Pain into Ritual 44th excerpt Out of Restraints

X Pain into Ritual The P in EXPAND “We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.” Auden Now that we see the barriers as energy-forms which enter our inner and outer stage, now that we understand “the problem,” the question becomes, “What next?”   As I will use the...
The Shopkeeper 43rd excerpt–Out of Restraints

The Shopkeeper 43rd excerpt–Out of Restraints

The Shopkeeper Normalizing, Obedient, Opportunistic  “Stated a bit differently, (Stanley) Milgram revealed that for a remarkable number of people, it is very difficult to disobey authority figures, but quite easy for them to set aside their conscience.”           ...
Enactment of Cruelty 42nd excerpt Out of Restraints

Enactment of Cruelty 42nd excerpt Out of Restraints

Inner/Relational Fragmentation— Enactment of Cruelty   Hunters The hunters are firing their guns around our house again. They are down in the thick brush, the darker slopes. I haven’t seen all the predator’s faces, but I find comfort To think I know the type, on their...
The Android–41st excerpt Out of Restraints

The Android–41st excerpt Out of Restraints

Veiled Enactment of Superiority Robotic, Abandoning, Still Androids don’t care what happens to other androids . . .that’s one of the indications we look for.  Phillip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?   This image depicts two well-prepared adults in...
IX Fallen Relationship–40th excerpt Out of Restraints

IX Fallen Relationship–40th excerpt Out of Restraints

X-posing the Fallen Relationship Enactment of Selfishness  The Colonizer Triangulating, Opportunistic, Gaslighting   We observe certain constellations of family interactions which we have epitomized as the pattern of family interdependence, roles those of destroyer or...
Deflation at Depth excerpt 39th–Out of Restraints

Deflation at Depth excerpt 39th–Out of Restraints

The Addict Detached, Entranced, Delusional The important question isn’t why the addiction, but why the pain? Gabor Mate   The Addict has lost his electric high. In his own mind, he is a King, and he can still seem exotic to his citizenry. From the outside, he may be a...