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**LSDDSL** · 04-14-2007, 03:19 AM

i would like to follow up in this section with a question for those who are willing to answer:

if you feel you are a wanderer, do you have any concept of what you feel is a more natural state for you?

personally, i've come to some realization that my more natural state is that of a "light being" -- sans solid physical body. . . .seeing images of myself in photographs has always seemed so weird; not because i don't like the way i look but simply because "looking" at all in this context seems alien to me. it also is in harmony with the way i visualize things -- concepts and ideas to me are transparent as if i'm only seeing the energy or archetype and motion of their form. perhaps this also is in agreement with my dislike of "rituals" even so much as the ritual of upkeep on the physical body; having to do more than think and feel things is very alien to me.

thanks, eyes4096 -- i dig it! your words help me feel into the weirdness of being here at a slightly different angle, namely: how being in the world feels at the level of subjective perception and cognition, and their subtle, inherent strangeness.

i relate to what you're saying here in my own way. i often get absorbed in the timeless, and find that attending to the little things feels like more trouble than it's really worth. but here is also exactly where the rubber meets the road: for i find the friction of coming up against the limits of daily life to be deeply valuable when i confront my resistance to wanting to deal with them. it's sort of like, "ahh....now i get to taste this aspect of life in the material plane......delicious!!!" (note: "this aspect" usually relates to some otherwise pretty godforsaken experience i would never choose to have if i could consciously avoid it, like, say, recovering from lousy elements of my childhood...or working a day job...or feeling almost totally isolated in my felt sense of unity among most of my closest friends and family (fortunately, not all!)...you-name-it.)

still, getting by while experiencing one's identity itself to not quite fit this 3-d vehicle we are housed in really gets at some of the more nagging qualities of disorientation i experience regularly. thank you for pointing that out more clearly. please elaborate further on this theme if you are moved to.

chris

04-14-2007, 03:19 AM	#6
LSDDSL Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 619 Senior Member	i would like to follow up in this section with a question for those who are willing to answer: if you feel you are a wanderer, do you have any concept of what you feel is a more natural state for you? personally, i've come to some realization that my more natural state is that of a "light being" -- sans solid physical body. . . .seeing images of myself in photographs has always seemed so weird; not because i don't like the way i look but simply because "looking" at all in this context seems alien to me. it also is in harmony with the way i visualize things -- concepts and ideas to me are transparent as if i'm only seeing the energy or archetype and motion of their form. perhaps this also is in agreement with my dislike of "rituals" even so much as the ritual of upkeep on the physical body; having to do more than think and feel things is very alien to me. thanks, eyes4096 -- i dig it! your words help me feel into the weirdness of being here at a slightly different angle, namely: how being in the world feels at the level of subjective perception and cognition, and their subtle, inherent strangeness. i relate to what you're saying here in my own way. i often get absorbed in the timeless, and find that attending to the little things feels like more trouble than it's really worth. but here is also exactly where the rubber meets the road: for i find the friction of coming up against the limits of daily life to be deeply valuable when i confront my resistance to wanting to deal with them. it's sort of like, "ahh....now i get to taste this aspect of life in the material plane......delicious!!!" (note: "this aspect" usually relates to some otherwise pretty godforsaken experience i would never choose to have if i could consciously avoid it, like, say, recovering from lousy elements of my childhood...or working a day job...or feeling almost totally isolated in my felt sense of unity among most of my closest friends and family (fortunately, not all!)...you-name-it.) still, getting by while experiencing one's identity itself to not quite fit this 3-d vehicle we are housed in really gets at some of the more nagging qualities of disorientation i experience regularly. thank you for pointing that out more clearly. please elaborate further on this theme if you are moved to. chris
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