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    Trump Versus Glinda
    Trump Versus Glinda
    Trump Versus Glinda
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    Trump Versus Glinda

    By Scott Webb

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    "We're not in Kansas anymore!" is something most Americans know. And we know Dorothy and the entire cast of characters. But did we really understand Glinda? Who is she? Could she be our subconscious, pre-Christian, mythic roots from ancient Roman and Greek pagan times? This brief analysis of Glinda and American culture from 1939 may help to prepare us and to cope better for the Trump years. Maybe even to thrive as never before.

    With Donald Trump's Tweets and his Cabinet's upcoming machinations to spotlight in the media, we can predict an intensifying of emotions across America and the world, so let's perhaps accept that coming reality right now. Why find yourself suddenly surprised, angry or flummoxed? Meanwhile, this can be an era of great individual awakening and why not?

    Awakening, however, is a tricky business and comes with its own perils. This book is intended as a quick reference guide to better understand our own uniquely American cultural history and how that helps to further our ability to handle current reality as a matter of individual transformation (and not just something to protest against).

    Most Americans assume that The Wizard of Oz is one thing, but is it really another? If so, it's time to jerk the wraps off one of history's most wonderful mythic adventure stories. With almost one hundred pictures analyzed one-by-one, the story plot is unwrapped here as telling us about law, and the abuse of law, and "the telling of lies" in light of keeping agreements one to another. The Land of Oz is an unconscious landscape as to why Dorothy has been betrayed by adult society as represented by her aunt and uncle, her neighbor Miss Gulch, and the Wizard. The Christian Church figures into the story because Aunt Em identifies herself as "a Christian" woman, while we can assume that Miss Gulch was also a church-goer and neither is presented as a role model.

    Dorothy represents their antithesis and Glinda represents the synthesis, which comes via a Higher Power.
    Glinda appears as a contrast to the people of Kansas and her "floating as a ball of light" represents epiphany, which Dorothy receives at the end of the story. What epiphany? That she wears "the ruby slippers," which are likewise symbols. Through a symbolic interpretation, every aspect touches the human subconscious awareness of our deeper mythic roots extending to Pagan concepts found in Jupiter (Father of Light), Jove (jovial), and Apollo (apology). Christianity in 1939, when The Wizard of Oz was released, was being subverted by eugenic supremacy concepts as decidedly Christian nations were going to war (WWII). Glinda represented the timeless version of what we would now call "The Force" or "the law of attraction" and these definitions of spiritual understanding are very much relevant to today and need not be at odds with more Puritanical versions of faith.

    The question remains, "How do we get what we want?" Because as Alan Watts stated, "We are not going to have Democracy in the Kingdom of Heaven."

    It's not good enough at this juncture in human history to stand for progressive ideals. What's important to grasp is that the apocalyptic issues which face us today are the same ones rooted in antiquity and brought alive in full color through The Wizard of Oz. Read this analysis and see things in the movie you never saw before, right in plain view! If Dorothy had the power all along to "get home to Kansas," then so do we. Let's not miss it again. There's not another truth, just the one that's been here all along.

    #Post-truth be damned. Dorothy truth and Toto now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Webb
    Release dateJan 11, 2017
    ISBN9781370111329
    Trump Versus Glinda
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    Scott Webb

    Scott W. Webb graduated from Wheaton College, Chicago, 1981 with a degree in philosophy. He is the father of two grown children, Art and Maddie, and grandfather to two, Kaden and Hannah. He worked for the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska for seven years before moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1990 after his wife signed a developing artist deal with Star Song Communications and then with Curb Music. In 2000, he became interested in "health and wellness" and opened a private colon hydrotherapy office in 2001, where he is in his 14th year. In 2006, he wrote the book, "Inside Poop," about his experiences and learnings as a colon hygienist, which has a five star rating on Amazon. He has authored other books on a wide variety of topics and been published in ACRES USA and Massage magazine.His other interests include history, gardening, raising chickens, and a wide range of home fermentation projects.

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      Trump Versus Glinda - Scott Webb

      Trump Versus Glinda

      The Secret of Everything

      #Post-Truth

      By Scott Wright Webb

      Copyright 2017 Scott Wright Webb. All rights reserved.

      Interior Design by Penoaks Publishing, http://penoaks.com

      Dedication:

      To rebels everywhere who speak partial truth.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One: Ad Nauseum

      Chapter Two: Foreshadowing Empire

      Chapter Three: A Review

      Chapter Four: Final Observations

      Author Bio

      Introduction

      Donald Trump Versus

      Glinda the Good Witch

      I am a spy in the house of me. – Carrie Fisher

      I am listening to an audio book right now about recent Vatican history called The Vatican Diaries. The author described how a plot of land was being cleared for a new parking lot within Vatican City where bulldozers had exposed an ancient Roman graveyard, shearing off and destroying many markers, tombs and marble sculptures. On a tight construction schedule, the parking lot’s engineers were attempting to quickly load everything into trucks to be taken to the landfill, while news got out and there was a public outcry. Papal archaeologists were called in, triggering an internal organizational battle which centered around whether pagan graves were of significance to the Catholic Church under Pope Benedict versus the value of 55 new parking spaces to the bustling sovereign state.

