Inspired by Sharlene
The power of the Moon...
It seems that this little satellite is able to influence us on many ways.
All legends are based on some real facts; it is just hard to retrieve them. For example, Lycanthropy is a kind of mental disease, but, surprinsingly, it acts also at the physiological level... Power of the brain, of the mind...
I think everybody has a beast within, a dark side, a dark potential force.
Is it a kind of self-protection for us ? A reminiscense of old preservative instinct ? Is it something we should awake ?
It seems that animals can control this second personnality, just to assume vital functions. I'm more doubtful about man; nevertheless this possibility has always been fascinating: Dr Jeckyll is a good (and bad) example.
Another example is in Wolfen, this beautiful movie of Michael Wadleigh (the director of Woodstock) : this story tells the very ancient symbiosis existing between Indians and Wolves, their hunting ground, their persecution by white men and, then, their revenge. In this movie, we can see Eddie, one of these Indians, on a full moon night, mutating in a wolf; not on the outside (it's not a werewolf movie) but in the inside, in the mind... The fact is that he can control these new powers and wild instincts, unlike the white man (the hero) who is watching that. It is some ecological modern tale.
We are too modern to use this old power: so we should let our "wild self", our dark side, sleeping...
It seems that this little satellite is able to influence us on many ways.
All legends are based on some real facts; it is just hard to retrieve them. For example, Lycanthropy is a kind of mental disease, but, surprinsingly, it acts also at the physiological level... Power of the brain, of the mind...
I think everybody has a beast within, a dark side, a dark potential force.
Is it a kind of self-protection for us ? A reminiscense of old preservative instinct ? Is it something we should awake ?
It seems that animals can control this second personnality, just to assume vital functions. I'm more doubtful about man; nevertheless this possibility has always been fascinating: Dr Jeckyll is a good (and bad) example.
Another example is in Wolfen, this beautiful movie of Michael Wadleigh (the director of Woodstock) : this story tells the very ancient symbiosis existing between Indians and Wolves, their hunting ground, their persecution by white men and, then, their revenge. In this movie, we can see Eddie, one of these Indians, on a full moon night, mutating in a wolf; not on the outside (it's not a werewolf movie) but in the inside, in the mind... The fact is that he can control these new powers and wild instincts, unlike the white man (the hero) who is watching that. It is some ecological modern tale.
We are too modern to use this old power: so we should let our "wild self", our dark side, sleeping...
posted by L. at 00:21:00
1 Comments:
I think that we all do have some 'other self' that is mainly dormant within our subconcious. I don't know if I'd call it 'dark'... It isn't necessarily evil, it can be a side of us that we don't even know we have, but that will maybe one day come out when we least expect it or when we really need it. I do think that all humans are innately capable of being evil, but fortunately most of us chose not to be. Most of us have a concious and most of us really do care about others. (I don't know if this last part is relevant but I just felt like saying it...)
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