Enter the underworld

The journey into the inner depths, demands courage. It requires a willingness to face one’s primal animal nature. The parts of us that operate on auto pilot. Whose subliminal repression leads us into territory littered with heated-breathy impulses lasting either a second or a life time. It is along this crevasse, that our dressed up, proper selves stagger, attempting to maintain balance, ever vulnerable to tripping over and down into the below. Our Ego, blind to its own fragility, uses the wings of our identity to balance along the razors edge of a cliff, in constant danger of collapsing in on itself, and extinguishing our world “as we know it”.

The framework of our ego extends beyond us, like a lattice work, forming conjunctions with others who enforce the idea we’ve formed of ourselves, even when faced with the contradictory reality of what we are. This localized sense of “who I think I am” is the product of some kind of evolutionary prehistoric event in our very distant past, that formed when the hemispheres of the brain became disconnected from one another. The Abrahamic notion of a ‘fall into duality’, was in fact the splitting of the animal nature and the rational mind into two distinct elements of the human psyche, likely resulting from a traumatic cataclysm. Vedic cosmology refers to these disparate parts as Rahu and Ketu, The head of a snake that has been split from the body. The symbology used to describe this event haunting humanity since time immemorial, is self evident.

So what are we to do? After all, the Ego, as a primary operating system, fully online for most of us- runs clumsily, loudly clunking along like a machine in need of tuning, drowning out the primal moans of the subconscious, a background program whose server space is limitless and interconnected with the “cloud” of universal consciousness. It should bear noting, that unlimited server space beats out

That is a good question, and it is one I have found some answers to, in my own search for meaning and that intend to share with you, my beloved explorers of the subterranean realms.

To be continued….