Articles #sensed presence

https://ionamiller2020.weebly.com/kybele-attis.html The cult of Kybele-Attis concerns fundamental love of imagination, and communion with the goddess by amplifying that primordial imaginal capacity and inherent urge. Because such love is obsessively self-referential, it is symbolically incestuous, an introversion to an imaginal character in an imaginal realm. The 'fantasy principle' is more fundamental than even the 'pleasure' or 'reality' principles. Old academic cult models of automatic ascending development are obsolete and presumptuous. Over time, her Phrygian cults and iconography were transformed from her archaic meteoric and monumental rock-cut images in the Phrygian highlands. Her mysteries were private rites with a chthonic aspect. They were eventually subsumed by the influences and interpretations of her Greek, Roman and other foreign devotees. This ancient and mysterious figure has been altered so many times, we don't know her true origin or meaning. More than a fertility icon, the mountain-cave goddess is the doorway to the mystical encounter that leads to rebirth. Her perfect image is breath -- wind, soul, breath of creation, breath of life. Rather than a vegetation-god, Attis the personification of an intoxicating sacred plant, linked to the pine tree that hosts the visionary mushroom, its miraculous mystery fruit. It mimics the androgynous male/female metamorphosis central to the myth. (Ruck)