Propelled by the feeling of Shy, Despondence

 

Retreat

a defense against

  • We retreat when we withdraw from interpersonal realities while maintaining our sensitivity to them. Retreat offers advanced versions of a babe’s instinct to simply fall asleep when overstimulated. Not participating is not the same as being absent. A person in retreat might have some of the most insightful commentaries about what they just seemingly slept through. The drawback for Retreat is that it does not make space for interpersonal sharing. The habit to immediately step back from all things distressing, creates endless tensions in relationships.

So I must create a space of perfect safety where nothing can touch me.

 

As Adults we Retreat as a means to stay Engaged

 

  • There is a consensus reality - where we perceive that which is agreed upon as reliable. In this shared reality, Retreat combines with four co-conspirators that help to shape one’s identity and life experience. Developed in early childhood, they continue to operate as a basic temperamental style throughout adulthood. Here we see Retreat as it combines with its four common partners: detaching, projecting, disavowing, and denying.

 

  • When Retreat is combined with Projection, I behave as an Adversary - retreating from my indignant feelings while seeking to be Valiant.

    Active in the everyday Personas of the Heartbreaker and Fixer

Seeking Adoration while Retreating from and Projecting my feelings

  • When Retreat is combined with Disavowal, I behave as a Mercenary - retreating from my Anxious feelings while seeking to be Abiding

    Active in the everyday Personas of the

    Diplomat, the Straight Shooter, the Chancellor, and the Advisor

Seeking Composure while Retreating from and Disavowing my feelings

  • When Retreat is combined with Denial, I behave as a Vagabond - retreating from my deficient feelings while seeking to be Profound

    Active in the everyday Personas of the Free Spirit, the Savant, the Disruptor, and the Adept

Seeking Generosity while Retreating from and Denying my feelings

  • When Retreat is combined with Detachment, I behave as a Hermit - retreating from my Indifferent feelings while seeking to be Sovereign

    Active in the everyday Persona of the Occultist and the Genius

Seeking Attunement while Retreating and Detaching from my feelings

  • Defense Structures dissolve over time, allowing attention to turn to the Dark Waves ripples that have been occurring in their wake. Dark wave energies are experienced outside the accepted norms of reality; sometimes making their presence known in our sexual disinhibitions, more often in the acts of people we only know as Doppelgangers - the deplorable “Others” we struggle to keep at the periphery of our lives.

    As we gain a more personal relationship to the entities which enliven Dark Wave energies, we place ourselves at the Gates of Dawn.

 

  • Might you recognize in their appearance, a doppelgänger to your own unresolved actualization of Spontaneity?

    Open to the sensations of this all consuming avoidance, suffering to stay hidden.

Do you find yourself disturbed by the appearance of those with ALEXITHYMIC tendencies in your world?

A state of retreating and recoiling from one’s feelings can block reality and summon the Dark Wave entity witnessed in

The Ponaturi

(the Maori legendary creatures who are fatal in daylight)

This state of reality-blockade can best be soothed by giving attention to Spontaneity

 

  • Might you recognize in their appearance, a doppelgänger to your own unresolved actualization of Grace?

    Open to the sensations of this black pill fatality lost in negative self scrutiny.

Do you find yourself disturbed by the appearance of VITUPERATION in your world?

A state of retreating and discharging one’s feelings can block reality and summon the Dark Wave entity witnessed in

Tezcatlipoca

(the Aztec "Smoking Mirror" god sowing discord)

This state of reality-blockade can best be soothed by giving attention to Grace

 

Sanguine

 

Both the Autist (Ponaturi) and Incel (Tezcatlioca) suffer the predatory silence of the abyss.

They share an unmet aspiration for

Sanguine Optimism

Optimism

  • Focus on the call of these Pipers in you.

    They point you toward non-dominant aspects of your True Self.

    What would you be willing to learn and actualize from your own Spontaneity and Grace?

To call upon Spontaneity and Grace to meet

Ponaturi and Tezcatlipoca energies,

first set aside the impulse to withdraw from feelings of Discouragement and Spitefulness.

In the pause of that quiet moment, turn there to the presence of these two Pipers at the Gates of Dawn.

Their inherently meaningful dynamic attends the rigid isolation active in the Autist (Ponaturi) and the despairing passivity of the Incel (Tezcatlioca).

  • To learn Spontaneity:

    Give attention to the teachings of Pu (unworked wood) in Taoism.

    This call is aided by observing the following Personas and Natural Forces already at work in my world.

    The work of the Idealist as

    • Zero Point Core: A state of minimal energy, characterized by quantum fluctuations and an underlying reservoir of potential. Being the still point of a spinning gyroscope

    The work of the Confidant as

    • Harmonic Resonance: The amplification of vibrations due to matching frequencies, Singing in harmony, cancelling discordances

    The work of the Jester as

    • Tidal Forces: Gravitational difference across an object; Stretching and distorting influence to the breaking point.

    The work of the Vanguard as

    • Capacitor: Accumulator of energy differences across an insulator; rapidly releasing electrical charge. Unspoken words, waiting release

    The work of the Ascetic as

    • Isotopic Container: A carefully regulated system containing potent energy, shielded from external influence. Enduring the dualistic forces of binding and decay

    The work of the Martyr as

    • Homeostatic Regulator:  A self-correcting system, sacrificing internal elements to maintain a critical balance. Enduring external pressures to preserve integrity of the whole

  • To learn Grace:

    Give attention to the teachings of the Shekhina or Christ in the Abrahamic Faiths.

    This call is aided by observing the following Personas and Natural Forces already at work in my world.

    The work of the Guide as

    • Nuclear Fusion: A process of synthesis where light nuclei combine under extreme conditions, releasing vast energy and creating heavier elements. Like the engine of stars

    The work of the Influencer as

    • Gravity: A mass-based deformation of spacetime; compelling objects to follow its path. A presence, altering the trajectories of those within its field.

    The work of the Conspirator as

    • Subduction Zone: A region where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, generating immense friction and pressure. Unresolved conflicts, buried and held

    The work of the Perfectionist as

    • Stellar Nucleosynthesis: A meticulous process of nuclear fusion; carefully forging heavier elements from lighter ones under immense pressure. Like a fractal, infinitely repeating a pattern of increasing complexity.

    The work of the Entertainer as

    • Nuclear Binding: A unifying energy, constantly drawing nucleons into a shared existence.

    The work of the Grandstander as

    • Incandescent Core: A self-generating source of luminous intensity. Inner radiance, attracting receptive gazes

 

Together they call forth the Great Dolphin of Divine Serenity.

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