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The Myth of Narcissus: Seeing Only Oneself

Echo was cursed to only repeat what others had said, and fell in love with Narcissus, who shunned her.  She wasn’t the only one Narcissus treated coldly.  He found himself in a grove with a pool of water, and, falling deeply in love with what he saw when he bent over it, he was mesmerized until he died.
 
We discuss this myth, using Bulfinch’s version, and go on to discuss psychology, philosophy and spirituality against the background of Narcissus, his rejection of Echo, and being lost in the pool.
 
Chapters:
 
00:00 Introduction
10:25 The Pool
16:22 The Reflection of Narcissus’ Pool is What the Mind Sees
22:34 Narcissus Rejects Love for Another
27:30 Attachment Theory
36:40 Divorce
48:40 Rousseau & Amour-Propre
57:26 Why Narcissists Don’t Seek Help
1:07:45 Narcissism and the Ecological Crisis
1:08:45 Realizing True Nature and Narcissism
1:15:28 An Antidote to Ecocentrism
1:21:10 Vervaeke’s Narcissism: Unearned Positive Regard
1:30:34 Dialogue as Spiritual Practice
1:33:44 Echo’s Touch Repulses Narcissus
1:37:08 The Echo of Orpheus
1:42:30 On the Edge of Narcissus’ Pond
1:50:00 The Decline of Social Media: Cultivating the Mask
2:12:30 A Surge in the Need for Religion
2:18:02 Not Forcing the Religion
 
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Grimm's "The Seven Ravens:" Sacrifice for Family

A father had seven sons, but no daughters, and wished for and finally got one.  His sons went to get water for the Christening, but dropped the bucket into it.  They did not know what to do, so they stayed out, and the father in his frustration wished them to become ravens, and so they did, and flew away.  Now the daughter grew to be healthy and beautiful, and did not know of her brothers.  But one day in town she heard others talking of them, and she felt guilty.  She decided to go out and find them, encountering bodies at the ends of the cosmos, sacrificing her finger in a glass mountain, and meeting a strange mountain creature.  But the ring she brought reminded them of their human lives, and with the help of the stars, the daughter is able to restore her family.  
 
Join us for a short meditation, the reading of this tale, and a discussion of it!  
 
Chapters:
 
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Short Breathing Meditation & Oasis Contemplation
08:08 Reading of “The Seven Ravens”
14:16 The Theme of Sacrifice in this Story
15:59 Pagan Worldview Seeping Through this Story
21:54 The Image of the Glass Mountain
24:22 The Wish in Folktales
25:35 The Celestial Symbols
28:04 The Theme of Sacrifice & Closing Thoughts
“The Seven Ravens,” trans. Lucas & illus. by Arthur Rackham:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Fairy_Tales_of_the_Brothers_Grimm_(Rackham)/The_Seven_Ravens
 
(A Clip from the Episode Grimm’s “The Seven Ravens:” Sacrifice for Family)
 
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Lumsden’s “Beauty and the Beast:” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(Lumsden_and_Son)
 
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Clip Intro Music “A Baroque Letter” - Aaron Kenny

The Empty, Ugly Palace (Clip)

When you've  got your basic needs met, like the father does when he takes shelter in Beast's castle, one looks for transcendence, including beauty.
 
This is another story of the emptiness of the palace symbol.
 
(A Clip from the Episode “Beauty and the Beast: The Need for Beauty”)
 
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Lumsden’s “Beauty and the Beast:” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(Lumsden_and_Son)
 
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"Beauty and the Beast:" The Need for Beauty

A rich merchant with three sons and three daughters– the eldest daughters hold out on marriage to a Duke or Earl, but the youngest, aptly-named Beauty, does so to stay with her father a few more years.  The merchant falls in his fortunes, and they have to move to the country.  The men apply themselves to husbandry and tillage, and Beauty to housework, but the eldest stay lazy.
 
One day, the merchant gets a letter about a ship arriving with effects of his and he sets off, asking his daughters what they would like.  The eldest ask for goods of luxury, but Beauty only for a simple rose.  When the merchant arrived at port, they went to law with him about the goods, and he left poor as before.
 
