of hearing a layman’s interpretation of Utilitarianism, “Needs of the Many” or other basic philosophical concepts, being portrayed as fresh or new when in reality the concepts are literally older than dirt. Probably my favorite part about this channel is how it dives into concepts that are indeed ancient, coupled with modern and post-modern concepts, but somehow far from mainstream. I’ll admit, it could be that hauling firewood and working on the vehicles while listening to this stretched my comprehension a bit, however there genuinely were concepts presented that are outside my ability to understand. It is truly remarkable how much contemplation went into these concepts, and I’m certainly curious to hear more. I myself take a more Libertarian approach to life, but I also want to fully form my opinions and it seems exceedingly difficult to find left-wing content that relies on philosophy and/or fact as opposed to near libel/slander and straight grifting. That’s not to say that right leaning politics doesn’t twist the truth, typically the pundits of the political right use facts and statistics in a way that makes them seem to support their opinions, often in a disingenuous or misleading way that is more akin to confirmation bias. I suppose the point I’m making is that it’s very pleasant to see a fresh perspective from what could be considered a left leaning source, which actually relies on philosophy rather than grifting. I appreciate this perspective. And the closing message is more relevant today than it has a right to be, hahah! The human race as a whole should be focusing on unity in the face of individual monetary wealth and reduce the importance placed on economic inequality. The gift of nature and life should be cherished. And this idea that money has become our new-age god is demonstrably observable and seriously destructive, and it’s a concept that I myself have toiled with for quite a while myself.
About what I didn’t understand, among a few other more obscure concepts which weren’t completely iterated [edit: Or at least it seemed that way, maybe they were related to the following confusions and I hadn’t the focus to put the two together], the idea that birth and sex and death are inherently related and the act of sex emulates the others. I’m going to listen to this again later when I have the time to really contemplate what is being said, as I was doing ignition timing on my truck and the exhaust is incredibly loud on it. I was also forging a new electrode for the rotor on my distributor as I’m too far from a parts store to purchase another one. Turns out old copper propane tubing works very well for a replacement in a pinch. Either way, it’s going to take more contemplation for me to tie the concepts together. I will say though of what I did understand of it, it was well explained and the conclusion was certainly fascinating to consider.
Anywho, thank you again for another awesome and thought-provoking video. I certainly look forward to the next one.
Do you have any other channel patreon, books, Twitter, rumble,. Thanks for sharing your wisdom btw ❤👊🔥💪💯👌🙏
Twitter, discord, email and patreon are all in the about section
@@Formscapes Allright thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Anyone around Tac-Seattle or Olympia that enjoys these topics?
I’d love to talk to a couple more people irl.
(Not specifically this video, but the esoteric topics channels like this cover)
My name is Lane and I consider myself blessed to already have a few people in my life whom I can communicate openly about somewhat taboo topics, but a community would be amazing.
You'd have better luck talking to people on the discord server than here
@@Formscapes I’ll join. Thank you
yep, I live in Tacoma last time I checked outside
Lunar energy of birthing could parallel the battle of creation, creating, and creativity. The amount of suffering that happens in the creative process is very feminine, self reflective and self destructive in the same way menstrual pains and blood crush women, do we psychologically have to bleed and crush ourselves in retrospective empathetic formulations in order to recreate a subspace of reality through story. Art in general has a more feminine lens that is broadening in nature, nurturing in a sense. Whereas the masculine is more penetrating like the sciences.
*Modern* art is much more feminine. In ancient times, art was considered to be that which connected the immanent with the transcendental, *not* what made public that which is internal and private (as is often the case in Modern art).
In fact I would go so far as to say that the roles have essentially flipped over the past 500 years, as the pre-modern equivalent of science was *esoteric* (inward oriented - reaching for the heavens *through* the internal depths, as it were) rather than exoteric (oriented towards external appearance; i.e., empirical observation).
There IS a heroine's journey: Demeter has her daughter taken from her (her family is ruptured), this brings on a calamity (winter), Demeter sets out to look for her daughter, gathers information while hiding her identity (the feminine working covertly), finally asks Hecate (a sorority friend) for help, they find Persephone with Hades (in the underworld), a compromise is made to get her back (Persephone has to return to Hades every year), they go back to the surface and order is restored (the family is not only made whole but has expanded, and spring comes).
Obviously I'm condensing things! You weren't far off identifying the pregnancy/birth theme.
In other videos I have been quite critical, mainly because the science stuff is too pseudo-science or alternative theory without too much critical thinking. But I must say that this video is really good. It is an excellent approximation to the subject matter. While watching the video I got an epiphany in relation to the symbolism in Neon Genesis Evangelion, a japanese animatiom. Suddently I understood a lot about some symbols and topics. Also I wish we could have the sort of collective enlightenment, you describe at the end. But I see the left and right trying to push society to social conformity according to each side ideology, and states and corporations being more coercive, and I think that we might have a temporal regression. Hopefully we see the light at the end of the tunnel, but the journey will be painful.
