🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

now I read Palestinian poets like Mahmoud Darwish.

“Hope is not the opposite of despair,” he writes. “It is a talent.” And “suffering is not a talent” but a test of it. And indifference is “one aspect of hope”.

If hope is a talent, I’m not sure I am very skilled at it. But it is a skill worth developing.

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

Sophia

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

But I’m of the belief that sadness, grief, and depression are important developmental thresholds that all adults must contend with at some point in life. These events can bring about a positive disintegration (wherein your sense of self becomes dis-integrated and then re-integrated with metastability at a higher order of complexity)—or we can squan... See more

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

disintegration ≠ negative

Unfortunately, three things tend to hold The Dark Cloud in place:

The stigma of sadness // Ours is a society that loves it some forced cheer. If you’re not happy, then there’s something wrong (with you).

The delusion of progress // You feel The Dark Cloud—but all the metrics indicate you are doing fine, so it’s [seemingly] easier to simply persist

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

depresssion

Poetry is language against which you have no defence

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

In my early 30s I began to consider the mythic as a novel ‘aesthetic’. Calling myself “a wizard” was infinitely preferable to calling myself a “thought leader”, a “futurist” or a “consultant”. The archetype of wizard was much more enlivening and expansive; the mythic quality to it that appealed to me. And still does.

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

All of this sounds like co-creating a world more curious and kind (and a future less grim). I’m so down for this.

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

love this language for musicto foundation

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”.

foxwizard ☾ • 🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”

well that’s a relief ;-p