I don't need sleep.

know about the history of christmas?

depends on which history you're talking about

siberian shamanism

haven't heard that one yet

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/3136.html

that's interesting

indeed. there is so much of this kind of symbolism that we use every single day and never realize

or that gets covered up by the christian mythos

it's all bastardized. we can't even tell where we are anymore

it happens in almost every culture. where a ritual is continued for so long that people take it for granted and lose the real significance of it

I don't remember if I asked you, but are you familiar with the trickster archetype?

yes it's one of my favorite mythological figure types

sorry i'm kind of a geek when it comes to mythology

well I think that the purpose (or one of the purposes) of the trickster archetype is to revive that cultural importance

there hasn't been much of that in recent years

well, that is my goal in life, if ever there was one

to bring back the trickster?

like Hermes, I possess a touch of the prophet which can be used in kinds of divination to tell folktales. the purpose of the storytelling is to transmit cultural and philosophical truths in ways that people can readily understand without totally freaking out

chu know what i mean?

i think i get it

what do you think the trickster does?

well that's the thing the trickster is the one archetype that doesn't have completely set rules. his purpose is to shake things up

right. like loki and baldur, which is really a story about the seasons- the coming of winter as a necessary facet of the life cycle

that exists on multiple levels of scale. personal life, communal life, state wide, natural cycles...

the breaking of patterns in order to retain freshness

which is hard to do now since patterns are so well recognized and accepted

which makes it even more important that we break them

paramount.

so how do you plan to do this in an age of disbelief?

well any kind of fear or violence is totally out of the question

thats true

it has to be a kind of cultural work that is both creative and destructive.

my skill set is not in creation but merely in the recognition and destruction of old, decrepit behavior.

I can't share with you my specific plan, as it will trigger a neurological recognition of reward and take away some of my motivation to actually perform the action.

ok

all in all, it requires story telling

are you doing similar work?

in a way. i don't like writing stories i've already heard so i try to break cliche

I just wonder if we're going to survive this mess

humans always survive in some capacity

historically we've always had these stories and the models in our every day life. it's only recently been suppressed.

that tells me that we didn't have all the tools we needed before to form a truly harmonious relationship with the world.

because we're taught now that they're only stories

well it's a great number of factors.

partially it's the suppression of the so called "pedestrian city" with the advent of the motor vehicle.

we've cut the soul out of our culture and bastardized it's roots

outlawing all meaningful cultural practices and criminalizing such important plant medicines including DMT, which is produced endogenously every night while we sleep.

now a schedule 1 drug

so what is there to do? go to the source.

destroy the need for war, for authoritarian government, for internal strife.

create the conditions necessary for personal sovereignty.