Comments on: Trail Closed – Rejecting Negative Thinking

By: rgl

rgl — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:54:10 +0000

It could be easier to easier way – if – and that is a huge “if” one could ever step back into the easier way. Unfortunately? In a way, it is unfortunate as the path does create major and minor ripples in the relationships that are carried along on the journey. But, I give up all pretense that I have a choice to retreat. I will have to accept that the world is changing because I am changing. Thanks, Ruth, for your words of wisdom and support.

I don’t have “dropbox.” How big are the files?

By: rgl

rgl — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:48:45 +0000

As you learn from my posts, then respond to the post reflecting on that learning, I also learn more. I get to experience your images, your resonance and that feeds me. In the end, we teach each other when we open ourselves, when we give up the facade of being some sort of experts. You teach me so much here, my dear Opa.

By: rgl

rgl — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:41:26 +0000

Thank you, Scott. Words such as yours are valuable. I know that what I am doing, what I am writing is ultimately about myself and for myself; but, to learn that in risking this process in such a public manner, others are finding personal value – that is priceless for me. Again, thank you.

By: Ruth Martin

Ruth Martin — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:27:36 +0000

Ahh Robert, The vacillation between following the path of Individuation or an easier way. It’s so much easier to be the Robert or the Ruth who gets along well with others. Who ‘fits in’. But we know that’s a lie. Unfortunately (?) my friend, you are on the real path; do you think it will suddenly stop, or that you could go backwards and be ok with that? IMHO you don’t have a choice. You’ve gone too far down the difficult path to switch; to give up the dream of more wholeness, of self-acceptance, of loving your own difficult self. ( It’s at this point where The Cosmic Chuckle should enter stage left…)
PS (If you have ‘dropbox’ I could easily send you those 2 articles-let me know.)

By: Opa Bear

Opa Bear — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:27:42 +0000

Dear Robert,
Thank you for this Post that allows me to get informed how your battle on your journey is proceeding, by your true and honest words – and as you share this, I am able to find similarities that enables me to continue on my journey.

After reading your Post, this Symbolic picture could seep through.
Symbolical – I experience my journey as a Puzzle.

It is not possible for me to see how the complete picture of the Puzzle looks like, because only some pieces of the puzzle are correctly laid in and next to the Puzzle is a big heap of Puzzle pieces yet to be put in their right place.
So the Puzzle pieces that are correctly laid in and the big heap of Puzzle pieces are separated from each other.

Every time when I am able to find a piece of the Puzzle that I can match with the Puzzle, the picture of the Puzzle becomes a tiny little bit more clear to me and what is more important this piece of the Puzzle is not separated anymore from the Puzzle picture but enables the picture to become a little bit more whole.

Back to myself – sporadically, but every time when I am able to bring a piece of my shadow to the light of my consciousness – I have found and added the missing piece of the Puzzle in its rightful place.
By restoring this piece of my shadow, the separateness is no longer a fact, because it is replaced by Oneness – because I no longer deny its existence.
And like you wrote : “………to discover the ugly truths about myself, truths that I have unconsciously worked so hard to deny existence” – are now honored to become a part of Whole, of Oneness.

In order to check whether I am on a wild goose chase of maybe mad, or that I am successful – is to be verified by the outcome In myself.
When I followed the right procedure I can experience that the forces of energy that kept/created the separateness of the pieces alive, are remarkably weakened.
They are not vanished, but the energy of fear, that I experienced before, caused by this “unhappy and denied” separated piece of Shadow – has lost its blind forceful character because of the Transformation.
I know that these forces of fear did not vanish because I can experience them in a weakened way and more important, I am conscious of them.
Not in the way of “the blind hostility” that they use to have before, but merely as signs that now I am at peace with them, because I know that they belong to myself and not to somebody else.

I also am aware, that for me I never will accomplish to finish the whole picture of the Puzzle in my lifetime – but I think in my way I followed my Urge to try to match some of the pieces of my Puzzle – and I believe that your Urge and my Urge are the same – that why we are on our journey.

So far, this is what your Post did to me because you shared and I in my own way learned.

By: seekraz

seekraz — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:54:25 +0000

I have just read your last 10 posts and find my head aswirl with your journey and Jung and Hollis and my dead father and my self and my real self and my imagined self and the self that I show the world; I have memories of Joseph Campbell echoing in my mind with tiny pieces of nihlism and Buddhism and Christianity keeping time with those echoes…and I wonder…and don’t really know what to do with it all. So I’m going to keep reading you, Robert, keep visiting, listening…. Thank you for being here, for being you, whoever you are and are becoming.