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"People say that what all
people seek is a meaning, or
purpose, for life.
I
think that what
we are all
seeking is the
experience of being
alive,
so that our
real life
experiences resonate
within our own innermost being,
deep within our
souls, so that
we actually
feel the
rapture of being
alive.
Life is, in
its very essence and character, a terrible
mystery -
this
whole business of living
by killing and eating.
'All
life is sorrowful' is the first
Buddhist saying, and so it is.
It wouldn't be life if there were not
temporality involved, which includes
sorrow -
loss,
loss,
loss.
The ends of
things are always
painful.
You've got to say yes to life
and see it as magnificent the way it is;
for this is surely the way
God created
life.
Life is joyful, just as it is.
The
way to awake into life is not to be afraid of life,
and to recognize that all of reality, as
it exists,
is a manifestation of the
power of
creation. " - Joseph
Campbell
"The cognitive
capacities we now possess define our reality
- give it substance.
The prospect
of growth is as much a prospect of loss, a threat to
security, as a bounty.
One must
emotionally die in order to
emotionally
live.
Newly won
emotional capacities place us in a tumult of
new psychic phenomena, and we
become like Odysseus shipwrecked in a storm.
Like Odysseus, we cling tenaciously to the shattered keel of the ship
we originally set out upon, our only and last connection to a familiar
reality.
Why give it up?
Do
we have the strength to change?
Perhaps the voices encouraging us to
venture out on our own belong only to the cruel Sirens.
So we
close our eyes, and hold to what we
know." -
Arthur Zajonc
"Pain
is part of there being a world at all.
You
must say, 'I will participate in life.
It
is a wonderful, wonderful opera - except that it hurts.'
Affirmation is difficult.
We always affirm with conditions.
For example, "I affirm reality on
condition that it is the way I
fantasize it to be."
Affirming it
the way it is - that's the hard
thing, and that is what
rituals are about.
Ritual is group participation in the most hideous
act,
which is the
act of life - killing and
eating another living thing.
We do it together, we
do it everyday, when we sit down to eat a meal.
This is the
way life
is." - Joseph Campbell
Primordial original sin is the
sin that
man bears for killing
animals and eating them.
As
men are
empathetic they can relate to the
life that exists in an animal that lives, breathes and bleeds as they do.
When a man takes the
life of an animal
he takes something that can not belong to him as the
life of an animal
belongs to that animal.
Using his
empathetic nature man finds the life force that resides
within him also resides
within the animal he has slain. He notes that the
life force of the animal has been taken by him through his
desire or will.
This places
an empathetic man in an awkward
position.
An empathetic
within
feels emotional
pain at the loss of the
life force of the animal. But it is necessary for him to kill the
animal because his family is hungry and needs the food to
survive the coming winter.
Emotionally there are only two ways to go:
I realize I have taken a precious
thing that did not belong to me,
that which animated the animal,
life. I think of the animal as just meat on the hoof and I never give the
light I watch dying in the
animals eyes a
second thought.
The first
emotional response will elicit
regret and
gratitude -
regret that I had to kill the
animal to assure the
survival of my family and
gratitude to the
spirit of the animal, that which animated it and gave it
life.
The second
emotional response is
experienced by those that
believe themselves to be entitled to the
fruits of the Earth unconditionally.
The first emotional response
relieves the bearer of regret through
the vehicle of gratitude. His
sin of killing the
animal is redeemed because he has a proper
respect for the
life force of the animal and he makes restitution to the
spirit animating the
animal by giving that animating
spirit the proper
respect it so richly deserves
for the sustenance it provides.
The second
emotional response is the same response that
is experienced by
non-human animals,
basically indifference, and is
the response that bestows upon the bearer "original sin." By not recognizing the gift
given, the bearer then begins carrying the spiritual burden of "original sin."
Also see Joseph
Campbell on:
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