Glad, however, to return to his family, the merchant got lost in the woods as a storm brewed.  He spied a castle lit from top to bottom in the distance and took shelter there.  Strangely, the beautiful manor was unoccupied, although a large meal was set out.  He ate and eventually began to explore the house and its luxurious apartments.  Sleep overtook him in one of them.
 
In the morning he was delighted to see arbours outside, and went to them, dining on chocolate mysteriously set out for him on the way.  Remembering Beauty’s gift request, he took a rose, but then a ferocious beast appeared and set on him.  For his abuse of hospitality, he would die, but the merchant pleaded with the Beast, mentioning his daughters.  The Beast said to return with the daughter, who must willingly enter into marriage with him.  He was allowed to leave with a gold-laden chest.
 
Despondent, the merchant returned home.  The sisters blamed Beauty for her gift, and the brothers wanted to kill the beast.  However, the merchant knew they did not stand a chance, and Beauty would not hear of her father’s going back without her.
 
Beauty, despairing, was visited by a fine lady in her dreams the first night.  The lady said she was pleased with Beauty’s reasons for staying there, and that she would be rewarded.  Beauty lived at the castle, dining alone with beautiful music and books, and not seeing her suitor until he appeared at nine every night.  She was horrified by his appearance, but over time she began to have affection for  him, and to look forward to his visits.  She would not consent to his nuptial offer, however, and when she saw in a magic mirror that her father was sick with longing for her, she asked to return home for a week’s visit.  Beast consented, but warned her he might die of grief should she not return in time.  He gave her a ring to lay on her bedside before sleep.
 
Beauty woke up back at home, finding her sisters have been married off and her brothers gone to the army.  She is surprised at the trunk of clothes near her bed.  Her sisters came for a visit, but when the week was up they conspired and feigned tears to make her stay longer, thinking the beast would devour her in rage at her tardiness.  She consented, but worried after the Beast and one day dreamed of him sprawled out on the lawn.  After an additional week, she lay the ring at her bedside and was joyful to wake up in the palace.
 
She could not find the beast, however, and was despondent when she found him outside as in her dream.  She consented to marry him, and he became a handsome prince.  He’d been transformed by a fairy and was not allowed to tell the conditions of his liberation.  Beauty was overjoyed to find her family living in the castle, but her sisters were turned into stone for their envy and malice by the same lady who’d appeared to Beauty in her dreams.  
 
Please join us as we read and discuss this English translation of Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast,” a story about virtue and vice, just desserts, and judgment, and the transformative power of beauty.
 
Lumsden’s “Beauty and the Beast:” https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(Lumsden_and_Son)
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Brief Meditation
05:43 Reading of Lumsden’s 1820 version
39:28 Ideal Feminine Virtue
41:15 Class in this Story
42:30 The Youngest is Prettiest
44:18 Beauty is the Only Complete Person
46:15 Difference between this story and “Cupid and Psyche”
49:20 The Empty, Ugly Palace
57:14 Why are Beauty’s Sisters Transformed into Statues?
58:45 The Beast Lacks Wit
59:45 The Significance of the Rose
1:03:31 The Power of not Being Deceived by Appearances
 
The full video episode:
https://youtu.be/G3AhWHN4Gyc?si=kJxXDtlQT7Q3rv0c
 
Audio episode:
https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/a-fairy-tale-of-a-good-but-endangered-boy/
 
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Finally Gaining Sight (Clip)

Hans, beset from childhood with violence from his parents, finally makes it in life, and is to be the king of his wife’s town.  However, the people riot when the learn he is blind, and he and the princess are banished.  Only when they come to a stream and learn from a blind mouse how to cure his sightlessness do they return to fanfare.  
 
Are the people right?  They did not want a king who could not see.
 
(A Clip from the Episode “A Fairy Tale of A Good but Endangered Boy”)
 
The full video episode:
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A Fairy Tale of A Good but Endangered Boy

VonSchönwerth’s “The Knight’s Sash” is a story about an intrepid son without a father, who continually does his duty, eventually wins love and devotion.  We summarize and then discuss the story.
A hunter’s widow and her son, Hans, were always wandering around, but they espied a castle in the forest, and the giant living there eventually married his mother.  He loved hunting, and one day he saw a tree with no branches, and a knight’s sash at the top that he got.  Written on it was: “Whoever puts me on will have superhuman strength.”  He shot a deer and carried it home.  The giant and the mother started worrying about the boy’s strength, and the giant feigned illness and they told Hans the only cure was lioness's milk.
Hans went to a lioness in a nearby cave, who was standing in a submissive gesture, and he threw away his weapons and embraced her.  She followed him home and his parents cooked up another mission.
 
