The grotto of Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of Rome, has been found. Continuing along the theme of renewal, what does this portend?


These two brothers are a fixture of Mediterranean culture, from Cain and Abel to Horus and Set, among other notables.






So why has the grotto revealed itself now? Could it be that Italy has need of renewal? And what about the West, refounded several times by its Christianization and its rebaptism under the Renaissance and the Enlightenment?

In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment

Suckled by a she-wolf would connote a predisposition for the founder of Rome to use reason, or what the Italians call astuzia or scaltrezza, which is cunning.

The wolf appears again in Dante's Divine Comedy as symbolic of those who get lost in the woods because of that cunning, while the lynx represents physicality and the lion, emotionality.

Redemption, in essence the theme of the Divine Comedy, is about the process of a psyche overcoming itself, a process that requires the whole human being, wolf, lynx and lion, a veritable Gurdjieffian Fourth Way beyond the way of the fakir, the monk or the yoga.

This cold capacity to reason is behind the development of the Stoics, the real attitude behind the success, in terms of power and survival, of the Roman Empire.

A Stoic would not even have sex unless it was to make a baby. Of course, the History Channel and a lot of the less-informed think that Christianity created this notion of the inferiority of sex to a non-intoxicated state, but it wasn't.

Christianity merely took hold, as the amalgam of religions and religious attitudes that it has always been, on that prepared soil.

We as heirs to Roman civilization with our "res publica" (people's things held by the state), our "senators" (council of elders), Mercury, who provides with markets and reason itself, are in the midst of a crisis in every area of our being.

The West worships what it thinks is reason, and the West has failed miserably with the various atheist cults which have come out of that worship of an idol, a pseudo-reason as an attempt to right our wrongs.

Marxism is the best example, but, now, that idol having performed hari-kari on itself, the West has yet to come to terms to the rest of its idols, "free trade", "the industrial revolution", but really, its own addiction to idealism, a historic and psychological trend dating back to Socrates' rejection of the tragedies and the principle that the Divinity was the source of Good and Evil.

My intention is to talk about the energy of transformation, the one that was born in the Age of Pisces but has remained chained, with the result that our level of progress has stayed at almost zero as we turn in circles.

The world is beset by the 'unhealed healers' who want to heal themselves symbolically through the world instead of doing the thoroughly unromantic private work of coming to terms with our unovercome egos, our lurking personal evil, and experiencing humility instead of inflation and engrandizement.

They throw out myriad webs of understanding, hypotheses that they attempt to pass off as 'scientific doctrine', and with their radicalized energy, which derives from an one-sided grasp of truth, actually perpetuate the world's demons, simply changing names, social classes, or ethnic, racial, or gender identity.

I intend to think out loud about my own healing, and my own experience of being in the world in the hopes of clarifying some of its essential features.

I intend to review books and provide information about what ails us and what heals us, including physical disorders and general health.


Roy