tartarus

Mythipedia Entry – Tartarus

The byzantine labyrinth of repeated karmic grooves within one’s consciousness that imprisons one’s deeper magics.  In mythological terms, Tartarus was the prison for the Titans.  In the context of the Mythica, it is the prison for our own titanic expressions of self and personal capability, caught within the labyrinth of the mind – the greatest prison of all.

The concept of Tartarus can be challenging, for it is the idea of being stuck in a repetition, which is being stuck in karmic patterns.  What makes this difficult to digest is the understanding that Tartarus, the prison of the Titans, is also the domain of Heaven on Earth, for both are made of repeated patterns which exist in the mind.  Here, the understanding is that the subconscious and unconscious patterns which lay within the mind which imprison us in karmic repetition are also the patterns of pleasure and expansion, both of which exist in the context of the cycles of the mortal condition.

What gives this distinction is the idea of bondage and liberation, which is to say the enlightenment that removes one from the cycles of repetition that define mortal existence, all of which are repeated patterns across Ages of Time and Space.

The question then is, if the repeated patterns of hell (Tartarus) and the repeated patterns of heaven (Olympus) are both derived from the type of repetitions that we’re having in our mind, how do we shift from the domain of hell to heaven?