Thomas Campbell

[poliphilo]

I've been spending much of the past 36 hours watching videos on the site I highlighted yesterday. I'm particularly taken with Thomas Campbell- physicist and shaman (shaman isn't a word he uses himself but what else do you call a teacher and healer who travels between the worlds?) "The opposite of Love" he says, "isn't hate but fear". Yes. To which I'd add that it's a lot easier to conquer hate than it is to conquer fear. If the object of our existence is to become Love, then that's one hell of a mountain we have to climb.

And of course we're not going to do it in a single lifetime.

Or in ten

Or in fifty.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

When you're freeing yourself from the influence of someone you once loved it's normal to hate them for a time. Then, when the separation is complete you can go back to loving them in different way. That's been my experience, anyway.

I think Love and Hate are very imprecise terms.