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of sitting. I wish I could sit and wait like him,
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and slip into a maze.
You call
but I'm in a daze,
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a phase.
Lend me your phrase?
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In their visits the two daughters want to resolve their feelings but their parents don’t remember what the conflicts were or that there were even any conflicts at all. . They are not the same person they were years before. They are frail and benign now, but their two daughter still bring in the heavy artillery against this old enemy who can no longer fight back. It is a painful situation all away around. (There are some great success stories, but that is a subject for a different post).

In the context of my two residents greeting me as they did, I am, without question their daughter.. I feel unconditional love. The love they show me is intended for their other daughters, the women they raised, but I am the recipient of it - mostly because I can just accept it. . Their daughters could have this experience too if they would release themselves from their anger, even just a little.

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I relate to your observation about the suffering of the daughters that come to visit their mothers, who feel guilt and want to resolve old baggage in their relationships with their mothers. They are looking for that person they knew to find some way to mend the relationship that is now carried inside of them and not in the memories of their moms.
I relate so much to this because I was seeking this type of mending with my father for many years as he was slowly or rapidly declining into his Huntington's. I would always turn towards him seeking that recognition of a loss I thought we both shared. But he was no longer (nor really was he ever) the father I carried around in my mind and with whom I wanted a relationship. I always turned towards him with this desire for connection and always left with great disappointment, often in tears. Sometimes I would be bawling (stifled, silently to myself) while he was on the other end of the phone telling me the same story with the same details for the fifth time in the same day. Once he called me fourteen times in one day and left 14 voice mails, all saying the same thing. It frightened me, and devasted me.
He is no longer "gone" like this. His medication is amazing. He still lapses and forgets things of astonishing importance to me, but to him it is as though some conversations were never had. But it is totally different now for me. I no longer seek anything from him. This is true. I worked out my loss and the desires I sought from him in therapy. I worked through my anger and disappointment privately by understanding them in relationships that could help me understand and validate them. These feelings were not for him, but were mine to understand. But I remember when it all began to change and he changed too! I stopped seeking from him and committed myself to caring for him as he was/is now, what he needs. What I need is to know that he is cared for, and that's it, that he is comfortable and that I and my sister are making his life as easy as possible with this disease.
We are doing this and so I am full of gratitude for being able to meet this need and face this disease.
I hope that your patients' daughters can come to see that they have given their mothers the best care, being that they are with you and your staff in what sounds like an optimal loving and compassionate and skilled environment. May they find a way to grieve their loss and cherish the possibility they now have to turn towards their mothers' present needs and take care of their own personal ones through therapeutic relationships (that can be with you or with friends, just talking about their feelings).
I am so grateful and happy that you are doing this work. it sounds like you are really doing your calling. I wuld love to hear how you discovered this calling.

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this poem has me a bit

this poem has me a bit conflicted. one source of conflict is of course the dramatic shift in the third-to-last stanza, in which 'you' makes its first appearance. a second source of conflict is the language, which seems fresh and vital in many places, but drags in others. for example, the first line feels like Noah to me, full of bright imagery and a unique perspective. whereas the third line, "he is everywhere, nowhere" feels a bit familiar, but lacking in necessity. what i mean is that i feel i have heard that juxtaposition before, and that in order for it to fulfill the feeling of a Noah poem it must carry some new weight, it must be necessary. here it drags me a little.

 

anyway, the biggest source of conflict for me is the crow himself. he's like a zen master, yet he is temperamental and isolated -- now, these two things aren't necessarily at complete odds with one another, but here i find no resolution to this conflict. one may be zen master and temperamental at once, but i need to see or feel that complexity, and understand WHY and HOW it is existing. here i just feel the bare conflict-- how is it that he, while actively prolonging his isolation, also exists as 'light' in this way? i am not saying the poem is at fault for not resolving this conflict, nor am i saying this conflict is unresolvable-- i am merely saying that when i read this poem i feel this conflict, and it seems vague and void, and i am not quite able to engage with that which comes out of this conflict.

 

I agree with you James

thank you for your insights, which I think are pretty right on in a lot of ways. If the poem expresses a conflict, it doesn't really understand it.

I suppose I just have to trust the process, though it is hard sometimes. I find I take a lot of missteps before I figure it out--so I am trying to learn to embrace the bad poems along with the good. Thanks for helping me out!

Sometimes this is the "i should be sleeping right now" blog.

The crow in this poem feels

The crow in this poem feels to me to be an ideal master of the poetic word. "Ideal" in the sense that he seems to embody the kind of "crying" or cawing that would be, in the purity and bright blackness of his wait-lessness, a lover of silence whose form is the word itself, his own body as language and his body (like the crow) the embodiment of his poetry.

"he caws, waiting always, un-harried / by the commotion below. He knows silence. / He cries to it, a lover. We are alone / but I am never lonely when he is near."

His presence is companionship; in him the poet is learning of an ease in the stillness, centering himself in a commotion of desire; he is learning to sit in the sitting: "I wish I could sit and wait like him, / familiar to my strangeness. I don’t think / he waits for anything, only that he is / a kind of waiting."

The waiting of this crow is the crow itself; the poet begins to imagine that the crow is not waiting for anything but is "a kind of waiting," centered and suspended in his confident solitude, or identity as "crow/poet".

I am struck by how the crow seems to be above the viewer, the poet. In this too, I recognize the crow as "ideal", an idea that the poet is reaching towards, identifying with, desires. His tempermentalism is human and of necessity: he fights for his space, defends his solitude.

The "you" feels like an invocation of the poet to himself, to his poet-self, to the poetry, to his pennulated muse which comes and goes, concealing and revealing himself to himself.

process-ness

i like this, Caterina. there are two things i have in response to this, and then my usual story-telling response. the first is that this doesn't do for me what i felt the poem needed to. this response of yours brings out much of the beauty in the poem, and certainly offers a perspective on the crow that provides the sort of 'resolution' i was talking about. in fact, you give the crow the sort of status i felt could have been achieved (and perhaps was achieved, just not for me) by the poem. maybe it's just the 'But' that gets me, who knows (or maybe the butt!). anyway, the second thing is that i think this sort of response is very important in poetry-writing-- considering Noah called this a "bad poem" (words i didn't use).

 

here comes the story to explain that second thing.

 

so i remember one occasion in particular when this sort of thing affected me. i had been writing and writing for two weeks, all sorts of ideas were coming out, but nothing was quite feeling right. i didn't save anything, i would just scribble it on paper and throw it out, or type it out and delete it thereafter. not angrily-- there was just no reason to keep it for me. instead i just let all the various thoughts and feelings being expressed pile up together in me over the weeks. it was frustrating, not being able to just get it out, knowing it was somewhere in there, but i just pressed on. finally i was sitting in my apartment (shortly before my two roommates moved in) and i strapped my guitar on, slapped a capo on the second fret, and started methodically circling my dining table and rhythmically strumming F#M7. suddenly i began to sing in my tough-to-reach high register, and the words just flowed out. i just kept singing until finally i knew i had finished-- i ran to the computer and typed it up. finally, i had collected everything written in the previous two weeks andsaid it. this was the first time this happened to me so dramatically, and i have opened up to it many times since-- it has me much more patient. that was about a year and a half ago, and the song i sang was Dock Dreams.

 

this is why i believe the sort of response you gave is important, to flesh out the wonderful in a poem that feels to the poet to be a "mis-step." it may not be one that resonates as deeply, but even if it doesn't resonateat all there is something held therein, some reason for having written it. i'm glad Noah was willing to post something he didn't feel entirely confident in!

 

Hey James

I like that your post was at 11:11. You know I get a special feeling for those cat-eye digits. Thank you for your comments. I am aware that to respond to a poem we can approach it in many different ways and the way I approached it was more symbolic rather than syllabic, though I would be happy if it were a little sibyllic! I do feel when I sit with this poem that it is a contemplation of a feeling and an idea. Like a dream, it is fun to flesh out what the poet is reaching towards, even if the song itself is not one of his best I've have the chance to read. This reminds me of Dante's Rime Petrose, the Stoney Rhymes. These are among my favorite of his poems for the way in which he was reaaching into his "dark eros", trying to break through an intense desire, penetrating it and his ideas, in order to recognize in them his nacent authenticity. They are not his "best" poems. In fact, his poems get bogged down with bizarre though fascinating astrological information. But he is at his most fierce. That is why I love these four poems (especially the last). And they came right before he launched the first verses of the Inferno.
Someday I'll try to write about them for the blog. Yummm.
Love your youtube song! I heard you sing about the dreamgirl... So intimate! You are so beautiful!

playful song and another dream-girl (thanks Caterina! :)

 

On Discovering The Possibility Of My Sexuality (youtube clip)

 

friendly ex says, "why not just have sex?"
are you offering, jessica?

funny how you say it might
give me more to think about, jessica

 

you're in love now

 

it feels good to hear a dream come true
i'd like the best for you, jessica

it feels good to be done coveting
unless you're offering, jessica

 

well, you're in love now

 

my dream-girl came to me in a dream
and i'll never see her again

but i know now there isn't one and only one
'cause i had another dream-girl*

 

i'm back in love now

 

maybe next time she'll be corporeal
until then i'll just baffle you, jessica

 

------

 

*the "another dream-girl" (also not corporeal) was Mother-God -- to be found in poetry form here, though i didn't have the dream until a week after i wrote the poem. i woke up, immediately sat up and said, astonished and ecstatic, "Who was she?" and as quickly as i asked the question i knew the answer: Mother-God.

 

 

THE PURE FEAR AND FAITH THAT BURNED TO MY CAW

I was going to write more “impressions” about Arnold’s photo (I love the sound of and saying `Arnold’s photo,’ it’s something I now share with him), but have noticed these other “text” photos—which, of course, because of the way they are grammatically framed, have neither the completeness or self-containment, nor the pure contingency of description that the photograph has. They seem to kinetically stream around each other but without touching, like reiki. The music and rhythm of Megan and Noah’s “pure fear; Megan says, “the moments of fear are somehow purer when you are dancing with nature.” A purer fear is a “fear without strings… that you can overcome “because there are no trick doors or surprise hazards waiting around the corner.” I love this formulation of fear because it is cradled in faith. I don’t know how I would have survived the violence, neglect and isolation of my childhood without faith, and the questioning that pushes up against it, like Lily in the doorway.

I would sit on the stairs outside our garden apartment when I was 8 and ask the Ineffable Unknown, “Why can’t we [my family] be like the Prestons?” In other words, why can’t we be normal? But, of course it wasn’t normalcy I needed, it was safety and nourishment, both literal and psychological. I knew very little other than fear, and so, like Megan, I had to begin transforming this fear into a “beautiful package.” And nature was crucial for that transformation, I think in much the same way that Wordsworth had to overcome the abject loss of his parents, but particularly his mother. No doubt, nature became his mother, as it did for Whitman. And I learned so much from nature, through the poets and through direct experience, the pure love energy of sky, bird and tree wrapping themselves around me:

It is now late August; the mind wavers
In and out of morning coolness, day's heat.
A birch drops three yellow leaves,
Two sumacs shine red against the light
Like aching breasts; a kingbird flits from oak
To goldenrod and back again, then again.
The air is silent and heavy, heavy with scent.

I wander in the incessant rise of moments
Through these fields, brown bulges of heat
From ground rising; the back and forth swing
Of eyes opening; the voice breaking with words
Like a bud billowing out of blackness;
And the word itself bearing down a birth,
Its dumb curls scraping against the seed's mouth.

Four years have hurriedly passed at Caumsett;
A hawk's wing dips into green death
Behind the oak; clouds rendered formless
In sun's sudden spear: sixteen deaths,
sixteen births, and the frail bindings of hope.

This pure fear you guys speak of, and for Megan, fostering an almost miraculous strength that “helps you to challenge yourself to reach beyond any potential you ever knew you had…[and] allows you a moment of clarity to see yourself relative to the world instead of the world relative to yourself.” Yes, this centering, what Caterina calls the “center of gravity,” fueled my desire to transform and transcend, even before language aligned itself with that center. But it took it seemed forever to taste the freedom that comes with it.

And I could feel, in Emily’s exquisite tantrums, the chaos of my inner world running and hiding from the danger, from without and within. And the within culminated in a fist fight I had with my father weeks before he died. He was drunk and heckling my mother. I punched him in his chest and yelled (the words still reverberate even now), “Leave my mother alone, I hope you die.” And I vanquished my Oedipal rival in what was to become a pyrrhic victory. I actually believed I killed him (the grist for analysis!). And so I lost the war and spiraled into a long (untreated!) adolescent depression, the kind that isn’t very pretty.

The isolation that Nico relates, and the closing in of space and not being able to connect (or breathe) that OuenBenning describes, was my entire adolescent and early adult existence. But, here’s the mystery, the alchemy of pain churning like a sufi, the faith of love, that burned through and nearly destroyed me. I swear, that burning that almost killed me, when I awoke, felt like it turned me into gold.

alchemy

it’s like an emptying… what crows caw to
tossing what was heaped out onto a pile
like compost, how it takes
what needs to burn
and works it with heat
water, air and earth;
and like a chocolate mouth
sucking it down whole
shitting out what something else can use;
the heap that once was turns to gold.

Om, What do you mean?

Om, What do you mean by even before language aligned itself with that center.?

MEGAN'S BULKHEAD AND OTHER COMPARTMENTS OF LOVE

Hi Megan, it’s so nice that you’ve climbed aboard, so to speak :) Your question referred to this sentence: “Yes, this centering, what Caterina calls the “center of gravity,” fueled my desire to transform and transcend, even before language aligned itself with that center.” Simply, in my experience, language is the vehicle for centering one’s psychological self in order to reach beyond language and into the Pure Awareness of spiritual realization. For me, it’s a process of alignment, the (psychological/analytic) process coextensive with the (spiritual/meditation) practice of spiritual development. But, there’s something even more mysterious here! Because it feels as if I'm evolving into a Reality that’s already there, much like my comment to Arnold on photography-- as a subjective immersion, how we add to the photo details that are already there-- in “POST IMPRESSIONS.”

With that said, I was specifically responding to your beautiful statement about faith, which is the implicit drive of my spiritual practice, and due to the preponderance of loss, is the primary form my life takes (Emily tenderly alluded to this in her post).

The predisposing alignment of language to my center of self is kind of like the psychological version of the koan, “What was your face before you were born?” I see the psychological vis-à-vis language as growing into the spiritual. Caterina alluded to this last night with OeunBenning. She said, “Spirituality is a funny thing. One can have a lot of spiritual ideas but not be "related". One can even put spirituality in front of relating as a shield to real intimacy. I can connect to a person's ideas but if the person doesn't feel connected to me (isn't in touch with what they're feeling, isn't present), it may feel as though their feet are not on the ground.” “Feet on the ground” is the psychological stability and clarity of mind, the center of one’s gravity that makes intimacy possible.

Following Noah and speaking of Wordsworth (and I always link Wordsworth to faith)-- I’m particularly thinking about his Platonic notion of the philosophic mind-- I have always wondered what drives us to health, to life, to love, even when we’ve been so deprived of it? A source of this wisdom and my inspiration (the poetic side of philosophical inquiry) was Wordsworth’s “Intimations of Immorality From Recollections of Early Childhood.” In his own words, ultimately about faith, he speaks of his struggle with understanding death (which, in my mind, was his struggle with understanding loss):

“But it was not so much from feelings of animal vivacity that 'my' difficulty came as from a sense of the indomitableness of the Spirit within me…. I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature…. To that dream-like vividness and splendour which invest objects of sight in childhood, every one, I believe, if he would look back, could bear testimony, and I need not dwell upon it here: but having in the poem regarded it as presumptive evidence of a prior state of existence, I think it right to protest against a conclusion, which has given pain to some good and pious persons, that I meant to inculcate such a belief. It is far too shadowy a notion to be recommended to faith, as more than an element in our instincts of immortality. But let us bear in mind that, though the idea is not advanced in revelation, there is nothing there to contradict it, and the fall of Man presents an analogy in its favour. Accordingly, a pre-existent state has entered into the popular creeds of many nations; and, among all persons acquainted with classic literature, is known as an ingredient in Platonic philosophy. Archimedes said that he could move the world if he had a point whereon to rest his machine. Who has not felt the same aspirations as regards the world of his own mind? Having to wield some of its elements when I was impelled to write this poem on the "Immortality of the Soul," I took hold of the notion of pre- existence as having sufficient foundation in humanity for authorising me to make for my purpose the best use of it I could as a poet.”

What is this faith, a faith that seems to be present even before we have the language to form it and give it meaning? For Wordsworth (and I completely agree), life is a trial, for loss IS the condition of life. And the abundance one becomes is that much stronger because it includes the knowledge of pain and suffering. Also, for Wordsworth—- and why he wrote `The Prelude’-- memory sustains continuity. It is I believe the Romantic equivalent of karma, especially the way Wordworth uses it in `Intimations…’: “Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea/Which brought us hither…”.

And so, when I say, “this centering…fueled my desire to transform and transcend, even before language aligned itself with that center,” I am talking about faith in a knowledge which is superordinate to even this current life. This is my idea of karma.

I also don’t think we can talk about faith without talking about fate, or fatedness, for faith is irrelevant without something to have faith over or against, as say, faith against fate. The source of fatedness might be understood as the encounter with external reality, the clashing with the world (of culture), or clashing with an unconscious mind or body that prevents the fulfillment of desires necessary for the authorship of self-creation. Our physical existence, unconscious minds, genetic inheritance, mental abilities, tempermental traits, emotional disposition; our language, culture, social class, and personal relationships are all part and parcel of a personally prescribed fate. But, the paradox of human individuality allows us to disidentify with those prescriptions that define our own fatedness, through a process of dissolution, or an unlayering our fated identities to reveal a deeper, core self, the I-AM of spiritual awakening.

In a fundamental way, life is about overcoming fate. This is my definition of evolution. Evolution provides unending opportunities for reparation and restoration. Evolution provides an antidote for suffering. Faith over fate. It means not only transcendence, that is, climbing the development rungs through one's psychological tasks. It also means transformation, fundamental change in one's relationship to self and participation in the world. This is also the essence of spiritual experience.

At the most painful junctures of my life, the trauma I experienced was just too big to wrap my mind around it. What was I to do? How was I to cope? Neither psychological awareness nor knowledge alone got me through. It was faith that ultimately revealed the meaning of loss. Not a faith in something, but faith as the ground of knowing. Even in its inarticulated breath, faith was the realization that I am part of an evolutionary process moving towards higher levels of consciousness, and that this process structures and guides the Universe in its totality.

As such, as the conveyor of faith, Mind is evolution's penultimate gift. Mind interprets and, therefore gives meaning to life. It tells me, for example, that, while at the same time it is meaningless, loss has meaning. My personal losses appear on one level random and feel excruciatingly painful. Yet as a being of awareness, I have the capacity to find in my loss a meaning that will guide me through this lifetime, most likely ending in joy and celebration! meaning as a message of light that not only washes over the suffering, but through suffering, flowers into compassion, love, joy and intimacy with other human beings.

transcendence/transformation

there is a wide array of incredible things here, so i will be very selective and, as usual, look a little bit into one comment of yours through the lens of my current experience.

 

i was walking down the street just now thinking about a dream i recently had in which i calmly and confidently made a decision notto do something based on the feeling that the action can be more meaningful (i.e. intimately shared) in a different context. i was thinking about relationship. i thought, "there is this idealism involved, especially noticeable for me in the romantic relationships." and when i first encountered this idealism asidealism i reacted a bit, i defended-- i did not want to admit that my feelings for the other were for an ideal. but, of course, it takes active relating to engage in a deeper understanding of another, and there are many developments that bring the 'image' of the other from an ideal to, let's say, an actual experience of the other.

 

so i was thinking about dreams. i thought, "i can dream of this other person, and i am forced to wonder about the symbolic significance of the CHOICE to dream THIS person." it is easy for me, sometimes, to just take a dream at its word, so to speak, and refrain from moving into the metaphorical. i think of the great discussion Arnold sparked recently-- i believe that great big conversation has greatly influenced the way i have been thinking about these things!! now-- i find that with my own dream-experience, when i do both things (that is to say, when i both accept and cherish the dream as a real experience in its own right, and also investigate the potential symbolic significance of the dream) i have a much richer experience. i gain a more intimate relationship with the dream itself (as i understand the feeling of the experience in a deeper way), and i gain greater insight into my own waking-experience (and overall psychological experience) by using this very fruitful mind-construction as a window into my interior.

 

so-- where does all of this go? well, i wondered: if i dream of this person, clearly (in my experience) the dream-image of this person is a symbolic representation of some various feelings and experiences in my life. and so-- because i may always dream of this person-- is the idealism ever entirely transcended? and i smiled at my word choice and thought to myself: why must i transcend the idealism? better yet-- i can transform it, and will do so naturally over the course of the relationship as i gain a firmer understanding of the other person, and a deeper insight into myself THROUGH the relationship with the other person. and so while my 'concrete' experience of the waking-state person may be quite intimate and familiar and quite fill'd (and becoming) -- i still have the experience of the person as a mirror and as a symbol through which i can activate all sorts of associations through choosing to use an image of the person in a dream.

 

this sort of holding both at once is the kind of joyfully peaceful, patient, and satisfying experience i often refer to when i use the word 'integrated.' instead of holding something like the 'reality' of the dream, and its symbolic significance, at odds with one another, i bring them together in my experience and recognize them as held within my experience as a whole. all of these reflections became greatly informed by your lovely post, Om, as they went out through my private lens, and came back through the lens you shared in this post. i'm glad Megan asked you about your statement!

 

JAMES, THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT

"this sort of holding both at once is the kind of joyfully peaceful, patient, and satisfying experience i often refer to when i use the word 'integrated.' instead of holding something like the 'reality' of the dream, and its symbolic significance, at odds with one another, i bring them together in my experience and recognize them as held within my experience as a whole."

Boy, I love the way your string sentences together; it's really quite a gift of logical analysis, speaking of "holding both."

I actually break this formulation down a bit into both integration and what I call "simultaneity," that is, simultaneously holding the dialectical tension between two ostensibly different ontologies, or linguistic patterns of oppositions, like "male" and "female."

Integration is how their meanings structural form when converged, as you have stated.

JAMES AND OTHER TRANSENDING TRANSLATIONS OF TRANSFORMATION

James, I realized that I didn’t address this very important transformation/transcendence articulation of yours. “is the idealism ever entirely transcended? …why must i transcend the idealism? better yet-- i can transform it, and will do so naturally over the course of the relationship as i gain a firmer understanding of the other person, and a deeper insight into myself THROUGH the relationship with the other person. and so while my 'concrete' experience of the waking-state person may be quite intimate and familiar and quite fill'd (and becoming) –“

What you describe here is a process of transcendence/transformation through translation. The translation/interpretive function of development (process-- I said to Megan, "Mind interprets and, therefore gives meaning to life. It tells me, for example, that, while at the same time it is meaningless, loss has meaning.") is what Ken Wilber refers to as “creating meaning… help the separate self make sense of, and endure, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” (a little Shakespearen allusion ;) translation “consoles the self, fortifies the self, defends the self, promotes the self. As long as the separate self believes the myths, performs the rituals, mouths the prayers, or embraces the dogma…”. As Caterina has pointed out, much spirituality and many religious experience hovers around the translatability of religious or spiritual teachings. A language is created from which to make sense of one’s life, the world surround and reality. But, translation is not transformation. Transformation is the radical breaking away and transcending of lower (conventional) levels at the deepest levels of consciousness. Wilber formulates translation as a horizontal movement while transformation represents a vertical (higher/deeper) movement. Translation offers legitimacy while transformation demands authenticity. In my poem `King of Dots,’ I share the realization that “it was not the dots themselves, but the depth of the subject connecting them, that most defined truth... at that moment of realization, irony transformed into authenticity.”

So, your questioning, because it is questioning, begins at the level of meaning: “Why must I transcend idealism?” But, within the meaning itself, a shifting emerges (as you clearly recognize) OVER TIME: “i can transform it, and will do so naturally over the course of the relationship as i gain a firmer understanding of the other person, and a deeper insight into myself THROUGH the relationship with the other person.”

And so, the relationship itself isn’t necessarily transformed, per se, but YOU become transformed by using the relationship as a mirror for your own psychological/spiritual process of evolution. Yes, the relationship can transform, in a way, but only as a reflection of the two lovers individually transforming.

What is so cool for me is that, with transformation, the very process of translation itself is “challenged, witnessed, undermined and eventually dismantled.” This is what I meant in my `BIG BALLS’ POST by: “It wants to destroy everything I have ever learned and, in the ruins, create love.” You can feel the healthy and necessary aggression in the assimilation and dissolution process of new experience.

So, what is transcendence? For me, transcendence represents the level of awareness and transformation represents the level of change as it is expressed in what Arnold refers to as “action.” Transformation is transforming lived experience as one I ascending the stairway to heaven :)

yes, transcend and

yes, transcend and include.
a transcendence which includes, encompassing the wealth of experience, fostering greater empathy and gratitude.

I like what you call the "assimilation and dissolution" process of new experience. Can you expand on this?

Finding Lou in the Ground of Knowing

"At the most painful junctures of my life, the trauma I experienced was just too big to wrap my mind around it. What was I to do? How was I to cope? Neither psychological awareness nor knowledge alone got me through. It was faith that ultimately revealed the meaning of loss. Not a faith in something, but faith as the ground of knowing. Even in its inarticulated breath, faith was the realization that I am part of an evolutionary process moving towards higher levels of consciousness, and that this process structures and guides the Universe in its totality."

Sometimes, especially when I crawl into bed at night, I think of Lou. I wonder where she is. Where did she go? Is she now just "alive in my memories"? I don't like this. Is she a "soul" floating around, encountering her teachers, is she just Ommmmm, is she ... what/where is she?!?! I cannot answer this question but have years of constructing "possible-thinking" models along a line of intuitive/semi-rational though non-empirical thinking, that lean me into a kind of escatological modus of wondering (and it can form itself around the contemplative trans-death text, the tibetan book of the dead, or around any various escatologies) and I find that it is all too much for me, and I feel a great sense of dis-ease. The dis-ease I feel is in the very thinking about it. If there was something she needed, I'd try to do it. There are so many ways that culture informs us to deal with the dead: bury them whole (so they may come back and take their bodies - which will rise again in new form); cremate them to release their spirits from the foodbody (anamayakosha); leave flowers or food; bury them with their widows and dog and possessions for the journey; light a candle; say prayers for seven days; mourn for a month a year, etc. I have none of the "culture" only my homegrown version of faith that I have cultivated, cultivate, test and taste, and it is without much artifice or art, and yet it invites all art and artifice as I feel necessary (and this includes as I feel is necessary to the community touched by a shared loss). It follows no conventions for convention sake, and I can find no conventions that speak to me truly of the truth I feel speaks steadily from your post.
I have wanted to do something that would honor Lou in my truest way, in the way that is right for me. I still want to do this. [Just as a side note, I am making a film about her from footage of digital videos I made of her and our visit in Dallas this past May. This feels to me to be something I can do and want to do.] But what resonates for me, and what I am seeking to align with, is the sense that I am sitting with her loss still in deep presence, and I hope to find that alignment as you describe it: "It was faith that ultimately revealed the meaning of loss. Not a faith in something, but faith as the ground of knowing. Even in its inarticulated breath, faith was the realization that I am part of an evolutionary process moving towards higher levels of consciousness, and that this process structures and guides the Universe in its totality." Can the ground of knowing be the place I find Lou? Can my evolving be the honor I give her? May it be so.

FINDING CATERINA IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING

“Be still, and still, and know.”

This is from `The Cloud of Unknowing.' I'm sure you know the text, it's quite beautiful. Thank you for this very very lovely post, Caterina, it signifies me.

And your "unknown" knowing is beautiful, too. How blessed Aunt Lou is to be swimming around your consciousness; and how blessed you are that Aunt Lou is swimming around your consciousness. How blessed you both are.

Amen: May there be abundant peace
from Heaven, and life

upon us. Amen. Overhead night presses down
into a heavy darkness from which morning
will never lift again, night turning inside itself

where light flickers dull like a far-off star. Heaven
is somewhere out there, or in here dying out
in the hoots of owls, the coos of doves, or in the early

autumn leaves drifting to earth as if in calm elation,
climbing above the sounds of disconsolation.

Ahhhhhhhh again. Thank you,

Ahhhhhhhh again.
Thank you, OM. this signifies me.
I am in the belly of grace, such space,
the sweet sounds of silence embrace
and hold me as I let go.

reminded of rilke

this post of yours, Caterina, brings to my mind Rilke's astounding "Requiem For A Friend" -- which, unfortunately, i can't find online in my favorite translation, and it's a bit long to type out. (the trouble is that i read this translation first, and though i don't speak German and don't really know which would be my favorite if i did, this one feels the most (familiar and) gripping to me, and while the others i've seen have been moving and beautiful and not terribly different, they feel like they are missing something, some small essential quality... but that is only for me!...)

 

the opening of this poem is:

 

I've had my dead, and I let them go
and was surprised to see them so consoled,
so soon at home in being dead, so right,
so unlike their reputation. Only you,
you come back, brush by me, move about,
bump into something that will betray
your presence with a sound. Oh, don't take
from me what I was slowly learning. You're mistaken
if you feel homesick for anything here.
We alter all of it; whatever we perceive
is instantly reflected from ourselves,
and is no longer there.

 

(another translation with the full text is here)

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thank you.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Thank you. You found me.

Faith

Thanks Om for your explanation. This new language is a lot to take in. I am going to take my time with these words that you, Noah and James have shared; they are so powerful.

I'd like to give myself a chance to feel them in their entirety; relish in this for a few more days.

Sharing in these conversations, if only from the sidelines, is itself a pretty strong exercise in the power of faith. All of these comments are so tender and every time I log on I am touched by their clarity and potency.

And I am sure it has something to do with the carefree mood I find my self in today. I am feeling very free and play like today. The smell of the impending snow makes me feel like a child on Christmas eve. I almost want to sing out loud with my ipod on the crowded train and shout to the others that look so sad and warn.

hey megan

I haven't had a chance to say hi. Hi!
;) This is a wink from across the ice skating rink.

Hey Caterina

Thanks Caterina, Nice to meet you. So much to the glories of our snow, perhaps the magic will happen this weekend. ;)

ownership

I am pleased that, through the experiences that you connect to the photo, you take ownership of it.

bye bye trantrums for today

A few minutes ago I observed two young boys playing outside.. Their high energy was clearly just a prelude for the perpetual motion machines they will become as the afternoon progresses and mothers everywhere will declare their children insane. The two boys were busy turning plowshares into swords, buckets into cauldrons for their poisonous mush which they were stirring with their mother’s soup ladle and serving spoons. Their feet were kicking and mutilating the last bastion of yellowing leaves, their arms were raised into the air clutching baseball bats that came a bit to close to each other’s heads before they were blindsided by their mother who demanded their surrender or suffer the consequences: TIME OUT. The younger of the two boys continued whacking the air as if he had tin ears until his mother, who was by now frustrated by her own screaming, grabbed his arm. She counted to three by which time her son’s face turned round with rage. He looked her in the eye and said,“I hate you. I will kill you. I will cut your head off.” Then he started howling and screaming.
As an adult, I don’t really have the luxury of expressing myself in that way (at least I try to refrain in public!. But those emotions are so real, so unrepressed, that they are beautiful in the same way that a horse is before he is tamed.
When having my own internal tantrums I am aware of how possessed I feel and how silly it all is. Nevertheless, I play it out in my mind, completely convinced that I am as disgusting to you as I am to me. I am positive that you will reject me ( if you haven’t already). I am just waiting to say, “See! You never really liked me to begin with.” But alas, Om called my tantrums exquisite and squeezed, as I said in an earlier post, the juice from my orange. Kindly, he left a juicy pear in it’s place. . Then, although I didn’t think I wanted to go, I followed him on a walk in his garden and found myself joyful, despite myself.

the boys i mean are not refined

When my little brother and I were kids, six and eight, or maybe seven and nine, my mother explained what we were and were not allowed to do.

We were allowed to use any language appropriate for the situation as long as we were willing to deal with the consequences. (For example: we were allowed to swear as long as we accepted the consequences of a slap or an hour in our rooms, shut away from the sun.) I've measured everything I've said since then in those terms. I will only throw a tantrum at work if I am willing to risk being fired. But I will think about it. Once, I chose to risk it; what I had to say was important enough.

I would not have been able to tell my mother I hated her because I would not have been able to risk her love for me. And while I am fascinated by your ability to see such expression as beautiful, its beauty eludes me. It is untamed, yes, and there I can follow you, but it is also untrue (the child would never cut his mother's head off) and therefore somehow working to obscure rather than enlighten. He really means, "I am frustrated! I have energy that I have not learned how to control! I am a wonderful and wild child!" And I can see the beauty there, but I also respect the power of words too much to love the first.

Anyway, things to think about and around, and now back to my homework!

I HAVE BIG BALLS AND NO SWORD: BOYS, THEIR (SHRUNKEN) BALLS

I HAVE BIG BALLS AND NO SWORD: BOYS, THEIR (SHRUNKEN) BALLS AND BIG WEAPONS OF MASS DISSOCIATION

Emily and Carmen, your comments on this little warrior really excite me. This could make for a very interesting dialogue! Emily says, “But those emotions are so real, so unrepressed, that they are beautiful in the same way that a horse is before he is tamed.” And Carmen, you respond, “And while I am fascinated by your ability to see such expression as beautiful, its beauty eludes me. It is untamed, yes, and there I can follow you, but it is also untrue (the child would never cut his mother's head off) and therefore somehow working to obscure rather than enlighten. He really means, "I am frustrated! I have energy that I have not learned how to control! I am a wonderful and wild child!" And I can see the beauty there, but I also respect the power of words too much to love the first.”

I have a theory: The size of a man’s balls is inversely related to the size of his weapon.

I do not know this boy, but I know boys. I know their meanings, their pressures, their fears and their unskillful relatedness. A sword doesn’t make a soldier, but cutting a man off from his feelings does. Boys are embedded in war, the war of power, domination and fear. And they have all the weapons: physical strength, language, exchange rates, territory and natural resources, law, and all other artifacts of war. But, their greatest weapon is fear.

I love my aggression. It excites me. It fuels my desire. Indeed, is my desire. It wants to destroy everything I have ever learned and, in the ruins, create love. I have no weapons, nor any interest in possessing one. I can more than adequately defend myself, and I can kick your ass out of the deepest compassion for you. I will openly say, “Please do not ever mistake my compassion for passivity.” Passivity is degenerated, malignant aggression. Passivity is the most dangerous form of aggression because it harbors impotent rage. When I was a boy and young man, I was filled with hatred because I was wracked with fear and shame. I was that boy Emily observed, had a sword but used it mostly on myself. My rage paralyzed me.

From what Emily described, I think the boy really means, “I hate you.” Which, therapeutically speaking, can be a beautiful thing. In hands of love, hate can destroy omnipotence and transform once idealized objects into subjects, real people. But, outside, hatred is dangerous, very dangerous. With that said, somehow I can’t equate this boy’s hatred with the horse’s aggression (which I agree, is beautiful), because the boy’s aggression might engender malignancy. Animals’ aggression is instinctual and benign, unless they are caged, like most men, imprisoned like Rilke’s panther in dissociated minds.

boot camp

in queens, the midday sirens
tell me it's time for war. my mother
folds her last wash, then shuffles
with basket in hand toward the apartment steps.
the air is crisp, summer has ended
the clothes, fresh and fragrant
have that cold dryness to the touch.

i am nine and have already spent many days
exploring this land of wash, the wet clothes
hanging line to line from two makeshift poles
like old galleons.

it starts in spring, the armies
of little clothespin soldiers marching down
toward the front line, taking position
till further orders from the pocket general
of my mother's apron are announced.

i am a soldier running through the lines
running the sails, calling the battle cries
a crab apple branch my arms.

i prepare to charge
fling my young head
against the sheets of humanity
i forewarn the world, my enemy
that my day will come.

i now see my father
the young medic in okinawa
quickly preparing slings
for broken arms
against red sheets
running the sails of stretchers
calling the cries
picking up pieces of bodies offshore
the blown out bellies
like flowers bursting in bloom,
faces indistinguishable
the bulging eyes and stiff gaping holes
around cries silenced by the flames.

