Chapter 1 

A strong emotion, whether love or a sense of failure, always raises the question, "in relation to what?" What braces that sense of love or sense of failure? Who is making the judgment of failure and who is making the judgment that this is love? If it is internal then who or what brought that internal sense into being and what keeps it constant?

But then when one penetrates the illusion behind this consistent judgment then he or she is susceptible to many forces, some of them benign and some of them not so benign. Doesn't that describe a problem for this time in which all the illusions are down and great susceptibility is opened up? There is great opportunity but great danger as well because in place of the broken illusions may come something far worse, may come something far more treacherous and illusory.

There is wonderful pleasure in overcoming one's own personal mythology and overcoming the inherited tensions thrown down at the nexus of society.

David Eide
January 24, 2014