ORIENTATION # 1065 : THE LIGHTHOUSE IN THE MIST ______________________________________________ From a private conversation ______________________________________________ In some way its a modern curious psychosocial mystery, this issue of loneliness.. What loneliness ? Not necessarily in a physical way, but rather the very psychological spectrum that this sensation brings about.. Why when psychologically alone an individual cultivates a sense of desolation ? Are we not all using models and setups, and fashionable gestures, symbols and jargon in order to avoid loneliness as if it were the plague of the mind ? Are we not clinging to this and that, whether politically or materialistically, ideologically, religiously or spiritual confabulations, in this ocean of confusion, in order to convince ourselves that we are in a solid identitarian path ? Identity seems to be the patent to stay out of loneliness.. but why exactly loneliness produces pain in the psyche ? Have you ever investigated in this factor ? I mean, (I repeat); not physical loneliness, but psychological one.. (you can be & feel lonely even within a gathering with several friends and lots people isnt it so ?).. Why this kind of loneliness creates pain ? Why our almost daily setup of thought must be in a way or another, more or less, compliant to the collective one (according with the tribe of ideologies we decided to adopt) ? Have you ever you have never reasoned about these things ? But not through the commandments, the ideals, the jargon of the collective/trend/tribalism to which you belong, pretend to belong or wish to belong.. but rather independently... indeed: alone ? If your answer is not, then a question is imperative, and the question is: how can you possibly comprehend how the whole dynamic of psychological loneliness and aloneness functions if youve never been alone with them.. (but rather you have been fearing them.. escaping them.. ) ? Do you understand ? in this life that we are doing.. there is a very very small place for solitude.. There is the breakfast, the traffic, the office, the lunch, the office again, the traffic again, the shopping, the meeting with friends, the playstation, the tv, the movie, the popcorns, the internet, the reading, the meditation perhaps.. and so on.. plus the burdens of yesterday and a considerable percentage of preoccupations .. right ? There is an element, a psychological element we should consider; and such element is represented by the condition in which when we are accomplishing actions aimed to escape loneliness.. then, obviously, the psyche gets busy.. which means that the psyche cannot really manifest a fresh & intelligent introspectiveness : therefore there is not really much self-observation.. while in aloneness the mind who completely understands the movements in there .. can shift the unpleasant state of mind turning it into clear self observation.. and thats definitely a treasure of thinking which is so endangered nowadays.. very different if compared with the chattering mind through which we proceed everyday.. If taken and investigated in this way.. then psychological solitude becomes like our inner lighthouse.. standing alone.. as an orientation in the mist.. Think about these things.. _______________________________________________ endoffear.weebly eofproject.org jessicamystic
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:29:23 +0000