EMILY, THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME!

(Gratefully)I haven't been able to release your image from my mind: "I am yearning to walk through your garden or just just sit there and dream. It feels safe and beautiful. When the weather is warm, I swim in the drops of sweat that rolled off the corners of each brick."

Next to your tantrums :), this is one of the most beautiful images I have attached to my garden. If I would have received this a few years ago, I couldn't have imagined selling my house. Seriously. Which makes me want, for a quick moment, to have a tantrum!!!

Thank you so much for this lovely orchid or, i would like to say, Iris :) Those drops of sweat rolling off the corners of the bricks on my path are also drops of tears and love.

This poem might make more sense now, it's about Rilke through the eyes of my garden:

To Rilke

I
That place we meet, between your frail blue eyes,
now closed, and my desire spilling out
into you; that place where space defeats time.

Rilke, yours is a seeing until there
is nothing left to see, no, nothing left,
not even the breath: but, how the light

unfolds you like the opening bud
changing hue; and your furling cincture
of words, like strings of dying stars, emptying

out but the most obdurate metaphor
of night. Rilke, it is too deep in that bud
of yours that I will fail to name; but I

will run my fingers towards you as I do
every May, through brown powdered sheets of earth,
in that space, which when warmed by the sun,

always brings back the dead.

II

The memories are coming back, through my
mother’s scent, or the stale odor of my
father’s rage: I was impoverished, too

but, like you, not hardened. Was it not Paris
that taught you poverty? Yes, Paris,
if only I could be there again, with you,

on those winding, cobbled streets. Perhaps
we could meet at your café, or the gardens;
time has no space there but in the growing

yews bulging out and upward in green;
or the sycamores reaching out on top
across the benched paths to shade the mothers

and babies from August heat. It is in that space
we keep looking, as if at a parting
ship, its sheer size in the sea blending

and shrinking between the green and the sky;
when the mote in our eyes disappears
again, and eyes sigh, and tear. I know

if Orpheus had not turned back, or if
choices were never made, the earth that nestled
the sea would fold interminably

within itself, left free of metaphors, unchanged.

i don't love this boy, i

i don't love this boy, i don't even know him. all i have is a story of him. but if i did meet this little rascal, i would say, kid, let's get you and your mom into therapy. at which point the little shit would probably threaten to cut my head off!

and since all i have is this recollection of the pieces of him, i will project my own childhood experience and attempt to fill in the rest:) i doubt this boy knows what it really means to cut someone's head off. when i was nine, i remember asking my mom at the dinner table if she had ever been raped. she looked horrified at me and exclaimed no! end of conversation. i could feel the shame in the silence that followed. silly me, i thought rape meant being mugged!

so who really knows what those words really mean to this kid. if anything, take away the tv and the violent video games and he might just pickup a book and learn new language to express himself better.

Stickin' it to the Mom

I partly agree with you Carmen--the child (hopefully) isn't going to cut his mothers head off. But as an impulse, as a desire, I am not so sure that I believe it is untrue, or even mis expressed. I had tantrums just like that when I was a little kid, and I remember that the desire to destroy my parents was something that I knew I could never act upon (because it would amount to a destruction of myself) but boy was it for real.

Ah yes, he is frustrated, he has energy and he doesn't know what to do with it. But i think he is also really that angry. The anger turns ugly when it gets blocked (which it must) and becomes rage and shame.

Here he is with all this energy, this desire to break out and away, and his mother tells him to stop, and in the end, he has no choice but to listen--he is utterly dependent, emotionally, physically, mentally, he is just a little toddler without any freedom. Of course he must hate his mother (just as much as he Loves her), because he needs her so intensely that he must, finally, experience the suppression of his own will in order to remain in her care.

I can see why he is so resentful, and in that moment when there is only the now of his feelings, he feels such a pure hatred. It is so beautiful because he can say it without shame, without guilt--he can express his deep primal feelings of will, resentment and dependency without thinking twice about it.

If he cut off his mothers head, even in his mind, he would destroy the omnipotent life giver--its like killing god. I love this boy because he is so full of fire, and so willing to shout it out! I think the unmitigated brutality of his expression is beautiful--but then it quickly becomes shame because he cannot act on it, and he knows he cant, so he starts screaming and crying. The tantrum itself--the rage and shame of it--is not joyous, but his moment of expression is.

I happen to think that deep ambiguity towards ones family (and at times, pure hatred) is totally there and totally true. And little boys have such unrepressed access to it sometimes. How can you not love them for it (when you dont have to deal with it!)

In Greek tragedy everyone either kills their parents or gets killed by their parents. That wouldn't be nearly as horrifying if it didn't provide some sort of recognition.

Mom

Noah -All I can say is Bravo. I think every parent should keep a copy of this in his or her pocket. I love that boy too.

this is very interesting to

this is very interesting to me-- the whole exchange, actually. my experience of the child is a bit different from all the experiences thus expressed, but touches upon all of them.

 

i am mostly very sad when reading about this little boy, who (as i believe Carmen suggests) likely has not been (and is not being) given a language with which to understand and express his feelings. i am not saying this because i think he is being dishonest, rather i am saying this because of the nature of the interaction between he and his mother. i love what Carmen says, that he is trying to call out to his mother and to break down her wall and say, "Hey, Mom-- Here I am. Do not squish me!"

 

but he is incapable of saying that, really, because -- if that is his internal experience -- he has not been given the ability to look inward, recognize his own experience, and express it. this sort of expression, of course, must be learned, and i am not suggesting that he is at any fault because he cannot express himself in this way. rather i am sad that it does not seem that he is being taught to be in touch with himself in the way that -- for the record -- i was also not taught to be in touch with myself. so when i said i hated someone -- before i had a sharper language with which to understand and share my experience -- in a real sense i meantit. but in another sense -- as Carmen points out -- i didn't really know what i meant.

 

you say, Noah, that he can say it without shame, without guilt-- i wonder, though (if we accept this as true): does that mean it is necessarily a healthy saying? i'm not sure. there's something beautiful in the potentiality of this child, and certainly something admirable in his fire and grit-- but i am saddened by the child through his relation with his mother. where is she? what is the nature of the relationship that erupts in this way between an adult, a parent no less, and a child? it seems the mother is no more restrained or mindful than the child. so, again, there is something beautiful in the kid's shouting-- but that beauty is eclipsed, for me, in the painful shouting of the mother. how is a child to learn how to grow and develop when taught by someone who is still but a child?

 

now-- i too like a good tantrum from time to time. in fact, i threw a big tantrum this summer -- it was very hot out and i was walking a long way through town to my father's house and i thought, "shall i try and curb this tantrum? no. rather i will let it out with its full force." something like the "purity" of this child's shouting. it was coming from some place i couldn't see, i was blinded by my rage and by my immense fear, and so i decided to let it all out. and finally, after a long-winded walk i found myself in fact finished with the anger-- i didn't need it any longer-- and i calmly and gratefully made the decision at the heart of the tantrum (the decision i kept entirely outside of my consciousness during the tantrum). i felt immensely relieved to have moved beyond the sort of surface anger and down into the fears, and was able to confidently make a very difficult decision because i was finally in touch with those feelings that made it difficult. but it took a lot of learning and self-awareness to be able to turn a very painful experience (tantrum) into an ultimately enormous and rewarding opportunity.

 

I am with you James, but...

I agree that this tantrum (and the more complicated ones that may follow in this kids life) will be painful, maybe they will traumatize him, hopefully he is creative and expressive enough to one day find the right language and to transform and transcend etc.

Is it a healthy saying? That I don't know, my inclination is that it is not unhealthy because he is expressing himself with the language that he has, and doing so with such clarity. I suppose I feel very close to this little boy, I recognize things about myself in him. I feel that this violent expression of his is not malicious or bad. I see him, based on this description, as a child with a powerful voice and Will that he must express, but one which might also be terrifying. I think those tantrums also come with a whole lot of fear!!!

But gosh--"turning plowshares into swords, buckets into cauldrons for their poisonous mush which they were stirring with their mother’s soup ladle." Is that not a beautiful creative expression? It gives me joy to think about these little boys molding the world into their expressive violent play--how mischievous it all sounds. Using their mother's soup ladle to make poison--its hilarious because of the way it totally subverts boundaries and presumptions with its macabre symbolism, yet does it with such complete innocence!

They are these little whirlwinds of expressive creative energy, not yet fully conditioned by society. Whatever the psychological consequence to their lives, what ever their suffering--which will become their teacher--this is their raw life energy, all just out there, unrepressed.

I think it is gorgeous!!!

Perhaps i think so because I am finally reaching a place where I can begin to forgive the trauma of my childhood, the pain and repression and shame and rage of it, and see the brilliant light behind it, and how it is now transforming into something far more sophisticated and aware, but still of the same essence.

Caterpillar to butterfly, you might say. Its a life long process, but every part of it is beautiful.

maybe not "healthy" but it has all the potential

thanks :)

i think i want to re-contextualize some of your statements through my lens onto the situation, so we can continue to flesh out our various ways of experiencing this really great post of Emily's.

 

so on that note:

 

"But gosh--"turning plowshares into swords, buckets into cauldrons for their poisonous mush which they were stirring with their mother’s soup ladle." Is that not a beautiful creative expression?"

 

yes! i agree! and while i see the macabre nature of it, as you point out, i do see a joyful exuberance to this kind of thing-- and the beauty i see in it is both in that exuberance, and in the very telling... i believe Emily's description is full of beauty and wonder. but-- you use this as a response to what i wrote, and i must point out that i did not speak of anything before the interaction with the mother, and thus none of my words from my previous post apply to this play. i have lots to say about this play, too, but i felt a more imperative focus on the two tantrums-- the child's and the mother's. this great expression of yours brings my attention much closer to these playful moments, and i will spend more time sitting with those moments now.

you say:

 

"Whatever the psychological consequence to their lives, what ever their suffering--which will become their teacher--this is their raw life energy, all just out there, unrepressed."

 

i love this, too. this is full of insight. my take is slightly different: i would say "which may become their teacher." and, i suppose, that difference is partly the source of my sadness. i am not sad that they will struggle and suffer -- of course they will -- rather i am sad that they might not be able to find a teacher in their suffering. they may never develop that.

 

i like this sort of re-contextualization; it seems like a good way to engage in a dialogue. i like the opportunity.

 

NOAH, YOU BUTTERFLY, YOU!

Noah, as it reads, much like a photo, we really don’t know what is actual for this boy and what are our own projections into Emily’s narrative. We don’t know whether it is unhealthy or healthy, though we do know he is, as you say, “expressing himself with the language he has,” or doesn’t have. We don’t know if his “violent expression of his is not malicious or bad,” but we can assume his mother is very unhappy, even angry, as she grabs his arm and counts to 3 (is this a technique she learned to discipline him because he tends to act out?).
I’m not sure if this kid has a powerful voice. He has a loud voice, for sure, but perhaps it’s because he feels small and powerless. Yes, he is clearly willful, but again, is it compensatory and possibly, as you pick up, “come with a whole lot of fear!!!”
I also think we can’t assume that “these little whirlwinds of expressive creative energy” are “not yet fully conditioned by society.” I actually feel “too much” society already in this boy and it concerns me. You say, “Whatever the psychological consequence to their lives, what ever their suffering--which will become their teacher--this is their raw life energy, all just out there, unrepressed.” This doesn’t feel like a “whatever” to me, it feels like something teetering on serious, as per Emily’s language, as “their arms were raised into the air clutching baseball bats that came a bit to close to each other’s heads.” I don’t think I’m alarmist, I just have a concerned intuition.
What you seem to be saying is that Emily’s prose is gorgeous! and you are gorgeous too, because you are “finally reaching a place where I can begin to forgive the trauma of my childhood, the pain and repression and shame and rage of it, and see the brilliant light behind it, and how it is now transforming into something far more sophisticated and aware, but still of the same essence.” Statistically speaking (and statistics do have a place somewhere, I presume), this boy feels like a soldier-in-training, and I think Carmen is picking this up.
I pray this little executioner finds his way to butterfly. We need more butterflies.

i hope he finds his way to butterfly too

and your response is very interesting for me, because I find myself completely resistant--unable, even--to allow myself to see the ominous potential looming in this story (which gave me so much pleasure. I see how afraid he is, but when I go further, i start to actually feel angry.

I think I love this boy; maybe I am not really seeing him, only seeing me, or what I want to be me.

Disconcerting, I feel: you've give me something to ponder...

BUTTERFLY RESISTANCE

"and your response is very interesting for me, because I find myself completely resistant--unable, even--to allow myself to see the ominous potential looming in this story"

As every appearance can be thought of as a mutation, every visibility ought therefore to be considered a flux. And even resistance itself is a mutation and a flux, and therefore beautiful in its imperfection. For under its chaos is flow.

the tragedy of Orlando

Are you angry because you fear that the beauty of his expression would be lost if we were to see in him, under his rage, the shame and fear? I love this boy too, through you and through me, through everyone here who is relating to this child's rage through their own experience.

I see in the beauty of rage, like an Orlando Furioso, the ferocity of love, its evidence, gone completely mad (furioso, from which we get "furious"). The madness, if uncurtailed, derails the lover and sends him on a mad journey of destruction, mad only because he will destroy the things he loves, mad because he does not know what he is assigning meaning to, because his anger is metted out upon another man's skull, upon women and children, upon the planet, when what he really means is... I feel so isolated, so powerless against loss, so ugly, and I want to destroy whatever it is that is threatening the full realization of myself as the self I know I am!: whole, beautiful, good, and lovable. Atop the feelings are amassed the bodies of his actions, evidence of his destruction, leading him further only to see himself in the reflection of these: dead, distorted, unlovable.
Orlando is a figure of mythic proportion (drawn from the figure of whatisname frm the Illiad played by Brad Pitt in Troy) because he is such a beautiful warrior, the best of the best. His true nature is to be an exquisite warrior (destroying falsehoods until he transforms them into love). His nobility shines out of his madness, and thus we have tragedy.

boys/anger/flying bats

I am so fascinated by all the responses to the story of the two boys, their play and their rage. I am constantly reminded that there are simultaneous realities. Finding the one/ones that makes the most sense is the challenge. I am also reminded how we all bring our own experiences to a situation to fill in the gaps of what we can’t see or know.

I found James reaction to the little boy far from my own reaction.. James says “I feel mostly very sad when reading about this little boy, who (as i believe Carmen suggests) likely has not been (and is not being) given a language with which to understand and express his feelings. i am sad that it does not seem that he is being taught to be in touch with himself…”

Given the young age of this child, I think he is speaking his feelings in a language that reflects who he is and what he knows. I think he is totally in touch with himself. Reasoning is not at the forefront of his life right now. Children start out at the basics: pure need, pure emotion, pure desire; all of these emotions and needs must have some kind of outlet. Children of this age don’t possess the language skills or reside in the world of reason, although hopefully they are learning. . Life is yes or no. Black or white. I know I am simplifying this a bit much, but as I see it, an infant can’t tell his/her mother when he is hungry or tired, so he screams and cries until the mother can figure out, not only what is wrong, but how to fix it. The mother gradually learns to read the baby’ signals, and anticipate situations before they occur and overwhelm the child before he has the skills to deal with it. The baby will gradually begin to learn how to get what he needs in more subtle ways.

I believe that children must be allowed to release these raw emotions in a safe and loving environment. They need to learn that their emotions are not bad or evil. It is how they transform their emotions into actions or non-actions that have consequences. We can’t punish children for what they feel (or feel sad for them for feeling them.) These are necessary experiences. We can discipline children for their actions. They need to learn that words can hurt, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn't have the feelings.

Om, I also don’t think the boy’s play is an indication of anything malicious. The boy’s play is all about power, overcoming fears, mastering the world through fantasies. I think you articulated this so beautifully. The boys are living out their own fairy tales and nightmares to control the outcomes in their favor. But when mother comes to yank them from that world, the rage is there, the fear is there. The beauty of the moment is the child's freedom to bring those feelings into the light.

I believed that swinging of the bats a little close to each other’s heads was also innocent. The boys sense of their bodies and their boundaries are all over the place. Their play, like their feelings, can so quickly shatter all boundaries. One of the boys may have hit the other, but I suspect that it would not have been out of anger for the real world, but because they were oblivious to the real impact of that action in the real world. Basically, they weren't thinking. I can imagine one of the boys hitting the other and crying and swearing it was an accident and actually believing it. That doesn’t mean there won't be consequences – no more playing with bats etc. But if it happened a second time – well that’s another story. I believe you spoke of that.

I think this kind of outburst is normal at a certain age. The meaning of it is determined by what will happen after the outburst. It is an opportunity for learning. How adults guide this child to navigate these feelings without adding to his sense of helplessness, shame or guilt ( for just having and articulating his feelings and his realization that he is out of control)is the big unknown here. In my mind, the child needs to have his feelings validated – that yes, it is horrible to have someone tell you can’t play anymore, but there are reasons for it and those reasons need to be articulated ( when the child can hear it) in language he can understand. He also needs to know that his feelings won’t annihilate his mother nor will it make her stop loving him. The mother may want to remove the child, give him a time out, whatever is appropriate to the crime, but the lesson has to be about the consequences of his behavior and not his being.

continuing

 

thanks for keeping up this conversation, Emily-- i think this is a fascinating lens through which to explore our various subjectivities, and such. i'll focus on one paragraph of yours in order to make more clear what i think perhaps was not so clear thus far:

 

"I believe that children must be allowed to release these raw emotions in a safe and loving environment. They need to learn that their emotions are not bad or evil. It is how they transform their emotions into actions or non-actions that have consequences. We can’t punish children for what they feel (or feel sad for them for feeling them.) These are necessary experiences. We can discipline children for their actions. They need to learn that words can hurt, but that doesn’t mean that they shouldn't have the feelings."

 

I feel a wide range of perspectives coming from you-- on various aspects of the parent-child relationship, and on various stages in the child's development. i think, perhaps, i am reading the age and development of the children differently than you. Om says, to Noah, "I also think we can’t assume that “these little whirlwinds of expressive creative energy” are “not yet fully conditioned by society.” I actually feel “too much” society already in this boy and it concerns me." this is part of my response to the expression you offered, as well. so where you find a purity and innocence (a thoughtlessness, as though there is no understandingsomewhere in this boy's consciousness, for example, that swinging a bat is a dangerous activity), i see the beginnings of something far darker and more frightening.

 

you say they must be allowed to express these raw emotions in a safe and loving environment, and i believe that is part of what i mean to be saying-- while i agree with you: this does not feel like a safe and loving environment to me, and thus what may once have been a raw, pure expression of natural desires and drives, is in a state of becoming something tied in with fears, shames, and all sorts of other frightening barriers.

 

you say, "We can’t punish children for what they feel (or feel sad for them for feeling them.)" i have two responses to this: first is that when i read your description of the interaction between the boy and his mother, i see this exactly happening: punishing, in a sense, the child for what he is feeling (IMPORTANTLY: because of a lack of understanding what those feelings may be).

 

as to the parenthetical, "[we can't] feel sad for them for feeling [what they feel]," i believe this is with reference to my response, and i believe it is a misreading of what i expressed. i am not sad that the child is feeling whatever he is feeling (in fact, i also tried to point to the fact that i do not know what his experience actually is, only my experience of your lovely description). i very much agree with all of your very sensitive thoughts about validating his experience-- i think this is absolutely imperative stuff!! you and Noah prize his innocence very much, and what i am sad about is what appears to be how quickly that innocence seems to me to be being lost to "'too much' society."

 

as i said in the post from which you quoted, i am not sad that he may be feeling this or that feeling (whatever he is feeling must be recognized and validated!), but "i am sad that it does not seem that he is being taught to be in touch with himself…"

 

in other words-- i am sad that i feel, again-- from my response to your description--, he is being deprived of the very nurture of which you so beautifully speak.

 

 

Thanks James,

for articulating this so clearly. This ongoing discussion is helping me to see beneath my own idealization of the child's 'innocence'--which I still love--into the more disturbed reality you all are recognizing, one which I think is equally there, one which I first wanted to deny in order to avoid feeling that disturbance within my self. And I do feel his violence may be an expression of profound fear--and fear can do such frightening things to a person.

Continuation/boys/James/Nico and more

I agree that there are seeds everywhere in the description of the boy that could point to a variety of scenario's . The fact is we know very little. I don't make the same assumption about the boy's needs, whether or not they are being met. I don't know much from this one incident. Mother's lose it and are far from perfect, so this mother's response seems important only in the larger picture ( which we can't know). Does she always respond with her temper or does she manage to step back and react from a steadier place. The fact that the boy was doing something potentially dangerous sets off an instantaneous reaction in most mothers. In this instance the mother had to stop the boy from his bat swinging fantasies before someone got hurt. He could very well know in the back of his mind that swinging a bat could be dangerous just as he knows that crossing the street without looking both ways could be dangerous, but he does it anyway when one of his balls gets kicked to the other side. He acts before he thinks. I think of how many times I have heard a mother cry out, scream, when her child starts to cross the street and a car is moving down the block. It is a blood curdling cry and it is that cry the kid remembers when he is about to cross again, not necessarily because he stops to think he could get hurt.

But as far as what we wish for the child, I think we are in complete agreement.

And Niko - I would love to know more about your dislike - real anger for this boy and his mother. Why such a harsh judgment based on one small interaction?

em, i was making two points

em, i was making two points here: one, that i am not emotionally involved in this kid because i don’t really know him personally, and i don’t know anything about him other than this one story. the greater point being that if i am to feel anything for him, it would really be a projection of me or a memory of some experiences i have had with kids.

secondly, there is something comical in the exchange and the brazenness of the boy. like an exchange you would find in a funny movie like the naked gun. hey, kid, stop that! no, i’ll cut your head off. hey, kid, wanna play? yeah, let’s play cutting your head off. of course, here the language is comical to me but who really knows what it means to the boy without sitting him in a therapist’s couch.

so when i call him a little shit, it is more of a joke to express my comical view of the exchange. but this view keeps changing as i read everyone’s take on it and i may feel totally different tomorrow morning.

Nico, I get it

Hum.... guess I was taking it all a bit too seriously.... and, by the way, I am very touched that you address me as Em. It is very intimate - don't know why exactly. Only a few people ever call me that.

thanks, em. as a boy

thanks, em. as a boy growing up in queens, nicknames or some form of name alteration was the norm. why that is intimate, i can't put my finger on it yet.

still, on this blog we always come back to intimacy. i would have responded earlier, but yesterday i was in a fog. only after therapy did i realize how much i didn't want to feel!

EMILY, YOU SEE WHAT YOUR TANTRUMS

EMILY, YOU SEE WHAT YOUR TANTRUMS HAVE SOWN? :) MORE FUN IN THE STUN

This is really a great dialogue and I’m so impressed by everyone’s thoughtful and mindful responses, holding the dialectic between our own subjective experiences (which are legitimate ways of knowing!) and the possibilities regarding the actuality of this boy’s experiences. Like good hermeneuticists, following our interpretive models, we need to keep going back to Emily’s observations (which, by the way, followed her own gorgeous tantrums which, I hope and feel, she wants to legitimize :), but also realize that Emily’s observations themselves are expressed (beautifully, I might say!) through her subjective lens, with her own biased views. What comes through most (as James points out: “you and Noah prize his innocence very much”) is her focus on a child’s need for full expression of her feelings, which we all hands down agree with. But, we need to kept returning to THIS boy at THIS incomplete moment in his history, when Emily takes a snapshot—or more like a video—and keep checking it against our own emotional responses and concomitant memories, as well as, the interpretive worldviews and frames (theories) that inform our understandings and meanings. So, in truth, there aren’t any objectively correct views (there can’t be!), but (as an interpretive community) we must admit that there are interpretively better and more useful perspectives from which to understand the context of this narrative.

With that said, I would like to go back to Emily’s observations:

“A few minutes ago I observed two young boys playing outside.. Their high energy was clearly just a prelude for the perpetual motion machines they will become as the afternoon progresses and mothers everywhere will declare their children insane.”

Emily didn’t tell us how old these boys are (but later we might infer that they are between 6 and 10?), but they have high energy and she is returning back when she says their high energy is “just a prelude” for what “mothers everywhere will declare their children’s insane.” This is a kind of normalizing and generalizing response regarding children everywhere.

“The two boys were busy turning plowshares into swords, buckets into cauldrons for their poisonous mush which they were stirring with their mother’s soup ladle and serving spoons. Their feet were kicking and mutilating the last bastion of yellowing leaves, their arms were raised into the air clutching baseball bats…”
These boys are engaged in play, a particular kind of play that involves “swords” and “cauldrons.” Emily is assuming an intention that must be a mix of her interpretation and the boys’ patterned and familiar actions (that is, constructed and structured mimetically from societal and cultural narratives they have ALREADY learned).

“that came a bit to close to each other’s heads before they were blindsided by their mother who demanded their surrender or suffer the consequences: TIME OUT.”

This description suggests that the mother was disturbed by the boys’ behavior because she “blindsided them,” she rushed in and “demanded their surrender.” It almost seems as if mom is part of the game but I think this is Emily’s meta-narrative, insinuating mom in the position of part-character/part-real other of authority. Whose TIME OUT is this, anyway? Is this yours, Emily, or mom’s?

“The younger of the two boys continued whacking the air as if he had tin ears until his mother, who was by now frustrated by her own screaming, grabbed his arm. She counted to three by which time her son’s face turned round with rage.”
Clearly, the younger boy doesn’t obey his mother’s directive and she becomes frustrated (we really don’t know if it’s caused by her own screaming—this is Emily’s projection). But, she grabs his arm and counts to 3. Her son, still resisting, gets angry, even rageful as his face flushes.

He looked her in the eye and said,“I hate you. I will kill you. I will cut your head off.” Then he started howling and screaming.
This is straight journalistic narrative. This is what the boy said before he howled and screamed. The truth is, we can’t go too far interpretively because this behavior is relatively common, even his language, because moments before he was engaged in a play that involved swords and cauldrons. This could very well be an extension of that aggressive play. Children often can’t transition so smoothly between fantasy and “reality.” Mom is now part of his narrative, the enemy, and he will kill her by cutting off her head!

These words were not disturbing to me, by the way, and I was careful not to stretch my interpretations too far. My intuition, however, (which I implicitly trust) told me this is not the whole story and the play is not the whole play and the event is not an isolated event, but that’s all I can say at this time. I felt something disturbing, but couldn’t fully put my finger on it. I knew it was a mix of Emily’s world (it’s her narrative) and this boy’s world, which involved a particular kind of play that disturbs me as an adult who has lived through wars and violence, and has witnessed and worked with hundreds of children and adult men whose violent minds began with these very similar events. I am also aware that I am biased, very biased when it comes to violence. But, I also love aggression and feel confident I can discern between malignant and benign aggression.
What I love most about this dialogue is that we ultimately don’t really have to know what is factual in this event as much as what is true and real for us as interpreters, as we witness through Emily’s eyes and narrative, the boys and all children in all of us seeking safety, expression, recognition and love.

calvin

you know calvin and hobbes? what a terrific comic strip. i think of calvin, perpetually in something of a fantasy. one thing i love is that hobbes manages to exist both ways as once -- his reality is not denied by the strip, but his status as stuffed animal is also held up. the strip isn't concerned with the fact that in our eyes "it is either one or the other."

 

anyway, calvin, from time to time, uses a more dramatic fantasy world to will his way out of an uncomfortable situation. here, for example.sometimes it's just play. this is a little sillier than the situation we're all discussing; but that's all right.

 

the thing, Om, that has unsettled me about the interaction is the way i view the mother's interaction with her child. now-- maybe this has been a rough day, or maybe she's about to take the kid somewhere and explain her discipline to him in a very healthy way, etc, etc. as you say-- we don't know these things. i am not judging this mother, nor this child-- rather i am doing just what you say: interpreting. so what has unsettled me is the way that the mother in the description i read feels reactive and a bit disconnected. like everyone else has pointed to, this is both because of the description itself, and also (very importantly!) because of my own experience.

 

i love calvin because i recognize (though my own experience) the huge importance of his "fantasies," and i see that the adults in his life have not the ability to recognize what needs of his he is (unconsciously) trying to meet through his relationship, say, with hobbes. of course, there is more to it than that in the comic strip, and there is lots of silliness. but that disconnect (between his parents and his needs) is quite apparent, and i can't help seeing in this mother's actions and words the actions and words of various parents i've known. the real cool thing is, now there's all of that here on the blog, all shared quite naturally (as Caterina would like it) thanks to this very particular discussion.

 

but enough about that: most of all i would just like to point out what i find to be an overall enlightening and important post by Om here. while, in this post, all of our subjective interpretations are validated, the difficulties we've had in reconciling the differences between those interpretations are brought to light and dissolved very clearly and helpfully. i don't really have enough time to have written the post i just wrote-- but when i have more time tomorrow i'll re-read your post much more carefully. i believe there is much within it i haven't yet seen and learned.

 

"...and his mother tells him

"...and his mother tells him to stop, and in the end, he has no choice but to listen--he is utterly dependent, emotionally, physically, mentally, he is just a little toddler without any freedom. Of course he must hate his mother (just as much as he Loves her), because he needs her so intensely that he must, finally, experience the suppression of his own will in order to remain in her care."

Wow Noah, I remember that realization and how trapped I felt. It just added another layer to the rage. I wonder if this little boy felt any better for expressing it. It certainly does not change his dilemma.

I hated my mother because of

I hated my mother because of the way she made me feel so I killed her and chopped off her head. Now when I talk to her on the phone, I barely recognize the voice on the other end and I realize most of what I have known of her most of my life has been the memory of her as my mother.

AND NICO, I HATED MY FREUDIAN FATHER!

there was a psychoanalyst named freud
whose theories only few had employed
until sex became his game
and id was his claim
now freud we could no longer avoid

freud is the man of desire
to get him would only require
one foot in one's id
the other under lid
it's called repression, and it control's one's fire.

now i think that freud had one trick
and he loved getting into the thick
of society's taboos
called the histrionic blues
it's what made this austrian so slick.

his ploy was to loosen the hold
of repression, a move very bold
but bold was his will
his mind wouldn't sit still
until his claim turned his pockets to gold.

actually, he had another scheme
he would market the interpretation of dreams
it had a simple proposition
that dreams reveal mind's condition
because mind is never what it seems.

okay, enough of this frivolous freud
i'm already feeling annoyed
but that's just my oedipal
seeking my own pedestal
and it's envy i'm trying to avoid

because it's my father i want to destroy
or is that my father i want to enjoy
but he's already dead
or is that just in my head
you're fucking confusing me, freud.

lol!!!

lol!!!

Anger is desire thwarted

Anger is desire, a gorgeous life-affirming energy, made harmful and distorted from its original telos (growth) through fear and shame. I believe anger is a natural reaction to shame and fear because the human senses that those other feelings are misaligned and wants to react against them. But the anger does not reveal, through anger's terms, the recognition so sought after.

It is one thing to recognize that one is angry and to begin to deal with that by getting under it, seeking its source. It is another thing to speak out angrily hoping that that same recognition will be felt. While it seems everyone here values the recognition of the feeling of one's anger as a means to fostering more awareness, we must not leave out the crucial component of doing so through awareness itself. We need education or guidance into the manner of "getting under the anger", getting closer to the true feelings expressing themselves through the rage.

I am thinking about the words this boy uses and the anger that is compounded by the expression itself, how the words of utter rage do not "hit the mark" but miss and one is left still feeling distorted, powerless, still in the shame and fear. While the expression of rage may seem "pure" (we might admire it for how clearly this boy expresses his rage and so indicates his feeling of rage, something as cultured beings in this culture we learn not to express and so bury deeper the trail back to the root feelings) it is still not the pure expression of the desire, the fear and the shame, all of which are under the anger. As Carmen says, they do not enlighten but continue to obscure, though to an enlightened parent (which we all become for ourselves when turning towards our feelings with compassion and awareness, with the desire to "get under" the anger) they might help enlighten as to the child's inner state of fear and shame.

Orlando Furioso in the flesh

I have been dying all day to get on this blog and share a piece of the irony of my life.

Today, a dear friend of mine came over to help me set up my new dsl and my new email account, all things that would have taken me about another century to figure out. He is a friend I do not see too often but when we hang out, our conversations are markedly intellectual, full of wit and banter, playfulness with language and ideas. We can spend hours walking through the forrest or sitting around a kitchen table, just talking, strolling through our thoughts, tangentially weaving an evening around conversations about nothing in particular and laughing a lot (and I often leave feeling quite delighted in our special sort of connecting), yet despite all of this, we never really land in the realm of "intimate".

Once, we had a terrible argument during one of our walks in the forrest that turned from a simple discussion and sharing of ideas into a full 180 of accusations of "you are like this" and "you always do this" (him accusing me). I had forgotten about this exchange which had happened over a year and a half ago, until today.

Again, today, we were sharing and discussing (the dangers of genetic selection and designer children for the weathy), when, after a comment I had made, he began to turn... the discussion began to veer off course into him wanting to make a particular point about my use of the word "reason" (or "rationalism" as he kept incorrectly quoting me), and my following his concerns with attempts at clarification but sensing something was not right. The energy had shifted. Then it came out, he was suddenly accusing me of being an "absolutist", of not leaving any space for anyone else to have a different opinion, and while I'll leave the details of the rest of his accusations out, it was clear that I was sitting in front of someone in the midst of a fierce transference.

Transference: I understand this term to refer to something we all do (because of the nature of mind) when we are no longer considering the person in front of us (or in our thoughts) as the person we know but they become someone else, and usually someone threatening. In this moment, we "trasfer" an old experience of a different (and formative) relationship onto the present person and cannot see the present person unless we are aware of the transference and can thus distinguish. Having a transference does not mean one's experience or feelings are invalid, but that they are coming up due to the transference itself and not from something the present person is actually doing or saying. While my saying or doing something may spark the transference, it is the transference itself that provides the fuel for the ensuing fire and the fire (fear/anger) is disproportionate to the original spark. The fear, the shame, and then the anger are tied to the old relationship. [I know I am not describing this perfectly, just seeking my own definition for it].

What is so frustrating about transference if you're having one, and I've had about a billion, is that you really trully see and experience this old threat. And it can be terrifying, because it feels like you cannot trust your friend anymore. [What is so refreshing about this blog is that I can pose this statement in the "you" form and you will understand I am only pontificating, really speaking about my own experience, from the "I"].

What is frustrating about transference if you are a friend of a person having one on you, is that you know that what this person is experiencing from you is not true! So you protest, but the protest seems to want to negate the other's feelings and they get even more angry. This happened today.

I re-read my post from last night and it feels to perfectly speak to what I experienced today when my friend had a transference on me: "It is one thing to recognize that one is angry and to begin to deal with that by getting under it, seeking its source. It is another thing to speak out angrily hoping that that same recognition will be felt." He went on an angry tirade, a full blown temper tantrum directed at me. Oh the things he said! (It was clear to me that the person he was talking to was a Narcissist of mythic proportions - I can recognize this because I too have had borderline expressions of fending off this very phantasm in my own especially terrifying transferences). It made me feel very uncomfortable, obviously. My heart was pounding and i was shaking.

