I hope you keep writing. You're off to a promising start. I would like to see you explore the "esoterica" side of your newsletter name. What esoteric ideas are you particularly inspired by?
I discovered my spiritual side quite recently and haven't spent any time thinking and reading about those things; I picked e-girl esoterica, partially because I liked the alliteration, but I also have wide ranging interests like mathematics, art, beauty, history, philosophy, and I like to dabble in these things. So I don't have any specific ideas that I can point to; but the main thing that drives is me is a search for truth and beauty.
Beauty will lead you towards an intuitive understanding of truth. That is one way the ancients understood, philosophy is another. Looking forward to your next essay
If you're after more esoterica and myth, you may find some of the writings of John Michael Greer interesting. He's most well-known for his "collapse now and avoid the rush" kind of writing, but he does a lot of occult writing, talks about the importance of myth (even among people who say they don't believe in myths, like the followers of Progress!).
I'm not into the occult and myth side as much as he is, but it may interest you. Sit with a coffee and a box of tissues, this is his most recent post - on the death of his wife.
We have essentially two female archetypes. Madonna, and the Whore. (Although in Madonna these two blended!). So, Marilyn Monroe, sleepy eyed sexpot, and Mother Mary. Other cultures had Medea, Kali, Durga, the тАШShrewтАЩ or Scold. And so on. It was accepted a scorned woman (Medea) was a dangerous person who would kill her own sons to hurt her ex lover. It was accepteds t the тАШShrewтАЩ needed to be tamed. Kali and Durga are the most dangerous Gods in the Hindu pantheon. We donтАЩt accept women as easily being these dark feminine types. It canтАЩt be just dark energy, it has to be something done to Marilyn/Mary for her to be that way. A lot of women really take advantage of men, using their bodies and emotion to take financially from their тАШloversтАЩ. We barely acknowledge this. And if we do everyone pretends either he deserved it, or тАШI am not like that. I would never choose a man for money.тАЩ Right. She might sleep with someone not for money, but marry? No. It is ubiquitous in our society. Ask young women what they want in a man and his salary will be the first or second item mentioned. I was sitting in a coffee shop with my wife and a few of her friends. Another female friend came up and chatted for a minute and then walked away. One of the women said conspiratorially тАШshe scoredтАЩ. The other women oohed and aahed. It turned out she had just married a top realtor in a very wealthy suburb of Vancouver. He probably made a Million or so a year. I was disgusted.
you make a good point; I did not consider how the loss of myth and lack of a cohesive meta-narrative underlies the problem; thank you for engaging
I hope you keep writing. You're off to a promising start. I would like to see you explore the "esoterica" side of your newsletter name. What esoteric ideas are you particularly inspired by?
I discovered my spiritual side quite recently and haven't spent any time thinking and reading about those things; I picked e-girl esoterica, partially because I liked the alliteration, but I also have wide ranging interests like mathematics, art, beauty, history, philosophy, and I like to dabble in these things. So I don't have any specific ideas that I can point to; but the main thing that drives is me is a search for truth and beauty.
Beauty will lead you towards an intuitive understanding of truth. That is one way the ancients understood, philosophy is another. Looking forward to your next essay
If you're after more esoterica and myth, you may find some of the writings of John Michael Greer interesting. He's most well-known for his "collapse now and avoid the rush" kind of writing, but he does a lot of occult writing, talks about the importance of myth (even among people who say they don't believe in myths, like the followers of Progress!).
I'm not into the occult and myth side as much as he is, but it may interest you. Sit with a coffee and a box of tissues, this is his most recent post - on the death of his wife.
https://www.ecosophia.net/a-life-remembered/
We have essentially two female archetypes. Madonna, and the Whore. (Although in Madonna these two blended!). So, Marilyn Monroe, sleepy eyed sexpot, and Mother Mary. Other cultures had Medea, Kali, Durga, the тАШShrewтАЩ or Scold. And so on. It was accepted a scorned woman (Medea) was a dangerous person who would kill her own sons to hurt her ex lover. It was accepteds t the тАШShrewтАЩ needed to be tamed. Kali and Durga are the most dangerous Gods in the Hindu pantheon. We donтАЩt accept women as easily being these dark feminine types. It canтАЩt be just dark energy, it has to be something done to Marilyn/Mary for her to be that way. A lot of women really take advantage of men, using their bodies and emotion to take financially from their тАШloversтАЩ. We barely acknowledge this. And if we do everyone pretends either he deserved it, or тАШI am not like that. I would never choose a man for money.тАЩ Right. She might sleep with someone not for money, but marry? No. It is ubiquitous in our society. Ask young women what they want in a man and his salary will be the first or second item mentioned. I was sitting in a coffee shop with my wife and a few of her friends. Another female friend came up and chatted for a minute and then walked away. One of the women said conspiratorially тАШshe scoredтАЩ. The other women oohed and aahed. It turned out she had just married a top realtor in a very wealthy suburb of Vancouver. He probably made a Million or so a year. I was disgusted.