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We Have No Present
“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present…
― Alan W. Watts
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The Dzogchen View that ultimate individuation can only be found in timeless, pure Gnosis is true, for me, beyond any doubt. But it does not follow that psychological work on oneself aimed at a gradual, in time, progressive individuation is deluded and unnecessary…Living embodied in the midst of madness and circumstances that leave us at risk of being imprisoned by unconscious forces — including merciless conditioning, in the 21st-century Western materialistic world — is a high art….
— Jim Manganiello, DZOGCHEN PSYCHOLOGY AND INDIVIDUATION
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Once, for instance, a parson sent him a farmer’s girl from a mountain village.
She couldn’t sleep, she hadn’t slept for a whole year, and even pills hadn’t helped.
And when she turned up in his office, Jung saw at once that she was a half-wit and completely uneducated, and he couldn’t do any therapy with her.
So he took her on his knees and rocked her and sang her lullabies. And from then on, she…
