Redefining Archetypes

Do you know the archetype of the sage or wiseman? With the long flowing beard, playful and reassuring eyes and enigmatic smile. The one who does not speak a lot, but appears randomly and unexpectedly, and pours down subtle but powerful pearls of wisdom. The one who has so much power on people he could make them his slaves, if he wanted. Like Gandalf and Dumbledore, or Osho or the ancient Indian sages, gurus or a powerful celtic magus or Merlin l’Enchanteur or Lauv or Rumi.

Take this archetype and put it in the body of a little girl. Wisdom has no age, no sex, no physical appearance, right? So there is no reason this could not be possible. What about a story on that? The all-knowing, wise and enigmatic little girl whom everybody else does not take really seriously at first glance, but who goes through the world making little changes and paving the paths she takes, with flowers and light.

You could say Ang, from ‘Avatar: The last Airbender’ is an example of this. But it’s not. Ang is still childish, learning and prone to the turbulent emotions of a young child. Remember when he went to the indian sage, the Guru to learn to open his chakra and about his own fears and stuff? Well, the girl i’m trying to portray does not need to go through all this. Because she already knows all one can teach. She is at the same level as the Guru et compagnie. (Actually there’s no level, but this is the easiest way to describe it).

Shiva and Soma, DNA and DMT.

What if people looked at Hindu mythologies the same way they look at ‘Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Harry Potter’ and the other fantastical epic novels or movies; without getting on their high horses about the truthfulness or fallacy of the story? Nobody condemns the Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings fan for being a fan of those awesome fantasies, right? So being a big fan of Shiva is just as legit, right? If you have determined first that it’s just a cool story.

Maybe the difference between fantasy novels and Hindu mythologies(or religion) is exactly this: that a religion has been built upon the latter, with many people unconvincingly trying to make-believe it is true and imposing its misinterpreted codes on how people should conduct their lives.

There are some who believe that those ‘puranas’ and ‘stotras’ and other scriptures are just the collection of hallucinogenic creative writings of ancient sages tripping balls on Soma. Like it’s all made-up complex and intricate stories put together by brains going crazy on hallucinogens. But if that were the case, I doubt the sages later went on to shove those stories down people’s throats. They probably just wrote them and left them like creative pieces of work. And the problem came when other people wrongly misinterpreted them and started assigning meanings and codes and rules to them. 

Others still, believe that those stories pertain to some truth: that the spiralling snakes of Shiva and kundalini is a representation of the DNA double-helix strands. (Scientists modelled it after a spiral staircase; hindu sages talked of intermingling snakes).

There is compelling evidence that our thoughts can affect the body to a large extent. And yoga and meditation are so powerful because they basically reach the inner structure of the body and deal with DNA damage and DNA repair. They can both destroy you and repair you, depending on how well or how wrong you’re doing it. There is also this theory about the two types of Shivlings. One is a black meteorite egg-shaped stone. It is said that such a stone is installed at Kabba in Mecca. The other one is man-made and is solidified mercury. (Solidifying mercury is supposed to be an ancient Vedic science.)

The original Shivling apparently came to earth when a black stone meteorite collided with earth many many years ago, carrying DNA, like the Rig Veda recounts. (Btw, the NASA recently declared, following studies on meteor showers, that DNA building blocks rain down via black meteorites as star dust.)

And Shiva’s third eye? Apparently it’s the Pineal gland found in the centre of the brain. Serotonin is transformed into melatonin only in the pineal gland. Decline in melatonin is the trigger for the aging process, for Melatonin is the super antioxidant of nature. (Monks’ and yogis’ and Buddha’s secret for their youthful looks, yeah.) The hormone Melatonin, induces sleep, while Serotonin, keeps you happy and in a balanced mental state of mind.

At the time of death, Serotonin and Melatonin in the brain break down to Dimethyltryptamine or DMT, C12 N2 H16, just after the oxygen stops circulating. This is the moment for the ultimate DMT trip. You supposedly see your whole past life as fractal divine geometry. And you know what, the Soma, mentioned several times in the 7000 year-old Rig Veda, is said to contain DMT a billion times more potent than what we have now —everybody could not handle it . Totally organic and natural, this hyper psychedelic made the human body a super computer, speaking the language of 4D fractal geometry. Complex maths was converted to geometry. Imagine an Ayahuasca trip multiplied by (insert unbelievably huge number).

And because the sages could not use those scientific terms, they used depictions of a man and his wife and family and wars and stuff to represent the fundamental truths. Imagine going to an uneducated grandma in the village and talking about DNA and molecules and meteorite and DMT. That would just leave her wondering what the freaking hell you’re talking about.

But…I think I went off track.

Bom Shankar!