Mercy and the creature:
My inner adventures are taking me to a place of great mercy. Many of us may be experiencing great dives into uncharted territory of the inner psyche. It may be subterranean caves sealed off in childhood when the pain was too great. We did not have the resources then to hold for ourselves. Hopefully we do now. If not, please find someone to help you with the trauma.
For those that can, a profound holding is required. It may feel as this revisited territory will never end, is absolutely hopeless, evokes great despair. It can be easy to be swept away in the raging torrent of emotions. Yet know this. This is NOT as it was in childhood. We now have resources and skills we did not have then. So the feeling of it being endless is simply not true. Yet to integrate these wounds we must have mercy for the creature within that feels so bereft. We are asked to welcome these abandon aspects of self, long buried in the rubble of trauma. The way out is through.
So many will approach the spiritual experience as a way to escape the messiness of being human. I certainly had until now. Yet if we wish to gain absolute freedom, we must pay the piper of the creature, be willing to go and feel whatever arises in the now, hold our own hand in those dark and terrifying places. Get help if necessary. But please please please show mercy for those broken lost aspects within, crying for mercy.
