This is just a continuation of the last blog.
Above we see four character's that are considered Trickster characters that conform to the archetype from recent movies. I love all of these charecter's but as you can tell only one of these is straight up evil. Dead Pool, Captain Jack Sparrow and Loki tend to have humbling moments that make them appear human. This is just a thread of coincidence that I noticed when reading certain books. To me, as I suggested in the last blog, the Devil is nothing more than our Ego. Humanity once knew that the ideas and the knowledge it held was preserved in the form of Gods...much like chapter headings in books. Each God was just a way of organizing knowledge but the bodies of knowledge they stood for were lost in antiquity and when Christian anthropologists looked at them they saw only they only saw their own biases. By projecting onto the inferior humans that came before them they rendered the ideas incomprehensible, magical and removed them from reality or practical applicable knowledge. I'm just going to let these quotes stand for themselves and you can come to your own conclusion. Enjoy! Joseph Campbell Joseph Campbell was the first to identify the Trickster Archetype. Here is what he had to say: "There is a figure, in American Indian Myths, that represents the power of the dynamic of the total psyche to over throw programs. This is the negative aspect and it's called the Trickster. It's a very, very important figure in American Indian mythologies. In The East, in the forest lands of the North East and South East it's the Great Hare, a rabbit. When you go West of the Mississippi in the plain lands its coyote. You get up in the North West Coast and it's Raven. These are smart clever birds and animals. It's a great puzzlement to well train Christians to come across the Trickster Hero because he's both a kind of devil and Fool and the creator of the world. So, he comes in as a upsetting factor he breaks through, he even breaks through the notion of what a deity ought to be and this, I think, is about as good as an example as you can find anywhere of the Trickster Hero." (Taken From: https://youtu.be/JM10AvJ3bsM). The Mystery of Skara Brae (Laird Scranton) "In the Dogon conception, matter begins in a perfectly ordered state in the form of primordial waves. For the Dogon, existence takes its true form as waves, and our material world represents only a kind of reflected image of that fundamental wave like reality. The Dogon and Egyptians define water-like source of matter with the term Nu. So, it's significant that the Farose definition of the world also includes the meanings of "fountain" "spring" and "fountain head" because it demonstrates that the people at Skara Brae likely understood the cosmological concept of Nu in the same essential ways as the Dogon and the Egyptian." (page 31) The Blackwell Companion To Religious Ethics "According to the Dogon Amma's first attempt at creation failed. The elements remained stagnant and sterile. Amma set them into motion by emitting the vibration of his first word. This churned the elements within the cosmic egg to form the pairs of the original primordial twins. But the world as we know it was was created in response to the restless determination of Ogo, one of these beings. The impatient Ogo broke away prematurely from the cosmic egg, tearing away a piece of placenta which he scratched and stretched to make Earth. Next, he stole some sacred grain to create a fecund world of his own making. When this failed without his twin partner, he tired procreating with the mound of the placenta Earth but still failed. The havoc that Ogo sewed upon on the cosmic order nevertheless created this world. Rather then destroy the mutated universe, Amma repossessed the new creation by consecrating it through sacrifice. Then to ensure ongoing manipulation of the cosmic elements and the Earths fecundity Amma created human beings." (pg 440). "For the Dogon, the process of creation began when matter in its wavelike state is disrupted by an act of perception. The Dogon and Egyptians refer to this act using the term Maa...the Dogon Priests say that the mere act of perception causes the perfect order of the primordial waves to be disrupted and creates a kind of chaos that must then be fundamentally reordered and restructured. The stages of this re-ordering of mater create the Po Pilu." pg 31 Edgar Cacye and the Kabbalah Kabbalah teaches that when the Creation burst forth from the Darkness of the deep, it did so with such intense brilliance that it broke open all of the orbs (shevirat hakelim: "breaking the vessels") The orbs were unable to contain the light (netzotzot)- that is, all except the tenth orb: Kingdom and the "little I am" of those created in the image of the Great I am. Wonderfully the contained light then flowed backwards to it's creator, gathering all the shards (kelipot) of the broken orbs and repairing them. Miraculously, the image of God as expressed in the tree of life was whole again for all of creation to comprehend. Before the repair, chaos reigned. As the light flowed backward, order was re-established. The Infinite was now revealed in a balanced manner. According to the Kabbalah, this balance was achieved by "hinging" energies and perspectives that appeared to be opposing forces