Knowing that he was having a transference, knowing also that he does not have experience with psychological language, I knew also that he had no way of separating his experience of his transference from me. I tried to listen, to "reason" with him (since he has such a keen rational mind), but everything I did or said kept being "translated" (interesting that OM brought this up today) into more evidence of the way his horrible phantasm would speak, would act, indeed was acting and speaking before his very eyes! There was no more "Caterina" and only his transference, for him. In that moment, he was denying the relationship.

I should add that I did not "protest" or respond directly to his accusations in any defensive way (I did not FEEL defensive, though I felt entitled to defend my meanings and even our relationship from his desire to destroy it - i.e. reminding him of what he knows about me from experience). I was trying to listen deeper, though since we do not have a relationship of the more intimate kind (building trust in each other's ability to process our feelings together), I had no precedent for being able to offer a means for him to "get under" his anger.

He actually stormed out of my apartment, slamming the door, after shouting several fascinating, and revealing comments at me (his phantasm). I felt powerless towards my friend, like I couldn't help him to see that there was no danger with me, that none of the things he was accusing me of were true, and even if there are things that I do or ways that i say things that he might find annoying (I'm not perfect!), his rage at me was disproportiate and unjustified.

I can only hope he comes around, but I doubt he will. I am very sad about the loss of my friend today. (But you know what? I don't "do" friendships that walk out on our processing something and then slamming the door). I doubt he will come around because it would mean having to own the fact that he was having a transference and a tantrum, and how do I help him see this unless he can understand what this means? I don't think I would ever feel safe with him again unless he began the process of owning his projections.

ps. I told my director about what had happened and he said, "Do you think he's in love with you?" I know he was wanting a romantic relationship with me at one point. This may be the reason that I was so blind-sighted. I had been ignoring this as a possiblity since I wanted to have a friendship with him.

pps. I already feel better, btw. I am so grateful that I didn't take his words personally (how could I? They weren't about me!)

ppps. I would love your questions or challenges about anything I say in here. I am presenting some complex ideas rather simplistically so that I can go to bed (it's 4am).

transference be-bop

boy, is this familiar. i like this because it is familiar, for me, on both ends. though i'm not sure i'll ever again have an experience like your friend's, i sure have come close in the past. and as to your experience, well there's lots of familiarity there!

 

my mind kept wandering to various relationships of mine while reading this. i have one friendship that is particularly intellectualized-- other than the romantic feelings it sounds a bit like this relationship of yours. i've never gotten into an argument of this sort with my friend-- the closest we've come is fierce debates about this or that, but we always keep it on the level of intellectuality.

 

you wrote something that interested me greatly with regards to this friendship of mine-- "I was trying to listen deeper, though since we do not have a relationship of the more intimate kind (building trust in each other's ability to process our feelings together), I had no precedent for being able to offer a means for him to "get under" his anger."

 

when i read this i thought, "i wonder what would happen if he were to flip out like this at me." we have 'spoken about' emotions sometimes (actually, i find it kind of funny to do things like sending him my 'new love poem' just to get the kinds of responses he gives!), but i've always struggled with him, i've always found it impossible to get inside. which i find so unfortunate. he's a bright, complex kid-- he just seems totally cut off from his own experience. he also reminds me of myself when, as i claimed earlier, i was more likely to have some transference without ever being able to recognize it.

 

then i thought of the relationship that inspired 'new love poem.' i imagined a transference happening, and i wondered how i would respond, and how that response would be taken. i realized that the relationship being built is one where it is actually kinda safe for a transference here or there-- kind of like: "well, if one of us is going to have a transference, let's do it in an intimate relationship, one where it is safe to be a little messy because of the attentiveness of the other person," as opposed to the good chunk of other relationships in our lives, like with my intellectual friend. maybe instead of transference be-bop i'll write, "everybody needs a little transference, sometimes--"

 

though we'll try and keep things like transferences out of the picture, of course. it's wild how much more aware i am of the other person's feelings in one relationship than another.

 

the harpies of transference

It is so nice to read your response, James! I am excited to talk about transference here with you all. I feel like I have a very intimate experience with it from both sides. It is so nice to meet others who know what i am talking about and who are interested in exploring this very important topic!

Transference "happens" and it is a natural occurrence in relationships, especially the ones in which we seek a deeper kind of recognition. It is occurring to me that the very relationships in which I have sought this deeper recognition are the ones in which I experienced the transference (although, I bet if I probed this deeper I’d discover that all relationships, even with people I don’t know across the planet, are projected upon through a certain transference). Since we may use relationship to learn to feel safe being who we truly are, and to see deeper into ourselves, then transference is bound to happen.

I am going to try to describe transference again. Transference is projection of an old relationship upon a present one: it is the psychological material generated from an old relationship, cultivated within the individual, and projected upon the new relationship. This "psychological material" is an internal relationship, a memory (not the “actual” old relationship which is irretrievable); the memory is replete with a single verdict (usually rejection, abandonment, disgust, or other such unfriendly things) whose certainty-of-existence in the present relationship is taken as fact. The "verdict" is projected upon the present relationship as the hidden significance of everything that present person does or says; everything they do gives evidence of that pre-ordained verdict. She is guilty before proven innocent.

Transference is ironic! The projected fear is actually created by the person having the transference, acted out in their behavior (if they act-out the transference); they fear dismissal and they create dismissal (dismissing the other’s presence and subjectivity); they fear rejection and they in fact reject the relationship. They fear abandonment and they abandon the present relationship for the familiarity of the transference. It is not just having these fears but taking them as certain fact, leaving them unchallenged, which gives transference its formative power.

The transference is usually of mythic proportions. It was born inside of us when we were children, when our parents were gods with powers to banish us or accept us. How the transference seems to grab hold and form inside of us is based upon relational failures in that early relationship that were repeated over time within, I would guess, a certain developmental stage. So intact is the transference that its formation is probably not due to one or two occurrences of specific relational failure but to a whole psychic "package" that is passed down from parent/care-taker to child whereby the parent transfers his own relational fears (inhereted) into the relationship with the child. The child picks this package up and “delivers” it in the moments that his need for recognition arises.
Here’s the catch: you wont have “transference” if you see that you provide that recognition for yourself; you will probably have transference if you are still waiting for the other person to recognize you first (as a child might hope from a parent).

[I should add here that transference can be “had” not just because we seek recognition, but also safety (which is the same thing).]

The transference (the projected/imaginary person) is, almost by definition, someone you cannot actually relate to and who is not seeking to relate to you. It is someone who has rejected you already because you are unlovable, or someone who feels disgust and hatred when you speak freely or open yourself; it is someone who competes with you, who cannot include your subjectivity in her experience because she says "there's only room for one of us and I'm not going anywhere!"

The moment I chose the transference, I am denying the relationship. Of course, it is forgivable if the relationship can give me room to open up my fear like that (because these are the fears that are still in the way of my feeling truly safe in the relationship), but it is MY responsibility to own MY transference, MY fears, and to do the work to challenge their versioning of reality.

I like, James, where you open your arms to the reality of transference, how we are probably going to have them and need to go through them in order to recognize their influence over our thinking, since we are the ones who have the power to challenge them: "Well, if one of us is going to have a transference, let's do it in an intimate relationship, one where it is safe to be a little messy because of the attentiveness of the other person."

I agree, it is better to have them in intimate relationships, if by “having them” you mean acting them out (throwing a tantrum, endulging in accusations, projection, etc). [It is better still NOT to act-out on your friend like this!] Most livable for me is to recognize that I am having a transference, and then either deal with it on my own (using natural reason, and introspection) or talk about it with my partner/friend. This is so cool (and so intimate) because my friend has probably already sensed that I am acting "weird" around them - and it might have sparked a transference for them too. I think you are right, if we are to evolve integrally we will need to make a safe space for the transference to arise (so it can be deconstructed and dissolved back into the ocean of bliss).

mythic stuff

you say:

 

"I am going to try to describe transference again. Transference is projection of an old relationship upon a present one: it is the psychological material generated from an old relationship, cultivated within the individual, and projected upon the new relationship. This "psychological material" is an internal relationship, a memory (not the “actual” old relationship which is irretrievable); the memory is replete with a single verdict (usually rejection, abandonment, disgust, or other such unfriendly things) whose certainty-of-existence in the present relationship is taken as fact. The "verdict" is projected upon the present relationship as the hidden significance of everything that present person does or says; everything they do gives evidence of that pre-ordained verdict. She is guilty before proven innocent."

 

recently i was sitting over a sandwich and i looked over at my companion and said, "there's a lot of stuff, isn't there?" and she said, "stuff?" and i rubbed my fingers in the air as though i were feeling something and said, "yeah-- stuff." she thought for a moment, then laughed hysterically and said, "i have no idea what you're talking about." i tried to explain that for me i was saying something very very specific. i ended up getting it a little bit across and then just laughing myself and saying, "i'll come back to this another time." you give a pretty good explanation of whatstuff refers to! all this stuff in relationship, the stuff of the past, packed into fears and shames, and all sorts of places (including some very nice ones, by the way! it's not all bad stuff!)

 

i dig the way you talk about recognition. that's where it's at, huh? for a while i thought i would have to turn someone into the 'kind of person' who could recognize me -- and only then would i start getting what i needed. then for a while i thought i would have to remove myself from the world until i could recognize myself -- and then i would be able to maintain perfect relationships. who knows? maybe one of these sorts of endeavours works for some folks. for me, the jackpot is right in relationship (the last place i looked, naturally! ;)

 

i began holding a slightly more complex view-- namely the view that the two experiences (recognition by an other and self-recognition), in a sense, co-arise. it's been some time since then, and leaving all the intermediary steps aside, i'm starting to feel pretty comfortable with having all sorts of conflict, confusion, and various other messinesses, in relationships. so when i hear someone express a fear, something like, "i'm not very good at relationship," i smile and pronounce one of those favorite words of mine: practice!

 

after reading through your post (and your reading of mine) i have a better sense of that direction towards which i was heading so early this morning (i'm a bit under the weather today and surprised myself by waking up so early). so just as you re-stated something from your last post, i'll take the added insights of your new post and re-state my own conclusions:

 

if i am unable to be entirely honest and intimate with you (mind you i might define 'honest' idiosyncratically) because of the many barriers i've got up from traumas past, i can either avoid a relationship with you, or i can take that risk. i'll admit, it's pretty scary, but with each new intimate experience (including every blog-day) i gain a little bit more in-sight, a little bit more confidence, and a little bit more courage. lots more trust. it's interesting, as i was learning what it might be like to trust myself a bit, i began to learn to feel when i am being recognized by another. as my own self-recognition and self-trust grew, i began recognizing other people with greater care and sensitivity (it is very fun watching it grow-- and there is so much more growing to do!); i've begun to trust myself enough to greatly reduce the amount of fear i have of taking the relationship-risk. still pretty anxious and frightened about a lot, of course, but finally confident that i will continue to learn and grow even (sometimes especially!) through difficulties. i think self-acceptance is a term i want to just toss out here, because that's what i'm talking about. self-acceptance. but unlike my second theory (hermit-ness) it isn't self-acceptance in a relationship vacuum...

 

well, i haven't posted it yet, but i suppose i'm just sub-consciously trying to set up the conditions under which it is appropriate to post my most recent sonnet (it was building for a week, or so, and i was waiting ever-so-slightly impatiently for it-- holding pen to paper without making a mark. of course, it always comes smoothly in times of little worry.)

 

the really cool thing for me has been to begin to trust relationships-- that is, not only to trust myself, but to invest trust in the other person and in the relationship, as well. trusting myself was a big risk that has since become standard practice ;) but trusting another is still a big risk-- just finally one i am aware and brave enough to take!

 

------

 

we move with slow, careful steps through
the discovery of each other-- we
use our hands and lips to
say something we can't yet put to words. we--

 

because i am moving slowly, too,
in fact, you are teaching me
to move more slowly, to
look more carefully, and to see

 

my own fears and struggles in yours--
i also see your immense capacity, and i wait
patiently to rest in the safety of your holding.

 

i also see your uncertainty, and i reach deep down,
and i seek to accept myself in my fears,
so you may see how safe it is to do the same.

 

james' immense capacity

You say: “for a while i thought i would have to turn someone into the 'kind of person' who could recognize me -- and only then would i start getting what i needed. then for a while i thought i would have to remove myself from the world until i could recognize myself -- and then i would be able to maintain perfect relationships. who knows? maybe one of these sorts of endeavours works for some folks. for me, the jackpot is right in relationship (the last place i looked, naturally! ;)”

I love this, James, and it speaks to my experience, as does this: “the two experiences (recognition by an other and self-recognition), in a sense, co-arise.”

The first speaks to my experience in terms of previously held notions about how I was going to get what I needed from relationship. I used to believe that I could create the things I needed if only my partner would “go there” with me, the operative word being “would” as though if only he really wanted to, he could. I have changed this perception now. I no longer look for “willingness” first but capacity. I have had, in various relationships, a kind of recognition that has given me a sense of safety, a deep trust, though there were other elements missing whose absence meant my deeper needs could not be met. I think of my beloved Antonio (a sort of “unconventional” love relationship of 8 years): he and I “get” each other in a way that is very intimate, while at the same time he does not have “language” so we cannot share in the tremendous joy that I derive from being able to explore feelings and ideas through language.

When I say that he does not have language, it’s not that he cannot communicate or speak, obviously. While he is deeply sensitive and non-judgmental, and has an ability to approach new experiences with a deep receptivity and a kind of desire to find what is peaceable there, he does not venture into the realm of philosophical or psychological inquiry that I hold dear. Since this is missing, while our recognition does co-arise (and has deepened over the years) in a certain way, it co-arises within certain limitations (capacities) of the relationship. I need language in a relationship, and what that means exactly would be worth articulating (for me)!! Food for mental mastication and later posts!

I believe there does need to be a capacity already in the other for this recognition to co-arise in the relationship since I cannot create that capacity on my own. There must be a difference between the capacity that is needed for the relationship to evolve and the capacity that then co-arises once the first is present. You think?

"i also see your immense capacity, and i wait
patiently to rest in the safety of your holding"
I wish to ask you how you see this immense capacity in the other. What are the signs by which you recognize that it is there?

BTW, I know what you speak of also when you say you thought for a while that you would have to take the hermit path to discover yourself first and then be ready for relationship. I know!! I believed this, too, once. I love that how you turn your contemplative gaze to the relationships present to you. This feels to me to be a beautiful practice!

the eyes within

i also see your immense capacity, and i wait / patiently to rest in the safety of your holding

 

"I wish to ask you how you see this immense capacity in the other. What are the signs by which you recognize that it is there?"

 

Oh, Caterina, what a question to ask me. Oh.

 

for one thing, it's in my own feelings. call me crazy, but i can feel "your immense capacity" in the very depth to which i can feel my love for you.

anyway-- that's romantic, and all, but maybe not something that will so clearly get across what my experience is.

 

:D:D this is part of it, too. i'm not sure i can convey how excited i got when i read this question of yours. it's such a sweet excitement-- sweet like dancing the orange ("dance the taste of the fruit you are tasting"), sweet like when i sit across the table from my love, chatting in my usual way, and suddenly find i have entirely forgotten what i was talking about, mid-sentence, when i looked over into her eyes. (for the record-- this sort of thing doesn't really happen to me, i'm usually pretty hard to cut off mid-sentence! even (especially) in previous 'romantic relationships')

 

there are so many things-- and the beauty is this, Caterina: they are absolutely particular to my needs at this very moment. so when i say, "it's the questions she asks, and the way she asks them." i couldn't tie down for you "well-- in order to meet my deeper needs i need to be asked this kind of question, and that kind, and then..." no, no. it is that through her asking i am able to reach deeper into myself, and open up wider than ever before, and lay my trust on her. and then, on top of that-- when it really comes down to it-- i'm not disappointed.

 

it's the way she allows me to look deeply enough to find that we are looking inside each other's looking. when i was there in the looking, did i see some sort of universally need-meeting capacity? nope-- that sounds so silly to me (hence the silly language i chose!!): rather i saw (funny how poor a metaphor sight is in this instance)-- the capacity for helping me meet the deeper needs i most need met right now.

 

i didn't feel: here is someone who can cure me; nor did i feel: here is someone i can make perfect for me. rather, i felt: here is someone with whom i can move deeper into the cultivation of self-awareness-- someone with whom i can explore safely.

 

like i say later in the poem, i also see many of the barriers separating me from some of that capacity (the lookingmoment seemed, to me (in retrospect), to be a moment in which all of our barriers were bypassed)-- and i can see my own barriers more clearly.

 

really, Caterina, it's pretty simple-- and i think you even point to this in many of your posts. i see this "immense capacity" because -- in stark contrast to most of my relationships -- i feel recognized within the relationship. all these other things point to the even greater degree to which i will be recognized, once some of our barriers are brought to light (and dissolved) and there is a greater degree of comfort and safety. and if none of that is ever to come to be-- well, it's worth the risk.

 

james' eyes within

Before I leave for Dallas (and suffer for lack of seeing you all for five days!! - Oy!! -- but the sweetness will be in knowing you are here and what you've already given me), I want to just tell you that I love this post and could read it again and again.
I relate strongly to the sense that in her questions to you you find yourself able to look deeper into your experience.

"it's the questions she asks, and the way she asks them."

I look for these material signs, because I have a tendency to -mmm , hmmm... - what is it....??... idealize the other? perhaps. Or see in them a great capacity for intimacy that is really my own desire for it. This exchange has got me thinking about how this tendency on my own part puts me in a kind of scientific role in regards to relationships that might feel good in the moment (and in the fantasy) but need verification. Because when I'm in love, there ain't no science! (Let's regard that in the past tense from now on.) I have a couple of friends who always ask me the questions I forget to ask myself as I dive headfirst into infatuation. I count on these questions.

Now, i would like to integrate a new approach, one that knows what I like to feel in a relationship (challenged, met, accompanied, and certainly recognized -- at least that there be a capacity for this) and doesn't begin the query with "I need you to fulfill me". The relationship is always now, with myself and with those in my life, like you, with whom I am in relationship. So I do not start from lack but from abbundance! Om mani padme hum, and if I should meet one or more that accompany me, I am more than happy! These companions are already with me. So why do I still hold out for a fireman? Geez. It's a joke, haha. ;)

Then, I have a conversation with a friend from work, in which he tells me about a trip he and his last girlfriend took to VT, how they woke up in the mornings and sat outside, wrapped in a blanket sipping coffee, looking at the affacing mountain and talking. I felt, "Ah, I want this." it went in somewhere in this special place which churns the desire for that kind of scene, which signifies in me intimacy, though it may not have been for them, who knows! The churning works as a sort of prod, saying "perhaps there's more". There's always more.

BACK TO BASICS: NO SELF, NO TRANSFERENCE

from the depth of subject
to the death of subject
to the insatiable breath
breaking through the next
barrier of awareness
and the next and next
through the murky, dense
black smoke of thought.
In the sitting, in the silence
in the looking up at my
teacher knowing that
his essence is behind the dots
of that form, but not reaching
him; mind is unable to see more
than the flattened reified form
of its struggle, dying to see more
then the language of its struggle;
dying to taste what it knows is there
and not there and there in the
forms around twenty thousand bucks
I just lost and all the children it could
feed for a year and all the shame
that wants to suck the life out of me;
but it won't, because I'm gonna sit here
until I die or until I awaken from these
delusions and illusions obstructing
my view; I'm gonna yogi my way
into smithereens and blow mind
open like a gaping hole a suicide
bomber just blew out, until every last
dime shits out of the hole, until silence
opens the view and the dizzying dying
sound of rain hitting the Cambodian tin
roofs of mind give way to the real
fragrant blooms of my teacher's
smile, where the dimes shat out
of my hole finally paid off the debt
of my parents and their parents
and their parents and all the parents
and all the beings of my parents
shitting me out of the karmic merry-
go-'round; I just want to get off this
ride and look into his eyes and
know the pain has stopped.

Transference?

Transference? We don't need no stinking transference!

Back to the Beginning:Caterina

I followed the conversation about transference from Caterina's first post. What I found most interesting is how the discussion began with the description of something very specific: the interchange between Caterina and her friend and then very quickly became a theoretical discussion about transference. An interesting discussion, but I am still wondering about how Caterina is feeling about what happened and if, revisiting the experience, would she see the events as they unfolded differently or take something valuable away from what happened or what was said. The theoretical can certainly help in understanding why what happened happened, but the feelings of that experience are still there, yes?

I had a similar experience with a friend many years ago. Out of the blue, her anger about so many things in life, focused it's attention on me. She attacked me - who I was, how I saw the world, in such a vicious way, that I felt that someone had just dropped a bomb in my lap. Of course, there were elements of truth in what she said but it was how she said it and the spirit in which she said it that was so cruel. She did apologize some time later for "going off," our relationship was never the same. I could not trust that at the deepest levels she would not hurt me or use me to vent her anger at the world.

hey, Emily :)

 

i'm glad to have you join this discussion--

 

so, i've been a big part of this discussion, and i just skimmed through all the posts, and i must admit i'm having a slightly tough time quite seeing what you're saying. i think perhaps for two reasons. i'll explain my various reflections, and perhaps you can then see where i'm looking and direct my eyes in the right direction! you say:

 

"The theoretical can certainly help in understanding why what happened happened, but the feelings of that experience are still there, yes?" (by the way-- as to the feelings: yes!) :)

 

the first thing is that i feel all of the 'theoretical' to which you are pointing from this conversation -- at least in my experience of it -- has been rooted in feeling, rooted in either Caterina's shared experience, or in someone's experience OF Caterina's shared experience, or (as in most of my posts) a different experience evoked by Caterina's. the theory pulls from the experience the interpretation of the particular individual-- i think this is especially clear in the way that Caterina, Om, and I each have various takes (many over-lapping) on what transference is and what the experience of it is like. what i mean is that i have a particular experience (let's say i have the experience of a friend freaking out at me and making all sorts of vicious remarks) and then i understand that experience in one way or another (this, for me, is an emotional more than an intellectual thing, this understanding-- i understand by virtue of my ability to recognize myself and my friend)-- then i share this understanding with you through language (our trusty medium). now-- this sharing will be theoretical in nature, because i am sort-of making sense of the experience, and putting into words (by which you may grasp my meaning) what i believe happened. this is rooted in the subjective experience, in my own feelings. so this leads me directly to the second response:

 

when you say the theoretical "can certainly help in understanding why what happened happened" and you suggest that this is (necessarily?) separate from "the feelings of that experience" you seem to me to suggest that the theoretical can only intellectually help understanding what happened. that theory and feeling exist across an impasse. if this is what you mean, i'm not sure i agree. for example-- in my hypothetical experience above-- i gain a firm understanding of what my friend and i were each experiencing(feeling) by virtue of the penetrating power of my insight: if i had not the capacity to theoretically determine the situation i would likely be clueless about both what we were feeling and what was happening. that is to say: if i couldn't offer myself an account for the cruel remarks being hurled in my direction, i would be helplessly confused, without clarity or direction.

 

this is not to say everyone must theorize all the time (although perhaps something like that is indeed the implication--), and it is especially not to suggest everyone must theorize in the same way and end up with the same theories, etc, etc. the very fact that Caterina, Om, and i each came up with varying interpretive modes through which to understand the experience of what we have been calling 'transference' offers a beautiful model for the way that each 'theory' can be particular to the individual, and yet each can be shared with others (and even brought into a more universal mode through which we can each share in that theory.)

 

 

Hi James

It has only been a few days since your response to my last post but it already feels like light years have passed.

I never meant to imply that theory should be tossed out ( thrown out with the bath water). What I was saying is that the experience that Caterina had with her friend - his explosion and transference - created a wealth of emotion for her. The emotions that were felt and stirred don't simply go away because one understands where they come from. The theories of emotions and transference do not necessarily make those original responses just dissipate.

In my earlier post, I spoke briefly about a friend of mine that exploded at me. Her anger at the injustices in her life and in the world grasp onto something I said and turned me into this gigantic, unthinking, enemy. Afterwards, I understood what had happened and where all her anger came from and where it was really meant to go, but that didn't change the fact that the wound that she caused was real and in many ways irreparable. She had gone too far, taking what she knew intimately about me, and twisting it up to create a bulls eye for her own angerd. Understanding the situation did not change the fact that I have never trusted her with my "soul," again. My thinking is that theory is not emotion ,but a step outside it as a means to greater understanding? Yes???? No???

some feelings and reflections

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!

I have missed you all so much! It was so wonderful to know you all were here while I was here/there in Dallas. Just thinking about you, these conversations, this blog community, gave me comfort. I couldn't wait to get back here to share thoughts/feelings/reflections with you.

I think that you are right, Emily, that to step into a reflective process is not the same as having an emotion, I think it is at another level. At the same time, what I think James is saying is that the emotion/feeling level is not necessarily dettached from the thinking/reflecting self, but can be contained by and present to the reflection. When reflection is cognizant of feelings, it is very responsible towards them and to the whole endevour of understanding.

My own understanding at the time of my friend's massive poopfest in my apartment was that he was clearly having a transference and this helped me to not take his attack personally. Of course I was taking him seriously, very seriously. Listening to him meant listening and recognizing what was misaligned between his words and actions and my deeds. Try as I might, I couldn't find in the history of my relating to him or in the words i had spoken (I knew it was certainly not in my intention) anything that could have reasonably caused him so much fear and thus anger. But beyond this, even if there had been such things that I might recognize that might have upset him, his behavior was completely over the top and out of all proportion with whatever I might have said. It was really bizarre, actually...

The "theory" which I wrote about here (and had reflected on for many years prior to my friend's explosion, and continue to reflect on), was active in my thinking in the moment my friend was yelling at me - though not in a dettached way. It was active as awareness, without much effort (also because I was trying to hear what he was saying!), sort of like watching an apple fall to the ground, having heard about and tested and retested the theory of gravity and then when you watch the apple fall you understand you are witnessing a force of gravity at work. You kind of know "why" the apple falls (gravity) even if you don't know the whole picture (alla Einstein, et al), just like you did with your friend. I think being able to recognize the transference allowed me to not take his words as swords into my heart and self-implode (as he would have liked me to do in that moment). It also meant that I didn't "react" to him defensively or turn his words against him.

That said, you asked me, Emily (and I thank you!!) about my feelings and it's funny because I had actually forgotten about how crumby I felt after that exchange while I was in Dallas, for several days. Not until last night did I remember that it had happened and that I had lost a friend.

So, I am very sad. I am also angry and annoyed because he was going to look after my cat for the 3.5 weeks I'll be in Italy, so now I have to find another arrangement. That anger/annoyance doesn't sit long in me as it doesn't serve me taking care of finding someone to look after my cat. And it has nothing to do with the strange and sudden loss itself.

I am sad because I don't think I'll ever be friends with him again and it sucks because it's so final. It was a single moment that revealed that there can be no understanding between us. While for the two years we knew each other, I knew that there were limits to our friendship in terms of intimacy and sharing, I was happy to accept those limitations for the friendship. I didn't need him to be otherwise for me. Now, I know that I cannot abide in a friendship with him unless he were able to recognize that his accusations and hurtful remarks towards me were unfounded, that he was indeed having a transference. This would really be the only way for us to "find each other" again. I don't think he'll realize these things though because he has nothing to counter them against (except his own experience, which has proved not to be of much use in seeing me as other than that projection of the other day).

I don't fault him for disliking something I said or even having the transference itself! It's that I don't think he'll be able to see the transference as transference in which case I will probably always remain for him the Impenetrable Narcissist (or something, I think that's what his transference was about). If he does not recognize the transference, and if we were to talk again (this is only for he sake of hypothetical speech), he would still feel in the position of convincing me of his experience. While I try to convey to him that I can relate to his experience, he is trying to convince me that I am creating that experience for him, that I AM his projection. If he does not accept a "middle ground" of possibility which is the "space" between what he sees/experiences and me (the relationship) then there can be no relationship.

"...the wound that she caused was real and in many ways irreparable. She had gone too far, taking what she knew intimately about me, and twisting it up to create a bulls eye for her own anger. Understanding the situation did not change the fact that I have never trusted her with my 'soul,' again."

I am sorry that you lost that closeness you felt with your friend. At least knowing the limitation of a friendship can still allow you to have the friendship within those limitations, if they are acceptable to you. I am recalling now that I have seen this sort of thing happen with various friends of mine and I know that, barring entering into therapy together, that trust is not easily rebuilt.

MAMMA MIA, CATERINA! THE INTERPRETRANSLATIVE PLACES YOU’LL GO

MAMA MIA, CATERINA! THE INTERPRETRANSLATIVE PLACES YOU’LL GO:THE CLOUD OF UNDERKNOWING

The title alludes to Dr, Suess. I love Dr. Suess. I was raised on Dr. Suess. He was my first hermeneut and (idealized) literary transferential object. He helped me to see all the potential places I would go. Transference is also a text that points to many places we could go, within interpretive limits.

It’s synchronously divined that Caterina’s confrontation with derailed relational strivings rides on the wave of our dialogue on boys and the meanings of their weapons and subjectivities. In this context, the boy’s sword is his tongue, a potentially violent weapon, indeed. Both boys, the Caterina’s adult friend and Emily’s child, also feel to me like products of “too much society.” Caterina chooses to construct her narrative around transference, in the same way Emily chose myth and fantasy. Transference is therefore the main point of reference for interpretation.

I would like to share my thought process on Caterina’s shitty encounter from a loose perspective of language, and at another time discuss how the language of boys (in internal relational representations, expression and act) engenders real potential for violence, at worse, and poor relating, at best. These boys seem to share both poles in these two descriptions.

As I seek what is known from Caterina’s anecdote, I am more interested in what is unknown, for all experience (unlike the self-contained photograph) has double-meaning. That is, experience (and the language that describes it) is incomplete and open and therefore, it reveals both what is revealed and what is concealed.

If we could temporarily remove ourselves from the emotions being foisted onto (projected into) us through this narrative, and step back again, for a moment, from our own internal complex, I suggest we will find (through Caterina) something opening for us in the vast unknown of mystery and uncertainty in the meaning productions of Caterina’s friend. Through these productions, we can then observe, in wonder and the desire to understand, where this man’s rage came from. It recalls for me a poem I posted just a couple of weeks ago about violence and how we often wear it on our sleeves…um, shirts. In the poem, I asked the same question:

The Tee Shirt

Fuck you you fucking fuck
right there
in bold
yellow letters
for all the world to see

this man
no younger
than 40, I would say
tramping down
Washington Street.

I imagine walking up
and holding him firm
like a tree between
my palms, my eyes
a bright sun, and asking
What is it, what are you trying to say?

Freud first used the term in his `Studies of Hysteria,’ written 115 years ago, in reference to analysis, and specifically, with regard to “the psychical force of resistance” on the part of the patient. He says that transference is an obstacle to treatment “if the patient is frightened at finding that she is transferring on to the figure of the physician the distressing idea which arise from the contents of the analysis. This is frequent, and indeed in some analyses a regular occurrence. Transference on to the physician takes place through a false connection.” For Freud, these “contents of analysis” engender “erotic trains of thought.” “False connection” means a displacement due to an inaccurate perception of the causes and conditions (or object) of erotic thought. I am sharing this because, the narrow interpretation of “erotic trains of thought” notwithstanding, Freud brilliantly understands that repressed desire-- for something—is at the root of transference and the behavior that is coextensive with it.

What I think is closer to the mark of transferences revealing erotic expressions of desire (though these can be included as derivative), is the desire to connect, to create a tie (relationship). The transference is a brilliant evolutionary mechanism of consciousness which attempts to achieve and re-establish psychic order so that psychological development (expressed as selfhood) can become aligned with the Telos of evolution, what we metaphorically call Pure Awareness or God. And the very ground of that achievement is intersubjective. There can be no revolution of selfhood without it; there can be no evolution of spirit without it. As the psychoanalyst and father of self psychology, Heinz Kohut, expresses it (without the spiritual level):

“Throughout his life a person will experience himself as a cohesive harmonious unit in time and space, connected with his past and pointing meaningfully into a creative-productive future, [but] only as, at each stage in his life, he experiences certain representatives of his human surroundings as joyfully responding to him, as available to him as sources of idealized strength and calmness, as being silently present but in essence like him, and, at any rate, able to grasp his inner life more or less accurately so that their responses are attuned to his needs and allow him to grasp their inner life when his is in need of such sustenance.”

With this said, I wonder if Caterina’s friend, with his sword, decimated his boundaries (and hers), and lost (or never adequately developed) his sense of relationship and the voice (language) that finds it in the knowledge of feelings. For voice is the boundary and memory the finding in feeling.

But, most of all, in my sadness, I wonder if his rage was a desperate plea for Caterina to help him find it, as he destroyed her.

transference has different meanings

"The transference is a brilliant evolutionary mechanism of consciousness which attempts to achieve and re-establish psychic order so that psychological development (expressed as selfhood) can become aligned with the Telos of evolution, what we metaphorically call Pure Awareness or God. And the very ground of that achievement is intersubjective."

Interesting. By this statement I understand that transference is merely a means for relating to another and aligning one's need for selfhood with the greater telos of evolution, a kind of necessary sym-pathic projection that seeks to find others "in essence like him", as "sources of idealized strength and calmness, as being silently present but in essence like him, and, at any rate, able to grasp his inner life more or less accurately so that their responses are attuned to his needs and allow him to grasp their inner life when his is in need of such sustenance."

But how do we then differentiate the kind of transference that was taking place in my apartment yesterday afternoon? It was not, you seem to say, that the transference took place (or culminated) when I felt the shift in energy, but that it was always there, on both our parts, in our basic human relating.

"Freud brilliantly understands that repressed desire-- for something—is at the root of transference and the behavior that is coextensive with it." Understanding that desire is at the root of transference is in part what I was writing about in two previous posts, "Anger is desire thwarted" and "the tragedy of Orlando." But what was that sudden nightmare that occured to my friend, in the moment that he was trying to destroy me, if not a "transference" of a less general and more specific experience? I mean by my use of "transference" to identify something that was happening internally/psychically to my friend, a way I am seeking to understand what he was experiencing and locate it within the relationship itself. I mean to point to a very specific type of almost schizoid split. Is there a more accurate term I should be using?
Also, I am surprised to hear that you felt my narrative foisted emotions onto you, Om. How did you experience my narrative as doing this? Where? Just curious. I wish to know, because I was not aware that it could be read that way. Obviously, the experience was one that disturbed me, so I understand that that disturbance was present in my narrative.

CATERINA, SOME CLARIFICATION

Caterina, just a couple of clarifications. You wrote, “By this statement I understand that transference is merely a means for relating to another and aligning one's need for selfhood with the greater telos of evolution…”. Your word “merely” suggests I am saying that transference can only (merely) be seen from the perspective I chose tonight. I apologize for that misunderstanding, I guess I wasn’t clear. I wrote in the post, “I would like to share my thought process on Caterina’s shitty encounter from a loose perspective of language…”, from which I meant only one of many formulations of transference. You covered the more narrow psychoanalytic usage, I thought I would approach it from a more philosophical perspective, with a particular focus on language.

The other question you had, “Also, I am surprised to hear that you felt my narrative foisted emotions onto you, Om. How did you experience my narrative as doing this?” I also think I wasn’t clear enough here, as well. What I was trying to articulate was that your friend's emotions were foisted onto you, and we, through a kind of text-empathy, are feeling his projections. I invited everyone to a thought experiment: by temporarily removing ourselves from the fear and anger (and whatever else that might block compassion) of his attacks and, for a moment, try to understand him as a frightened, unstable boy, we could then enter into a therapeutic interpretive journey without the limitations caused by our own projections. It gives us some breathing room.

