Now i don't know if they are going to place an oracle on the Exodus show, but if they are, I'll refute it here and now.

Do your research before envoking any kind of character that you have no idea how they function.

I draw from and oldie but a goodie in my library.

The Courage to Create by Rollo May.

And know you won't get my copy, get cher own, ya leech. :P

Here we go, I'm taking it from the chapter entitled "The Delphic Oracle as Therapist" though this book is full of gems for the creative process.

pg 123-124

and I quote

"Any genuine symbol, with its accompanying ceremonial rite, becomes the mirror that reflects insights, new possibilities,new wisdom, and other psychological and spiritual phenomena that we do not experience on our own. We cannot for 2 reasons. The first is our own anxiety: the new insights often- and, we could even say, typically- would frighten us too much were we to take full and lonelly responsibility for them. In an age of ferment such insights may come frequently, aand they require more psychological and spiritual responsibility than most individuals are prepared to bear."

He then goes on to talk of dreams, and fantasies allow people to do things that "would be too horrible to think or say in ordinary speech" that's why we should dream ,even daydream, because through dreams we can "say it" or as May says ' have Apollo through his oracle say it so we can be much more frank about our new truth.

Acting on it a dream can be tricky, but having them is vital to a creative process. That's why letting ANYONE choke you off from dreaming is killing your creativity, be it parents, or spouse, or kids, or a neighbor or a boss.

May goes on..."The second reason is we escape hubris." The example he uses is Socrates. The oracle said he wasthe wisest man then living, ... something he would never make on his own.

This is how an oracle talks and how to interpret it according to May....

"How does one interpret the council of priestesses?This is the same as asking: How does one interpret a symbol?? The divinations of the priestess weregenerally couched in poetry and often were uttered in' wild, onomatopoeicries as well as articulate speech and this 'raw material' certainly had to be interpreted and worked over. Like mediumistic statements of all ages, these were sufficiently cryptic not only to leave the way open for interpretation but to REQUIRE it. And often they are susceptible to two or many different interpretations.

Continuing pg127
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