| Initiation- The three wombs at the tomb...Most of | | | | how does that have to apply from where you |
| us come to our initiation through our dreams. | | | | came from. Youths reply they are going no |
| Unfortunately many of us just write them off as | | | | where in Particular. Neil Young in the movie Made |
| nightmares and try to forget about them soon as | | | | in Heaven, when the youth Elmo is crossing over |
| we wake. Others of us sign divorce papers or | | | | the threshold asks him the same question.Neil |
| four year contracts in our new professions. For a | | | | Young replies" When you do not know which way |
| few others it is the new zest for life that is the | | | | you are going, any way is good." They only |
| beginning of the climb off our cities streets. The | | | | climbed down her ladder because they had |
| initiation comes many years too late. For that | | | | nowhere else to go. Their intuition had led them. |
| man on the street, the initiation could of been | | | | Like Erik, in Erik the Viking, searches out Freya. |
| seeing his best friend die from a Heroine over | | | | She asks him if he had ever seen the sun? He |
| dose.Initiations are our wake up calls to our adult | | | | replies it was in a distant far removed memory. |
| lives. It is the psychological break from the | | | | The Navaho youths were in search of their father |
| mother. Youths in Aboriginal tribes of Australia are | | | | the sun as well. Freya asks Erik what is it he is |
| ripped away from the false security of their | | | | looking for, as Spider Woman asks the Twin |
| mothers as the bull roarers are whirling in the air | | | | Gods. The Spider Woman after the youths reply |
| and the men of the tribe come disguised as | | | | in ignorance of what they are doing four times, |
| monsters with feathers glued to their naked | | | | does she ask if they are seeking the father. But |
| bodies. These men initiated fear which is to be the | | | | Erik will be looking for the woman he had killed |
| beginning of the break from the old world of | | | | and his father god, Odin. Erik killed his anima and is |
| these children into the next of adulthood.Robin | | | | looking for his mate. Both of these women |
| Hood plays throughout the middle ages served | | | | describe the challenges the youths must face and |
| this role as well. Traveling gypsies played the part | | | | where to find their father. Also these women |
| of Friar Tuck to preside over the ritual with a | | | | describe the real threat of the fathers who might |
| may queen picked to play Maid Marian. The male | | | | want to kill them.The conflicts between father and |
| youth who have come to of age in the spring | | | | son abounds through lore and myth. It is Luke |
| would all play Robin to consummate their | | | | confronting Darth Vader; Arthur facing Mordred |
| adulthood with the May Queen, Marian. That was | | | | on the flip side; Twin War Gods facing their |
| the easy part for next they had to overcome | | | | father; and Hercules challenging Zeus. This happens |
| the pubescent egos represented by another | | | | when the youth no longer needs the father for |
| gypsy playing Prince John. Once the immature ego | | | | survival, but guidance. This could be blocked by |
| is conquered the Lion King Richard arrives into the | | | | the father who is vacant, the father who is |
| breast of each youth as he becomes an adult. For | | | | scared of being replaced in his occupation, the |
| the Lion is the symbol of solar awakening and | | | | father who is afraid of death, the father who is in |
| rebirth. The Surnames Robins and Robinson that | | | | the power of a higher grip, or the father who has |
| predominate Britain are the children conceived | | | | not crossed the threshold himself. Darth Vader |
| from Robin Hood rituals. Here the youths leave | | | | was the distant father who was in power of the |
| behind the Oedipal lives of their past and enter | | | | Emperor who lived in fear and destruction for |
| that of their father's to search out women of | | | | anyone who would push his threshold. He was |
| their own.In ancient Cave Bear Cultures, the Men | | | | always choking people who had questioned or |
| of the tribe would push the initiates through a | | | | failed him. The throat is the home of orders and |
| dark slimy tunnel that opened onto a large | | | | directions. It is where power is manifested into |
| expanse where all the secrets of the hunt and | | | | matter. He stole peoples voices. As his was |
| adult male life were related to the youths. Then | | | | supported by machinery with someone else at |
| the men passed the youths back out the birth | | | | the keyboard. If the son crosses the threshold, |
| canal into society as adults. The shock and | | | | the father is forced to soon cross over. This is |
| response is to be the same as a squirrel cornered | | | | the power of the black dragon and the senex.The |
| by a bear, the courage to turn and strike to save | | | | Spider Woman teaches the youths to be |
| its life. The courage in the face of fear to | | | | pollen."Put your feat down with pollen. Put your |
| become an adult. No Bishop slap or degree will | | | | hands down with pollen. Put your head down with |
| equal the right response."The Problem is not new, | | | | pollen.Then your feet are pollen, your hands are |
| forall ages before us have believed in gods in | | | | pollen, your body is pollen, your mind is pollen, |
| some form or another. Onlyan unparalleled | | | | your voice is pollen. The trail is beautiful. Be |
| impoverishment of symbolism could enable us to | | | | still."Here the mother teaches the youth to follow |
| rediscovergods as psychic factors, that is, as | | | | their instincts . Your journey will be of chance, the |
| archetypes of the unconscious....Heavenhas | | | | actions of your hands will be Zen, your mind will |
| become has become for us the cosmic space of | | | | be receptive, and your voice reactionary. This is |
| the physicists, andthe divine empyrean a fair | | | | guidance from Obi Wan Kenobi, use the force. It |
| memory of things that once were. But theheart | | | | is Parzival releasing the reigns of the horse.The |
| glows, and a secret unrest gnaws at the roots of | | | | trail is beautiful is a reminder to overcome the |
| our being."Carl Jung, Archetypes of the Collective | | | | fear and desire trap and be still. To put yourself in |
