This is a great piece! I appreciate your writing it.
Marion Woodman said, "when an archetype doesn't evolve, it becomes a stereotype."
So much of what I've learned points towards a dynamic view of the world. As Tyson Yunkaporta is fond of reminding us, our main job (as a custodial species) is tending the relational space between us and everything we are in contact with. That relational space is the point of emergence of evolution. Another way I would say it is, that is what Peacemaking is really about. The tending of relational space, human, non-human, more than human.
What I glean from what you wrote is how right and acceptable it is to be in deep grief of the loss of our communities and culture. Jon is correct (he's a very old and dear friend of mine!!) in saying that modernity isn't a culture it's a society. Martin Prechtel adds that we don't have a culture, we have a syndrome.
We can "weekend warrior" ourselves to death, but unless we can come together and begin to grieve that loss, and limp forward together, we won't find what we need.
This is a great piece written by Tim Bennett. I can't find the original blog post, but this is it. Well worth the read....
Good to hear from you man. Amen - it's all relationships and sorting out the angles, distances and natures of those relationships in the here and now, indigenously in the places and times we find ourselves. It never ends. It's a verb not a static thing.
In my life, the interior and archetypes has in some cases been a help and a starting point to look for what is lost in the culture, and has expanded my imagination and sense of possibility. But I agree that it’s not fruitful or healthy to stay there, and I see it as a cycle that needs to be continued, in bringing the inspiration from the interior into the outer world, but not just on a surface level like you get the ”right queen attributes” and that solves it. We can allow our humanness to ”stain” what has been found in the interior and make the interior useful to humans too, not just to be adored or ”imitated”. That way archetypes maybe can evolve and not be so fixed and ”holy”, but serve as catalysts rather than aspirations.
Thanks Tad,
This is a great piece! I appreciate your writing it.
Marion Woodman said, "when an archetype doesn't evolve, it becomes a stereotype."
So much of what I've learned points towards a dynamic view of the world. As Tyson Yunkaporta is fond of reminding us, our main job (as a custodial species) is tending the relational space between us and everything we are in contact with. That relational space is the point of emergence of evolution. Another way I would say it is, that is what Peacemaking is really about. The tending of relational space, human, non-human, more than human.
What I glean from what you wrote is how right and acceptable it is to be in deep grief of the loss of our communities and culture. Jon is correct (he's a very old and dear friend of mine!!) in saying that modernity isn't a culture it's a society. Martin Prechtel adds that we don't have a culture, we have a syndrome.
We can "weekend warrior" ourselves to death, but unless we can come together and begin to grieve that loss, and limp forward together, we won't find what we need.
This is a great piece written by Tim Bennett. I can't find the original blog post, but this is it. Well worth the read....
https://annechlodestremau.medium.com/bambi-vs-the-collapse-of-civilization-by-tim-bennett-fb78e2639bdc
Good to hear from you man. Amen - it's all relationships and sorting out the angles, distances and natures of those relationships in the here and now, indigenously in the places and times we find ourselves. It never ends. It's a verb not a static thing.
In my life, the interior and archetypes has in some cases been a help and a starting point to look for what is lost in the culture, and has expanded my imagination and sense of possibility. But I agree that it’s not fruitful or healthy to stay there, and I see it as a cycle that needs to be continued, in bringing the inspiration from the interior into the outer world, but not just on a surface level like you get the ”right queen attributes” and that solves it. We can allow our humanness to ”stain” what has been found in the interior and make the interior useful to humans too, not just to be adored or ”imitated”. That way archetypes maybe can evolve and not be so fixed and ”holy”, but serve as catalysts rather than aspirations.
Beautiful, strong and uplifting article.
I will share it in my men's groups.
Thanks. KO.