I heard this proverb yesterday. It describes where I am at the moment.
John Admin
No-mans-land
Tuesday morning. Watched 'Red Dragon'. Quote from Hannibal Lecter: "we live in a space neither savage nor wise". A new feeling has been in the background for the last few weeks. I actually feel sorry for the way many humans live or have to live. Many people that I know and many people on TV recently live in squalor and poverty (physical) or hell (mental) and the compassion I feel has never hit so hard.
There has to be a better way.
Yes humans are not far away from the 'savage' of the bronze age and yet we are not yet 'wise' in the sense of knowing the bigger picture.
Post 83 was about 'lostness' and right now I feel this. We are in a no-mans-land between savage and wise. The old part of our brain is fight or flight. I experienced that a few weeks ago in the safe setting of Embracing Change. The new, frontal, part of the brain, experiences the seed of wisdom, but both parts operating together is causing worldwide chaos.
Something in that tension is causing reactions, instability, duality, body symptoms in me. An individual part of the worldwide chaos, perhaps.
What is this bringing up in me? I don't know, but so long as I can stay as an observer I trust that it will be the precursor to change.
Meanwhile I'm going to sleep for a while on a lovely sunny day.
