What facilitates a difficult crossing is amputation -- one then crosses the gulf between one's self and humanity with less conflict. Amputation means to lose at least one part of one's psyche. That loss sends one away from the community and in search of one's missing part, to make up the whole.
Bataille refers to a figure without an executive center -- a head. To lose one's spiritual head means one departs from the community that has a head, and learns to move according to instinct, the body's directives, and ideas that come to mind on the spur of the moment. The non-rational parts of existence become more obvious. Without a spiritual head, one is no longer acquiescent to the demands of hierarchical figures.
One crosses the bridge to the self more easily when one no longer hears or sees in the same way as the community: their visions and auditory hallucinations are different from one's own. Then one goes in search of the meanings of one's own visions and voices. Madness on a group level is no longer beguiling.
To sacrifice a part of one's mind leads to one's fuller existence. I sacrificed my regulatory higher mind with its moral ambitions and inhibitions, to find another sense: concrete reality locked in a particular time and place. This facilitates the crossing, but not the outcome. The two ought not to be confused.
Bataille refers to a figure without an executive center -- a head. To lose one's spiritual head means one departs from the community that has a head, and learns to move according to instinct, the body's directives, and ideas that come to mind on the spur of the moment. The non-rational parts of existence become more obvious. Without a spiritual head, one is no longer acquiescent to the demands of hierarchical figures.
One crosses the bridge to the self more easily when one no longer hears or sees in the same way as the community: their visions and auditory hallucinations are different from one's own. Then one goes in search of the meanings of one's own visions and voices. Madness on a group level is no longer beguiling.
To sacrifice a part of one's mind leads to one's fuller existence. I sacrificed my regulatory higher mind with its moral ambitions and inhibitions, to find another sense: concrete reality locked in a particular time and place. This facilitates the crossing, but not the outcome. The two ought not to be confused.
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