Sunday 4 November 2012

Black Sunlight: my shamanic initiation

There is a cure to idealizing and black-and-white thinking, which, having come from Rhodesia was something I had in bucket loads.  You have to go back into your innocence and face your idealized formulations about identities, under the forceful pressure of cerebral violence.   Only then will you be cured of your naïve formulations about how the world works.

Your psyche, as well as your formative influences, will be melted down, like rain.

You can then face life with greater appreciation and a better foundation for maturity.

My shamanic initiation came about as I have described above, through reading Black Sunlight, again and again, until it finally spoke to me.

I am no longer inclined to idealize identities of any sort or to lament any lost Golden Age.

Your perspectives and openness to experience alone are what make life golden.

2.  The way out of fixating on the past is not to "realize you are nothing", which smacks of religious condemnation, but to become spirit, air, or ethereal matter, gazing upon the remnants of the past, whilst enjoying everything in a non-human way, as a divine spectacle put on for your edification.

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