My Ouroboros Apocrypha

   
 
My *ouroboros apocrypha is an  
evolved and enlightened writing to a certain degree,  
coupled with my views from the positive to pejorative,  
the obscure, arcane even occult subjects as well as objects.  
This apocryphal, optimistic in a sense is about some writings  
which are kept secret because they are the conduits  
of a clandestine knowledge considered, by some elitists,  
too profound or too sacred to be disclosed to anyone  
other than the religiously ordained or divinely initiated.  
 
For shame… we are not ready, we walk, yet we sleep…  
 
We, seldom want to read, research  
or question the version of the so called truth,  
ever more complacent,  
we ingest genetically altered foods  
with little or no protests;  
vehemently seek and create  
medicines that don't cure, they just,  
an ailing body, sustain.  
Where is the profit in the cure,  
when through illness, billions are made?  
Everyday a new vice hits the streets,  
what better way is there to control  
a wild beast but to keep it sedate?  
We allow our violators  
to rewrite their enacted scenes  
to make themselves the victims by all means,  
we permit our enslavers to dictate  
our bloody, violent history,  
rerecording it in this era  
to make them seem,  
like a gentle bygone time  
of magnolia blossomed dreams.  
We allow them to bludgeon us  
with their whitewashed religions  
as prescribed by the almighty God,  
and anything other is deemed  
demonic, heathenistic and unclean.  
 
Such is our shame…  
 
The media tells a story with a one sided view,  
and it is deemed a fact even  
if it is prejudicially askewed.    
We have generations growing up  
not knowing the pure truth,  
because it is much easier to believe  
and accept a lie than to assimilate  
the unadulterated truth.  
Politically correct terms, sanitized and sensitized,  
all be it for the erroneous acceptance  
of offensive and flat out incomprehensible acts  
of outrageously heinous occurrences.  
Glossed over events made more palatable  
to the general public because  
the undiluted truth is too horrific  
in its raw state too be acceptable.    
 
They know we are lazy and complacent,  
an ignominy…  
 
Our world, ruled by canonic laws,  
pseudepigraphal in their nature  
are said to have direct quotes and/or  
to have been written by someone  
who could not possibly have done so,  
fact says he did not know how to write,  
nor can the quotes be factual  
since the scribes of said works  
were born centuries after the fact;  
A book that has been edited by so many authors  
and scribed into so many versions  
is said to be the only truth there is…  
 
Really???...      
 
This is falsely attributed work, texts whose claimed author  
is not the true author, or a work whose real author  
attributed it to a figure of the past,  
is a false ascription yet a widely accepted  
but incorrect attribution of authorship.  
A completely “authentic” text  
such as this is pseudepigraphical.  
 
So now, allow me to introduce you to  
a truly authentic, and verified ancient term: Ouroboros,  
to many ancient peoples this symbol is known  
and although the meaning differs slightly  
it applies to all things in creation.  
It is a circular symbol depicting a snake,  
or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail,  
it as an emblem of wholeness or infinity.  
 
The ouroboros often symbolizes self-reflexivity;  
something we so desperately need in this day and age  
or cyclicality, the eternal circle of life so to speak,  
especially in the sense of something constantly  
re-creating itself, the eternal return.  
It mirrors the phoenix which burns brightly to ash  
then begins anew as soon as it ends.  
Also represent in the idea of primordial unity  
related to something existing in or persisting  
from the beginning with such force or qualities  
it cannot be extinguished.  
 
The “human spirit/will”…  
 
From ancient Egypt and India,  
ouroboros was/is an important  
religious and mythological symbol,  
frequently used in alchemical designs,  
also associated with Gnosticism,  
Hermeticism and Hinduism.  
 
“Carl Jung interpreted the ouroboros as having  
an archetypal significance to the human psyche.  
The Jungian psychologist Erich Neumann writes  
of it as a representation of the pre-ego "dawn state",  
depicting the undifferentiated infancy experience  
of both mankind and the individual child.”  
 
Once upon a time the black man  
courageously hid away to educate himself,  
gorging on the written word  
knowing the power it contained.  
Once upon a time the red and brown man  
defiantly scribed their histories in stone  
because they knew, they just KNEW  
that in stone it could never be changed.  
Once upon a time the native peoples of the world  
knew that to preserve the oral histories  
through the generations was an  
unequivocal necessity,  
yet now, we the descendants  
shun it shamefully, as ignorance  
of the illiterate and avoid it  
like the plague disgracefully.  
Once upon a time we knew  
the power of ancestry, progeny and family,  
that although we live in a modern world,  
we must learn first and foremost the old ways  
respecting, venerating  
our elders and ancestors  
for the verbal lore full  
of wisdom, that to us, they gave.  
We KNEW that no matter how far  
into the future we walked,  
we could not, there, succeed  
if we did not first learn  
from the mistakes of the past  
and thus avoid the doom of a repeat.  
Once upon a time we  
were not fools, just naive,  
we just did not know…  
now, we just don't want to  
know, see or believe.  
 
“We must look back and relearn  
what has been forgotten by time or design  
lest we allow others to continue  
to keep us illiterate and blind”  
 
Gypsy Red  
4/28/2016  
 
*Apocrypha (hidden writings), [*from the Greek, apokruptein to hide away] Apocrypha means 'hidden  
things' in Greek.
*Pseudepigraphica: The term pseudepigrapha comes from the Greek pseudo, meaning “false,” and epigraphein, meaning “to inscribe,” thus, “to write falsely.”
 
*Ouroboros symbol means unending or interminable.