The Feeling of Aloneness

I took Simon and Garfunkel’s song, I am a Rock, as my theme when I was in high school oh so many years ago.  If you are not familiar with the song, the lyrics are:

 A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.

And of course you can hear the song on YouTube.

While I am still a rock, and an island, and a bird and so many other things I realize that I am

not alone.  In fact, I am part of everything (rock, island, bird . . .) and everything is part of me.  

Oneness, aloneness and separation are all illusions.  Those feelings are caused by the social

conditioning of our experiences, collective social values, and a lack of awareness on our part.

When we chose, either consciously or unconsciously to dissociate ourselves from nature,

from each other, and from our helping spirits be feel alone.  Science is no substitute for cmmunity.

Communal societies have not made that mistake.  They still share energy and know that

whatever happens to one person happens to all, to the group.

As a practitioner of core shamanism I believe that the world (and us as a part of it) is the way

that it (we) is (are) because we have dreamed it into being.  If we continue to dream the same

dreams the world will continue to be as it is.  To change the dream get go outside and connect

with nature.  If separation from nature is one of the causes or spiritual and physical dis-ease

then connection with nature is part of the cure.  I find that wandering in nature (as I did this

morning) feeds my spirit and frees my mind from its connections with the mundane material

world . . . only when I do this are my mind and soul able to unite tougher to seek.

You are not alone . . . you are never alone . . .you and I always have been and always will be connected.