Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Healing the dark...
At first I was resistant to the notion that 'the dark' was something for us to reclaim. I wanted light, upliftment, enlightenment, and saw the dark as the realm of ignorance, suffering, violence, confusion. But with each passing day, I see more and more how all of these light-favoring metaphors involve withdrawing from earthiness, flesh, mortality, our very humanity.
Any part of ourselves that we section off and throw away tends to turn quite putrid and come back to haunt us. As a society that embraces metaphors of light and transcendence over dark and immanence, we may have made some wonderful progress in the realms of light, but we've also populated the dark with demons of our own creation. War, poverty, ecocide, and forms of domination and violence may all seem like external enemies for us to battle, but in the end they are the forsaken children of our own consciousness. We must examine ourselves - as individuals, as communities, as societies and nations, in order to find the roots of these sufferings. We must come to understand how our consciousness has spawned these oppressive forces and how it can reclaim the power that we've locked away in the shadows.
In my own life, the evidence of this process has been all too clear. The further I go with my healing, the more I encounter powerful opposition that is in fact my own discarded power and conciousness coming back to haunt me. Right now, the most powerful demon nibbling at my innards is the one associated with my Oral tendencies - not having enough sustenance and time, being impoverished, abandoned, helpless. I'm broke, I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I don't seem to have enough time to get things done. At times this has felt unbearable, but for the moment I can see it all as a part of my learning process. I've known for years now what social, economic, and political forces have been a barrier to my personal and planetary dreams - those demons are all too familiar to me. Now it's time to face the ones that live closer to home, in shadows of my own body, emotions, mind, heart, and spirit. What in my own consciousness is holding me back from abundance?
On that note, I'll get back to work! More soon...
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Any part of ourselves that we section off and throw away tends to turn quite putrid and come back to haunt us. As a society that embraces metaphors of light and transcendence over dark and immanence, we may have made some wonderful progress in the realms of light, but we've also populated the dark with demons of our own creation. War, poverty, ecocide, and forms of domination and violence may all seem like external enemies for us to battle, but in the end they are the forsaken children of our own consciousness. We must examine ourselves - as individuals, as communities, as societies and nations, in order to find the roots of these sufferings. We must come to understand how our consciousness has spawned these oppressive forces and how it can reclaim the power that we've locked away in the shadows.
In my own life, the evidence of this process has been all too clear. The further I go with my healing, the more I encounter powerful opposition that is in fact my own discarded power and conciousness coming back to haunt me. Right now, the most powerful demon nibbling at my innards is the one associated with my Oral tendencies - not having enough sustenance and time, being impoverished, abandoned, helpless. I'm broke, I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I don't seem to have enough time to get things done. At times this has felt unbearable, but for the moment I can see it all as a part of my learning process. I've known for years now what social, economic, and political forces have been a barrier to my personal and planetary dreams - those demons are all too familiar to me. Now it's time to face the ones that live closer to home, in shadows of my own body, emotions, mind, heart, and spirit. What in my own consciousness is holding me back from abundance?
On that note, I'll get back to work! More soon...
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