[UA] The House of Renunciation

[Chad Underkoffler]

> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:26:23 -0800 (PST)
> From: Todd Erickson <vtaltos77 at yahoo.com>
>
> I think that assuming that the house has goals, or
> indeed that there was an impetus, may be a serious 
> misreading of the situation.
> I think that the HoR is a natural aspect of the UA
> universe, and that it exists naturally as part of the
> cosmos.  It's part of the programming.  
> I think, to a large degree, that the HoR is much like
> Shadows Fall (from the book of the same name by Simon
> Green), it's an aspect of that universe which acts as
> a safety valve, a balancer...

I see the HoR as a "karmic dry cleaner." (Or maybe a "dharmic
dry cleaner.") 

You go there, and are freed/saved from all the sins and
ramifications that your drives have brought you-- at the cost of
that drive or obsession.  

Thus, say a stone-cold killer escapes to the HoR while being
chased by a small army of the ghosts of his victims. He enters
the House, and is SAFE-- the ghosts go away, dwindle, give up...
or are satisfied, for the man who walks out of the House has had
his entire life's focus burned away, and is no longer the same
person.

The reversal effect is simply due to the dichotomy factor of
love and hate. Picture the yin-yang symbol. If Ahab hates
whales, enters the HoR, has his hatred burned away, there's a
void in him where his hatred used to be. with no hatred pressing
against it any longer, the love washes in and fills the void.

IMAO.



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