Nietzsche and mountain building

Most people's assumptions are derived "common sensically" enough -- that is, in leaping to the conclusion that it is necessary to have an attitude of self regard, in Nietzsche studies, that one is too cool for school. Those who try to maintain a rugged independence that is based around ego and ego postulations seem unhealthy to me, since they must repress their social needs and cover up their consequent neediness with hostility. Such an approach cannot be related to health by any means.

I think the only way that a degree of anti-social orientation can be squared up with health is if the orientation is shamanistic -- because the shaman is both a marginal social character and one who has learned to be emotionally self-sufficient, by drawing his energies from their originative source in Being.

So a Nietzschean approach without this shamanistic knowledge is like a recipe with half the ingredients removed. The resulting concoction is unlikely to be of benefit, and may do harm.

And there is also the conceptual issue of how a purely ego-oriented approach to living could in any way square with this:

Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life: by its own torture doth it increase its own knowledge,--did ye know that before?

And the spirit's happiness is this: to be anointed and consecrated with tears as a sacrificial victim,--did ye know that before?

And the blindness of the blind one, and his seeking and groping, shall yet testify to the power of the sun into which he hath gazed,--did ye know that before?

And with mountains shall the discerning one learn to BUILD! It is a small thing for the spirit to remove mountains,--did ye know that before?

For those who have no knowledge of the internal structure of shamanism, this stuff could only be nonsensical or "a trick". There's no way that worship of one's own ego can square with the shamanistic occasional reduction of one's ego for the sake of mind expansion.

And this, which refers to the shamanistic purposeful loss of ego for the sake of life enhancement, would make even less sense to those who are purely ego oriented:

And never yet could ye cast your spirit into a pit of snow: ye are not hot enough for that! Thus are ye unaware, also, of the delight of its coldness.