As Prelude I repeat
the theme of the recent stream of Essays which is: “More than Meets the Eye.”
The following essay fits nicely. In my last posted essay I stated:
“Necessity is the
Mother of Invention” so say the technocrats in our culture. This aphorism is
aptly applied to our brains in dysfunction. By necessity new talents emerge
when the brain must find another way…
Does AD restore the
sight of the mystical Third Eye?
The following essay
deals in yet another instance where life forces us to see More than Meets the Eye.
The Article of Bob
DeMarco in Alzheimer's Reading Room noted and posted here was one that catapulted
me into this kind of reflection It is entitled: Alzheimer'sCaregiver Unleashing the Strong and Deep Desire Within You. Read
it by clicking on the title to go to my Archive
I have posted it.
When I read something
I look for the substance of what is said, like, what is its meaning or what
does it suggest? I drive my wife Diane nuts with this. AD has done nothing to
diminish this trait of mine. Along with my cognition it remains alive and well
as so many other functions of mine are flushed down the toilet of AD’s
progressive debilitation.
That said (an apology:
an explanation), should you read on… I go back to a recurrent theme that I have
recited in past comments. It is mind boggling to me the affect AD has on its
Caregivers and often on its afflicted ones.
We are forced by the
circumstances of having Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), affected by it, afflicted
from it, to do things we never thought of doing and too often never really
cared to do. In the doing of that which AD requires of us something wonderful
happens to us.
There are so many
words that can be used to describe what that something is. Words like Mystical,
Sacred, Communion, this can be an endless list. The list boils down to this:
Love. We are forced to love; we learn to love; the door is opened to the
transcendent gift of our Creator, the Cosmos, or whatever power the word can
describe. The appropriate word is in antonym to the word material.
It is in this
circumstance that we can experience the heavens opening to us while we are in
this time-space materiality.
We partake in the
purpose of life which is simply to learn to love. It is to what so much of our
lives seem directed if we care to watch. All the rest is corollary; as corollaries
it defines life and explains its purpose.
It adds to and fills
out the love we discover by having been through all the correlative experience
leading to it. All of that experience that is corollary, namely complementary,
fleshes out the fullness of the experience that is ours.
Sound heavy? Not
really; that is if you stop to give it some thought. The word Corollary bears
many definitions one of which is this:
“A
natural consequence or result. A correlation is a mutual relation of two or
more things”
It seems to me all of
life’s experience is in correlation, one experience after another, Linked!
Adding these correlative events if we are fortunate in this life to be able to
do so it can lead us to a realization of the perfect reward of life.
That reward is the
transcendent experience of love. The Love available to us in this life, that
has its roots below and arms reaching above, reaching into the Cosmos, in
Heaven, or whatever concept we can use to describe the source and the end of
all of this.
The love of the
Caregiver can and more than not does reach this celestial end.
Funny about that too;
we are forced into it, Yeow!!!!!
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