A Twist of Fate?! The call of destiny. Vertical thought? Punishment of time.

A Twist of Fate?! The call of destiny. Vertical thought? Punishments of time.

As a storyteller, I often marvel at the gems of truths buried in the language we use. A twist of fate? really. For most of us familiar with the expression, it would mean something unexpected something from left field, something that was, however, explicable by secrets, events, or actions from the past suddenly revealing itself, something that was always there. An awakening, a quickening.

Genuine stories can release us from our preoccupations with linear time and the anesthetic of mediocrity. Genuine stories, authentic stories can project us through the paradoxical present moment into the “Otherworld” which is a pulsing, inspired realm right next to the world of measurements and facts… it is the inner-world and underworld, ever alive with birds that speak and shining cities under the waves, mystical dragons unicorns power and totem animals. The Otherworld remains in the depths of memory waiting to be expressed just as certainly as the ancient paintings that waited to be discovered in prehistoric caves. Art music dance and so on.

As we move back towards the eternal and reconnect with the triple aspects of below, above, and middle we feel the quickening, the Joie de vivre. That tremendous release of energy we all feel about the carpet work, which makes the guts sluts we are.

Vertical thought. The Quickening.

 The quickening stimulate or become stimulated. “her interest quickened”

synonyms: stimulate, excite, stir up, arouse, rouse, waken, animate, activate, incite, galvanize, instigate, whet, inspire, kindle, fan, refresh, strengthen, invigorate, reanimate, reactivate, revive, revitalize, resuscitate, revivify; titillate, tempt

Joie de vivre is a French phrase often used in English to express a cheerful enjoyment of life; an exultation of spirit. It “can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do… And joie de vivre may be seen as a joy of everything, a comprehensive joy, a philosophy of life 

A Twist of Fate?! The call of Destiny. Vertical thought? When we lose contact with our destiny, our connection to the vertical (above, below, middle), and the eternal, we become bound to our fate and sentenced to the punishments of time. The older we get the more pressure there is to resolve the fate-destiny conundrum. We live in a world that sits on a three-legged stool. Ego, Soul, and Shadow. 

‎“Those who trade their dreams for the safety of a prescribed life make a false and foolish bargain with the world. They live in a sleeping village even as they pursue a busy life. They have the trappings of outer success, but fall into the trap of failing to become who they are at their core.” Michael Meade “Fate and destiny”.

For many of us, the tensions of the dilemma are just too great, so we turn our attention to the outside world and its distractions of ever-increasing intensity.  Our media have made a fetish out of our demands for distraction, and a promise that we will never have to be present, “in” the moment again. Which we blame them for of course. We become preoccupied with a flat world where the future is in front of us the past behind we look to left and right to compare ourselves to others we watch our backs. We begin to experience our world as flat. This is not a way to live; this is a way to die. A Living death.

In a flat world, time punishes us. As we move further from the eternal vertical axis, time appears to speed up. We don’t have time anymore and the people we have to deal with don’t have time either. As we move away from the eternal many experience this loss of connection with the life force as depression and anxiety. In a flat world, the antidote to anxiety and depression is drugs of all sorts and mood-altering behavior patterns. However in a return to innocence, it is not the trouble we get into that is the issue rather it is getting into the right trouble, the trouble that will circle us back to the eternal. Examining our own trouble objectively will show us the way back.

When Euclid started out to measure Hades, A Poem by Harry Martinson 

He found it had neither depth nor height.

Demons flatter than stingrays

Swept above the plains of death…….

There were only waves, no hills, no chasms or valleys.

Only lines, parallel happenings, angles lying prone.

Demons shot along like elliptical plates:

They covered an endless field in Hades as though with moving dragon scales

Victims of flat evil,

With no comfort from a high place

Or support from a low place.

Burial mounds are flattened by forgetfulness.

In some ways we are like the dog that bites the stones that are thrown at it, we miss the cause of our discomfort. In our moment of peril, who should we turn to for advice? In dark and troubled times ancient peoples turned to the poets and mystics, not to escape reality, but to find solace, understanding, and inspiration. The mystics say that something that turns within us helps to make the world turn. They say that there is a “light seed grain inside; you fill it with yourself, or it dies.” Come fill yourself with poetry, music, and timeless stories of old.

“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
~ Rumi

A return to innocence.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08