In Japan's ancient past, broken dolls representing an unknown fertility goddess are found in certain burial mounds.
This is also symbolic of female initiates in a shaman priestess cult: the broken dolls represent the psychotic break during initiation when initiates see visions.
Thus, it validates the connection between what is miscalled madness and shamanic initiation.
Indeed, some of the mad may be potential shamans who have lost touch with their ancient culture. With our drive to only produce productive members of society, we have stigmatized people needlessly.
Having said this, the story of Mary Magdalene might be the story of a shaman-priestess.
How so? Mary Magdalena might have been a priestess of Inanna.
With the help of God, Mary was healed by the Anointed One, and was supposedly worshipped by angels and celestial beings. This broke the mirror with which she viewed the world. Then she visited the psychic underworld of her mind, and returned healed.
This is not unlike the inner journey all women go through during their lives.
Certain aspects of madness such as mania, psychosis, hallucinations, and so on are a natural part of each of our lives. Indeed, we are all blessed with a spiritual side to our whole being when we are receptive to it.
If we only reflected on it to aid our spiritual journey through life, then much in our lives could be healed that remains unhealed because we have had the instruction thrown away by fearful Christians and misguided public health officials.
Thus, Mary's story is the story of all women. We only need look at it closely to see features of it in our own individual lives.
In my opinion, madness is a fact of life, and its stigma as "mental illness" ought to be removed by normalizing the use of the terms which have been used negatively, and thus use them for the benefit of society. Mild forms of madness ought to be put to good use before the misguided in society mistreat the mad.
I call upon people to treat the mad with kindness and respect.
For the days of shamans is over, and all that is left to do in life is to dance and sing for the greater glory of the divine and all that is holy.
Originally posted May 14, 2005 at 9:37 PM
Reference:
The Descent of Inanna: A Myth for our Times: http://storytreeaustralia.blogspot.ca/p/the-exultant-myth-cycle-of-sumerian.html
The Mastery of the Broken Clay Dolls: https://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/just-what-was-so-amazing-about-jomon-japan/ways-of-the-jomon-world-2/jomon-crafts-and-what-they-were-for/the-mystery-of-the-clay-dolls/
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20040522
The True Essence of Spiritual Life
The true essence of spiritual life is to see through the deception of organized religion, and to propagate the truth of unconditional love.
As Tolstoy has written, '...for governments to expose the falsity of existing religions and to propagate the true one would amount to the same as a person cutting down the branch on which he is sitting' in his pamphlet, "What is religion, of what does its essence consist?".
Indeed, a person who has spent her life avoiding the reality that religion fills the void within knows only the emptiness known to people suffering from depression.
Barely comprehensible is it to the few truth speakers that the masses pursue happiness only to encounter such a dark, deep depression consisting of an emptiness unfathomable to but the eternally cheery optimist.
Yet those of us who know the truth are willing to sacrifice honour and reputation so that fellow truth speakers may know of it too.
I am deeply thankful to Leo Tolstoy, may he rest in peace, for writing his essay.
It is of a quality of gnosis that surpasses the Gnostics' grasp of the truth.
Hopefully, the truth that unconditional love shall be revealed in those people seeking It.
Original post: 2003/12/28
Modified post: 2004/01/20
Modified post: 2004/05/22
Update posted: 20130326
As Tolstoy has written, '...for governments to expose the falsity of existing religions and to propagate the true one would amount to the same as a person cutting down the branch on which he is sitting' in his pamphlet, "What is religion, of what does its essence consist?".
Indeed, a person who has spent her life avoiding the reality that religion fills the void within knows only the emptiness known to people suffering from depression.
Barely comprehensible is it to the few truth speakers that the masses pursue happiness only to encounter such a dark, deep depression consisting of an emptiness unfathomable to but the eternally cheery optimist.
Yet those of us who know the truth are willing to sacrifice honour and reputation so that fellow truth speakers may know of it too.
I am deeply thankful to Leo Tolstoy, may he rest in peace, for writing his essay.
It is of a quality of gnosis that surpasses the Gnostics' grasp of the truth.
Hopefully, the truth that unconditional love shall be revealed in those people seeking It.
Original post: 2003/12/28
Modified post: 2004/01/20
Modified post: 2004/05/22
Update posted: 20130326
20040520
Buddha and the 8 Gates
Do not suppose that resurrection is an illusion. It is not an illusion - rather it is something real. Instead, one ought to maintain that the world is an illusion, rather than the resurrection. - The Treatise of the Resurrection, Nag Hammadi library.
The Eight Gates of the Gnostics and their spiritual ancestors, the Pagans, is found in the seven chakras of Kundalini, the 7 steps that lead to the 8th Gate.
The quote above is similar to Buddhist idea of the world as an illusion. That which is real is resurrection to the Gnostic - to the Buddhist Buddha Nature is within from birth, just as the resurrection is.
Thus Buddha Nature is the Buddhist analog to the concept of being born again .
The Eight Gates of the Gnostics and their spiritual ancestors, the Pagans, is found in the seven chakras of Kundalini, the 7 steps that lead to the 8th Gate.
The quote above is similar to Buddhist idea of the world as an illusion. That which is real is resurrection to the Gnostic - to the Buddhist Buddha Nature is within from birth, just as the resurrection is.
Thus Buddha Nature is the Buddhist analog to the concept of being born again .
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