05/23/2023
*I’m not talking about fixing it, I’m talking about making a change in the mind that realizes; my god I’m crazy…
We have lost the feeling of the beauty of the world that we are looking for substitutes. Erich Hoffer said: “You can never get enough of what you don’t really want.” Meaning we rush around buying stuff, needing stuff permanently needy, needing therapists, needing love, needing relationships, needing holidays, needing vacations and you deserve it; says the ads, you deserve it because you’re miserable, you’re depressed.
So now the government has all the health services so you can read a questionnaire and find out you’re depressed even if you don’t really know it or feel it it can be discovered and then you can take medication against it. But the feeling of loss: is that we don’t know what it is we’ve lost and that’s what I’ve been trying to emphasize; is what we’ve lost is the beauty of the world and we make up for it with attempting to conquer the world or own the world possess the world.
You know, I’m a therapist so I’m very careful about using words like saving so I’m not really talking about “saving” or “salvation” or any of that. I’m talking much more about waking up to common sense, it’s just a matter of realizing how dependent we are on taking a deep breath or how dependent we’re upon our glass of water and if that is lost then we are in some kind of unreal world; delusional world.
So it’s that waking up to insanity of the way we’ve structured ourselves rather than doing something in the world to make a change, that’s the old style American way; let’s fix it, I’m not talking about fixing it, I’m talking about making a change in the mind that realizes; my god I’m crazy.
Once we reawaken our aesthetic sense and are not anesthetized as we’re by all the distractions; if we’re not anesthetized we would be able to see and appreciate the beauty in the world. Now the moment there’s beauty, you fall in love with beauty that’s Plato but it’s also our own experiences. You see a beautiful man or a beautiful woman and you fall in love with them that’s the first bit of attraction and if you fall in love with something ; love the world, not through Christian moralism about you must love the world or an economic one is sustainability for our own benefit therefore we live longer that is not it, it’s got to be something much more profound that touches the heart and it touches the heart if you realize that our job on the earth is to love it; to fall in love with it; not just to love it -you must love the world- but to fall in love with it and you only fall in love with it if you aesthetically alive to it.”
-From James Hillman Interview