ONE MORE THOUGHT ON TRANSFERENCE

If I could stay with a more philosophical vocabulary, the understanding of transference as "a brilliant evolutionary mechanism of consciousness which attempts to achieve and re-establish psychic order so that psychological development (expressed as selfhood)," inherent in this statement is both a primordial desire of desire and a desire to return to a true discourse. That we have to return suggests that we are not there, we are in a derealized zone of transference. And this includes the most exquisite forms of positive transference, the idealized and erotic transference's of love, which i believe James has articulated.

This perspective comes very close to a Buddhist principle of ignorance, which is the inability to understand the ultimate nature of phenomena. The difference, in my opinion, is that Buddhism does not adequately address Caterina's more psychoanlytic and relational model of transference (a speech addressed to the other), which she beautifully formulated, unfortunately, in the wake of a painful enactment.

THE POSITIVE TRANSFERENCE: LET'S NOT FORGET :)

“Transference is projection of an old relationship upon a present one: it is the psychological material generated from an old relationship, cultivated within the individual, and projected upon the new relationship.”

Just to complete this, I would say that a transference is a displacement of one’s FEELINGS about old relational patterns and the people (usually parents) identified with those internalized patterns, onto one’s current relationships. This is important because transferences are both negative and positive and, more importantly, despite the ostensible resistance (of needed relationship) they reflect, they ultimately serve a function of an attempt to repair and restore a relational tie that allows the self to develop in a healthy way.

Viewing transference from the perspective of health-seeking rather than a deficit I think better allows us to take in the totality of the person which, by the way, doesn’t mean having a relationship with them, especially if they cannot, like Caterina points out and James says as, “here is someone with whom i can move deeper into the cultivation of self-awareness-- someone with whom i can explore safely”.

And certainly not if one feels like Helen Hunt in `As Good As It Gets,’ when she says to Jack Nicholson, “I don’t like who who I am when I’m with you.”

my need to understand the specific experience

Thank you for reminding me of the positive transference. I was primarily focused on the one that wanted to kill me (is not my own transference now apparent?) so did not address the broader and more diverse and apt uses of this term. It was not my need to do so at the time of trying to process what had happened.

I guess I was trying to formulate my thoughts around the very specific (and helpful) usage of the term "transference" which I learned from my therapist. He used to tell me I was "having a transference" when I was in fact very upset and angry at "him" (my transference) about something that was not actually coming from him but that I was projecting onto him. (This, in fact, was how I was able to recognize my friend's transference and not take it personally, or try to argue with him). My therapist never really used this specific term with me when these flairups did NOT happen. Otherwise, I understand, he might be using this term all the time to describe all forms of relating. I was not meaning to limit the discourse on "transference" only speak about a very specific type of transference which, by the term "transference", I was actually instructed to identify even when I was in the midst of my own suffering. And I'm speaking about a specific experience of suffering (a western usage of this term).

authority

I have been reading this extended conversation about transference with interest. One thing that occurs to me about it is, if I am angry with you about something and you respond that I am "having a transference" then you have done (or may have done) a power trip on me that ungrounds me.

You establish yourself as an authority figure in relation to me by pointing out that my anger is, at the least, misdirected. Because you have diagnosed me instead of addressing my complaints and feelings, you take the wind out of my sails in a way that leaves me helpless.

I am not accusing you of anything. Maybe your diagnosis is correct. But there are perils here that might be avoided if you would stick to the situation of two humans seeking to work out differing realities rather than making it a therapeutic encounter.

author-ity

this is very helpful for me. i think this provides a great opportunity to clarify what it might be like to experience that the other person is currently "having a transference." i think that what you say here, Arnold, feels right on to me-- if i were speaking with a friend and found myself enraged and she told me, "you are having a transference right now," i wouldn't appreciate it none too much. so what i'd like to do is mix together the two moments you describe (i.e. i'd like to integrate ;)

 

you say: "you have diagnosed me instead of addressing my complaints and feelings. [...] stick to the situation of two humans seeking to work out differing realities rather than making it a therapeutic encounter."

 

now, as to the last phrase of yours, "making it a therapeutic encounter" -- considering the context of the phrase i'm getting the hint that this isn't meant as a very positive thing. if i am understanding you correctly, you are saying, "don't turn our conversation into a therapy session: you are not my therapist." (i say this to try and figure out quite what you mean by 'making it a therapeutic encounter,' because -- to me -- that phrase actually sounds kind of nice.)

 

this is what i would like to offer: let's say that X is "having a transference" and raging a bit at me. further, let's say that -- like Caterina -- i am calm and present enough to recognize that X's rage is being transferred onto me; and thus i do not take it personally, but rather, as Om points, i recognize and "understand X as a frightened, unstable" person (at this moment). now, i haven't said, "oh, X, you're having a transference!" rather, i see the transference and recognize in it some of the fears and other feelings X is currently feeling. recognizing that this is what is happening (instead of running on my own rant and/or sticking to the words themselves and merely responding to the list of complaints being spewed at me) offers me the best opportunity of gaining insight into X's experience, and offers the brightest window through which to address X's feelings, and to stick to the present relationship.

 

thus i think your objection, Arnold, offers a key insight into the presence necessary to relate to and with someone during an encounter like Caterina's -- in fact, like in Caterina's experience, even keen insight, deep compassion, and real presence may not allow one to approach the immense wall being put up by the other person.

 

if i was to turn to X and say, "you are having a transference" -- who knows, maybe that is exactly what X needs right now: perhaps X has been working a lot with understanding transference and only needs the light clearly shone on the words and actions of the present moment. but perhaps not-- perhaps the best thing i can do is remain calm and allow X to vent out, and hope that X will return to me at a calmer time. if i am present with X then i may just be able to find the key to the little door in this big wall being put up--

 

you are correct

James, you are correct. When I used the term "therapeutic encounter", I was being judgmental and maybe a little nasty. I was characterizing the relationship as exploitative, That was unfair and I apologize.

Over the years I have had a fair number of counseling relationships with a variety of therapists. Some of them were helpful and transformative, and I am grateful for them, but some of them were exploitative with the client as the victim. And they made me angry. I guess I am guilty of some transference myself... and I mean by that, venting anger at the wrong person.

but you make a good point, arnold

and I appreciate this post as well as the other.
Therapy can be such a wonderful enterprise and it can suck too.
So much depends upon how empathic the therapist is, and how capable they are of getting out of models and really feeling the presence of their patient. Love your post and you!

James, how can I say...

yes, right on, exactly!
exactamundo.
perfetto. grazie grazie grazie
I love the way you frame this. It speaks so clearly to my experience.

AUTHORITY VERSUS AUTHORING

Arnold, your point is excellent and I completely agree with your position. My position is similar in my approach to relationship. Even if one is in a socially-constructed role of authority, to use that role as an authoritarian project undermines the very mutuality that relationship represents. For some, there is fear of giving up their authoritarian role because it signifies a loss of power and domination. And this is a very male thing which, I have argued, fosters violence and destruction, fundamentally because it objectifies or dehumanizes subjectivity itself. Of course, the spectrum is wide and not every authoritarian character is violent; but, it does inherently undermine true autonomy and community.

Transference as a term is extremely useful in that it serves the project of interpretation. But, it’s a term and not the person who uses it. Like any artifact—and language is an artifact of culture-- it’s the motivation of the person using the term that makes the difference between understanding and domination. I argue that understanding has to be the primary motivation in any relational encounter, and this is because it is the most ethical. Understanding serves relationship in two fundamental ways: one, it strives to recognize the other’s selfhood; and, two, it seeks a mutuality that celebrates the humanity we all share (comunus, "oneness, union.").
“if I am angry with you about something and you respond that I am "having a transference" then you have done (or may have done) a power trip on me that ungrounds me.”

If I tell you (depending on the relational context) that you are “having a transference,” I would question whether I am truly seeking understanding, that is, as James says, approaching the relationship in a way that “offers me the best opportunity of gaining insight into [your] experience, and offers the brightest window through which to address [your] feelings...”.

One doesn’t need to be an authority figure to be authoritative and, again as James suggests, an author of one’s needs. I said in my last (I think) post, “voice is boundary.” If you are trying to shove your rage up my ass, you’ve probably taken a wrong turn. After I set some very serious and clear limits on your rage, and when (and if) you calm down, we will discuss why you are so angry with me (having feelings and acting them out are two completely different animals—acting out, in my opinion, is unacceptable, though we all occasionally do it in some form). If we are intimate and both introspectively oriented, we will also explore transferential dynamics, as well as. Interpersonal ones (that is, issues related to the here and now of our relationship, as opposed to the old, internalized relational patterns from which transference gets its name).

Unfortunately (or, possibly, fortunately), Caterina did not get the opportunity to have a discussion with her friend. I am sure she will re-evaluate this friendship.

Relationship is no place for a diagnosis. Even in a therapy relationship diagnosis should be only tentatively used. But, I must say, in my opinion, bringing the therapeutic into a relationship is what makes relationship healthy. I don’t mean therapy, I mean therapeutic, having healing properties. Healing means to make whole, and if a relationship is therapeutic, intimacy will likely be achieved.

bellissimo

bellissimo, Om.
One of the things my friend was accusing me of was being "authoritative" which struck me as so odd, (I really couldn't find the source of anything that I had said that sould have sounded this way to him) since we were merrily going sharing our ideas and opinions. In fact, he has a very calm and authoritative play with ideas which I enjoy in conversating with him. We might even share this, though by no means do I consider myself an authority except insofar as I own the authorship of my statements.

I agree, arnold

And I don't tell people that they are "having a transference" unless they have experience with this awareness. Even then, I might ask, "do you think you are having a transference?" or "it feels like you might be having a transference" in any case, even trying to tell someone this when they are angry at me has never proved productive to the situation. So talking here about transference isn't implying that I would tell the person this when we are face to face in the moment.
The situation with my friend was an example of how I felt helpless in response (as I mentioned) because in that moment he wasn't really wanting a response from me. I tried to address his concerns but they were so accusatory there was really no ground or basis to work with. It sucked. Well, there might have been at least the ground of his feelings but, as I also mentioned, we didn't have the type of intimacy to really speak of them. He doesn't seem to be a very introspective person, despite his keen considerate intelligence.
You know, I've thought about this more and I think it is in the moments when I say things that bring a sort of synthesis to ideas that perturbs him. "Blech!" he seems to say, but inside, I've noticed there is a conflict of both liking what I'm saying and hating it. In fact, he even said, "I agree with you" in regards to the comment I had said that seemed to send him off into his frustrations. I am sure I'll never know really why I upset him so.

breathing room

I appreciate your desire to find breathing room in respect to all beings, no matter how they behave. :)
I read "narrative" as "Caterina's post" and so was concerned that my way of describing this experience was sounding as though I wanted you to feel my feelings and not recognize my friend's subjectivity. Obviously, having misunderstood your use of this term, I was having a weird moment of not trusting my own post to have conveyed my perspective (something I thought that it would have done at least semi-veraciously), which made me feel a little schizoid myself.

I do love that you've broadened our discourse on transference. Will respond more after I read the rest of this string.

Oh, the Messiness of it all.

I love this conversation unfolding here tonight about the messiness of relationships, transference (which I am not going to pretend I understand in its technical sense) recognition, etc.

But what you describe as transference, Caterina, I have most certainly experienced (at that level of intensity) from both sides. And in my experience, those intense "tantrum" moments of transference rise up from a place of profound fear and shame--"why don't you recognize me! you absolutist! You don't know me, you don't know whats inside of me! I will shock you with this anger! you will see me!" But it is shame, and inside that tantrum i feel ashamed. Fortunately, I don't need to do that anymore (but less than two years ago, I was still capable of it!) I am amazed how ashamed I feel when I try to identify with your friend.

The last time (and hopefully the last time ever) I allowed myself to be seduced by the tantrum transference was about two years ago. I was in a long term relationship which was turning from the idealized sort of "my other half" transference to something that felt more negative. This is not to say it is all either one or the other, but there certainly was a darker element growing beneath all the romance--I now realize that neither the euphoric highs or the enraged lows (or most awful, the violent silences) had any real recognition in them at all and this makes me very sad...gosh, even now its so hard to get out from the whole emotional chemical haze of those years and figure out what was really going on.

Anyway, this Last very controlled "loss of control:" we were having an argument about a movie and somehow the language of violence of the movie had become some kind of metonymy for something going on between us--and I remember so clearly this moment when I was struggling to defend something about the movie, and searching for words, and she said to me "I hate your words."

There was always some sort of conflict about our ways of relating and experiencing emotion--and as I was struggling to find my feelings with language, coming off medication and trying so desperately to locate myself in this new world or emotionality, she was telling me she rejected it.

And so I chose, willfully, to 'lose control' --: if you will not hear me, i will make you see me in this violent way, and if you want me back you will have to recognize me and nurture me. At least I knew what I wanted and why I was doing it, but I think I needed to find out the hard way that it had to fail.

I am sure that my expression was actually being rejected--my intellectualism, my history, my words, my very different cultural background, was very threatening to her. Her transference was, i think, that I was deliberately trying to shut her out, to shame her and her history. She saw my voice as a rejection of hers.

Oh, it turns into an awful spin of transference counter transference, as you describe Caterina. I feel like in some ways, we made each other into what we feared, what we hated. I felt: here I am, trying desperately to reach out of myself and she thinks I'm trying to humiliate and reject her. And there is no way to prove to her otherwise--my voice is a threat to her. Time for my own transference! She wont recognize me, so I am going to tantrum my way in. God, how hard it is to recognize something other than yourself (and how hard that makes it to recognize your self!) I am glad I am revisiting this now after all this growth, because I feel so much more compassion now :) There is real love underneath all the bullshit (yes!) so I am going to keep digging.

---

In all my relationships, small and large, I struggle to sort out the difference between my projections and yours. We are mirrors of each other, but I still need to learn to see you in the reflection (by seeing myself with acceptance and confidence!) The co-arising recognition of self and other--god I love that, because it means that relationship gives me subjectivity (and voice)--that I must recognize my subjectivity through recognizing yours, or vice versa, or all at the same time. The practice becoming of a subject is the practice of relationship--with awareness. This is my new faith, which continues to push me out even when the frustrated little boy inside of me says (with a wink) throw a tantrum. Disconnect and isolate yourself, or act out--its all withdrawing.

James, I love this: here is someone with whom i can move deeper into the cultivation of self-awareness-- someone with whom i can explore safely.

That really is everything to me, everything I want I suppose. I don't really believe that a single relationship can achieve that ideal of complete 100% mutual recognition, of perfect clarity (not that I would know). I see it as an ongoing and messy dance of change and growth, of recession and resurgence--process wholly and utterly. I ask myself, how can I (we) embrace this process without fear and shame, open to it as change and evolution... Do we have the capacity? I've never seen so many people with so much capacity talking in once place. Ah!

I love that we can turn the static past into a dynamic, living entity, through which we interpret our present, embracing in order to let go.

NOAH IS A MESS

enger, messing around with the messiness of relationship, small and large, which he loves, as he turns “the static past into a dynamic, living entity, through which we interpret our present, embracing in order to let go.” Oh, the places he’ll go, as he struggles “to sort out the difference between my projections and yours” in the mirror mirroring and the reflection reflecting, as the accepting accepts in the “co-arising recognition of self and other,” which makes him realize that he “must recognize [his] subjectivity through recognizing yours, or vice versa, or all at the same time” in the practice practicing the becoming of subject becoming the practice of relationship. And with awareness! This is his new faith!

And it’s all so messy! And thank you for reminding me of that, as I, unintentionally in my play, at times, weave purisms of thought, yet while attempting to avoid unified conceptions of self and relationship, which don’t really exist and are highly impractical in the messy world of impossible projects.

Oh, but, the places we’ll go, and they’re so messy, thank God.

THE NATURE OF SUFFERING

and you hold the deck in one hand
and flick through by pushing gently
with your index finger while holding
the top with your thumb, watching
the pictures spin by you (and it sounds
like a baseball card poked in a spoke
of the wheel of your old stingray bike);
and the individual cards
spin until you get to the king
of hearts who is stabbing himself
with his sword. And I've noticed that thoughts
are like cards spinning by me,
except for that One big Other,
the one like Santa, compassionate,
generous and loving, that accepts
all those other blah blah blah thoughts,
spinning and flickering,
tickling and hurting, and often
hurting real bad. But the Other
knows they will eventually go
away; and the Other reminds
us of loftier thoughts like chance
confronts the unavailable,
and only what does not die can
oppose death; and yet we must, like
Buddha or Jesus experience
death in order to experience
the forces of life; and that
initiation of this fact
proceeds like a funeral through
a series of death moments
beyond which you will rise again
in a glorious resurrection
of knowing; and mind gathers through
its senses, like an urn of ashes,
not the emptiness of light, but
rather the dying out of that light;
and our gaze is a gaze of
reflection, like looking at
the sun rising, and seeing it
as the moment of world's appearing:
all of our suffering
is just this.

THE THERAPEUTIC PROJECT:TRANSFERENCE OR TRANSFORMATION

As I was about to post this (mostly theoretical post), I so happily read Emily's post: "An interesting discussion, but I am still wondering about how Caterina is feeling about what happened and if, revisiting the experience, would she see the events as they unfolded differently or take something valuable away from what happened or what was said. The theoretical can certainly help in understanding why what happened happened, but the feelings of that experience are still there, yes?"

Emily, thank you for two things: one, bringing the discussion back to Caterina and her (our) feelings and, two, embracing the theoretical in the process. Most people I think see theoretical discussions as ignoring or avoiding an emotional process, but it has been acknowledged here that OUR processing is just more complete or integrated, because it includes different ways (and many beautiful voices) of knowing, not one privileged in its own right. So, thank you. I love you in my garden!

With that said, and specifically thinking about Arnold's statement and James' response, I would like to present some thoughts on therapy, based on two assumptions, one, having to do with “problematized authority,” which we have briefly touched upon; an idea I presented in my last post, AUTHORITY VERSUS AUTHORING, where I said, “Even if one is in a socially-constructed role of authority, to use that role as an authoritarian project undermines the very mutuality that relationship represents. For some, there is fear of giving up their authoritarian role because it signifies a loss of power and domination. And this is a very male thing which, I have argued, fosters violence and destruction, fundamentally because it objectifies or dehumanizes subjectivity itself.”

The second assumption, related to the first, is that part of therapy’s objective (a result of cultivating self-awareness) is to dismantle authoritarian claims of knowledge and power, which, I believe, “inherently undermine true autonomy and community (intimacy).”

Therapy is embedded in culture, like every other artifact of life (including language itself), and is therefore susceptible to the same symptoms that reflect society’s fundamental pathology of dissociation, which results in a fractured community consciousness and severely imbalanced power relationships.

From this perspective, the way I see it, the problem isn’t therapy itself, for therapy is not an entity; the problem is how embedded or conditioned the therapist is in a particular authoritarian mindset. Authoritarianism means a form of social control characterized by strict obedience to the authority of an organized power structure. Control can be overt or more insidious, as found in less oppressive societies, like our own. In less oppressive cultures, we find power pervading the linguistic influences of images and media, as well as, in beliefs and institutions. Again, we’re talking about a spectrum, so the influences of authoritarian structures vary. What’s most important, I think, is whether the system, and the participants in the system, are questioning the linguistic and exchange structures that are in place. This is analogous to the therapeutic process itself. If you’re not questioning (challenging) yourself, you’re susceptible to unconscious conditioning.

This is why a constuctivist/existential/ hermeneutic approach to reality (in this case, the reality of therapy and the reality of self as embodied in the two people participating in the therapeutic process) is useful: it questions at every turn, through a dialogical process (dialogue), truth claims. “I think this is true.” “oh yeah, why do you think this is true?” “This is true because of blah blah blah.” “Oh yeah, well, I don’t see your blah blah blah, so say it differently.” “What do you mean?” “I disagree.” “why do you disagree?” And on and on, leaving the door of meaning constantly open, even after the oohs and ahhs and revelations and insights and “ah ha” moments of bliss. Though there is an authoritative voice, which shifts in and out of the foreground, there’s an openness which values and privileges the individual voice and subjectivity of autonomous thinking, and the life spaces or styles that support individuality.

Though it might appear as such, this isn’t an “anything goes” approach. To the contrary, in some ways it is more rigorous because there’s more to challenge, including the structure itself that defines the terms and sets the rules. With this approach, choice and responsibility are the premium features being questioned. And the intellectual tools are relational, constructive and contextual. How can there be any authoritarianism when self is seen as fluid and multifarious, to the point where the very extending of this fluidity leads to a self that dissolves. Extend it further, and you find "the dissolving of the dissolving itself. There is no self; neither is there no-self." But, this is going in another direction I’ll save for another post.

This approach to therapy resonates with me for a number of reasons. My own ideas have been spawned from my personal experiences of trauma and isolation in a constricted, insular (Cartesian) world. The massive empathic failures I endured provided for me an existential need (urgency!) to transcend such adversity through questioning the very reality I was subjected to. I rebelled against its oppressive and ultimate destructiveness.

Thus, my rebelliousness was fueled by a thriving need to grow beyond, to find my own voice amidst the many clamoring "other" feebly enmeshed voices. The galvanizing force was my precocity and, ironically, it was nurtured by my barely-present father. His (poetic)voice was reminiscent of Dylan Thomas: "Do not go gently unto the night." My father I came to learn was a progressive thinker. Although the war prevented him from pursuing higher education, his library was filled with French symbolist poets, Greek classics, Shakespeare, Dosteovsky and Tolstoy, Nabokov, Cervantes, etc. He was a well-read, albeit deeply troubled man (as I've shared) living in a very rigid, impoverished and economically poor world. His was truly a tragic life. It is no accident that Sophocles was most influential on him. When I was eleven and starting a band (ha!) with my friends, I came to him and asked what to name my group. He smiled and said, "How about The Oedipus Complex." True story.

Thus, intellectually, I was exposed to some of his world, and, through that exposure, found a path that intuitively felt true. At an early age, I knew the essence of the world was that of interconnectedness. Everything always seemed to me connected to everything else. This, of course, was a paradox, since I myself felt so isolated. But, I would find my connections. I would find the language and metaphors that spoke uniquely to me and, at the same time, spoke universally. Early on, paradox became truth, and I recall M. Scott Peck's wonderful opening: "Life is difficult. This is a great truth. It's a great truth, because once you realize it, it no longer is."

So, I sought out paradox and knew intuitively that at the heart of paradox was a doorway that opened up like a sphinxean riddle to liberation; that the suffering we experience in this world is born out of clinging to misguided and rigid beliefs about the world and, hence, about ourselves. I just knew this was my path. But, first I had to heal my deep wounds and, perhaps, the journey towards paradox was directly through my wounds. Again, another paradox. I found, as did Rilke and Gibran, that joy is in the center of sorrow, and that sorrow and joy are just two sides of one reality. I had deeply healing (and difficult) relationships, and read and read a lot of literature depicting this same human dilemma: that choice itself was the warp and woof of this great tapestry called the human condition; that we must choose; and that not choosing is itself a choice and, thus, we are destined to face ourselves, in a cloud, again and again and again. How painful, but how potentially joyful the awareness.

‘I feel the theoretical.” JAMES, THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLEMENT

arity of the feeling/thought opposition you emphasized in your post. This FEELS integral to me:

“the very fact that Caterina, Om, and i each came up with varying interpretive modes through which to understand the experience of what we have been calling 'transference' offers a beautiful model for the way that each 'theory' can be particular to the individual, and yet each can be shared with others (and even brought into a more universal mode through which we can each share in that theory.)”

At the same time, Emily’s post FEELS good and necessary and right. You both FEEL so good to me, in exactly the way inversely I felt really bad as a kid. No one had the capacity to UNDERSTAND. Not even my shrink (my mentor!) ultimately understood-- one of the greatest losses of my life. Hey Jesus Buddhaman, what you say? "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." I never really understood the depth of that statement until an (Eastern) teacher pointed out that through a nihilistic journey into the inherent despair of the human condition, freedom will be found, and freedom is the comfort.

Loss is the condition of life.

And in my early twenties I read many masters, for example, O'Neill, Williams (Tennessee), Nabokov, Miller (Arthur), Whitman, Keats, Wordsworth, Plato and Freud and was shaking with excitement. They led me to existentialism and a deeper kind of psychoanalytic thought. I found my world being deconstructed before me, challenged and destroyed. I found the golden nuggets. I found more failed relationships, analysis, despair and isolation. And I found hope and faith. I was in an open field and the excitement was boundless-- Words. Language. Clarity. Confusion. Conflict. Relationships. And Paradox.

On an early spring morning at Walden
Kicking crystals of hanging blades, Thoreau
Found the Trace on the path that Frost, too, spent
Always on alert for divine things, though
There were some that yanked hard at the mind's mood.

They said meaning could be found on the path,
Freedom from one's fate, there in the wood
Below the battered and withered green grass.

Frost found in the thorn of Rilke's sleep, joy.
Rilke found nothing but some burnt petals,
But the ashes retained their scent.

And as Descartes got lost in the blinding smoke,
Out of the smoulder sprouted crocus and lilac.

My analysis was at an impasse after seven years (and three years more to rub it in!-- I give great couch (LOL!). My thinking no longer mirrored my analyst's, and he was furious. Seriously. I ironically felt the same mechanization and reductionism in his thinly-veiled authoritarianism that I experienced growing up. There is no one truth! Theories are metaphors, dagnabbit! beautifully wrought constructions that help to explain human phenomena. This is why I love intersubjectivity.

Intersubjectivity is this self-reflective, self-corrective seamless web guiding individual consciousness conceptually through reality in such an all-encompassing way. It’s sort of another paradox for me because, though it refers to two people, it is not about two SEPARATE people. And the reason is that a so-called two-person model "continues to embody an atomistic, isolated-mind philosophy in that two separated minds...are seen to bump into each other. Such a conception fails to recognize the constitutive role of relatedness in the making of all experience. We ought to speak instead of a contextual psychology." What is different from older systems theories, I believe, is that this model is a nonlinear systems theory where subjective worlds form and evolve within a nexus of living systems. "The subject-object split is mended, and inner and outer are seen to interweave seamlessly." Wow!

To go one step further, if intersubjectivity extends itself across Buddhist philosophical thought (to see its roots in “emptiness” or interconnectedness), through the intersubjective lens will be revealed that every theory, every idea includes every other theory and idea in some subtle or more obvious way! And so, we are climbing out of ourselves, mind the ladder and ideas the rungs and the whole goddam thing fueled by feelings, and the One Big feeling of desire!

My desire explains the day
the way leaves spin out from
sheathes of older leaves
as sun rolls its finger
over the globe, the way
her body forms around
my eyes like moonlight
the way light’s roundness
opens like recollection
towards completeness :)

And so, I always say that “thought and feeling are two sides of one understanding.” It’s thinking feeling and feeling thought. James expressed, “the first thing is that i feel all of the 'theoretical.'”

“i understand by virtue of my ability to recognize myself and my friend…. then i share this understanding with you through language…. now-- this sharing will be theoretical in nature, because i am sort-of making sense of the experience, and putting into words--by which you may grasp my meaning-- what i believe happened. this is rooted in the subjective experience, in my own feelings. .. if i had not the capacity to theoretically determine the situation i would likely be clueless about both what we were feeling and what was happening…if i couldn't offer myself an account for the cruel remarks being hurled in my direction, i would be helplessly confused, without clarity or direction.”

Emily, I actually heard this from your post, if I did not read it directly. Your shift was a very cool one for me, and I felt it as a little finger tickling my ear (as if Caterina was sitting inside my ear), saying, “What are you feeling?” Correct me if I’m wrong but you seemed to be asking for balance rather than throwing the theoretical baby out (Who throws babies out of the bath, anyway?). As much theory as I can accumulate, and James, you have said this yourself on a number of occasions, it will never taste the level of intimacy as the question, “What are you feeling?”

Let me make it clear, I am not saying or suggesting that James meant this at all. My point here is that there are exact times for different expressions, and timing is everything. Timing is the music of intimacy, the deep listening that flows through the rhythm our bodies and our eyes and our gestures and our words. We ARE dance.

how to add to this

i could only think of quoting a segment of Donnel Stern's book Unformulated Experience.

"Each of us continuously and unconsciously casts about for other people to play roles reciprocal to our own in various fantasied interpersonal events that we actually want to create in the outside world. These key events have to do with intrapsychic dynamics and early history, which are represented in our minds by internal object relations. We are searching, therefore, for ways of actualizing our wishes by means of bringing certain internal object relations to life in the outside world. We “cast about” by means of unconscious behavioral invitations for partners in various interpersonal ventures. The field that is constituted depends on the other person’s generally unconscious response to these invitations. That is, we continuously treat other people in ways unconsciously designed to have certain effects. Each of us, then, is not only ceaselessly issuing invitations, but just as ceaselessly and unwittingly responding to the invitations of others. This is interpersonal life.

"It seems unlikely, though, that we simply issue the same invitations to everyone we meet. It makes more sense to imagine that we unconsciously test the waters first, so that we issue only those invitations (that is, we “inhabit” only those self-states) that have some chance of being accepted and eventually fulfilled by the other person. We seek out safety and avoid putting ourselves in the position of being turned down flat and made to feel foolish, humiliated, or worse. Such an addition makes interaction more complicated, but by making it possible to understand how different selves or self-states come into play in different environments, this revised version is a better fit to the world we live in. All of us are continuously and unconsciously testing the water, issuing what seem like the appropriate invitations, responding to invitations, revising the invitations we send on the basis of the responses and invitations we have received, and so on."

and then this

also from Stern.

"We are neither in bad faith nor operating like machines. We are, instead, participants in interpersonal relations that structure our experience in the same way that the larger social configurations of cultures and subcultures do, and according to the same discursive formations. Simultaneously, we are agents pursuing our own courses, influencing the interpersonal relations in which we are involved in ways we fully intend and for which we are responsible. Self-deception, because it assumes absolute personal agency, is an incomplete description of the processes involved. It seems that the problem of what to do with self-deception, in the end, is really the problem of what to do about the private, self-contained, uncompromisingly agentic Western self. Self-deception disappears right along with that vision of what we are. We do not have do deceive ourselves; we do not have to refuse to know what we know. To dissociate, we have only to accept the limitations of the field in which, with the other, we are mutually embedded. We have only to take the path of least resistance and leave the rock on the bottom. We have only to be less than fully imaginative and curious. Paraphrasing Merleau-Ponty, we have only to refuse to lend ourselves to the life of language."

STERN AND THE DANCE OF *FOOLS

Nico, thank you for sharing these Donnell Stern quotes, I very much enjoyed them. A couple of thoughts. I was wondering why you shared them (in a good way!) following our posts yesterday on transference, authority and the balancing of feeling and theoretical statements. Also, how does Stern translate for you in your experience relative to yesterday’s posts?

In the second quote, I like how Stern focused on self-deception as a function of dissociation (the inability to assign emotional significance to an event). This feels very much in line with Buddhist statements on ignorance (the inability to understand the ultimate nature of phenomena). Both speak to the increased limiting field of awareness as the culprit, for Stern, blocking healthy relating, for the Buddhist, obscuring one's ability to reach happiness and, ultimately, Enlightenment. That feels right to me. That he makes a more general and philosophical thesis about the “Western self” suggests Stern’s awareness of an other, perhaps Eastern, “self”. “It seems that the problem of what to do with self-deception, in the end, is really the problem of what to do about the private, self-contained, uncompromisingly agentic Western self.” This is a very constructivist perspective, and his use of the word “imagine” (“It makes more sense to imagine”) is not inconsequential for me, for it speaks to the provisionality or relativity of our theories.

*I used the word “fools” in the title as a double meaning. The fool is both the ignorant one and the wise one, depending on the context :)

In the book, one of

In the book, one of Stern’s points is that we are continually caught in the grip of transferences in relationships. It is natural and done mostly in unconscious ways. Only when we challenge our positions in the relationship, through language and imagination, can we begin to recognize them and break free to fall into new ones. It is a continuous process, part of relating.

What is really interesting and apropos, is the way we send out unconscious signals to others to recreate “interpersonal events,… in the outside world.” Basically we are saying “Come play in my sandbox. I’ll play this role and you that one.” Now what happens when the other comes to play but doesn’t fulfill the envisioned role you setup for them? Or what if both persons come for different reasons?

Obviously a short-circuit!

And both persons will stop relating unless they use language and imagination to redefine these roles and identify the unconscious messages that were sent and accepted. But it is a process that has to be experienced and lived for it to come to fruition. So in Caterina’s case with her angry friend, the questions abound as to why it happened. We would have to look at all these messages that were sent and accepted, all that was said and, more importantly, not said. then Caterina may learn something about her way of relating and her friend may be disturbed enough to ask why he acted like he did? but both learn if they are willing to reflect (not an issue for Caterina), and, more importantly, talk about it (something her friend doesn’t seem to want to do).

again, i quote Stern.

“It is language, and language only, that defines reflective meaning, and the limits of possible reflective meanings are precisely the same as the limits of language. If a meaning cannot yet be spoken, it does not yet exist in a form that could be reflectively understood; if it is not within the capacity of language to represent, it can never be reflective meaning at all. The sum total of all those meanings that are capable of linguistic representation is a second way Gadamer defines culture, or tradition. That is, the possibilities of language, the sum of prejudice, and tradition are all ways of referring to the same thing.

"What we understand is not separate from us. The truth cannot be located and uncovered. Rather, says Gadamer, we must recognize that we already are the truth, that the problem is formulating the relevant aspects of our being. All we can do is to make a dialogue with another person in which we engage our prejudices in such a way that they become clear to us, and understanding emerges. The participants in what Gadamer calls ‘genuine conversation’ try to do just this by sensing the constraints that keep their dialogue from opening further. Thus the one who wishes to understand cannot set out knowing he will accomplish the task, as one could in making the decision to take a walk or watch television. Rather, one is attuned, as prepared as possible to see and sacrifice prejudices in the interest of receiving the other’s message.

"In all these ways, Gadamer rejects Schleiermacher’s belief that the meaning of the text is hidden and preexisting, available only through emphatic communion with the writer. Reflective meaning does not exist prior to the interaction in which it occurs. It is an event, not a thing. Because of our embeddedness in tradition and our consequent reliance on prejudice, we cannot, says Gadamer, depend on being able to produce an empathic communion just because such a connection is desired.

HEY NICO, THANKS AGAIN

"The participants in what Gadamer calls ‘genuine conversation’ try to do just this (engage our prejudices in such a way that they become clear to us) by sensing the constraints that keep their dialogue from opening further. Thus the one who wishes to understand cannot set out knowing he will accomplish the task, as one could in making the decision to take a walk or watch television. Rather, one is attuned, as prepared as possible to see and sacrifice prejudices in the interest of receiving the other’s message."

This is gorgeous, really, and speaks to exactly what goes on here with this beautiful blog community. And it requires more than all else, a certain attitude that engenders faith, good intentions, commitment, humility, honesty, self-reflection, openness, patience, and not taking oneself too seriously, no? There always needs to be a tickle lying around somewhere, and accessible.

i am Beatrice and in my nakedness i speak
i come from a place that all of you seek
i return to enter the gyres to leak
if you're good you can listen, but don't you dare peek.

Of what Stern writes, this

Of what Stern writes, this really catches my attention.

"What we understand is not separate from us. The truth cannot be located and uncovered. Rather, says Gadamer, we must recognize that we already are the truth, that the problem is formulating the relevant aspects of our being. All we can do is to make a dialogue with another person in which we engage our prejudices in such a way that they become clear to us, and understanding emerges."

