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Subject: The core wound? Author: Cassie [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 22:03:08 02/15/01 Thu In reply to: Cassie 's message, "Whatever's up" on 13:12:30 02/15/01 Thu Feeling into this sense of loss, this lonliness, this separation...I wonder. How much of this is the human condition and how much is just my own condition? It seems to me that we don’t touch each other much and when we do, we often do it superficially and without a real feeling for the other. It’s hard enough to wallow in our stuff without getting in there with someone else. We’re almost like children in parallel play, side by side, without ever really touching. It feels so intensely hollow, this gap between us, this space that we are so loathe to cross. This is the space I want to explore. Because, it seems to me, this space is the beginning of a desire that won’t let me go. A desire for connection, for home. Home! Does that resonate for you too? The White Hot Way is the nearest thing I have found to home in my 61 years of wandering and searching. And yet the gap remains. Fingers reach across and touch but bodies still remain inviolate and apart. Souls connect with little tendrils going forth, but still that basic gap remains. It seems to be such an abyss. I feel this same abyss when I fall into the shadowy regions of my woundedness and pain. They go so deep. I can never be scoured out enough, for there is always more. This sense of an incomplete connection between consciousness and matter haunts me like an elusive thought that never can be fully expressed nor fully grasped. I don’t know what to do about it and so I end up simply being here as best I can. This is the hardest place I’ve found yet, to be. This gap, the sense of existential lonliness, the absoluteness of the separation. It hurts. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: The core wound? Barb 16:10:23 02/16/01 Fri Re: The core wound? -- Cassie, 23:40:28 02/18/01 Sun Re: The core wound? Norma 22:04:00 02/16/01 Fri Re: The core wound? -- Cassie, 00:33:55 02/19/01 Mon