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Recieved: 2002/01/06 13:12
Subject: [K-list] K K K Koo Koo
From: Ed
On 2002/01/06 13:12, Ed posted thus to the K-list:
>I wonder, can we teach people to cherish their dark night, their
>insanity? My dark night comes in spurts and cycles. It has nothing to
>do with feeling separate from god but reuniting myself with my Self.
>The period I went through when I healed my perceived separation from
>the divine feels like a picnic in the park compared to the reunion
>with my Self which reveals itself in layers to me. I have the
>intellectual acknowledgement of this but making it experiential and
>the details in my life is now the primary demanding road I travel now.
>
>Be well,
>Susan
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Hi Susan,
Dear Friends of the deranged,
:-)
Are you comfortable? Do you make others comfortable?
Some people are comfortable with discomfort and madness . . .
The different layers of the shell (trust me I am a crustacean - we molt)
are not real.
They are subjective experiences.
Is a dream, vision, hallucination of VALUE - of course!
The value and understanding and experiential knowledge
may be greater than 'objective' experiences.
However let us make Light of our demons . . .
Shadows are not our dwelling they are contractions of spirit.
They can as many people here know and you acknowledge be very intense.
Irrationality and ignorance are part of the human condition.
Grounding our being takes many forms (physical effort for example).
I would suggest that our madness is placated in
calming and aiding those more crazy than us.
In my case I just have to look harder
to see Nothing unusual . . .
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Cuckoo Lobster
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The richer - that is, the more varied and complete - the individual's
emotional life, the less is he driven to projection, and the more will he
incline to identification. His outlet and satisfaction comes in identifying
himself with the emotions of the other. On the other hand, the narrower and
more restricted the individual's emotional life, the more intense will be
his fewer emotions, the less will he be inclined to, and capable of,
identification - the lack of which he has to compensate for by projection.
Projection thus proves to be a compensatory mechanism that adjusts for an
inner lack. Identification, on the other hand, is an expression of
abundance, of the desire for union, for alliance, for sharing.
'Love, Guilt and the Denial of Feelings,' 1927, American Lectures, Otto Rank
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"The pain of love, in Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan's words, is 'the
dynamite that breaks open the heart, even if it be as hard as a rock.' It
reveals the essential rawness of being human, of reaching for heavenly
perfection while forever having to grapple with earthly limitations. Yet
the heart itself cannot break, or break open, in that its essential nature
is already soft and receptive. What *can actually break is the wall around
the heart, the defensive shield we have constructed to try to protect our
soft spot, where we feel most deeply affected by life and other people."
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