To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/12/21 13:08
Subject: [K-list] Alienation - "Out there" or "in here"?
From: Magne Aga

"Anyway, one time when she went to the ladies' room, way the hell down in the other wing, D.B. asked me what I thought about all these stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't KNOW what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know IS, I sort of MISS everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start MISSING everybody."

    - J.D.Salinger, *The Catcher in the Rye*
"And how am I to face the odds,
of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid,
in a world I never made."

    - A.E.Houseman

ALIENATION - OUT THERE OR IN HERE?

Dear "revo" and others.....

Some input in a hurry.

Again, I,m free from my everyday stressfull *duties*, in these silent war going on in Norway against violation of human rights, against corruption and crime - within the system. A silent war against illegal power structures. On Dec 17th, we wrote letters to the Swedish Government, the Norwegian Government and the National Crime Investigation Department in Stockholm.

However, it coincides with the theme of emotions - or rather, the CAUSE of your anger, revo.

The speechless, inner part of yourself experience a conflict with the life you are forced to live. There's a conflict between your inner and outer life. And it has caused knots / energy blocks in the ordinary energy flow in your legs.

The speechless part of yourself can not defend itself with the language. It precedes even *normal* states of consciousness. As the person depicted in Sallinger's novel said, he didn't KNEW what he was thinking about it. But I can give You a simple word: RESPECT. You need respect and dignity.

To recite myself: Deap beneath our rational, logical *ego*, there exists an infinite Ocean of the unspoken. A mysterious stream which precedes the language, and which is older than the language. A child cannot defend itself with the language. It is born into these world and receive most impressions through a universal sign language.

Solar plexus is the gateway of subliminally received impressions. We see, hear, smell, taste, sense things with our 5 outer senses consciously. But every physical impression through these 5 senses affects us through our subconscious dimension. And these conscious / subconscious Yin-Yang polarity defines the 10 "blades" of the Solar plexus Chakra.

Maybe you should put some attention on how impressions through your 5 senses influence your mood subconsciously? One way to stop the subconscious influence which the environment causes on our mood, on our ASSOCIATIONS is the meditation:
"I am Here and Now.
Not for a while ago,
Not in a little while,
But – Right Now."

Associations are the fountainhead of inspirations, of Creativity. But it can also be a disturbing factor.

One of the secret doctrines states: There is nothing "out there" in the physical world. There is nothing "inside here", in my own mind. The Truth is the ungraspable IN BETWEEN. Our subconscious level affects our outer environment and out outer environment affects our conscious level in a circle.

This is an example of a Law of the Universe - the Law of Energy’s pendulum. When we feel ourselves as victims of these tide between our inner selves and the outer world, the name for it is ALIENATION.

But there IS nothing "out there" nor "in here", in the sense that relative phenomenas do not have an absolute existence, and "out there" cannot exist without "in here". The only absolute is the Silence, the resting point in the middle. And if we focus our assemblage point of consciousness to these Suchness, we are no longer victims but OBSERVERS of the Tide.

In these sense, Nagarjuna, one of the buddhist mystics, wrote a text with the name "The System of that in the MIDDLE" (Prajna nama mulamadhyamika). And his followers refered to themselves as the "advocaters of Emptiness".

These Emptiness, these Void, can cause depressions. In advanced stages it’s called "the dark night of the soul". But Emptiness is also Freedom; it corresponds to enough space to exist as free beeings.

During meditations in these centeredness in the midst, we are free from the law of karma, for a while. We are free from the evil circle of cause and effect. And in these room, we can make MIRACLES. We have Power, Magic Power, to steer our own life, for a while, without beeing affected by cause and effect. We are free from alienation. Freedom is Emptiness.

When the Butterfly comes out of it's chrysalis, it can fly. Leave the bondage of outdated ideas, systems, relationships. It can Burn the bridges. Even burn bridges to friends, if necessary.

Stay Centered, Revo. In the middle of any Storm, there is Silence – complete Silence.

And, as an answer to the poet’s question – " I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made" – we can say:

Why didn’t You?

BLESSINGS FROM NORWAY

>Mangne Aga and K list people:
>
>Thank you for your post Nov 28 about turning negative emotions into
>opportunities. I found it very interesting and would like to know more.
>
>I tend to explode in a stressful situation. I am currently working on
>this problem. Currenly I am spending one hour in the morning in
>meditation and trying to take care of myself emotionally.
>
>Also, when a stressful situation occurs I plan to walk away from it for
>a few minutes do deep breathing and say aloud "I will handle this in a
>calm manner until this task is successfully concluded."
>
>Does this sound like an approperate strategy?
>
>Richard

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