The Phantom Horse

Musings with Old Friends : VI

In the world of the psyche, the sense of I cultivates a vague relation to the idea of a lead horse. This is the horse of impulse, leads the enthusiasm, draws on the sexual drive and is in a broil with the imaginative qualities. The object referred to as the lead horse is not gender specific. Such is the vague introduction a man intimates regarding the human psyche.

However the gender differentiation comes to be important to the man when he relies on the woman he married to devote her admiration to him. She does that in some way in response to what she believes is the way he devotes himself to her.

He brings to her a bundle of the world of men neatly packed in an easy to understand manner by the passions. She responses to reach his mind with love and affection that he can understand as being consistent with the world everywhere.

In that, the Indic female implies the Western female as her sister to her husband. In the same way, he mixes the qualities of the Western male with her as his brother. Both can't make clear their same sex relation as family of the world. That relation is represented by a cog and wheel … the driver and the drive.

In what is probably a unique and living definition of understanding, the man and wife create a reality of the world in themselves that is true only to them. The children growing up observe the scheme of relation the father and mother are in and seek to repeat the experience in their own lives.

If a separation occurs between the man and wife, both are compelled to possess the world represented by the other and to relate as a lone person to the world … probably as the man and as the woman. In doing so they both realize that they engage the mind in the same manner … its reason, logic and common sense.

This makes  a great case about the natural relations of men and women … that they are identical with regards to the use of the mind but on account of other factors are separated by a wall of social customs, religious belief, personal interests and their relation to activity. The Indic referred to this invisible wall as ' Maya ' or delusion. In the West it is magic. Together it is like the Phantom with horse, wolf and eagle, a life lived in the manner of budding poets, intimating itself as the horse of the world. And it helps to keep moving.