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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (419437)	12/12/2011 4:29:04 PM
From: Jeff Jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

LOL......Myth..."Look again" ( this time w/ your evil eye<g>)....Nordic myth says that when Odin came to the Well of Mimir,the source of wisdom and intelligence; he was confronted with a test by its guardian. The giant demanded an act of surrender before allowing Odin to drink at the Well. To gain illumination ...Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo.<g> Odin must surrender one of his eyes. Hence this shaman became known as the One-Eyed Seer. The myth teaches that we must surrender our one-sided way of seeing and understanding, the preclusive rational mentation of the left brain, in order to realize the poetic-visionary faculties of the other eye, the right brain awareness. Curiously, the left-brain mentality, when surrendered, does not go away. According to the Icelandic Eddas, “when the giant Mimir, or other gods of knowledge-seeking shamans, drank from the well, they would see Odin’s eye looking back at them.” LOL, We've sunk to the bottom of the well, the sacrificed eye (the rational faculty, Odin's left eye) keeps seeing. ...said one blind man to the other with his right mind of "reason"<g> At this point it would appear that the higher teaching of the myth proposes an arresting thought: if we peer deeply enough into the well of ancestral wisdom, the rational, left-brain thinking with which we are so identified and in which we invest the sole validity for knowing how the world works, will be there peering back at us. Here the myth conveys a key survival lesson: rationality is not precluded from the deep-level transrational knowing of ancient seership, even though the rational limits of cognition must be surpassed for that deeper knowing to become experiential. This paradox was uniquely understood in the tradition of the Gnostics, pagan spiritual teachers who asserted the basic complementarity of rational and visionary knowledge. The course of human experience over the last 6000 years has seen a steady decline in human capacity to access the poetic-visionary resources represented by Tree and Well. We have become alienated from our origins in Sacred Nature, religious ideology has replaced poetic-visionary wisdom as the directing narrative of our species. Stories that mislead and harm us, diving humans against each other and leading us to destroy ourselves and our habitat, have been imposed on the human race by misguided people who have introduced those stories to serve their selfish ends, the acquisition of power and privilege, and the pretence of divine, superhuman authority. Aggression for the sake of power and acquisition has been asserted as the highest form of human endeavor.The belief-systems that currently dominate the world are believed to originate from male sky gods who sanction territorial aggression, genocide, control by violence or threat of violence, and wholesale destruction of the natural habitat. By some accounts, the religious ideology that sanctions such behavior represents a pathological deviation for our species—quite literally, a drift into insanity. LOL....we've seen the what the ideas of supremacy have created for mankind before...with the use of abstract art by painting in blood and now with the passing of the most traitorous National Defense Authorization Act......we see the insanity of the past staring back at us from the well of "enlightenment and reason" once again<g> youtube.com