I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. As, in a theatre, The lights are extinguished, for the scene to be changed With a hollow rumble of wings, with a movement of darkness on darkness
'Papa Gentle', what a wonderful name! Loved this story of the storm and his heroic deeds. I've been following your substack for many months now; through the outrage and heartbreak, the stark and unmasked baring of your soul, at once a poetic and avenging clarion bell for all.
Todays reading reminded me of my own indoctrination into the Catholic church at five or six years old. It was a conscious decision on my part to trust the adults around me to know better than my own experience. Simply because they were the power structure and supposedly wiser, I gave them the benefit of my doubt.
Ten years later, I took back my trust and power by stepping out of that cult, (and have been sidestepping it ever since.) But I wonder if that experience afforded me the insight and strength to trust myself when in doubtful environs; point being that these 'indoctrinating' experiences so many of us fall into, face up to, and struggle to extricate ourselves from are perhaps necessary lessons toward Self awareness, confidence, and determination.
'Papa Gentle', what a wonderful name! Loved this story of the storm and his heroic deeds. I've been following your substack for many months now; through the outrage and heartbreak, the stark and unmasked baring of your soul, at once a poetic and avenging clarion bell for all.
Todays reading reminded me of my own indoctrination into the Catholic church at five or six years old. It was a conscious decision on my part to trust the adults around me to know better than my own experience. Simply because they were the power structure and supposedly wiser, I gave them the benefit of my doubt.
Ten years later, I took back my trust and power by stepping out of that cult, (and have been sidestepping it ever since.) But I wonder if that experience afforded me the insight and strength to trust myself when in doubtful environs; point being that these 'indoctrinating' experiences so many of us fall into, face up to, and struggle to extricate ourselves from are perhaps necessary lessons toward Self awareness, confidence, and determination.
''Remember, the point is not to survive linearly, in the temporal sense , but perpendicularly to that, in the eternal. " EJ Gold