An open discussion thread
Something has shifted in the world.
I don’t understand it yet, so I cannot write about it.
I’ve tried, honestly, but everything I type feels false, premature, and really just empty.
The only thing I’ve found which comes close to describing this sense I have is what Gordon White wrote:
“As it was with the Canadian Nazi salute, what’s happening in Gaza pauses or suspends all energy flow in one’s life, as if the archons have trapped you in a human-sized bubble of horror.”
That’s how it feels, really. And exactly as he says, because that’s also how I felt about the event in the Canadian parliament. Constriction, like the distant vistas of humanity were suddenly revealed to be merely convincing stage backdrop.
As I said, though, I don’t know what else to say about it. Not about the conflict in Palestine itself — which doesn’t need my words anyway — but the larger shift around it.
Something has changed, and will keep changing, and will eventually reveal itself to us as a thing of initially-incomprehensible horror until we find the words to define it.
There’s nothing else to say right now about it.
But I do want to know: how are you feeling? What’s it feel like in your world right now? Gordon ended his short essay with the following lines:
“So a broken heart is also a heart that is breaking open so that it becomes larger, so that it can hold more of the grief and the love and the joy and the pain of the whole cosmos. That is what it is for. That is what you are for.
That is yours to do.”
So, how is your heart breaking right now? How has it been so constricted, its borders too close-in, that the love inside it is threatening to flood out?
Please tell me. I don’t want to know (and please don’t share) an analysis of these events. Instead, I want to know about your heart.
With love,
—Rhyd
Rhyd Wildermuth 
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