Swanwick Star Issue No. 9 (2016)

How Can the Heart Be Set Free?

 

 

 

I inquire deeply into the interrelation of my experience with psychosis and Krishnamurti’s pointers.

 

There is congruence.

 

There is a lived experience of the realization of truth as a pathless land.

 

There is more madness in society than in an individual mind.

 

Once this is seen, it feels difficult to operate in what has been conditioned as necessary reality.

 

On returning to consensus reality via medication in my case, there is an innate movement to be able to express in words what is beyond words, what the words can only point to yet never capture.

 

The divine ecstasy of complete human nervous system, rapture that comes upon the realization…I could go on, but I wouldn’t do it justice.

 

How can the heart be set free from the constraints of the mind that categorizes, judges, divides, psychologically…

 

I really don’t know…

 

And in that, there is freedom.

 

 Andrea Hollebakken