Restless souls
Don’t know what this has to do with the price of eggs, but going out party style in Ibiza at night doesn't begin till the next morning, usually around 3am - planet insomnia. It's this bizarre phenomenon, grown up over the last couple of decades, of starting a night out progressively later and later until it's soon going to be cool to begin an event at 7pm the following day - that'll be the new late and we'll have come round full circle and maybe even get home in time for tea, except we'll have lost a whole day of collective existence somewhere along the way.
And the compulsion to talk rubbish, generally exacerbated by cocaine and alcohol abuse - not by your writer I hasten to add (I don't snort coke or drink alcohol - I'm stupid enough without needing any extra help) - against a background of aural bombardment, clinking glasses, distorted flirting and people talking rubbish people only mostly pretend to hear, proving the action and noise of speaking is far more important to people than what's being said.
True communication
We massage each other with a series of vocal sounds and tantalize each other with our actions. It doesn't matter much what we're saying or doing as long as we join in by saying and doing something.
And all of this is mostly done standing awkwardly, posturing, throwing a few shapes and pulling an array of facial expression in a frenzied, deafened social bonding dance.
And why?
Why do we strain our ears and livers with noise, substance and alcohol abuse and sleep deprivation?
Because we need to be together that much.
And why?
True communion
Because together, whether by design or accident, wittingly or unwittingly, whether in temple or nightclub, we co-elicit moments of mutually experiencing the Presence – the Tao informing this whole show, just one glimpse of which resets the perspective in a trice. It’s healing.
Yes, of course, human warmth and attention is crucial to emotional and psychological health – being noticed is healthy for the ego, noticing makes life interesting for you – and even not being noticed makes for interesting internal theatre.
But the real prize is the Tao.
Alternatively and far more tranquilly, you can meet the Tao simply by relaxing and going within, supercharged style, hence the latest spiffing FREE audio meditation, to help you do the requisite inward-bound reaching with maximum effect.
Glad we had this little chat.
(I wrote this very, very recently on my iPhone during a moment of silent inner reflection in a noisy club, incidentally - indeed so recently I still can't quite tell if all this is happening today or tomorrow).
With love, Supercharged
Just one glimpse of the Tao informing this whole show, resets the perspective in a trice. It’s healing.
