tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post8971322424017125042..comments2023-09-15T05:24:29.125-07:00Comments on What lies within: What arises from taking on responsibility....Margaret Dempseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-48200314614599299412007-10-26T14:13:00.000-07:002007-10-26T14:13:00.000-07:00Ha ha this is an easy one to answer. If someone d...Ha ha this is an easy one to answer. If someone doesn't tell me that they are reading this blog then how am I supposed to know. I can't really say 'I notice you are acting strange, have you been reading my blog'. No, when I write my blog, I write it and I then forget about it until the next morning.<BR/><BR/>Having said that I have been thinking about this comment and wondering whether there is any truth in it. Today a friend launched a venomous attack with the words 'are you going to be a fool all your life'. Those words reverberated with me all day. I wondered whether she had read this blog and her attack came from a personality that in some way felt threatened by what is in this blog . <BR/><BR/>The attack didn't come from her soul because a little while later I received an email which came from her soul because it was an apology.<BR/><BR/>The ego personality will never apologise. It will always make itself right and the other wrong. <BR/>As I write this I am reminded of the story of Plato's cave. This is a story where prisoners are chained together facing a blank wall. Behind these people is a fire. People walking behind the fire are reflected on the wall so they appear as shadows. The prisoners take the shadows on the wall to be real. One prisoner breaks free of the chains and turns around. He sees how it is the fire that is causing the shadow of people walking around outside to be reflected on the wall. <BR/><BR/>He goes back to tell his colleagues but they are not interested and end up killing him. This story says to me that any change to what is familiar will be resisted at all cost. Resistance is inherent in the design of human.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure that I have all the detail of this story accurately but the principle of resistance to seeing the familiar in a new way is real and on-going.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for your comment. It enabled me to write about Plato's cave. And the message I saw in it for what arose for me today. To see something differently is not to be enlightened it is simply to see something differently. Shifts of consciousness happen at that moment of 'seeing' differently.Margaret Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385395565359693331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8830933917349183001.post-42900043002688696292007-10-25T21:29:00.000-07:002007-10-25T21:29:00.000-07:00If work seems a little strange, consider that you ...If work seems a little strange, consider that you have been writing this blog for a while. Maybe one of your colleagues has stumbled across it. Maybe they have told some of their colleagues, and so on...<BR/><BR/>This must have been a possibility you accepted or expected when you started, so you should not be surprised if it has happened now.<BR/><BR/>Suppose they did find out. They might not know how to approach you. What would you do about it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com