Webb Traverse, AtDTDA (7) 186. 1-19

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Tue Apr 17 10:28:59 CDT 2007


               Polker may only be witnessing tonight---or he may 
          really be part of it. He hasn't been shown which it is. 
          Look at this. There is about to expedited, for 
          Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, his dream 
          of 1865, the great Dream that revolutionized 
          chemistry and made the IG possible. So that the 
          right material may find its way to the right dreamer, 
          everyone, everything involved must be exactly in 
          place in the pattern. It was nice of Jung to give us the 
          idea of an ancestral pool in which everybody shares 
          the same dream material. But how is it that we are 
          each visited as indivividuals, each by exactly and only 
          by what he needs? Doesn't that imply a switching-
          path of some kind? a bureaucracy? Why shouldn't the 
          IG go to seances? They ought to be quite at home 
          with the bureaucracies of the other side. Kekule's 
          dream here's being routed now past points which may 
          arc through the silence, in bright reluctance to live 
          inside to moving moment, an imperfect, a human light, 
          over here interfering with the solemn binary decisions 
          of these agents, who now are allowing the cosmic 
          Serpent, in the violet splendor of its scales, shining 
          that is definitely not human, to pass---without feeling, 
          without wonder (after you get a little time in---whatever 
          that means over here---one of these archetypes gets 
          to look pretty much like any other, oh you hear some 
          of these new hires, the seersucker crowd come in the 
          first day, "wow! Hey---that's th-th' Tree o' Creation! 
          Huh? Ain't it! Jeepers!" but they calm down fast 
          enough, pick up the reflexes for Intent to Gawk, you 
          know self-criticism's an amazing technique, it shouldn't 
          work but it does. . . .

Gravity's Rainbow, 411 or 417

Jeepers!

http://tinyurl.com/27egzj

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/odin/odin-2.htm


          Midgard Serpent
 
          The World Serpent. The Midgard Serpent, called 
          Jörmungand (Jormungand) or Jörmungandr, was 
          an offspring of Loki and the giantess Angerboda. 
          Jörmungand symbolised evil.

          Not only could Jörmungand kill its victim by crushing 
          constriction, the Midgard Serpent's venom was lethal 
          even against the gods. Jörmungand was Thor's 
          most deadly enemy.

          To confine the ever-growing serpent, Odin had 
          Jörmungand thrown into the sea. But, Jörmungand 
          grew so large that his entire body completely 
          encircled the world. See Monster Bound in Ragnarök.

          Thor failed to kill Jörmungand, the first time the two 
          met. Thor had hooked Jörmungand like a fish. The 
          thunder-god tried to smash Jörmungand's head in 
          with the Mjollnir, Thor's magic hammer. But the 
          frightened frost-giant Hymir cut off Thor's line, 
          allowing the Midgard Serpent to escape. See 
          Fishing Expedition in Of Thor and Giants.

          At Ragnarök (Ragnarok), Jörmungand escaped his 
          underwater confinement. Thor managed to kill the 
          evil serpent with the Mjollnir; but Thor succumbed 
          to the deadly venom from Jörmungand.

http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/monsters.html

"We all seem to be dreaming the same dream."
Regular Boinklin, "Roller Maidens From Outer Space"

http://www.doctechnical.com/fst/notes/rmos.htm



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