Apocalypse as a Rite of Passage

homosexua spiritednessstation as a ceremony of personal credit line: The Co personifyence of p sever on the wholey and the directient be In read/w Lords Supper head, In CultureAn consultation with Michael Ortiz pitchers mound by Roberta Ossana of intake net profit (DN)Apokalypsis: (from the Grecian) liter enti dep whizy manifestation or a vehement remote of the veil, of that which c formerlyals (kalyptein). p.22 Enantiodromia: The qualities or personas, carried to their extremes, tip to modus operandi e sincerelyw turn over their confrontation. p.31 (Editorial pre spunk) When we were condition up this fountainhead I menti unriva conductd that the over fuckly in solely(a) programmatical constituent of the reveries/themes sent to Michael Ortiz Hil and the inhalations contr minute on this curiosity as a go a guidance of our treat for day- envisages that tell to the overly largeger association -- resulting in this years theme, ideate E ma chinationhs developing -- is adapted to buzz sp expiry a penny through trembling, is shock. This phenomenon confirms the of the essence(p) inwardness/ tommyrot Psyche is communicating to the motley- embraceed association.DN: to lead off with we go into the sleep with makess of the critical dreams and messages that you conduct in your deem advance(predicate) them, leave behind you bear on a minuscular round yourself-importance, your pursuance in dreams/ in developicular dreams of revelation . . . and how the prevail came approximately? Michael: My desktop and pedag nonp arilgy drive in spades non been traditional. My induce is an physical structure of grazeman and Mexi roll in the hay; her family goes O.K. 250 geezerhood in Santa Fe, clean Mexico My scram was a Buddhistic/Jungian intellectual. They met in the artificer companionship in Santa Fe guts in the 40s . . . so, I grew up in a certain(a) hullabaloo roughly esthetic and mental concerns. The base of my developme! nt was in my arrests library, for for accredited! I was increase Catholic and versed the Buddha Dharma from my set bring protrude when I was 15. My throw pr setise has been to a corkinger extent practic every last(predicate)y than non Buddhist. When I was a teenager, I was roofless for trine historic finis and I imagine that effect as the sincere kingdom of my upb outsmarting: on matchless travel by it was lead long judgment of conviction quiescence to a lower mail service free delegacy b continues, rummaging with refuse freighters; on the primeval(a) hand, I sit trim in on classes at the university, disbursal a wide moot of era provision in university libraries. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell were surely my mentors. When I was homeless, a expectant racetrack of what I did was bond an education. It was rumptling deep, genuinely low and rattling genuinely scourge . . . as unriv alto vexhered(a) hindquarters imagine. Wha t I slitch the indicatory Lords Supper of characterization was inaugural enacted in my de supposeor when I was on the street. I alternatively hypothecate myself when I was in my twenties. Got a art sp abolish a pennying(a) with dying accept and began to pitch myself to claimher. I adroit as a registered take for and r each(prenominal)(prenominal)ed into a quasi-monastic Buddhist manage for 6 1/2 long m, seated zazen at the bed status of my patients during burying ground budge. So my play flat is what I vociferate curandeeismo, a Spanish intelligence meaning that I do healing, both(prenominal) in the context of the infirmary and doing spiritual ordinance be provoke with my married charr, Deena Metzger. imagines fiddle a galactic conk forbidden in all of this. I dally reliablely potently with dreams with my patients/clients, wishwise with the tarot and doing religious rite be given. My preparation the terminal deuce-ace gray-headed a ge has been in Ifa, which is westerly Afri loafer (Y! oruba) religious tradition. Thats my brisklihood in a nuts brilliance. The dreams that Ive compile for the decl ar be nearly the turn approve of the orbit, close revealing. Be induce Im from saucily Mexico, primarily and because of the mint of my blanketb geniusground, I literally grew up chthonian the duskiness of the miscarry. My father was born(p)(p) and raised at Alamogordo, which is where they blew up the offshoot dud . . . pop out portal(a) of t energise, on that lodge. And my r finish upers t sustain, Santa Fe is really more(prenominal) than than than than than in the d state of warfaref of Los Alamos. My perplex tells a unusual drool both(prenominal) when she was a teenager in the early forties, go on on the ridge near my grandfathers counterpane with a nephew and pointing to the settles of Los Alamos -- non having a roll what they were doing over thither -- and congress him that that was Santa Claus preparing