HOPE and DESPAIR

Two sides of the same coin, both as completely useless as even negative, from my point of view.

HOPE, the guaranteed attitude to be disappointed,

DESPAIR, the other side of the same polarity, now sinking in the disappointment, or the result of it...

Both are symptoms of a clear lack of Spirit, usually consequent of a deep state of denaturation... In nature there is no good nor bad, no judgment Nature is.

We as humans have a strong tendency for anthropomorphisms, as we tend to take ourselves as frame of reference, and then project that on whatever we see...and then comes the judgment which usually is strongly biased by our Culture (understand education in the larger sense of the word).

Bipolarity is a sign of retreat from reality and nature. In nature there is complexity yes, and that is never reduced to two choices nor two directions; we live on a spherical planet a multitude of directions and choices, it is just our judgmental functioning brain that reduces the possibilities. And then sometimes there is no choice at all, you are just to undergo the events as I just experienced in Austria, where a car rammed me frontally...blinded by the sun, fell asleep, got a fit or playing with her mobile phone...who knows? Anyway...

Once we get really aware of that our world opens up to a brave new world. ( Not Aldous Huxley's)

This brave new world is the world of FORM and NATURE.

Still adamantly wrote about this, probably not just because that was his observation and strong conviction but very probably also because he observed where the rapidly changing world of Industrialization, was leading to.

If and when you drop the anthropomorphism's , and go into nature as it is.. you realize there is only the moment, and the next and the next...all the rest is brain stuff...that is why I like ... no love ... the African bush, it is a place where you just are a part of the environment...just be.

Your full attention and awareness are required, presence for a 100% in the moment of the whole. I get that too I must admit in the clinic with some deep work with the patients, that requires, from me at least, no thinking just be...be so deep and far at the same moment that proprioception is reduced to an unconscious minimum and the normal daily limits of space time awareness fade away...Just presence and observation with all the senses...after such a treatment it is a bit like the feeling I get in the Bush too...emotions, the chitchat of the mind, all comes to peace...no place for hope nor despair there.

Hope and despair feel like an escape from reality but not one that brings peace of mind I fear, nor the power or the force of just being.

And submit too, or deal with it whatever life's journey throws at you, sometimes shit just happens and then sometimes there are ecstatic moments, but in the end it is what it is in the moment.

One Life live it, was Land Rovers motto at some moment, above and beyond , was another one and I must say from the perspective of just be in the moment and live there as full as you can; I can't say more than AGREE.

And I really think that some philosophies go in that same direction like Buddhism for instance, me personally I find those in nature, that is my religion, my Spirituality and my life for as much as possible while juggling through the complicated way of life our Western society, puts us in. And a difficult juggle it is, some compromises I take gladly, others less ... but alas it is what it is....

I wanted to become a ranger in Africa but then you have to deal with with the whole range of some nice but also stupid ass.ole tourists, I wanted to have a snake farm...same story, I wanted to be a Nature researcher but then without the heavy licking somewhere to get the funds....same story, in the end I am trying to become an Osteopath, very hard trying it since 1985, and an anatomist, and I found my peace there...no licking- make my own funds, go to Africa in the bush and evince the tourists, do some overlanding, as a self-employed practitioner and teacher I can arrange within a certain range of compromises how I live and work and be busy with what I love, Nature in all its dimensions most of my time...patients no name Form, the forests in Germany, the forest in Brabant, and the African bush or deserts, and since short the Abruzzi mountains, and most of all the mostly young minds of osteopaths...a dream came true? No, hard work, blood, sweat and tears but never loosing the Spirit... Incredible people that I don't even know else than through the internet...Fantastic Fellows, fantastic brothers in arms...Friends since more than 30 years, people that make the walk through life worth doing it every moment again...and a family, too good to be true for me, when I see all of the nonsense they have to put up with me. No time neither for hope nor for despair, it is what it is....

I am a lucky bastard I guess but the red thread of Nature runs through my life since I am 9...and all moments were worthwhile in all ranges from sad to happy and we'll see how the rest of the story goes...so funny the story of life if you have solid baseline and Nature is mine....

Cheers

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