There is a mythic imbalance in
the Warrior's Quest culture. This is the absolutely critical starting
point, to grasp that the Warrior's Quest mythos is crippled,
truncated—arguably not a
mythos at all—for there is no sacral balance:
no gods and goddesses, no Mother to Father Spirit. One fundamental
revelation of this imbalanced mythos is that there is only one
way to communicate with and gain the approval of the divine Lone
Male. It is through rituals of bloodshed.
The Warrior's Quester is only fully
alive when he/she is warring. Meaning is bestowed by
the splatter of blood upon one's cheek spewed from the hacked
flesh of the enemy. History and mythic story show that for some
other warrior cultures, war does end. It ceases once the enemy
is dispersed—flees or withdraws into a respected homeland.
Not so for the Biblical Warrior—for
whom the Enemy is given no quarter, is relentlessly
pursued because, scion of Joshua, everything the Enemy has must be
possessed—everything and everyone. There is a compulsion
to bloodlust—for the massacre as ritual. As Joshua records
his genocide at Ai ... so is the template set. The Warrior's Quester's
whoop is, Take no prisoners! ... And as
the suicide bombers of today incarnate that curdling
whoop, so are they faithful to the beliefs they share with their
Abrahamic kin.
Can a mythic balance be
restored? Is there a Peacemaker Big Story with which to counter
and balance such a ferocious Warrior's Quest tale? A way of living
with the Earth, never-ending?
Not within
the Abrahamic (Secular, Scientism) tradition.
Yet we Earthfolk live at a moment
of eager hope because you are
here!
"When is enough, enough?" As you answer
that, and begin to tell your story, so, in time, will a the Big
Story of living peacefully and comfortably at-home on the Living
Earth emerge.
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