What's the Point of Jim McCarty?

[Sacred Fool]

  

Welcome to My Rant, All Ye Who Dare to Enter.
 
   
I pose the titular query partially in response to the wee meme I see now again where people seem to fetishize a Love/Light dichotomy between Carla Rueckert (CR) and Donald Elkins (DE).  And yet I see no fan club in the works for Jim McCarty--not that I think there should be one--but I'm guessing most people just don't get the point of Jim McCarty.  And yet, if they did understand him better, they might read the Ra Material and the surrounding narrative a tiny bit differently.

Now, please, dear reader, get this much straight at the beginning: Jim McCarty is a complex individual and this thread does not intend in any way to discuss his private thoughts, his private life or God knows what else he's into.  This is intended to be a discussion of symbols, not real people.  And this brings me nicely to my next point.

When I read people going on about how DE represents rational thinking and science or CR represents love and feeling, this can feel sooooo cartoonish. I sometimes think I'm a child again watching a Scooby-Doo episode where there's the tall, dark, brooding, mysterious genius character and the short, beaming, embracing, chorister librarian character.  But what's with the gardener guy who has no super powers?  Is he just the maintenance man, a supporting character needed to move the plot along?  In the real LLR story, is he merely playing a supporting role as scribe while the two stars, the Instrument and the Questioner, do all the important work?

Well, here's my obnoxiously outspoken view on this.  I think that what most everyone cannot see is that Jim McCarty symbolizes the synthesis and the balancing of the Love and the Light, something which exceeded the grasp (symbolically speaking) of his two fellow characters.  Correlative to this, I would aver that this tidbit of insight is drastically under appreciated because most of us identify primarily with one end of the see-saw or the other, but not with the fulcrum.  Jim lives at the fulcrum.

I don't think it's possible to argue this point, so you can just accept it or reject it as you wish, but I can describe it a little bit.  If you listen to the LLR podcast, Jim is as much a disembodied talking head as the rest of them.  And yet, from what's public about his intimate relationship with (CR), he clearly also has a bias towards love and service.

I've met Jim a couple of times at the Homecoming events. and initially this involved transporting me--and others--from our hotel to the event site.  He was polite and glad to help. and also glad to get that chore over with so that he could do other things.  This struck me as being well balanced.

Another interesting aspect about him is that he never joins the group when we go out to eat supper at local restaurants.  Instead, he stays home and meditates, and he can not understand why everyone else doesn't do the same.  After all, there's no better game in town than meditation. Now, this might have you wondering, "You call that being balanced?"  But think about it.  Which is the greater service, sitting near someone while you eat your meal or meditating upon the sublimity of existence?  Some would say that the true, more balanced answer is the latter.

Well, this is my understanding of this matter, and I ask you not to disagree with me and burst my bubble, or I might cry.  Or, maybe I should just go meditate like Jim McCarty?