Naming the Internal Guide System

 

 

The pilgrim consists (internally) of a particular (albeit vastly complex) differential order (represented as her self) of individual nutrients (i.e. of discrete instructions or messages). She swims (step by step, hence as a unit or quantum) in a vast soup (often experienced as an ocean) of simple and complex discrete nutrients (or messages), i.e. her external environment.

 

The pilgrim’s on-screen activity, hence consciousness, is guided, i.e. nourished, by the particular (hence relative) arrangement and (sliced) state of both her internal and her external nutrient soups.

 

In short, the pilgrim experiences being nourished from both inside and outside. Some pilgrims anthropomorphise the fundamentally unknown inner source of nourishment as the Inner Mother (or Goddess) and the outer source of nourishment as the Universal Great Mother (to wit: Mother Earth). Individual internal nourishment functions are further anthropomorphised as lesser female deities, such as Justitia, Sophia, Athena, or Parvati, Durga, Kali and so on. Christian pilgrims represent the inner nourishment source as the Madonna, with or without child. Scientists represent her as the Alma Mater (and whom they serve and worship). She is also represented neutrally as the (inborn or inherent) Genie. Male pilgrims represent (and name) the source with a variety of Saint’s names, or, as in India, theriomorphise the source (that nourishes with perfect solutions) as the pubescent Ganesh, Lord of Obstacles.

 

Images and names are given to the inner nutrient source (i.e. that resolves all problems) to permit easier (because indirect) access to, and therefore manipulation of the inner source that nourishes.

 

Both the inner and outer mothers are fundamentally blind, deaf, dumb, unfeeling and uncaring (i.e. ‘blind watchmakers) in relation to the actual state of the pilgrim.

 

The Guide System (or Mother) as oracle