What if we didn't treat Bert as father? well, I think it would be so boring, so
tidy, so soulless. Like a very bad and insipid novel.
Where we would be at if it wouldn't be because all our projections,
undercurrents, longings, fights, reconciliations, learnings, if we would not
lose ourselves to find us back at another level and see our scars with pride
and dignity. What stories would we tell our grandchildren?
Jean Houston once asked Australian aborigine, about what, according to them was
the difference with the cangaroo and the other animals with them, Why she said,
we are the ones who tell their stories.
We are storytelling beings. What other gift we can give the creator if it is
not the story of our lifes? Our adventures?
The father/mother projection is a reduction of nominalistic psychology, leaving
outside the deeper mythological and archetypal dimensions from where our true
human heritage comes from.
Bert is not only father, is lover, is the old wise man, is the hermit, is the
impeccable warrior, is the iconoclast, is the damned poet, is the artist, is
the wanderer of strange lands, is Shiva, the destroyer of worlds, is the one
who dared where we don't... as yet, is the genius of the lamp, is the
trickster.
And we love him, and we hate him, and he stirs all our human stuff, and from
that chaotic soup we build our own mythical life. A house of mirrors you see?
If teachers would be only teachers and mountains only mountains then we would
need another species to "tell our stories"
And Jane, if we would not project so much! you would have not risked coming
into the forum.
Cheers
daniel
