Passion, Death, and Spirituality by Kathleen Higgins & David Sherman

Author:Kathleen Higgins & David Sherman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

My interlocutor could be said to be anticipating the surge of memories and paradoxical desires verging on an occult aspect, ‘as if those memories and details might be used to “conjure up” the lost one, as in a séance or an invocation’ (Solomon 2004: 85). In a dream, I hear, ‘It is natural (for one) in the physical state to mourn’, echoing Krishna’s sermon to Arjuna in the Bhagavad-Gītā (1985: 2.11): ‘but grief (śocya, pitiable lamentation) is for oneself not for the departed…have resilience; you have work yet on earth’s platform…attending to tasks and bodily health, with diligence and self-love…’

As if prophetically, some weeks later in a dream or two I am reflecting, ‘You mean I should be loving myself; a self that is hanging on in threadbare smithereens…a self negated?’

(Still in the twilight state I hear) Tring-tring tring—the cell phone goes off:

‘Honey, remember to bring me organic pasta from the supermarket, the one I like…’

‘Okay, I will…but hang on, aren’t you supposed not to be…well…alive, no?’

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