The Positive despotism.

Initiation by odd nerdrum, 1997.

The Tibetans think so. That there is (according to Odd Nerdrum) a valley in Tibet habited by perfect humans who are hermaphrodites, and they live a perfect life because everyone is hermaphroditic.

I have heard that after the communists took over they became desperate to find those valleys were this occurred. Where the perfect life existed. Where all these hermaphroditic humans lived, but they have not found them yet.

I believe Odd and his stories about hermaphroditic beings, I think my own initiation, there were at present The Hierophant, which was absolutely neuter high intiated - same time a woman and a man.

The two-sidedness of the motives is fascinating, says Nerdrum, but A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered.
He is very interested in the metaphors. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers.

One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that. But I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people.
Everything is a question of exchanges between people.

(Everyone has some specific possibilities and can to a certain extent do whatever they want. If one wants to become rich one can study economy and if one wants to be poor one can choose to become a professor in butterfly wings for example. So we can choose).

When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success, he add. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.
I understand it is safe to walk the road conservative in the world. To me initiation it has meant everything in my life, also to way to work.

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