
Dec 26
Today the Universe Asks You This Question – How many people are you? Itâs a subject for deep study as you try to decide. Twinning is Entwining. Sometimes we dream disturbingly about things we donât want and people we arenât. Feminists dream of rape, vegetarians dream of meat, pacifists dream of fighting. Itâs unsettling. What gives?
Language Isnât Subtle Enough to Explain You â Your personality manifests all feelings, all thoughts, all ideas, rippling through you in a vast subconscious river. Your unconscious connects with the âcollective unconsciousâ of other peoples â dead, alive, even fictional. Why isnât âhate-loveâ a word? You experience that regularly. How about âfear-attractionâ? Common! What Iâm suggesting is that we need to accept the fact that a âpersonalityâ is a dynamism, not a label.
Purrson Challenge â Facing this ambivalence might seem the toughest part, but it isnât for Purrsons, who routinely âplayâ along their edge, peeking over it and imagining life on the other side. Art is the best way to express this, an enormous relief, since itâs essentially non-committal. We are âplayingâ. Of course, youâll have to face the surprise of your relatives when your dreams becomes public: âWhere did THAT come from?â But if truth be told, weâve always been surprised to be related to those people who claim they are our family.
Purrson Danger â Society seeks to label, limit and stigmatize. Everyone is afraid of becoming our fear but Purrsons need to explore every fear we have. A simple safe word canât work when people â bankers, politicians, therapists, employers – are so fundamentally untrustworthy. That is why our identification of ourselves as Brave Purrsons is so vital. The vastness of our potential cannot be controlled by language. We will never be butterflies pinned down in a museum box for the instruction/curiosity of others.
Purrson Opportunity â Appreciate your Self. Donât slam the door on your potentialities too soon. Sometimes the worst labeler, the most determined jailor, is Us. We are deeply afraid of wandering in the forest and losing the way to get home safe. But Purrsons carry Home within them. As Nelson Mandela used to quote from his prison cell, if we are the captains of our souls we can be the masters of our fates. (Henley.) We can learn to tolerate a little ambiguity/uncertainty/ambivalence.
Purrsons Tolerate Uncertainty â Being a Purrson is all about balance. The experience of balance-seeking is indescribable linguistically â it must be felt experientially. Purrsons learn to live in a world beyond language where we can savor uncertainty and foretaste eternity.
Purrsons Relish Paradox â Two contraries not only exist together but empower each other – that Purrson tension is the lifeblood of emotion, imagination and personality.
Purrsons Coast on the Knife-Edge of Ambivalence â The desired is undesirable, the only possibility is impossible and the act of wanting forbids getting. Purrsons become comfortable with the pleasures of this dance: âMy future dissolves in beads of sweat, my present is my mirror, my pastâs a shape-shifting whirligig.â (Aallyn)
Leaders Must Surrender â Physics is magic and dreams embody history. This quantum world of âspooky entanglementsâ is one in which we Purrsons become expert. We accept not only that the cave we fear holds the treasure we desire, but that we are both cave and treasure, indeed, fear itself.
Models & Mentors – âIt seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It is this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.â â John Scott
âAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.â
â Erica Jong
âThe Simpsons is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but drives you crazyâ
â Matt Groening
âPoetry is the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.â â Billy Collins








