The old in this case is myth. One can analyse archaic stories - such as the Gilgamesh saga - through the prism of dream symbolism, as Kari Hohne does in The Mythology of Sleep: the Waking Power of Dreams.
The hero is forever fighting - reminiscent of Marvel Comics - and the aim is the integration of different aspects of their persona. Enkidu, the forest dwelling wild man, is sent to kill the tyrant Gilgamesh, but they end up partners in arms. They set off to kill Humbaba, hideous guardian of the Cedar Forest.
Fear can take on monstrous proportions, especially when it is trapped inside of the forest of our beliefs. (page 190)
Humbaba is the Shadow Self, who must be confronted, challenged, defeated and integrated with the Self. This is the heroic challenge. Conflict and defeat are keys to integrating Self.
If we are angry, we meet a world that is angry. If we only know pain, we find ways to validate it. This is something we fail to realize as Victims. (page 194)
It seems to me our modern world of confusion is to validate the Victim ethos, as opposed to the Hero ethos. We live in a world of isolated egos, never able to integrate Self through conflict.
Conflicts cannot only be psychological in nature, they exist in a concrete world of differences that manifest in nature as predator-prey.
These two recognise their opposite in eachother, and it identifies, strengthens their belief in Self. Without conflict and the battle, the integration of Self is hardly conceivable.
This is where feudalism is much more of a forest of belief and fear than is our modern neutralised world of ego. I did say earlier that Putin's aggression in Ukraine was confused because, in the normal course of events, communes are rebellious places, and they respond best to tyranny
But we do not live in normal times; there is not so much tyranny and rebellion as the tragedy of an ego that is incapable of integrating the Self.
The Self can be integrated through tyranny and rebellion, as it was on the Middle Ages - and in the field of heroic fantasy. It can only be integrated through differences, it cannot be integrated in a world where everything becomes the same.
Putin's point about the Victim status of 'cancel culture' was well-made (namechecking JK Rowling, prev.) It is possible the West is trying to cancel Russia, and the route to sameness could be Ukraine.
To make this point completely visual, here's a clip of Putin's daughter Katerina, performing as a competitive
Acrobats throw eachother around, and it's noticeable the man is heavier and taller to accommodate the tricky routine. Physically that's very apparent. Compare this with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
The trouble is that the Western way is composed of distorted rhythms that neutralise the psycho-sexual aspect of physical reality. Back in P200, it was pointed-out that a spinning-top must have invariable time if it is to have a primordial rhythm. The Earth is a spinning-top, so it must have invariable time (not relative.)
The sun is spinning and pulsating; the moon is spinning and orbiting. In space they are acrobatically linked through invariable time. The closeness of the connection is almost incestuous.
So what has that to do with Ukraine? Ukraine has become a proxy war of the West versus Russia, whereby GPS missile technology is showing dividends.
GPS is relative time, relying on ultra-accurate calculation (by machine.) Musk's Starlink array is a vital part of this war.
While Putin might prefer to have s conflict of tyranny versus rebellion (a type of balance), the actual conflict is a proxy war of West versus Russia. The proxy-war does not care for ideals or beliefs, and is part of the Victim mentality that the West fosters in place of a true religion.
Both the West and Putin are confused, and this confusion spreads like a cancer to all areas of modern rule (misrule.) The Victim status has now descended on the Caribbean. They cannot accept that conflicts of the past are part of an evolving process, and instead only know anger and pain. Prince William, unfortunately, on a Commonwealth tour with Kate, is bent like a weak reed.
In a world of victimhood only the hero can conquer; only primordial myth can defeat the weakness of a modern rule of order that is disorder; the disorder of sameness; of calculation as opposed to belief; of neutralising information as opposed to psycho-sexual action.
