VL-IV pgs. 98/99: Postmodern Mysticism

[Michael Bailey]

>> Starhawk deals out the biggest possible heresies by positing Goddess as top
> of her non-hierachical heap 'o deities. Starhawk started out as a Jungian
> psychotherapist [and Jew] prior to becoming a full-time professional
> activist 'n author [and Witch.]  Her notions of social control were formed
> by the sorts of archetypes that Jung focused on. Starhawk claims Robert
> Graves' "The White Goddess" as a primary influence—didn't OBA name-check
> Graves in "V."? She's moved on since then and has backed up her work with
> plenty of hard science as regards ecology and permaculture.
>

Possible objective correlative (alongside Mary Daly) for Sister Rochelle?

>
> . . . reminds me of the really excellent "scrying" point you made
>> about Prairie looking in the mirror and seeing first her mother and
>> then DL.
>
> Thanks, I really ought to post a number of Pynchon's scrying scenes, he's as
> familiar with the subject as any I've read so far—Hector Zugina's zomokepsis
> being a case in point.
>

the mirror scene bilocates into Vineland ER - ie, the Arian
controversy is resolved non-violently and even more persuasively than
Dr Johnson refuted Bishop Berkeley -- Prairie is consubstantial with
her mother in the mirror and the two are joined by the holy terror DL
- and has bearing on the Enochian read of Lot 49 since the Enochian
revelations were via the medium of a (really big? no, it was kind of
little I read) shewstone, ie scrying...



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