...and as a result, really complicated his life...
His pursuit of the bone led him into a setting where he completely lost the ability to see things as they really are. Although perception is reality, it was not his point of view that arithmetically skewed and/or shaped his reality...it was the setting around him. Pluto was surrounded by images that exponentially skewed his perspective.
We can handle and even function pretty well, given the garden-variety warp that comes with being in a fixed place/point in time, restrictive though that may be. But throwing the fun house mirrors into our personal landscape craps things up to the point where we have a hard time in recognizing, and therefore in navigating, this landscape. Not only do we become schizophrenic, but everyone and everything around us is, as well.
Multifacetedness is good as long as all of those facets are real. "Real" probably means based upon the universe as it turned out as a result of the latest Big Bang. Acknowledging the possibilities as produced by past and future Big Bangs is irrelevant in dealing with this one. And I am talking about the landscape on a far less macro scale than that which contains EVERYTHING. This, again, is the personal landscape.
When we treat as real the perceptions that are skewed (ie, what we think of when we think of someone that we haven't sen in years...an ex-partner with whom things ended badly), we throw a fun house mirror on the wall. And then the funny part is that we actually navigate by that. It is like using a road map drawn by Phil Spector. Why would you? Where would that lead you?
When we reconnect, or at least reacquaint ourselves, with people from our past and present and see them as they really are, we avoid those distorted mirrors. We substitute fake perceptions, which can only lead us into Whackville, for real ones. Seeing things as they really are is, at best, about a 99% possibility. Everyone sees things with a slight warp that is uavoidable and is the result of being who they are and where they are in the landscape.
Over the past few years, I have reconnected with people from my world with whom things ended badly. Until these meetings, I continued to see these people as single-minded one-dimensional beings whose only reason for existing was to carry a grudge against me, and to plot some srt of revenge. They had no other life, totally separate, had made no progress or done anyhing to expand their world beyond where I had left off with them. Squezed into this box, or mirror, they had grown into morbid creatures in my personal mythology. And their power over me, their abiity to feed my self-doubt, grew and grew and just kept growing. Every time I faced doing something difficult, or had a life crisis, their voices drowned out everyone else's, telling me that I was going to fall and fall hard, and that I deserved to because of some wrong I had done them, or some way in which I failed in the past that had involved them. I think I actually visualized an ex-partner of mine, sitting on a crusty throne, waving a greasy turkey leg in one hand and a spilling goblet in the other, laughing raucously at my lack of confidence. Like the nanny in the Omen who calls to Damien just before leaping from the balcony...only that dude on the throne was threatening to toss ME off.
Wow, it does look ridiculous in print...the degree to which I gave so much power to a mythological creature . He wasn't even cool, like a unicorn or phoenix.
He actually looked more like this:
So why let something like that into the driver's seat?
When we rid ourselves of these distortions, we take back our house.
It's the best we can do to see things clearly until we can handle the power of fourth-dimensional perspective. That's just for grad school students, though. We will all get a chance to talk in the locker room betwee games, so don't worry.
OlympicWino
PS Don't you think that the Kramer character was based on Pluto? The facial expressions, the gift for getting into bizarre situations, the mannerisms...I'm telling you...
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