1. The Return of the Animal Gods
Our civilization has perfected anti-life values. The more developed countries have entered into a stage of deep decline. The drop in reproductive capacity in Europe and the US, the rise in cancer and cardiovascular diseases, the increase of tools of genocide, the huge growth in sumptuous consumption at the expense of the suffering of millions of people, the mechanization of music, sex, food, and education are some expressions of our disconnection with our instinctive part. We have to return to the source, to the primordial origin of vitality. We must be reborn from the degenerate background of our culture as animals full of strength, grace and harmony. We need to return to the strange animal gods, as D.H. Lawrence put it.
We have lost our connection with our instincts. We have been worshiping necrophilic symbols for centuries, living miserable lives, hoping to gain true life after death. The time has come for us to reorient our energy as an initial act of survival. We must react with the utmost decision and transform our eschatological culture into a cosmogonic culture in constant evolution, inflamed by the force of life.
Our new rites need to be the dances of the animals. We need to recover our tiger, our snake, our heron, and our hippopotamus. We need to awaken in us the euphoria of living. To regain our joy we need to allow millions of animals to emerge from our hearts. We need to navigate the jungle of our zodiacal beasts. No one expressed this as well as the poet Daumal,
"Awakened by love, your body's animals want to get out.
The serpent unrolls at the base of your marrow.
The lion stretches his limbs in your chest.
The elephant beats against the wall of your forehead."
If we want to reconnect with the lost source of our instincts, then we need to dive into the primitive drives of our animality. We have no choice. The first step towards the new civilization is to connect with the vitalizing sources of instinct.