Between the Devil and the Dragon

Human Condition Pyramid:
Level 4: Infinite Cycle of Self-Deception (AKA Denial)
Level 3: Denial, Egocentricity, Anthropocentricity (AKA Self-Worship)
Level 2: Pendulum of Self-Love and Self-Hatred (AKA "God" vs. "Devil")
Level 1: Theory of Mind and The Illusion of Individuality

** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
** http://ezinearticles.com/?Deconstructing-the-Illusion-of-Individuality&id=7241981

Self-Deception Diagram:
** http://www.aaronsocio.com/uploads/Cycle_of_self-deception.png
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE&list=PL24FFB42A58FA93AE&index=77&feature=plpp_video

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished animal and an unfinished man. It is this incurable unfinishedness which sets man apart from other living things. For, in the attempt to finish himself, man becomes a creator. Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

There is something inhuman about perfection. The performance of the expert strikes us as instinctual or mechanical. It is a paradox that, although the striving to master a skill is supremely human, the total mastery of a skill approaches the nonhuman. They who would make man perfect end up dehumanizing him.

The source of man's creativeness is in his deficiencies; he creates to compensate himself for what he lacks. He became Homo Faber--a maker of weapons and tools--to compensate for his lack of specialized organs. He became Homo Ludens--a player, tinkerer and artist--to compensate for his lack of inborn skills. He became a speaking animal to compensate for his lack of the telepathic faculty by which animals communicate with each other through DMT. He became a thinker to compensate for the ineffectualness of his instincts.

Man was nature's mistake--she neglected to finish him--and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. For it was in the process of finishing himself that man got out from underneath nature's inexorable laws, and became her most formidable adversary.

** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-eEJn_L3To&list=PL24FFB42A58FA93AE&index=68&feature=plpp_video

Due to the imperfection of man's instincts there is a pause of faltering and groping between his perception and action. This pause is a seedbed of the apprehensions, the insights, the images, and the concepts which are the warp and woof of the creative process. A shrinking of the pause results in some degree of dehumanization. This is as true of highly trained specialists and dogmatic True Believers as of the mentally deficient.

Both iron discipline and blind faith strive to eliminate the pause of hesitation before action, while the discipline that humanizes and civilizes aims at widening the interval between impulse and execution.

Art humanizes because the artist must grope and feel his way, and he never ceases to learn.

** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTSAjZEqPw&list=PL24FFB42A58FA93AE&index=101&feature=plpp_video

You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature--by making him one with rocks, vegetation and animals--as by turning him into a machine. Both the nature and the mechanical are the opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine.

To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner workings of nature that man became a builder of machines. Such is the nature of the combustion engine, which acts as the parallel of a living global organism. Such is the nature of the Internet, which acts as the parallel of the living global consciousness.

It is also obvious that when man domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for the production of food, power and beauty.

Man created God in his own image. In whose image did he create the devil?  The devil with hoofs, tail and horns is obviously a beast masquerading as a man. Does he, then, personify nature? Is there a confontation--God and man on one side, the devil and nature on the other?

Does the devil personify not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us—the infinitely ferocious and cunning pre-human monstrosity that is still within us all, sealed away in the subconscious of every psyche?

** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZvlvKszsuM

When early human civilizations lived in awe of nature and saw it as an impossible fate, nature was personified not in a devil but in a dragon. The dragon is a composite of the fearsome strengths and uncanny faculties of the animal world. Any piercing-together of parts of various animals will result in something like a dragon. Vasari tells how the young Leonardo da Vinci, wanting to paint something that would frighten everybody, brought to his room every sort of living creature he could lay his hands on and set out to paint a composite animal. "He produced an animal so horrible and fearful that it seemed to poison the air with its fiery breath. This he represented coming out of some dark broken rocks, with venom issuing from its jaws, fire from its eyes, and smoke from its nostrils. A monstrous and horrible thing indeed." In the course of time the dragon came to embody the menace and mystery of the whole nonhuman cosmos.

"The dragon," says Kakuzo Akakuro, "unfolds himself in the storm clouds, he washes his mane in the blackness of the seething whirlpool. His claws are in the forks of lightning and his scales begin to glisten in the bark of rainswept pine trees. His voice is heard in the hurricane."

