Surfing simultaneous states: Beauty, fear, joy and despair
Only in solitude can you find and discover a sense of your own beauty — John O’Donohue*
Isolation, hope, despair, beauty and pain are all present, for me, simultaneously.
Pleasures!?
Who’d have thought it. From grounding most international flights, virtual education and Donald Trump looking to Europe for hope,* the impossible has become possible.
Windows may be opening. Yet, like me, you’ll have experienced joy and despair; unease and liveliness; isolation and inner beauty exploration. And much more too.
It is common to think of these as polar opposites. But, I am all of these things—xenophobia scares me while simultaneously I’m buoyed by how obvious it is we are globally connected, interdependent.
Maybe our feelings, our emotional states, are all true. All present at the same time.
What do I feel?
I am in lower states such as:
- Tortured—by possible totalitarian control measures, fascist internment.
- Tormented—by nationalistic inward drawing, xenophobic tendencies
And, concurrently, I sit in the middle, medium states:
- Very uneasy—is there a preponderance of fear over love, myopic self interest overwhelming generosity and care?
- Uneasy, uncomfortable—It’s enabling our compassion. We’re realising we don’t want to go back to life as it was.
- Somewhat uneasy,”okay”, full of small faults—finally ideas like universal basic income and country/student debt elimination are prominent.
- Satisfied, well—when I touch someone, virtually. When what I do matters, helps.
- Good, lively—when I remember my bodily experience as I howled with the wolves, human wolves across North America, at eight for the health care workers.
- Joyous, full of light, invigorated— as I laugh at my howling. It needs work 🙂
High states are real for me as well:
- Vast, grand, open—as I sense the presence of the more beautiful world. It’s shimmering just beneath the surface.
- Blissful, saintly—as I write those words about shimmering potential. It is right here, right now.
- Enlightened, spiritual unity—A holistic renaissance may be underway. One in which entanglement of our lives, our global life, overcomes fear, connects to heal trauma, usurps separation cracks with love.
Yes, you are right. I did start my states at no.3. I’m sure I could touch and experience 1. hell or, maybe a little less horrific, 2. loose all distinctions between my self-identity in pain and loss all around. Fortunately, I’ve not been aware of either.
Making sense
“A few months ago, a proposal to halt commercial air travel would have seemed preposterous. Likewise for the radical changes we are making in our social behavior, economy, and the role of government in our lives.
Covid demonstrates the power of our collective will when we agree on what is important. What else might we achieve, in coherency?”*
There’s coherency in multiple emotional states. We’re not moving pushed by one thing into another. Probably they are all real except when we notice one. And then that passes.
We can influence the chances of experiencing one or another. Try it here >
State details, links and more on the science base for this post in resources below.
Resources
Links and references
John O’Donohue’s quote is from his reading of Anam Cara. See Anam Cara and the Essence of True Friendship: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Beautiful Ancient Celtic Notion of Soul-Friend here > for more.
The coherency quote is Charles Eisenstein from his great article, The Coronation, here >
Donald Trump looked to Europe for hope as as infection rates fall there. See this article >
Just as the Spanish flu helped create public health systems a century later, as Charles Eisenstein puts it, “Covid-19 is showing us that when humanity is united in common cause, phenomenally rapid change is possible.”
These stories form part of a series: The Window: Love in the time of corona. See more here > Many of these stories are about Transformation. It’s happening, positively, all around us. See the transformation tag, for more, here >
Pictures and feature video from Italians sing the national anthem out of their windows in Rome amid virus lockdown except women looking from tower window @Hey_Lexyy
Books
The state scale is from Hanzi Freinacht The Listening Society. See this brief introduction and audio, meta-modern, here > The full book is here >
Simultaneous true states, until one is measured, is potential from Quantum Social Science. See introduction, Imagination: keys to a quantum leap, and book link here >
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By @franchisesound Lyrics by @danajaybein
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