seeing through a glass dimly

I was raised in a family that dwelt and still dwells in realms of mythology. Most of my adult life has been spent seeking reality, and unraveling those realms of mythology that so tenuously undergirded my living structure.

Some days, I get really angry about this winnowing. It is a day-to-day choice to live free of resentments for the cost of this realm of mythology in time, energy, money and well-being. I see how the ongoing family mythologies have impacted my children, and that causes me pain and anger also.

But there are times when those mythologies still carried by others try to impact my well being in the here and now. Sanity looks like naming them as lies, and refusing to give them ground again. Some call this boundary work.

Creating a new world based on reality of the here and now, and discerning the necessary ways to appropriately protect it and live with grace in it is an ongoing task. One in which I often misstep, need to pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.

Offering grace to myself, and to those still immersed in the old mythologies, is key at this point. Humans only know what they are willing to know, and it is dishonoring to force light into another’s cage of myth.

Today, I am asking the Inner Teacher for guidance on points of contact when truth meets myth, and for how to stay in inner and outer peace when those worlds collide.

Comments

[Erin Wilson]

You've really caused me to stop and think with this post, Anj. I wonder if that point of connection/contact between truth and myth is different for each of us. There are certain truths I hold that others think is myth.

I guess I'm wondering how to live in a way that's life-giving for all, being able to hold onto what I believe true, while allowing others the same space. I wonder how that works...

[Anj]

Erin, I think you have something here. I grow into new truths and new myths all the time. So I guess others must too. How can I hold on lightly enough to where I am to allow others the space to hold on to where they are?

The one myth I have been thinking about specifically, which I do not want to give space too, is the habit of intrusiveness and interference. The inability to live in the truth that we are each led by the Inner Teacher and Guide.

[Barb]

I respect you :)