Trying to connect the concept of “read-outs” with the third level promise that “Intimacy is” has caused me to see how I equate such admirable qualities as compassion, empathy, communication and intimacy with acts of reaching out.  Loneliness, isolation, depression all seem to beg for a reaching out to others (other people, other points of view, other times and places).  In light of this human need for communication, it is strange to read how everything we experience is complete in and of itself, requiring no companions in time and space, and offering no links to anything outside itself.  I can kind of appreciate how reaching out assumes distance, isolation, and a feeling that we lack something; and it does seem that the urge to communicate can be an expression of intimacy, not a reaching out for it.  (So I guess offering to let you be in my read-out, if you’ll let me be in yours, misses the point.)  Does that mean that it’s only through the unifying force of  Great Time that we communicate at all?  Is the idea of a Read-Out pointing out how our  sense of  reality is merely a mental construct, which cannot capture anything except its own categories?  Perhaps, alongside our way of perceiving, experiencing, projecting, etc (and other related tendencies to Read-out Reality), we can still sense that we are not alone, and still search for greater integration of all that seems “real” to us? — Michael
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Hi Tina,
Thank you for your comment. It helps me to see how the self is incapable of feeling comfortable in any realm (such as a read-out) that does not confirm its existence above and beyond that particular context. The self needs to believe it has an embilical cord connecting it to a grand destiny beyond this present moment (which thereby prevents it from actually being born?). –Michael
Hey Michael, for me, experiencing what presents itself as a ‘read-out’, takes the focus off of subject/object and allows for a relaxing into being. There is a ‘feeling’ of being in sync with everything where energies are flowing in and out and feeding into each other. It’s like a dance, and when my ‘I’ can ‘lose’ or ‘forget’ the attachment to a self that is experiencing, everything and everyone just seems to flow in this harmonious state of being and interacting and connectedness. Time flows and sometimes even seems to just hang there while the wonder of motion plays with time and floats in space. It is a very natural occurrence that can seem very magical. Senses and everything else is brighter and lighter, and joy beems. Even when there is conversation, it also flows. Within nature this seems to be the norm, but I am certain, b/c of our tendencies to separate ourselves out, practice becomes necessary to just learn how to dance and feel a part of…
Much love, Tina