From the standpoint of ordinary consciousness,
separateness seems to be a basic part of the human condition. Most human beings
experience themselves as egos trapped inside their own minds space, observing a
world who seems to be out there, on the other side of their skulls. As a
result, the normal human state is one of aloneness. We are always onlookers
rather than participants. We can communicate with other people by speaking,
writing or gesturing, but they will never be able to truly know us, or to share
our thoughts and feelings. Our inner being will always be sealed off from them.
Ego-separation also creates a sense of incompleteness. Because we are separate
from the world, we are like fragments which have broken off from the whole, and
so we feel a sense of insufficiency. There s a kind of hole inside us which we
spend most of our lives trying to fill (but very rarely manage to), like cats
who were taken away from their mother at birth and who are always hankering for
affection and attention to try to compensate for a sense of lack. Born-again
Christians mean something close to this when they say that there is a
god-shaped hole inside us although in my view traditional religion can't fill
the hole either, only provide the same (ultimately incomplete) consolation as
wealth or success.
A wonderfull movie (Christopher Nolan) - Memento
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcreh6_memento-po-kolei-lektor_shortfilms#.UctRRxaCh3s
As a result of this aloneness and incompleteness, we
don t feel completely at home in the world. We re not completely rooted here,
and so feel somehow adrift, as if we don t fully belong, like people who have
travelled around the world so much that they no longer feel at home anywhere.
Whereas traditional indigenous peoples seem to perceive the world as a benign
and benevolent place, to us it seems indifferent and even vaguely malevolent.
A wonderfull movie (Christopher Nolan) - Memento
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcreh6_memento-po-kolei-lektor_shortfilms#.UctRRxaCh3s
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