![]() ![]() They live in a sleeping village even as they pursue a busy life. “Those who trade their dreams for the safety of a prescribed life make a false and foolish bargain with the world. Michael Meade expressed it in another way, to highlight a different aspect of life we lose when we choose to live on the Moon Palace. So, we live a life of the reflected responses offered by Status-quo, for a false sense of security Living in Moon’s reflected light of the sun, not our own light or real sunlight, the Solar impulse to all life. I am speaking in the first person because I have lived here on and off for a while now and I also found out how to get back from here. Living on the Moon Palace is not a difficulty, which is why we made the choice to live here. Lonely in his whole body, waiting for you. The eyebrows so heavy, the forehead so light… While he worked as a shoe maker, as a cattle herder in Australia,Īs a restraint cook who painted at night. Who wandered out in a snowstorm the night we were borne, and then lost his memory, and has lived longing for his child, whom he only saw only once… The body says, and there find the father whom we have never met, We will go there, the body says, and there He wants us to go with him through the blowing and rainy streets to the dark house. It smashes up the boulders, lifting small crabs, that flow around the sides. So, on some days the body wails with its great energy My friend, this body offers to carry us for nothing… Here is a poem that expresses not only our disconnection with life but also our own bodies. This body offers to carry us for nothing. We also disconnect from our own bodies, from our own health and physical wellbeing. When we live in the Moon Palace, we let the vehicle run on automatic, just giving it enough attention to maintain life, but not really living. ![]() They are gone, locked up in old-age homes. There are supposed to be driving instructors, the Elders, to show us what’s possible. We know that our Ego is formed to create a vehicle for us to live in this world, however after the vehicle is built, the offer, the invitation is to drive it to its limits. A life perhaps driven by regrets and envy. We can live a type of life in semi-unconsciousness, not really engaging with life just doing the minimum for a comfortable life. Have careers, families, marriage, divorce, and die on the Moon Palace. We can live our whole lives on the Moon Palace. No one knows why he came, or why he turned away,īly, Robert. He turns away from his wife, and she sleeps alone.Īnd the sea lifts and falls all night, the moon goes on The one inside moves back, and the hands touchĪnd will not leave the room where the coffin stands. The energy leaves the wine, and the minister falls leaving the church. The mother puts down her rolling pin and makes no more bread.Īnd the wife looks at her husband one night at a party, and loves him no more. The boy gets out of high school and reads no more Those great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six Robert Bly expressed this feeling of disassociation this way in a poem. There are times when we withdraw to the Moon Palace for our psychic survival, both the Ego and the Soul. For me, it is a rather disconcerting feeling. This is like going to a different country and seeing life that you are disconnected from. You can see the streets, the sports ground the powerline, but somehow all of that is disconnected or unconnected to you. Living on the Moon Palace the view of the earth is like the time when you are just taking off in an aircraft and you can still see the little houses and toy cars and trucks. ![]() is a place of disassociation, of distancing, of not being really involved. Ok, so what is the Moon Palace? That’s a wild statement to make. I say “we” because most of us live here or visit from time to time. In the narrative of the story, we have arrived at The Moon Place. For a short time or a long time or however long time that takes. Don’t go straight up.” The girl said “if you won’t come back with me, then I’m going to go straight up.” And so, she did, and she ended up in the Moon Palace. ![]() “If you don’t go back to your father you’ll end up in the Moon Palace. The Moon Palace Chapter 7 The Moon Palace. ![]()
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