Warrior's Quest Memory and Remembering
In the Warrior's Quest culture, Remembering
has been purposefully focused on the single and simple
act of sacrifice, namely, the shedding
of fatal blood. In the Christian version of the Warrior's
Quest, redemption is a remembering through the ritual
offering of bread and wine—which is claimed to be transubstantiated
into—and the drinking of—the
actual blood-shed by Jesus
on the Cross. This is an amazingly sensual
act of Remembering!
On the surface it repulses some,
but Earthfolk, with sojourning aliens eyes, see a deeper meaning
to
this act of remembering.
This is the blood of the Lone Male god’s only
child, His "motherless"
son. As the blood of this son is shed he ceases to
be the historical Jesus of Nazareth and becomes transformed
into the Christ. (Jesus's suffering on the Cross is
theologically explained in many ways, among them, as making amends for
the sin of Adam and, in a curious use of words by Saint
Anselm, "satisfying" his Father.)
What does the Christian Warrior's
Quester Remember through the shedding of blood? Consider:
A body shedding blood is a natural “woman’s thing”—her
monthly issue, her menstruation. It is Moon memory. It is genetic memory
never-ending. Men do not “naturally” shed
blood.
What then to make of the curious parallel
that the Warrior's Quester is endowed with his identity
as "warrior" only insofar as he sheds
blood—of the Intimate Enemy or himself?
Almost all Warrior's Quest
Memory is a chronology of the shedding of blood.
As the Warrior's Quest teaches, history’s storyline beats
to the drums of the battlefront—from the
Iliad to the Crusades to the “War to End All Wars.”
Warrior's Quest Remembering sets the cadence of
your heartbeat to that of the Endless War (which is secularized
as “National
Security policy”).
Can it be that through this
rite of Memory, this drinking of male
blood, that the Warrior's Quest seeks to become his
own mother?
Continue—Memory
