I understand, and admire to some extent, post-modern pre-apocalypse human effort to stand alone, bloody head unbowed, with no images of God or gods. So be it and blessings to you.
As for me, I dwell within, and as, a rich tapestry, a holographic weaving of soul and spirit, a cosmos that has not just a horizontal but also a vertical dimension. I can and do plunge to the depths and soar in the heights. As Heracleitus wrote: "The way up and down is one and the same."
Below me are aspects of myself that wish to claim dominion. I own them unless I allow them to own me. Above are those I serve and continue opening to, ever-widening circles and spheres without end.
Claiming to be a person, I personify the universe. I take everything personally -- gods and demons and angels -- spiritual entities by whatever name. All spiritual entities are both inside me and outside me, for inside and outside are one and the same.
I like opening to the angels of my being -- and beyond. I know I have my roots in darkness. Yet through this darkness comes a thread of light, exploding in ecstatic joy beyond comprehension. I see this. I feel this. I am this.
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Delightful...one of your best!!! ♥ Cathy
ReplyDeleteIn his "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," Jung says of himself that "When people say I am wise, or a sage, I cannot accept it. A man once dipped a hatful of water from a stream. What did that amount to? I am not that stream." Perhaps Jung's feeling of separation from that stream reflects his Zeitgeist or a triadic thesis-antithesis-synthesis world view as expressed by the alchemical mysterium coniunctionis.
ReplyDeleteHowever, George, I sense your "I am this." as acknowledging that triadic experience while expressing the sublimity and bliss of their unity. There *appears* to be an acting bird and a witnessing bird in a tree (Munduk Upanishad)--effectively echoing the story of Arjuna and Krishna, respectively. Yet, "One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction is wise among men." (Bhagavad Gita, 4.18) Such a vision would be called an "imperience" by Franklin Merrell-Wolff.
I think that Heracleitus is correct, and that Jung and the stream are one. Yes: I am this.
--Gary