Comments for Tracy Cochran http://tracycochran.org stories on the way towards awakening Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Comment on A Child’s Eye View of Power, a Brief Intro by Tracy http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/a-childs-eye-view-of-power-a-brief-intro/#comment-6776 Tracy Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:58:57 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1550#comment-6776 Thank you, Susan. Hillman is a great starting point for personal adventures, for sinking below the surface of our minds, our lives. Best wishes, Tracy Thank you, Susan. Hillman is a great starting point for personal adventures, for sinking below the surface of our minds, our lives. Best wishes, Tracy

]]> Comment on A Child’s Eye View of Power, a Brief Intro by Susan Scott http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/a-childs-eye-view-of-power-a-brief-intro/#comment-6774 Susan Scott Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:20:53 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1550#comment-6774 Thank you Tracy, this is a lovely post and timely reminder ... I love James Hillman, he really says it like it is, and most often in an imaginative way and with great clarity. I love too what you say about both the outside surveillance and the inside one and that we need to sink below so that we may find that we are for life as opposed to against life. Thank you, Best wishes, Susan Thank you Tracy, this is a lovely post and timely reminder … I love James Hillman, he really says it like it is, and most often in an imaginative way and with great clarity.
I love too what you say about both the outside surveillance and the inside one and that we need to sink below so that we may find that we are for life as opposed to against life.
Thank you,
Best wishes,
Susan

]]> Comment on More Lucifer and the Fallen Angels by Tracy http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/more-lucifer-and-the-fallen-angels/#comment-6772 Tracy Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:41:49 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1545#comment-6772 We are all fallen angels, all trying to find our way home. We are all fallen angels, all trying to find our way home.

]]> Comment on More Lucifer and the Fallen Angels by Tracy http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/more-lucifer-and-the-fallen-angels/#comment-6771 Tracy Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:40:40 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1545#comment-6771 This is a glorious quote and rich food for thought, thank you! This is a glorious quote and rich food for thought, thank you!

]]> Comment on More Lucifer and the Fallen Angels by Fiona http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/more-lucifer-and-the-fallen-angels/#comment-6738 Fiona Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:33:45 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1545#comment-6738 Hi Tracy Having read this the thought that's in my mind is that are we not all fallen angels and attempting to attain wholeness again? Sometimes getting glimpses or experiencing for fleeting moments the oneness of the universe and being inspired by such moments to continue on the journey. Having spent many years travelling the world looking for meaning and having visited hell for a while on the journey and to come through and to learn that "to be" is the grail which I was searching for and today to be humbly grateful that I have the wit to enjoy it all. Fiona Hi Tracy
Having read this the thought that’s in my mind is that are we not all fallen angels and attempting to attain wholeness again? Sometimes getting glimpses or experiencing for fleeting moments the oneness of the universe and being inspired by such moments to continue on the journey.
Having spent many years travelling the world looking for meaning and having visited hell for a while on the journey and to come through and to learn that “to be” is the grail which I was searching for and today to be humbly grateful that I have the wit to enjoy it all.

Fiona

]]> Comment on More Lucifer and the Fallen Angels by Robert Dixon-Kolar http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/more-lucifer-and-the-fallen-angels/#comment-6736 Robert Dixon-Kolar Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:21:02 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1545#comment-6736 Tracy, I too find myself moved by your challenging questions: Might the desire to make a stand, to be special, be a reaction to a deeper fear that we are powerless, without a true vocation…without a prayer? Might we be living in an extraordinary time, when a new way of being heroic is taking form? I feel that Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay Spiritual Laws, foreshadows such an extraordinary time—when each person is powered along (as you say, “we are breathed”)--by his or her proper work in life: “Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.” Emerson reminds us that to know one’s vocation is really to act as part of the greater whole—not to set oneself above others. “Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique, and no man has any other call. The pretense that he has another call, a summons by name and personal election and outward ‘signs that mark him extraordinary, and not in the roll of common men [from Shakespeare’s Henry IV],’ is fanaticism, and betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals, and no respect of persons therein.” In this same wonderful essay, Emerson even speaks of “falling” in the most affirming way! “Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls. The circuit of the waters is mere falling. The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward. All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing, and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling, and the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and ever.” Thank you, Tracy, for raising such a hopeful prospect in these times that demand much courage. Tracy, I too find myself moved by your challenging questions: Might the desire to make a stand, to be special, be a reaction to a deeper fear that we are powerless, without a true vocation…without a prayer? Might we be living in an extraordinary time, when a new way of being heroic is taking form?

I feel that Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his essay Spiritual Laws, foreshadows such an extraordinary time—when each person is powered along (as you say, “we are breathed”)–by his or her proper work in life: “Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in a river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.”

