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Kate
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Date Posted: 12:08:21 08/05/02 Mon
In reply to:
Gill
's message, "Inhuman, all too inhuman" on 13:16:52 08/02/02 Fri
Gill, when you say "inhuman" do you mean SUBhuman? Or do you mean too large, unknown, unclassifiable to be considered human?
I have no idea about whether my attempts to give voice to my ecstatic recognitions point to "the usual" or "a different" kind of bliss. I actually never think of this phenomenon as "bliss" at all; for me, the quality is more of awe, wonder, astonishment. And the spectrum of what evokes this response goes beyond "down" on the one end, and "up" on the other. What this experience is NOT, is safe, familar, something one can choose among alternatives, certifiably 'human'-- or even within the bounds of conventional 'spirituality'-- or in any way continuous with my life or self as I used to know them. Or as I was convinced I did.
In fact, it may be something that I am unequal to expressing intelligibly, at least at this point. Paradox is such a dicey thing; in spite of knowing better, at some level, I always try to explain, which devolves into something all-too-much like resolution. And paradox is inherently irresolveable. TRY to shave a coin so thin that it has only one side-- all 'heads' and no 'tails'-- that's as futile as doing justice to paradox in the dualistic language that we speak.
The paradox is that the suffering and the ecstasy are not separable, that it is not only our 'divinity' that can embrace both of these polarities, but also our humanity. That there is no absolute up, no absolute down, no absolute dark "versus" absolute light; but that these distinctions are relative to one another. There is what we would choose, and what we would refuse, if we could: and, given BOTH, there is our astonishing capacity to embrace, grapple with, and be utterly transformed by, both. By All of It.
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