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THE HEAD OF THE MEDUSA By Perseus PREFACE -------------------------------------------------------- The Head of the Medusa — Chapter 15: Love, smarts and achievements; examples, not greed and plunder Perseus flew onward, borne by the winged sandals of Hermes until he arrived at the Medusa’s lair. Thanks to the helmet of invisibility he flew down, unobserved and found Medusa and her sisters sleeping. Courageously he advanced, holding the polished shield and remembering to look only at the image reflected in it. |
Now we must look back again at the images from our past. Here in this medium, under
the polished shield of Athena we can think the unthinkable thoughts. We are safe from her
gaze. Here in this mind, we can turn our thoughts into ideas, our ideas into words and our
words into action.
As a man thinks, so does he become. Every man is the son of his own words.
—Cervantes.
Gaea – the Greek goddess of the Earth is very much with us today in the form of Gaia the
form resurrected by the influential scientist James Lovelock in his ‘Gaian hypothesis’ – the
analogy that the Earth is a living Eco-system. Lovelock’s hypothesis was extremely
valuable to our view of our planet coming as it did on the wake of the triple development.
The image has helped us to understand the vulnerability of our world and the damage
being done to it, but this allusion to the ancient Greek female goddess had nothing to do
with feminism. It was though, another convenient mask for the monster to hide behind.
This re born image also arrived in the human psyche at roughly the same time as the
Medusa did and they have become linked in the collective subconscious of the modern
mind.
Feminization and the Earth Goddess have assaulted even the Christian religion. Both
have conspired to oust the established faith of the western world. The planned ‘New
World’ is not big enough for the both of them. The ordination of women as priests has
done nothing to strengthen a declining faith. In fact, it has created another analogous
schism within the church that has hastened its demise just as Feminazism has torn apart
of the rest of human society. The destruction is ignored and justified here also. All must be
sacrificed to the Goddess no matter what the cost – even at the cost of destroying the
religion itself. So it is with our society.
The rise of Paganism and New Age religions based on the old Mother Earth Goddess are
indicative of the same malaise. Even people with the most secular of outlooks are caught
up this confusing void and pay homage to the Goddess in turning to alternative lifestyles
and the tawdry gift shop trappings of New Age occultism, Earth mysteries, UFO’s,
psychics and unexplained phenomena. These are the new myths that people have bought
into. People are lost, confused and seeking guidance from these new myths, but they are
false trails to be following. The old myths can show us so much more if we take the trouble
to look and listen.
The parallels between the Greek creation myth and the Medusa myth are evident. Like
King Acrisius, Chronos tried to stop the inevitable, but time cannot be stopped any more
than human nature. Those that seek to change either do so at their peril and in the sure
knowledge that their efforts are ultimately - a waste of time. Such selfish and destructive
behavior continues though and in real life, just as in the Chronos myth it is the children who
are swallowed up again and again.
In losing our grasp on our mythological heritage, we are losing our grasp on reality. What
these myths can tell us again and again is that both men and women are guilty of a
dysfunctional, abusive power relationship. Just as the children of such a relationship can
be bound to the wheel of their parent’s dysfunction, so to can the human race as a whole
be so enslaved.
Human history can be seen as a constant struggle between the genders – matriarchy
versus patriarchy. This struggle was in a way, analogous to the natural and beneficial
power structures inherent in human relationships, but as we now know, these structures
are rendered obsolete by the triple development. However, there are ways to transcend
this unhappy state of affairs. Human history has been changed irrevocably since the triple
development. We have to learn to adapt to these changes. Every species must, as we
know, adapt to survive, if they do not, then they fall by the wayside on the road of evolution.
If we do not adapt we are also finished. Humanity will join the dinosaur and the dodo. We
will become extinct.
All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love, love. Love is all you
need.
All You Need Is Love -The Beatles.
People who know love - whatever their gender, are secure in their knowledge of it. They
have no political or any other agenda that cannot be viewed, explained, or even acted
upon within its limitless structure. It's that simple. This is true both for individuals and can
be also for the human race as a whole. To our enemy, the personal is political though.
