Monday 4 March 2013

One in Two

There is a Oneness to be found in two which is not so distinctly accessible in say three. I am thinking of the communion possible between two people, especially lovers. A pairing of two people in the sexual act gives rise to a sense of oneness / Oneness which is quite possibly available in groups but certainly much harder to locate. What is interesting in this I think is the axis that exists between a sense of aloneness / separateness and unity ( / Unity), and in particular the part that sex and various forms of love play in the location of this axis. In making eye contact with an other person we form a connection which (inevitably) excludes (except perhaps in our imagination) the other eyes that might be around us. In this connection we see / know ourself and the (so called) other to be joined. This knowing is not the same as the a concept or thought held in the mind, a concept such as the awareness of others being there but not looked at. It is a direct communion. This  direct communion happens in groups but not in my experience in the way and depth of my communion with one (so called) other.

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