Without a Vision, the People perish

“Without a Vision, the People perish”

These Chapters deal with an unusual theme; they describe and reconcile important elements of the ongoing European and American Mystery Traditions – within the framework of modern social-political conditions. Some of the ideas may therefore seem strange if you have no background for them. My approach is eclectic; I do not work from any doctrine, and I have made every effort to give credit where credit is due – there is a lot of that! Just as one cannot make a meal from one ingredient, neither have I attempted to derive everything from one source, or from one point of view.

Nonetheless, the results and any mistakes herein are my own, and can only reflect my state of understanding at this snapshot in time. My research is constantly accelerating state of flux; I reserve the right to revise my descriptions as new information is assimilated and old understandings continue to develop. New editions, easily made and accessed digitally, will be available through the Files section of my discussion list All Our Relations, which concerns itself with such matters as you will find analyzed herein.

Those understandings have gone through enough consistent transformations that their fundamental nature has become ever more clear; clear enough to warrant their publication.

Neither the topics nor my treatment of them lend themselves to a novelistic or gee-whiz approach, so those of us spoiled by either high literature or television may have a bit of a tough time with it. In compensation, I anticipate that the content itself is such that the reader will find him- or her-self engaged.
As my inspirers require – and as Wittgenstein states:
“I should not like my writing to spare people the trouble of thinking.”
Our crises are deep and manifold; our solutions will not be obtained without the most rigorous, penetrating, agenda-free, and unconventional scrutiny. Our left-brain muscles have suffered severe atrophy, rendered suspect by their abuses. Without discernment, we are nothing but suckers for the worst downside for what we so glibly call Progress – or for what “new and improved” versions that same industry is so adept at producing and marketing for our buffudlement.
If I have not made at least a good start in this, I will nonetheless consider myself to have succeeded if you, dear reader, are impelled to do better – or your own.
Stephen Clarke

Santa Fe, NM

mozartg@yahoo.com

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AllOurRelations

“The past is never dead.

- William Faulkner

“The mission of man is to remember. To remember

to remember. To taste everything in eternity

as once in time. All happens only once but that

is forever.”
- Henry Miller

“The Future ain’t what it used to be.”

“Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm”

rev. 8 - 8 - 2004

Introduction

This Chapter is an expanded and revised version of a presentation made to a small Santa Fe, NM working group in the year 1999, originally entitled: America, The Bomb, and Our Own Dark Goddess - An Introduction to the Deep Background of Los Alamos National Laboratories. It can be read as an historical analysis, as a collated set of diary entries, or as a meditational workbook. Essentially, it is my story; a fragment of my biography. Face-to-face, it would recount differently. I trust that there is some power in it that will reward the attentive reader.

While Los Alamos is the birthplace of the atomic bomb and a prime hub of the post-WWII military-industrial-national security state complex, it is only a signifier of still deeper dynamics. The aim of this Chapter is to investigate and reveal deeper aspects of that phenomenon, particularly those which derive from the pre-Columbian roots of North American history.

Note: The general contour and content of this series was laid out well before the Year 2000 “elections” and the resultant 9/11/2001 flash point.

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