--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For that matter, could *all* forms of addiction > be a way to preserve the illusion of self, and > keep selflessness at bay? <snip>
I'd agree with this. The Dark Night's "hell" appears to be the pain of the withdrawal from particular identification with and addiction to spacetime and the relative, as one moves from identifying with an effect (the particle) through Nothingness to identifying with the emptiful, simple, ordinary, innocent Cause (OneMind, the Heart of All in the perfect Now). I think it was Anne Wilson Schaef's "Escape from Intimacy: Untangling the 'Love' Addictions: Sex, Romance, Relationships," which struck me in how clearly her description of sobriety resonated with my own Dark Night and first Self-recognition of/as Brahman. This is not to say that that first dawning eradicated all addictive tendencies forever, as there have since then been subtler and subtler "threads-to-other" coming to awareness to reintegrate and subsume into the Self -- more and more sobriety which paradoxically also includes the identification with the particle's utter abandon and intoxicated devotional surrender to the Whole. I have been finding this whole-hearted surrender is automatic *after* the mechanics of the collapse (Incarnation) of the Whole into the particle, and the exalting/humiliating Unity of both, are pretty fully comprehended. But then, I had not been a bhakti... *L*L*L* To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
