“The Thousand Yard Stare,” a Vietnam war era term for a soldier with PTSD so severe that any and all humanity was absent, all feeling feedback completely numb, and a newly minted sociopathic weapon system at large—a warning to anyone who wants to make a difference. The key is learning to feel our feelings as they arise without fear, without giving into repressive need, and ultimately without identifying with the darkness that we must walk through within ourselves to arrive at “the deep within” where responsibility and resolution reside.
“The Thousand Yard Stare,” a Vietnam war era term for a soldier with PTSD so severe that any and all humanity was absent, all feeling feedback completely numb, and a newly minted sociopathic weapon system at large—a warning to anyone who wants to make a difference. The key is learning to feel our feelings as they arise without fear, without giving into repressive need, and ultimately without identifying with the darkness that we must walk through within ourselves to arrive at “the deep within” where responsibility and resolution reside.