Teheuti
I've been reading William Irwin Thompson's book _Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness_. In it he says, "There is a shadow side to all leaders that gets unconsciously picked up and acted out by their followers."
He uses Rudolf Steiner as an example here. "The cultural reaction of the intense leader-led romantic movements of spiritual renewal created the shock waves that gave us Wagner and Hitler. The cult of the Germanic artist went form Goethe to Wagner to Hitler, the artist manqué. there is a lesson to be learned in the phenomenology of revitalization movements and in the religious effort to institutionalize the ineffable . . . [that eventually] degrades the movement and turns it into its opposite. One goes from complex multidimensional Steiner to humorless cult . . .")
So, I was wondering - What is the shadow side to Waite/Smith that gets unconsciously picked up and acted out by all the RWS-copycats?
Mary
He uses Rudolf Steiner as an example here. "The cultural reaction of the intense leader-led romantic movements of spiritual renewal created the shock waves that gave us Wagner and Hitler. The cult of the Germanic artist went form Goethe to Wagner to Hitler, the artist manqué. there is a lesson to be learned in the phenomenology of revitalization movements and in the religious effort to institutionalize the ineffable . . . [that eventually] degrades the movement and turns it into its opposite. One goes from complex multidimensional Steiner to humorless cult . . .")
So, I was wondering - What is the shadow side to Waite/Smith that gets unconsciously picked up and acted out by all the RWS-copycats?
Mary