From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V3 #167 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Sunday, October 7 2001 Volume 03 : Number 167 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] UpSideYourHead [CONE HEAD-REX ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 6 Oct 2001 11:39:25 EDT From: CONE HEAD-REX Subject: [JP] UpSideYourHead Hey Now, JangleNookers! I ran across this thought provoking piece... I was reading about Church suppression of witchcraft in middle aged Germany. ' In all ages there has been a close if hidden connection between the divinely plagued madman ("Whom the gods would destroy, they 1st make mad") and the divinely inspired prophet or seer, between the village idiot & the white magician, between uayia as inspired frenzy & uayreia, prophetic power. Both words come from the same greek root. The dividing line -when there is 1- can B Xtremely tenuious. Man has always striven 2 hold converse W/ superior beings, 2 achieve vision, especially in2 the future. The difference between true & false prophets is a contingent 1. There have always been imposters who preyed apon the credulity of mankind. But the problem of true & false prophets involves vaster complexities than the imposture or even the mechanism of political contingency which desides whether a revolt becomes a revolution or a potential revolution is quashed as a revolt. History desides both B4 & after - -perhaps centuries after- the advent of a prophet whether (& X whom) he is 2 B regarded as true or false, bad or good. Leaders R those who, knowingly or unknowingly, R able 2 Xploit the psychic makeup of the group, the clan, the people, the race, or adherents of a creed. Whether they R right or wrong 4 the right or wrong reasons is usually only ascertainable in the aftermath, & then as often as not only X the standards of material success or failure. The psychological process @ work in peoples & races as well as in individuals, of accomadating the past 2 the present involves conscious or unconscious 4getting, & the historical importantance of past events is itself always questionable in terms of absolute standards. 2 a greater or lesser Xtent, "Verdrangung" (suppression/repression) is falsifacation, If the process is unconscious it is all the more effective. There R issues, moral as well as others, in the lives of peoples & nations that R never solved. The present is more or less falsified because it rests on a past which has 2 B falsified in order 2 preserve sanity, that is, a workable psychological balance (or what appears 2 B 1). In religious wars such as the never ending series between christian & pagan Euopeans, & christians & jews -where the 2 side R often enough @ war within the same individual- each side struggles 2 maintain what it concieves 2 B a workable, lasting psychological balance in its own way 4 its own reasons. Knowingly or unknowingly the witches, goblins, dragons, demons, & spirits were more significant & "real" than is popularly realized now or was theologically admissable then. The witches & demons fulfilled & were concieved 2 fulfill genuine psychological needs. & the "Volks" needs were great. As psycics projections they were, & R, as "real" as anything else in the phenomenal world. ' - George Bailey - 1972 Just a little food 4 thought 4 those who think about all this deep stuff. Y4Y! HaHaHa! No pilgrim, we can't have veggie bacon... U're missing the whole point. Why would a vegitarian want 2 eat ANYTHING that looks or tastes like meat? Isn't that a contridiction? Veggie bacon isn't offensive & it costs 2 much. Keep on porkin'!!! Y4Pork! C-Head coneh@usa.net Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V3 #167 **********************************