Emerson reminds us that to know one’s vocation is really to act as part of the greater whole—not to set oneself above others.

“Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique, and no man has any other call. The pretense that he has another call, a summons by name and personal election and outward ‘signs that mark him extraordinary, and not in the roll of common men [from Shakespeare’s Henry IV],’ is fanaticism, and betrays obtuseness to perceive that there is one mind in all the individuals, and no respect of persons therein.”

In this same wonderful essay, Emerson even speaks of “falling” in the most affirming way! “Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls. When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls. The circuit of the waters is mere falling. The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward. All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing, and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling, and the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and ever.”

Thank you, Tracy, for raising such a hopeful prospect in these times that demand much courage.

]]> Comment on More Lucifer and the Fallen Angels by Tracy http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/more-lucifer-and-the-fallen-angels/#comment-6735 Tracy Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:28:43 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1545#comment-6735 Thanks...it's hard, not backing down (and again, it includes the body, having real questions, including the back). We might even have to be villanous.... Thanks…it’s hard, not backing down (and again, it includes the body, having real questions, including the back).

We might even have to be villanous….

]]> Comment on More Lucifer and the Fallen Angels by ANH http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/more-lucifer-and-the-fallen-angels/#comment-6734 ANH Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:18:53 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1545#comment-6734 "Strange unthinkable questions begin to tug at us. Might the desire to make a stand, to be special, be a reaction to a deeper fear that we are powerless, without a true vocation…without a prayer? Might we be living in an extraordinary time, when a new way of being heroic is taking form?" These are not strange questions; these contain a distant kernel of an actual question. A question that already contains the answer within itself is not an honest question and will only lead one around in circles, chasing [or swallowing] one's own tail. Keep thinking like this and, above all, do not be afraid and do not back down. The internal backlash from thoughts such as these can be intense and many who get that far give into fear and back down. But we don't get anywhere near truth by regurtitating the same myths and fables about ourselves over and over. There can only be a hero if there is a villian. There is no villian because you are not villianous. “Strange unthinkable questions begin to tug at us. Might the desire to make a stand, to be special, be a reaction to a deeper fear that we are powerless, without a true vocation…without a prayer? Might we be living in an extraordinary time, when a new way of being heroic is taking form?”

These are not strange questions; these contain a distant kernel of an actual question. A question that already contains the answer within itself is not an honest question and will only lead one around in circles, chasing [or swallowing] one’s own tail. Keep thinking like this and, above all, do not be afraid and do not back down. The internal backlash from thoughts such as these can be intense and many who get that far give into fear and back down. But we don’t get anywhere near truth by regurtitating the same myths and fables about ourselves over and over.

There can only be a hero if there is a villian. There is no villian because you are not villianous.

]]> Comment on Finding King Arthur by Tracy http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/finding-king-arthur/#comment-6654 Tracy Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:00:03 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1537#comment-6654 We are all visiting family when we travel, aren't we? Our extended human family. Brilliant, Barb. Thank you. And we have each and all been oppressor and oppressed. May we learn a better way. We are all visiting family when we travel, aren’t we? Our extended human family. Brilliant, Barb. Thank you.

And we have each and all been oppressor and oppressed. May we learn a better way.

]]> Comment on Finding King Arthur by barb http://tracycochran.org/2013/06/finding-king-arthur/#comment-6612 barb Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:55:09 +0000 http://tracycochran.org/?p=1537#comment-6612 I recently visited Ireland for the first time. When I went through immigration at the airport the gentleman asked me if I was visiting family. I said, well yes - I suppose I am. (my Irish ancestors had departed in the mid-1800's.) But I feel that way wherever in the world I visit! We are all related and we are each such a mix! If we grow up in a family with siblings, we realize we don't really grow up in the same family on the experiential level. So I would agree that we are all a mix of oppressor and oppressed. Our illusion of difference and separateness is mitigated by that vast gulf of what comprises the human experience. I made several trips to Cornwall in the 1980's and visited Tintagell on one of those trips. I share your Arthur imaginings and reverie. Thanks for posting this. I recently visited Ireland for the first time. When I went through immigration at the airport the gentleman asked me if I was visiting family. I said, well yes – I suppose I am. (my Irish ancestors had departed in the mid-1800′s.) But I feel that way wherever in the world I visit! We are all related and we are each such a mix! If we grow up in a family with siblings, we realize we don’t really grow up in the same family on the experiential level. So I would agree that we are all a mix of oppressor and oppressed. Our illusion of difference and separateness is mitigated by that vast gulf of what comprises the human experience.
I made several trips to Cornwall in the 1980′s and visited Tintagell on one of those trips. I share your Arthur imaginings and reverie. Thanks for posting this.

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