Since early civilizations awed by nature equated power with nature, they invested their human leaders, emporers, despots, warriors, sorcerers, etc with the attributes of the dragon. Thus, unlike the devil, the dragon is a man masquerading as a beast.

The dragon is infinitely more ancient than the devil. The earliest representation of the dragon is the painting of the sorcerer in the cave of Trois Freres. This Late Paleolithic painting presents a sorcerer decked out as a composite animal with the horns of a reindeer, the ears of a wolf, the eyes of an owl, the paws of a bear and the tail of a horse.

It was a feat of the ancient Hebrews that though without an advanced technology they lost their awe of nature, and saw it as man's task to "subdue the earth." Abrahamic Monotheism was born through Judaism, the adherence to a one-and-only invisible God, followed by Christianity and Islam later.

** http://www.aaronsocio.com/uploads/Abrahamic_monotheism.png

Once the human race—-backed by Abrahamic Monotheism—-assumed a biased attitude toward nature, the devil came upon the scene and took the place of the dragon.

Far outside the realm of human civilization, where Mother Nature still has the upper hand, the dragon reigns supreme.

But within the confines of modern civilization is the domain of the devil.

It is human compassion—-and human compassion alone—-that stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Nature, on the other hand, has no compassion. It is, in the words of William Blake, “A creation that groans, living on death; where fish and bird and beast and tree and metal and stone live by devouring.” Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment she knows is death.

Nowadays the devil is decked out in the latest fashion, builds the tallest steeples and quotes the latest scriptures.

It is of interest that at his first appearance in the Garden of Eden, before clothes were invented, the devil came undisguised, and contrived the fall of man from his future existence. For “original sin” has its roots in our own origins:

It is the default psyche of male self-hatred and self-worship which is the devil.

Yet, considering man's origins, the startling thing is not the evil and self-hatred that is at the root of all cherished values, but at the alchemy of the soul which transmutes unflagging malice and savagery into charity, love, and visions that reach unto heaven.

For the pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own environment and towards its own kind. The jealous, malicious, all-hating “I” thrives on the misfortunes of others, and this “I” is the foundation onto which all noble attributes rest. And history has taught us clearly that all noble attributes—courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.—can be transmuted into ruthlessness.

Had it not been for the appearance of a mutation of sociableness, by means of babbling, laughter, and the dance, the species would have perished.

Humanization was not a leap upward, but a groping toward survival.

And since it still holds true that man is mankind's deadliest enemy, the survival of the species depends on further humanization. Until the majority of our species becomes human--stops pretending to allay responsibility on invisible forces and stops succumbing to self-hatred and self-loathing--humanity will all be to some extent devils.

Beasts masquerading as humans.

We are now about to witness the next stage of humanity.

We of the present are vividly aware that the triumphs of the scientist and technologist are setting the stage for the psychiatrist and policeman. It will only be through psychology and the support of existing police and military that we will ever be able to make positive social changes for humanity.

It is female energy, compassion and self-love which will shake this world to it's foundations.

Starting with the $1.5 trillion dollar per year global war machine.

OFFENSIVE MILITARY STAND DOWN ORDERS, V-DAY 2-14-2013:
** http://pastebin.com/LcYfpWgQ

** http://onebillionrising.org/page/event/search_simple
** http://www.imaginepeace.com
** http://imaginepeacetower.com
** http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24FFB42A58FA93AE&feature=view_all
** http://www.aaronsocio.com/uploads/Meaning-of-life.jpg
** http://www.aaronsocio.com/uploads/Military_Industrial_Complex.gif
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XihQeZpwqpE&list=PL24FFB42A58FA93AE&index=77&feature=plpp_video

In solidarity to the psyches of Eric Hoffer and Michel de Montaigne who successfully deconstructed the human psyche.

The Core Problem With Humanity: The SH-APD/NM Psyche, an Interspecies Predator:
** http://pastebin.com/81XiJen7

The Gaia Hypothesis of Dr. James Lovelock is the Alpha and the Omega:
** http://pastebin.com/jhs5NpwE

All Life Is One
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