Thanks, Philip, and Andrew.
Andrew, I am sorry if I gave the impression that merely blurting out something emotional was the answer. I agree, there has to be a deepening of consciousness. Pure acting out (or blurting out) is childish.
One of my Gods, D.H.Lawrence, who is snorted at globally these days, was often accused of inciting emotionalism, to which he once retorted in a poem ("Flowers and Men"):
Oh leave off saying I want you to be savages.
Tell me, is the gentian savage, at the top of its coarse stem?
Oh what in you can answer to this blueness?
And he also warned that:
"If we do not rapidly open all the doors of consciousness
and freshen the putrid little space in which we are cribbed
the sky-blue walls of our unventilated heaven
will be bright red with blood."
Which I believe absolutely.
But where is consciousness to be expanded? Certainly not into "higher" and more rarefied levels of "spiritual" consciousness, in order to become disembodied angels - but downwards into the darkness below the present threshold. Lawrence writes:
Lucifer
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
But tell me, tell me, how do you know
he lost any of his brightness in the falling?
In the dark-blue depths, under layers and layers of darkness,
I see him more like the ruby, a gleam from within
of his own magnificence,
coming like the ruby in the invisible dark, glowing
with his own annunciation, towards us.
- D.H. Lawrence
We recall that "lucifer" is "the bearer of the light". The darkness bears the light. All light and no shadow (the current ideal) makes for two-dimensional flatness of consciousness.
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