Metron

Metron was Kirby’s avatar of ruthless, questing intellect, whose Mobius Chair twisted through time and space to make him the god of couch potatoes, surfing channels, gathering information, without ever leaving the comfort of his armchair. Metron’s magic furniture seems less a wonder of supertechnology than a fact of daily life. As Kirby tried to tell us in his book of the same name, We are The New Gods, just as We are The Old Ones, too.

SKIP:  

That's what The Kid was •designed• for.

LORNE: (chuckles) 

To sleep with mother love?

ANGEL: 

To Create a Vessel.

SKIP: 

Look out. 

The Monkey's thinking again.

ANGEL: 

Being inside A Human makes it VULNERABLE, doesn't it?

That's why it had to stay hidden. 

Why it needed to create something STRONGER to pour itself INTO.

GUNN : 

Wait. So the big nasty inside of Cordy is going to give birth... to itself?

SKIP : 

Circle of Life. It's a Beautiful Thing.

 

“So I began to think more and more about The Individual, and I looked into what that actually meant. 

And what it was, was a structure that was pretty much created… The Ego structure was created out of what Julian Jaynes calls The Bicameral Mind becoming One Mind.

And apparently – according to him – he says that back in the old days of the Greeks, and the earliest writing of the world, people didn’t have self-consciousness in the way that we have. 

 

They didn’t have Egos. They didn’t understand themselves as “I” in the same way that we do. Because the corpus callosum – that connects the two hemispheres of the brain – wasn’t connected.

So if you heard A Voice, That Voice was God. 

And Homer, and all those guys, you’ve got plenty of examples of people hearing The Voice of God, and acting on that. 

Alexander constantly acted on The Voice of God.

Julian Jaynes suggests that it wasn’t The Voice of God – it was The Voice of The Left Hemisphere of The Brain communicating with The Right Hemisphere of The Brain, interpreted AS a God.

So okay : now we’ve got the two things joined together. We’ve got This Beautiful Bridge in The Middle that links The Two.  

 

But we have The Ego Structure – which was created when those things linked.

Suddenly we’re like: “Oh fuck. I am I. I am the I Am. This is my.. my god is this. I am separate; I am one.”

We made This Idea that we’re somehow separated from Nature.

No we’re not. Bullshit!