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[Magical Realist]

Much ado is made about living in the present as if this is our natural state of bliss (I'm looking at you Eckhart Tolle! lol). But when you think about it, such is obviously impossible and pointless. Everything around us that is existing in the present is just physical things and people and places in themselves with no apparent meaning or value. We cannot satisfactorily live in such a deadened wasteland. We need to fast forward just a few seconds into the future---to that ever anticipating lunge into whatever we can do next with the things around us or the people we can meet or the places we can go. This is our true natural state--- dwelling on that tintillating precipice where we hold onto the reins of sheer future possibility. We are grounded in presence that is true—in what is real and never changes. But it is in the adjacency of the nascent future—that next upcoming moment,— that we are oriented and find the lucid experience of our authentic being.

“Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.”― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

[Magical Realist]

The Real imparts selfness and agency by contradiction and contrast to our mode of approaching it. If that is thru language, it takes the form of the unspeakable and ineffable. If it is thru vision, it takes the form of the unseen and concealed. If it is thru touch and movement, it appears as immobility and intangibility. If it is thru ethical judgment, it assumes the mask of the insane and inhuman. And if it thru consciously thinking, it becomes the paradoxical and unthinkable. In each case the Real dialectically generates within our mode of being towards it the very subject and identity that makes possible our liberation into a higher state of being. IOW, a total transformation of being. In Jung's alchemical terms, the impossible yet miraculous conjunction of opposites. Or in Heraclitus's terms, enantiodromia:

“Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it enantiodromia, a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite.” –Carl Jung

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