"We already are the truth!"

So yes, "formulating the relevant aspects of our being," means finding out what we are feeling.

But what do you do once you find out? Open the bottle of champagne and celebrate? Have yourself a little party in your head? Open all the windows of your brain and let it air out?

NO WU MAN, NO CRY

Good afternoon, boys and girls, do you know what today is? It’s Sunday, and Sunday is Wu day! I love Dr. Wu. Dr. Wu is my Chinese physician (an orthopedic surgeon in China who defected to the US in the 70’s). Most people see Wu as an acupuncturist, which he is, as well. But, that is only part of this healer's bag of tricks.

As you enter Wu’s office in Chinatown, you are likely to hear, behind one of the three treatment room doors, a light-hearted, lilting voice, saying ah mi tuo fuo, part of a Buddhist chant in China, which approximately means God Bless You. He will hear the chime of the door and come greet you with a most warm and benevolent smile and welcoming reassurance unusual for a medical office in New York City. He might even present you with a cup of green tea.

Each time I visit Dr. Wu’s office I find myself immediately transported to another place and time. The energy and sensations feel more like an exotic Chinese apothecary with its suffused fragrance of medicinal herbs. And I feel so safe.

Listening carefully to him in his broken English, I am cognizant of the interwoven philosophical Taoist and Buddhist strains inherent in his description of Chinese Medicine; its overarching ideas are interconnectedness and harmony. Wu over and again emphasizes the need to consciously experience ourselves as part of the unity of life. It’s built into his tradition that unity is accomplished first and foremost by non-interfering [intrusive], and attentive observing and listening, both to one’s own inner voice, and to the voices of the world around us. This inclusiveness of observation requires not only the use of the logical mind but, perhaps even more importantly, the intuitive mind cultivated by many years of experience and knowledge. This means that, in Chinese Medicine, the information gathered is through a greater, more comprehensive wisdom of how the human being “fits” harmoniously in the world, and thus in relationship; that is, through the sharing of consciousness between practitioner and patient. For example, recently, I heard Dr. Wu reassure a frightened patient about her condition. He said, “You will be okay. You listen to me, one hundred percent.” And the American woman, somewhat wary, asserted, “And you listen to me, right?” Dr. Wu smiled and said, “Yes, I listen to you, one hundred percent; together two hundred per cent.”

Chinese Medicine asserts subtle energy bodies existing in fields co-extensive with the physical body and its associated electromagnetic field. These subtle “fields” are more diffuse and less constrained than our particular physiological bodies, reinforcing the idea that consciousness is nonlocated (not located anywhere in space). Thus, as Wu knows, the mind can have access to information not limited to the physical body. This is perhaps the most essential area of Chinese Medicine's philosophical thought. Within the conceptual framework of Taoism, there is an exquisite, deeply spiritual—- I would even say, aesthetically complete—- principle of Qi (pronounced “chee”), or Life force. From this principle comes an elaborate, highly comprehensive energetic field, or system, known as body/mind.

Wu can also a pain in the ass and a bit rigid. He "needles" me in his pointed and oblique ways. But I love Wu. I am a dart board and he a master dartsman. Wu brings out my wu wei nature, round and balanced and blue like the sky. Wu is like a great poem, he hurts and sometimes real bad. This almost 60 year old diminutive man picks my 180 pound frame off the chair by my head and suddenly twists to the right until my neck cracks. The sound is so loud, I began to laugh uncontrollably, knowing the wrong movement would kill me. This is trust. Real trust. And this is compassion, true compassion that’s so precise, so brilliantly efficient in its touch and awareness that it knows exactly when and at what angle to caress a heart or, like a samurai’s sword, remove with speed the head of pride or rage.

As the body lays comfortably face down on the cot, the needles point outward from the back like sun rays, and mind drifts off into another time, when I am 10 and very sick. My father, the once young medic whose heart could only beat for others, holds me in his arms as he sticks a spoon down my throat to help me breathe. I had never seen him so steady and yet warm and loving, my father. I love his hands and I gaze and run my fingers over them. It’s the last time I will touch those hands.

They were soft and almost translucent
like cloth held up to light
a dove cooing across my cheek
on cold winter nights
its feathers tickling my ears
with poems of words
before sleep
before the notes
of winter night
pecked against the pane
by the creaking tree
and into my dream
where I was the bird
nestling into my father
lying there
unconscious
before the croaking old world
buried him deep
beneath the dream
beneath the wind and soft
hands cooing on winter nights
against my cheek.

And I go deeper still, and there’s Adeline, my massage therapist leaning over me as I completely surrender to her. The oils, music, fragrance and the strength and softness of her touch break through the fear and isolation of a frightened boy hiding in the closet or peeing in his bed after nightmares many many years before. I am safe now and no longer need walls to barricade nor mend. I am a body of fluid flowing in and out of consciousness flowing in and out of body: mind is body, mind is nothing but body; body is mind, body is nothing but mind.

And I am now in my mother’s womb, her presence profoundly felt, and her tenderness so palpable; her warmth envelopes my whole being. She will feed me in ways that I cannot know. I am a seed in the depths of my mother. Each moment I recreate evolution as my cells multiply, as they become fingers and lips and hair. I am a fish swimming upstream, and soon a seal with half-arms. My mother's breath is my breath, her blood my blood. I can only wait with patience, as my heart awaits her touch. She will catch me as I enter into the world surround, as she now protects me in my liquid world. There is much to learn....

Ah mi tuo fuo, he sings, as he pulls out the needles and begins massaging my back in the most tender and firm touch I have ever known. And, as he pushes down with a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and almost makes me cry, he smiles, “No pain, no gain.” And I laugh from the pain, as I get up to get my neck twisted into shape.

Oh, yeah, today is Sunday and I am getting Wu'ed.

Tender moments

Om, that was beautiful. In particular, I can relate to the comment you made about you and your dad sharing a moment of tenderness and compassion. I too shared many moments of tenderness with my father, little things like going out to eat with him, going to a movie with him, or just being with him. The little things were and still are the big things. I know that now more than ever before in my life.

I say this because as I am writing this it has occurred to me that my dad, either intentionally or not, was being very compassionate towards me. I was empowered vicariously through his presence in my life. I felt safe and strong when I was with him, not vulnerable and weak, which is how I felt when he passed on.

I know now that it was not because he was a strong figure. He was passive in many ways. It was the "idea" of him, the father figure, that was strong.

Beautifully said

a beautiful nexus of language and feeling. Thank you, Dependently!

WELCOME D! THANK YOU

for your precious post. Though your father is no longer here, he apparently left with you a sensitivity and gift of reflection. How rare is that? I don't think enough is said about men's relationships with their fathers outside the more so-called male activities and drives. Sons need tenderness from their fathers, and it's a different kind of tenderness than we receive from our mothers.

The loss of my father when I was 12 left a pretty big hole in my gut, but the hole was already present even before he died. The moment of joy in my life came when I realized my father was an alcoholic, not a drunk. A new world opened up for me through that forgiveness.

Wu'ed

Om... I hear the Wu'ed crack of the neck. It is, honestly, the sweetest music. I will travel anywhere for that sound, for that crack, like a chocoholic ready to crawl through the desert for a small piece of dark almond bark. It is the sound of release, organism; the sound of laughter that got stuck in some dark closet and couldn't come out until someone released it.

Years ago, I saw a woman named Freida for Reflexology. Your post reminded me of that time, although I am not so sure my experience was as "healing," but it was indeed, an experience..... She was elderly - probably near seventy. A very thin, German woman with a thick accent. Once you were in her tiny room, once she had you lying on her table, she liked to get comfortable herself. She took off her wig, which revealed a round head with a few grey strands striking out in all directions, before taking off her dress so that she could get to work in her white full slip. Of course, she did not wear shoes, but you could see her feet through her sheer stockings. Then she proceeded to cause the most intense pain in my feet while giving a pretty accurate commentary on my physical and mental health. When her hands grew tired she used some kind of devise with a thick round ball on the end which she thrust into different areas of your arches. I was always able to leave her office walking on my two feet, but I knew a few people, who could hardly place their feet back on the ground.

As for the question: Did it work?
My answer is, "I could always be worse."

FRIEDA THE "REFLUXOLOGIST"! LOL!

I love how you tell stories, this one is a belly bouncer! Actually, Frieda sounds more like a bouncer than a reflexologist. Or, perhaps a stripper reflexologist. And the wig! LOL! It gave me heartburn in my funny bone.

"I Vill HEAL YOU," she says.

A Quick Stop on the Productivity Train

after leaving the station I
gazed at the hills and valleys and
waved to all those people who
had gone by so long ago.

music, caffeine, chocolate; I
am a woman, after all.

a touch of avoidance, a
quick nap, and
intermittently some real
work.
so no one gets suspicious.
guess I ought to cut and
run. pick up in the morning.

these nights in limbo, torn
between that perfect brush stroke and
total calamity.

what is it that they say? nothing
good happens after 2am.

I doff my cap to the conductor. same
time tomorrow? safe
travels ma'am.

and settle down to sleep.

-MCB

...I like this place

QUICK STOP ON THE CEILI TRAIN

Ceili’s poem could not have been better timed for me. I still have Emily and James’ posts on my mind, and have my mind on my mind, too, as it shifts in the play between a few oppositional ontologies: feeling/thought, historical/ahistorical, metaphorical/ literal.

I play with these oppositions in my poems. I lean more toward the “language” or philosophically-oriented poem, and so my questioning is of a different sort. In a poem I posted a few weeks back, `anything that isn’t that should go,’ which is basically about the metaphor/literal opposition in poetry, I wrote,

and your fingers climb lightly over the keys as if they’re
twirling a young woman in white chiffon dress, her long
brown hair wing-spanning like a kite, across a grassy field,
as if it were a dance floor, and it is, because everything
she and you need is there, no more, no less;

or

in bare feet and with your wild hair, sing
the wordless melody, unable to contain
yourself, were it not for you

The play is not so much on words, but on the nature of reality itself (and the poem's role in defining or questioning it). The philosopher Richard Rorty, in discussing analytic philosophy, argues that the dominant concern is with the idea, derived from the natural (hard) sciences, that “metaphor is a distraction from [ahistorical] reality.”

This idea leads me to Ceili's poem.

Ceili’s is not a “language” poem, it feels completely different. Its literal images tell the story and it feels like a sudden punch in the gut (or a twist of the neck :) In this way, the poem feels closer to the body, actually in the body of feeling, and in the feeling of body, as the cutter literally tries to open the body and pull the feelings out. Not that language poetry is devoid of feeling, but there are higher-level thoughts attached to the images and they tend to pull for the more complex emotions—those that are what we might call thought-feelings. Love, for example, is attraction with the idea of goodness. Intimacy is based on more complex emotion, but sometimes we just want to fuck and devour each other. It’s not an either/or thing, just a shifting between body and mind. And so, the idea is not to choose but to hold the dialectic and reach back and forth between the shifting. Relationally, it’s the same thing. What we need from each other at any given moment might come either more from the body (feeling-- hold me) or more from the mind (the complex of thought-- can we talk about this?). The problem I think is when the tie between them is severed (dissociated) and we then have to cut our way through the trauma that caused the rupture to begin with.

CEILI, THAT REALLY HURTS, BEAUTIFULLY

How pain can be carved into such beauty, this poem. Yet, even as you seem to be saying here to me, language in and of itself, when cut off from feelings outside the poem, goes undercover, "so no one gets suspicious."

God, I love this poem for many reasons, for its brutality and longing and tough truth, "between that perfect brush stroke and calamity."

If only our strokes didn't have to be so goddam perfect, perhaps waking would be as settling as sleep.

Thank you for this gem, Ceili!

HELEN KELLER'S FIRST TRANSFERENCE, AND LOVE

"One day, while I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled d-o-l-l and tried to make me understand that d-o-l-l applied to both. Earlier in the day we had a tussle over the words m-u-g and w-a-t-e-r. Miss Sullivan had tried to impress it upon me that m-u-g is mug and that w-a-t-e-r is water, but I persisted in confounding the two. In despair she had dropped the subject for the tme, only to renew it at the first opportunity. I became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, I dashed it upon the floor. I was keenly delighted when I felt the fragments of the broken doll at my feet. Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst. I had not loved the doll. In the still, dark world in which I lived there was no strong sentiment or tenderness.... We walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of the honeysuckle with which it was covered. Someone was drawing water and my teacher placed my hand under the spout. As the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water, first slowly, then rapidly. I stood still, my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers. Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten--a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free! There were still barriers, it is true, but barriers that could in time be wept away. I left the well-house eager to learn. Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought. As we returned to the house every object which I touched seemed to quiver with life. That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me. On entering the door, I remembered the doll I had broken. I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces. I tried in vain to put them together. Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow."

Hellen Keller

Om - Thank you for posting this.

EMILY, BEAUTIFUL ISN'T IT

When I read this quote from Helen Keller's autobiography (`The Story of My Life'), i am thoroughly drenched in awe and sorrow and joy and love, and the greatest gratitude for Helen teaching us, through her life and this jewel of a paragraph, about the evolution of our capacity for thought, and how the affective (feeling) range expanded far beyond other animals. And how the acquisition of language (beginning with naming)allowed human beings to move from the concrete realm of perceptions, sensations, objects and images (the dimension of body)to the dimension of concepts and symbolic thought. Love has a name and it begins with "no" and yes and yes...

"...I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. "

Molly Bloom?!!??!??

Molly Bloom?!!??!??

fin -- again.

"How bootifull and how truetowife of her, when strengly forebidden, to steal our historic presents from the past postpropheticals so as to will make us all lordy heirs and ladymaidesses of a pretty nice kettle of fruit."

Carmen, I am looking for you

Carmen, I am looking for you. I feel as if I am in one of those children's books with all th flaps to lift in hopes of finding the big old dog, Spot. Where are you Carmen? Are you under the Bed? Are you in the basket? Oh, there you are.... there. Come and just "hang." I haven't heard from you..... how are you?

Spot is behind the bookshelf

Sometimes I think too hard. I get crowded out of my own head, and feel the press of the crowd around me.

And sometimes this blog feels the same way. I am crowded out of the niche we have created here, not because, precisely, of any of you, but rather because sometimes I become lost in the reading and forget the people. I came back after a final and there had been 40 new posts, some pages long, and I read for hours, losing myself in the flow of text.

By the end, I didn't know what I was reading. The words made sense to me, but I couldn't hear your voices. Something had been lost. I felt like I was somehow missing something.

I'm not interested in provoking a debate about intimacy versus intellectualism versus false distinction again. I believe we've exhausted that topic of conversation. Really, what I'd like to do is to climb to the top of a hill and yell, "So! How bout them Padres?"

I feel like, although you've shared important, intimate aspects of your life with me, I wouldn't know what to get you for your birthday. I don't know whether you ever call in sick and watch a whole season of Northern Exposure and eat all the popcorn your stomach can take.

I am Carmen. I work at Borders for approximately nothing and am forever struggling to pay the rent. I love it. The last book I adored was The Gentlemen of the Road. I am in awe of the Coen brothers' entire portfolio. I'm a Coetzee fangirl. I'm a giant klutz, which annoys my boyfriend no end. In exchange, I love my boyfriend even when he "cleans" by putting everything into the closet so I am nearly killed by a falling ironing board the next time I need my jacket. I bake a lot. I have a bad right rotator cuff. I love it when it's so cold you go outside and your breath freezes to the outside of your scarf. I'm irritatingly cheerful. I'm a cheap drunk during the school year, when my tolerance goes all to hell. I named my kitten after the mother of the Olympian gods.

I could go on. I guess what I'm saying is that these are the details that make me who I am now. Perhaps sometime in the future I will know who I was or will be, or what made me that, or why it's important. I just know that in this moment who I am is at once connected to and completely separate from what I have been or what has happened to me. And in the context of this blog, I often feel like I'm at a cocktail party with a group of fascinating, intelligent, and empathetic strangers.

So, who are you?*

*Disclaimer: this is not at all a loaded question. ;)

Behind the bookshelf... Carmen

There you are! How wonderful to see you. I should have known to look behind the book case.

It is five in the morning and I just woke up, not that I wanted to, but I just did. My eyes itch since there is a cat curled up near by face and I am slightly if not totally allergic to cats but that doesn't prevent me from having two. I have an old black lab that I have made very needy and neurotic. I know I made him what he is today because I have a history of creating - well, overly dependent dogs. Unconditional love, I learned does not really work for canines – they need discipline. A good dog training book might work with raising kids! . I also have a parrot that hates my husband, loves my daughter (who does not love him) The bird puts up with me because I am the next best thing. I don’t take this personally – it’s a bird transference thing.

For my birthday or for Christmas - which by the way I don't celebrate since I was raised Jewish (but don't practice) although this year, I was delighted to buy a tree and get some ornaments, completely free of guilt despite the collective voice of every Jewish relative I have ever had or will have or who have been remotely connected to, I feel like part kid/part Santa. I need a watch; mine broke weeks ago so I am living life through intuition and the fact that there is limited light ,which helps me know when day is day, but not necessarily when day is night.. I could use some kind of pouch to put receipts in from the things I buy for my business. I usually crumple them in my purse, which I don't empty all the often. My purse is always a mess and the receipts which are printed with very cheap ink, tend to fade before I enter them in my books. Business in not my strong suit; caring for people with Alzheimer’s is, But I use the same kind of improvisation for both.

My dad is turning 90 this month and he still says he has no meaning in life. Ninety years of no meaning is a real downer.

I don't look for lost kittens anymore because I found that when I did, I always found them. As a young woman, before I married, I was always in search of men who were troubled – a mirror for my own pain. Wanted to save everyone, but of course, needed to save myself. (Two of the boyfriends I did have later committed suicide). I stopped collecting suicidal men, but kept on collecting cats. One timeI had eight. I have a long term partner who is very tolerant but I acknowledge, with love, that I tested his limits by increasing the number of four legged animals in my life every time we had a fight..

And this, of course, is less then a fraction of life. Hugs.

Collecting kittens

I, too, have collected lost kittens. One of them is mine, and adorable (I may be biased). One of them is the boy's. He (the kitten, not the boy, although sometimes the boy) has the long-term memory of a goldfish. The third belonged to a family that kept her locked in a basement for so long that it took me months to win her trust and now she follows me everywhere. And the last is with us for a week while his owner is away; the owner found him when he appeared at his mobile bike repair stand, hungry and cuddly and wanting.

The second and the third are just guests at the moment, but I do not think of them quite like that. They are my temporary family while my family is a thousand miles away, and warm in the darkness.

I think I did not explain myself overly well in my post, although I also think that you took the meaning and ran with it. I think a big part of what I meant had to do with the way we all "met" here. We told each other about our emotions in ways that we never would have had we encountered each other in a cafe. If I met you at a party, we'd talk about things first--our favorite places to travel, perhaps, or books or movies or music. And then perhaps we would overlay that background with more personal matters--our histories and dreams, our weaknesses and triumphs. The way we've done it here seems almost backwards, like I'm looking at a vibrant point on an otherwise blank canvas. Or actually, more like I'm painting over a canvas that has already been filled with a white single Christian woman between twenty and thirty, a canvas that I construct subconsciously and do not notice until you are Jewish (or at any rate non-Christian) and married. I want to fill the rest of that in!

Thank you for your response, and for your patience with me as I continue to struggle with and against the language we share. Hugs back.

i'm still here

 

hey Carmen. i must say, i'm tempted to ask you about that debate you don't want to start up again. in one sense we may have exhausted that topic of conversation-- but if it's still got you exhausted we needn't shy away from it entirely (we can just speak about it in a new way perhaps?)

 

but instead i'll tell you a little about who i am through my experience of your experience of the blog.

 

sometimes i come to the blog and look at the length and language of a post (any kind of language... sometimes it's the "emotional" language) and say, "Blech-- leave me alone, damnit." and i close the page feeling suffocated and distant, and grumpy.

 

the important thing for me is that i don't just stop there, because it's not the blog that has me grumpy-- my grumpiness is not about you, or Noah, or Emily, or Om, and so on... my grumpiness is about me. for example, the last week and a half i've been pretty busy with finals (like several of us), but i've also had some other stuff going on, and i was surprised this week to have discovered that i was withdrawing a bit, and i realized that i was getting frightened and isolating myself to protect myself. i sensed someone pulling away from me, and my unconscious defense mechanism kicked into place. in short: i cut myself off from my feelings.

 

so whenever i'd come to the blog with the hopes of catching up, i'd just stare at the words and think, "what nonsense. screw this." i was a bit of a jerk to some of my friends and family this week, too... but that unconscious drive is so strong, it's so hard to identify. but suddenly i was given the opportunity to look into myself a little more carefully, and i seized that opportunity and said, "oh my! i am distancing myself!" and it all tumbled down to a frustrating confrontation out in the cold last night-- but a miraculous thing happened...

 

i had begun investigating a day before, and began slowly trudging back to my emotions until finally there they were again! suddenly i was back in touch with my feelings, and all it took was a little observing and a lot of love. at one point last night i felt angry and impatient, and i held my anger and took care of it, and transformed it. all it needed was my love (and understanding!) and it dissolved. after all the dust settled and the big confrontation became more of a conversation, i was still there, calm and loving, a bit sad, andhappy. happy? yes. because after a week and a half of numbing myself down, i was finally feeling again. and it was good to be feeling again.

 

and then when i returned to the blog shortly thereafter (still reeling from a bit of a loss, still sad, and grateful, and so much else), i had a newfound clarity that i hadn't felt since before the withdrawal. i read through so many posts and connected with them in a richer way than i had done in quite some time, and i got even closer with my emotions, and i felt all of my desires and drives and fears and hopes and joys streaming through with the clarity of the sadness at the heart of my letting-go of attachments.

 

i've realized that i am more honest when i am feeling (feeling good and well!), because when i am in a mess of confused grumpiness and i haven't understood my feelings enough to love them, i say all sorts of things that i don't mean, because i don't know what i mean, and yet i say something anyway. yet when i feel clearly i can come and say the words that flow from my feelings, i can actually make decisions, and i can actually share, and i can actually relate. for a while i had a more pessimistic take, i thought: what, i can only be honest when i feel good? well, when i feel bad i'm here, too! but i didn't understand... and that is the difference. i can be in pain, like i was last night, and yet the clarity of feeling is such that i speak with a foundation of happiness, of peacefulness. when i "feel bad" it's bad feeling, it's not feeling well, it's feeling without clarity and awareness-- and then i am not myself, because my voice is not my own, and i cannot share, and any cruel or heated words i might share come from some other place, some memory...

 

now-- i also must say that i prize my messiness, because i am not messy very often, and sometimes i need to get a little messy and let myself go a little nuts and revel in that unclear un-feeling. ---now i am more aware, and now i am more able-to-respond, and i can recognize when i am in a more honest state, and when i am in a more hidden, withheld state. and when i'm in the latter state, i've discovered why washing the dishes is such a lovely thing. it is important to return to myself, and find myself alone with my feelings and my voice-- not grasping onto the fears of the past and the anxieties of the future, not wildly flailing around in my confusion, but rather calmly and lovingly holding my feelings and getting to know them, and nurturing them, and dissolving and transforming them. and then i am finally alone again, and then i can return to relationship in a sincere, intimate way.

 

these thoughts are what came to mind as i was reading your post. that, and this:

 

i'm still here! :)

 

and when you say, "So, who are you?" i want you to know that you do know me, you know me pretty well, actually. but something feels false to you, something feels missing, like you have given something the wrong name. i'm not sure i could fill out this missing space by telling you any particular details. i'm not sure i could fill out this space at all, actually. but i hope you feel i responded to your asking-- maybe not as much to the question itself, but at least to the asking. (gosh, i love a gerund.)

 

i wonder if this blog can offer a lesson in our tendencies to limit our meanings. i had this dream in which a girl said to me, "what's an intimate moment?" what a question! i was unable to help her experience an intimate moment because she was too frightened. but she might have wanted a quick answer, you know-- an answer you could wrap up and encapsulate. but there are many intimate moments, there are many relationships, there are many kinds of love (and this one is new!)-- for example: my relationship with you, Carmen, is not like any other relationship i have, so i get lost when i start trying to apply some artificial set-of-rules to our relationship, to try and encapsulate it as anything other than one-of-a-kind (and believe me, i have tried this a lot!)... and then i come back again, re-freshed, and suddenly there's a little bit less anxiety, and i come to the relationship on its own terms, not on some stuff i abstracted out of some other relationship of mine, etc. i feel my horizons expanding a little. though maybe that's just my stomach. waffle time! (i am james: i am a part-time vegan, and the waffles i eat are vegan waffles, today it's blueberry, with bananas and maple syrup and walnuts. i say part-time because i eat fish, and when i'm out somewhere i make exceptions here and there-- laid-back-part-time vegan)

 

 

philosophy and waffles

There is too much in your post for me to reply to right to right now, as it is nearly midnight (which I hadn't realized) and I must rise before dawn tomorrow to make it to work on time. However! I have read and will return. And I thank you, as always, for your thoughtfulness.

P.S. Do you have a good vegan waffle recipe? Mine are always either too dry or too gummy. And given that the boy and I are not vegans at all but my roommate is, I'd like to be able to make breakfast that all of us can eat.

WHO IS HELEN KELLER? WHO AM I?

When did Helen become a self? I believe it was here:

“Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten--a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!”

If you wonder, in my last post (or two or three :) why I wrote `Helen Keller’s First Transference,’ it’s because, before you have a transference, you have to have a self to transfer other selves onto another self; and, more than that, you have to have language to displace onto someone the feelings and composite images first internalized vis-à-vis your parents. But, what is a self?

The “theory” so to speak, that resonates most with me is a developmental one of “organized self-experience,” which requires the capacity for reflection. The concept of self emerges during the second year of life, after the infant begins to use symbols. Self-recognition is a key developmental milestone (why it's one of the primary focuses in therapy-- or should be :). The “self” emerges as the infant begins processing information in two ways: feelings and thought (symbols).

But, what makes the sense of self uniquely human?

What makes us human is exactly what we have been describing here on the blog: Dr. Wu! Only kidding, No, theory! Or, more accurately, thinking interacting with feelings. The ability of human beings to think and form concepts—- intellectual, ethical, spiritual ideals—- and aspirations are the mental factors that empower us to have control over our feelings. We can call this will power or free will. The free will/fate debate! Yes, animals make choices, but the choices are between two opposing affects, not between affects and thought (they cannot override their “affective programming”). Choice, decision and free will are the ingredients of self along with a sense of “I-ness,” the “moment that the infant becomes capable of experiencing himself as the interpreter of his perceptions.”

Subjectivity is born.

Regarding the infant as interpreting subject, one theorist beautifully states, “he can for the first time project that state of mind into his sense of the other and consider the possibility that other people experience feelings and thoughts in much the same way.”—Ogden

“Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten--a thrill of returning thought; and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that w-a-t-e-r meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!.... On entering the door, I remembered the doll I had broken. I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces. I tried in vain to put them together. Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow."

Love and sorrow emerged in Helen's transformative awakening of the symbolic and naming spawned her ability to think ("Everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.").

To interpet means to understand, to reflect upon the meaning of feelings. And the knowledge of other people’s feelings is what widens our range of feelings: from grief to sadness to compassion to joy.

But, most important here, it is the empathy-building of understanding what it feels like to be the other person , the combination of interpretation/ understanding (theory!) and feelings, that leads to the formation of a self.

Helen keller, on discovering water, became a hermeneut!

HELEN KELLER CONTINUED

“And how the acquisition of language (beginning with naming) allowed human beings to move from the concrete realm of perceptions, sensations, objects and images (the dimension of body) to the dimension of concepts and symbolic thought” (mind). As the analyst Joseph Jones brilliantly points out in his critique of Freud’s paper, `Negation,’ Freud’s line of inquiry stopped short of clarifying the distinction between drive (Trieb—pulsion, impulse, the pressure to act) and affects [feelings]. We might think of drives as “the moving force behind the second biobehavioral reorganization (I poetically call “drive” desire!). Defined this way, the term drives becomes an important conceptual tool in describing “the epigenetic [evolutionaryl] push toward the divided-mind organization of affects and thought.” The polarization between positive (excitement, joy) and negative (disgust, anger, fear) affects seems to explain the process of categorization, that is, language emerging out of affects.

And so, meaning (including the very complex “theory”!) is not a feature of the world itself, but a property of the complex matrix of thought AND feeling we construct to describe reality.

Names, Self and Affliction

It would follow that the process of naming could also lead to suffering and affliction if we identify with the feelings that cause suffering. For example, if your supervisor at work tells you you are slow and stupid and don’t belong in the workgroup. That statement will probably cause feeling of rejection and pain. But why?

Because from that statement the supervisor implies you are inferior. Not only that, the statement also carries a personal dislike towards you and is couched as criticism. So then what happens to me as I process this? I can say, screw you, I am not slow and I am not stupid. Or you can say, Maybe he is right. Maybe I am stupid and slow. That is just the way I am and I have to live with it. Now you identify with the bad feeling by making a theory out of it.

I have had this question in my head for the last couple of weeks: How do parents create a healthy level of self-esteem for their children so that when they encounter negative thoughts they don’t identify with them?

Nico and the kid

"How do parents create a healthy level of self-esteem for their children so that when they encounter negative thoughts they don’t identify with them?"

I remember my mom helping me to see that when kids said nasty things that hurt my feelings they were doing so because they felt "insecure". This was the word she used. Sounds dated now doesn't it? In any case, it helped me to see that there was a kid like me behind the hurtful words that was probably feeling afraid, or unaccepted (and was trying to feel accepted by the other kids - like the manager in your example). Recognizing that they could feel fear and that when people said mean things they did so out of fear gave me a sense of their vulnerability (and likeness to me), and explained their meanness. A limited understanding, for sure, but enough to help me not take their statements personally and to develop empathy. I really did grasp this at an early age, I think, due to my mom's insight (though I didn't yet learn how not to accomodate the "bully"). Perhaps, I even saw how she too seemed to speak of people; she had a self-esteem that didn't need to put others down in order to feel good. (Only later did I realize that she was limited in this regard with her siblings, and in fact, with many of her more personal relationships: logically, in the places where she felt more insecure).

I think yours is a really great question, Nico, because it seems to ask: How do parents let their children know they are loved?["to esteem" (verb) is from latin "aestimare" = to "value", even "weigh" and "judge", "think" and "consider", and "esteem" (noun) is "favourable regard" which conjures all of these ideas of appreciating something of value]. Certainly, buying them tons of gadgets and toys and video games and not spending time with them doesn't convince the kinder that they are loved. Giving them "presence" rather than presents is so wonderful (like Dependently's dad). Of course, a parent's own self-esteem is transmitted to the child, too. One reason why I am hesitant to have kids.

I got mixed signals as a kid. I did feel loved and treasured (my mom would always say to me that I was "special" or "unique" and give me lots of praise for intelligence and maturity, and I trully FELT love from her) but I was left alone much of the time, or at the YMCA, or with a sitter. She chose her work over me, that's how it felt, and I got used to it. I began to agree with her, yes, her work is very important, in fact it's so important that it's more important than me, (it MUST be important if it's more important than me) and I was proud to have a mother whose work was so ... important.

Speaking of self-esteem, mine is ok, but in some areas it is really lagging. Paper-writing for instance. I would get a kind of attention when she would help me with my school assignments (particularly written ones) that was totally different than the attention I got playing the piano (which she loved) or performing as a smart alec/clown/goofball (charmed laughter) or conversing articulately (admiration, recognition, connection). She was stern, almost rigid, when it came to writing and I think this gave me my gradually increasing terror of writing papers. I have no other explantion for my disproportionate (though not uncommon) terror except for this reason and a complex of other issues related to competing with my mom for recognition in the idealized gaze of profession/career.

I love your question so much, nico, that I am going to come back to it and try to think about it more.
Ciao for now.

Theory to an end!

Caterina, thank for diving into my question. I am vexed with this question because it speaks to something very important to me and everyone else here on this blog and everywhere else in the world. That is, How do we raise our children to be confident, independent and with loads of self-esteem? Of course, I am really also asking how do we raise ourselves now to grow into confident, independent adults with loads of self-esteem who want to burst out of bed and embrace the world and all it has to offer?

I guess I want to learn the process so I can look back, backtrack to where I was taken erroneously, and how I may find my way back.

But different meanings to different people and I wonder if my question is too accusatory to my parents? Or to all parents. As Em says, “I wonder – tossing all theories of child development aside, how much of our suffering is just inevitable? There will be suffering even if one has the most connected enlightened parents. We will suffer because of who our parents are and who they are not. We suffer because we know that our lives are finite and that as much as we want to control things, we can not.”

My parents never wanted me to suffer. They did their best (cliché) because that is all they knew. Interestingly enough, they could have used some child raising theories in their time and in their country (Chile) 35 years ago. But I would bet the farm that back then that type of stuff was not available, taken seriously, or understood. Hermeneutics!

So, am I angry at them? Sure.

Do I get inspiration from them? Absolutely.

Just the other day when I thought I was being overwhelmed by the demands of life, I thought back to my dad and all the times we were just fucked for money, fucked for clarity and sanity, and I remembered how the old man would just suck it in and find a way out of it. Just enough to survive. Never enough to thrive, but just enough to survive. And occasionally he would pull off the miracle.

What does theory mean to me? Theory for me is trying to create a cognitive map of my father. One that is big enough so I can fit all the contradictory feelings I have about him into an integrated understanding of the man who has had the greatest influence in my life.

Because if I am able to pull it off, I may be able to tell him how much I love him before he dies.

out of the volcano

"Theory for me is trying to create a cognitive map of my father. One that is big enough so I can fit all the contradictory feelings I have about him into an integrated understanding of the man who has had the greatest influence in my life.
Because if I am able to pull it off, I may be able to tell him how much I love him before he dies."
This is so beautiful, Nico.

A thought comes to me. Something I think about. About how we as humans have been evolving out of other humans since before we were humans and were apes (or is it chimps?)... how we inherit the unconscious fears and tendencies of our parents and how they inherited those of theirs, and how this had been going on and on and back through all the generations within a context of societies and conditions that conditioned their thinking as well, whether there was access to education or to a mother or to a father, to medicine or whatever theories about living, relating and dying, whether alcoholism was the dominant force, whether they were separated from their homes by migrations and whatnot. Nonetheless, not to get too "out there" but more "in here", I find that the maps we inherit from our parents come through both what they inherited and how they were able to respond to it. This gives me so much compassion for what they and we are handed, since there is no blame for not knowing better, as you say, your father and nother "did their best... because that is what they knew."
The best then is not behind us but now in how we chose to respond to our lives. And we can only work with what we know.
There is then the old problem of will..., the heavier foot in the journey.

personhood

i really love these posts, Caterina, Nico and Emily-- it really speaks to the complexity and difficulty of this big issue in all of our lives. it's been a focus for me for a while. the first and most important thing for me to do was to honor my anger, as Nico does-- "am i angry at them? sure"-- as one can see in the song lyrics i posted, "father, have i got your attention now." eventually the blinders come off a bit and i get further along and begin recognizing my parents as human beings (they get their personhood for me). but for me it was of the utmost importance to make sure to get in touch with (and to continue to be in touch with) all the anger and shame and other leftovers from growin' up. so i think the difficulty is not figuring out whether it's okay to be angry with our parents, etc...

 

for me, and i imagine for most if not all others, growth comes in stages. so when Emily says that in some regards our suffering is inevitable, she first says, "tossing all theories of child development aside." this is important! because she is pointing to the stages... she's putting these theories aside temporarily and investigating what happens under some sort of ideal living situation. so then it becomes: even once we have sorted out lots of our stuffwith our parents, there is suffering. so then learning from your experience with your parents, and with other parents, and so on, and actively being a more healthy (person and thus) parent, is not an attempt to eliminate suffering from the life of the child, because, as Emily says: "there will be suffering."

