Why did I go into astrology? Well, it's Jungian based, the way some of us practice it, and Jung, as far as I'm concerned, saved the world from the Procrustean Bed of psychology.
Thanks to DAVID LANCE GOINES for this great description.
... Saving the evil memory, no trace whatever remains of the monster Damastes, and his name has survived him as a byword for cruelty. I don't know why this story brings to mind myrmidons of the Internal Revenue Service. Must be my classical education. Sleep tight.
April 15, 1994
3/17/99
Well, unless it's because to the creative intuitive introvert, the whole world is a Procrustean Bed! Thanks David for the great recap of the Greek myth. We creative, intuitive introverts are just 1% of the population. They don't make a bed for us. We have to make our own.
Thanks to DAVID LANCE GOINES for this great description.
PROCRUSTEAN BED
NEAR ELEUSIS, in Attica, there lurked a bandit named Damastes, also called Procrustes, or "The Stretcher." He had an iron bed on which travelers who fell into his hands were compelled to spend the night. His humor was to stretch the ones who were too short for the bed until they died, or, if they were too tall, to cut off as much of their limbs as would make them short enough. None could resist him, and the surrounding countryside became a desert.... Saving the evil memory, no trace whatever remains of the monster Damastes, and his name has survived him as a byword for cruelty. I don't know why this story brings to mind myrmidons of the Internal Revenue Service. Must be my classical education. Sleep tight.
April 15, 1994
3/17/99
Well, unless it's because to the creative intuitive introvert, the whole world is a Procrustean Bed! Thanks David for the great recap of the Greek myth. We creative, intuitive introverts are just 1% of the population. They don't make a bed for us. We have to make our own.
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