Monday, December 6, 2010

What Should You Put On A Tattoo

Just his way of walking is a challenge to every school of thought

from the work of Wilhelm Reich, The Murder of Christ :
"[Christ] when he walks his feet on the ground as if posing fully take root at every step, breaking away, and then again take root. It walks like a prophet, like an essay or as a professor of higher mathematics. simple path. When you see the question arises: What is this? Who is it? is so different from other men. Each of his followers walking expresses something, something really has nothing to do with the act of walking. One walks with modesty. The other walks immersed in deep thought. The third walk as if you were running away from a horrific scene. The fourth walks like a king. The fifth obedient as a follower of the Master. The sixth as a deer. The seventh walks like a fox. The Master simply walk, or even like a deer. Simply walking.
Just his way of walking is a challenge to every school of thought, whether it is sophistry of solipsism, the Talmud, existentialism. His whole behavior is so different from any "ism" that no individual used to "classify" people might say that group he belongs. [...]
The stillness, the stand still, they accompany the traveler wherever he or she move. And then they admire and adore those who really moves. Christ is on his travels on his behalf even if he meets the people. Traveling alone, with very few companions. Even when he is with his teammates is always slightly separated from them is a few meters ahead of them, or if he goes alone into the woods to meditate. His followers meditate often. Almost always speak only of the teacher, wondering what he is doing right now, or how it is possible to have done this or that. So they have their own image in the mirror, the thing that would be but that can not be.
They dream that Christ is their leader, and, with his powers and his fury, God-given one day course will drive the Romans from the Holy City. He's just waiting and preparing. But the day of revenge will come certainly. Is it not a leader? Their leader? They are ready to follow him into the fire, and already light at the thought of going with him into the fire. Eventually I will leave.
try to persuade him to perform miracles to prove his divine powers. For them the divine powers are the thunder, lightning and the sound of a thousand tremendous fanfare or guns blazing and the sky and tore the veil in the temple. The dead rise from their graves, you will realize the greatest miracle of all: the souls return bodies and move just as they did millennia ago. This is the least he can do for them. [...]
Christ knows nothing of this. He has never spoken or promised no thunder, no lightning in the sky, no earthquake or torn veil. He lives and moves in a completely different. He does not think or dream of any revolt. The Kingdom that he feels within himself is not of this world, as he will tell them just before his last agony. But no one understands what he's talking about. Take it literally. A kingdom is a kingdom, is not it? And there must be a kingdom and a king marches and trumpets and a throne and conquered cities. A leader has the power and exercises it on others. Here's what they expect
by Jesus Christ. He is only hiding. It is not yet revealed. And they led him to be, to give a sign, again and again.
Christ begs them not to talk to others of its beneficial influence upon the people and the sick. He never speaks of miracles. In the end, one hundred years after his assassination, to dominate the scene will be his miracles and his refusal to perform them.
Christ is contrary armed revolt. He refuses to take command of an uprising of this kind. He preaches the revolution of the soul, the manifestation of the deeper layer that is in us. Christ knows that if this deep layer is not extrinsic and made real and effective soon engulf the mayhem his generation. Christ feels more than he knows that man must find his love and the intimate nucleus if it is to survive and reestablish the kingdom of heaven "(pp. 62, 94-95).