Thank YOU Federica,Federica wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 10:03 pmThank you for your thoughts and wishes, Lou.Lou Gold wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 9:53 pmLou Gold wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:23 pm
Aloha Federica,
I'm aware that Poplawski offers another definition: "Lucifer, however, represents a force that paradoxically can combine beauty and if you will, beauty gone too far, to the extreme of decadence, hence to evil" and I don't mean to challenge it. Yes, I agree that one can fall into being blinded by the light as well as being lost in the dark and both can fit the word decadent. Being close to death is new to me. I did not expect it to be liminal and liberating but that's what I'm encountering experientially and, storyteller that I am, I want to tell the story hoping that it might be helpful to others as well. I'm a newbie in this regard. Your challenges help me polish and hopefully enhance both my play and performance. Thank you. I believe our good wishes for evolution according our natures is mutual. May we all be blessed with happy trails and trials.
"Katherine May:
This life I have made is too small. It doesn’t allow enough in: enough ideas, enough beliefs, enough encounters with the exuberant magic of existence. I have been so keen to deny it, to veer deliberately towards the rational, to cling solely to the experiences that are directly observable by others. Only now, when everything is taken away, can I see what a folly this is. I don’t want that life anymore. I want what [the] ancients had: to be able to talk to god. Not in a personal sense, to a distant figure who is unfathomably wise, but to have a direct encounter with the flow of things, a communication without words. I want to let something break in me, some dam that has been shoring up this shamefully atavistic sense of the magic behind all things, the tingle of intelligence that was always waiting for me when I came to tap in. I want to feel that raw, elemental awe that my ancestors felt, rather than my tame, explained modern version. I want to prise open the confines of my skull and let in a flood of light and air and mystery… I want to retain what the quiet reveals, the small voices whose whispers can be heard only when everything falls silent.
How to Grow Re-enchanted with the World
I want you to believe that I know that you respect me and I do not perceive your confrontations as rude. Indeed, I truly value them in my process of discovering how to communicate from a heart space that opens the possibility of transcending mere polarization. Please do not let the fact that I'm 'dying' - whatever that means - cause you to back off. I value the authenticity of your willingness to express who you are. It's well worth my appreciation and gratitude.