Angell Deer: We Have to Awaken From the Deep Illusion of What Is Called "Normal"

 This is profound, wise, and true. 

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We Have to Awaken From the Deep 

Illusion of What Is Called "Normal"

Sometimes, what looks like sickness is health. And what looks healthy is deeply sick.

Think of the anxiety, fear, pain, addictions, and depression in this world. Is that really sickness or is it a natural healthy reaction to what is sick? I have yet to meet a client that his/her "illness" is not a natural reaction to a sickness in their system of relations...

We can agree that fever is not a sickness but a healthy immune system reaction to a disease.

Think of "business as usual" and the constant illusion of growth and progress measured by stock markets and life expectancy. Is that health or sickness when all it truly does is destroy the very life that sustains us?

Joanna Macy shared in a recent interview that if we do not cry every morning for the Earth, we are probably not feeling her at all. Michael Meade talks about the necessary heartbrokenness needed to access the depth of the soul. Medicine man/shaman explores the sickness "in the system at large" and does not obsess over the symptoms.

Maybe all those tears, pains, discomforts, depression, and addictions are normal reactions to a very sick world. When the world tries to sell us that atrocities are necessary and justified, we have hit the rock bottom of our dehumanization.

We have to awaken from the illusion and deep sickness of what is called "normal." What we have learned to accept. What this hyper-individualized society has cost to our souls and communities.

The deeper we observe in depth the world as it is, the more the illusion of normal is lifted. The more we see the extreme violence of "normality."

"...the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality. `He sees too deep and too much,' and what he sees is essentially chaos... He is the one man who knows he is sick in a civilization that doesn't know it is sick." — Colin Wilson

Let's stop calling any of this normal and reclaim as healthy all our natural reactions to this globalized sickness and our deep desire to break the belief patterns and systems of oppression.

We will only heal once we recognize and collectively acknowledge where and what the sickness is really about and reclaim radical different ways of living, relating, and belonging.

Angell Deer

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