"that blissful ureboric state, a very ancient, oft-repeated symbol of a serpent eating its own tail, creating a kind of circular containment.
So we have some kind of deep kinesthetic cellular memories of a bliss.
And the bliss involves a system where we don't have to do anything. You don't have to breathe. You don't have to eat.
You don't even have to poop, to clean yourself. That the mother's placenta, the umbilical cord, her body takes care of everything.”
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“often the very vague archetypal memory of that can haunt us. Often people, for instance, that feel suicidal, are longing unconsciously to go back to the great mother where there is nothing that they need to do.
Consequently, we can be so easily seduced by any kind of an authority figure who says that they will do it for us,
and that we can inch towards that blissful dependency where little to nothing is required from us. So that can be a kind of seductive loyalty."
“how can we bear living in ourselves, with ourselves, and with some of the harsh realities, the unknowns, the uncertainties, the losses, and all of it that is life on earth,
rather than projecting it on to an other person, a leader, an entity, an organization, while at the same time
belonging to families, neighborhoods, work groups, friend groups, volunteer groups, associating without the projection that those others hold our truth.”
“If we notice that we are prone to regression, and by that I mean
we're prone to fantastical excitement and handing power over to these media figures,
the thing that we can do to help ourselves is to turn your phone off, is to
stop subjecting yourself to certain hypnotic streams of manipulation.
And that's a form of humility, that if we know that, God, if I open that news channel, I'm going to be watching it for six hours because that happens every time.”