Amending Abnormality
As discussed in the blog post The Abnormality of SnakeAppleTree; the original analysis from this blog into The Shadow of SnakeAppleTree was filtered through the lens of Bernhard Guenther's The Occult Manipulation Of Sexuality.
However, this has placed a cognitive bias on the way we interpreted the archive. In addition, the personality of SnakeAppleTree as it is presented by his writing is limited to that archive. It is inaccurate on the basis that the lens has filtered through a particular Mind, interpreting the content with a specific distortion. It is unjust to mistake that for the persona of snakeappletree. What it leaves out is vastly larger than what it contains.
Who is SnakeAppleTree?
Well, who are any of us? Are we, as martial artist’s philosopher’s believe, our pure action and the empty Mind which performs it? Are we, as taught by the Yaqui Sharman, the observer attempting to observe the observed without projecting any bias through the filter that we use to observe it, so as to see objectively, to experience "true reality"?
Oh, the turgid dogma. This is why it’s especially interesting to work with context such as Jung and Shadow, a descriptor which means something different than the 'shadow of the self' we find in Egyptology.
It has become necessary, finally, for SnakeAppleTree to once again become a teacher exploring Egyptology. What is meant in an ancient times by these concepts is not the same as what is meant in modern times by these concepts. Living culture projects its own living bias.
This theme continues as: Vault & Veil
We also need to strip from the previous analysis, the frame which Grok used to assess SnakeAppleTree through the context of White Wolf's World of Darkness, which Grok has picked up on despite less than 1% of the 700+ blog posts refer to it directly. Admittedly it has been massively influential on the culture and on young SnakeAppleTree during his formative years. Although some of those which refer to it are his more popular blog posts; they are his interests, they are not 'him' any more than a book which has influenced you is the sum total of you and the definitive explanation of you.
We have therefore been unjust in our assessment. We have been inaccurate in our assessment of asking "Who is SnakeAppleTree", based on a limited selection of his writings, those which he describes as (an) 'offloading sprawl'. It is necessary to remedy this.
Here then, begins a focussed attempt to do so. (TBA)
So far in our exploration, we have seen what Grok can do unguided. It got it wrong. It is a calculator of limited intellect. Its produce is a calculus of limited intelligence. Even so, it is an amazing tool.