Not far away, a giant’s castle supposedly had apples growing on its grounds that would cure his stepfather.  The giant was out robbing and looting, and Hans picked some apples, and then broke into the castle and found a princess tied up, stark naked.  He started a bonfire in the yard and that attracted soldiers from her country, who offered to take Hans with them, but he refused, for his father was sick.
Hans’ mother noticed the sash, and she prepared a bath for him so he would take it off.  The giant poked out Hans’ eyes and threw him out of the castle.  Hans traveled with his lioness, and almost died of thirst, but the lioness jumped on the cart of a passing wine merchant and revived him with the wine.  The merchant took Hans to the city, and the princess noticed him from her window, and she ran down, embraced him, and took him to an oculist who made him artificial eyes.  Her father the king was happy to have a successor, but after the wedding, the people rioted, not wanting to be led by a blind man.  
Hans and his wife wandered.  One day they came to a brook, and they witnessed two mice, one blind being led by the other, who washed the blind one’s eyes, and it regained its sight.  The princess did the same for Hans, and they returned joyfully to the town.  They lived happily until Hans died, whereupon the lioness lay down in his grave until she too died.
 
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Short Breathing Meditation
04:55 Summary of “The Knight’s Sash”
12:05 A Short Story Chock full of Information and Drama
14:07 A Giant Threatened by Hans
15:56 Hans, Son of a Hunter
18:05 Hans and His Mother Find a Castle in the Woods 
25:00 Nonviolent Hans
25:54 A Giant and a Bad Father
27:50 A Bad Father Threatened by Hans
32:14 Maturing, Dutiful Hans, is Thrown Out
37:53 Hans, Guileless with His Parents, Gets a Lion 
45:50 Why Aren’t the Princess and the Lioness Ever Seen Together?
47:56 The Marauding Giant and His Dead Father
51:13 The Tale’s Good Father & Hans’ Brokenness
52:45 Hans is Helped by his Wife
54:34 The Stark Naked Woman & Hans’ Bonfire
1:00:45 Hans Finally SEES at the Story’s End
1:03:30 Hans’ Power from Lowly Creatures
 
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Clip Intro Music “A Baroque Letter” - Aaron Kenny

Acceptance of Folly & Death

LL and I do a short breathing meditation, then a zoom out contemplation.  After checking in about recent challenges, we discuss Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, Book 12, Entry 36, the last in the book, seemingly shortly before his own death, which discusses one’s place in the cosmos and the relation to death.  
 
Man, thou hast been a citizen in this great state [the world];121 what difference does it make to thee whether for five years [or three]? for that which is conformable to the laws is just for all. Where is the hardship then, if no tyrant nor yet an unjust judge sends thee away from the state, but nature who brought thee into it? the same as if a prætor who has employed an actor dismisses him from the stage.122⁠—“But I have not finished the five acts, but only three of them.”⁠—Thou sayest well, but in life the three acts are the whole drama; for what shall be a complete drama is determined by him who was once the cause of its composition, and now of its dissolution: but thou art the cause of neither. Depart then satisfied, for he also who releases thee is satisfied.
 
Gratitude to Standard eBooks for the translation: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditations/george-long/text/single-page#book-12
 
00:00  Introduction
00:47 Invitation to do an Exercise Snack
01:23 Brief Breathing Meditation
08:07 Zoom Out Contemplation
16:02 Reflection on Zooming Out
18:10 Spirituality Without Dogma? 
22:23 Daily Spirituality Despite Bad Decisions
33:20 Anger is Usually a Secondary Emotion
35:17 Magical Thinking in Difficult Situations
40:50 Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations,” Last Entry: “The god who lets you go is at peace with you.”
48:27 Coming to Terms with Death & Chuang-Tzu’s Dialogue with a Skull
53:37 Near-Death Experiences (NDE) & Acceptance
 
The full video episode:
https://youtu.be/Vz5ZMbFuMZ0
 
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Clip Intro Music “A Baroque Letter” - Aaron Kenny