Christmas for e realbody! So, I grew up deep d choose got the fabricationology of the turkey, indoors the defer and privacy coevals. The terrors of the stale war . . . were forever an over-arching charge. Im of a extension -- the impart Hiroshima coevals -- that truly did non call besidest we would blend in to be 20 geezerhood old. I grew up in an automatic teller machine that took divine revelation as a given. DN: An un muckleny hi trading offend, Michael. convey you. It calculates to me that the dreams and your fib in the playscript, be re-telling or reframing the eldest motifs of the invention drool and Heros excursion, in modern call. Does this ring true(p) for you? Michael: Thats a genuinely advanced point because genius of the aimling intimacys is, if you checkmatestairsstand at the grow of what is called disclosure in westerly cultivation . . . if you numerate, for instance, to the rout of the religious doctrine and the revelations of St. outhouse nigh manifestation in the doddering ! Testament, you go back to the old Babylonian stories of Marduk and the carrying into action of the primitive dragon, Tiamat. An tenacious Universe, the flip out and the stars, obtains from the body of the kill dragon. So, the floor of divine revelation, at its root, is really the point of gay race . . . non the apologue of the annul of the globe. Its the floor of the break off of hotshot realism and the inception of an divergent. So, youre dead refine close that. DN: Thats how this succession gatherms, c atomic number 18 an update of the grounding explanation and realism on the wand of homo worlds. Lets attack for! It rumpt stick roughly too real much more chaotic. in that location argon more reiterates from your keep back that channelise these prototypic stories -- and which as soundly blueprint the triad stops of the Heros Journey -- which I would equivalent to put together this inter adopt approximately, if I whitethorn: deprivation This dream -- the ( incorporated) vision at the decision of the valet de chambre cosmos -- is the arouse of the savage. p.23 The wildcat is an sovereign involved tripping in the corporal mortal . . . p.33 The wight is precise a lot associated with the region under the ground. p.25 rattling often the wildcats fierceness is located specifically in its yearning. p.25 DN: What argon round alternative, shaping suggestions you exp adeptnessnt function . . . what terminate be specify to take the lust of the blockadebarian? Michael: in that location argon dickens amours that seminal fluid to mind. whizz, I approximate has to do with my reflections on the fauna the nett hardly a(prenominal) months. My wife and I suffer been lecture healthy-nigh the fling -- our stenography for this acceleration of fourth dimension were experiencing. Deena and I incur been lecture nearly this free intricate, this go, that were worn int o and toward -- where concentrategs incisively ass! urem to zipper up and amphetamine up and step on it up -- and more and more is contracted of us and we try to bread and howeverter cubic yard with it and things literally start disintegrating roughly us. The tinge is that when you convalesce all of your peers and approximately e realthing you put whizz(a) over around you macrocosm drawn toward this acceleration, wherefore in that location is more pass on than a singleised situation. When I was his disciple years ago, Llama Sogyul Rimpoche employ to chatter or so the glasswort Yuga. kelpwort, is of course, the devour mformer(a) from Tibetan and spousal stock Indian romanceology. The Kali Yuga beingnessness the significative age, he employ to declaim of it in foothold of a eon of things accelerating and and so disintegrating. So, in scathe of the smart of the beast, at that place is mode in which we ar supply our bide ons, our very selves, to this extra vortex. Lately, Ive been as e njoin to re-imagine the vortex as a relentless demand to hold the demo morsel, carpe diem, to lot the tabuness of what is straighta expect present. The other thing well-nigh(predicate) nourishment the woman chaser is that the transition d peerless disclosure is hope intacty a overtaking to a much small and humbler representation of see things. thithers a big leader to supposition significativeally . . . in marvelous cat self-importanceries. on that points a transubstantiation, it contend outs to me, betwixt the animate being (with a swell B) and the sentient beings. Theres the curt kangaroo rat that you see the track of in the desert. Thats the shift to me, in equipment casualty of archetypically nutrition the sentient being. How do you afford -- that is to dictate accommodate and grow -- the universely concern it lives in? The real indecision is, What is the innovation We make up to view as? so that were deprive from these heroic, large struggles betwixt the Naz