The event
caused two parts of me,
to split
into total polarity
One part
Super keen and too intense
like a teenager on speed
wanting to tell everyone
'the worlds not as it seems'
and the part on the other side
terrified
as my normal life and views
fall apart
desperately trying to find the brakes but it can't
For a while I'd just be switching
from one to the other
One day I'd be one part
freewheeling into the future
the next day I'd be the other part
Playing conservator
Both parts, slightly unstable, ungrounded,
immature
2 reactions,
the same, but opposite
to an event that blew my mind.
And for a little while
these parts were so loud
I could barely hear myself
sitting in the middle
Slowly over time
I've been taking back control
peacefully, not forcefully
as both parts still want to be heard
Yes it's true this is 'fucking weird'
I say to one part
and yes that's true, it is 'exciting'
I say to the other
and from my place in the middle
I do my best to relax and surrender
and trust
that things are unfolding as they are meant to
And I accept that. for a while longer,
I'll need to play mother,
To these two young parts,
as they hopefully slowly shift towards centre.
Recently poems have been kind of writing themselves when I do my 'morning pages' journalling. I don't usually consciously try to write them but after the last zoom meeting discussion on integration I thought I'd try to see if I can coax one out to describe some of my experience of this. Integration is still very much ongoing! And 'morning pages' have been my best tool to help me.
Yes that's nice. I lost my ego many years ago, but initially it was a little bit painful that the world is not my ego - little pain and strong decisions in letting go. Now I'm kind of adult, I dont feel pain and I don't decide to let go, I really search my real thing. I don't feel need to show people that I let go, rather I express a little tactful pain for people, who want to play their complex games - I do understand, what they get from this. But I don't have this pain inside.
Because it has become pleasureful to let go of the ego, the new self or higher ego is approaching, this is really the need to integrate - I many years I lost things I did not ask for, but it has to be part of human experience to love yourself, it's also a part of buddhism. Hermit times get over and the instincts for society need to be restored, but they don't hurt and pain any more, they have new solutions. Games need to be played but they are playful. This is the collective enlightenment. From the oneness-consciousness, I reached back to myself, which was something I searched for long - now my ego is based on collective reason, and thus has it's own reason, it's not a thing on it's own any more. So I can rebuild those healthy self-defense mechanisms and pursuits for money and career. Finally it's all about becoming human and enlightened person is no different from others. This is the integration.