The Recovery of Soul in the Wreckage called Western Culture
Fucking great article here
money quote:
According to some writers and psychologists, Western culture is in neurosis and has been living in its shadow-side for most of this century. For instance, W.B. Yeats and Carl Jung saw our culture resting in the Sidpa Bardo as described in The Tibetan Book of the Dead ‘the lowest realm of hellish apparitions and wrathful deities. Jose Arguelles believes that WWI pushed humanity’s psyche into the dark side, while Mark Epstein is convinced that the bomb at Hiroshima broke the planet’s crust and took us to the underworld.
Why so many socipaths and serial killers? Its the norm now. Our leaders are killers and liars, our language has been tortured and twisted beyond all recognizition, our government does not represent us or even recognize us a humans, our institutions are corrupt and soulless, we have been sold a false bill of goods, consumerism and a dazzling array of useless junk as a substitute for authentic being, cut off from nature, isolated in cubicles, stunted and unhealthy, fattened like farm animals, more dead than alive.
You have it in your own power to take the bull by the horns and take responsibility for your own spirit, set it free, make room for it, strengthen it, sharpen your spear and fight for your place at the table. Kindness makes you stronger, courgae makes you stronger, truth you makes you stronger, CREATING things makes you stronger.
Throw out your television set and take a walk in the woods. Make a collage. Keep a dream journal. Network with other people who have tasted this “more” to life too.
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