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Chris's avatar

Nice description 👍🏼..... as kids we don’t know that what we really want is our caregivers’ presence. Lost in thought, parents don’t know how to simply be present wth us so we self soothe in various ways.

Our attention completely absorbed by the realm of form,

we externalize our search for completion, fulfillment...wholeness. We search the realm of form in futility for the experience of wholeness which can only come from formlessness.

Incessant mind activity blocks awareness of our body’s connection to formless Source.

It is in fact the body that wants our presence so it can feel oneness, feel this ever present connection to Source/Being. Our body sends out signals of unease or dissatisfaction to tell the avatar/me to be quiet and come home, to be quiet and allow the body-Source connection to be experienced.

The body does not want the me’s offerings, it’s attempts to pacify the body with thoughts or incessant emotions or food or stimulants or entertainment or endless dopamine hits. The body wants your presence. (as does the planet)

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Aaron Powell's avatar

A beautiful essay of deep knowing and clarity - thank you Caitlin. Alan Watts would be smiling, I’m sure. Carl Jung saw the ego as a construct of the psyche to enable us to interact and function in the world as a seemingly separate entity, even though we are intrinsically a part of and as one with that same world around us. Great problems have arisen from us identifying too strongly with the ego and believing that the separation is real, exacerbated by social and religious reinforcement of this easily exposed myth.

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