dionysos enorches

The Covid pandemic was a bad flu mixed in with a magic spell.
You might want to keep that to yourself.
Nah, that's a good one because I can explain it without coming across as too nuts.
Most people know by now how nonsensical those years were.

Paul can be moody.
Dionysos is very talkative.
Why do you think that is?
Dion was shut away for a long time while Paul had the run of the place.
Yeah, but Paul is quiet.
Why was I a quiet and shy kid?
Other people.
They try to dominate interactions.
It's endemic to the whole human experience where you notice this behaviour in sexual relationships and business because they are more raw in terms of showcasing behaviour and then we don't realize it permeates all walks of life.
You don't have a personality which is dominating and needs to control other people, however you don't want to be controlled.
This leads you towards withdrawing.
Thanks, doctor.
Why don't you exhibit this same behaviour as well, doctor?
Oh, there's no controlling me.
I'm it, the big kahuna.
There's nothing more than me.
You have an interesting confidence.
Yes, it's quite the thing to go through life knowing you're better than others.
How do you do it?
For the most part you shut up about it.

What do you think of the act in ancient Egypt of raising the Djed pillar?
It's hard to grasp it completely if you follow the interpretations of Egyptologists.
Why is that?
They are prudes.
It depicts the power of the life force to animate you.
How is that done?
In a male it's virility.
The pillar is your penis.
Osiris is the symbol and the strong life force in him gives him a huge erection.
I have pictures I took in Egypt at his temple in Abydos which will demonstrate this to you.
Nobody tells you this.
If you dig into ancient Egyptian thought, you come across the Heb Sed festival where the pharaoh had to prove his virility to the two serpent goddesses.
What did he have to do?
He'd masturbate in front of them to completion.
It's harder than you think when you get old.
What do you think bull cults were?
They are ancient parallels to Viagra.
The ancient Egyptians were using worship of the bull and magic for power.
One of those purposes was virility.
The pharaoh needed to be able to get hard.
Why?
That defines an alpha male.
It's all about strength and virility with a man.

The pharaoh needed a harem to maintain his virility.
He always had to prove he was virile.
Festivals.
Bull cults.
He needed to get it up like Osiris or they got rid of him.
Needed strength or he was ousted.

Do you consider yourself a bull?
You mean alpha?
Yes.
I don't compete with others for recognition.
Why?
If you must compete with other males for the honour of being an alpha male, then it's clear you aren't there.
Instead, I constantly demonstrate my superiority in whatever situation I encounter.
You make a good case.
If you are the top dog, which I clearly am, I don't need others to tell me that.
I see them come for me.
What do you do?
I get out of the way.
Why don't you fight them?
Because I'll destroy them.
You mean like Pentheus?
Don't pick a fight with me.
So, you're an alpha?
I don't pick a side.
You can't be both.
Why?
You must choose.
Who says?
Society.
Society says you need a role.
You are an alpha male or a beta male.
You need to pick a side.
I don't choose.
I dominate whatever game I choose to play.
I cannot deny that.
I submit when it gives me a perverse thrill.
That's the truth.
So, you really are Dionysos.
Who did you think I was?
Some random spectre I conjured from drug use.
Could be.

dance of the moon

The waxing and waning of the moon is a brilliant representation of our lives and how it is impacted by the forces that make us who we are. I'm referring to the life force and the soul. These concepts are called the Ka and the Ba in ancient Egyptian metaphysical thinking. The Ka is what animates creation in the physical plane. It is surging red blood that courses through the veins of animals. It is the strength of the powerful bull; this power manifesting in humans as the destructive alpha male. It is also food stuff which sustains us. 

Ka as food offering

To further explain the Ka, I use the concept of a ghost. A life force that sticks around in the material plane after physical death is a ghost. The Ba, the immortal soul, needs the life force in order to be on this journey of becoming. It is a double-edged sword where you need the Ka; however, it also beats up your soul until you master it.

These two different ideas are in the Old Testament as well; however, both are misleadingly translated as soul. They are the Hebrew words nephesh and ruach. The nephesh is the life force and the ruach is the immortal soul. The nephesh is granted by the Lord, YHVH, and is represented roaming the earth in such figures as Cain, Ishmael, Esau, the Pharaoh etc., while the ruach is the domain of the spirits called the Elohim and represented by Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses etc. In the New Testament Jesus played the role of the immortal soul and comes up against Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate, the Jews, and Satan, who are all representing the antagonist of the soul in some degree; the antagonist being the life force.

The moon in its monthly cycle disappears for three days into what seems to be material incarnation or the "waters" prior to reappearing in the night sky. During this time, the light of the moon grows in stature until it is complete as the full moon. It becomes a brilliant transfigured beacon illuminating the darkness of matter. This is wisdom personified as Thoth in ancient Egypt. 

Thoth with Lunar disk

The "Eye of Horus" representing the waxing crescent as the soul, was damaged by the life force, the red beast Set, but is restored by Thoth with the help of other gods and goddesses. 

Eye of Horus

An important lesson taught here is that being able to see does not involve only sight but it needs the experience taught by wisdom. From this point, the moon's monthly cycle continues to perpetually teach with the dismembering once again into fourteen pieces by the beast within us. The vampiric beast needs to feed to satiate its Ka and causes the fall of the moon once again into matter. However, in this lunar cyclical journey of cleansing, the moon as the dismembered soul, Osiris in ancient Egypt, becomes stronger and rises again.