 

this too, for me, removes a bunch of the weight i had been thrusting onto my parents' shoulders. that they did their best only means something to me when i can actually recognize what that means -- when i'm still very angry, i say, "sure-- but their best wasn't good enough!" but then as i move forward in my process and some of the fog clears, i can take those sorts of weights off of their shoulders, and suddenly i realize it is my own shoulders i've been burdening. my voice breaks through, and i find myself a subject with a clear sense of self-- and i am free to allow my parents their personhoods, too.

 

father, have i got your attention now

father, have i got your attention now
mother, could you listen somehow
sister, this is also for you

 

i wish, i wish you would just let me go
you didn't, you didn't help me to grow
and i've been left on my own

 

you say that you want what's best for me
something you'd have to listen for to see
when i was a child was it about me?

 

i know you don't want to hear this
i know underneath you fear this
but it is time i'm straight with you

 

you never, you never taught me how to think
you never, you never taught me what it is to feel
you could not teach what you don't know

 

why could you never teach me about sex?
why was embarrassment a reflex?
why do you continue to guilt me?
this is constantly limiting me

 

i'd love to learn to accept you
but first my voice will have to break through
and when i'm aware myself i'll give

 

----

 

(i'll post a recording hopefully later today-- i think i have one from a few months ago on one of my hard drives)

 

Thank you James and Caterina

Thank you James and Caterina for sharing. Your poem/song is great, James, and it speaks to all the different feelings we have about our parents and how we are sometimes buried in the guilt of just feeling them (looking forward to the recording).

And Caterina, how easy is it to walk on the heavy foot once we take off the heavy boot of afflictions?

"There is a small village graveyard in one of the remote corners of Russia. Like almost all our graveyards, it has a melancholy look; the ditches surrounding it have long been overgrown; grey wooden crosses have fallen askew and rotted under their once painted gables; the gravestones are all out of position, just as if someone had pushed them from below; two or three bare trees hardly provide some meager shade; the sheep wander unchecked among the tombs . . . But among them is one grave untouched by human beings and not trampled on by any animal; only the birds perch on it and sing at daybreak. An iron railing surrounds it and two young fir trees have been planted there, one at each end; Evgeny Bazarov is buried in this tomb. Often from the near-by village two frail old people come to visit it--a husband and wife. Supporting one another, they walk with heavy steps; they go up to the iron railing, fall on their knees and weep long and bitterly, and gaze intently at the silent stone under which their son lies buried; they exchange a few words, wipe away the dust from the stone or tidy up some branches of a fir tree, then start to pray again and cannot tear themselves away from that place where they seem to be nearer to their son, to their memories of him . . . Can it be that their prayers and their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love, sacred devoted love, is not all powerful? Oh, no! However passionate, sinful or rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep at us serenely with their innocent eyes; they tell us not only of eternal peace, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature; they tell us also of eternal reconciliation and of life without end." - Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev

Juno! Great Movie

And beautiful and well written. By a former stripper and telephone sex lady. I highly recommend it. It's got funny lines with lots of depth and humor, and evey character is humanized.

Though I wonder if the main character might be this idealized image of a very confident and individualistic adolescent that can only exist in the writer's mind. A projection of how she sees this teenager dealing valiantly with life issues? But then again, it's a movie, so they are all projections! Literally and figuratively!!!!

another vote for Juno

I agree Nico, such a beautiful tender and funny story. For a moment I too questioned the "realism" of Juno's confidence--but then I realized it totally didn't matter to me. I don't know why, but everything about that story touched me.

Juno and Lars

Saw today two AMAZING films, "Juno" and "Lars and the Real Girl." Both are exquisite. I love the language of the first. I was dying, it is so funny! I love the way that "Juno" shows people making the choices that are right for them and finding the courage to face their choices, rising to the responsibilit of their chosing. Most important for me, and this is true of "Lars" too, is the compassionate relationships that are shown, eg. the compassionate way that Juno and her parents and her friends treat one another and themselves. There are real moments of failure but it's not the end-of-the-world/relationship failure.

"Lars" for me was the real surprise. I couldn't believe I was watching this film that felt like the most believable film I have ever seen (ironically, because if you see it you'll see what I mean). Here we have the picture of a community that choses to embrace rather than cut-off and isolate someone who is struggling with loss in a very unique way that strikes one (the viewer and the members of the community in the film) as "odd" or even "crazy". At one point, and I wont give anything away, this struggle is called an "illness" but the doctor/therapist says it is a "communication." I love this. Seeing illness as a communication means that we can actually have a relationship with it and turn towards it, rather than deeming it "unapproacable" (pathologizing it) and so spliting it off from ourselves and from the community as though it were something to be ashamed of. The whole community turns towards it (this person's chosen form of "communication") without shame, to the best of each person's capacity, with creativity and even play, holding it and allowing the struggle (communication) to work itself out. I was crying through the whole second half of this film. I was crying for a good hour after the film.
Both of these films gave me so much hope. That such films can be made and are being made gives me hope for our culture and our communities!!!!
Another thing. These films both show or depict people loving one another, um... actually, more than that, I want to say, they show people who actually "love" each other, yeah, like partners. A true love or pure love. It's almost simple. But it's not simplified, this depiction. It shows this love as not-nostalgic or sentimentalized. This love shows itself in how the partners create space for each other, it is non-possessive, and it invests in the reality of the relationship, the real contexts of lives within community. Very sweet, and approachable.

NICO REFUSES TO EAT CROW AS IT FLIES (DUE EAST)

Nico, I have finally gotten to your post and question, which deserves a response: "How do parents create a healthy level of self-esteem for their children so that when they encounter negative thoughts they don’t identify with them?"
BTW, the quote from Turgenev’s `Fathers and Sons’ was powerful, I read the novel many years ago and remember being deeply moved.

Regarding your question about a healthy level of self-esteem, this is one task of parenting so difficult given both the societal influences and lack of self-esteem in many parents themselves. We live in a society, for example, that fosters neglect and lopsided values and practically rejects wholesale the development of feelings and interiority. As a consumer-driven nation, materialism is our fundamental mode of consciousness and practice. We are a nation of doers and collectors and we spend our most precious resource, time, spending and pursuing wealth and luxury. But, not all materialism reflects conspicuous consumption, for the materialism I refer to is primarily a state of mind that evacuates feelings. Even so-called politically left groups and progressives can and often are materialists. and it is reflected in their anti- or counter-materialistic pursuits as activists. These are civic-minded individuals, for example, who work towards sustainable communities by promoting more balanced economic behaviors and demonstrating respect for real resources, including the environment and human rights. And I’m one of those people. However, these behaviors or life-orientations alone do not promote healthy self-esteem and spirituality. In my opinion, there has to be a language for feelings guided by an ethics of empathy. There are many ways to cultivate this interior development of human functioning and perhaps we can discuss it at some point. But, it seems to me that it must begin with teaching children how to think (not accumulating knowledge), how to feel, and how to meditate. Along with nutritional care, focus on these three vital modes of relating would guarantee healthier human beings who are less unrelated, addicted, compulsive, impulsive and obsessive (I think that covers everyone :) But, it ain’t gonna happen, not in this country.

I am most definitely a product of this materialistic mindset and I had to almost destroy everything I have ever learned and almost myself in order to overcome the psychological and spiritual death spiral of materialism (and its psychological correlates). The problem wasn’t that I grew up relatively poor, but that almost the entire focus of my family and community was on economics (the haves and have nots) and it was most reflected in the prevailing language. The language I learned was so psychologically, intellectually and spiritually impoverished, it’s difficult to articulate. Fortunately, I was the youngest of 5 kids and I able to walk over the bodies in front of me. My siblings buffered me and took the hits so that the damage to me was minimal. And I still got my ass kicked, really bad. Every step forward was excruciating and I would often slide backwards. But, there was this incredible fight and perseverance that I do not believe could only be explained by the love of my mother and siblings (and my father’s faith in my potential), for they clearly did not have the language to nourish and stimulate me. I became a massive accommodator as a way to stay connected (and loyal) to a family system that unwittingly undermined my healthy development.

And so my self-esteem was jagged, uneven, but sufficient enough to keep up the fight, and it paid off. I did the deep psychological work and cultivated a rigorous spiritual practice, that’s all I could do. Even without a practical vision to match my ideal, I couldn’t imagine any other way to live this life, and I still can’t. The losses were enormous, even catastrophic, but it was faith and karma I believe that ultimately explains why we are where we are psychologically, moment to moment. Struggling is not the problem, nor low self-esteem itself, nor even parents with great limitations. What matters is the fight, the moment to moment, step by step, inch by inch fight to reach your heart and reach the light; and it is a must that you grab onto someone’s hand, someone who is just a little bit further down the path who can guide you and care about you. I would even say, invest in you because you are of the deepest value. You have to believe that. Just follow the laughter. And don't eat crow.

Happy Hols Everyone

This is not my time of year. Christmas and New Years and Thanksgiving only served to stress me out. I am always waiting to the last minute to go to where I have to go, buy the gifts I have to buy, do the things I have to do.

And I am moving this week too!

I am even listening to the Superunkwnon by Soundgarden this Christmas morning. Now that I think about it, it's pretty damn funny. But I have never been one for the Christmas culture. Oh yeah! Fell On Black Days is now playing.

Anyway, all these distractions have taken me out of my game and I haven't been following everyone's posts the last few days. But I do look forward to joining the group soon enough, when I am done moving!

Whatsoever I've feared has
Come to life
Whatsoever I've fought off
Became my life
Just when everyday
Seemed to greet
Me with a smile
Sunspots have faded
And now I'm doing time
Cause I fell on
Black days

Whomsoever I've cured
I've sickened now
Whomsoever I've cradled
I've put you down
I'm a search light soul
They say but I can't
See it in the night
I'm only faking
When I get it right
Cause I fell on
Black days
How would I know
That this could be my fate

So what you wanted to
See good has made you blind
And what you wanted to
Be yours has made it
Mine
So don't you lock up
Something that you
Wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking
No not tying

I sure don't
Mind a change
But I fell on black
Days
How would I know
That this could be
My fate

THE MOST DIFFICULT QUESTION OF ALL: WHAT ARE YOU FEELING?

Yes, this is true. Frankly, for me, this is the most true, the most important question of all. And yet, this is the most difficult question for many, if not most, people. And I scratch my head and ask why this is so. What are you thinking? Now, that seems to be an easy one. “Well, I was just thinking about this and that,” and a thousand and one images inundate a space once empty. Thoughts thoughts thoughts images images images. But, where are you feeling? Please, tell me, what are you feeling? I want to reach you, I want to know. I know you're in there somewhere.

…and that which really matters
can be, at first, unheard,
burrowed deep in the dense brush
of doubt, without a word.

Yet, that which really matters,
matters because it’s lost,
locked away in the voiceless
hush of fear,
without what's needed most.

Attention must be paid,

because that which really matters,
that which laid away
without a voice, tear, or touch,

at its core is life,

a life that locked away
without word, tear, or touch
is a life gone, betrayed.

The existentialists would call this an “ultimate concern.” And for good reason. “Self-awareness.” “Sense of self.” “Who am I?” “Self-recognition.” “Self-love.” “True compassion.” None of these can be achieved, known without understanding one’s feelings. An affective life, a life richly textured in feeling, and with a wide affective range. Notice the metaphors of painting and music. This is no accident. Painting and music are are feelings in their most aesthetically evolved form, for they inspire, breathe life into the body and draw out what is divine. Is this not the link to God, Pure Awareness? Is this not the way, from within, (through)out? Transcendence, literally, from embodiment?

In the film, `Amadeus,’ the composer Salieri speaks of Mozart: “I heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater, conferring on all who sat there, perfect absolution. God was singing through this little man to all the world, unstoppable, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar…. On the page it looked nothing. The beginning simple, almost comic. Just a pulse - bassoons and basset horns - like a rusty squeezebox. Then suddenly - high above it - an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, till a clarinet took over and sweetened it into a phrase of such delight! This was no composition by a performing monkey! This was a music I'd never heard. Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing, it had me trembling. It seemed to me that I was hearing a voice of God.”

I love music and music loves me.

When I listen to Francois Couperin’s Leçon de Ténèbres 3, For 2 Treble Voices & Continuo, there is something in the sopranic vibrato that goes so deep into the body as to pull out what the mind refuses or is unable to name. Of course, my association is totally French (Couperin/French Baroque) and feminine (French/Soprano). These `Lessons in the shadow of darkness' (literally at 3 AM) are intimate, introverted vocals, melismatic, and with that deep feminine vibrato whispering in a meditative soliloquy as if internalizing the text of silence, yet through song. I literally leave myself. Exstasis.

But, this flowing outward stream of feeling, when drawn to a poem, a musical composition, a painting or sculpture, can it be achieved in relationship? Why does it get clogged?

but all I ask is for my intimate relationships to be real and true, where real means embracing each other's reality, and true, meaning being true to each other's words. But, there's that tricky part again-- words. People don't seem to know how to use words or, at best, the words are somehow disconnected from their inner states, like some kind of road block on a highway, or like heaven never really making its way down to earth; or words don't come out, like a watering hose that has a ball in it; and I don't really understand it, though I really understand it; and it kills me that I spend my entire existence trying to understand that in the beginning was the Word and the Word is with God and the Word is God; but God, though being All and Everything, somehow forgot to be All and Everything because He left out the meaning when He gave out the words. And I'm frightened because I realize that you, the other, any person I try to create intimacy with, cannot see more in me than you could see in yourself and my fear is that you cannot see yourself, which is nothing more than the illusions that compose mind, and the Love, Beauty, Good and Emptiness left when the illusions that compose mind are blown away, like snow off a walk when the wind gusts clear it. And mind is nothing more than its images regurgitated and recycled through memory; and if that memory is one of pain, then fear will form your vision because only the love of deep awareness can dissolve that fear and only feelings can reveal the mind's illusions, and perhaps the biggest illusion, that I can be known.

And now some theory :) The brilliant Joseph Jones tells us (and I am posting here an extended quote which I think everyone should print out and read again and again—- it’s quite extraordinary in its clarity, comprehensiveness and implications!):

“Although the central neurophysiological control mechanisms that are common to all sentient species form the biologic substrate for the self, the sense of self begins with attempts to translate into conceptual form this experience of oneself as a person. Inasmuch as all of the infant’s presymbolic experience is mediated by affects, it follows that the sense of self crystallizes around recurrent affect states. What complicates the situation is that, prior to the acquisition of the ability to use symbols, he infant is subject to behavioral shaping processes that can either facilitate or interfere with his ability to be in contact with his affective life. As Stolorow and Stolorow point out, this shaping constitutes an important selfobject function on the part of the parents—one that begins even before the “seal” has emerged. Among the things that the parents can do before the infant begins to use symbols is to help the child separate and differentiate his affective responses; facilitate the experience of positive affect states such as interest and joy; help the infant master, and thus endure, the potentially disorganizing impact of negative affects such as fear and rage; and protect the child from affective overload, which may be the prelude to a disorganized traumatic state. After the child acquires the ability to use language, the parents can not only help the toddler identify the discrete affect states and put them into words, but also convey to the child that affects, even the painful ones, are not to be avoided, as they are an extremely necessary part of life. A key part of helping the child acquire a sense of self is for the parents to cherish the child’s independent mind, even if they strongly disagree with the child. If the parents are good enough at this task, then the various parts coalesce into a cohesive sense of self.

It is how one uses the capacity for thought in relationship to affects to create meaning that results in the sense of self. The emergence of a sense of self requires the ability to synthesize the various components of the mind—experience, affects, thoughts, hopes and aspirations—into a cohesive whole.”

Now, following is what I’ve been getting to all along, the answer to the question as to why feelings are so inaccessible:

“More than any other single factor, it is the capacity to use symbols to blockade affective experience that creates a lost sense of I-ness.

Conversely, it is affective-symbolic integration that creates what most people mean by self.”

ahhhhhh....

Feelings

So, what is everyone feeling right now? What brings you joy today? What causes you to worry? What do you want to run from?

I feel that I miss you

my strange bloghead friends and after tomorrow, I will be back to play!

feelings (response)

Today is good (so far). I am worrying because I have not made any photographs for ten days and it is nagging at me. I need a fix.

My feelings

Thanks for asking a question I have been waiting to be asked, Emily. I'd like to share something deep and dark that has been troubling me for months.

I have not completed a song since I left my somewhat tumultuous life in America and came to an equally rocky but thrilling China about 8 months ago. I've worked as a professional musician this whole time, mostly as a hired gun - sitting in on gigs when a band needs a guitarist for an event, much of the time not rehearsing and just following charts or fingers. It's been wonderful, I've learned there are many types of musicians in the 'biz' and I've spent my time trying to figure out what it is I want to do with music.

Om, I have my own personal "ultimate concern" that stretches from my very core outwards. I live with a lingering feeling of something I can't quite put my finger on, a muck, a foggy cloud, a sort of ambiguity in direction which keeps me from making up my mind and getting things done. I recently made the decision to stay in Beijing another 9 months before going back to school in the states, and it's the first long term 'plan' I've had in a couple of years. Now I can settle in and really get to work, but on what? When did writing a song become so hard? As I study Japanese and the chromatic harmonica, watch movies and read books, and not to mention the never-ending joys of youtube, my guitar leans against the wall menacingly, wantingly, wondering why I'm not playing it. "So you're going to stop now, after we've come so far? You're going to end the upward trajectory?" It calls me but I have no answers for it.

I think I feel sad. Sad that I can't figure out how to own my music, or perhaps I am just talking about learning how to own my feelings. I have been playing other people's music for months now and I always felt like I could be doing something more important, but without being able to offer myself a remedy to my self-inflicted illness.

Shared illness

OuBenNing
I know the emotional place you are describing. I visit there myself. Too often I arrive in the land of dense fog before realizing that I had stepped onto the train that was bringing me here. When the doors open (I am not sure I even knew I was traveling) there is endless Grey, no life, no possibilities. Just when it might be useful to remember the past, I have amnesia. I forgot that before my arrival here, I was creative, alive and was full of faith.

Sometimes, I am locked in this darkness for too long. I forget that I have at my disposal a horse, and a sword (which I never use but is there in case I need it). Sometimes, my horse is a poem or book or a phone call to a friend.

Sometimes, I admit I love my doubt. Sometimes, I just want an excuse to just be and not think about the meaning of my life and everything I do. I don’t know how to give myself permission to do this without punishing myself. Aren’t I supposed to be everything that I am not?

I wish I had something useful or comforting to say. It makes a difference in my life that you have shared this. Self doubt is an affliction many of us share. Talking about it helps to ease the sense of isolation that it brings.

Thanks Emily :)

Emily thank you, nothing you could have said would have been more useful than sharing your empathic experience! Thanks for reminding me of my own horse and my sword - It's a beautiful and noble metaphor to think of yourself as a warrior against your own self doubt. It's wonderful to have a friend like you; I had self doubt about publishing my feelings of self doubt because I doubted the benefit my actions would have had! With your response I learned that it's a simple act of love to share your sorrows with other beings who can then joyously proclaim "Yes! Me too!" What a nice sense of relief. :)

OUBENNING, PUT YOUR FINGER ON THIS, WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

OubenNing, I just love what you and Emily are posting, it brings me closer to the light blue flame under my heart. I feel much love for you both as I read your posts and am so grateful that you are both seeking in the midst of your confusion. How can we find ourselves if not in touch with our loss. And both of your posts, and even Nico’s, speak exactly to what I shared in `THE MOST DIFFICULT QUESTION OF ALL: WHAT ARE YOU FEELING?’

“It is how one uses the capacity for thought in relationship to affects to create meaning that results in the sense of self. The emergence of a sense of self requires the ability to synthesize the various components of the mind—experience, affects, thoughts, hopes and aspirations—into a cohesive whole.””

What Emily calls “the land of dense fog” and you call “a muck, a foggy cloud, a sort of ambiguity in direction which keeps me from making up my mind and getting things done…” do not feel like sadness to me but rather a depressive reaction, where the fog is the mind’s numbness unable to open to the light of clarity (integration). I actually see sadness and depression existing on opposite sides of the affective spectrum. Sadness is about letting go and depression about holding on. I love sadness because it surrenders to loss and empties out the dense murky fog that protects a fantasied ideal self-image (created out of a split-off early parent-child relationship—I am the depressed rupture and the ideal is in a chrysalis locked away somewhere in my mind). It’s as if the fog is saying, “Fuck off, I will protect my loyalty to this ideal with my life!” And it often is a self-sacrifice. Loyalty is the ultimate self-sacrifice. It will hold on till death if you let it. But, why should we let it? We really do want to be happy. Why wait a few more lifetimes what you can achieve now, the freedom of letting go?

I know sadness is the most beautiful penultimate dimension of feeling because it holds in its very center the deepest dimension of joy. And where there’s joy, there’s freedom, compassion and love.

“I have not completed a song…”. Did you ever wonder if you’re feeling guilty? Holding yourself and your song up for ransom? Your song is your voice, keep it down in the muteness of your rage. This is the web of your loyalty.

As I shared in another post, I used to be so enraged with my father for what I perceived as his self-righteous recklessness and irresponsible self-loathing. He killed himself and took the family down with him. He took me down with him and left me voiceless at 12. Not until I understood that his alcoholism was an illness perpetrated by war did I begin to forgive him, and myself. I saw us both as lost and I would need to honor him, now a dead soldier, through forgiveness. I imagined myself his muse and he kneeling down beside me and releasing through a kind of prayer all the pain and suffering of generations. I needed to transform my rage into grief and finally sadness, and in the following poem written many years ago I almost made it. Writing the poem itself was the actual healing transformative power of language. To let go is to give up our name, that is, the identities we hold onto, as Nico says, that perpetuate negative afflictions and self-hatred.

“My guitar leans against the wall menacingly, wantingly, wondering why I'm not playing it.” Your guitar is your lover, OubenNing, telling you to stop being so fucking withholding and write that fucking song. She wants so badly to be wooed, she’s just dripping with love. Open your heart and give up your name!

LOST VOICES

One night when least expected he crept by my bed
knelt as if in prayer
a swan, head bent
lamenting the presage of its song
his voice droplets in a low fog.

I listened in the safety of darkness.

Something in the sound told me he was lost
in the wilderness
pathless, thick with brush
no nearby stream
no space between the tree heads.

Yet he could not wrest panic from his throat.
He was lost
to me and his pain
lost in a history too vast and old:
a linking of ages and of nothing
change before him and unchanging
a father who never wept
nor his father.

In moon's blur, he said, I failed
and left behind his father.
He said, I'm sorry, and gave up his name.

Watching with eyes closed
I saw rain, snow
dawn billowing out of darkness
wind bellying the grassy flow of fields
I saw the house, the front yard
fingers running through the earth
fires, storms
the razing of trees
the history in father's head
that left him hostage
with little space to even crawl.

A son learns repertories of rules
rites, watches with folding image
the action, the word
feels beneath the pile of programs
for that one sound, that one link
that will free him from yesterday.

I do not know my father, yet he still
sits here by my bed as I lie
in some former self clawing my way
like a child out of sleep.

Oh, Emily, thank you for asking, I'm in love tonight and now going to feed a very hungry belly while listening to OuBenning's sexy new song.

OM - in love tonight

Do share more...

IN LOVE TONIGHT

with Neil Young, Live At Massey Hall, 1971 :)
WOW!

A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.
-------
She could drag me over the rainbow
send me away
Down by the river

do ask what is it

 

sometimes i fancy myself the anti-prufrock, because when i come upon an overwhelming question i make sure to ask it. even if i find i can't answer it, or if i find myself cowering in the corner after the saying. so there's two questions now: What are you feeling? and Why wait?

 

of course, the way you phrase the latter question is very engaging, and i believe it is the keener way of asking it, but i'm not so sure that is how it is experienced terribly often. after all, when you say, "Why wait a few more lifetimes what you can achieve now, the freedom of letting go?" i imagine a lot of people would say, "How do I do that? Sounds nice..." (amazing that one answer is to 'how do i do that?' is: "what are you feeling?")

 

Why wait to get healthy? Why wait to create better relationships with those you love? Why wait to heal old wounds and move more completely into the present moment, instead of dwelling, in depression and shame, in the past?

but-- again, there is another side to these questions. they sound like rhetorical questions: why wait? don't! but every day many of us keep waiting and waiting... so i want to ask again: why? indeed: why are we waiting?

 

(by the way-- i don't think you ignore this, Om, just using your question as a tool to say it more outright)

 

i've seen myself waiting when i turned around and looked at myself from the not-too-distant past. i take what i see there and look at myself in the present and ask, "am i still waiting?" and i am, only less so, and less indefinitely. but still waiting-- and never consciously deciding to do so. and i look around and speak with people and say, "why are you waiting?" and we can't make sense of it. "why are you going around and around in a circle, especially if it hurts to do so?" we can't figure out why we would do this to ourselves. "why are you creating the same destructive relationships over and over? why are you being cruel to those you love? why are you holding back what you know you most need to express?" and it just hurts worse to ask, because it makes us feel helpless...

 

but then, perhaps, we find a space where we can just say it, and we step into the space because somehow it is a little safer there, and someone reaches in and touches our shoulder and says, "i am here, too." and just like that recognition enters into our lives, and almost as suddenly we find we have taken a step forward, a step outside of the circle... we may still be waiting, but less so, and less indefinitely. we are a little braver, a little more confident, a little more trusting. and the struggles will only get harder and harder from now on, but with each struggle we get stronger, and soon enough we look ahead and finally see the towering mountain we have decided to climb (no longer waiting at the bottom) and, seeing its immensity, we revel in the difficulty it will be to reach just the first plateau... and the growth it will require and inspire... and how much healthier we will be having just asked the overwhelming question, and found a space in which to face it.

 

and then we turn again and ask, "what are you feeling?" and maybe it's a little bit clearer this time.

 

 

feels or not

My brain is on high gear. All kinds of thoughts (many of them unnecessary) racing around and around on roller blades inside my head. Kind of giddy - yeah, yeah, vacation time is here; I've wrapped some gifts that I really want to give and looking forward to having my family in one place. But those Rollerbladers just careen through trying to make me feel guilty

It's 4 in the afternoon and I jumped back into bed fully clothed and burrowed under the guilt. The computer is on my lap. A cat in curled up in a ball by my feet. Out the window the world is Grey, monotone, as the light falls away. A holly tree in the distance is fully dressed with red berries. One dim light is on in my room behind me. I could imagine someone coming up the stairs with a brightly colored tray with a cup of hot tea (ginger lemon sounds good) and a plain vanilla biscuit.

All the things I could or should be doing...... they are waiting.
The skaters are rounding the corner. I am just going to step out of the way.

What about you OM?

Are you ever in a fog?

THE FROGGY FOG

Thank you for asking, Emily. Most of my early life was a fog of dissociation and depression being constantly fed by it seemed continuous loss. Though I have relatively short periods of fogginess (as well as the rest of those startle- response emotions), it is not the depressed kind that I once knew so well. What keeps it clear for me is a very rigorous spiritual practice (which includes psychological process)and focusing on moments rather than tenses.

And so, what I find is that the negative emotions that arise don't stick like they used to; I don't let them, and so they quickly dissolve, not by force, but by the dissolution activity of intentional focus and quickly transforming negative thought products into gratitude. It sounds contrived and deliberate in writing but it's kind of like living in a flow of mindfulness, as much as I possibly can. I also designed a contemplative lifestyle that supports my practice, which reduces much of the external noise.

I believe part of the key for me is that I no longer judge anything that arises (it's the judgment that makes negative feelings stick). I remind myself with tremendous compassion that I didn't create my psychology nor the trauma of my childhood.

I also use my personal relationships as mirrors and we all seem to speak mirror, that is, have the language of mirror to challenge each other.

Paradoxically, I have suffered so badly in early life that happiness now feels easy. I focus on the very small and simple things and try to stay out of my way. I love washing dishes.

Oh, I almost forgot, I try not to take myself too seriously. Seriously.

Om, what you saying

I know it is truth. I know this sounds like a very strange response, but I saw you.... I just opened my eyes and could see you in your words.

As for washing dishes, I don't share the same passion for it. I prefer cleaning in corners. Sweeping rugs is very satisfying.....

Oh, it is happening again... falling in love tonight, yes, Om, I know what you mean. The smallest things; the gems of pleasure. A sense of connection. A smile. Rows and rows of clean dishes in a room with fresh air blowing through the screens.

AHHHH, I'M WITH YOU, EMILY

Thank you for your eyes and words and connection. You are a lover!

my sink is full (opportunity)

"I remind myself with tremendous compassion that I didn't create my psychology nor the trauma of my childhood."

 

swish, swash, splash. reading this felt like being told it is okay for me to do the same; and i cried. i'm quite sleepy today, but i am relaxing for the first time in a while, and it all feels like such a big relief. i can see why you love washing dishes. it's more of the same kind of activity-- swish, swash, splash. taking care.

 

4 + 20 SINKS

4+20 years ago
I come into this life
The song of a woman
And a man who lived in strife
He was tired of being poor
And he wasn't into selling door to door
And he worked like the devil to be more

A different kind of poverty now upsets my soul
Night after sleepless night
I walk the floor and I want to know
Why am I so alone?
Where is my woman can I bring her home?
Have I driven her away?
Is she gone?

Morning comes to sunrise
And I'm driven to my bed
I see that it is empty
And there's devils in my head
I embrace the many colored beast
I grow weary of the torment
Can there be no peace?
And I find myself just wishing that my life would simply cease.
-- Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Empathy and "letting go"

... I have believed this about sadness for a while but never really heard it expressed so clearly. I was sad today when I read a number of news articles in the NY Times, first about an 80-year old man who committed a suicide bombing in Algiers against a UN office, secondly a story about New Orleans displacement which interviewed many different people who have resigned themselves not to living in New Orleans anymore.. and the 3,195 American soldiers who have died in Iraq. There are more stories, one about gay and lesbian Iraqis who say that they have been at risk of being killed since the beginning of the Iraq war (due to increased persecution from religious extremists) and they said that in 2003 when the Americans came they were ecstatic, thinking that democracy would bring more tolerance for Iraqis (gays and lesbians were accepted for the most part under Saddam Hussein, according to the article), but this gay man says that an American solider came in his house and harassed him for his feminine appearance. I sat in the coffee shop thinking how fucking awful it was for Americans to do this shit. Although I have not participated in the anti-war movement since a couple years ago (I felt that it was more important at the moment to stop an impending civil war), I think it is becoming more clear to me that I should still support the removal of the U.S. from Iraq (though what that means for Iraqi civilians, I still don't really know.) The reason why I am talking about world events like Iraq in this way is that one of the reasons why I find political action to be so gray and not black and white, is that I sometimes do not follow what I am feeling and understand things from what they make me feel. Feelings are cognitive processes as well as thoughts are. If I don't integrate what I am feeling into what am thinking, my thoughts all end up in shades of gray which I am unable to process.

Another story that made me sad, was on the 13th when I left, NY times had a story about the Bronx courthouse where usually one to three elevators were out of service, so people were routinely waiting in line for two hours or so... in the freezing rain. So, people routinely have their Bronx Family Court hearings pushed back for months because they cannot get to the courtroom on time, due to a broken elevator! This is a textbook case of institutional racism.

Similarly, when I look at a heartbreaking story like that of New Orleans, where it is obvious where the government's priorities lie, unless I allow myself to see my feelings, and imagine myself in the position of people who lost their homes and their communities, I can only think of the costs and benefits of rebuilding New Orleans in a rational, functional process--there is nothing about what New Orleans as a city actually MEANS to the people who lived there...

The devastation of Iraq is the same thing. I have always wanted to ask the question to the anti-war movement, "We didn't stop the war, and now our government totally destroyed the country, so now the Shi'ites and Sunnis are killing each other. What is our responsibility?" But, I am beginning to realize that our country will never allow the Iraqis to be their own nation, and we will never allow Iraq to control its own resources, and it is far from the government's mind to repair the damage we've done. If I was an Iraqi then I probably would want to blow up the United States military. If there are a lot of people moving towards extremism, it would make sense to find out what is influencing them to move to extremism and stop it or remove the influence (which is the U.S. military). This requires acceptance and understanding of the feelings and realities behind their context. This is so basic I don't know why I didn't understand this before. Maybe this is simplifying a very complex issue -- there are ethnic conflicts between the different sects of Islam. What should the the international "community" (states) do about it? Whatever we do, it won't help to be another party in the conflict, when to be "moderate" in Iraq is seen as collaborating with the U.S. imperialists.

Feelings are so disparaged in reasoning that we consider a process of decision making "reasonable" or "logical" when they are not considered, or when the reasoning is "objective."

I can see what you mean about depression "...where the fog is the mind's numbness unable to open to the light of clarity (integration)." Numbness is going through the world without being aware of your existence in the present. Everyone is numb to an extent, but too long being numb and the self starts to feel fragmented and therefore incomplete. Incompleteness that feels like pain or emptiness that one longs to replace with merging or oblivion. That's why so many lonely people turn to alcohol or try to seek out affection from others, in order to replace the pain of being separated.

Like you said, depression is about holding on. If you lose someone or he/she abandons you, then you have lost them. You can just be sad about this, and continue being sad, accepting your sadness, at the same time you can be present in the depth of the sadness, and accept the uncertainty of the future. I know my future is going to remain connected to the past, but with enough experiencing the present, I can "let go" of it, and it may not occupy such a defining significance in my life.

... I just finished this book called "Trauma and Recovery -- the aftermath of violence"... by Judith Herman. She talks about rape, combat trauma and child abuse... so, though the subject matter is more intense than ordinary "depression"-- she talks about integration of memories of the past just like Om does. The people who go to group therapy sessions experience these stages. Usually, they experience something called "dissociation" -- where the mind separates the traumatic event from their consciousness, but it resurfaces in a different manifestation unknown to them. After through an initial period where they begin to trust others, they start uncovering some of their buried memories. There's a period in which they may feel their post-traumatic stress more acutely. They gradually integrate what they are presently experiencing and what they had experienced during the trauma. Eventually, it is evident that they are reliving past trauma in the present through various unconscious roles... And the end (hopefully) is that they can "integrate" the knowledge of what occurred in the past with their present understanding, which is still experienced with the trust and mutual support of the group. Therefore, they begin to see themselves not as victims but survivors. They stop blaming themselves and begin to be empowered to make meaning of the event that is beyond themselves...

One part of the quote was interesting and poignant to me: "A key part of helping the child acquire a sense of self is for the parents to cherish the child's independent mind, even if they strongly disagree with the child. If the parents are good enough at this task, then the various parts coalesce into a cohesive sense of self." I never experienced being encouraged for being independent. I blamed my parents for many years for their neglectful / accusatory / emotionally retarding / condescending style of parenting. In response, I became extremely independent, yet also yearning for approval and ego-boosting from my parents. I became emotionally independent because I felt that my emotions were so unacceptable to my parents that I could not express them anymore. I came into my own sense of self during my adolescence despite the feeling of losing my parents. I moved away when I was 18, but in reality I seemed to move away from them much earlier, when I stopped feeling like they were people I could relate to, or count on for more than my material needs.

[as an adolescent] I was a very confused person... Whether my feelings are justified or not is irrelevant. What I felt was real, but my parents were only doing what they could.

