[Glorantha] Great Self

>Perhaps someone could reject the moral nature of the cosmos (which is
>transitory and material anyway, for a mystic) and still transcend it,
>yet we are told that chaotics cannot transcend. This is why chaotic
>gods are excluded from the godworld, and offer no afterlife or
>possibility of reincarnation, on which mroe later.

Not in my Glorantha. IMG, Trascendence "is" beyond any polarities (including Cosmos/Chaos). In fact, there are MANY operative difficulties for achieving Trascendence for a chaotic being, but, in theory (IMG) is possible, and this is one of the few opportunities that chaotic beings have to free theirselves from the great suffering that Cosmos causes in them.

>Well in that case what's the non-dodgy Simon Hibbsian
>term meaning "soul, spirit, essence, or whatever your
>otherworld calls the thing"? We still need one, and it
>looks like "Great Self" just got hijacked by the
>Mystics (or was it the Lunars?)

Psyche? For me, 'psyche' sounds very 'Godlearnerish', so it's good for this sort of things.

Inner self?

Immaterial self?

Saludos,

Antonio Received on Wed 10 May 2006 - 10:01:00 EEST