Minimally Harvestable

[Aion]

I guess it's not that I don't like the word mirror, it's more that it's just not the one I would use to describe what you are describing anymore.

If you see someone that does something that angers you. How would you call that other than a mirror unto your anger?

I've yet to find a better word, words are a funny and limiting thing. The source of many misunderstandings when there was none.

I use the word that Ra typically uses - catalyst. I don't believe that reality takes what I am feeling and thinking and feeds it back to me. I think the process is a little more articulate than that.

If I see someone do something that angers me, why would I call them a mirror for my anger? That is very self-centered, presuming that every occurrence in the outside world is specifically a reflection of a particular emotion I had. What if multiple people perceive the same thing, some get angry, others don't? Is the mirror the same?

That's why it doesn't make sense to me. If someone makes me angry it is because I have taken their catalyst and during its processing found it to have struck some emotion within me. The catalyst may not even have anything to do with the emotion, but through my processing it has become associated with it. Do I place that on the person and say they are mirroring my anger? No, I do not know what they are actually doing. I know I have perceived something and in that perception I have found a reaction within myself. My work then is to come to terms with, accept and discover the roots of that reaction.

I don't like the notion of the mirror because it seems, to me, to place unfairly upon others the responsibility of your 'reflections'. As though if you got mad over something someone did that they were in some way responsible for that. I don't believe that everything everyone does is specifically there for me to reflect on. Sure, there is always the opportunity.