Living Welsh Myth

Toward Post-Narcissistic Culture

A specialist study of dealing with the relationship between Narcissism and Autism through the device of story.

I am a storyteller, a myth-collector, a writer. I watch the symbolism in and of peoples lives. It is an enjoyable part of the tradition which does involve seeing the world in a certain way. Some call it a romantic way. 

Some call it ‘magical thinking’ because it associates items differently to create a holistic cohesion different to how most people who do not associate the items holisticly, prefer to think. 

In the narcissistic rejection of accountability which characterises the Modern Era, a state-endorsed pharmacology-funded psychology model considers ‘magical thinking’ to be a form of delusion. 

Meanwhile, Sufi Mystics and other shamen around the globe and throughout history consider ‘magical thinking’ to be an aspiration and evolution of human consciousness. 

See Jalal Uddin Rumi’s wonderful writings on the Magickal Universe. 

Here then, the story.

They built a giant cauldron in their garden on the hillside. They bathe in it. It is full of a chemical detergent, chlorine, so they can wash themselves and be cleansed. They have a lot of fun doing this. 

I admire this because although I am allergic to chlorine (it is on my medical records), therefore unable to join them in the washing; I do regularly use sea salt in my bath water as a spiritual sacrament to purify myself from the toxic energies I have had to deal with throughout the day. 

I have had sufficient dealings with these people to recognise amongst other things, many of which are respectable and admirable qualities, an unfortunate streak of generational narcissism which has become apparent through my interactions with the family. 

I have been writing about the topic of narcissism as cultural mnainstream for some years in terms of recognising the traits in abuse based relationships. This is relevant to us all because we live in a cultural pandemic of narcissism. 

Such as myself are attempting to cleanse our society of that. Raising awareness of it is a necessary aspect of doing so. This is combined with healing process from the experiences of dealing with it. Such healing has to occur on an individual basis by raising awareness of how the narcissism dynamic functions. Primarily it is the duality of non-accountability, dehumanisation and scapegoating.  

Dealing with these traits as lived experience is not easy for any of us involved. Tempers flare. Hearts are tested. Fire and Water stir and cycle, distilling the toxins in a process of purification. Such is Love, and pain, and anger and aspiration. 

The rituals occurring in their temple on the hillside in this particular cauldron are concerned, from my perspective, with the spell of cleansing up the toxin of narcissism from members of the community. What energies amplify outward from here will affect others, culturally, much beyond them affecting the people immediately involved. 

Here then, is to swimming in cleaner waters.