but in balance, they complimented one another in specific triads or trinities." (page 76) Course Of Miracles "The ego is the part of the mind that believes in division. How could part of God detach itself without believing it is attacking him? We spoke before of the authority problem as based on the concept of usurping God's power. The ego believes that this is what you did because it believes that it is you. If you identify with the ego, you must perceive yourself as guilty. Whenever you respond to ego you will experience guilt, and you will fear punishment. The ego is quite literally a fearful thought. However ridiculous the idea of attacking God may be to the sane mind, never forget that the ego is not sane. It represents a delusional system and speaks for it. Listening to the ego's vice means that you believe it is possible to attack God, and that a part of him has been torn away by you. Fear of retaliation from without follows, because the severity of the guilt is so acute that it must be projected." (unknown page) "You are a being blessed by every beneficient though of any of your brothers anywhere. You should want to bless them in return, out of grattitude. You need not know them individually...the light is so strong that it radiates through the Sonship (humanity) and returns thanks to the father for radiating his joy upon it. Only God's holy children are worthy channel's of His beautiful joy, because only they are beautiful enough to hold it by sharing it. It is impossible for a child of God to love his neighbor except as himself." (page 97). "Ideas of the ego can conflict because they occur at different levels and also include opposite thoughts at the same level. It is impossible to share opposing thoughts. The decision to share them is their purification....as you teach so shall you learn." page 108. Conclusion I'm not sure if everyone sees what I say in these above quotes. The Trickster is not something to fear. If anything, it's something that improves. By breaking through outdated modes of thinking it introduces something new and an opportunity for growth. So there is no scary devil out there trying to fool you. There is just the Ego which is something we created to experience physical life. That is another blog post in and of itself...yet, it was this Ego that made havoc of creation. As time only exists within our part of reality it is possible for all of this to have happened already...while we still experience life on Earth and have yet to form a connection to each other as one body that can hold and reflect back the light of God. Perhaps, that is what we are in the process of doing in this stage of life on Earth. I was recently watching a YouTube video featuring Tom Campbell and Bruce Lipton. In it, Bruce Lipton explains how it takes hundreds of amoebas to form the human body. The next stage of evolution on the planet is for all humans to come together to form one being. Each needs to retain their own individuality. For example, the cells of the heart are not the same as the cells of the skin and for good reason...if our entire body was just one clump of heart cells it would not be functional. Each person, then must retain their individuality but it's in unifying, sharing and acting as one we will really 'evolve'...not through the manipulation of technology. There is ample room in the cosmos for multiple perspectives on life. Working together united with the will of the Creator/God/Source...amazing things can happen.
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Now, this is an interesting complex subject
This is going to be a long blog and it's going to tie up a lot of loose threads some of you might perceive...and possibly blow your mind. We are going to explore the idea of the Trickster and what it really means. Not what our fear based ideas project onto the Trickster but what it really represents. The Trickster is usually seen as the sower of disorder. Where he goes chaos follows. I wonder if the Pepe the Frog Kek thing has to do with the The Trickster character. Aside from Source, I have come to a state of being that suggests that all other types of "Gods" were just used as a method of teaching knowledge. Both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell recognized the Trickster archetype. There has been much confusion on this subject. We will look at the characters depicted through various spiritual practices that are Tricksters. Then, I will draw my conclusion. In our Current Paradigm on this planet the Trickster is something to Fear. If I say the Devil some religious people might faint. Just saying his name, the superstitious believe, draw's his attention. Once you cross that point where you realize that you are an immortal aspect of All-That-Is or Source there is no fear of destruction. What is it that you can fear when you are One with that which is and creates all? So, with that in mind....let's dive into what so frightens and terrifies humanity in their current frame of mind shall we? Ogo, The Pale Fox As always, when people try to understand stories from other cultures they project onto them. When doing a search of Ogo you might find a wealth of information. Most of it is taken, thanks to our prudish society, to be very sexual and dirty in nature. I am going to summarize what I read in the book Titled