AFTERMATH

AFTERMATH
AFTERBIRTH(<= "afterbirth" is olden name for the detached placenta)

-UROBOROUS and YOU



Only symbolic thinking*, now, will allow us to "get our mind around" the multidimensional complexities of what is happening, doth I ween.

The sequence of events 9.11.01 => 11.3.10 => 12.21.10, narrated through Symbols, illustrate the template of collective birth-rebirth in various rituals; chiefly, war (as external child sacrifice to achieve it) and elections (as internal child sacrifice 'to cleanse the psyche').

The underlying unconscious group-fantasy complex*, *everpresent, like the Okidanokh, is the shared experience as Mammals of transiting from Womb-life ("on another planet", "in a spaceship", "in outer space" - cf. the movie Alien) to World-life. Community life of humans universally pivots around themes of this birth-(re)birth transit complex. Rituals for disposing of, as in leaving behind, the afterbirth -- the placenta -- are one of these elaborations. In ancient Egypt, the Pharoah's placenta was treated as most holy, conduit of Osiris' original life-totality, like etherokrilno. The snake was associated with this transit by its skin-shedding. It's shed skin => its placenta. And that would be internalized; psychologized; to merge with whatever remained in psychic anatomy of snake-brain processes before mammals e-merged. Thus, re-play of re-plays of re-plays of ... etc. etc. indefinitum .., is the law of trauma-repetition-compulsion forever unrolling, to define the cycles of human history wherever civilization advances. One near-universal symbol of this process is the Uroboros (cf. C. Jung), the self-consuming/ /self-regenerating serpent. This represents totality, as seen from the 'underneath and behind' unconscious side (maternal) of the conscious psyche.


**** Preparing a course proposal for this matrial; with friends and associates *Pluses:
- readily accessible (Jung; the logic of opposites)
- psychologically challenging to assimilate; broadening
- comprehensive for human history
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(Standing token-background: (WWI - WWII (1940: Troy Kent) =>) Vietnam