[I am currently on vacation and staying at my parents' house...]
My mom came home from work the other day from her job as a school nurse. She takes care of a kid who has a degenerative muscle disease, who can only move his left arm slightly and cannot speak... he is in a wheelchair and needs assistance for almost everything. he is also expected to die soon. So, when she came home she pulled out some stuff for dinner and told us to fix our own dinner. I started doing that, and she snapped at me for some reason (I started unwrapping something that she wanted to save). I just shrugged, but my brother just came up to her and defused the situation by hugging her...

It's obvious she was unhappy. I wasn't recognizing her unhappiness. But more importantly, because she never seemed to be able to hug me when I was unhappy in the past, I didn't understand that she needed a hug now. The problem is not just my problem. It's both our problems. We both need to be aware of when we are in need of a hug, and secondly, we need to be able to take the risk to do it, even though, in my experience, I have been rejected for my efforts at showing my love for my parents. It's not enough that I am aware that she's unhappy.... but also that I have the capacity to hug, and that I can break out of the past patterns that we have imprisoned ourselves in...

BEING PRESENT IN THE DEPTH OF SADNESS

Homo Sacer, the sacred human you are, thank you for this joyful early morning post as I awake and am grateful to be alive so that I can cultivate compassion for all sentient beings, without exception. Om mani padme hum. Your post is a cryjoy, just deliciously human. Wow!

We tend to think of dissociation as a dysfunction of feelings, and in a way it is. In dissociation we can’t assign emotional significance to an event. Homo Sacer’s (HC) definition, “where the mind separates the traumatic event from their consciousness, but it resurfaces in a different manifestation unknown to them…”. also speaks to the feeling/thought separation. But, dissociation is actually a dysfunction of thought. More specifically, thinking.

As I read HC’s reporting of world events, for example, I find myself welling up with emotion and earlier, childhood, experiences of violence are stirred up. There’s a kind of flooding of emotion—fear, helplessness, rage, shame—like parental figures attacking my mind and mind wanting to shut it off, shut down the emotions in order to not be affected. I want to do something, stop the goddam war, kill all the people causing all this pain and suffering, blow it all to smithereens, blow the fucking world to smithereens—the world in my head-- just to make the flooding of pain in my mind stop and go away, but I can’t and it won’t, not by my fantasies. I identify with all those victims ravaged by war, by violence, by injustice, but prejudice and racism and ignorance and hatred and just pure, brutal fucking insanity. I am all victims wrapped up into one broken, helpless child victim in my head.

and all the shame
that wants to suck the life out of me;
but it won't, because I'm gonna sit here
until I die or until I awaken from these
delusions and illusions obstructing
my view; I'm gonna yogi my way
into smithereens and blow mind
open like a gaping hole a suicide
bomber just blew out

And so I stop reading HC’s post and the newspapers and anywhere else that will trigger the memory of fear in my mind that once was the actual mostly psychic but also physical violent experiences of my life. Fear is the memory of pain. Fuck. I want to short-circuit the pain, shut off the lights and go into a cave.

She says, You look like yourself with the light turned off.
I’m sitting across the diner table from a friend who
Is buttering my cold toast; what she sees
Is the me dying out of light, the low
Mass of being that no longer shines;

But, notice how efficiently my mind is working (ha!) as I share with you what I am consciously doing. My mind is not dissociated, my thinking is not dysfunctional, at least no more. I could now use the symbolic logic of language to help regulate my emotions as they arise through my body and mind. I can breathe and sit and work with the feelings and memories through a “behavioral shaping process” that will help me stay in contact with my affective life, because I now know and understand and really know that my “sense of self crystallizes around recurrent affect states.” I am now (not like, but) THE parent who helps me, as Joseph Jones puts it, “differentiate my affective responses” and master and thus endure “the potentially disorganizing impact of negative affects such as fear and rage; and protect [myself] from affective overload, which may be the prelude to a disorganized [retraumatized] state.”

And now that I have integrated language and feeling, I can use language to “identify the discrete affect states and put them into words” so that I no longer have to avoid the painful ones, “as they are an extremely necessary part of life.” The various discrete parts of my affect states, the arising, abiding and ceasing of thought/feelings flow relatively smoothly these days as I have acquired (not bought, but partially mastered as a work in progress :) a sense of self, a beautiful, well-integrated ridiculously silly and loving and compassionate and independently-minded cohesive sense of not too serious serious self.

What tells me this is the relative and consistent happiness which I call my life, which now lets me go back to HC’s post and think about how I, this small but significant human being can, in my own unique way, participate in this supreme fiction of my life of relationship in mostly small but significant, both concrete and imaginal ways, as first and foremost, a spiritual practitioner and meditator, a helper, a lover, a friend, a member of a family (however that is personally defined), a citizen (however that is uniquely defined, too), both local and world, and human being being human, moment to moment, through mistakes and disappointments, but without judgment-- please-- healing and wholing, mindfully breathing and slow-moving, even when running and physically active, or just silently sitting and lightly stirring the morning breath of dawn, for I love you, Om.

Om mani padme hum

Feelings galore

Homo Sacer, Thank you for sharing with us. It is amazing that a group of strangers can be such a close likeness of each other. It is a little bit scary, I could have written your post.

I too left home at a young age and although I thought I set myself free when I left and had the power to define a new reality and feelings; I’ve realized that all I have been doing for the last 18 years is running in fear of the memory of the pain that I experienced.

Emily, Thanks for asking everyone how they are feeling.

I am feeling conflicted. Most days I am feeling strong and thoughtful; hopeful and full of life. And yet, I woke up this morning and wanted to just climb back into my warm bed. I want to sleep off the rest of the year. I just need a couple weeks, a break from life and myself...I'll be strong enough to work on it again when I emerge. I'd just like to "shut off the lights and go into a cave." as Om says.

But the potential inside (I think I need to give this desire/drive a name and empower her)knows better and although today I won't go to work and trudge through meetings, deadlines and emails I will give myself permission to feel this sadness and understand its roots, its meaning and purpose. Om, Thanks for sharing the difference between depression and sadness in your post to Oubenning. "I actually see sadness and depression existing on opposite sides of the affective spectrum. Sadness is about letting go and depression about holding on. I love sadness because it surrenders to loss and empties out the dense murky fog that protects a fantasied ideal self-image."

Today I will try to learn to love sadness so that it might bring me closer to the person I am. Because I owe it to myself to do so. I have no choice the alternative, living in fear is not really the life I want.

So much I want to say

I am nearly speechless in the presence of everyone's sharing. I feel strangely joyful, knowing that I am not the only person who has days of struggles, who wants to crawl back into bed, who forgets to let go of the very things I never wanted to keep anyway. Off! with those irritating voices in my head that judge me for just about anything I do or don't do.

Mostly, I want to write a love letter. All of you are my lovers. Each time that our words meet and the island of isolation melts a fraction more, I feel your face against the palm of my head. Touching you fills my heart. The more you show yourself the more I can't help but fall in love. The truth of you is your beauty.

So.... if you find yourself wandering the streets on a lonely night, bundle up in your coat, wrap a scarf around your neck and look for the plain brick house with gate that never latches. Inside the front door there is a stranger who loves you. Her arms are open, even now, as we speak.

Emily's Love

Thanks Emily your words are so eloquent, I can feel the love and those arms, as I read.

I thuoght I was the only one

I thuoght I was the only one who didn't want to get out of bed this week. This past month. The last 27 years of my life. Even reading all these posts is painful.

Thank you all for sharing.

I wish I could say more but I can't.

You are not alone

I think there are an awful lot of people that share our want to stay in bed today, this month, always. Maybe we can start a national stay in bed and allow yourself to grieve holiday. What do you think?

These posts are painful for me as well. I can not read many of these posts with out crying, but I've learned this month that isn't such a bad thing.

Everything you have written has been so thoughtful and beautiful please do share more when you are ready.

And all the pain I feel

And all the pain I feel while reading all these posts makes me ravenously angry. Something invisible that cannot be quenched.

And I can hear a certain someone say that my anger is a resistance to hold on to the anger because somehow I identify with the pain and the anger born out of it and I wear it as an emblem on my armor.

And breaking in is not the problem but breaking out is the bitch!

feelings and thoughts

I noticed the other day how often I let my mind wander without realizing how the time is passing. One moment I am absent mindedly walking down the street and another I am browsing in a bookstore, and another I am eating food... and none of those moments are significant to me. Yet I feel "stressed.." It is showing up in the way I my shoulders are aching and I can't sleep.

since my "vacation" from this stress isn't really turning out to be such a vacation, I am thinking of using this time to make something of it. First, I am going to see if I can keep a feelings and thoughts diary... whenever I have a thought connected to a feeling, or a feeling connected to a thought, I will write it down.

I'll see if anything comes of it and maybe I'll come back to tell about the results.

UNDERSTANDING IS THE REMEDY OF ALL SUFFERING

“Reality is that which cannot be subrated by any other experience. Appearance is that which can be subrated by other experience. Unreality is that which neither can nor cannot be subrated by other experience.”

Subration. "Refers to the disvaluing a previously appraised object or content of consciousness because it is contradicted by a new experience. A judgment about something is contradicted by a new experience when it is impossible (as a psychological state of one’s being—as opposed to a logical state of one’s mind) to affirm both the previous judgment and what is learned or acquired in the new experience. Through subration, the subject undergoes a radical shift—practical, intellectual, spiritual—in one’s judgment about something."

I have a (I won’t say, “bad”) habit of needing to carry a thought process to its very logical end, which is always and ultimately the end of me. That is, the end of a self identified as me, my clinging lady going underneath all the furniture and in the crannies of my mind. I am a subrater and belong to SA (Subraters Anonymous). Hopefully, this will be the end of my subration blues.

Enough said about my flaws. In light of our very smoothflowingfluid discussions over the past few weeks, I would like to throw (not hurl!) a word out there tonight: Alexithymia.

Alexithymia is psych term, described on Wikepedia “as a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions, and defined by

(i) difficulty identifying feelings and distinguishing between feelings and the bodily sensations of emotional arousal

(ii) difficulty describing feelings to other people

(iii) constricted imaginal processes, as evidenced by a paucity of fantasies

(iv) a stimulus-bound, externally oriented cognitive style.

The distinguishing factor for the alexithymic is her “inability to elaborate beyond a few limited adjectives such as "happy" or "unhappy" when describing these feelings.” One theory explains that the alexithymic, or “disaffected individual had at some point "experienced overwhelming emotion that threatened to attack their sense of integrity and identity," to which they applied psychological defenses to pulverize and eject all emotional representations from consciousness.”

This is right in line with our conversation about trauma, dissociation and thought dysfunction (and even acting out transferadventurers). For me, these thoughts were inspired from our beginning debate on theoretical statements and personal statements, if you remember. Emily’s concern was that the expressed writing of theoretical statements “is opaque,” that “how some of the analysis feels like a wall and not an opening. Some of your posts that have meant the most to me have been your personal stories and reflections.” She was concerned that the “blog has become academic discourse. Words like dialogical, and intersubjective are technical terms, language that keeps people away. These are not words that I would whisper to my lover.” And Arnold, “I am not opposed to abstract ideas, but I take seriously the stated intent of this blog to sponsor intimate conversation and communication among individuals who may only know one another through their written words.”

We weren’t sure exactly how to approach this, but what was clear was James’ compassion and generosity, as he shared with Emily,

“so if your needs are not being met by some of the posts we all must take care to meet your needs! this is a community, after all, and it would be lovely to share a common unity.” And he continued, “if a certain kind of interpretation makes you feel forced out of discussion then we can all gain a deeper understanding of who you are, now, and move towards a more intimate mode of discussion with you.” He was actually addressing Carmen here, but I think Emily, as well. “and in the meantime i will continue to approach Om's posts and offer my own interpretive responses: i may not respond to you in such a way, because that would be a denial of you and not very intimate or attentive of me, but this doesn't mean it is simply anti-intimate in general.”

And Nico chimed in with a most memorable statement for me personally (I cherish his words to this day!). He says, “Theoretical statements are based on feelings too. They are not abstract thoughts that are disconnected from us. Even the ones that seem disconnected say a lot about a person’s disconnect and thereby provides an opening into that person’s disconnectedness. So even if another person feels disconnected and shuts me out, I can be intimate with them by recognizing and witnessing their disconnect and their suffering. I become the witness and voice they lack.”

Understanding is never static and we keep creating meanings and associations every moment of our lives. A theory that may feel dry and lifeless to me could be the richest and most vibrant of thought/spiritual experiences to another. I read OM’s posts and I recognize the care and passion that has gone into writing them. I may not understand the theories right away, and I may not ever understand them like OM does. But at the same time something from it breaks into my thoughts. It stays there for awhile as I begin to assimilate it into my thoughts. Now here is the choice I have to make: Do I dismiss OM’s posts because I can’t reach them and because I don’t connect to them, or do I make the effort to understand them in the context of my experiences?

Do I choose to invest some feeling into the theories?”

And Noah also pushed for integration: “I find that that theoretical statement, when I begin to integrate it into my experience, to assimilate its language into my understanding of the world, offers me choices I didn't know I had. The theory, as a language of abstraction, is not all that useful by itself. But when I integrate it with my experience, when I use it not to construct false categories but to give my understanding of experience greater perspective and depth, I find that am no longer subjugated by my experience. I become its creator.” And James, once more, also attempting to embrace the dialectical tension and seek integration: “and no matter how much i might feel theoretical discourse fits into my intimate relationships, that you don't feel the same way must be of deep importance to me -- since we're in this together, after all!

i wonder, though, if it would be possible for you to see one particular statement of yours as a question -- just in case there is the possibility of embracing theory a little more, since it seems to me to be a big part of our collective experience on the blog. i wouldn't suggest that you ought to dig the theory, or that finding it inappropriate and out-of-place is bad or wrong-- of course not! that would be very silly of me! in fact, when Carmen and Emily voiced a concern about the language being used in some corners of the blog we all found it to be a terrific spark from which to move forward in our group relationship. i take it this wonderful post of yours -- in this ongoing conversation you have begun -- will do something similar.

so since i do think there will still be some theory on here, i'm wondering, as i said, if i can switch one or your statements into a question, and if you would be willing to give it a little reflection (after reading all the other beautiful posts) -- just in case there is the possibility for you to integrate this theoretical discourse into your experience enough to find something satisfying about it on the blog.”

So long to get to the point, but here it is: Is there need for, or room for, theoretical discourse? May there be need for, or room for, theoretical discourse?”

From these exquisite posts, I wanted to go deeper into the issue from the broader theoretical/personal opposition to the thought/feeling dialectic and analyze the difficulties we all seem to face integrating thought and feeling, an analysis, by the way, which might reveal some of the discomfort with either theoretical exploration or personal exploration and expression. What it comes down to is this: understanding. Understanding is the remedy for all suffering.

Nico, through Donnell Stern, tells us, "What we understand is not separate from us. The truth cannot be located and uncovered. Rather, says Gadamer, we must recognize that we already are the truth, that the problem is formulating the relevant aspects of our being. All we can do is to make a dialogue with another person in which we engage our prejudices in such a way that they become clear to us, and understanding emerges."

My two posts, THE MOST DIFFICULT QUESTION OF ALL: WHAT ARE YOU FEELING? and BEING PRESENT IN THE DEPTH OF SADNESS, specifically address the relationship of thought to feelings, and the relationship of thought and feeling to the evolution of the self, beginning in infancy. Following, again, is a quote from Joseph Jones:

“Inasmuch as all of the infant’s presymbolic experience is mediated by affects, it follows that the sense of self crystallizes around recurrent affect states. What complicates the situation is that, prior to the acquisition of the ability to use symbols, the infant is subject to behavioral shaping processes that can either facilitate or interfere with his ability to be in contact with his affective life. As Stolorow and Stolorow point out, this shaping constitutes an important selfobject function on the part of the parents—one that begins even before the “seal” has emerged. Among the things that the parents can do before the infant begins to use symbols is to help the child separate and differentiate his affective responses; facilitate the experience of positive affect states such as interest and joy; help the infant master, and thus endure, the potentially disorganizing impact of negative affects such as fear and rage; and protect the child from affective overload, which may be the prelude to a disorganized traumatic state.

After the child acquires the ability to use language, the parents can not only help the toddler identify the discrete affect states and put them into words, but also convey to the child that affects, even the painful ones, are not to be avoided, as they are an extremely necessary part of life. A key part of helping the child acquire a sense of self is for the parents to cherish the child’s independent mind, even if they strongly disagree with the child. If the parents are good enough at this task, then the various parts coalesce into a cohesive sense of self.

It is how one uses the capacity for thought in relationship to affects to create meaning that results in the sense of self. The emergence of a sense of self requires the ability to synthesize the various components of the mind—experience, affects, thoughts, hopes and aspirations—into a cohesive whole.”

I then pointed out, very specifically, how the necessary integration of thought and feeling is obviated by thought dysfunction: “Now, following is what I’ve been getting to all along, the answer to the question as to why feelings are so inaccessible:”

“More than any other single factor, it is the capacity to use symbols to blockade affective experience that creates a lost sense of I-ness.

Conversely, it is affective-symbolic integration that creates what most people mean by self.”

Sorry for the redundancy, it’s just so aesthetically (and meaningfully) beautiful to me as a whole, like a painting or classical composition; I just needed to pull it all together and share. And there are probably tons of questions that can come out of this, such as, how independent minds are inadvertently squashed in childhood which lead, for example, to a whole host of problems-- dependency, dissociation, massive accommodation, depression, anxiety, impulse disorders, addictions, etc.-- all inhibitions that interfere, to some significant degree, with our ability to think and integrate and feel whole and well and fluidly flowing through the ups and downs and ins and outs of life.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE

I love personal notes, they’re so… personal. After completing my mini-synthesis of theoretical thinking, I felt excited, a bit high. It was as if I had just participated in something extravagant (from the Latin, extravagari "wander outside or beyond"), like the way I feel when I’m writing a poem or being intimate in a particular way, where I or my partner experiences a deep insight of recognition. Yes, that’s it, I wandered outside the perimeter of mind’s conditioned perceptions and conceptions, the line around fate, so to speak, because these ideas never existed in my parents’ minds and so were not taught to me. I learned from my parents something smaller, much smaller, almost too small for me to wrap my mind around, and so my heart shrunk as a result; it almost petered out. I never learned that the content of ideas, in truth, represent the context of some higher understanding, the wisdom of which ultimately dissolves the contents of thought that contain me, that box me in. I am not the content of my appearance nor name, not the content of my history, nor the string of contents that I once believe defined me. Nor the content of poverty and provincialism and neglect and the “isms” of labels stuck to my child’s mind like refrigerator magnets.

It’s an energy, a feeling of openness and clarity that refuses to let the fear engendered in attachment and identification seduce me. I know that experience only too well, it’s an addiction. As the fear or dread arises, mind wants to give in to it, for the fantasy of mergeance drives it. The primary way I felt connected to my mother and father was through their pain. And so the depression seduces me into believing (and the belief is very very deep preverbal memory) my mother and I are one, that she will magically return (and it’s always about returning!) and repair the rupture that keeps us irreparably apart. Without understanding this delusion, I will foreclose any possibility of seeing the light of joy that I am, the rays of compassion that radiate through me, and the intense love opening as the dying out of light gives way to the real Light of Being.

Om mani padme hum

A Child

doesn't know that the sadness in his mother's eyes is not his fault. Now that is, sad.

EMILY, INSIDE A MOTHER'S EYES

we tend to blame ourselves for what we didn't create, only because it is inside us, inside the suffering of our loss. we think, because it is parked on our front lawn, we have ownership rights. but, it is not ours and we need to call the local authorities to remove this piece of junk from our property.

"doesn't know that the sadness in his mother's eyes is not his fault."

it actually wasn't sadness in my mother's eyes, sadness is such a beautiful thing. in her eyes(and body) it was depression and the fear strangling her sadness. how was i to understand the exquisite seamlessness of life and death if i was made to fear loss? of course, growing up the two (depression/sadness)were(sadly)lumped together, so i didn't get to realize the beauty of sadness. take away sadness (especially by associating it with depression)and the freedom that accompanies it is taken away, too.

snhegbchs CRASH

after reading your fabulous post UNDERSTANDING IS THE REMEDY OF ALL SUFFERING i took a break from catching up (i'm a few days behind on the blog, but i have tended to read each post, and i've finally got time, so i'm making my way through :) and rested my head on a pillow and cried a bit, and laughed a bit, and sat up with a pleasant half-smile. and when i read this post of yours, this response to Emily, i got to the end -- "take away sadness (especially by associating it with depression) and the freedom that accompanies it is taken away, too." -- and i thought, "and down goes the possibility of understanding" CRASH!

 

i say this because it's taken me a lot to see that beauty in sadness. and now i sure see it, but i still sometimes use the word when it doesn't apply, and accidentally associate all that is built into my understanding 'sadness' with depression. when it's sadness... well, then it's easy for me. i dance in my sadness. and sometimes with depression it's clear, too. but sometimes it's not so clear, but it doesn't feel quite like depression either, so i call it 'sadness' without getting to know it any better than that. and i just sort of push further and further from the feeling itself, and enter too much into that thinking-thing realm. i like it when it's integrated-- but boy, it must take a lot of work to sustain integration.

 

more and more i get hints of what it will feel like, how it will be when my mind is changed and my feelings are lucid and my self is aligned and all my feelings, drives, thoughts, and decisions are integrated (or, at least, when i'm even closer than i am now)-- and i must say: it's worth the damn work.

 

I checked my weekly

I checked my weekly horoscope from Rob Breszny today. I do not live my life by the stars, just to clarify. However he does write such insightful, thought provoking blurbs that never fail to hit me where it hurts. (I urge you all to take a look! freewillastrology.com)

Mine said...

LIBRA:

The coming months will be a favorable time to work hard on improving your number one relationship: you know, the one between you and yourself. So I hope you'll have a lot of long, deep, sympathetic conversations with yourself in 2008, even as you cut way back on the scattered, careless, unloving conversations. To get your pep talks off to a hot start, go to a mirror that makes you look your very best and unleash a hail of wild praise and outrageous compliments toward the gorgeous genius gazing back at you.

I thought of this while reading your note, Om. Even if you are not so librarian'ly inclined as I, it is good practice nonetheless, and for everyone! I certainly needed this kick in the bum to get on track. Me and myself used to be such good friends.. Perhaps it is time to rekindle a great lost love.

Keep up the revelations..

(On an unrelated note, my name is pronounced like Kaylee, in case anyone is interested. It is my Gaelic nickname and means "a sudden outburst of music and dancing")

A babbling brook

Om, in reference to your post about a mother's eyes, yes, I should have used the word depression for sadness. Yet, if a mother is always sad then the child also loses him/herself in trying to make the mother happy. Or sadness becomes the norm. My parents were always sad and for long periods, deeply depressed.. My parent’s sadness also had another consequence: it prevented them from helping me with my own.

I have been weaving my way in and out of your last two posts very unsure of my response. I am just going to let myself wander .

While I read your posts I am also in the process of reading you. I see you as a synthesizer, drawing the different aspects of what people are sharing into a sense of the whole. You are very interested in the process of the blog as a community working to find common ground. Your posts about naming things (including the post about Helen Keller ) and these lastest seen to sum up some of the blog's themes.

To understand we have to name things. Theories offer insight into feelings; theories are in many ways like giving extended names. We explore ourselves through the naming of our feelings, through processing our feelings, and through understanding.

I don’t want to throw theories out with the bathwater. I admit,that I still want to scurry off when I see a post that is all theory. My first reaction is, "Oh, God. Why do I have to work so hard to understand?" But, I can, and do, let that pass. I will cry out for clarification or just to know - why now? Why this theory?

The next step after understanding seems to me to be action. We make choices based on our understanding. I think this is something that Arnold was speaking to.

I wonder – tossing all theories of child development aside, how much of our suffering is just inevitable? There will be suffering even if one has the most connected enlightened parents. We will suffer because of who our parents are and who they are not. We suffer because we know that our lives are finite and that as much as we want to control things, we can not.

I am the babbling brook.

EMILY, CAN WE THROW KISSES ON THE BLOG?

"To understand we have to name things. Theories offer insight into feelings; theories are in many ways like giving extended names. We explore ourselves through the naming of our feelings, through processing our feelings, and through understanding."

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Delicious! bene bene!

"I wonder – tossing all theories of child development aside, how much of our suffering is just inevitable?"

I love this woman! Thank you. I don't know which post, but I said,

"Loss is the condition of life."

And yet, this is a paradox, for when you "fully" understand this-- which only Buddhas, or perhaps bodhisattvas, do-- you no longer suffer. This, of course is not an absolute. We can reduce suffering significantly by (spiritual) practice and (psychological) process.

om gate gate paragate parasamgate boodhi svaha

(Beyond - Beyond - Beyond the Beyond - Totally Beyond the Beyond - Awakening - So Be It) -- Heart Sutra Mantra

it is.

One can also make peace with the inevitable suffering by accepting that it is part of life. We do not have to change it or overcome it or defeat it or get released from it. It just is, and that is also OK.

(I realize that this is the response of someone who is basically passive in life... who does not reach out to actively shape the world. There are also other choices, but in the end, who knows?)

acceptance (another one of those words i love)

 

it just sounds and feels like what it means, doesn't it? when i say it really carefully and with the kind of care i hope to someday give each and every moment, i get this little tingle... this little i am accepting right now spark...

 

i want to quote you, Arnold, because i think you write something in this post of the absolute utmost importance: "One can also make peace with the inevitable suffering by accepting that it is part of life."

 

i think this statement is potentially deceptive in its brevity. what you are saying feels to me to be so monumental that it is at risk of being missed because it seems so commonplace and easy to understand... but what does it mean to accept something?

 

there is one thing i often say to friends when they say something like, "well-- i'm pissed at my mom, but, you know what, i'm just gonna accept that she is who she is and, whatever." i say, "i'm not sure whether i've actually accepted anything in my entire life (yet)." and i mean it.

 

because acceptance, so it seems to me, is a pretty big fuckin' deal. i think acceptance requires understanding, which Om speaks about so wonderfully in his recent post on understanding (THE REMEDY OF ALL SUFFERING). and understanding is a pretty big deal, too. one thing i say to my friends -- because i am trying to remind myself -- is, "it is very easy to say, 'i accept it,' but it is so very important to ask, 'what does that mean?'" because otherwise we may bedenying as opposed to understanding. we are pushing away instead of embracing. we are just mouthing a platitude instead of sitting in the saying of it.

 

i guess the important distinction, though, between my way of understanding of 'acceptance' and yours, is that i believe (considering understanding is built right into it-- and, in fact, i don't think one can help but accept (and love) once one begins understanding) that acceptance is itself transformative of the suffering in life. so when you speak of just accepting it, i get the sense we are meaning two slightly different things. what i am suggesting is that when i accept, say, my father for who he is, it will necessarily have followed an enormous depth of understanding (the cultivation of which i have already begun), and a transformation of my suffering associated with my father. with understanding it's pretty straightforward for me-- when i have an afflictive emotion (let's say anger) and i merely identify it, i continue to feel like a victim to the emotion. i am parading around screaming and moaning, acting like a jerk to those around me. when i merelyunderstand the anger, though, in all its richness-- i find suddenly that i don't really need the anger anymore: it has dissolved. now, this makes it sound awfully simple, but it takes a lot of practice and a really helpful situation for me to be able to do this sort of thing; but with more and more practice it becomes an easier task, and i begin feeling better by just observing and understanding.

 

 

DEPRESSING OR RELEASING

"Yet, if a mother is always sad then the child also loses him/herself in trying to make the mother happy. Or sadness becomes the norm. My parents were always sad and for long periods, deeply depressed.. My parent’s sadness also had another consequence: it prevented them from helping me with my own."

Emily, I'd like you and everyone to consider this assumption:

No one could be always sad, that is, as a prolonged condition. In the way I think about it, sadness is a letting go and is not held onto in the same way by negative afflictions, such as, shame, rage, fear, anxiety. I think we can be sad and even share that sadness with our children, and it's healthy, because, when we're sad, there is a deep intimacy that accompanies it (as opposed to depression, which is distant, cold, brutal). I hold you in and with my sadness; I reject you with my depression.

When I'm sharing in my or someone else's sadness, I feel so close and in love.

Om your beauty, pardon my flatulence

oh god om this post is so BEAUTIFUL!!! I nearly cried after finishing it. I love this one and the previous one. I can feel the energy of your excitement and integrated expansiveness and the why: "as if I had just participated in something extravagant (from the Latin, extravagari 'wander outside or beyond'), like the way I feel when I’m writing a poem or being intimate in a particular way, where I or my partner experiences a deep insight of recognition. Yes, that’s it, I wandered outside the perimeter of mind’s conditioned perceptions and conceptions, the line around fate, so to speak,"... I can feel your breakthrough, if I may call it that, it feels like you (via your language) lifted into a new sphere and are sturdy... you shine through with such integration, in the light of continual subration and there's a kind of new voice here, a kind of newness, a freshnessI I love the moment you offer more why: "because these ideas never existed in my parents’ minds and so were not taught to me. I learned from my parents something smaller, much smaller, almost too small for me to wrap my mind around, and so my heart shrunk as a result; it almost petered out. [Fuck, this is so painful. I totally love the way you put this.] I never learned that the content of ideas, in truth, represent the context of some higher understanding, the wisdom of which ultimately dissolves the contents of thought that contain me, that box me in." I love this!! Dissolving!! That the ideas, in truth, have that kind of relevancy and legitimacy and power to liberate me through higher understanding. I am not the label nor the contents of labels.
You are describing, I am reading this and witnessing this, the realization of the path of the contemplative, which is a path that choses language and knowledge (gnosis) and wisdom and real science (scientia, from scire, to know = direct experience) that is seeking the true heart, freedom, truth, beauty, wholeness. This is a specific type of yoga: it is not Bhakti (devotional), nor Karma (the way of service), nor Hatha (physical austerities and health consciousness) but Jnana Yoga (the way of knowledge and contemplation). And you include all of the others. I see this and know this by your posts as you clearly have the others and I only mention them because I am not thinking of the eastern even but the western contemplatives and the ages of science and philsophy and the seeking and desire that went into that and now you are reminding me of something that Averroes (12th century?) and others tried to articulate about levels of self-actualization that can be reached through the proper use of reason. Pardon me if I fawn on you for a moment but it is remarkable. What excites me, and the reason I'm thinking of Averroes, is that this post seems to speak from a place that I recognize and know (and recognized when I read his writings) but have never sustained. This is not an irrational flight of the mystic (and I don't mean that in any derogative sense) but a very conscious and compassionate one that seeks understanding diligently. What excites me about this is that you are sharing all of this with us and that you can communicate [key] your feelings and ideas so clearly (and are getting more clear), that is, that they can be taught. Not to be like you, which is not what you are saying, but to know ourselves through inquiry and intimacy.

"It’s an energy, a feeling of openness and clarity that refuses to let the fear engendered in attachment and identification seduce me." I can only copy and paste, I don't have words tonight to express how much I love this post, this pronunciation of freedom, with so much clarity.

My mind is heavy with attachment and identification (and sleepiness - with which I am identifying!)

It's so amazing to read through the posts of the past few days, you guys continue to weave a gorgeous tapestry with these beautiful strings!
I really have no words.
But feelings yes!
I feel excited to taste this (the freedom about which Om speaks) and annoyed that I do not (attachment, idealizing, etc) yeah yeah I know. I prefer the invitation to feeling. That's the space that I can enter, thank you James. Tonight I am a blaze of inarticulate clunkiness and so be it. I am back and in love with all of you, and want to pull my greesy black heart out and smear it on the screen and show you the sheer sparkling glistening viscous swirls that are waving to you and smiling!
The black is there, I am attaching to something and it's related to my friend of the transference. It's bringing up old shame (I failed and am failing him somehow). And the black is there because my father disappointed me again today (always around helping me out financially - I need a new computer) and the SHAME that I KNOW I should try to purchase one on my own and I'll feel so much better if I do but I still want him to RETURN and be my father and offer me that security and so I fall into the trap or illusion that I cannot take care of myself, again and again and feel like shit for it, and now feel better because I just recognized it.

Sadness

I agree. Sadness is not a constant state, but depression is. Guess I just wanted to give my parents a little wiggle room - rewrite history a little - but the truth is the truth. They were so profoundly depressed. Depression sucks all the life out of the party and I just want to dance.

REFLECTIONS ON A REFLECTIVE PROCESS

Caterina! I am so happy you are back and with a cache of the most precious pearls! So many things to reflect on here, but what’s clear is how coherently they string together into a most exquisite aesthetic of understanding. I agree that having feelings is not equal to reflecting on feelings, yet the integration of feeling with the mental introspective process of reflection is exactly what health strives for (including healthy relationship). Indeed, it is a perfect definition of (mental) health, in the same way the integration of physical and physiological activity with proper nutritional practice is a definition of physical health.

I also don’t think you can say enough about what you refer to as the capacity for containment of feeling as an integral activity in reflection and its by-product or aim, understanding. “When reflection is cognizant of feelings, it is very responsible towards them and to the whole endeavor of understanding.”

The responsibility, or ability to respond, is, first and foremost, the ability to contain. Without containment, there is no reflection and, without containment, there is no (cohesive) sense of self. In a vicious spin cycle, thought dysfunction both causes and is caused by the inability to contain one’s feelings. Your friend’s “poopfest” was exactly this: a splitting off of feeling from thought, which resulted in an implosive, impulsive and explosive acting out.
Transference clearly explains the dynamic of his behavior and also points to the motivation for his behavior. The beauty of the “theory” in your reflection is that your intuition and inferential reasoning created for you a frame from which to gain sufficient understanding to decenter your own emotional response to his outburst. As you say, “Listening to him meant listening and recognizing what was misaligned between his words and actions and my deeds.” It enabled you to protect yourself and find deep compassion for yourself and for him, even if that compassion meant setting limits, sending him on his way, or dissolving the friendship.

“Now, I know that I cannot abide in a friendship with him unless he were able to recognize that his accusations and hurtful remarks towards me were unfounded, that he was indeed having a transference. This would really be the only way for us to "find each other" again. I don't think he'll realize these things though because he has nothing to counter them against (except his own experience, which has proved not to be of much use in seeing me as other than that projection of the other day).”

The usefulness of this “theory” was in how it gave your (self) reflection process priority to a deeper and more comprehensive (self) understanding: “The "theory" which I wrote about here (and had reflected on for many years prior to my friend's explosion, and continue to reflect on), was active in my thinking in the moment my friend was yelling at me - though not in a detached way…. Try as I might, I couldn't find in the history of my relating to him or in the words i had spoken (I knew it was certainly not in my intention) anything that could have reasonably caused him so much fear and thus anger.”

What I also love is that you emphasized the process aspect of introspection, that is, that it requires effort and work to adequately metabolize or integrate feelings with its reflective counterpart: ”sort of like watching an apple fall to the ground, having heard about and tested and retested the theory of gravity and then when you watch the apple fall you understand you are witnessing a force of gravity at work.” What I would like to add is that the process of introspection itself can only occur within a relationship, for we can’t look into our own eyes.

Relationships are the most beautiful and difficult of yogas, Caterina, and tonight you have given us an amazing gift of your friendship and wisdom. As painful as it was and is, I think your friend gave you (and us through you) an enormous gift and teaching, as loss is the greatest of teachers. Thank you for this wonderful insight and, again, welcome back!

