Dionysian ecstasy is a mass phenomenon and spreads almost infectiously. This is expressed mythically by the representation of god consistently surrounded by a swarm of followers. Everyone who surrenders to this god must risk abandoning his everyday identity and becoming mad: both god and follower can be called Bacchus. Dionysus brings to the fore (when he is "in us" and causes us to "stand outside ourselves" with the group) the irrational side of our nature, unlike Apollo who stands aloof as a symbol of the higher, refined cultivation to which we mere mortals can only aspire.
ecstasis "standing outside of ourselves", an important aspect of the collective experience.
existentialist / god is dead / no absolutes
immoralist... you know your situation best to decide right or wrong
cyclical rather than linear : constant progression (evolution) is modern view
phoenix: regeneration, rebirth, starting over often, repeating, burns by its own means, (ashes, children, fire, sun)
everything about humanity is diseased
body and mind as a hole
immoralist... you know your situation best to decide right or wrong
cyclical rather than linear : constant progression (evolution) is modern view
phoenix: regeneration, rebirth, starting over often, repeating, burns by its own means, (ashes, children, fire, sun)
everything about humanity is diseased
body and mind as a hole
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