First, I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend and how that knowledge came to you. Thank you for sharing his teachings with us. Second, your discussion about freedom and limits came to me the same week that I caught up on the episode of harry potter and the sacred text (series 2, book 1: chapter 16) read in the theme of freedom. Matt Potts shares a story at the beginning of the episode that is very similar in spirit to how you're coming to understand freedom, meaning freedom isn't being able to do whatever you want to do without consequence, it's defined in relationship to the people and things around you. In his case, if he wanted to be free to date the woman who eventually became his wife, he would have to quit smoking. I thought these two offerings went well together.
I'm going to confess that I am finally taking the time to go back through these archives. I'm making a little bibliography of the books and articles as they're mentioned and I love how long it already is! Also feeling moved to mention that the first card I ever pulled from a tarot deck (that was later gifted to me and became the set I learned to read with) was The Devil and I can still feel the kind of electric charge in the memory of that moment. (Identities of evil aside, I want to thank Joseph Campbell for introducing me to an allegedly Persian story of how Satan was God's greatest lover and forged hell out of heartbreak.)
The etymological roots of capture reminded me of learning relatively recently that "care," situated here in relation to freedom, is originally a term of "sorrow" and I'm still reeling with that every time I hear "take care!" now.
First, I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend and how that knowledge came to you. Thank you for sharing his teachings with us. Second, your discussion about freedom and limits came to me the same week that I caught up on the episode of harry potter and the sacred text (series 2, book 1: chapter 16) read in the theme of freedom. Matt Potts shares a story at the beginning of the episode that is very similar in spirit to how you're coming to understand freedom, meaning freedom isn't being able to do whatever you want to do without consequence, it's defined in relationship to the people and things around you. In his case, if he wanted to be free to date the woman who eventually became his wife, he would have to quit smoking. I thought these two offerings went well together.
I'm going to confess that I am finally taking the time to go back through these archives. I'm making a little bibliography of the books and articles as they're mentioned and I love how long it already is! Also feeling moved to mention that the first card I ever pulled from a tarot deck (that was later gifted to me and became the set I learned to read with) was The Devil and I can still feel the kind of electric charge in the memory of that moment. (Identities of evil aside, I want to thank Joseph Campbell for introducing me to an allegedly Persian story of how Satan was God's greatest lover and forged hell out of heartbreak.)
The etymological roots of capture reminded me of learning relatively recently that "care," situated here in relation to freedom, is originally a term of "sorrow" and I'm still reeling with that every time I hear "take care!" now.