So, chaos goddesses. And hermeneutics. I’m resisting writing a blog post about myth, rationality, and meta-rationality; chaos and order ≈ nebulosity and pattern ≈ emptiness and form; gender and archetypes. Because I have no time to write, and that stuff is … esoteric.
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Here is Hakim Bey on Tiamat, JBP’s favorite goddess—from his CHAOS, one of the best things ever written about nebulosity and pattern. (See, I’m trying to get this stuff out of my system without blogging!) https://hermetic.com/bey/taz1 pic.twitter.com/FdZ0Lh1TJF
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Prajñaparamita, the serene goddess of emptiness-wisdom, is the same person as Tröma Nakmo…https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/999765677547311104 …
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David Chapman @MeaningnessThe shape-shifting Chaos Dragon becomes an ogress, a vampire, the Himalayas, the night sky, and then appears to you as the Goddess Prajñaparamita, incarnation of Cosmic Emptiness and Wisdom. She whispers words in your ear as you make love. You can never quite remember them after pic.twitter.com/fp8hBix8MIShow this thread1 reply 2 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
Tröma Nakmo, garlanded with severed heads. Her job is to slice the top of your skull off while you meditate, hack up your body, and stew it into a feast for ghosts and demons. She also is the goddess of wisdom-emptiness… in a more energetic form.pic.twitter.com/kBeOeGMCPT
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Tröma Nakmo is not evil—she is every bit as benevolent as Prajñaparamita. The middle-eastern religions are dualistic: all about the Cosmic War of Good And Evil. That is not how the world works. Other mythologies do not reflect this error.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/999034485273325568 …
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If interpretation of myth is mere free association, it becomes meaningless. Meaningful use orients to a system of understanding. The function of a chaos goddess in a dualist-eternalist religion is quite different than in a non-dual system, e.g.https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/989602858394796032 …
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The opposite error to free association is force-fitting everything to a fixed system of interpretation, which drains myth of meaning.
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Exactly the same two errors are possible in any attempt to understand anything, including in science, engineering, management, etc. Being sensitive to *how* a rational system relates to reality is the essence of meta-rationality. Does the system cherish the phenomena?
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“Form is emptiness; emptiness also is form. Emptiness is no other than form; form is no other than emptiness.” —Prajñaparamita Hridaya Sutra (“The Scripture of the Essence of Perfected Wisdom”)
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