Winter preparing to cook for Christmas and the New Year which holds birtdays for all of us!

I have been unable to blog lately too many viruses and i was sick too. However we are all well now and their is a rejuvenation of sorts when one comes out of being sick. There is a better understanding and appreciation for health, and a better taste pallet especially after stomach flues.
I am considering this years cookie baking and I have decided to not stress myself out. I am gonna do Melomacarona, which is the hardest of the cookies, Kourabiethes which is quite easy, sugar cookies, ginger bread shapes, and choc. chip, which are always a hit.
Now for melomacarona, this cookie is basically a sophisticated shortbread spice cookie made with olive oil. Olive oil one has to acquire a taste to it, can be an incredible flavor to cookies of this nature. The cookie also is dipped in a honey sugar lemon syrup and to some degree still retains its shortbread texture with some honey absorbed in it. The cookie has cloves, cinnamon, and alisiva( which is get this ash from the fireplace (6tbsps. in a half glass of water boiled for a while and filtered through a coffee filter), i leave out the ash a lot of times, cause i think my husband is afraid of it. Another thing keep food preparation in the kitchen kind of a secret from non cooks they spoil the chemistry. There is also brandy in this cookie and sugar rind of orange lemon and mandarin, one teaspoon each. It's a cookie for a sophisticated palate. The rest are basically butter cookies with stuff in them, not real complex cookies.
I have been thinking about mans need for myth and read something by Carl Jung on this that it is something that man desperately needs the connection to the symbolic life and mythological connections.
I am reminded again, with the current trend of the vampire films, which i haven't seen but, i have a good idea what they are about. It is an attempt for a connection to a mythology. An attempt to find a myth which will permit an eroticism that is lacking, in today's relationships. I think that is what the original pull is, the uncontrollable sexual urge which can kill you but, you go for it anyway. A primordial urge to be sexual, personified by the vampire figure. This vampire has to feed on blood the most intimate and life giving force in the body. The vampire is hopelessly addicted to this, he has to feed, and with this myth he is permitted to feed, he is even likable. It is this loss and at the same time fear of eroticism which makes these vampire films very popular with women in my opinion.
We are to some degree afraid of our vampire persona, which we all have deep down. The primordial uncontrollable sexual desire. It is a desire to live, to be intimate, to feed, to be sexual, without the intellect interfering. To a large degree we have imposed so many restrictions on this primal urge that it has become highly complicated and gone missing, from our experiences. However, we yearn for it through these vampire films don't we?
I think we are lacking a connection a mythology which would permit the sexual urges as existing and not make them taboo, or to be controlled too much. I know heathens!!! But, isn't this what we are looking for when we go to be taken into the world of the vampire?
In Greek mythology the Gods were very heathen in their urges especially sexual, i guess we have cleaned up our world a great deal. I think of Aldous Huxley and his Brave New World, all born out of test tubes yet longing for vampires!!
I do think we need magic in our lives and not the hokey Harry Potter nonsense although this again, is an attempt to bring forth a mythological connection however, still i can't get over how absolutely boring these books are and lacking in imagination. Yes, you can stone me now, sacrilege, i dared to call Harry Potter a book about an English boy who goes away to school, add a few ogres and unicorns, Boring!!! We have a boring story, he does nothing really groundbreaking, so he can fly on a broom wow wee!!!
Where is the inner connection of the reader where does the reader become startled by meeting a side of his personality which he keeps very well hidden? Where does the reader become wretched and questions forces which he knows are there but, can't control at all? Though unicorns????
We are too controlled even when we write a new mythology, because we are afraid of our lack. We are afraid of our disconnection from myth. We are no longer enthralled, we fall in love for a year maybe tops then we suffer. We are not aware of alchemy or transmutation nor do we partake in the symbolic life in our lives, through rituals.
I look at the resurgence of Orthodoxy in Russia, it is really taking off why? People wanna go to church? No, it is an attempt to participate in the symbolic life again, which was denied to them for some time. The partaking in baptism, communion, marriage ceremony, and all the other pageantry that exists.
One may argue all that stuff complicates everything there is no substance to it. That i beg to argue is false, all that stuff is the substance. Take it away and you have a thinking brain, who is alone and lost with a bunch of knowledge. Man needs to partake in the symbolic life, man needs to connect to a mythology. I don't know how to explain right now maybe another time i will get more into it. I liked when Carl Jung was writing about his travels to Africa which must have been early 1900s, and he was asking the natives about their dreams and their shaman, their spiritual leaders, and they said we no longer dream the white man has taken care of everything. I understood this to be that rationality or European rationality has taken over symbolic life and mythology for the native.
In my village they used dreams to dig for water, they didn't have geologists back then someone would have a dream and figure this was a good place to dig. There was an unconscious element which was not ignored. They didn't need to go to vampire films in order to feel that sexuality was something very primal in them, nor did they need the vampire convention, as myth for sexuality and rationality at the same time. Now, even the vampires are able to be rational, how sad, they spare people, poopey!!!
I think that is probably why Anne Rice is a better Vampire writer, her vampire is ruthless, he spares no one and feels no Guilt. I quite liked her Vampires. They were much more evolved and to some degree there was at least the absence of guilt.
Enough of vampires today, time to figure out what to cook and get my shopping done for my baking which i hope to do this weekend.