So, I went to see a movie with my friend called "In the Land of Women". I liked it right away because I could see that this man (so cute Adrian Brody) who was lost in life was going to find himself with the help of three women: his grandmother, his next door neighbor (meg ryan), and the neigbor's daughter named Lucy...a budding teenage girl. How could he fail to find himself when he's surrounded by the Tripple Goddess: The Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. He comes to know them all on a personal level, and even helps them a little in return for all that they end up doing for him.
It was the ultimate chick flick because it wasn't just for women, it was about women and their mystery, power, compassion, and passions. I think that if any man wanted to understand women he would seek out such a situation. We are complicated, but not beyond understanding.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
cupid and psyche
While many people might say they are motivated by money, or power, I suggest that everybody on earth is motivated by LOVE. Love is part of the soul, and to have a moment of self-realization where the soul finds love is not only poetic but the ultimate peak of happiness. If one loves power or one's self, even that qualifies...but it is far from realization.
The quest for the soul to find love is the most arduous and gruelling journey in life. To find true love one must expose one's self and find one's self and love one's self. This is harder for some than it is for others. My sister was born loving herself, but she has a hard time loving others because she can't let herself go or give herself over for fear of ridicule or rejection.
To find love is to find yourself as you were before the world did things to you, like made you think a certain way, or made you give up on dreams you've always had. To find love and posess it and know it clearly in the light of day is to metamorphoses into a being that you have always been but never been either.You will be more yourself than you have ever been before.
ps
loving can be anything. You can love people or you can love skiing or running. ANYTHING, that's what's so beautiful about it.
The quest for the soul to find love is the most arduous and gruelling journey in life. To find true love one must expose one's self and find one's self and love one's self. This is harder for some than it is for others. My sister was born loving herself, but she has a hard time loving others because she can't let herself go or give herself over for fear of ridicule or rejection.
To find love is to find yourself as you were before the world did things to you, like made you think a certain way, or made you give up on dreams you've always had. To find love and posess it and know it clearly in the light of day is to metamorphoses into a being that you have always been but never been either.You will be more yourself than you have ever been before.
ps
loving can be anything. You can love people or you can love skiing or running. ANYTHING, that's what's so beautiful about it.
rape/abduction...is it bad?
Is rape and or the abduction of girls bad? Apparently not to the great writers and myth weavers of ancient greece. And apparently not to children's book authors, and apparently not to Disney. (yeah, yeah, we shouldn't listen to Disney, but it's there! Even if we do ignore it)
One of my favorite books of all time is Peter Pan by James M. Barry, but this is nothing more than an abduction tale and could easily be renamed The Rape/Abduction of Wendy. She leaves her mother of her own free will to follow the cocky, cute, boy Peter Pan to Never Never Land where she will remain the Maiden forever. She is kidnapped and coaxed but choses the boy over her family...where have I seen that before?
I have very veheminantly disliked the "rape" stories because of the action that takes place without concent and added it to the list of reasons why the Greeks were perhaps the most perverted of all great societies (with the exception of our own, perhaps. But it is generally aknowleged that rape is a bad thing, so I think we dodged that bullet) Anyway, I recently realized that Peter Pan is simply another story of the abduction of a young woman and began to think differently of it. However, I am stubborn, and chose instead to change my opinion of the "rape" stories present in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pheraps it is merely the angle from which the story is told that made it so horrible to me. Perhaps the woman wanted to be taken...and don't we all want to be caught and seduced by a God, even if he may leave us in Europe?
One of my favorite books of all time is Peter Pan by James M. Barry, but this is nothing more than an abduction tale and could easily be renamed The Rape/Abduction of Wendy. She leaves her mother of her own free will to follow the cocky, cute, boy Peter Pan to Never Never Land where she will remain the Maiden forever. She is kidnapped and coaxed but choses the boy over her family...where have I seen that before?
I have very veheminantly disliked the "rape" stories because of the action that takes place without concent and added it to the list of reasons why the Greeks were perhaps the most perverted of all great societies (with the exception of our own, perhaps. But it is generally aknowleged that rape is a bad thing, so I think we dodged that bullet) Anyway, I recently realized that Peter Pan is simply another story of the abduction of a young woman and began to think differently of it. However, I am stubborn, and chose instead to change my opinion of the "rape" stories present in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pheraps it is merely the angle from which the story is told that made it so horrible to me. Perhaps the woman wanted to be taken...and don't we all want to be caught and seduced by a God, even if he may leave us in Europe?
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