The Things To Understand About Mother Earth, And Father Fortress.

In the one work of fiction I was able to do (in between being a programmer, and a Libertarian Socialist, and partly because I needed to show myself that I could do fiction, but also because I had to have a beginning vehicle with which to start talking about my Philosophy) "The Light Of Creation," I had in story names for the the two fundamentals of Cosmolosophy. They were clunky as hell names (The Crucible of Creation, and The Citadel of Certainty for The Elemental Embrace, and Mind respectively) that I didn't like at all at the time, but, for the life of me, I couldn't come up with anything else better to replace them with. Hopefully, I think I may have alternatives that I would like to propose. And those are, as you might already have guessed, are Mother Earth, and Father Fortress.

Let me also stress here that this is not an attempt to introduce some kind of quasi deities into a discussion of a philosophy. Not in the least. This is, rather, an effort to articulate essential tendencies in what I have already described as "unbounded infinite potential." And doing so using metaphorical entities as encapsulating shorthand to make the articulation easier to understand.

That being said, here is a beginning, or a continuation (it's hard for me to know which I stumbled into first), definition of these two elementals:

1. Mother Earth, or the Elemental Embrace, or Nature, or whatever else you want to call her, is the wild magic of unbridled fertility, riotous combination, creation, destruction and continual rebirth. It is the meaning space of the body, and physical space. Here the individual matters only as the possibility to keep the whole going. As such great pain, and pleasure. Extreme joy or sorrow. Equal desires for violence and calm. All are a part of her. And all must be born without question. The whole is all that matters, and choice is a luxury much too easily abused for her. The individual must always be sacrificed for the whole whenever needed. And always must each player in the game keep reproducing with the abandon appropriate to the wild animal lust it springs from.

2. Father Fortress is the rational objectifier who is the meaning space of the mind. He is the individual point of view created by an objectifying mind; a mind creating a separation between inner, and outer experience, so that mind can make meaningful connections on how things work around it as it grows in the process of associating living experience with the increasing accumulation of encapsulations that structure outside, and inside, experience relationships. And with that structure, and with the innate need to keep building more, does he make things to hold on to (which of course goes hand in hand for what we have a handle on, so as to be able to grasp at all in new ways). To be able to remember the things that work in the harsh world of physical space, where so many of the ways of "why" are still unknown the meaning processors. But of course he is also the one who cannot easily let go of the structures he has created. And cannot easily abide the change the always comes from the Mother Earth side. And of course, having identity, he is the one who most values the idea of choice, and is most insistent on the individual's right to keep it.

First, of course, is the question of possible false association of gender to either of these two elementals and the only answer that I can come up with so far, that feels even close to right, is to say that they are justified, and not justified, at the same time. This is difficult for me because I also see mother earth as possibly in terms of the Great Vagina, and Great Womb, that seduces, and induces surrender, and the falling into, of fullest immersion. Where then is the entity remade and born anew. Pretty much the Tantric idea of both perfect spiritual, and physical union. But then, of course, the thing to remember is that men are part women, and there's still a deep structural connection between us, and what is woman, despite the meaning systems of the other chromosome coding. So even if we were to try and do stereotypical finger pointing via gender types, we'd still be pointing at ourselves in a bit way, so it wouldn't make much sense to even try. All the while the guilt from the empathy thing, for either sex in dumping either elemental, (even though we are only talking metaphorically here), on them as "that is their gender thing," makes you feel uncomfortable for even considering doing.

Be that as it may, but also indirectly to related to the above, interestingly enough, is what I think might be the, perhaps unexpected, little detail of how Mother Earth is not where empathy comes from.

Empathy must come from the individual's choice to try and imagine what another meaning processor is experiencing. However, in order for that to have any real meaning, the individual must be able to access things through both Body Meaning space (at least in part) in order to more fully immerse themselves into as much of what that other has going on in both their Mind meaning space, and Body Meaning space, and Physical Meaning space situations; In other words they have to access both the rational aspects, as well as the feeling aspects, of another, in order to truly get into an empathic connection; a life habit, of course, for which said individual would have no clue about unless they were patiently nurtured into it. Which, in case you haven't been paying attention, a lack in generational stability, received inside cooperating, self supportive communities, that also provide continuity, as well as general material well being for everyone, would make providing such a human necessary trait all but impossible one would thing. Any more than keeping a good sense of what reason should be within such a deficiency.

I would also suggest that Mother Earth is not where a sense of ecology comes from. And I say that because she does not want to be concerned with remembering anything, even though, of course, she is possible only by the very nature of physical meaning space making structure possible at all to begin with; as chunks of matter lead to chemistry, which leads to bio chemistry, which leads to DNA, and then to the encoded associations of meanings that are able to get so worked up about having sex in the first place. No, to be able to be concerned about the big picture you need to not only have the ability to organize things into grouped relationships, you must also be able to layer those groupings in ever more complex ways, and for that you need very subtle structure. Lots and lots of meaningfully subtle structure.

The bottom line, though, for me is that, as the empathy example suggests, we can see very clearly, why both sides of this metaphorical divide need to be listened to, in every way we can, if one is to be on a path that gives you the best qualities of both elementals, for the best chance for you, and the whole, to flourish, as well as grow; with diversity in structure, and depth in the textured feelings of its meaning, as well as simply more quantity.

And if you think you have better suggestions for the names, or other thoughts about how the two should, or shouldn't for that matter, interact, make a comment here, or maybe you should start your own blog; a blog for a more comprehensive view of what you think would be a better description of their traits, and their interactions. Get a few of those going and I'd be willing to bet we' have some very interesting takes on how the entirety works. Something to think about at least.