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• “Called Out of Darkness,” a Spiritual Confession by Ann Rice

   …was playing in my Mail Jeep today.

  It is a very interesting journey, from being a Catholic, to Atheist to…not sure, not done with the book. 

  It was very interesting to see her viewpoint of religion and really life itself.

  She is about 20 years older than me, for she graduated the year I was born. But she noticed as a child, that the adult didn't like the children, and often times treated them as if they were innately bad. That if the adults were not watching the children would naturally misbehave.  

  She didn't like the way adults treated the children.  Her parents were different, and to them the kids were just other people in the house…and she never even was treated like a girl, but just a person.  So, she didn't have gender self esteem issues.  In fact her parents named her Howard and the kids called their parents by their given name. They didn't know authority in their home.  An interesting way to grow up.

  Imagine the hidden ways in which we lower a child…naturally.

  She said children are told things long before they have a question about things.  What an interesting observation. Imagine if we didn't tell children things, but waited until they asked???

  Her mother was teaching her religion…long before she could even understand the dynamics of it.  She does however recall feelings of awe and wonder about the Saints and Statues etc.  

  Life to me is lived mostly from the Authority viewpoint and imagine how much better we would all be IF we took the child's viewpoint instead?

  Lots of our religion can't be explained to a child, yet a child can tell you all the wonders it sees as they walk through life.

  She has a very unique viewpoint of her life…and herself.  Her novels spoke of her internal spiritual struggle that she failed to realize until later…I know the feeling.

  Listening to her story has provoked many new things to ponder.  I like it when books do that…nothing I love more than to see things from a new angle.

  

  December 23, 2011

  ” a Spiritual Confession by Ann Rice, “Called Out of Darkness, adults, child, God, learning, Religion, teaching, views

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• I see me

  “Tolerance is another word for indifference.” William Somerset Maugham

  I am not sure you can have tolerance unless you are indifferent.

  Indifferent – without care or interest: showing no care or concern for or interest in somebody or something.

  I am looking at abuse and addictions from the point of the person who is on the receiving end.

  Usually abuse is looked at from the point of the abuser or addictions from the point of the substance.

  We forget to look closely at the person who is getting abused and why they have the tolerance or seem indifferent to the blows and words that are hitting them; it is because they are without care or interest for their self.

  They are indifferent to their own life.

  They show no care or concern for or interest in their own life.

  My question is when did they become so careless?
  When did they let them selves go?
  What happened that they no longer care?

  What I can know in my life is that I don’t even recall a self; I was too little to know I had a self to hang on to, to care about and to care for, and it was gone.

  My self was gone before I even had a chance to know it and know that there was something to protect.

  When a child is raised in an environment where the adults are indifferent to the child’s needs, we then become indifferent to them ourselves.

  Imagine, parents who are indifferent, without care or interest: showing no care or concern for or interest in somebody or something…and that somebody is you.

  We learn indifference.

  How they treat us is how we treat ourselves.

  We learn how to not care or show interest in our selves.

  In fact in order to survive, it is best to not have a self.

  For a self would feel their indifference and we don’t want to feel their indifference.

  It is easier to be without a self, to live in a pretend space, making believe that they care and the only way you can believe that story is to be separated from your self.

  To deny your body, deny your feelings, to not be connected to the self.

  A self who is not there will not feel their indifference…but lke the old saying goes, “If a tree falls and no one is in the forest to hear it, does it still make a noise?”

  In the same manner, if a child isn’t there to feel the indifference, does the indifference still happen?

  If a self is unaware does the indifference still affect them?

  When you are indifferent how can you know indifference?

  I don’t know what was more shocking their indifferences or me not caring for me, for me to see the lack of interest in my own life and wellbeing.

  I was indifferent to my whole life…and had to bring me back to my world, to undo the indifferences and learn how to care.

  In caring I found me.

  I am no longer indifferent… I see me.

  April 2, 2011

  abuse, awareness, beliefs, caring, childhood, dependent, indifference, life, lost, other, parents, self, tolerance, unaware, views

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• Peace Inside.

  It occurred to me yesterday, that I was like a ghost who refused to leave the scene of a tragedy, a tragedy that I died in, that I was not aware yet that I was dead, that I was lingering around waiting, not willing face it was over.

  Facebook allows me to have a portal into lives I am not a part of, and they in mine, without fully connecting in a real one on one, face to face, heart to heart, truth to truth, feelings to feelings, actions to actions, a real life body & soul connection.

  We are ghosts in each other’s lives.

  I am sure we can be haunted by these exchanges or we can be inspired.

  It occurred to me, what would happen if I did not have these portals what would I really know about my family, for in reality I don’t have body-to-body interactions?

  It is both a blessing and a curse to have this window into their worlds, I had thought that I was better off than Edna and Thelma, that I had this thread into their worlds, and now I am re-thinking that.

  What is it keeping alive?
  A relationship or the evidence that there isn’t one there?

  I am sure it is as hurtful to them as it is to me, the misunderstanding that cuts deeply each time we see their written words.

  Words online, the ghost connection, with great amounts of energy connected.

  It’s the energy I feel more than the words.

  The energy is alive and electric, cutting and decisive, very much a one-way street, no U-Turns here it screams.

  No one is willing to turn around and make a new choice, not me and not them.

  Our streets are running parallel but disconnected.

  A cement wall running between us broken now and again with facebook, a portal opens and we can see what the other is doing.

  Two roads.

  One road traveled by many, one road traveled by few.

  How can I know what it feels like to travel their road, I can’t. I can only write about mine.

  My road is leaving a family of dysfunction.
  Their road is traveling with family.

  Each of us took the road our hearts and souls directed.

  They say I chose this road, but the road chose me.

  A road that began as a very little girl…

  This road I am on was not an option then, but it was offered to me on December 4th.

  Something within me came alive, aware and alert; a voice of truth woke up.

  It spoke and I followed.

  The Universe and I walk this road, the road back to my true self.

  I am sorry we can’t agree, but it can’t be so, you can’t win the world and gain a soul.

  I know to the depth of my being you all can’t see and understand my walking, that what I say is hurtful and it is not intended to be, that my blog say things that don’t feel good, but guess what, the truth first hurt me.

  It hurt me to know what I had to know, to see what I had to see, to feel what I had to feel, yet in doing so it put me on the road to my soul.

  The soul of me, the spirit of my little girl is alive and well within me…even though this road is hard and misunderstood, it is the only road for me.

  I hope your road fills your soul, makes you dance and shine, gives you life and feeds your passion, that you are walking hand and hand with your truth. There is nothing more I can want for you is for you to be at Peace inside.

  November 19, 2010

  choices, different, facebook, ghosts, less, life, one, path, relationships, roads, soul, tragedy, traveled, two, views, ways

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