Analysis of Psyche’s Refracted Light Gives Ego Spark
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
Descent and ascent,
human search to know ‘The Self,’
journey of ego,
is archetypal journey
into The Great Unconscious.
Journey of ego,
as reflection of Psyche,
creates its own spark,
serving as a bright lantern
in cultural mythic realms.
The spark of ego
is reflection of Psyche,
is form, is image,
and therefore a reflection —
projected in religion.
All world religions
are container projections
of Psyche’s webbing,
filtered by cultural norms
for human revelation.
This psychic webbing,
hidden in numinous realms,
is what provides light
that comes in refracted form
to remove us from darkness.
It takes a journey
that requires our descent
to the underworld —
and our ultimate ascent
in search of enlightenment.
We are light seekers
bearing refracted torchlights —
beaming messages
as our religious dogmas,
reflected from the Psyche.
Scheme | AXBCD BCXXE BCXFF GGHXF HEXXD CAXAX XDXDC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 01001 1011101 10110 111010 010110 10110 1010110 01111 1010110 0100101 01110 1010110 11110 010010 0100010 11010 1010010 11010 1011001 110010 11010 10011 11011 11011 1011110 11010 10101001 1010 01010001 0110100 11110 1011 10100 1100101 0101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 855 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
We are light seekers bearing refracted torchlights: As rational Homo Sapiens, we see through a cultural glass darkly, experiencing reality as particles of light refracted from its wholeness. In such a state, the world, since the dawn of time, has increasingly become our provider of a pervasive compulsive competition of cultural divisiveness, pitting the treasures of one’s national mythologies and religious beliefs against those of another’s, in stubborn opposition to our common universal heritage as Homo Sapiens. In plain ignorance of, and even resistance to, this incomparable heritage of ours, we fail to recognize that, as members of the human species, we are gifted with having the autonomous Psyche as our common source of grounding. To overcome the myopic egoistic competitive vision that is prominent in worldwide human societies, both the outer extraverted process of human rational thought, and the inner introverted machinations of the Psyche, must diligently work cooperatively in the effort to integrate and return human societies to psychic wholeness. To achieve that goal, there has to occur in the human collective system as a whole, an objective relationship of the complex rational nature of mankind with the internal subjective process of the integrated autonomous Psyche. To survive, evolve, and advance as a spiritual species, humanity must at least attempt outwardly to emulate its archetypal, inward nature; must strive to fulfill its goal of individuated oneness and completion that makes us truly human. But then again, and ironically so, the larger truth is that cultural competition is the great motivator for the advancement of human civilization and survival. Nature, after all, provides humanity an internal mechanism to pursue constantly after progress and to find balance in the measure, often reflecting the katabasis and anabasis, the descent and ascent journey of spiritual intelligence in human life; recognized as the illumination of the soul at different levels and at different interstices of understanding, as the classical poet, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), of Florence, Italy, observed and portrayed in his Divine Comedy. more »
Written on January 07, 2023
Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 07, 2023
Modified by karlcfolkes on January 11, 2023
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