Cascading Sorrows: On Love

Beautiful

A caterpillar crawling through life

Raped and beaten

Folded up in a little cocoon of madness

Emerged as a butterfly

With wings so bright, so much to offer

The world was no longer a shadow of myself

Free, absolutely beautiful and free.

Plato once said that: “Professors must be wrong when they say that they can put a knowledge into a soul which was not there before, like sight into blind eyes”(Republic, Book 7). For Plato, concepts are to be taken provisionally, for the purpose of an examination… never as the last word on truth… so if you feel something or have a thought you perhaps should speak it, without making everything a personal attack or a lie!

I am a relaxed and intrinsically core responsible self--in short an Alpha. I speak from an enlightened recognition that “I” am “Other”; my greater identity is with the whole of Being, having dropped the illusion of separate self-hood. I am a holistic Gestalt. I have replaced my “father figure” which jeopardized my existential freedom with my own internalized gauge of reality obtained from external to me. I have had the compassionate realization of the end and perfect telophase (telos--of self) that “to do onto others is to do onto myself”.

I am a variation of themes which create a self-symphony and I can cope the vicissitudes that I encounter in life with courage and patience. The more that I feel myself, the more I am able to fuse with the worlds of others. I did not learn from the Eleusinian initiation which did not impose the lengthy philosophic discipline required for attaining insight into primary realities; I am not as old you and wasn’t alive in the 60’s. I had to do the work and struggle my way through the quagmires of volumes of books to find my way to peaceful life! Necessity, Ananke, compels him to return… abstruse and esoteric existence is difficult.

Plotinus had a vision and unity with “God”. He believed that the hierarchy of the Universe was as follows: The one; Nous (Divine intellect where thought and being are one--this is the level of intuition though that is identical with its object and does not see it in some sense as external to it); soul of the world; soul of humans and animals; and matter.

The civil was focusing on other people, moving beyond our own selfish needs (altruism); the cathartic was to abstain in some ways from the animal levels of functioning and show control; and the contemplative aspects of a persons life were the thoughtful tuning of intellect towards inspiration/reflection (read into things that matter). These were Plotinus’ ideals for human spirit, and perhaps they could act as a guide to help show you here exactly my studies have come from!