altered_boy
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Hello everyone, here is my sixth chapter in the book I am releasing via The Last American Vagabond.
this chapter continues the comparisons between Esoterica and Forteana. it investigates the debate of Free Will vs Determinism, which leads into questions of the Subjective and Objective, and polarity overall.
it also begins to investigate the phenomonology of the anima, through dreams, artwork, and archetypal mythology/folklore. a la the Syren, the classical devilish songbirds that Odysseus and Jason met throughout Greek mythology. but the syren goes much deeper than this, inspiring the mythology of the mermaid and representing the inverted manifestation of the night terror. common to sleep paralysis. the tale of the sucubus known as Lilith has been personified all throughout history as the one who sneaks into rooms at night during sleep paralysis, i.e. the shadow people that come along with the SP.
the shadow people depict the horror of the unknown, but the syren depicts the folly of falsely acquiescing the unknown and suffering because of this falsity. fairly different manifestations that are manifested by the same archetypal dilemma.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison. “Their song takes effect at midday, in the windless calm. The end of that song is death. It is only the warning of Circe that we know of the heap of bones, corrupt in death—horror is kept in the background, seduction to the fore.” [p.199] “It is the very image of obsession, of nightmare, of a haunting midday dream. The woman can be none other than an Evil Siren… The terrors of the midday were known to the Greeks in their sunsmitten land; nightmare was to them also a daymare. Such a visitation, coupled possibly with occasional cases of sun-stroke, was of course the obsession of a demon. Even a troubled tormenting illicit dream was the work of a Siren. In sleep the will and the reason are becalmed and the passions unchained. That the midday nightmare went to the making of the Siren is clear from the windless calm and the heat of the sun in Homer. The horrid end, the wasting death, the sterile enchantment the loss of wife and babes, all look the same way.” [p.203]
Here is the chapter. More to come! http://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/anthony-tyler/dive-manual/songs-soul-syren-dive-sickness/
this chapter continues the comparisons between Esoterica and Forteana. it investigates the debate of Free Will vs Determinism, which leads into questions of the Subjective and Objective, and polarity overall.
it also begins to investigate the phenomonology of the anima, through dreams, artwork, and archetypal mythology/folklore. a la the Syren, the classical devilish songbirds that Odysseus and Jason met throughout Greek mythology. but the syren goes much deeper than this, inspiring the mythology of the mermaid and representing the inverted manifestation of the night terror. common to sleep paralysis. the tale of the sucubus known as Lilith has been personified all throughout history as the one who sneaks into rooms at night during sleep paralysis, i.e. the shadow people that come along with the SP.
the shadow people depict the horror of the unknown, but the syren depicts the folly of falsely acquiescing the unknown and suffering because of this falsity. fairly different manifestations that are manifested by the same archetypal dilemma.
Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison. “Their song takes effect at midday, in the windless calm. The end of that song is death. It is only the warning of Circe that we know of the heap of bones, corrupt in death—horror is kept in the background, seduction to the fore.” [p.199] “It is the very image of obsession, of nightmare, of a haunting midday dream. The woman can be none other than an Evil Siren… The terrors of the midday were known to the Greeks in their sunsmitten land; nightmare was to them also a daymare. Such a visitation, coupled possibly with occasional cases of sun-stroke, was of course the obsession of a demon. Even a troubled tormenting illicit dream was the work of a Siren. In sleep the will and the reason are becalmed and the passions unchained. That the midday nightmare went to the making of the Siren is clear from the windless calm and the heat of the sun in Homer. The horrid end, the wasting death, the sterile enchantment the loss of wife and babes, all look the same way.” [p.203]
Here is the chapter. More to come! http://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/anthony-tyler/dive-manual/songs-soul-syren-dive-sickness/
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