Sunday, August 12, 2007

Ouroboros (snake eating it's tail) as negative

Ouroboros - this ancient symbol (going all the way back to ancient Egypt) has down the ages been considered variously as positive and negative. In modern times, Carl Jung considered it as a positive symbol. I consider it negative.

Ouroboros is the entire predator/prey parasitic and almost entirely blinded system of the parts of the Kosmos condensed to a slower vibration...

There is some bad news...there is no truly ever escaping Ouroboros. In a previous post I said otherwise, but there are different kinds of escape. we will never Ultimately escape it even in Death/Transition. There can only be constant self-overcoming (In this mortal realm and the Other Place) and will to perfection towards an impossible-to-reach Ideal, just as Law is the shadow of Justice.

There can only be the Eternal War within yourself, against the various parts of yourself. The Amoeba part of you, the Reptile and the Ape (To speak nothing of the Subconscious!). As the often depressing band Mudvayne put it "internal primates forever"

We're like Russian Dolls. One inside the other inside the other. One outside the other outside the other...

Whether you believe in multiple incarnations or that we only have one mortal life - even one has already tainted you! You and I, fellow sufferers (homo sapiens) are eternally stuck with the Ape, for better or worse.

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