There is something deeply moving beneath the water of our feelings which we neither can own nor control...how dare we identify this as our self, unless we are willing to drown!
The essence of the ritual of baptism. Though I'm unsure if the depth is in the ritual the same was as going through the process. There is that place. As a friend wrote in his song "Bones": always waiting there a place that has no name. Seems to be the nile, hades, and all the world resides within. Would you agree?
Thanks for naming it 'baptism', that ritual usurps the power of the deep, but is appropriate in its appropriation. Nightly we are baptized unto sleep, submerged in the unconscious realm of archetypes and chthonic powers...our shared inheritance.
After reading your insightful missive ('I really wish for you to comment in the comment section.') compelled to comply w/a question as well.
How much has identity has become a religion in the age of data- embodied phygility: so fluid, malleable, exchangeable.
You can augment, accessories, enhance, embellish, aggrandize, seemingly to your heart's content? (Or is a different driver @ the wheel?) Make it your own via sheer consumption, rather than create. Freedom, or self-expression, even justice, these are lifestyle choices now never existing beyond the individual.
Virtue stems not from performative values, but from alignment w/a deeper level of reality. Lao Tzu proposed: “The highest virtue is not virtuous & that is why it is virtuous.” C.S. Lewis saw the seeds of our growing demise in dystopiatech. In large part, he FELT it was beset upon us from the sheer misunderstanding of where values emerged; scribing, “the human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour.”
Apt wrap on this piece and images to be cherished: "Is it the words or the energetic resonance behind their words. . . FELT & made real by the intention of the light of love, or volatility of distrust and fear, that makes each other what we are, to each other."
So it is as if people are busied more with themselves these days than with each other? do I understand you right? Thank you for sharing and commenting. I have been doing a lot of inquiry into this aggrandised path as well...and how what I've always wanted was a very simple life and how complicated that has been to achieve. Maybe that is simply how life is.
There is something deeply moving beneath the water of our feelings which we neither can own nor control...how dare we identify this as our self, unless we are willing to drown!
The essence of the ritual of baptism. Though I'm unsure if the depth is in the ritual the same was as going through the process. There is that place. As a friend wrote in his song "Bones": always waiting there a place that has no name. Seems to be the nile, hades, and all the world resides within. Would you agree?
Thanks for naming it 'baptism', that ritual usurps the power of the deep, but is appropriate in its appropriation. Nightly we are baptized unto sleep, submerged in the unconscious realm of archetypes and chthonic powers...our shared inheritance.
After reading your insightful missive ('I really wish for you to comment in the comment section.') compelled to comply w/a question as well.
How much has identity has become a religion in the age of data- embodied phygility: so fluid, malleable, exchangeable.
You can augment, accessories, enhance, embellish, aggrandize, seemingly to your heart's content? (Or is a different driver @ the wheel?) Make it your own via sheer consumption, rather than create. Freedom, or self-expression, even justice, these are lifestyle choices now never existing beyond the individual.
Virtue stems not from performative values, but from alignment w/a deeper level of reality. Lao Tzu proposed: “The highest virtue is not virtuous & that is why it is virtuous.” C.S. Lewis saw the seeds of our growing demise in dystopiatech. In large part, he FELT it was beset upon us from the sheer misunderstanding of where values emerged; scribing, “the human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour.”
Apt wrap on this piece and images to be cherished: "Is it the words or the energetic resonance behind their words. . . FELT & made real by the intention of the light of love, or volatility of distrust and fear, that makes each other what we are, to each other."
So it is as if people are busied more with themselves these days than with each other? do I understand you right? Thank you for sharing and commenting. I have been doing a lot of inquiry into this aggrandised path as well...and how what I've always wanted was a very simple life and how complicated that has been to achieve. Maybe that is simply how life is.