'Broody Blue was not a book'
words of a natural human mystic falling into herself
Gentle tears in my heart-eyes with the joy of recognizing one who ‘gets it’ - what a phrase, ‘Broody Blue was not a book’! Thank you Simona, for knowing this, and for being unafraid of saying it. Your insight (your whole message), requires this separate post rather than just my response under your comment.
If so inclined, readers can check the full comment Simona provided on the post ‘After Krivda here comes Broody Blue’ - much more truthful than any paraphrase that I gladly abstain from venturing.
Book lovers love books, don’t they? I am one of them. But there are books that must be more than or less than books. For me, Peter Kingsley’s work epitomizes this, in our present time.
The individual behind the book elicits a quiet, private, intimate dialogue with the reader, human-to-human, on an equal footing, in a ‘place’ where something speaks itself from beneath the words that make up the visible book. Those are the books that go with you to that desert island.
The irony of having to produce a book to convey what is not a book, something that would best be shared in prana-bathed silence… As another early reader put it, ‘it’s the book that cannot be written’.
Yet I had no choice but to write it - or rather to ‘translate’ what compelled me to do this. With that insight of Simona’s - that BB is ‘not a book’ - there comes paradoxically some sort of vindication for a book that was extraordinarily difficult-yet-natural to produce (and that I tried repeatedly to not produce).
The ‘writer’ feels gracefully humbled, in resonance, when another human’s words ‘translate’ in her own flavor the natural mystic who lives in all of us.
Wonder if you are aware of Rudolf Steiner's similar "spiritual scientific" theory that animals and humans all descended together from the spiritual to the physical plane. "Neither side develops from the other; instead both stem from the same common mixed form." says Arthur Auer about Steiner's theory. Animals were rather filtered out as humanity was distilled into physical form, "... all the qualities distributed throughout the animal kingdom were in the human being... Through this man was able to develop further [Translator)]." Humans reached a higher stage of individuation/autonomy at the expense of instinctual security. "The present insecurity is necessary to reach security at a higher stage. Man adapts himself to higher stages. Thus his becoming insecure is the guarantee that he becomes independent. To have remained secure denotes something that has not advanced to the point where the ego can work in the individual being." (from Steiner's Lecture GA 97)