12-22-2016, 12:00 AM
"Our world is in danger, the pilots are unconscious"
Yeah, so my task is to rip myself from the torpor of the trance that puts all this off into the distance. Relocating things constantly in terms of metaphor helps add to the distance, in my view, for me. It's the mind's way of procrastinating. That whole scenario is not happening "out there" in "the world". It's right here, right now. The world is upheld and solidified here, up top, and stopping it means penetrating it directly with awareness until the illusion collapses. Direct awareness. Eastern looking awareness, I guess? I'm not sure about the jewels and cardinal directions references you're using.
"without saline"
And the Narcan, which kicks the heroin off the receptor sites instantly. Wanna hear a hellish scream? Try the screaming of pain and wild anger of the heroin addict who's just gotten a bolus of Narcan.....who goes from the near-death bliss of heroin overdose to full blown withdrawals in the span of seconds. Where all the physiologic consequences of years of addiction come to bear instantaneously, not to mention what's going on spiritually (I can't imagine....I've only historically dipped my tippy toes into the world of full blown opiate addiction). The amazing thing is our capacity to go right back to whatever's numbing us out to what's going on (rapid descent in the context of unconsciousness), regardless of the shock of the near death experience. Whether it's the needle in the arm or the droning day-to-day of the upstanding citizen.
I know it, on my own little level of experience. It is real...both incredible and nightmarishly frightening at the same time. But, when I'm fully aware and looking at it in retrospect...it's mostly just incredible.
Yeah, so my task is to rip myself from the torpor of the trance that puts all this off into the distance. Relocating things constantly in terms of metaphor helps add to the distance, in my view, for me. It's the mind's way of procrastinating. That whole scenario is not happening "out there" in "the world". It's right here, right now. The world is upheld and solidified here, up top, and stopping it means penetrating it directly with awareness until the illusion collapses. Direct awareness. Eastern looking awareness, I guess? I'm not sure about the jewels and cardinal directions references you're using.
"without saline"
And the Narcan, which kicks the heroin off the receptor sites instantly. Wanna hear a hellish scream? Try the screaming of pain and wild anger of the heroin addict who's just gotten a bolus of Narcan.....who goes from the near-death bliss of heroin overdose to full blown withdrawals in the span of seconds. Where all the physiologic consequences of years of addiction come to bear instantaneously, not to mention what's going on spiritually (I can't imagine....I've only historically dipped my tippy toes into the world of full blown opiate addiction). The amazing thing is our capacity to go right back to whatever's numbing us out to what's going on (rapid descent in the context of unconsciousness), regardless of the shock of the near death experience. Whether it's the needle in the arm or the droning day-to-day of the upstanding citizen.
I know it, on my own little level of experience. It is real...both incredible and nightmarishly frightening at the same time. But, when I'm fully aware and looking at it in retrospect...it's mostly just incredible.