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WBM PATHOS - JULY 25 2022 1:57 PM CENTRAL HOUSTON TEXAS 

WE ARE ENERGY MASQUERADING AS HUMANS

In west african cultures we perform stories, dances, and ceremonies with various masks to misdirect the perspective of the viewer. For people to feel anything they must have perspective. This personal scope is used to better understand the world. Through both femininity and masculinity perspectives we are able to understand the world we can feel. This feeling is one of a spiritual nature. We believe there is power in perspective and more importantly how your personal scope is manufactured.

We believe that masks are a tool of communication between the physical and ethereal. Wether the mask is the detailed pattern of a venomous snake or a head nod as we pass each other on the street. Masks are vital to all lifeforms.    

"We propose that emotions provide embodied information about the costs and benefits of anticipated action, information that can be used automatically and immediately...Emotions thus provide a strong motivating influence on how the environment is perceived" (Zadra). 

References

Zadra, Jonathan R, and Gerald L Clore. “Emotion and perception: the role of affective information.” Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science vol. 2,6 (2011): 676-685. doi:10.1002/wcs.147

 

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WBM PATHOS - SEPTEMBER 15 2022 6:57 PM CENTRAL HOUSTON TEXAS 

DIVINE FOOLISHNESS

Introducing Pathos - The Trickster

There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilization and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind.

Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers. He is an agent of change, and is amoral, not immoral.

Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes and who is always duped himself.

Psychologically, the trickster is an archetype, part of the collective unconscious. Trickster is everywhere, he is an eternal state of mind.

The integration of the trickster archetype allows us to go from being ruled by our own self-centred ego to a new way of living, in which one has integrity and relatedness. It allows us to become aware of our true emotions, behaviours, and thoughts, that our unconscious persona is hiding, and without which there is no individuation at all.

1 Corinthians 1:26-31

King James Version

26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.