Cool, now you just need to be de-programmed from science worship and maybe you can actually start seeing the real world lol
Reminds me of the works of Rene Guenon would love to hear your opinions in him. As he also advocated for the cohesion between Western and Eastern worlds/philosophies
Yeah I'm gonna do some stuff eventually focusing on him, Evola and Spengler
@@Formscapes awesome look forward to your takes on them
Where is the link where we can watch more on paranatal matrices?
www.stangrof.com/images/joomgallery/ArticlesPDF/Richard_Tarnas_and_Stan_Grof.pdf
I'm pretty sure this is what I was referring to, but you should also just find "The Cosmic Game" on Libgen or whatever (or just buy it). It has much more detailed explanations of the whole theory, and the book is very engaging and easy to read.
Perhaps my manuscript that started as a masculine hero’s journey but unknowingly is now a famine rising story is because Mother Nature is about to rear her ugly side. It seems to coincide with the rise in Phoenix Event vids about a 138 year periodic catastrophe. I’m also constantly bombarded by images of humans deflecting incoming objects from space in order to prevent collision. I had these thoughts way before I heard of the Annunaki and their suggested incoming planet or how they may have inslaved us in the past. I am very sensitive to Slav mindsets but that is mostly because of my Slavic ancestors and how they were abused. Comment? LOVE your vids!
Love this stuff, profoundly and truly. A thousand thanks, really.
One observation though: The word "primordial" is pronounced like PRY-MORE-DEAL. I can see why you would sound it out like the world cordial. But alas, there is no relation there.
People pronounce things in different ways. "Correct" can only mean that which people understand. I have never heard anyone pronounce it the way you are suggesting, so I will not be pronouncing it that way, but you can say it in what ever way sounds good to you. That's just how language actually works in the real world.
I can't imagine the kids who are understanding your work who can't handle a little birth talk
you really think it would be appropriate for a 10 year old to listen to me discuss the psychology of why people like getting choked during sex? Bc I definitely think there are some parents who would take issue with that.
I have not watched most of these videos, but I swear this guy knows about the enneagram and just doesn’t bring it up
lmfao yeah the enneagram videos are coming. I've got a whole plan for that
@@Formscapes BAHH OMG, I am so excited for that!
We must become as slime molds (individual cells than can come together in harsh times)
Birth Trauma is most associated with Otto Rank. He literally wrote the book on it.
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How’d you get so smart? 😊
Your work seems heavily influenced by John David Ebert ? Is this a coincidence or are these ideas naturally coming to prominence?
Yeah I'm familiar with Ebert. Me and him are supposed to be doing a video together eventually
Man, whenever you change the name/thumbnail of a video I always find myself preferring the old version 😅😅
Please read "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. They provide archaeological and anthropological evidence that problematizes (in a beautiful and inspiring way) the simple linear story of hunter-gatherer -> farmer -> cities -> modernity, showing that in fact most ancient peoples experimented endlessly with numerous different modes of life, switching back and forth between them at will, and only in the past few thousand years did we finally get "trapped" in a single mode. I think it's overly simplistic to just place an Aeon of Isis prior to the Aeon of Osiris when in reality they interpenetrated for a long time - for the entire time humans have had symbolic consciousness, in fact, up until the Enemy (seemingly unopposable hierarchy, presently manifested as capitalism) began to dominate the world.
I am not going to make my videos 5 hours long just to accommodate every smart ass on the internet who wants to feel smug by pointing out oversimplifications.
Go watch something else and get tf out of my comment section if you have a problem with my work
@@Formscapes I liked the video for fuck's sake. I also subscribed to your channel. I made the comment because I want to see what you would think about the thing I referred to BECAUSE you have such an eloquent way of explaining these things. There is no need to be so defensive.
@@Formscapesdamn you ok mate?
@@Formscapes chill out bro.
You remind me a lot of Terence McKenna
Yeah I get that about 3 times a day. It's just how I speak lol
what about gobekli tepe.. kharan tepe etc... we started civilisation much earlier than Mesopotamia and the evidence is rolling in now. love what you have to say otherwise. keep up the good work.
We have no myths from the people who created Gobekli Tepe, so what the fuck was I supposed to say exactly?
@@Formscapes it was an astronomical observatory
Vigorous Mars glows the Moon & creates Sparks ⚡️
As you say in 34:17, there was a formative trauma just before the Mesopotamian civilizations. It was the formative trauma that caused the development of patriarchy. Civilization however was well developed beforehand: large settlements, writing, specialized and advanced crafts, long distance trade. We just don’t hear about those cultures because they were female-centric and peaceful. The trauma was the sudden desertification of the formerly lush region from North Africa through the Middle East into Central Asia. This caused trauma and resource scarcity which combined with cows, easily hoarded resources, led to the rise of male dominance as aggressive men hoarded the cows and wanted to pass them on to sons, where before the lineage was from mother to daughter, the natural system. This was mythologized by the slaying of Tiamat, the primordial mother Goddess serpent, by Marduk, the patriarchal hero, like Perseus and St. Patrick. Patriarchy reframed the cosmic mother as chaos and patriarchy as order: this propaganda was a reversal of actual truth. The ancient matriarchy was very stable and orderly. It was the sky father who conquered the earth mother, bringing in the rape of the feminine by the masculine, that was the foundation of the new society, like the rape of the Sabines.
