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Subject: Re: The core wound?

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Cassie

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Date Posted: 23:40:28 02/18/01 Sun
In reply to: Barb 's message, "Re: The core wound?" on 16:10:23 02/16/01 Fri

Barb, first of all I have to say this: It doesn't feel to me like this pain of separation will be all over when we die. Far from it. Wheeew! My feeling is that as long as there is a physical universe that pain will remain and maybe it is the case that that wound itself is the source from which the physical universe emerges. That's just a gut feeling I have.

But let me not diminish that anguish you feel about the immanence of death and all that it entails. This horror that is staring us in the face right now is so hard to even try to feel into. That unknown quantity, the real felt fear of being trapped in a body of pain, of not being able to be in control, of being totally dependent, all this and then what to me is the big thing: leaving the body behind. No longer being this identity located in this body. And who would I be then? And what is it like to separate from the body and where does that tunnel go and how terrifying it will be to be cut loose from all that we know and love and depend on for our sense of security and selfness.

To actually feel into all this is to feel a terror that has no succor. No relief. We can only hold ourselves there with compassion and love. And we can only bring it into a room such as this with the hope that we will be seen and heard and felt by others and in this room we will at last know that we are not alone.

How much I love you and how much my heart reaches out to you. I am hoping we can touch each other here and not feel so frightening alone in this. Thank you for writing and sharing your heart.

Great love, Cassie

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