Tim Birchard's Blog - Posts Tagged "wound"
Primal wounds
Through the lens of the ego, you have wounds from very early on. These primal wounds, while not causing any damage or insult whatsoever to your True Being, nonetheless feel very real to the one who mistakes himself for the physical body. The resulting belief: “I am unlovable,” or some variation on this theme.
The plot thickens when someone or something reminds this one of the primal wound… and misperception is compounded to such an extent that he responds to the Reminder(s) as though they were the actual cause of the original primal wound. Suddenly, it seems as though the mistaken belief of “I am unlovable” is being agitated and reinforced by external circumstances again and again; everywhere one looks, he is reminded that he is unlovable. And as a result, victim status might very well be unwittingly assumed… again and again.
When those external circumstances are seen for what they are, simply REMINDERS of the primal wound, then the beloved can begin to find a way out of the darkness and begin to move toward light. And when the primal wound itself is recognized for what it truly is, empty, hollow, thought-based, and impermanent (along with the physical body and mind), then all perceived chains drop away. Reality is revealed with clarity. The Beloved again sees his own One True Face in all other beings and circumstances.
Freedom for the self has been achieved (or “remembered,” since it was never actually lost in the first place), and can now be demonstrated to the apparent multiplicity through freedom from attachment to all that is temporary. Living this truth by example, the Beloved has returned home. Belief in the false drops away. The need to escape vanishes. All is home. All is one. All is love.
There is no ‘Other’.
The plot thickens when someone or something reminds this one of the primal wound… and misperception is compounded to such an extent that he responds to the Reminder(s) as though they were the actual cause of the original primal wound. Suddenly, it seems as though the mistaken belief of “I am unlovable” is being agitated and reinforced by external circumstances again and again; everywhere one looks, he is reminded that he is unlovable. And as a result, victim status might very well be unwittingly assumed… again and again.
When those external circumstances are seen for what they are, simply REMINDERS of the primal wound, then the beloved can begin to find a way out of the darkness and begin to move toward light. And when the primal wound itself is recognized for what it truly is, empty, hollow, thought-based, and impermanent (along with the physical body and mind), then all perceived chains drop away. Reality is revealed with clarity. The Beloved again sees his own One True Face in all other beings and circumstances.
Freedom for the self has been achieved (or “remembered,” since it was never actually lost in the first place), and can now be demonstrated to the apparent multiplicity through freedom from attachment to all that is temporary. Living this truth by example, the Beloved has returned home. Belief in the false drops away. The need to escape vanishes. All is home. All is one. All is love.
There is no ‘Other’.