| UnconsciousIn Tropical tribes initiations act much | | | | the hands of the god or goddess. To trust your |
| like the British, with one exception.The copulating | | | | fate or river that is the current of your own |
| of the male youths with the male queen happens | | | | individual life. Be still is a calling to leave behind all |
| on a platform with four beams holding a roof | | | | goals and just do. Just do it and be still.To be |
| over the others. The last youth who copulates | | | | pollen is to drift in the wind. In the runes Ansur is |
| with the may queen is killed with the queen as | | | | the power of breath. It's feminine counterpart is |
| they knock out the beams and the roof collapses | | | | Laguz, the power of water. Once you leave the |
| on them. Merging male and female into the life | | | | water, you must first cross into the air. Satan |
| and death cycle. You won't have to die in such a | | | | crossed through the ocean between heaven and |
| fashion to get the metaphor, but you must die to | | | | earth to enter the air of the sky before he |
| a way of thinking to become an adult.Dorothy | | | | landed in our world. To be of pollen is to follow |
| was never the same after the tornado? Are you | | | | the force, of our life.Women teach us to listen to |
| prepared to die, the kingdom of god is laid before | | | | our own voice. They give us joy, comfort, |
| you. Have you crossed that bridge over the moat | | | | justification, and reassurance. Men do this in |
| through the skull to the castle of your mind? Do | | | | reverse and add personal justice and retribution. |
| you fear the anxiety of Pan as you enter the | | | | But with the coming of the suffrage movement, |
| forest alone. You have to die alone as well as be | | | | women began sitting on a fence.More and more |
| born again. Will you allow me to kill you? Then | | | | women became borderline mothers represented |
| read on.....In life we suffer through many little | | | | by the dichotomy of the good witch and bad |
| deaths, the ego deaths. The death that happens | | | | witch. The Bad witch is always trying to |
| to our lives when we move away from home for | | | | conqueror kingdoms or block their children from |
| the first time, the death to the title of husband as | | | | their fathers. As the bad witch is trying to wrestle |
| we sign the papers, the death of our student | | | | with coming to the father, they prevent their |
| personas as we accept that degree, and the like. | | | | children from getting there before her. Also these |
| Death happen in many forms and guises. This is | | | | women become concerned with social status and |
| represented with the monthly death of the moon | | | | goal orientation of wealth. They leave behind faith, |
| and the snake that sheds its skin. Also it is the | | | | hope, and instinct for their children to find on their |
| goddess who can bleed for a week and live. The | | | | own. Raising the children is left to others. That is |
| shedding of the monthly egg, the symbol of the | | | | what Mary Poppins is all about. This happened in |
| new soul. Women, eggs, moon, and snake are | | | | between and after the two World Wars that left |
| ancient revered symbols before mans fall when | | | | men reeling with their emotions. Most repress |
| the Garden of Eden was written. Man had found | | | | them in work, drink, and family. These men |
| the power of sperm! In Cambodia during the | | | | became indoctrinated by the armies concepts of |
| Vietnam War, many Cambodians died from loose | | | | making anyone in opposition to you non human |
| bullets falling upon the village as men shot machine | | | | and the concept of no I in team. These men |
| guns into the night sky to stop the sky snake | | | | returned to a society full of entrepreneurs who |
| from eating the moon. For the phases of the | | | | pursued individual dreams. To advance against |
| moon at that time of year looks like a giant black | | | | these minds they formed conservative groups to |
| snake eclipsing the moon as it passes its jaws | | | | reflect their lives in the military. Only now is the |
| around it.From all of these little ego deaths of the | | | | army debriefing soldiers to return to the society |
| moon, women, and snake comes the death of | | | | of the individual. These men come in two types, |
| the soul. The Phoenix rises out of the egg to be | | | | the victim and the aggressor.Those who lived |
| burned by fire to rise again from the calcination | | | | through the battle field at all cost who left |
| through another egg. This symbol is the eagle and | | | | morality or scruples behind on one side and the |
| the lion. To be born again as the eagle is to leave | | | | ones that came home emotionally and physically |
| this existence for another, like Guatama. The Lion | | | | injured on the other.The victims often feels that |
| is to be born again of the earth as a Bodhisattva | | | | he never left behind anyone on the battlefield and |
| The one who can travel between both is the | | | | wonders why he has been left behind in society. |
| Griffin, the symbol of Christ in his Mercurian role | | | | The aggressor helps no one but himself and |
| as guardian of secrets. The Lion and the Griffin | | | | makes allegiances that only buffer his survival |
| perform the return. So will you allow me to kill | | | | interest.Both are in the grip of strong desires and |
| you. Will you enter the tomb in the fashion of | | | | fears. So men of the GI generation and their |
| Lazarus. Will you allow Christ to free you from | | | | wives sit on the fence at odds with both sides. |
| your tomb. How long have you been lying in there | | | | Can any of them learn to walk the fence instead. |
| already?Now who watches over you as you lie in | | | | To cross the razors edge?In many cases we can |
| the tomb. Well of course the women.Mary of | | | | not look toward our parents to bring us across |
| Bethany and Magdalene wait in the house | | | | the threshold because they never crossed it on |
| adjacent from the tomb they laid their brother in. | | | | their own. Finding Nemo is about a father who is |
| It is Spider Women who gives the Living eagle | | | | crossing that boundary to catch up to his child. |
| feather to the Navaho Twin warriors for | | | | But most parents of this type only cross over |
| protection from their father along with the | | | | with much resistance and conflict.Can you take a |
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