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.

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I think "hate" is what you get when you feel both love and fear simultaneously.

I disagree. I can think of more than one woman that I have loved and feared simultaneously, without the palest flicker of hate.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

"I think 'hate' is one possible thing you might be able to get when you feel both love and fear simultaneously." Better?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Other things you can feel when you simultaneously feel love and fear include "respect", and even "awe".