Beyond Lonely?

It can feel as if there’s a small missing piece, a tiny component; or a low and rumbling lack that continues on within you despite all the hard work you put in, all the connections you foster, all the spiritual  programmes, all the communing and all the being and doing. All “the work.”

Sound familiar?

It can even exist as an all-pervading scenic backdrop, complete with subdued tones, sepia or monochrome, conjuring images of desolate landscapes or lost figures…a freeze-frame or empty set, unpopulated by the rich potentials of a full life and by the joyful and ringing expression and fruition of all you actually are.

So how do you combat loneliness in a world that now operates as if it is both a pure and necessary foundation?

As a species we've moved so far from connection to make community appear as a chimeric dream, or a fantasy now relegated to the realm of the unattainable. An unattainable ideal? We long continually for more. A snatch of connection here and a moment there.

So many are living tiny lives, or feeling disconnection.

I would argue the past few years has not so much created this state as exposed the underlying fissures…the existential wound of singularity that sits at the bedrock of our western and contemporary world and its current presentations.

That singularity is the hallmark of a teetering and tattering American Dream. A dream with such beauteous value but so in need of morphing into something new, with new roots and with new potential and mystery and new expression and new meaning. No throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. I said morph and I mean it in the holonic sense.

What can you do? What can we do?

What can we do, to heal, to salve and to poultice the wound of loneliness that lingers so completely at times in our modern lives?

There is so so so much hope.

There is so so much joy.

So much to unfold.

So much to rethink and speak.

Image Credit: Camilla Slater - Sisyphus as A Woman, 2018

And there is so so much wonder that can be sourced - wonder that dissolves away the desolation lodging in our throats and hearts like a Sisyphean boulder of embodied proportions.

(I've mentioned this myth numerous times over the years and most recently in FB articles and videos! Check them out.

You'll find them stretching back to 2019, 2020, 2021. It's an oft used myth and metaphor here at Camilla Slater Coaching and is also featured in a series of my graphite drawings from the 1990's, now gracing the walls of art lovers in Sydney Australia...beautiful gifts of graphite trees, rocks and elemental forces yet again.) 

Yes - that desolation dissolves - just as I wrote recently of rock and water, of elemental forces and aquifers here in the volcanic substrate on our Arapito Farm.

How do we progress? What do we do?

What do you do as a woman or man walking the planet who wants to explore and create and sparkle with deeper connection? What do you do with the Sisyphean weight of the world and your very existence, your loneliness and your longing for deeper connection?

This Friday we will be discussing LONELINESS in our next LIVE here on FB.

We’ll break it down, have a bit of a detailed look at it - even read a bit of Rilke and Camus (the latter as many of you know is one of my faves - conjuring tattered and dog-eared copies in French, first edition Penguins and Gallimard too, thanks to parents who offered us the glittering jewels of this Algerian might, as part of our early communion with books.)

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