(07-17-2011, 07:20 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: Given your choice of perceptual framework, how would you classify Wisdom, Purpose, or Identity? Personally, I have observed many light- and love-filled individuals that would appear to be greatly suffering from a lack of these. I, myself, went through a period in my life such as this.
Wisdom comes with age, of course, but sometimes an "old soul" will seemingly start life with lots of it.
Purpose and Identity are kind of the same thing. Although most people cycle through the octaves accumulating each one's traits e.g. awareness of self, of others, compassion and wisdom, occasionally somebody is burdened with NOT having much of one. I knew one guy who kept trying different things, like being "a poet," and unfortunately being a bad one. Another time he wanted to join the ranks of Silicon Valley engineers, even though he knew nothing about that technology.
I had a job where a guy in my department decided that he was a female born in a male body. He dressed that way and wore jewelry, spoke softly and, in order not to cause a scandal at work, he would go to his car and drive to someplace to pee in the women's restroom. Despite his girlfriend begging him not to go through with the operation because the sex was good, he thought that's what he should do. We departed that company and I lost all track of him until maybe a couple years later I attended a Lazaris lecture and as I was looking for a seat I heard, "Lee! Lee!" There he was, with a beard and wearing jeans, split leather boots and a plaid flannel shirt, like he was a lumber jack. So he had gone from being a "girl" to being a macho man. I kidded him about it and he was fine with that.
In both of those cases, they didn't have a strong, permanent identity. Fortunately this is rare. I'm glad you got past that phase.
