Dogs & Cats

Dealing with Aggression

I had a dream one time … in which I was chased by lions. I woke up shivering … my mind was in a distraction … and something told me … my mother was pissed off with me. The incident had a powerful effect on me … and I wondered about man's ability … to differentiate fact from illusion … despite our training in education. It brought to me a new understanding of the passions … raw in the core … and its tremendous influence on the human psyche.

 

I've had a curious tendency … from my days as a youth … to pay special attention to the display of aggression by people. I translated that in my book as … they have something important they want to express.  As a result … I viewed my own contentment … as a point of luxury … that many do not possess.  As a result … I found myself … in the unsolicited role of counselor … to my passions … simply on account of the clear vision … I think I bring to issues.

 

In such a state of mind … I came to experience another dream … with the big cats … when a lion attacked a child … I identified as a kid … in a neighboring country … near here. It caused in me a deep apprehension … and my own contact with kids … my playful natures … came to an abrupt stop. It was also a point in my life … when I was leaving the teen experiences … and moving into my pre-adulthood.

 

The fact that I was attacked twice by dogs … in my youth … brought home to me … the savage aggression  it represented … fangs flared …  eyeball to eyeball … and it makes for a strong impression on the nerves. It had an effect that I came to discover later. It adapted into an attitude of pacifism … that emphasized all possible ways to a solution … before I could even summon … the smallest notion … of retaliating in aggression … at my aggressors.

 

All that changed … when I had the experience of the fall. In the defensive … sociopathic state of mind I found myself in … I was on occasion the lion … the dog … and a bunch of others in a menagerie of experiences … that refused any experience of being pushed about. The effect was cathartic … and posed great risk to my person … especially with regards to the law. It took me a while … but I learnt what an education can do to tame the beast. I thereafter managed to moderate it somewhat.

 

Which is why … I'm surprised about being harassed by cats … in the neighborhood … these past few months. They lie down at my feet when I'm having a meal … they jump onto my table … and try to sit on my lap. One even brought two of her kids … to the house … and meowed outside my room for days.

 

What do I know about all this? Nothing! Other experiences I encountered with anima life has been more dramatic … with the visions that I sometimes encounter. At one point … I was following a certain thesis about creation … when I ended up … looking squarely into a horse's arse. Then they told me … I was a donkey … sometime later a tree … and from time to time … I see in a vision … the great python of the universe … lying in a circle around the universe.

 

The one time I managed some study on the subject of anima life … in relation to man … was in connection with the writings of bestiality … the griffin … the dragon … and the long sight of eagles. It no doubt … refers to the constituents of the passions … at some level … and mix with the personality of the man … in his social identity. It has great force of aggression … but my constitution … acts as brakes … on giving free rein to impulses … and insists on understanding what I'm doing. Man … is after all defined … by the hallmark of rationality.

 

I had previously … written about how my panache-filled workaholic attitude (*1)  … was trimmed to size … by a series of events … that took place in the world environment. It held the realization … for me then … that my mind identified with a one standard on  most things … that resembled in a patch-quilt sort of way … the prevailing views of the world community. And on one gloomy day at the park … I was contacted … within … by someone claiming to be from a prominent … secret service organization in the world … who inquired into the nature … of my experiences.

 

That was about 10 years ago. About two days ago … I found myself engaging the same secret source of inquiry … and in a dazed familiarity of the old relations … I responded by saying that … the world's priority at this time … is for a better handling of same sex relations … and to discover its inner source … of relevance to our lives. In addition … the issue of gender relations … the up-bringing of children needs new attention. I finished by emphasizing … that the family is the basic unit of society … and more people need to chip in … to preserve them … in the face of changes.Then I asked him what's he doing about it?

 

It occurred to me then … that this was a similar source of inquiry I dealt with as a youth. My sharp criticisms of the lack of attention … to socio-cultural issues … was one of the factors that caused me … to experience the fall back then. It felt strange … but I came to realize … a certain purpose in the way … my life has turned out … and the apparent cause of inquiry that … I appear to have served. Its brought me back … to the self-contentment … I used to feel.

 

On reflection … I've had an above average quality of life … and the opportunity at some wonderful careers. It was no doubt … driven by a certain will of bestiality … that I had inherited … in a long chain of evolutionary progression. On occasion … what I had encountered was a nature of inquiry … that had the force of judgement day. It had come from the world … but its been fair … and kind on occasion. I have to surmise … that it seeks to improve … and to do better.

 

What we sometimes refer to as the world spirit … Zeitgeist … or the Peruman of the Indics … conveys the content of an anima origin … in its nature. It makes contact with the human passions … and composes a stream of perceptions about the world. It creates an appeal to the teen … for his actions. We sometimes act on these … with the guide of the father … whose concerns about humanity … is the bone of accountability … to a collective sense of inquiry … that relates to the passions. To do better … we need a new view of the passions … and the source of their relation … to the world. Its the one mind of our dreams.

 

My childhood curiosities … about aggression in human behavior … receive a new treatment from me these days. I realize what the aggressors are trying to say … and I don't think its aggression at all. Its the tack and jibe … of our discourses … that turns into the wind. Its the way of expression … communication … of our ideals … and the consensus of creating a common aim … with an input from everyone. We need to sail better with it … and discern its purpose.

(*1)  ... See Beware of Workaholic