Entanglements
A man of twenty five
kissed a woman of forty-five
climbed into her heart
and went whistling on his way
I had little cause to like M myself, and when W told me how he had kissed her and bowled her over, I disliked him more. She wanted to go two hundred miles to see him. Eventually they met with others in a pub, and he said that he had no interest in further contact but the kiss itself was a good connection for both of them. She left the pub, but was so angry that she went back and threw his beer over him. Later I told U of this, with the intent of engendering respect for W- it is an empowering thing to assault a man who wrongs you- and she said, smiling, “Oh, I heard about the beer-throwing incident”. So perhaps W’s entanglements are a matter of common knowledge, and source of innocent merriment.
P was going to have lunch with Bjork, but she stood him up. He would have waited another two hours to see if she would turn up late, but the CIA were hunting him. So he imagined what he would have thought in his former life. In his former life, he would not have thought that Bjork would have lunch with him, or that the CIA were hunting him; and he would have thought that his employer might object to a three hour lunch break. So he acted as if his beliefs were the same as in his former life, and in that way could have all the excitement and wonder of his delusions with less of the evil consequences.
P also spent some time as a student as a Born-again Christian, and wondered what it would be like to not be one. So he got a book by Bertrand Russell, and tried to imagine what it would be like to be Atheist. After a while the pool of his Christian beliefs was shrinking, and the pool of his Atheist beliefs was growing, and he stepped from one to the other. That is a striking way of putting it, I thought.
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My No is powerful and beautiful
and I have used it to protect myself
in a way which has been necessary
and my No grew
until I said No to experience
No to my reaction to it
No to life
I still need my No to protect myself and
I will value my No, and I will not fear to use it.
And I will practise my Yes.
This is GREAT
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My only desire is to delight.
I love the poem, Clare. And I think my favorite word here is practice…Lovely.
Cathy
Welcome. I am delighted to have you here, I like the balance of your blog, serious and light, serious points on bumper stickers, and on being in the body-
Practise. Yes, for I think I “ought” to be perfect at stuff, or alternatively I “NEED” to be perfect at it or I am no good- and mistakes are OK, and getting better slowly is OK, and
yes, gentle myself like a small child. Mmmm.
Please stay and comment. I am just starting with the energy healing, and wrestling with the thought that it is “merely” a placebo. But then, the placebo effect is extremely strong, and valuable, and worth
giving to people.
Thank you for your kind words, Clare. One of my key practices is not to “should” on myself or anyone else, for that matter! And yes! Energy healing can be extremely strong and powerful. I even see structural changes in people with the form that I do and teach. I think there are compelling theories as to how it works – Jim Oschman’s book “Energy Medicine – The Scientific Basis” is particularly good in explaining energy healing.
Namaste,
Cathy
Should? I think “It would behove me to” or “It would profit me to” or “It would be good to” make a much better alternative. I “should” less than I did.
On the energy healing, I am going to make a leap of faith- “but not yet”. I inch towards it, two steps forward one step back, at my own pace.
Possibly I should read “the scientific basis”. Problem is marrying intellect and intuition, I want to move from either/or to both/and.
Namaste.
Or you “might want to consider” reading the Scientific Basis.
And I love the idea of marrying the intellect and intuition to both/and. Feels like integrating right and left brain, masculine/feminine, mind/spirit – in other words, balance!