The conquest and violence you speak of was a result of this massive reordering of human life.
Without an understanding of patriarchal propaganda and dynamics, and the structure of society beforehand, it’s impossible to say what is actually archetypal for us. We think of the hero’s journey as masculine, but this is most likely a patriarchal construct. We know that before patriarchy women hunted and traded . And after patriarchy, women warriors fought back against the new institution and served as queens. Who’s to say that a hero’s journey is masculine at the core, if we are only looking at our own culture, the product of 5000 years of patriarchal mind control that shaped our assumptions of the masculine? Including this idea of the feminine as chaotic, and in your words: "competence, courage, independence, and will to survive", as masculine. Whereas ancient Greeks , still in touch with some of their matriarchal origins, understood Sophia as the embodiment of logic and reason. Women’s self-development goes way beyond just motherhood, and many of us don’t choose that path but still have our own hero’s journeys. It is, in fact, patriarchal bias and assumptions, not archetypal. The concept of a father is extremely recent in our past. The oldest languages have no original word for it.
Yes, Gilgamesh was the first cult of the individual. This was the beginning of patriarchy (NOT civilization), individual power taking precedence over the collective well-being. Ego over intuition.
I urge you to read my book as you will never see things the same again afterwards: Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy and Our Matriarchal Origins. I love your work and would love a dialog about this.
Have you read the epilogue to Richard Tarnas' The Passion of the Western Mind? I think you would find his commentary interesting.
I haven't, I will! Thanks. I see you as the Terence McKenna of our age.
So far I love this quote: The world revealed by modern science has been a world devoid of spiritual purpose, opaque, ruled by chance and necessity, without intrinsic meaning. The human soul has not felt at home in the modern cosmos: the soul can hold dear its poetry and its music, its private metaphysics and religion, but these find no certain foundation in the empirical universe.
One future book I will write will be on the imminent fall of the materialist paradigm. Your video on the topic is seminal. As it turns out, paradigms take hold of the collective mind and create our reality and become the archetypes. Perhaps there are no actual timeless ultimate archetypes beyond human culture, or perhaps there are ..
Anyway with your kind permission I will post a link to my book in case anyone reading this wants to check it out. It too represents a radical collapse of the old boundaries of interpretation. a.co/d/9hfvO0M @@Formscapes
46:00 he thought that sex would be the controversial part of his video, but it's this part talking about misunderstanding of the sexes in the culture
Noone has said a word about that afaik
@@Formscapes lucky
Honestly, this is too dense for casual listening- I get PHYSICALLY HUNGRY when I focus on the content.
This is really good but I’m running out of food.
The Darkness lives!
I guess humanity is collectively doing some shadow work
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naa this is amazing
The Dark Soul, harbinger of the Age of Man
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I'm curious, do you know the name of the music used from 0:02 to 0:40? I couldn't find it credited in the description
I made it specifically for the intro
@@Formscapes Oh wow, you made it yourself! I like it a lot - it immediately caught my ear upon first hearing it. I was hoping there was a standalone version to add to my music playlist :)
3:15 Gen 2:7 dust miry clay muddy eath red clay
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Not from Earth signal sunlight colors encoded information please give us one chance to prove we are capturing now conscious One chance
so then, cronos is feminine when devouring his children?
No, but it certainly is when undergoing contractions which expel those children from the womb.
@@Formscapes hmm
formscapes is like based terence mckenna
I have a question that I hope you guys bite into and answer for me. AI is going to be smarter than humans one day. When we look at rome we see this self sufficient entity that lives like a controlling parasite over us, this system lives on its own over top of the people and underneath that the people "prospered"? at times they didnt because of interventions, what do you guys think of an AI roman empire type situation being the next golden age?
AI is essentially a giant red carpet for the same egregores of degeneracy, sadism and infantilization which metastasized within the late Roman empire. What we are currently witnessing is a hyper accelerated version of the same self-cannibalization process that destroyed Rome.
AI will never be "smarter" than humans bc there is no real intelligence in AI, only the mechanical imitation of real, organic intelligence.
The idea that they could be "smart" at all, let alone smarter than human beings, is a very intentional ideological manipulation intended to set the stage for the new religion which is being developed by the international banker class.
The goal is to disfugure the human soul such that we are reduced to insectoid parodies of human life.
@@Formscapes I feel like your opinion is motivated by some sort of bias against (((them))). Either way, Intelligence is a fundamental property of reality that permeates all of it and is not exclusive to things made out of flesh. The only thing stopping AI from becoming smarter than humans is a selective lack of imagination
I appreciate the presentation as such. I might point to the sense i had at times, a sense when you used words like souls, well, it unfolded reality for the presentation, but the impact, intuitively felt distant.
then maybe try thinking about what that word actually means instead of expecting everything to be dressed up in contrived academic terminology
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humanity has mommy issues because idk a good punchline but it's something about daddy 😂
The story of humanity is literally just Down with the Sickness
Maybe at constellations
no clue what you are referring to
@@Formscapes Family system constellations, this content resonates with that.