In Presence

We learn as children to charge and discharge our nervous systems. Charging is accomplished unconsciously by excitement. There are various forms of excitement…wanting or losing something, getting something I wanted, disagreeing, envy, surprise, physical shock, anger, frustration. These phenomena give rise to a temporary surge of sensitive energy. The energy is then discharged in habitual ways, ranging from expressions of anger, argument and disagreement to self-pity and euphoric laughter.

Allowing the pump to operate automatically is to forsake evolution. The pump expresses the sensitive energy of the body down and out into the environment. The process of evolution begins when the sensitive energy is voluntarily husbanded, neither expressed, nor repressed, but held for the attention to digest and transmute, taking it up and in.