My Psychic Friend

Mystical Series : VIII

 

 

 

For a long time I have not been able to give it a name. I remember growing up with an uncanny gift for intuiting the right responses in my relations with others. It combined with my knowledge and learning to create a bit of a ' man-of-the-world ' experience.

 

It was however prone to the most inexplicable incidents; eccentric on occasion and sometimes abrupt in others but always deeply passionate and moving on issues of life and justice. At times I found myself probing the deepest of human truths without a great deal of preparation or guide.

 

It came to a muddle one fine day and I thought it just as well and dumped that part of me that represented the curious and the mystic. In turn I devoted myself to an academic career that promised rationality and common sense in my affairs.

 

Well, about twenty years later, on a somewhat stable grasp of the rational, I allowed myself to return to the mystery of the psyche. I was in many ways a completely different person from my days as a youth. It took a while for me to adjust to the experience of a former self but that is when I met the person I used to be.

 

It had been a complete split and the fact that I broke off from my mother around the time kept the twain apart. He is an instrument of the passions, the way the passions help with the development of the mind. It became apparent to me that the split was to allow me to build on my rationality. In turn it helped the passions to be more coherent in my engagement.

 

Today, we engage each other, the mind and the passions, in a common sense of purpose. Its opened up a great deal of mysteries between us to which I applied plain human rationality and tied it down to a knowable event. Its brought me a great deal of peace.

 

I engage him sometimes in speech ( talking to myself ). He is a lot like me....lazy and obstinate but filled with curiousity about everything. I'm thinking its eros and psyche....but I'm continuing to learn.