You raise some good questions, not exactly celebratory, but nonetheless questions that are deserving of answers, albeit my own opinion is not the last word on Peace Mango.
The futility of trying to create “world peace”, is duly noted. There are various opinions on what is good and what is evil, but I will leave this alone for the moment.
When we first started to develop the sigil (and at first, this was just a sigil), I thought about some of your questions myself, as I am sure others did. There used to be another thread that outlined some of the thinking regarding this line of questioning. I guess, for myself, I was interpreting the intent of this sigil, as similar to the enormous task that Avalokiteshvra or Chenrezig in Tibetan had attempted to accomplish, and He did. This is an seemingly impossible task, however. Chenrezig emptied Samsara a thousand million times and each time, it was full again within an instant. His endeavour to rid the worlds of suffering was always met with futility. He cried a tear, and from that tear was born the embodiment of compassion, Tara. Using this as an allegory for the Mango, we could use the concept of Samsara as synonymous with suffering as it is considered in Buddhist philosophy and even quite possibly evil. Perhaps, that is confusing the target intention of Mango, but if we do some fine-tuning, (As is needed sometimes in creating servitors, especially of this magnitude.) I am sure it can be adapted.
The second part of the allegory is the concept of Tara. She is compassion, and ultimately this is what this working is – an exercise in compassion. There are a few reasons to do this, even if it appears futile. One reason is – it is just plain old good karma. Another reason is what else is there to do? Not necessarily the Mango working, but any working that is intended as a tool for peace. I know of several workings around the world at that time and I think of Peace Mango as Barbelith’s contribution to the cause. This is not an unsupported endeavour.
I do take note of the use of the word “evil” as being ambiguous and possibly lacking direction for the general application of Transducer, however, as a means of targeting specific situations it seems that ze has been responsive and effective. (There still needs to be some experimenting to do, perhaps, and I think it would be really cool if we did test our work out. Why not? Of course, it is hard to gauge “world peace”, but at least we will know if it is capable of carrying out specific tasks we set for it, for certain.)
As far as your question of “evil” or “negativity” being it’s food source, I can only offer that at the point where Transducer is creating the negativity, let it eat itself and transform itself into the suitable positive output it is accustomed to - Sacrifice and Transformation.
Transformation seems to be the nature of Transducer, anyway. I get the sense from hir that when ze is not active, ze is Peace Mango. When ze is active, ze is Transducer. Maybe a little Transformers leaked into the formula. Heh.
I am sure I have not answered all your questions Badbh, but hope that is satisfactory at the moment. I am glad these issues are being raised. I feel helpless to create these changes without the support and assistance of other ‘lithers, especially those that helped to launch it initially. If you have any suggestions regarding a possible statement of intent or experiment for Mango then please, do post them. I am, without a doubt, open to improvement on a good idea. |
If you could give me an idea of how to tune into the celebration from South Africa, as well as an approximate in GMT, it would be great 
