I agree. Our violence is part of us. What we see at war in the world is a war within ourselves, which I've come to think of this as survival and death; symbolically (in a vision I had) they are two opposing snakes (one light one dark/yin yang vibes) coiling around one another forming at our feet up to our heads, acting* as two consciousnesses in our mind (the right and the left hemispheres which do literally perceive the world differently). Of course, it's becoming helpful to stop calling this a "war" within, and perhaps it would be helpful (though I don't think we're there yet) to stop calling it "war" altogether. If we are animal and spirit, the "War" within wants coherence and for us to take responsibility for the fact that we are self-protecting and territorial and also all loving. Yes, easier to post in a square on instagram than to live out, but I'm right t/here with you. We must admit our violence as something that belongs, and embrace it so we can liberate it.
mmm thank you so much for sharing this, particularly how you experience it as a vision. It's true, I think, that ultimately what we see expressed as 'war' outside of us is indeed a reflection of the battle within each individual. I do wonder, too, if violence is more often simply the wrestling between innate goodness and the control of evil, rather than purely evil being expressed. If so, it would be terribly unfortunate to label violence as evil when really it's the process of good battling evil.
A grapple! So true. It’s like that one quote: “it isn’t that the evil thing wins, it never will. But that it doesn’t die.” -John Steinbeck.
You’re onto something. And I’ve been feeling it too. Glad we’re writing about it. nice to meet again on other realms of the internet :)) I’m still following along 💗
I agree. Our violence is part of us. What we see at war in the world is a war within ourselves, which I've come to think of this as survival and death; symbolically (in a vision I had) they are two opposing snakes (one light one dark/yin yang vibes) coiling around one another forming at our feet up to our heads, acting* as two consciousnesses in our mind (the right and the left hemispheres which do literally perceive the world differently). Of course, it's becoming helpful to stop calling this a "war" within, and perhaps it would be helpful (though I don't think we're there yet) to stop calling it "war" altogether. If we are animal and spirit, the "War" within wants coherence and for us to take responsibility for the fact that we are self-protecting and territorial and also all loving. Yes, easier to post in a square on instagram than to live out, but I'm right t/here with you. We must admit our violence as something that belongs, and embrace it so we can liberate it.
also, glad to see you here in the internet still after all these years, despite your recent MIA. Lucky you! ;)
mmm thank you so much for sharing this, particularly how you experience it as a vision. It's true, I think, that ultimately what we see expressed as 'war' outside of us is indeed a reflection of the battle within each individual. I do wonder, too, if violence is more often simply the wrestling between innate goodness and the control of evil, rather than purely evil being expressed. If so, it would be terribly unfortunate to label violence as evil when really it's the process of good battling evil.
A grapple! So true. It’s like that one quote: “it isn’t that the evil thing wins, it never will. But that it doesn’t die.” -John Steinbeck.
You’re onto something. And I’ve been feeling it too. Glad we’re writing about it. nice to meet again on other realms of the internet :)) I’m still following along 💗