Love is not love - it is power according to the creed of the dysfunctional.
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children.
Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future.
Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the
inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
— Andrea Dworkin, Liberty
the polished shield of Athena we can think the unthinkable thoughts. We are safe from her
gaze. Here in this mind, we can turn our thoughts into ideas, our ideas into words and our
words into action.
As a man thinks, so does he become. Every man is the son of his own words.
—Cervantes.
Gaea – the Greek goddess of the Earth is very much with us today in the form of Gaia the
form resurrected by the influential scientist James Lovelock in his ‘Gaian hypothesis’ – the
analogy that the Earth is a living Eco-system. Lovelock’s hypothesis was extremely
valuable to our view of our planet coming as it did on the wake of the triple development.
The image has helped us to understand the vulnerability of our world and the damage
being done to it, but this allusion to the ancient Greek female goddess had nothing to do
with feminism. It was though, another convenient mask for the monster to hide behind.
This re born image also arrived in the human psyche at roughly the same time as the
Medusa did and they have become linked in the collective subconscious of the modern
mind.
Feminization and the Earth Goddess have assaulted even the Christian religion. Both
have conspired to oust the established faith of the western world. The planned ‘New
World’ is not big enough for the both of them. The ordination of women as priests has
done nothing to strengthen a declining faith. In fact, it has created another analogous
schism within the church that has hastened its demise just as Feminazism has torn apart
of the rest of human society. The destruction is ignored and justified here also. All must be
sacrificed to the Goddess no matter what the cost – even at the cost of destroying the
religion itself. So it is with our society.
The rise of Paganism and New Age religions based on the old Mother Earth Goddess are
indicative of the same malaise. Even people with the most secular of outlooks are caught
up this confusing void and pay homage to the Goddess in turning to alternative lifestyles
and the tawdry gift shop trappings of New Age occultism, Earth mysteries, UFO’s,
psychics and unexplained phenomena. These are the new myths that people have bought
into. People are lost, confused and seeking guidance from these new myths, but they are
false trails to be following. The old myths can show us so much more if we take the trouble
to look and listen.
The parallels between the Greek creation myth and the Medusa myth are evident. Like
King Acrisius, Chronos tried to stop the inevitable, but time cannot be stopped any more
than human nature. Those that seek to change either do so at their peril and in the sure
knowledge that their efforts are ultimately - a waste of time. Such selfish and destructive
behavior continues though and in real life, just as in the Chronos myth it is the children who
are swallowed up again and again.
In losing our grasp on our mythological heritage, we are losing our grasp on reality. What
these myths can tell us again and again is that both men and women are guilty of a
dysfunctional, abusive power relationship. Just as the children of such a relationship can
be bound to the wheel of their parent’s dysfunction, so to can the human race as a whole
be so enslaved.
Human history can be seen as a constant struggle between the genders – matriarchy
versus patriarchy. This struggle was in a way, analogous to the natural and beneficial
power structures inherent in human relationships, but as we now know, these structures
are rendered obsolete by the triple development. However, there are ways to transcend
this unhappy state of affairs. Human history has been changed irrevocably since the triple
development. We have to learn to adapt to these changes. Every species must, as we
know, adapt to survive, if they do not, then they fall by the wayside on the road of evolution.
If we do not adapt we are also finished. Humanity will join the dinosaur and the dodo. We
will become extinct.
All you need is love. All you need is love. All you need is love, love. Love is all you
need.
All You Need Is Love -The Beatles.
People who know love - whatever their gender, are secure in their knowledge of it. They
have no political or any other agenda that cannot be viewed, explained, or even acted
upon within its limitless structure. It's that simple. This is true both for individuals and can
be also for the human race as a whole. To our enemy, the personal is political though.
Love is not love - it is power according to the creed of the dysfunctional.
Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children.
Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future.
Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future.
Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the
inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
— Andrea Dworkin, Liberty
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