
We're in the wilderness.
We're building certain kinds of relationships with other creatures who we don't know everything about and can't predict everything about. That's the wilderness.We're in another version of the ancient Forest.
We must learn to profoundly respect the circumstances and the environment and the creatures around us — or else we may stumble across a situation where a creature misunderstands us and that can be unpleasant or dangerous.
That's the wilderness.
That's sacred.
It's happening for us in a contrived and artificial context, but it's still the wilderness.
It's natural, the challenges we're encountering, even in the context of so much unnaturalness.
Words mean different things.
The meanings of words are fluid in many ways that we've been sheltered from — by systems that made everything the same around us so that we weren't living in the wilderness.
But essentially we've still always been living in the wilderness.
We just didn't know it.
MEM • 0759a, 26 March 2024
Intuitive Private Process chat group on Telegram messenger
Very thoughtful post. May we be brave and take the first step forward when we are in the gloomy woods.
"When half way through the journey of our life
I found that I was in a gloomy wood,
because the path which led aright was lost.
And ah, how hard it is to say just what
this wild and rough and stubborn woodland was,
the very thought of which renews my fear!
So bitter ’t is, that death is little worse;
but of the good to treat which there I found,
I ’ll speak of what I else discovered there." - The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian Text with a Translation in English Blank Verse and a Commentary by Courtney Langdon, vol. 1 (Inferno) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918). English version.