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Montclair State University
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Rick Saldan
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Dream Illusions
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The Void Author: Lisa Raphael
Most of us spend the first half of our lives getting busier and busier. There is so much to do! Get and education, establish a career, create a home, manage a family – by the time most women reach mid-life, we have not a moment to ourselves. We are busy meeting others’ expectations.
Keeping busy is a great way to a-void facing the void. The void is the space where our spirit lives, our being, our innermost Self. This is an account of the moment I first faced the void.
As my fiftieth birthday approached I was pleased with what I had accomplished in a half century of living. A child of the Holocaust whose family was disseminated in 1939, I had a home in which my new extended family and surviving members of my family of origin came together and a counseling practice that supported a comfortable life style. At the big “five O “ I felt that I would have no regrets if I died right then. I had completed everything I had set out to do.
But who was I – really?
My poem about turning fifty ends “at fifty, I am free to BE” but what did that mean? I knew about being a counselor, wife, mother, daughter, aunt, sister and friend but who was I when I was just me? I needed time out from my identity. That summer, I went alone to the Grand Canyon, deliberately stripping myself of clues to my outside identity. During my week at the South Rim, I wore standard casual clothing, held only the most superficial, necessary conversations with people, stayed in a single room in a remote motel, and spent a lot of time in silence, without music, tapes or T. V. I walked a lot. My first glimpse of the canyon – the sun shining on the deep red rocks as I approached at sunset from my motel brought tears to my eyes. The rocks seemed to be welcoming me home. Every day, I took off in another direction, hiking the rim wherever there were fewest people. One day, I sat on the edge of a rock away from the path, absorbed in watching the changing shadows over the biggest hole in the world. Time stopped. It was not until I began to feel chilled that I realized I must have been there for several hours.
I got up feeling utterly fulfilled. Somehow, in the silence, in the absence of thought, feeling, motion or human contact, I had made contact with my Self – with God.
My first direct experience of what I thought I knew – that we are more than our physical existence, busyness and roles happened while contemplating the biggest void in the world.
I described the experience humorously upon my return. There was an advertisement for decaffeinated coffee popular at the time, which touted “fill to the rim with Brim”. I told my friends “ I filled to the brim with the rim.”
Discovery of our spiritual selves often changes the balance of our lives. By fifty-six, I was living alone, counseling with a spiritual focus and using a new name. At sixty-three, I have no designated roles, tasks or attachments.
Life has never been so full.
I'm Healer, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Seminar Leader, Author of O-Becoming One, Transformation Beyond Survival and O-Becoming Other, Survival Beyond Transformation. Graduate degrees in Counseling, Psychology and Music. Survivor of Holocaust and childhood sexual abuse. Mission is helping others get in touch with the wisdom of the uconscious - and the Creator - through deep exploration.
