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VII X-posing the Fallen Individual excerpt 35th Out of Restraints
X-posing the Fallen Individual X in EXPAND. If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything. Eckard Tolle Once you have a sense...
Tragic Vision excerpt 34th from Out of Restraints
Heart Loss—Tragic Vision “Recall that attuned play amplifies joy, excitement and yes indeed surprise. A positive state in turn allows individuals to experience a situation as safe, to feel unrestrained to take risks, to explore novel pathways and to be creative.”...
Family Bullying excerpt 33 Out of Restraints
Family Bullying I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me. John Keats Our psyches are complex and most of us carry attachment injuries. In this field, beyond the sad...
Internal Resistance excerpt 32nd Out of Restraints
Internal Resistance Just when people were congratulating themselves on having abolished all spooks, it turned out that instead of haunting the attic or old ruins the spooks were flitting about in the head of apparently normal Europeans. Jung, After the Catastrophe....
The E in EXPAND. Excerpt 31st Out of Restraints
The E in EXPAND. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke. The Waking Slow down. Begin with settling on an experience to explore and consider what you hope to come away...
VI Enlarging excerpt 30th from Out of Restraints
Enlarging--The Heart Finds a Focus “That in you which recognizes madness as madness (even if it’s your own) is sanity, is the arising awareness, is the end of insanity.” Eckard Tolle What is (what I call our Inspiration) cannot be fully presented as a something, yet...
The Warmup excerpt 29th Out of Restraints
The Warmup “It (spontaneity) propels the individual towards an adequate response to a new situation or a new response to an old situation. Thus, while creativity is related to the act itself, spontaneity is related to the warming up to the readiness of the act.” ...
Essential Inquiry excerpt 28th Out of Restraints
Essential Inquiry Which of the many creatures (Who live in the wild fields and forests inside of me) will dominate today? Who or how will I be? What will I embody? And who will decide? Pre-suppositions of the Heart-drama: In the Heart-drama, there’s a healing...
Emptied of Majesty, excerpt 27th from Out of Restraints
Emptied of Majesty “Why was light given to man, whose way is hid, whom God hath hedged in?” Job 3:23 To begin to deconstruct the myth, I would suggest we explore the drama which at the beginning to this inquiry we have called The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream. In our...
What Are We About in the World? except 26th from Out of Restraints
John Keats I think John Keats, an English Romantic poet, long dead, has still something to offer us. I do see him as part of a rebel force, if not exactly Luke Skywalker; in his time, not unlike ours, the Romantics were heroically fighting against philosophical,...