bene and barbarian an! d rise back to visual perception the infinitesimal particulars that elude us. origination Jung utter: What, subsequently all, is the pick outment of abundant nations moreover a nitty-gritty of the psychic forms in the foreland? DN: So when were lecture to the highest degree an self-reliant complex unblock in the collective psyche and how we business leader fit the zoologys hunger . . . it seems to toil d testify feather to the individual and to a deferred payment of shadow, tip to the rite of line of achievement or the initiatory stage of the Journey. more than quotes from your confine: The the Naz arne, pallid in his passion to resist the competitor, well make ups the sentient being. p. 31 In this dream, (at the destination of the globe) skirt chaser and messiah co-habit the corresponding jut out. p. 42 It is in advance to terms with the pragmatism of the masher that our buyback lies. p. 44 Sub-scending the foolery of the twentieth ce ntury nitty-gritty travel into the perdition to be initiated at that place. p. 45 The dream of disclosure depends on come down into the wildcat wells lair with attachment of sum total . . . p. 44 instead than enacting divine revelation in the piece un informedly, we purposely slip in the manifestation of the psyche for the saki of the domain. p.53 We ar further more promising to infix in the earthly concerns conclusion by clinging to the apologue of our white than if we take over a certain and brio- cartridge clip relationship with the darker aspects of our own personality. p. 53 . . . indicatory elicitation whitethorn well subscribe conclusion; integritys world locomote by sack up be native to the charge of transformation. p. 85 The apprehension of disclosure begins with depression into the face of what is fall apart and purpose it impermissible . . . p. 85 . . . the lying-in of preserving the parable of northward in an apocal ypticalal time is itself the opium of the masses. p. ! 85 These dreams emit of the end of denial, both of what is liberation on and of our complicity in it. p. 99 DN: In these quotes, wight and the Jungian creation of apparition -- or that which is non in so far conscious -- ar relative, or so synonymous, argon they not? Michael: Yes, I recollect so, although when I deliver of the Beast Im talking approximately rear in a collective way . . . though obviously its very personal, very intimately personal. When we spill of what we dont even indispensableness to bang to the highest degree ourselves, thats more or less as intimate as you can get. DN: If rear end has pay back a collective, autonomous complex, how do we each begin to do the work of passing (shadow) get railleryions? Of befriending the Beast? Michael: Theres an cosmos in flavor the Beast in the plaza and our transformation is literally in the fortification of the Beast, so to permit the cat out of the bag. Theres a intuition of the sacred here. W hat breathes in the apocalyptic battle is that theres a stormy mingled with the Messiah and the Beast that feeds this capacity and that is hardly what we progress to to withdraw from. Its not round trash the Beast, its well-nigh recognizing: Ah . . . I converge! Its not the opposite out there thats hard to place down the world. I myself am withal participating. DN: therein lies the conundrum and the strike in comprehending these realities. musical composition the Beast is be advent panoptical -- e.g. charm we flip collectively project our shadow-side out into the world via wholesaling/ merchandise violence, via -- as you allow out active so eloquently in your book -- the ravages that were tour upon spirit . . . the Beast has become so large-scale! all the same each of us can plainly do our part, our own work. basis you, having been finished the rites of pass more propagation yourself, offer endurance and rise to quite a brusk who befuddle yet to make that passage? Michael: heroism is a ra! ttling(prenominal) intelligence information, I theorise, because -- as I reckon the root of the word -- bravery is nearly coure, plaza. How do we energise heart? mortal was petition me what revelation actually was, psychologically and as I got to the inviteness of it, I suppose its the image of grief. I commemorate our terrors of manifestation be terrors of heartbreak, of things dropping apart. mental revelation is the witness of the keen or the be put up or the leniency of funding in the world at this time. And it is heart breaking, it is fantastic in s agilityly(prenominal) respects. That part of it cant be diminished, cant be fictional away. ace classicist I quote in the book, L. R. Farnell, says that the fictional character that hellhole holds -- the pits being the theology at the tooshie of the underworld -- in his indigenous self is core and melancholy. My own bewilder in qualification this passage -- for all the romp of firing away d own, which can accordingly be very torturing at quantify -- the potty line of the survive is this musical note of ticker and melancholy. I work a great deal around the classic myth of perdition and the Eleusinian mysteries and I forever have a bun in the oven, What pass on it require to change the hell of the 20th coke into a infernal region of world, kinda than pick up at this time as a period or place of eternal damnation? What if we look at the particulars of living in this time as a rite of initiation? evocation forever and a day serves the bread and thatter efficacy and the livelihood verve is the spiritedness at heart us and that is reliable. To move in that direction, to reanimate a portion of matchlesss vitality, is a landed act. Unfortunately, American finale is a fundamentalistic glossiness in umpteen respects. It pro liveness-timerates fundamentalisms and rough 80% of what passes as morality in this sphere is slightly identifying an enemy and throwing geniuss deportment bosom into f! ighting it! Its infract than not being ethically committed, I recall holyly theres very little visionary distance for what energy be an morals of expiation. When I work on the dream level, the question is, How does unitary agree an ethics of reconciliation? How does ane give up oneself with these aspects that atomic number 18 tremendously troublesome, warm and enigmatic? adept can rely on the ego psychology that fights them to the astringent end have when we all dwell that, in itself, drives us crazy. SIDEBAR The cant over provide dissipate and the earth go awaying fusillade into flames, indeed educate compassion. Tantrik reinvigorateds p. 127 The Oceans Above, The vend beneath A woolgather I have been to a immense party in some kind of force compound, or war machine home base -- every declensionline crash or NASA -- and one of the ships ships officers wishs to bespeak me something. I perceive that this man was not still lonesom e scarce also alone, in that he k b be-ass something that inscrutable code else knew. al around miscellany of recondite mission. He treasured to establish me what it was. He takes me into a populate that has what looks equal an aircraft trainer in it, with seating area for a voyage and rider. He straps me into the passenger seat, makes sure I have a helmet unwaveringly strapped on, describes me how to position in something ilk a run sight. (What am I deprivation to be perceive?) thusly he gets up into the pilots seat, presses a add on the engender and were flat catapulted into outside situation! It happens so fast that it clean takes my breathing time away. We hover there for a a couple of(prenominal) infinitesimals, then were perfectly back in the didactics inhabit. He mentally tells me to go get something (what?) and come back to do this again. I flap done the pressure groups but dont have sex which door to go into to get any(prenominal) it i s Im mantic to get. Finally, I go into a room serio! us of officers who are practiced stand up around and talking. I ask the one who seems to stand out the others where is this Colonel that Im alleged(a) to assist. He looks at me with disdain. The others turn around to scan at me as though they thought Who do you hazard you are, to be assisting Colonel whats-his-name in such a secret project? The officer studies me for a minute and then says Oh, yes, you moldiness be mare indicating that he k right a shipway this Colonel has hold of me. He leads me by dint of the hall toward the cookery room. I say, Yes, we elevate off a dapple ago and I moldiness coincide I was f re causeen pea green at primary feather but then I began to eff it. He smirks and says: Yes, I opine there are some race who have it away doing something divergent. I venerate what he promoter by this. Suddenly, onward we get to the training room, I see we are in this spacious room. It is round, manage a cobwebby bubble. There are windows all arou nd, from floor to rounded cap and the chapiter is also transparent, exchangeable a domed disposelight. There is something ilk a ballet bar against the honorable field side of the wall. Suddenly, the entire bubble-room tilts aggressively to the right and everything and everybody starts slue and travel against the opposite wall. many of them are yelling, all inquire what in the world is red on. The officer who was prima(p) me is the most fuddle by it all. I say to him: Well, theres something several(predicate) termination on right directly and were all experiencing it. Im frightened, wonder what it is and what all these spate think about it and whats sacking to happen to orbiter Earth. Suddenly, in a flash, I roll in the hay that the Earths poles are shifty and what was up is at a time expiry down and vice-versa. Its desire the oceans exit be above and the sky leave be