This is a self-actualisation (UK spelling :) ) moment, for me:. When I first heard this song it was in 1988, I was just 21... and I had the fortune of having the positive outcome from doing some very brave inner work (I had no choice!) and now -as then, it is clear (-to me, at least): that when one is whole (after not being...) and unrepressed and in one's centre (essence, of goodness, aliveness, intelligence and innocence) and also being honest about looking at (former/sometimes) 'destructive urges' are all explainable; we understand our own psychology!
'It seems so perfect!' Indeed...!
And -i.e. There is a reason for everyone's chaos and destructive impulses.... -which does not excuse it when it is relentless; but when our awareness and empathy knows a person's biography, we understand (why they are negatively, the way they are... )
The being as a whole is seeking health, wholeness - to be free, self-aware, self-alive and happy... This is the truth that... Maslow and Carl Rogers found out: that even with their most (formerly) anti-social clients, when they were treated with patience and kindness, they started to become gentle and self-caring and were able to begin to have empathy for others in their life... and begin to make more solid, wholesome relationships
This is my definite 'take' on it.
Tom is no longer around in thsi world to say Yes, srpt of, or 'no'...
But the track, the guitar substcnes' in the song are (also) so good!
@GiulioJulio369 As he says later -on the album, -in 'Elevation', being High and Happy is Humble it does not go to my head, for I am not in ego but in essence, where there is no hierarchy of being's worth!
This is the self-actualising mode :)
@GiulioJulio369 As he says later -on the album, -in 'Elevation', being High and Happy is Humble it does not go to my head, for I am not in ego but in essence, where there is no hierarchy of being's worth!
This is the self-actualising mode :)
This is a self-actualisation (UK spelling :) ) moment, for me:. When I first heard this song it was in 1988, I was just 21... and I had the fortune of having the positive outcome from doing some very brave inner work (I had no choice!) and now -as then, it is clear (-to me, at least): that when one is whole (after not being...) and unrepressed and in one's centre (essence, of goodness, aliveness, intelligence and innocence) and also being honest about looking at (former/sometimes) 'destructive urges' are all explainable; we understand our own psychology! 'It seems so perfect!' Indeed...! And -i.e. There is a reason for everyone's chaos and destructive impulses.... -which does not excuse it when it is relentless; but when our awareness and empathy knows a person's biography, we understand (why they are negatively, the way they are... ) The being as a whole is seeking health, wholeness - to be free, self-aware, self-alive and happy... This is the truth that... Maslow and Carl Rogers found out: that even with their most (formerly) anti-social clients, when they were treated with patience and kindness, they started to become gentle and self-caring and were able to begin to have empathy for others in their life... and begin to make more solid, wholesome relationships
This is my definite 'take' on it. Tom is no longer around in thsi world to say Yes, srpt of, or 'no'... But the track, the guitar substcnes' in the song are (also) so good!
@GiulioJulio369 As he says later -on the album, -in 'Elevation', being High and Happy is Humble it does not go to my head, for I am not in ego but in essence, where there is no hierarchy of being's worth! This is the self-actualising mode :)
@GiulioJulio369 As he says later -on the album, -in 'Elevation', being High and Happy is Humble it does not go to my head, for I am not in ego but in essence, where there is no hierarchy of being's worth! This is the self-actualising mode :)