Folklore v FolQlore… Toxic mimic v authentic.
Caroline welcomes Sophia Moskalenko, an expert on the psychology of fairy tales, co-author with Mia Bloom of “How Faery tales shape fighting spirit – Ukranian v Russian Fairy tales,” and “Pastels and Pedophiles – inside the mind of QAnon.”
Cons create cults… authentic creates Community
Delusion – illusion…
Superstition or participatory symbolism…?
Bioneers… Friday the 13th of May- 9 pm- free Palace of Fine Arts SF,
Ami and I presenting…free and open to public, for all in the hood…
https://coyotenetworknews.com/schedule/bioneers-2022/
Now – tis Dark o Moon, before New Moon (partial eclipse) in Taurus Saturday 1:28 pm pt
When people gather to guide culture towards sane reverence…
Here we be…
New Moon 10+ Taurus, conjoining Uranus, this be the New Moon of against all odds,
Uranus trining Zelensky’s one planet in Earth – (Mercury 14+ Capricorn ) “Children’s ward in hospital “… remember him bringing flowers to a young wounded girl in the hospital. She said, “Everyone on Tik-Tok is talking about you, “ to which he responded with jaunty aplomb, “So we’ve occupied Tik-Tok!”
Against all odds , may altruistic ingenuity be his/our ally…
Superstition or participatory symbolism…?
Brazilian servants in a household, with a super tense lady of the house – put scissors under her bed – to cut the tension…
Caroline welcomes Sophia Moskalenko, an expert on the psychology of fairy tales.
co-author with Mia Bloom of How Faery tales shape fighting spirit – Ukrainian v Russian Fairy tales, and “Pastels and Pedophiles – inside the mind of QAnon.”
Research Fellow in Social Psychology, Georgia State University
PhD. in Social and Clinical Psychology from University of Pennsylvania Researched radicalization and terrorism Wrote 5 books and dozens of research articles Taught Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology…
Cons create cults…authentic creates Community
Delusion – illusion…
Delusion from “de-ludo” – “out of the game,”
v illusion, which be “in ludo” – “in the game.”
Let’s be willing to re-assume responsibility for dreaming the desirable world into being.
How fairy tales shape fighting spirit: Ukraine’s children hear bedtime stories of underdog heroes, while Russian children hear tales of magical success
“We believe that one factor underlying the unexpected performance of each country’s military can be traced to the cultural differences between Russians and Ukrainians. Those differences were cultivated in part through the fairy tales of their childhoods.”
“One of us, Sophia Moskalenko, is an expert on the psychology of fairy tales. The other, Mia Bloom, studies children’s mobilization into violent extremism – why and how children turn to violence. We know the power of folklore in shaping the worldview of children and, ultimately, of the adults they grow up to be.”
“Underdog hero vs. magical thinking
In Ukrainian children’s bedtime stories, the main characters often start out as unlikely heroes, but their courage, cleverness and grit help them succeed against the odds.
In Russian fairy tales such as “By the Pike’s Wish,” “Princess Frog” and “Sivka Burka,” the main character eventually prevails. He doesn’t win through his own virtues, though, but through the intervention of a magical being – a fish, a frog, a horse – that does all the hard work while the main character claims credit.
These Russian folk tales seem to suggest that the recipe for success is not to be too smart or work too hard, like the two older brothers, but to sit tight in hope that magic will take care of everything.”
Well what a time to convene,
heading into mega-delusion fest….(Shadow of Piscean team) –
So let’s animate the desirable – lest we leave our imaginative powers, open to being hijacked by dementors…
running on fuel of compensatory condescension…
What makes our fellow citizens susceptible to the QAnon virus?
Dogma
craving for certainty
and specialness…
Despite our guest saying the mythos of Judaism is “Chosen People,”
I am just in favor of tossing that mythos of “chosen” into eclipse cauldron…as delusional..
The appropriate craving for Community,
the toxic mimic of cult
4% Europeans lonely
46% American lonely
Steve Bhaerman quips : “The answer to the drug problem?”
Improve Reality…”
and highly recommend :
“The Futurological Congress” – by Polish writer Stanislav Lem
and “We” by Eugene Zamiatin….
Bain – Marie (Michael Maier’s Symbols of the Golden Table)
So, from my outside DC location the New Moon Rising sign is 28+ Virgo, a favorite:
“In a cave overhung with twisted roots –
a seeker pours over the glowing pages of an illuminated alchemical text…”
A down-load of Nature’s guiding genius be available…
And for bonus points of Beauty and Grace, we have Venus,
exalted in Pisces exactly conjoining Jupiter:
“A fertile garden under Moon is mysteriously alive… Underlying powers of Nature…”
also available to our befoibled species…
Jupiter- Venus sextiles Pluto – the stories of kinship are more powerful than tyranny…
Saturn (24+ Aquarius) exactly trines Ceres Demeter (24+ Gemini)-
So benevolent collaborative Intelligences are available, inviting us to dance…
So, yes, let us be available, and willing…
