Psychopomp

Come get me out of this mess, Papa Legba.

Funny how the lowly cultural mythos all of a sudden seem the most important now. I listened to a Christian radio talk show the other day and I was able to really hear the wisdom for the first time. I was able to see past my own belief systems for the first time (really). The bible is still the worst literature I've ever attempted to read, but there is something to it.

Yesterday i caught my mom and her friend talking about me behind my back. Literally. I was driving and they were speaking in hushed voices. They called me vague! Bastards. I've noticed most of the people I talk to can only handle that kind of conversation for fifteen to thirty minutes before heads start to pop. An hour conversation gets me three hours of being screamed at because I've attempted to break their mythos and bring it into the real.

Right now I'm focusing on the separation between heaven and earth. It seems that while Hermes is the destructive force, psychopomp and messenger of the gods, he is always in accordance with the plan of Zeus, even when he causes problems for Zeus. Krishna, worldly incarnate of the lord Brahman, is the trickster in Hindu mythology, which is interesting in the fact that all gods in Hindu mythology are representations of parts of Brahman. It is particularly interesting in the Bhagavad Gita that Krishna, lowly chariot driver, admits and shows the prince Arjuna that he is actually Brahman. There those crazy Hindoos go and admit the truth. The structure is entirely dependent on the chaos. That is probably why I love the Bhagavad Gita so damned much- that and the Sanskrit reading of it is like sex for the ears.

Last night I went to an open mic night where a lady friend of mine sang a blues song she wrote about the importance of being a monkey. Monkey being one of the Chinese tricksters, I found that quite interesting. I'll have to ask her about that next month when I take a day off.

I just had to explain to someone why evolving in a moral sense is important. Her argument was that as long as a person does work to feed themselves and take care of themselves, the reason doesn't matter. If you act only to perpetuate the current evolutionary level, you're going to keep running into the same problems. Right now, those same problems are killing us and unless we do something about it in a morally responsible way, we're going to die. So! Yes, you may have people willing to help you with house work but unless they help you with house work because they believe it is the right thing to do, we're all going to die. Hah. I jest.

PSYCHOPOMP!
Love that word.