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Part 1 - Pathways

A-Seeker

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B-Seer

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C-Belover

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Part 2 - Resources

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A Crisis and a Discovery

Crisis. There is a crisis of intimacy which is reflected in the endless warring which is the defining characteristic of the Big Story that has dominated human culture for the last five millennia. In this Big Story of the Warrior’s Quest, endless war makes real and manifest the vision of other people—the Other: you—as an Intimate Enemy. In this vision, you as Intimate Enemy are someone to be feared and eventually dominated and subjugated. Tellingly, even the most intimate, interior and private sexual space is defined as an arena where a “war between the sexes” is waged.

This is a crisis anchored, moreover, in the almost unimaginable fact that there are enough nuclear bombs to blow the Earth to smithereens and, in so doing, vaporize every human being and every living thing.

To grasp the Earthfolk Big Story’s vision of sensual preciousness is, in part, to understand the connections and disconnections between our understanding of intimacy and the Warrior’s Quest vision of the endless war with its Intimate Enemy and nuclear bomb.

The Warrior’s Quest imagination is grounded in a Big Story vision which seeks to exercise dominion over all peoples, all living things, including the Earth, itself. It is a vision of the individual hero whose quest is to overcome, vanquish or slay an Intimate Enemy.

The Warrior’s Quester makes present and manifest this vision through the practice of “living as if you are my Intimate Enemy.” For the Warrior’s Quester, “you” is any Other who stands to thwart the Quest. The reward, as the Warrior’s Quest ends, is individual victory, enlightenment, or salvation.

 

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