The Dionysus archetype has powerful positive and negative potentialities, stirring up the most etheral and basest of feelings, creating conflicts within the psyche and with society. It is an archetype that is present in some men who are mystics, and in others who are murderers. In between, it is the archetype in men (and women) who experience ecstatic moments and intensely contradictory impulses. *** His duality has manifested itself to us in the antithesis of ecstasy and horror, infinite vitality and savage destruction; in the pandemonium in which deathly silence is inherent; in the immediate presence which is at the same time absolute remoteness. *** to be a man with a shamanic personality in a culture that emphasizes "getting ahead in the real world", is to be out of step. The adolescent religious mystic who has an ecstatic vision of the Madonna feels as unacceptable as the taker of hallucinogenic drugs. Both- like Dionysus -also seem to others, to be courting madness. *** "...the LSD panic is the terror that Ego is lost forever. The LSD ecstasy is the joyful discovery that Ego, with it's pitiful shams and strivings, is only a fraction of my identity..." - Timothy Leary *** "There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena, and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him." -G.i. Gurdjieff *** "Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider." -Ralph Waldo Emerson *** "the underlying message and concern in all my works is that people come to recognize that we are creating reality, together. The world we live in is not a creation of some God- some pre existing condition. But instead, 'reality' is a living thing. Meaning emerges through our interactions." -Douglas Rushkoff *** "i wanted to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?" -Hermann Hesse *** Stand on the platform of suffocating expectations,
look over the edge and wonder aloud-
"What is waiting on the other side of these lives?"
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