The Pale Fox by M.Griaule and G. Dieterlen. First and foremost, if this wasn't an important figure in the Dogon Cosmology...why is it that Griaule and Dietrlen named their book on the subject The Pale Fox as opposed to the creator deity's name- Amma? The story goes something like this: When Amma, the creator God of the Dogon was creating the cosmos he made eight sets of twins. One of those, Ogo, before his sister was fully formed, slipped loose of where he was supposed to stay and tore out a piece of the placenta from which he was born. He then took that part of the placenta and tried to create with it believing he was capable of creating a cosmos equal to Amma's. This brought disorder to what was once the orderly system of the cosmos. Because of this Amma took Ogo's Twin and hid her in the Sirius Star system. The Earth is the product of Ogo's disorder. Eight ancestors were sent an Ark to the earth. "...the shape, design, and proportions of the Ark express all of the principals and science humanity would need for the regorganization and at-one-ment (emphasis mine) of Ogo's Earth." The above excerpt is from this website which has a the full story of Ogo: http://www.secretoftheankh.com/?p=79. Keep in mind that this story is told differently for different levels of initiates. This is why there are so many versions. A lay person would be taught something very different from the more involved information the Dogon Priests. They believed that anyone who had serious inquiry and asked the right questions must be given the correct answers. Those who did not ask the right questions wouldn't be given the information.(This is normal in almost all spiritual systems). Prometheus Prometheus has conflicting myths about him. First, he was a Titan so he is one of those forces of nature that exists before mankind (much like Ogo). In one tale the Titan is the one who created mankind from clay. In two different tales he stole fire from the God's and gave it to mankind. In one story, he is said to have given it to them in a reed. In another story he is said to have returned the fire to them when Zeus wanted to keep it for cooking his own food. Either way, since he made Zeus angry Prometheus is tied to a stake where an Eagle eats his regenerating liver. The liver is a purifier...so, this symbolizes that the Titan is unable to purify his body. So again, we see the trickster who plays a role in the creation of mankind and represents a body that is kept in constant chaos (by not being able to purify). Source: http://www.ancient.eu/Prometheus/ Maui Again, we find that the Trickster Demi-God Maui is credited, in one version of the myth to have created mankind. In the myths he is abandoned by his mother who ties her Top Knot around him giving him the name Maui-Tiki-Tiki. The ocean then takes him to the Gods who save him. He too is credited with stealing the fire of the god's and giving it to humanity. Strangely, the Disney film depicted him pretty well so I'll just include the song, "Thank You," that really captures most of what I've read about the character. (https://youtu.be/79DijItQXMM). The one main difference, is that in some of the different myths he returns to his mothers house where he has three older brothers. (http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Le-Me/Maui.html) Coyote This is from Jamie Sams Animal Medicine Cards: "There are thousands of myths and stories about Coyote, the great Trickster. Many native Cultures call Coyote the "Medicine Dog."....You can be sure that Coyote will teach you a lesson about yourself. Coyote has many magical powers, but they do not always work in his favor. His own trickery fools him. He is the master trickster that tricks himself. No one is more astonished then Coyote at the outcome of his own tricks. He falls into his own trap. And ye he somehow manages to survive. He may be banged and bruised by the experience, but he soon goes on his way to even greater error, forgetting to learn from his mistakes. He may have lost the battle, but he is never beaten. Coyote is sacred. In the folly of his acts we see our own foolishness. As Coyote moves from one disaster to the next, he refines the art of self-sabotage to sheer perfection. No one can blindly do themselves or others in with more grace and ease than this holy trickster. Coyote takes himself so serious at times that he cannot see the obvious; for example, the steam roller that is about to run over him. That is why, when it hits him, he still cannot believe it. "Was that really a steam roller? I better go look," he says. And he is run over once more. Contained within the trickster medicine is the humor of the ages. The cosmic joke is not just on ourselves but on everyone else, if they are following Coyote or have strong Coyote medicine. Someone like this may be able to convince others that a skunk smells like roses, but the fact remains it is still a skunk. Lucifer There are three words that are used interchangeably in dogmatic Christian tradition: Lucifer, Satan and The Devil. The Devil is undoubtedly a trickster character. Since Christianity is such a dominant religion delving into this subject for research can be intimidating. This can lead to a heck of a lot of confusion. For now, we will just look into the one word and how it has been used. Lucifer meant the