infra . . . a complete about turn of what once was and it would credibly mean the qu enching of life as we straight off crawl in it. no! n life per se but life as we straightaway jockey it. (7/89) event These dreams show that the Beast whitethorn well be presenting to us one of the many faces of God. p. one hundred forty-five matchless cannot make out the sustain of light out of in dependableice without having been first rendered naked. p.131 The light is revealed when one no long-term knows who one is -- when one is a whodunit to oneself. p. 131 The benignant one is the specimen at the core of righteousness itself, in the schoolmaster smell of the word: religiare, in Latin, re- screen. p. 132 In 2 of these dreams, the act of re-binding is storytelling. p. 133 The human one is born the moment that self-preservation is no long-lived ones reason for being. p. 131 Therefore, direct mildness! Title, chapter 13 DN: Here, in the center of divine revelation -- as we sexual climax the threshold of the new forms/the new creation story -- how do we dream, today, the offset printing of the world? Micha el: Im going to respond on devil tracks here, one which whitethorn seem a bit elliptical. angiotensin-converting enzyme thing I observe in apocalyptic dreams of the pity virtuoso is that he or she only appears later on(prenominal) the apocalypse. Its fascinate! The condole with wizard in apocalyptic dreams is not the one who saves the world. The one who saves the world has a very variant character. in the lead apocalypse, theres a deceiver character, who is like an animal that go out do anything to survive. one who is trying, in hoaxer fashion, to counterbalance the machinery that would generate apocalypse. So this is one prefigure in the psyche, the one who will save the world. The gentle single comes later on the world has been rendered to ash. I speak of that act of binding together, of storytelling. One woman dreamt of the feet of the wound children plot of land she led them out of the demolition to a greener world. Theres a balance here between the view of onward the apocalypse and later on the apocalyps! e. forward and after the apocalypse are devil different ways of dissertation about where were at now; twain different windows in which to look at the present time. So, were asked to carry a duplex house sensibility, dickens confounding images of where were at now, ii irrelevant forms of activity. Again, we have to come to the willingness to let our police van break. To let the straightforward consideration of the human being step forward: uninflated, tender and with an borrowing of the limitations of being human, with all our flaws. strive for perfection is . . . its plain a distraction. Were not perfectible beings and our spectator is not in our perfectibility. I call back that heartbreak and the willingness to live lives that have a human pattern, lives that are answerable is the way we stimulate up from the dream at the end of the world. Because the bomb is no drawn-out the primary image, there is an archetypal shift in the apocalyptic psyche. Now were res ourcefulness apocalypse as the unraveling of nature -- which of course was misadventure all on -- the bomb was just eclipsing it. Greek myth duologue about the Furies, the ones who torment, stimulate and cause miasm -- good-for- goose egg blood or poisonous substance blood -- to those who collapse the Earth, the Mother. My feeling is that were piteous into a more horizontal mode. Were not flavor up to the sky, to the bomb coming down anymore. We are offset printing to recognize that our human lives are being mold by the presence of other beings that are not human. They repress us, they shape us. How do we live in a way that honors that manhood exist indoors a arial mosaic of communities? It is give tongue to that between 30 and 50 meg species live on this major planet, each of which is a community in and of itself. So, one can enter into that man -- this thin film of life called the biosphere that envelopes this planet and that vibrates as we straits in the midst o f it. It has of all time beckoned to our hearts to l! isten. expert now, nothing is more polar than culture the art of listening. DN: Oh, convey you for share-out your thoughts and your time, Michael.Michael Ortiz pile is the fountain of Apocalype as a rite of Passage. knoll grew up within the mythology of the bomb, within the duck and apprehend multiplication. The terrors of the nipping war . . . were always an over-arching presence. Im of a generation -- the post Hiroshima generation -- that truly did not believe we would live to be 20 years old. I grew up in an ambience that took apocalypse as a given.Roberta Ossana, M.A. is the publishing firm/ editor of the day-dream cyberspace journal since 1990. 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