Werewolves & Canis Major

Believe It or Find Out Yourself Series : III

Wouldn't it be great to find out if werewolves are real? Okay … I'll attempt an explanation but the reader is going to moan the loss of syntax in several places. Still I'm thinking its worth the effort. The stuff of folklore, nightmares and in some recent perceptions it showed its face in the public engagement of our world activities.

Right … the usual rules … we start with the origin of the word in the English language. I'm reading were-a-wolf … meaning at some time in the past … which of course refers to barbarism, animal natures, tribal communities and territorial integrity issues.

There are dietary habits among the world's communities that continue to consume meat in the raw … raw fish … steak rare … seal meats … these would certainly imply a disposition to the habituated practices from our past as anima in the evolutionary chain which has been cultivated as social natures.

Having said that I ought to also say that there isn't a great hurry to change all these with the expectation that it's reduce crime, regulate gun control, stop wars and advance the cause of minimizing hunting for sport. Such a wisdom to do so may well be over the top for many of us.

The argument we run into often is that we need to retain this as our past and rope it in for a greater management and focussed channeling of these energies into relevant and productive uses. The implications are obvious. Life relies on a certain level of rigor in body and mind … it produces heat from billous conditions … these balance human natures that are cultivated to respond to rules of surburban civility that is sometimes enforced by law.

We need both. On a conscious basis we act on the basis of principles. On a want basis, unconscious and anaerobic, we work with the ethics of a bull … that is like a wolf that resents human ethical interference. Its keeping it in but may be coming to explode. We ought to be more careful about what we wish for of course and help regulate our needs in some way to a sharing cooperation with society.

It comes out at night in our sleep. I'm not sure if that's called a dream. Its linked to our physical orientation of the day. Weird but it can be trained for greater efficiency engaging methods not unlike the suggestions of masochism. But reading a book before bed or practicing something akin to za-zen may work great as a moderating influence. A great potential … Believe it or find out yourself.