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Let’s Play
We live in a time of the dissected soul, the immediate disclosure; our thoughts, imaginings and longings exposed to the light too much, too early and too often, our best qualities squeezed too soon into a world already awash with too easily articulated ideas that oppress our sense of self and our sense of others. What is real is almost always to begin with, hidden, and does not want to be understood by the part of our mind that mistakenly thinks it knows what is happening. What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. — David Whyte
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“The state needed religion to have an ideology that fused disobedience and sin; the church needed believers whom the state has trained in the virtues of obedience. Both used the institution of the family, whose function it was to train the child in obedience from the first moment it showed a will of its own. The self-will of the child had to be broken in order to prepare it for its proper functioning later on as a citizen.”
~ Erich Fromm
Our religion lies like a leaden blanket over our culture. Joy and play have taken to hiding from us. Our ideas of correctness and sin are still haunting us even as we try to be free and creative. Only when we get out to non-puritan cultures do we recognize our bondage.
