The World’s Night...things come and go in a deeper rhythm and people must be taught to listen to it, it is the most important thing we have to learn in

The World’s NightThe World’s Night

...things come and go in a deeper rhythm and ...things come and go in a deeper rhythm and people must be taught to listen to it, it is the most people must be taught to listen to it, it is the most important thing we have to learn in this life. important thing we have to learn in this life.

E. HillesumE. Hillesum

World’s NightWorld’s Night

A Cultural and Epoch of Addiction

Human’s self asserting will to “control” life

Epitomized by our use and addiction to technology, and power

A Cultural and Epoch of Addiction

Human’s self asserting will to “control” life

Epitomized by our use and addiction to technology, and power

Schlinder’s List Schlinder’s List

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.


Monomaniacal will to control life for the purposes of power, security, and comfort

Everything that threatens that control - death, love, pain, mystery of life - is warded off and objectified.

We no longer “live the mystery”











What does music, art, literature, film...

What does music, art, literature, film...

Mean to you?

Is is for pure entertainment?

Does is caution you to stop and contemplate existence - who and what yo are are?

Or do you believe that it’s just a product of “the egoic mind”?

Mean to you?

Is is for pure entertainment?

Does is caution you to stop and contemplate existence - who and what yo are are?

Or do you believe that it’s just a product of “the egoic mind”?

Implications for Counselling, Psychotherapy, Education?

Implications for Counselling, Psychotherapy, Education?

The human comes to want and afterwards expect easy answers

• ““How To Do It” How To Do It”

Rather than insights that leave with a new reverence for the questions of human life or reverence for life’s processes and mysteries

The human comes to want and afterwards expect easy answers

• ““How To Do It” How To Do It”

Rather than insights that leave with a new reverence for the questions of human life or reverence for life’s processes and mysteries

I - “It” - Relationship I - “It” - Relationship

We have become objects in each other’s world

The Danger is the Danger

We live in a risk society

We must reach sooner into the abyss

We have become objects in each other’s world

The Danger is the Danger

We live in a risk society

We must reach sooner into the abyss

Entering the AbyssEntering the AbyssRealize our catastrophic situation

Return to the ground of being

•...The heavenly powers

•Cannot do all things. It is the mortals

•Who reach sooner in the abyss. So the return is

•With these. Long is

•The time, but the true comes into

•Its own.

• Hölderlin

•

Realize our catastrophic situation

Return to the ground of being

•...The heavenly powers

•Cannot do all things. It is the mortals

•Who reach sooner in the abyss. So the return is

•With these. Long is

•The time, but the true comes into

•Its own.

• Hölderlin

•

Facing the World’s NightFacing the World’s Night

Feel and acknowledge universal suffering

It is not and solely and “I” hurt

Etty Hillesum

Personal resentment, bitterness, childishness, are inappropriate reactions to the “world’s night”

Feel and acknowledge universal suffering

It is not and solely and “I” hurt

Etty Hillesum

Personal resentment, bitterness, childishness, are inappropriate reactions to the “world’s night”


... It is all as one in me and I accept it all as one mighty whole and begin to grasp it better if only for myself, without being able to explain to anyone else how it all hangs together... I wish I could live for a long time so that one day I may know how to explain it... If I am not granted that wish... Then somebody else will perhaps do it.

... It is all as one in me and I accept it all as one mighty whole and begin to grasp it better if only for myself, without being able to explain to anyone else how it all hangs together... I wish I could live for a long time so that one day I may know how to explain it... If I am not granted that wish... Then somebody else will perhaps do it.


Facing death / facing addiction / we face life

Is part of the whole

To learn to not turn away

We reach “now” into the abyss

Live and love recklessly - not become ascetics in a cave

Stop our grasping for some other experience some other time, something better over there

Facing death / facing addiction / we face life

Is part of the whole

To learn to not turn away

We reach “now” into the abyss

Live and love recklessly - not become ascetics in a cave

Stop our grasping for some other experience some other time, something better over there

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The World’s Night...things come and go in a deeper rhythm and people must be taught to listen to it, it is the most important thing we have to learn in