Pushed away: Gasoline
“Whatever's out there, I'd rather meet it in small doses or not at all.”
It keeps its distance from the sacred and stays among things that do not ignite, on an assumption that any real contact would be total and would not leave a person afterwards. Rejection arriving before memory established that whatever is that large is not safe to stand near, so the subject gets handled at arm's length and its own volatility is kept capped in the same motion. What it asks for is contact at a scale it can survive, which is a different request from no contact at all.
It echoes Arjuna, shown the whole form at once, who trembled at the sight of it and asked for the ordinary face back so that he could go on standing there. The form implies a task: to ask for the smaller form rather than refusing the meeting.
- Essence
- The Reducer
- Rule
- Anything that big was never going to be safe for me.
- Substance / Activity
- Gasoline
- Archetype
- Arjuna
- Emotional theme
- Contact with the vast expected to be total and unsurvivable
- Behavioural pattern
- Concrete-mindedness; avoidance of the sacred; own volatility kept capped
- Family dynamic
- Maternal rejection registered in the womb or very early infancy
- Core wound
- Anything that big was never going to be safe for me.
- Exit
- Making contact at a scale small enough to survive.
What is the "Pushed away: Gasoline" pattern?
It keeps its distance from the sacred and stays among things that do not ignite, on an assumption that any real contact would be total and would not leave a person afterwards. Rejection arriving before memory established that whatever is that large is not safe to stand near, so the subject gets handled at arm's length and its own volatility is kept capped in the same motion. What it asks for is contact at a scale it can survive, which is a different request from no contact at all.
What does "Pushed away: Gasoline" sound like when it shows up?
Whatever's out there, I'd rather meet it in small doses or not at all.
What is the archetypal form of "Pushed away: Gasoline"?
It echoes Arjuna, shown the whole form at once, who trembled at the sight of it and asked for the ordinary face back so that he could go on standing there. The form implies a task: to ask for the smaller form rather than refusing the meeting.
This is a pattern. Not a verdict.
It appears in many lives.
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