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The RAL Experience
Philosopher-poet, writer, astrologer, lecturer, discussion group facilitator, Ron "The Lamp" Lampi, Ronald A. Lampi (Ral)
The Lamp of Psyche
Poet of the New Age
I am here to share with you the bottomless gold mine I have found.
Remember, there is always more than meets the eye, unless you can see with the other Eye. The Golden Thread can appear anywhere. I have no doubt, you'll come across it in this Labyrinth we travel together. Clues are everywhere.
Maybe you are one who still
has ears.
Maybe
you are a seed—
To hear the Tree singing,
that you might become
a Tree
singing
My challenge has been: That a poet can make a difference in today's world.
Can a poet make a difference?
Is it possible that a poet in the Postmodern world can offer the world a Vision?
I do not consider myself a Postmodernist, but I have lived through Postmodernism-my work is meant to be the transition out of Postmodernism.
Is this a Renaissance time? Are there those of us who are the Renaissance figures of this time?
Follow with me the guidance of the Golden Thread through the corridors of the Labyrinth and we will reach the Living Fountain. It is the Fountain of Unlimited Creativity.
I invite you to enter this Fountain with me and I promise you you will come to know its secret-the Living Waters of Spirit. You will begin to see with the new eyes-the Eye-offered by its Vision. It is the Vision of Psyche.
I am the poet who has been called to reweave the World Fabric with the Golden Thread. What I feel others have only hinted at, generalized about, beat around the bush about, only talk about, I am called to spell out and make explicit.
There is much talk about myths today, and playing at dead myths; through the Vision of Psyche, I have been granted the new Word that is Mythos.
I am a mythmaker for the contemporary world, my Calling to bring the new Mythos into the world. (Might it be that some are offended that I am so conscious of what I am about? Yes, I am a New Ager with a Mission. It is disingenuous in our hyper-self-conscious Postmodern world not to be clear about our self-image. That we should be critiqued regarding our claims is of course rightly to be expected.)
The Mythos begins somewhere
and must begin with someone
On the local level, where I live, I see myself as still at this time the self-proclaimed poet of Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay. Have I not written more about, and celebrated more of, this place than any other poet living here? (Residing in this region are literally hundreds of poets.)
I would welcome being corrected on this and learning of any poet who has produced such a body of work that celebrates the Mythos of our place. The Vision I received was given to me here, as I stood upon the cliffs that overlook Monterey Bay.
It was over our Goddess Bay that the Vision of Psyche appeared to me some 30 years ago. I am still only now beginning to share the whole body of my work that would birth this Vision, its Mythos, into the world.
For this Vision is more than personal, and is more than regional, but is of this time, this Age, and of this entire Earth.
The Vision of Psyche can be found in different works, such as: The Birth of Psyche, Technos & Psyche, Advent, The New Age Vision, and now in a work by that title, The Vision of Psyche.
The Vision permeates all my work. My first emphasis that the art of mythmaking is key to the transformation and renewal of our world is found in my poetic prose manifesto The Golden Thread written at about the same time as the Vision.
I invite you to join me in the weaving of the Mythos coming into the world. See An Invitation to participate in The MYTHOS.
There is a New Story beginning to be told on Earth and many hundreds thousands are called to help tell that Story, which I have named The MYTHOS.
Realize that there are those of us who have worked on our Path behind the scenes for many years—we have yet to be heard. It is only a matter of time before our voices are heard.
Nietzsche: God is dead. End of Story.
Postmodernists: We agree. There is no Story.
Lampi: The Gods return. Beginning of New Story.
Some of the themes that you will find in my work:
What is Postmodernism and why we must move beyond it?
Why we must transform the Traditions?
What is it to be a Transformer?
Encountering Being as philosophical foundation for the New Age.
Being and its interface with Human Reality.
Why the Fountain is the new, alternative symbol of the Aquarian New
Age?
Why the Fountain of Unlimited Creativity is the foundation for the coming
New Age religion?
Who Psyche is and why I claim that Psyche is the Mythos of the New Age.
Why Psyche must be considered the Living Image of the new Christ?
Who was God, now that the old Father God is dead?
Distinguishing the God of history from God the Absolute.
Who were the Gods? How are we to think of them today?
What is Mythos? Understanding the history of Logos and Mythos?
Why mythmaking is the Art of the New Age?
Why mythmaking is the Art of all arts?
Coming to understand the meanings of Spirit and soul.
The reality of the Higher Self. Why the Higher Self is the new, Aquarian
dispensation?
What are World Ages? The astrology behind cycles.
Understanding the waning Age of Pisces and the New Age of Aquarius.
Understanding our psychospiritual evolution.
What is Technos? How Technos has become our new Superpower.
What is the new technological movement called Transhumanism?
Why the integration of Technos and Psyche is the fundamental theme of
the 21st Century.
Understanding the UFO phenomenon. ET contact and our future spirituality.
What the Next Level of consciousness opening up to us is?
What is the
Next Act of our evolution?
What is meant by super-creativity? What is the supreme Art project of the New Age?
What is meant by reweaving the World Fabric?
What is meant by Threads? By the interconnectedness of Threads?
What is meant by Mythos of Place?
How do we begin to speak of the Mythos of our place?
Now that you have found me,
do not let go of me, said Psyche.
Have I not spoken of you yet?
Have I not celebrated you yet?
Eventually I will—
You, to me, are a luscious fruit.
And there are so many on the Tree
of
Psyche—
Be patient.
I will taste of all of you
and sing of all I taste of all of you—