Morning Star and it also referred to Venus. (Note: Jesus was reffered to as the Morning Star. This apparent contradiction will be explained). Again, Lucifer is called in Isaiah the Light Bearer. In Dogma (it's not in the bible at all) we are taught that Lucifer was the leader of a group of Angels. Those Angels turned on God, fell from grace and became Demons. They were cast out of heaven to their own domain of Hell where we will go if we are bad little boys or girls and don't listen to Christian Priests. Further, if you look at the book of Job we are told that it is The Devil or Satan that God consults with and decides that Job's faith must be tested. So not only is this character a Trickster but he is also the Tester. I think it is important to note in the Jewish religion there is no Lucifer/Satan/Devil character that is the equal and opposite of God ruling over a domain called Hell. That is entirely a Christian creation. The Morning Star Myths The Caananite God Attar was associated with the Morning Star. Attar attempted to take the throne of Baal and when he was not able to descended into the underworld. Ishtar/Innanna was also tied to the Morning Star, Venus. That character descended into the underworld to visit her sister. There she was crucified until two witnesses went to her one of the elder God's who then came to retrieve and revive her. The Babylonian god Etana was similar. In this case he wanted the highest seat among the divinities and was cast down by the supreme ruler. As we can see, what happens is there is a repetition of those who are associated with the Morning Star visiting the underworld. I have proposed before that Inanna was representative of the souls involution/descent into matter. Edgar Cacye Morning Stars In Reading 364-10 Edgar Cacye gives this amazing account of the start of creation: Hence we have that which has been given through many of the sources of information, or the channels for individuals - and in those, these, the entity - as a voice upon waters, or as the wind that moved among the reeds and harkened, or again as when the morning stars sang together and the sons of God beheld the coming of man into his own, through the various realms as were brought by the magnifying of, or the deteriorating of, the use of those forces and powers as manifested themselves in a material area..." Conclusion This blog contains hints of where I'm going with this information. What becomes clear is that the Trickster character is a self-sabotaging entity throughout many cultures. We seen an association with both light and visiting the Underworld. Also, another interesting note is that Light is the maximum limitation of our cosmos. Nothing can exceed the speed of light. Laird Scranton makes this observation when he explains that he believes that Ogo represents the scientific concept of Light. I propose that the Trickster character throughout myth is our Ego. Ego believes that it stole the light from Source so that it could make life in it's own image on the same level as God/Source. Therefore, we are the Fallen Angels, the Morning Stars, of the Christian mythos (again, this is not even slightly in the bible but was created entirely by the Roman Catholic Church) tricked by our own egos and probably the desire to experience eating into the involution into matter and forgetting our connection to Source. That story is nothing less then the same story as the fall of Adam which is a subject we will visit next Friday in a blog called: Meditating on Adam and the Garden. No doubt, to solidify their authority the Roman Catholic Church invoked Fear by creating the Devil. The Jewish people, from whom the Christian religion was born, had no such outside character tempting them into sin. The Roman Catholic Church turned the Trickster into an unnatural force outside of the individual that the individual had no control over....therefore they needed the Roman Catholic Church to keep them safe. We continue to glorify this idea in almost every Horror film. This is in error...but with all things what people believe they create and so they can truly make it appear that a demon can posses someone. The Ego is entirely something we create. I will explore more of this in a blog on Monday the 22nd. In our next blog we are going to delve into the concept that creation of Ego created disorder and how this lead to the illusion of separation. This is just a thread I've followed some books that I recently read. Strangely in a case of synchronicity, Light recently came up as an important part of two movies: Split and Guardians of the Galaxy with the character called Ego. The idea that the Light is what gives different personalities (alter egos) in Split, (each 'grabs the light') in order to control the body is fascinating. In Guardians, it was the awareness of the light that caused the planet Ego to become aware of itself (very similar to the outline of events that might have created our Universe that I will be covering in my next blog). By manipulating the Light that emanated from the brain at it's center Ego created an entire intricate world (although, devoid of life) and once the movie comes out on DVD I'll write a review but essentially the planet name Ego in the movie is the perfect metaphor for the human ego. |
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