My main intent is to begin a conversation on how Psyche can be held and expressed:
To continue to challenge humanity to really look at our small moments to see how they relate to global horrors and potential joy.
To re engage with the Mythic forms as they are manifest today and to see what we have to learn from and with them.
Finally, to remember the Natural world of which we humans are a part.
So please, read, allow the posts to be portals beyond our present moments yet access points to pieces of ourselves that resonate beyond man made boarders, and hopefully we as a global community can re vision how such Catastrophic Experiences can be potential our guides.
Salud
annie jordan
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/31/honduras.storm.emergen...
The office of Guatemala's president handed out this aerial view of a crater that opened up after Agatha hit.
Pacific submarine volcano issues 'big burp'
By the CNN Wire Staff May 31, 2010 2:29 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- A rapid Pacific submarine volcano eruption has exhaled a steam and ash cloud in the air and left a trail of debris on the surface of the water near Sarigan Island in the Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. officials said Monday.
Game McGimsey, a volcanologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, said the vent, lying 1,000 feet under the surface, issued a cloud 40,000 reaching feet in the air.
As a result, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service evacuated 16 people, mostly its scientists, from the Northern Islands off Saipan following the eruption, reported the Saipan Tribune. The area is U.S. territory.
The current volcano alert level is advisory, and the current aviation color code is yellow, meaning volcanic activity has decreased significantly but continues to be closely monitored for possible renewed increase.
Satellite images show no sign of ongoing activity, according to a report form the USGS.
Seismographs indicate a rapid and short-lived onset and that the eruption lasted a couple of minutes, McGimsey said.
"It seems to be just one big burp," said Mike Middlebooke, a senior forecaster at the National Weather Service in Guam, about the cloud burst.
The vent lies seven miles south of Sarigan, an uninhabited island that was used as a copra plantation during World War II, in the Northern Mariana Islands, a chain between Hawaii and the Phillipines in the Pacific Ocean about 3,800 miles southwest of Hawaii.
Evacuees from the islands Sarigan and Pagan were all U.S. Marine and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands scientific crews, McGimsey said.
The USGS monitors don't have instruments on submarine volcanoes, and it took a while for scientists to pinpoint the exact location of the volcano, McGimsey said.
Satellites picked up the ash cloud on Friday. The cloud detached from the area above the vent, indicating the underwater eruption had ceased, he said.
Scientists, who originally thought the cloud came from the Anatahan or Sarigan volcano, identified the cloud source by the large amount of debris and water discoloration above the vent, he said.
While people aren't encouraged to hang around, there are no restrictions on the area, Middlebrooke said.
I saw a pretty horrific but compelling report by ABC called "How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours" (2008) - an expose on how easy it was to acquire a child for almost nothing in almost no time. If you have the courage to watch it (witness it), here's the link: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/buy-child-10-hours/story?id=5326508
I also wrote a piece on Haiti recently using James Hillman's lens of Archetypal Psychology--but approaching the quake itself from a more traditional mythic standpoint. My paper seems hauntingly related to some of what you touch on--that the colonization, oppression, and overall disregard of the country (once all its resources were drained) is devastating. Haiti has been ignored and downplayed for a long time resulting in an Underworld (more related perhaps to Hades, its near-homophone) than to the Jewel of the New World as it was called by the Spanish when they first "discovered" it and availed themselves of its riches.
I believe the quake was a wakeup call for the world to take notice--and we did, in some ways--as we each texted our $10 donations to the Red Cross by cell phone from the comfort of our own (still safe and standing) homes with all the amenities we enjoy (myself included). Its just so sad that so many Haitians died for the cause--and worse yet that so many have been--and still are--displaced. They are a nation that has been displaced in so many ways. I hope we who are willing witnesses can continue to do so, holding them in our hearts and minds as so many still struggle--both individually and collectively.
I will post my paper on Haiti here as well in case anyone would like to read it. I think it compliments Annie's nicely with some history and mythic context, too. What do you (all) think of the fact that media coverage has all but evaporated? Or am I missing something?
Mythoimaginal_Take_Haiti_Quake-BBright.pdf