Uncovering and Facing the Unthinkable

Malcolm said 

... I have finally got entirely fed up of the moronic advice to stay out of the sun. It is funny how one group, in this case dermatologists, manage to completely take over an area and rule the roost. Then everyone cowers, fearing their disapproval. i wonder how people have died, and are dying unnecessarily, because of this irrational fear of sunshine? Did no-one ever hear of evolution. That big yellow thing has been up there, in the sky, shining down for four billion years – and we are supposed to believe is is harmful to health…. jeez.

I am sure you could dig a little deeper than dermatologists. It is possible to argue that we self-generate fears and become afraid of our own shadow, but the way that works is more complex, but not so different than Chicken Licken. However the versions I have of heard Chicken Licken ascribe Foxy Loxy to the role of an opportunist. Our Foxy Loxy does not have to wait on fears to arise so as to manipulate them, but operates a 'mafia like organisation' or indeed 'power class' to propagate, nurture and farm fear in what would otherwise be... our minds. Indeed our lives!

Fear-defined identity is a usurping of our mind, that runs as if to protect itself - as if it is true - (as if it speaks for the true of you).
One of the benefits of walking in nature, meditations, yoga or in fact anything that opens an immersive receptive presence, is the releasing of surface tensioned fear-thinking such as to be more aware of the nature of choices being made.

But the compartmentalisation of the mind is revealed in its liability of being instantly triggered into old and learned conditioned learning reactions. Education is not 'information-stuffing' or programming, but the ability to question and discern for ourselves. Discernment is different from 'thinking' - it is a space of feeling awareness in which a wholeness of being recognises itself in relation to whatever is occurring. Many who assign themselves 'independent autonomy' take credit for qualities of heart and mind that are in truth more akin to the gift of being, rather than control over life. Running a narrative assertion over what happens naturally becomes an illusion to defend - and a source of guilt, fear and conflict.

That we can identify such as to be terrified of love's 'exposure' says that we can be deeply defended against what we actually are - and all that gives and supports life - unless on OUR terms! - is reflected in becoming so weak as to afraid of our own shadow AND the Sun that casts it. The idea of limiting STRAIN on heart functions to external conditions will set terms that deny investigation of inner programming or conditioning - or even perhaps unfaced trauma of unhealed family and societal generational relationships - whether this operates 'epigenetically' or via means as yet unclear.

It is often so that facing death calls forth a desire to reconcile, make peace with and yield a personal assertion to such connection. This is not "up in the clouds" but a profound self-honesty of a tangible presence. More apt is to see that the assertive personal narrative identity is a tendency of dissociation that will seek resolution in 'outer terms' for what in a sense set the patterns and themes of its orientation in life before it had access to thought of any self-reflective 'rational' nature.

The power of guilt in locking down or setting the felt heart in grievance or self-denial is no less than the power to pretend we escape it in our rational thinking. What lies beneath is revealed in the patterns of its expression. When what we thought to escape is faced and in a sense revisited,  we are of course profoundly transformed. Those who have faced and lived the death of a loved one walk a different world than those who keep the unthinkable unthinkable to protect the thoughts that are permitted.

The intent and attempt to deny and defend against light of awareness is without a true foundation, and so protects the exposure of a false sense of one that is overlaid upon the true.
At what point does the pain of such a strain yield to the willingness to seek  and find another way of looking at our life and world? It may be that death is chosen rather than face what we are unprepared and unsupported in looking at. In a world that is choosing death, I choose differently, anyway and in any way that is given my willingness to discern it. Fear of truly living is what cripples us, and the weakness we cling to operates a sense of emotional or rational justification for not choosing within life - but choosing to protect an image imposed upon it that inherently operates 'in the dark' or 'unconsciously' under a surface thinking passed off as 'reality'. Anything we experience is our reality-experience of the moment - but that does not mean it reflects the truth of who we are - even if it reflects the freedom as to what can be thought or imagined.

P.S
The belief that the Sun, and Earth's relation to it, has been essentially unchanged during the course of our development and of that of life on Earth is at odds with the Mythic records of Antiquity - that is, the collective memory of our forebears, which a rational definition excludes almost by definition and in some sense persists as the survival of and escape from conflicts and traumatic experience of that which is no longer evident - yet has shaped the consciousness we operate from.