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Separation Sickness
“Most people are still completely identified with the incessant stream of mind, of compulsive thinking, most of it repetitive and pointless. There is no “I” apart from their thought processes and the emotions that go with them. This is the meaning of being spiritually unconscious. When told that there is a voice in their head that never stops speaking, they say, “What voice?” or angrily deny it, which of course is the voice, is the thinker, is the unobserved mind. It could almost be looked upon as an entity that has taken possession of them.
Some people never forget the first time they disidentified from their thoughts and thus briefly experienced the shift in identity from being the content of their mind to being the awareness in the background. For others it happens in such a subtle way they hardly notice it, or they just notice an influx of joy or inner peace without knowing the reason.”
— Eckhart Tolle
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The patriarchal culture, which is on its way out, is the culture of the hero, the worship of an outstanding individual which gives us comparison because everyone strives to that hero ideology; it gives us competition because to be the best you have to step on a few or many people on the way to get to the top of being admired; it gives us hierarchy because only being the hero, the best, the most admired, or indeed as we have…
