on waking this morning
it was again transparent to me:
how we are perceived
shapes how we perceive
and how we are perceived
is shaped by complexes
complexes are autonomous
and self-organizing
they are not "located"
in individual lives but
persist through lifetimes
in communities
the predominant power
of complexes manifests
structures of SHAME:
what is positively perceived
what is negatively perceived
* * *
thus our fantasying and fantasizing
on the basis of injuries and wounds
defenses
fueled by archaic energies: rage
as creativedestructive lava
boiling up within us
thus WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR
not to perceive ourselves
not the everlasting and free and original
but rather to find reflected perceivings
mostly NOT CONSCIOUSLY ORGANIZED
perceivings that register these
unconscious patterns of shame
circulating among many generations
throughout our families and communities--
the outer/inner collectives
* * *
the archetype is EPIPHANY:
beholding the divine in every child
and with greatest difficulty--
in terror and/or grandiosity
the divine in our own selves
the mirror image has two polarities:
what is to be affirmed
what is to be denied
light and shadow
* * *
our shame is the archetypal shadow
of the archetypal light
efforts to fantasize our ways
out of the agony/enigma
form our addictions
to misperceiving ourselves
in a labyrinth of sadistic and masochistic
confusions of hungers and self-defenses
structures of our
needs to be held
needs to be fed
needs for attention
needs for companionship
needs for completeness
civilization is the means by which we collectively
imagine the satisfaction of these needs:
the greater the gathered light that is exalted
the greater the shadow that must be denied
* * *
the forces arising through us
will not be contained in the ordinary
manufactured vessels
the forces of change are ever leading us
to perceive ourselves differently
more genuinely and completely
adeptly practiced art forms serve such
transfigurations
transmutations
as vessels of the numinous
* * *
this is to transform
the shame coming down
upon me:
IF I KEEP MYSELF MISERABLE
I AM MAKING MYSELF SOME KIND OF
USEFUL SACRIFICE
that particular idolatry of
shadows swirling round about
how we are perceived
shapes how we perceive
and how we are perceived
is shaped by complexes
complexes are autonomous
and self-organizing
they are not "located"
in individual lives but
persist through lifetimes
in communities
the predominant power
of complexes manifests
structures of SHAME:
what is positively perceived
what is negatively perceived
* * *
thus our fantasying and fantasizing
on the basis of injuries and wounds
defenses
fueled by archaic energies: rage
as creativedestructive lava
boiling up within us
thus WE LOOK IN THE MIRROR
not to perceive ourselves
not the everlasting and free and original
but rather to find reflected perceivings
mostly NOT CONSCIOUSLY ORGANIZED
perceivings that register these
unconscious patterns of shame
circulating among many generations
throughout our families and communities--
the outer/inner collectives
* * *
the archetype is EPIPHANY:
beholding the divine in every child
and with greatest difficulty--
in terror and/or grandiosity
the divine in our own selves
the mirror image has two polarities:
what is to be affirmed
what is to be denied
light and shadow
* * *
our shame is the archetypal shadow
of the archetypal light
efforts to fantasize our ways
out of the agony/enigma
form our addictions
to misperceiving ourselves
in a labyrinth of sadistic and masochistic
confusions of hungers and self-defenses
structures of our
needs to be held
needs to be fed
needs for attention
needs for companionship
needs for completeness
civilization is the means by which we collectively
imagine the satisfaction of these needs:
the greater the gathered light that is exalted
the greater the shadow that must be denied
* * *
the forces arising through us
will not be contained in the ordinary
manufactured vessels
the forces of change are ever leading us
to perceive ourselves differently
more genuinely and completely
adeptly practiced art forms serve such
transfigurations
transmutations
as vessels of the numinous
* * *
this is to transform
the shame coming down
upon me:
IF I KEEP MYSELF MISERABLE
I AM MAKING MYSELF SOME KIND OF
USEFUL SACRIFICE
that particular idolatry of
shadows swirling round about
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