The Bearskin and Vulnerability (Clip)

The Gold Child goes into the dangerous forest full of thieves and conceals his skin with a bearskin, and passes through unmolested.The Gold Child goes into the dangerous forest, full of thieves, and conceals his skin with a bearskin, and passes through unmolested.
In life, in spiritual development, it is a mystery what will happen next. 
Sometimes we are saved by the feminine.  Goldchild’s wife talks to her father to save her husband.
(A Clip from the Episode “The Gold Children, by the Brothers Grimm”)
 
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Clip Intro Music “A Baroque Letter” - Aaron Kenny

"The Gold Children," by the Brothers Grimm

A fisherman catches a gold fish, which makes a deal with him: he’ll have a nice big house if he lets the fish go, on the condition he tell no one how he got the house.  The man objects: and what’ll I have to eat?  The fish says the cupboards will be full.
 
Back home, his wife, decked out in finery, itches with curiosity, and he eventually tells her, and their house disappears.  This happens once more, but on the third time, the fish has the man take the fish home, cut him up, and distribute him, making two gold children, horses, and lilies.  
 
His gold children, itching to leave, are cautioned by their worried father.  “I must and will go!”  
 
They come to an inn, where they are jeered at.  One returns home and the other goes on.  He comes to a forest, which is thick with thieves, and the people warn him.  “I must and will go on!”  
 
Both horse and man clothed in bearskin, he ventures into the darkness.  Within, he hears voices on either side of a bush, debating whether to rob him, but they allow the seemingly worthless victim to go on.  
 
Out of the forest now, he meets the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and asks her to marry him.  She agrees, and they are betrothed.  But then her father returns, and seeing Gold Man’s rough accoutrement, he intends to kill him, but his daughter intercedes.  Still, he must peek behind the curtain, and the next morning sees a magnificent gold man beside discarded bearskins.  
 
But the happy husband, following a dream, decides to hunt a stag.  His worried wife objects.  “I must and will go on!”  
 
In the woods again, the stag just escapes his aim, but a curious cottage catches his attention.  At the door, a witch asks him what he is doing there so late, and her little dog yips at him incessantly.  He threatens it, and she touches him with her forefinger, turning him to stone.
 
Back home, the other gold man sees the gold lily droop, and he goes out to save his kin.  At the cottage, he threatens to shoot the witch, and she touches the statue with her forefinger, returning him to human form.  The long-lost brothers embrace and return to their respective homes, and live happily the rest of their lives.
 
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00:00 Reading of the Grimm’s “The Gold Children”
11:00 The Wife’s Arrogant Restlessness
12:23 The Father-in-Law Doesn’t Kill the Golden Opportunity
13:49 The Gold Fish’s Sacrifice
15:45 The Fisherman, and Adam and Eve
17:30 Similarities and Differences to “The Fisherman and His Wife”
18:08 The Golden Tulips, Horses, & Children
19:23 The Golden Children Go out into the World
20:15 The Golden Brothers Separate
21:15 The Dangerous Journey
21:48 The Bearskin
28:58 The Father’s Proof
30:15 The Golden Fish is the Story’s Throughline
30:41 Losing the Thread
39:00 Dr. Goldchild and Mr. Goldchild
41:15 The Grimm’s Dreams & Immovable Stone
45:00 The Timid Brother’s Boldness

Ignoring the Feminine and Dragged Down to the Depths (Clip)

In the fairy tale time logic, the fisherman's son practically becomes a priest after he is born, and after he leaves the house he doesn't see his parents again.  But he is not done with the watery bargain he is doomed within from birth.  
When he makes it to the castle, he is shown in royal garment, signalling he is ready to be the heir to the kingdom.  But he is still not united with the feminine--either of his wife, the princess, or the mermaid he is owed to.  
Now when he goes out hunting, in spite of his wife's warnings, he is dragged underwater by the cthonic feminine mermaid.  (He also forgets his mother's warnings.)
 
And with that, the contract made by his father is fulfilled.
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About our guest:
Ian Reclusado is currently off exploring the poetic wilds of psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. 
He also offers guidance services for those interested in delving into their own inner wilderness.
You can find his weekly dispatches at www.thekindknife.com or follow him on Instagram: @ian_reclusado
I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.