First, how much do you know about/ascribe to Jung's theory of the collective unconscious? Because that might go a way toward explaining the shared mythos.
Second, who let you leave? All of my friend posts should mix philosophy, spirituality, and game references. In fact, I'm making this a requirement of my flist.
For what is this form but a transitionary one?; what are we all but beings caught between falling angel and rising ape, not a thing in our own right but full of the characteristics of both?
This has to be my new favorite quote. It encapsulates humanity as a whole so well. ♥!
I do know about it, yes. I think I don't so much ascribe to it as ascribe beyond it; I think it says some interesting things, but it's not developed enough. I think the idea of a collective unconscious is not so much a theory that stands on its own as an obvious component arising from an interconnected universe; once you believe in an intricate world where all things are fractal reflections of the greater pattern, the collective unconscious isn't a novel idea, it's just self-evident.
I slipped my collar while no one was looking. Glad I could provide. ^_^ As for falling angel/rising ape, it's not actually my line: I think the original is "[To be human is to] be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.", and it's from Terry Pratchett, but I like the concept a lot.
Are you sure Pratchett wasn't quoting it from something else? I know I've heard the line before, but I feel like it came from something that was a whole lot older. Like... 1940s or something.
He quite possibly was; when I Googled, a couple of sources also seemed to think so, but they couldn't place it and the only sites that did offer a source said Pratchett. Totally up for correction here, though.
Beautiful. Thank you so much for writing this. This is the kind of prose I've been longing for lately.
A few months ago, I created a folder on my desktop, and I started filling it with my favorite essays and artwork about otherkin, the ones that I'd like to print out and bind so that I can have a book to keep. Something a little less ephemeral than a web page. This post goes in that folder. :)
Now that I think of it, many of your writings have come to gradually change how I think of otherkin and related spiritual concepts. I should probably go back through your journal's archives and find them.
I'd like to see the kind of stuff that would go into such a book, if you'd be willing to share at some point. I love inspirational essays, and I'm particularly fascinated by collections of what other people consider personally inspirational to them. Helps you know about a person, you know?
I'd also be interested in knowing, should you go through my journal again, which of my writings you found particularly useful-- it'd be nice to know how I'm affecting people, in general. We all have our own small impacts on the collective landscape, and I'd like to be aware of mine-- so I can use it for good, and so I can avoid using it for ill unknowingly.
This is beautiful. I envy your personal sense of growing toward something majestic, and the longing you ascribe to one seeing one's future being makes perfect sense.
I've noticed I really like things that seem not of my world--things like the Higgs boson particle and giant ocean squid. They are creepy but good because they are undeniably different from the way the world usually looks to me. I wish I had more awareness of that "whole rest of the world" in my day to day life; I would be happier.
and the longing you ascribe to one seeing one's future being makes perfect sense.
*nods* I think the longing we all feel for something-- a far-off paradise land, a transformation, being or living as something else, magic, wonder, God/gods and deities-- I think it's all part of the same phenomenon. We will not be this forever, and some part of us knows it, and longs for what we will become.
I'm fortunate to have a personal sense of it, I think. I sincerely feel it to be true, on an intuitive level.
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Second, who let you leave? All of my friend posts should mix philosophy, spirituality, and game references. In fact, I'm making this a requirement of my flist.
For what is this form but a transitionary one?; what are we all but beings caught between falling angel and rising ape, not a thing in our own right but full of the characteristics of both?
This has to be my new favorite quote. It encapsulates humanity as a whole so well. ♥!
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I slipped my collar while no one was looking. Glad I could provide. ^_^ As for falling angel/rising ape, it's not actually my line: I think the original is "[To be human is to] be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.", and it's from Terry Pratchett, but I like the concept a lot.
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A few months ago, I created a folder on my desktop, and I started filling it with my favorite essays and artwork about otherkin, the ones that I'd like to print out and bind so that I can have a book to keep. Something a little less ephemeral than a web page. This post goes in that folder. :)
Now that I think of it, many of your writings have come to gradually change how I think of otherkin and related spiritual concepts. I should probably go back through your journal's archives and find them.
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I'd like to see the kind of stuff that would go into such a book, if you'd be willing to share at some point. I love inspirational essays, and I'm particularly fascinated by collections of what other people consider personally inspirational to them. Helps you know about a person, you know?
I'd also be interested in knowing, should you go through my journal again, which of my writings you found particularly useful-- it'd be nice to know how I'm affecting people, in general. We all have our own small impacts on the collective landscape, and I'd like to be aware of mine-- so I can use it for good, and so I can avoid using it for ill unknowingly.
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I've noticed I really like things that seem not of my world--things like the Higgs boson particle and giant ocean squid. They are creepy but good because they are undeniably different from the way the world usually looks to me. I wish I had more awareness of that "whole rest of the world" in my day to day life; I would be happier.
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*nods* I think the longing we all feel for something-- a far-off paradise land, a transformation, being or living as something else, magic, wonder, God/gods and deities-- I think it's all part of the same phenomenon. We will not be this forever, and some part of us knows it, and longs for what we will become.
I'm fortunate to have a personal sense of it, I think. I sincerely feel it to be true, on an intuitive level.
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