DEPRESSION SUCKS AND I WANT TO DANCE

Emily, if language is a true conveyance (something that serves as a means of transportation) of action, then you are clearly dancing, and what a dancer you are! Yes, dancing is an apt metaphor for your posts; your words, a pas de deux, always bring joy and transport, even when they reflect painful things. There is never depression in your dance. Even if you are talking about depression, I am singing in the rain. This is the paradox of language, this is the paradox of love. Love is the desire to create joy, but love is also the desire to create understanding out of messy feelings and murky thoughts because there is so much joy in understanding. Ahhh... Aha!... I see!... I get it!.... There is so much joy in understanding because I feel intimate when I understand you and, Oh god do I feel so close to you when I feel you understand me, I mean really understand. The tears leap off my heart; they pass go, collect $200, and boogie around the board until they find Park Place, where I have a shiny new red hotel.

It’s like a space in my ear, not the one Rilke’s bird plunges through, nor the one he makes a bed in; there’s more life in it, it’s animated, exuberant, jazzy and filled with play and extravangance:

It starts with a trickle then a ripple then a roll
the toe drops then taps a tap from the brain's
back door flappin' open as the wave moves in
The synaptic thrust of chord against spondeed air
Against night's dingy dark flare for ruffin' it
Through the helix and drum and window
Of that motion and pitch and play
Punchin' out that sound, pinching notes
Up and down that rooted scale
Like loons hooting the high wind
Yodeling the spill, gliding the whale
And teasing in tremelos of love
Like twisting hips against glowing ground
She sat still
On one of those large boulders
Up at Bash Bish, by the falls
Sat there like a snowy egret
Looking gracefully at the pool
Foaming and rippling out
In rolls in small quakes
Over and around jutting rocks
In thumps and flutters
Of improvising sound
Seeking the flow
Finding the rush
Against pant and gasp
And heave
Finding breath in the brume
In the slam and shutter
The stop and choke
The pause the retarding
Obstruction of restraint.

the fall swelled then bellowed high
above as jets of stream cascaded
like bursting clouds too full to hold
one more drop; no sky could claim
the rush of stream not even at Bash Bish

where the path so steep and curled
like her hair after the rain
after making love on those dripping
summer nights after telling
stories of school days when we sat
at opposite sides of the learning

curve, me with the bad boys and she
with the smart girls, stiff and swanky
and muzzled to the path of A's and
repressed surges of heat hiding inside
their draws. After the stories we'd jump

and splash into the lake off the dock
off her father's boat off of time's
cadence her hair wet and curled
like the path slippery and steep
at Bash Bish where there on that day.

po(evok)em

your poem evokes many desires of mine, it brings them out in full detail, it climbs into my desires, embodies them, and forces them out from behind my wherever-the-fuck-they-are-- and then something happens... a tapping... i feel them. oh boy-- there they are!!!

 

this post/poem of yours also reminds me of a poem i wrote a while ago, which is very much different from yours, yet the reading of which also pulls me down into the earth of my desires-- and again, there they are!

 

Rilke brought me back to life to
Sing the space before each breath--
Feel it pass into me; Listen to its death.
Wake. Let this sound rattle around in you.

 

Wake to this emptiness so nearly
A whisper.
How long I have resided here
With you. Only

 

Asleep. I tire and close my eyes.
I recede inward, not with peaceful
awareness; rather I turn once more

 

upon myself isolated and insignificant.
I fear my song has sung its own end,
I fear I may not return to our shared silence.

 

LAST NIGHT'S DREAM

I am grateful to be alive, so I can cultivate compassion for all beings, without exception.

As I was saying, I’m philosophizing you and you me, and we’re talking about happiness and misery. I think misery is stuck in the body, which is loss, and happiness is in mind, which is free. Mind is open, body closed. Negative thoughts are the body and positive thoughts are the mind. Misery focuses on bodily (dys)functions and the vanity (as opposed to the aesthetics) of looks; mind focuses on joy, compassion, love, emptiness and freedom. Misery is speech talking about body or material things or events; happiness is language focusing on intimacy and spirit. Yes, the body can open too. But, you can’t open body through body. And even if I use a word that has body in it, it comes through mind. Happiness is seeing body through mind and therefore not getting attached to it. Anything negative is body because negativity is death and only body dies. So, breathe deeply, open your mind to love, and love your body.

Gate gate Paragate Parasamgate Boddhi Svaha

negative

Om, "Anything negative is body because negativity is death and only body dies. So, breathe deeply, open your mind to love, and love your body." Why would I love body if it is only negative?

I do not understand this division between body and mind that you are making. There is so much that comes to mind through body (think of any sensation) that to call it all negative seems so harsh. Body as the channel of experience is a rich passage. Why do you want to label it?

a body is a body is a body

There are two terms in Chinese, I learned them to describe Tai Chi (a martial art; a moving meditation)

They are "shi" (sherr) and "xu" (shoo)

These two words are the foundation of everything. They mean roughly "substantial" and "insubstantial," respectively.

Everything is both substantial and insubstantial, simultaneously. It is just a matter of balance. Money is almost wholly insubstantial, because there is really no meaning behind it. It used to represent an amount of gold, and now it just comes to describe one's worth with a slight piece of paper and a whole lot of gravitas.

Positive and Negative can be diminutives of Xu and Shi. When something is positive it is full. However, when something is negative it is empty; and as the Tao Te Ching tells us, one must empty out to gain fullness.

Therefore, Om's perception of body as negative is only the first step. Once something is negative, empty, detached it contains the possibility of becoming positive, full, cognizant. This happens on an endless cycle; death and rebirth. Once death is attained there is always the possibility of life, and vice versa.

How can there be any separation?
Even to separate is to link through separation.
Even to die is to link through life.
Even to live is to link through death.

All is one, and one is all.
Yet we are all individuals.

Taoist musings?

Ceili

Your name recalls for me the italian "cielo" which means "sky" and "ceili", "skies" (though I know we pronounce your name differently) and it's beautiful to me as I read your post to hear these words coming from the skies. Such a lovely musing on Taoist balance contemplations.

body the innocent

“I think misery is stuck in the body, which is loss, and happiness is in mind, which is free.”
But isn’t it mind which perceives loss? Body is the condition of loss as body is ever changing, in the world of becoming, but isn’t it mind which generates suffering out of perceptions derived from this condition?

“Mind is open, body closed.”
I’m with you. But isn’t body open as it goes, going, always in change, flux and flow and "open" to disintegration and reintegration with the elements? Mind may "close" around the idea of body-as-closed in its resistance to change and so create the sense of “closed” while body just is.

“Negative thoughts are the body and positive thoughts are the mind. Misery focuses on bodily (dys)functions and the vanity (as opposed to the aesthetics) of looks; mind focuses on joy, compassion, love, emptiness and freedom.” Which seems to make the point that it is body as object of thought (mind) or way of thinking that, being the focus of mind (and the misery/mind), is negative only in function of mind’s making it so.

“Misery is speech talking about body or material things or events; happiness is language focusing on intimacy and spirit.” Yes, but this is not body, this is certainly a function of speech and perception (mind).

“… the body can open too. But, you can’t open body through body. And even if I use a word that has body in it, it comes through mind. Happiness is seeing body through mind and therefore not getting attached to it.” You have set up an interesting and provocative dychtomy (which you didn’t invent! It’s an old one that resonates for this reader through our western culture of body-hatred and blame for all our woes). I sense, however, that you are not following a traditional dichotomy of this sort but are tapping into another idea which I want to grasp. I’ll need to get through the word “body” as you use it to understand.

“Anything negative is body because negativity is death and only body dies. So, breathe deeply, open your mind to love, and love your body.”
But how do we know that mind does not die too? Does not the individual consciousness go at the time of death? I do not know! We can only perceive the death of the body and not the mind (unless we watch an Alzheimer’s patient, or anyone else subject to neurological illness and disease, dimentia and the like… we watch as what we once knew as “mind” does “go” i.e. it ceases to resemble the mind we once recognized; it is still “mind”, but what is it in this degenerate form?... I will speak of my grandmother soon…)

Body is not what we think it is. Body is the ground of relationship for thought. We form words because we perceive form; body is the product of form consciousness.

Body is form in the world of becoming, which is notable for it’s receptivity to sense and mind, to the sense organs and the mind that designates form and also name. There is nothing negative about body except that it fails to yield to mind’s desire to perceive itself fully! Its failure (Body's failure) is a transference of mind! So is its negativity. Now, what is it that you mean by “body”, Om?

dream body, dream mind, the shell and afternoon tea

I am going to now take this idea of "body" as though it came to you in a dream, which your post suggests to me that I try.

In the dream I am witnessing a choice between two modes of thinking and they are represented to me as "body" and "mind". "Body" seems to be a designation of a type of thinking, the one that focuses on death, loss, separation, limitation, vanity, lack, and other such things that bring about misery. Mind here presents itself as free, as open and open to limitless joy and creativity. It does not have a name or a label, but is. It does not, by any stretch of the imagination, resemble "mind" as I think of it in waking life, but in dream life it is an endless sky and skies, like Ceili, witnessing the harmony and synthesis of duality into the blissful breath of unity. What it knows of the dual is as a process like walking, like taking, here and there and both there and here take from each other to find each other here, not as dual but as one in relationship with itself.

My grandmother lost her mind to Alzheimer's several years ago. The last time I went to visit her, I went alone, unannounced to her staff at the marvelously well-equipped nursing home for military officers and their spouses (my grandfather having been a colonel in the airforce). I found her in the hair salon under the sphere-shaped heating bowl, rollers in her thin grey-white hair, in a fine pink and white outfit someone had decided to dress her in that day. They did her hair once a week, and her nails too, though noone was there to notice except the staff, none of her family, her husband having already passed (he had been in the same home, though fully cognizant until the day he passed through his cancer and morphine). They dressed and primmed and trimmed her just in case someone would come and want to see how lovely she looked. She was asleep when I got there. I sat next to her and put my hand on her hand, her paper-thin skin sinking under my touch to the elaborate frailty of bone. I sat in silence and listened to the random chatter and murmurs of the other patients. My Nanna just slept, so familiar, the most familiar of people, a world of memories of kindness and peculiar strength and intelligence, embodied in pink and white, a much diminished shell of her life. She looked so much like my Nanna. She was so gentle and quiet there under the sphere. None of the pain of her adult life, her later years, none of the fear of losing her mind and barrings, of not recognizing her children and grandchildren, or her husband, none of the fear of her confusion. She was so peaceful and yet still alive, though already gone. Her mind was completely gone at that point, except that she still responded to language, like commands and invitations to do things "Cmmon Mrs. W., let's go, let's get up, get you dressed," etc.
I was only there about 5 minutes before I became so overwhelmed with emotion that I had to get up and leave. "Oh, Miss C., don't go!" said the beautician. "We haven't taken her rollers out yet! You have to see how pretty she looks when her hair is all set!" I couldn't stay, I was going to completely lose it and I knew I couldn't stay, not even out of politeness to the beautician who took such tender and extravagant care of these ladies.
I imagined my grandfather's hands on her shoulders. I imagined he kept watch over her and spoke to her deep in the spirit where the degenerated mind has no relevance.

Once, just after he died and she was still in the home, I dreamt that I was working as a waitress in a diner. Nanna was sitting in a booth alone and was one of my customers. She was snacking on Saltines, bent over the table with crumbs all scattered around the table in front of her. A hole opened up in the ceiling and Paw Paw descended into the diner and thunderously demanded to know if anyone was taking care of his wife! I hurried to him to tell him that all she had asked for were crackers. He wanted to know if she had had her afternoon tea. I assured him that I'd find her some. I looked up at the hole in the ceiling out of which he had entered the room. "What's it like up there, Paw Paw?" I asked. "Oh," and his eyes flamed direct into me, "It's nice, dear." He smiled, but his attention was on his wife. I love this dream.

what a post this is!

 

this post, Om, feels like a riddle to me. it feels like play, like biting into a sweet Georgia peach on a hot summer day and laughing with friends while the juice dribbles down my face like drool.

 

i feel like this poem demands a paradoxical response, because it requires some serious attention, and yet the opposite. it's like Thich Nhat Hanh told me-- when one is reading or hearing a teaching for the first time, let it wash into you, be the earth and let the rain fall and hit you and sink into you. so that's what i did with this post of yours. then i began unpacking it a little through the responses it has garnered, and then i found my unpacking unsatisfactory, because i kept desiring to know more clearly what you mean and what you are intending. because i do not understand, and without reaching out i can only deflect meanings around my own head, and soon you disappear and it becomes an exercise in an excised relationship.

 

but then i go back again, with this newfound reaching, and i read what you write, and you say, "I think misery is stuck in the body, which is loss, and happiness is in mind, which is free."

 

and then later you say, "So, breathe deeply, open your mind to love, and love your body."

 

so i think, "Therefore, in emptiness there is neither form, nor feeling, nor perception, nor mental formations, nor consciousness; no eye, no ear, or nose, or tongue, or body, or mind; no form, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realms of elements (from eyes to mind-consciousness); no interdependent origins and no extinction of them (from ignorance to old age and death); no suffering, no origination of suffering, no extinction of suffering, no path; no understanding, no attainment"

 

and i smile. i wish to understand, and i need to understand, but my smile is dissolving my attachment. in emptiness there is no understanding! understanding is not understanding, that is why it is called understanding. "The tao that can be named is not the eternal tao." "Martin, who is still but a catechumen, clothed me with his robe."

 

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then there's Nagarjuna who informs us that what is going on in the Heart Sutra-- which on first glance, considering all the no's (no eye, no ear... no suffering) seems pretty destructive-- is actually what makes everything-- the eye, the ear... the suffering, the cessation of suffering-- possible in the first place!

 

the prajnaparamita (perfection of wisdom) sutras are written from the perspective of wisdom, and this is the heart we're talking about. what a trip! but i'm feeling pretty loose, so i'll generate the kind of consciousness (the one from which i often operate) that suffocates my experience of your words and pushes relationship away, and then i'll sit with that for a while until i identify the destructive tendency, and apply wisdom. then i smile, and enjoy the relating and ask you what the hell you're talking about!!!

 

 

LARS IS FROM MARS, AND IT’S POPULATED WITH LARTIANS

Good Morning, friends. I am grateful to be alive, so I can cultivate compassion for all sentient beings, and Lars, without exception.

Before I comment on Lars, for some strange reason, I just heard yesterday morning that the beautifully gifted and romantic and tender musician, Dan Fogelberg, died last Sunday, and I am crushed. He was only 56! I was meditating and reminiscing and praying for Dan all day and will say more about my relationship to him and his music when I'm ready. Please send Dan a little light for his next, I'm sure, exquisite journey. He joins the Angels of song lullabying us to sleep and love and dream.

I am happy that Caterina mentioned Lars (and the Real Girl’) and Juno in one breath. I saw Lars three times. I have seen a number of other films more than twice and even three time, for example, the schmaltsy `It’s a Wonderful Life’ and `The Best Years of Our Lives,’ which I think are masterpieces for their particular genre of film (I have my own categories, Schmaltsy being one-- the Love Love Me Do and I Want to Hold Your Hand romantic in me :). I loved Juno but I don’t think I’ll see it twice, at least, not on the large screen. Not because it isn’t a wonderful film (in both relative terms—God, the drech out there, how many children can we feed with that wasted money-- and in terms of the film’s aesthetic itself). Juno is the real girl, another little miss sunshine of slang, and she deserves all your attention (especially if you’re a so-called adult who has been invaded by cultural body-snatchers and you have lost your authenticity).

So, why did I see Lars three times (and counting)? The question to myself is, “Why is it getting better each time?” It obviously goes beyond the film’s overall aesthetic value. I’m not thinking of this film qua film as to whether it’s a masterpiece or not; it’s a masterpiece to me. I don’t know whether it will contribute to the development of the medium of film in its lasting importance, but, it has influenced me and I’m in love with Lars.

Now, why Lars is from Mars is something you guys will have to figure out. But, I’ll tell you this: from everything I know about everyone on this Martian blog, you will all get it! And you might even be singing along with Alanis Morrisette, “Isn’t It Ironic?”

John Denver and the Muppets!

Claudia

self-delusion is the sower of mind's creation,
love its dissolution; judgment its own hell.

We rush to Riverhead Hospital Saturday evening
your ankle swollen, a turkey’s throat in heat.
You are only five, thirty-five years my junior,
but braver than me. Your mother tells us to be careful
as we bike away down the road, you on the handlebars
of my old stingray. Your feet dangle in the air
as if hanging from a puppeteer’s strings. I don’t
recall what we are singing as we coast from hill
to hill through beach roads salted with oaks, but
the music of your little Polish voice rolls with
in an untangled sound, your mouth opening

to the stiffening wind. We race in the ignorance
of play and, as fate will have it, I slow the bike
at a crossing and your feet poke into the spokes
like a baseball card; we fall to the ground. I cry
in the choking air inside my breath, as I hold you
and realize in this moment we often betray what we
are blind to, the spheres of consequence and forbidden
roads niggling their way towards nothingness in indeterminate
space. Here you are now as I still carry you in my mind
above the light, unapproachable and distant as sky.

Friends

I'll be out of touch for a few days. Be well. I'll miss you.

fate and loss in Claudia

This is beautiful and so sad for me.

"as I hold you
and realize in this moment we often betray what we
are blind to, the spheres of consequence and forbidden
roads niggling their way towards nothingness in indeterminate
space. Here you are now as I still carry you in my mind
above the light, unapproachable and distant as sky."

can you help me understand these last lines?

"we often betray what we are blind to?" what means?
"betray" as in expose?

Why is Claudia unapproachable and distant? Is this little girl gone to you? Is she gone to you in person because of the "spheres of consequence and forbidden roads"? The things out of our control. You call this fate, no? This poem speaks to me of loss and the loss that seems to come to us through what was blind to us, outside of our perspective or control or ability to salvage. Isn't loss always this? Isn't loss always related to fate in some way?

(STEP) FATHER/DAUGHTER POEM

 

Claudia

 

self-delusion is the sower of mind's creation, love

       its dissolution; judgment its own hell.

 

 

We rush to the Riverhead hospital Saturday evening

Your ankle swollen, a turkey’s throat in heat.

You are only five, thirty-five years my junior,

but braver than me.  Your mother tells us to be careful

as we bike away down the road, you on the handlebars

of my old stingray,.  Your feet dangle in the air

as if hanging from a  puppeteer’s strings.  I don’t

recall what we are singing as we coast from road

to hill through the beach roads salted with oaks, but the music

of your little Polish voice rolls with the hills in an untangled

sound, your mouth opens to the stiffening wind.

 

We race in the ignorance of play and as fate will have it

I slow the bike at a crossing and your feet poke

Into the spokes like a baseball card; we fall to the ground.

I cry in the choking air inside my breath, as I hold you.

 

And I realize in this moment we often betray what we

Are blind to, the spheres of consequence and forbidden

Roads niggling their way towards nothingness in indeterminate

Space.  Here you are now as I still carry you in my mind

Above the light, unapproachable and distant as sky.

OM, YOUR POEM ABOUT YOUR STEPDAUGHTER, CLAUDIA

 

thank you for sharing this with me, it brought me back to my own childhood with my father.  tonight i was sitting on my yoga mat, listening to francois couperin (thanks for introducing him!). i wanted to practice some yoga. with a glass of wine, don't tell the nomads ;)! i thought i would try something new,  since anusara is all about integration and alignment and an open heart.  my heart feels a bit more open these days.

 

well, i just sat there and listened. and your poem `claudia’ kept creeping into my thoughts, i pushed it away again and again, but then i let it in and that is when i began to see all the pain you felt. and ultimately the pain i felt just took over and i started crying and couldn't stop.  and i just was trying to give it space, the sadness i felt through you. your poem was like a movie. i was so close. i could hear you sing, laugh, i could feel the breeze, i could see her hair in the wind, smell the salt and the heat from the board walk, i could feel the joy, the love and the trust you shared riding together; and i saw the feet, those delicate bare feet, and in it the danger.  

 

and then the fall that should not have happened, actually did. i saw, in my movie, and (i am just letting you know what happened on the pillow, i am not trying to analyze the poem) how you both were so stunned, that stunned look of terror recognized in each other, not believing what had just happened.  I could imagine that she didn't want to believe that you couldn't get her to the hospital safely. how could you have let her down?  and i felt your pain,  heard your crying through your heavy breathing caused by the shock and the exercise of riding a bike, holding her, trying to keep her safe, which now was impossible.  

 

i was crying with you. i felt very close to you. and i also cried for my father, and his daughters, and all the other fathers who have tried to be there for their children but didn't know how. i remember all the things my father taught us and how he wanted to connect, and how he tried and how it only worked to a certain point.  how he was never as close as you were to Claudia. and how i sensed that he knew that he wasn't, that he couldn't recognize us, that he just didn't know how to be.  but still, we loved him, we trusted him to a certain point. we were kids. but that became impossible once we turned into women.  and that rupture felt like your fall.  the break and pain we somehow knew was coming but didn't know how to deal with.  and it breaks my heart if my dad thinks that everything is his fault, that my suffering was his fault, that everything was his fault. 

 

i understood in my whole body that it is not about fault, it is just what happened. and i felt the pain, i was crying, which has been taught to me was as a sign of weakness to be avoided at all costs; of course i don't believe it but it has been part of my body, it is in my bones, so when it actually happened, it was such a scary thing, so unfamiliar, with so much shame attached to it. i was trying to stay open and connected to the feelings. and i had enough space for the tears and the feelings to stay for a while.  

 

but, I also realized at that moment, that I’m free now and aligned and able to celebrate my tears and watch the shame wash away.  what joy this freedom, what uncertainty.  I’m ready to get on the bike again.  Thank you, Ohm.

 

i also wanted to thank all of you here on the blog, who have been sharing so much of yourselves.  i have learned, understood and recognized so much of myself in you.  i am mostly a reader here, it is not easy for me to write, (Arnold, I am a photographer, too ;)  by the time I get my thoughts and feelings down into coherent sentences, which can take days ;) the conversation seems to have moved on so far already that I get overwhelmed with it all and just get back to reading.  that is why my posts are so sporadic.  it might get easier over time.  i hope some of you feel recognized a bit by this post.    

 

Nadine bella

 Nadine, you are a beautiful and clear writer.  I followed you all the way through your post and felt so connected.  Also into the idea of sipping wine while practicing yoga.  ;)  (The Nomads?? Disapprove?? Common!!)

It is so amazing to me how you were able to let Om's story enter, it must have been pressing itself up against your heart... and your heart must have been pressing back from the inside, ready to burst open and see and find in the story what it is that you yourself have been processing.  

Do you think in your crying that you were letting go of anger, that you had already let go and were seeing, feeling, the loss, both yours and your father's?

 

 

 

Caterina and Noah

 Thanks for your support and our approval of  wine and yoga drinking ;).

Caterina, I was mostly feeling the pain, and the loss, i wasn't feeling anger. 

 The rupture in a way is a metaphor for puberty, when, at least for me, both father and daughter are stunned at what is happening.  looking at each other, frightened and unable to deal with the change. i wish i could say to my father now, hey, i recognized you, i saw your fear and it is o.k. it is just what happened. of course i wish we could have recognized each other at the time it happened. but he never learned that himself and i am just starting to learn. i wish my father could have been present with that pain and not walked away but bravely stayed and just stayed. and looked us in the eyes. and held me. nothing more.  because it isn't the rupture itself, it is the not recognizing that is painful. 

Exactly what you, Noah, describe here:

 And that rupture you describe so well through your own experience...i thought of that word too, rupture, and it felt like a shattering of trust at first to me. But its inevitability and the beautiful moment of holding (Om's holding Claudia and showing his tears to her) also seemed to complete a circle, as if the moment gave so much by what it threatened to take.  

 

I don't know if i answered your question, Caterina, or if i have just repeated myself.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nadine, Blog friends, my dad

 Gentile Nadine,

I didn't sense that you were feeling anger but I was wondering if the feeling was of letting go of anger.  Or of having already let go of it and what came up was the ability to feel the loss.  That's all.  You seem to be describing this beautifully.

You say that the rupture happened for you around puberty.  Were there specific events that you recall feeling your father's distance in a new way?  I am asking because I don't remember precisely when I "lost" my dad.  I mean, I had lost him several times before puberty, (when I was 4 and Mom and I left his house, when I was 7 and we moved to Maine while he stayed in Virginia).  But I remember spending summers with him and him being there, playing with me, and then when my step-sister came along, playing with both of us.  But there was always a certain distance.  If we could play around ping pong, video games, tennis, going for walks with the dogs in the forrest, playing with dogs outside, all of this was good and he could deal and was fun to be around.  When I got older and had questions and desired more of a verbal, interpersonal exchange with him, he couldn't go there and this broke my heart.  I felt he was unwilling; I experienced him as having walls, as being uncommunicative.  i was learning words like "uncommunicative". I started to want to know what he felt, how he felt about his wife (I could see there were problems).  I didn't even know what therapy was, but I wanted to be his therapist!  I had other, private, unarticulated, questions about being desirable that I couldn't ask him.  By then, he was already idealized in my mind, he would remain the dad I loved and longed for from far away as a little girl, but the new young woman didn't have a father.  I did have a step-father, but I was resistant to bringing him into the role I reserved in my heart for my dad.

 

By the time I was 14 the measure of his "being there as a dad" became financially expressed/challenged.  I went to boarding school and he was annoyed by this because he was being asked to pay half.  He told me that my mother had spoiled me by letting me go to a private school.  There were financial tug-o-wars between him and my mom.  He agreed to pay but said he hoped I'd go to a state school in VA which I couldn't imagine was the proper destination for one being so encouraged intellectually as I had been (both of my parents were scientists and I had been raised, by my mom, to believe that I would be a leader of sorts; she was also encouraging me to "follow my bliss").  My mom and stepdad paid for my college, the most expensive college at the time in the US, and he couldn't afford it and I think he felt shame and anger around this.  I didn't care about money (I didn't have to) but his frustration around this I think caused him to be more distant from me.  He would say, "You have another father to support you.  Anne [my sister] needs me to support her."  This made sense, but I didn't want his money, I just wanted him!

When I would see him, the feelings were overwhelming.  I wanted to spend time with him, to share my feelings, but there was no way.  They were trapped inside.  Sometimes he'd come to tuck me in and I'd just hold him.  Language and feelings were being buried (I think I felt ashamed I couldn't share with him).  Every time I would leave, I'd cry, he'd cry.  I wrote long letters to him (which he has saved, I found them in his files) trying to invite him to share his feelings and thoughts with me.  He never responded to these.  I couldn't understand that he couldn't "go there."  

Years went by, I graduated and his disease was beginning to show, though we didn't have any idea it was a disease.  We thought maybe he was stressed, or he was just always a little kooky.  Then we wondered if he didn't have a neurological disorder.  he used to twitch under the table, kick us with his feet, move silverware around constantly.  I thought he was nervous about something and I'd ask if he was OK and he'd be like "what are you talking about?!"  Then he started obsessing about his foot.  He had a neuroma in his toe, and multiple surgeries, but it was a constant topic of conversation.  Then it was the hand.  It was uncomfortable to be around him.  He felt a little "crazy" to me, a little obsessive, not present.  He would shout things like "Dammit!" and get really annoyed by little things. We didn't know.

When we learned about the disease, and in the years to follow, it was even harder.  It helped understanding that there was a physiological base to his behavior, but it was really painful nonetheless.  Besides the scary "terminal" tag to this disease, the pain was in having already sensed I'd lost him to this obsessiveness.  He'd call me, 14 times a day once, leaving these messages that were totally incomprehensible.  He was unpredictable and he was alone.  He and my step-mother had long since divorced.  I was about 24 or so and had no inkling of how I could possibly take care of him.  I was still looking for that father I had always been longing to feel recognized by, to have him feel me recognize him.  

I'd visit him in his condo on the golf course in Newport News, VA. We began to develop a different sort of relationship.  I became more attentive to his needs.  We'd go for short walks.  There wasn't much to talk about except whatever he wanted to talk about.  I was still looking for him to recognize me.

And then, after working through my need for recognition (which really had to come from myself, and my relationships that I had created), I began to let go of the anger and sadness around not being able to get what I wanted from him. I let go.  Cried often and a lot.  No more anger, no more longing.  I got tested for the disease and found out I didn't have it.  Sharing in this process with him brought us closer.  I began to see how he'd been facing this thing all alone until that point.  Until I chose to acknowledge it as something I might have.  Within a few months of getting tested, he sold his condo and took the invitation (which we'd made for years) to move up closer to my sister and allow her to look after him.  He's in the fold, now, as we like to say.  he still lives alone (loves his privacy).  My sister prepares meals for him that he can heat up and checks on him once a day.  I go down and spend QT with him once a month for a weekend.  We've gone on car trips and one overnight to the mountains.  We go to fabulous vineyards in Virginia and drink a glass of wine and look at the countryside (it looks like Tuscany).  We talk about going to Scotland (though not anymore... it's become too difficult for him to imagine traveling like that).  But he's OK, now.  I know he's OK. :)

He's my light in the darkness as far as facing the unknown, facing a horrible disease like this, with a positive attitude and the courage to allow us to take care of him.  I've felt him trust us more, and this is still going to be a growing issue.  Last spring, when he was in the hospital for falling and hitting his head on the kitchen counter (and spending the night on the floor), I was with him for 5 days in the hospital.  I helped him pee into a cup.  Major trust extended, for both of us!  He still cannot talk about his feelings so well but when I find him in the right frame of mind, he'll open up.  We talk some about death, but his favorite topic is pooping.  :)

He was an aeronautical engineer for N.A.S.A, worked on the first space shuttle with my mom.  He helped design planes that flew faster than the speed of sound, studying what happens to the craft when it is breaking the sound barrier (transonic aerodynamics; he studied vortex flow patterns off the body of the craft).  He also helped design the first Mars lander which broke or didn't work when it landed.  He's also a musician and used to perform in a trio and later in a duet; guitar and singing folky songs by the likes of Dan Folgelberg and Jim Croce; he's a tenor.  He's tall, thin, with long legs, a basketball player at Mississippi State; part of the school at the time when they saw the first black players in any college basketball team in the country (unverified).  His parents were alcoholics and pretty terrible drunks.  His dad was an engineer, too.  His folks split while he was a freshman in college and didn't have the nerve to tell him, so had his favorite uncle, a poet and Professor at the college, tell him.  Uncle Bobby committed suicide a few years later, a few years after my dad's father died of a heart attack his senior year.  I don't think my dad ever processed any of this loss.  

My dad has the mystery of not knowing who else in the family had the Huntington's gene.  Maybe his dad?  He's never spoken an ill word about him, ever, though I hear the man was a pretty egotistical bastard, probably the prototype for my Ant Lou's (dad's sister's) abusive husband.  I think my dad likes to think his dad had the gene.  But I don't know if this is true.

I feel now that I have gained an entirely new opportunity to have a relationship with my father and it is one of the most healing relationships I have ever known.  He teaches me about compassion and patience.  

Thanks for listening.

 

AH, NADINE, FOR NOW I'LL JUST SAY THANK YOU

My gratitude feels boundless.  I will sit with this and return very soon but, in the meantime, I want you to know my handlebars are much safer now :)

song

Nadine, part of this very beautiful response to Om's poem evoked a song of mine for me. i'm glad you chose to put some words down, because they capture your experience very beautifully, and i share much of that experience. but anyway-- i'm already running late, so i'll just toss down a quick few words about the song. i wrote it in my father's basement. when i go to his house i used to feel very depressed (it felt like a suppressed rage, actually) and i was never able to fake my way out of it. and then when i would get questions, "are you okay?" it would just infuriate me more. i didn't know where it was coming from. i've since learned quite a bit, and when i was there most recently, my sister (who usually asks, 'what's wrong?') asked, "how can you stand all that?" i was there for the super bowl, and there were some annoying people there. but i'm a pretty cheerful guy these days :)

 

anyway, i have this old guitar at my dad's house, and it's missing the high e string. so i was feeling down one day and i grabbed the guitar and hid away in the basement (where i had some recording equipment) and just sat down, looked at the five strings, and started playing and singing this song. as soon as i finished i felt a rush of excitement-- this was an important song i had just composed on the spot. usually it's a little bit longer a process than that. i scribbled down the words, flipped on the recording equipment, recorded a first version (including a bunch of harmonies, which also usually takes a lot more time for me to figure out) and wow-- i felt much better. now it is the first song on my album, and i'm quite proud of what we did with it. one of the many things that went into this song was this terrible teaching that crying is the worst thing to do. i was taught the same, and now i am watching my father teach my little brothers, as well. it is one of the reasons for being depressed when there-- very helpless.

 

here is the song. if anyone doesn't have quicktime, you can just download it by clicking the 'download' button. and anyone interested in listening to more of my tunes can find the first album there on that site. i hope to share a few more 'music videos' soon.

 

okay-- thanks, Nadine!

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 James, I love your song, I can listen to it again and again.

I love imagining you writing it in the basement, going down there to find some peace, some of you, in a place and space and time that wasn't reflecting the you you needed and you wrote this gorgeous song.  That your guitar was missing the E string also feels to have added to the experience of listening to it for me.  Resourcefulness in lack; it shines to me of our ability to create something meaningful and beautiful when our tools feel to be missing something.

I love the end, how your voice goes low and lower and lowest.

 

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i recently gave someone a copy of my album (i would be glad to share it with anyone here who is interested... i am very proud of the design of the booklet and i love showing it off :), and received a most warm response (like yours, Caterina-- a response from someone who listened with care and attentiveness; not to mention someone who communicated a beautiful fondness for the music!), and i said, in addition to expressing my gratitude, that it is especially precious for me to receive this sort of response because some of those closest to me (much of my family, friends) offered a superficial response or no response at all. i think many didn't listen at all, and many who listened with care were a bit frightened to express their feelings about the music to me. i wish the very act of sharing ("sing the sharing of the act of singing, most familiar of intimacies") would show how open the doors are for any sort of response... but, the sharing sometimes results in doors with tighter locks.

 

also, Caterina, in addition to my gratitude just for listening with care-- which is really the only kind of listening that i think my music calls for. one person said, "i like my music coming to me, i don't like having to go to it." i thought, "fair enough." when going to it i think one can recognize something that goes deeper than the music itself, when one sinks down in there one can find the depths of intimacy-- not in the music, not in the lyrics... in the sharing... in the breath... no, in a different space...

 

thank you again, Caterina. as i was saying, "in addition to listening with care," i am thankful for the way you have added a new dimension to my experience-- like Noah shows we do with each other's poems and stories when we begin to share our experiences of each other's... when you share your experience of my song and my story, it actually transforms my past experience, transforms the very song itself, and adds a new depth to it, a new dimension.

 

so-- there are lots of posts to respond to this week (from so many people here on the blog) but for now this was the simplest for me. the experience is so crystal clear for me, so i just let my fingers go on ahead and express it and i watch as it appears in words. so i hope i will catch up soon and rejoin all the ongoing conversations!! in the meantime, one more story, and one more poem:

 

a man sang for me and shared a story, that he had been near brain-dead after a stroke. his friend came to him in the hospital and, during a somewhat lucid moment, she read Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus to him -- a collection close to his (and my) heart. one of the sonnets included a phrase tied deeply to an experience he had with his son, and as he heard it he began to mutter his sons name, now quietly now a little more loudly... and slowly he came back to life, and even more slowly he re-entered his life as a singer. i was very moved by this experience, and very troubled by aspects of my own. i moved into his experience and brought it back with me into my own, resting in all the beauty of intimacy, and all the terror of loneliness and isolation; especially the understanding that i have imposed my isolation upon myself-- for survival. ahh, but even this is part of the wakening, yes? what is so glorious about celebrating such an experience is that it does just what you have done for me-- it transforms the past. in the moment it is crushing, but now it suddenly becomes a moment of triumph, a glory. and-- i can sing. i can sing, and i can share; and better yet, i can bring you into that space, that space of the depths of intimacy, that moment of relating... that sound... that caress... that ... that space...

 

 

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