      It appeared that an ancient mudslide had perfectly preserved this burial site since the First Century. One of the discovered caskets held a four year-old Roman boy’s bones and his hand clutched a simple undecorated duck egg. One can imagine the affection which the parents had felt for this child because to their culture, a duck egg symbolized rebirth. Meanwhile, the parking lot’s engineers still pressured the archaeologists to get it all out of their way or be hauled off to the dump.

      Then a grave was discovered which was questionable as to whether it was Pagan or Early Christian. The symbols were confusing, while it did picture a woman with her hands held out as if praying. Suddenly the game changed and the archaeologists got the upper hand. They were suggesting that this site was not just insignificant pagan graves, but perhaps those of Early Christian saints.

      To me, this is an interesting demarcation as to how humans determine what’s what. It’s about the stories we tell ourselves and how certain assumptions drive us to do what we do. Will this little boy’s bones and the duck egg end up in a landfill or in a special museum on display? And which museum? Surely not in the Vatican! A pagan duck’s egg?

      But to blur the lines a little, consider that since this graveyard was dated to the First Century, it’s entirely possible that this little boy’s family was associated with the very Peter who founded the Roman Catholic Church. And perhaps this child had been baptized by Saint Peter’s very hands. Saint Peter may have attended the very burial and then the Apostle, lacking any other means of expression, placed this very duck egg into the boy’s hand as a symbol of his coming resurrection.

      We might surmise that this grave’s discovery is something like a miracle!

      At the very least, we might make the observation that the people of ancient Rome held beliefs around the concept of resurrection. And so, if this boy’s culture had been one-hundred percent Pagan, then the context of what was pagan culture was at least ripe for somebody like a Saint Peter to make it all Roman Catholic, so the seeds of the Christian religion are obviously there with the egg regardless of labels.

      In other words, the duck egg is a lot like the Easter egg symbolically and in this way, whether Pagan or Christian, the attitude of the burial moment from two thousand years ago is exactly the same. It’s not Jupiter versus Jesus, but Jupiter and Jesus and we could suggest that this little boy’s duck egg is the missing thematic link.

      Whatever it was, this duck egg was not likely placed into the boy’s hand as a matter of doctrine. It reveals the attitude. The boy’s father and mother may have tucked it into the child’s hand feeling endearment, like saying, May you live forever as you will remain in our hearts until we see you again.

      In a way, this story points to how cold and ignorant aspects of our humanity have evolved into the Twenty First Century, dividing everything into this or that, Pagan or Christian, Blessed or cursed, amazing relic or trash, and we don’t even have barely a clue as to the complex hearts of the early inhabitants of Rome where Christianity was birthed. So we don’t even have a clue. That’s really the conclusion.

      And we might ask now, who really does have a clue? The pope? The American Congress? Evangelicals? Liberals? Muslims? Mormons? Scientific experts? Corporate headquarters?

      Or maybe perhaps some person like President Donald Trump has a clue. Somebody might say, There’s a man who has a clue. And it’s all open for discussion, because we’ve heard it said by others of a different persuasion: That man is clueless!

      So which is it? I mean, regarding the duck egg, in the hand of a 4-year old Roman boy. That we know. A child had died during the First Century, and whether this was a pagan or Early Christian grave is open for speculation. Or perhaps it was Pagan and Early Christian, depending on who gets the final word.

      Trump Versus Glinda

      We're not in Kansas anymore! is something most Americans know. And we know Dorothy and the entire cast of characters. But did we really understand Glinda? Who is she? Could she be our subconscious, pre-Christian, mythic roots from ancient Roman and Greek times? This brief analysis of Glinda and American culture from 1939 when The Wizard of Oz was released may help to prepare us and to cope better for the Trump years. Maybe even to thrive as never before.

      It helps to revisit the symbols from the past, which can then cause us to look at ourselves in a new way.

      With Donald Trump's Tweets and his Cabinet's upcoming machinations to spotlight in the media, we can predict an intensifying of emotions across America and the world, so let's perhaps accept that coming reality right now. Why find yourself suddenly surprised, angry or flummoxed? Meanwhile, this can be an era of great individual awakening and why not?

      Awakening, however, is a tricky business and comes with its own perils. This book is intended as a quick reference guide to better understand our own uniquely American cultural history and how that helps to further our ability to handle current reality as a matter of individual transformation (and not just a reality to protest against).

      Most Americans assume that The Wizard of Oz is one thing, but is it really another? If so, it's time to jerk the wraps off one of history's most wonderful mythic adventure stories. With almost one hundred pictures analyzed one-by-one, the story plot is unwrapped here as telling us about law, and the abuse of law, and the telling of lies in light of keeping agreements one to another. The Land of Oz is an unconscious landscape exploring why Dorothy has been betrayed by adult society as represented by her aunt and uncle, her neighbor Miss Gulch, and the Wizard. The Christian

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