Don't really know what to say except that its nice (that most bland of adjectives) to hear from so many people I haven't been in contact with for a while.
The title of this post refers to something I was reading today from Heart of Yoga (Desikachar). He talks about how to construct your own yoga practice. It's a really down to earth book, very accessible and it is the style of a teacher I really admire so it is cool for me to see the tradition she is coming from. (ann it is that friday woman sue who you always really liked).
IW and I are both reading (different) books on Jung at the moment. He just told me something interesting a la Jung:
That youth and adolescence are a process of separating yourself from the universe and adulthood is a process of reintegrating and finding your place in the world again.
It makes me wonder then if it goes back again to withdraw for death and separation when you are elderly.
it's interesting because in my book today he was saying that individuality is a somewhat contentious state, which in a simplistic way would account for the above but perhaps in that case reintegration is the wrong word and it is more conformity that we go through in adulthood.
He discusses indivduality as subject to and moulded by the church and the state.
We have made science (statistical data) paramount in our society, and as a medium it discounts the individual as incompatible subjective data, yet any statistic if broken down is comprised of the same data it denies the validity of.
The church acknowledges the individual only through its adherence to their dogma which is basically again placing it in a collective category.
Jung says:In both cases the will to idividuality is regarded as egotistic obstinancy.
Which maybe explains why it is so hard to make sense of your own place in the world.
So, my novice advice?
Begin where you are.
: )
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