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What is detachment? What is separation?
Detachment distances A from B, sufficient to get a clear view of B, and thus they are in relationship. Detachment is the noble Buddha nature: intimacy without entangling. Rafael’s calm clarity presides.
Separation is A tugging away from B, while tightly bound together. They are blindfold – too close-up to be in relationship: their belief is locked in separateness, which avoids relationship. If I stand on a cliff and look down at the sea, I see the rocks, the fishes and the beauty deep down. When I am in the sea, I cannot see! When I am climbing the mountain I am too close to it – and struggling – to see its shape at dawn.
And yet we must swim … and we must climb … and we must be, to see again.
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Painting by Jung, 4 January 1920 – Watering Hades. Inscription reads: “This the holy caster of water. The Cabiri grow out of the flowers which spring from the body of the dragon. Above is the temple.” How Aquarian this is!
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In the Red Book, Jung shot down a proud enemy. He says: “I forced a greater and stronger one to be my friend. Nothing should separate me from him, the dark one. If I want to leave him, he follows me like my shadow … Who succeeded in crossing the borders of this realm with good grounds, pure conscience and obeying the law of love? … Who is it that tore apart his own heart to unite what has been separated?”
He turns to meet his Shadow. “He will turn into fear if I deny him … In that I accepted myself, I divided myself into two, and in that I united myself with myself.”
As in The Lovers, Tarot Key 6, whose hebrew letter is ZAIN, sword-tip, he parted his selves with the blade of discernment and turned them to face each other openly: to dialogue reciprocally and become united. The sword tip moves deftly, to un-mix things. It separates ingredients so they stand in relation with one another. It reverses co-dependency – when humans are mixed up with each other, they cannot see clearly.
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In this picture-story, I abandoned drawing (and writing) with my right hand, and started to do it with my left. You can too – and see how it feels.
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Detachment is lucid union – a major achievement with one’s shadow, as with the beloved! We turn to look and see. Be still and know that I am. This is not easy when the gut is churning or worrying black soul-nights.
But we turn (metanoia) to see. To see is to befriend. This beautiful word metanoia means “repent” – whose true meaning is “to turn and learn.” To turn … is choosing and letting in the Light.
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Unity is not alone. Unity is dialogue, the passing to and fro of Being.
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Aquariel – an angel of the waters and of the air through the woods of life.
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