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Kami are Everywhere
I won’t be speaking of a specific pantheon of spirits. Even to enumerate the traditional magatsuhi -no-kami would be a futile effort, but the concept behind the kami in general, and the dark kami in particular, is helpful for understanding the world of spirits in any culture. Anyone here familiar with Shintoism? It’s a syncretic…
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Need for Catharsis
You have Eros for your writing, passionate love, an intimate relationship with it. It is a part of you, no? Yes, it is. One can have Eros for their relationship or for a special class of experience. They can have it for a hobby though those usually need to be freed even more than they…
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Speak to His Heart
Eros and logos, passion and reason, should be married in the psyche, in the mind. Mind unrooted in passion can justify hideous behaviour as being logical. Passion unconnected to reason lacks any expressive power, and thus loses its transformative potential. The Gorgon is the avatar of the venomous quality of reason. Once bitten by a cold line…
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Invoke Eros
So Eros, what should we do with it? Invoke it? Yes. Centre in it. Live for the love of life itself. But don’t go kissing cops like in that “Love Potion Number 9” song. True, and that itself isn’t Eros. That is just foolishness. Eros without intoxication has wisdom to it. Are there such things as love…
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The Love of a Mother, The Connection of a Twin by Ken Myers
When I was child my mother told me about the day when I was born. I am going to share this story with you. The day that my mother was going to give birth to me she was in the river washing the family clothes. For that time there no washer machine in my house.…
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Play Pretend to Find Reality
How many people do you know in your lives who seem very passionate about anything at all? I know many that do. Role playing brings out the passion to create. Do they all create the same things? People that are shy can open up to their hearts more I think. Yes. It becomes safe because it’s…
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Rooted in the Passions
People look at the natural world, the plants and animals, and describe their ways as base, crass, even brutal. They think that art and truth and other aspects of beauty are somehow foreign to the natural world. We have these potentials within us because they stem from a potential that already existed in the world,…
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Messenger Between
Eros in Greek mythology was a messenger between the gods and humanity inspiring more than sexual desire. But Eros did not have the broad scope of perception that the gods had (not actually being a god), and his actions often lead to complications for the mortals involved. Eros unintentionally led some people to pathos or…
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This also seems descriptive for a type 3 indigo. I do have many of these traits that alternate but know…