Inner search – The Introverted Tree

Those stars

By: theintrovertedtree 29th Jun 202114th Sep 2021

Inner search, Philosophy, UnconsciousCollective unconscious, Elves, Inner search, Shadow and Light, Stars, TolkienLeave a Comment

In Tolkien’s world, the stars were the first thing the elves saw when they awoke. They were tossed on the sky by Varda, just so they wouldn’t be in the dark when they woke up. The unreachable light in the darkness. The stars are not farther awayThan the men I deal with Heroes del Silencio,…

Those songs

By: theintrovertedtree 24th Jun 202114th Sep 2021

Inner search, Psychology, Second half of life, UnconsciousInner search, Projections, Words1 Comment

Aren’t all the songs the same song? Aren’t all the books the same book? What I find in them, isn’t it what I need each time? Doesn’t my unconscious project what my conscious ego needs to see? My brain carefully selects the words I need to hear and removes the rest, which are no longer…

A horizon of here

By: theintrovertedtree 1st Jun 202114th Sep 2021

Liminality, Philosophy, Second half of life, Waiting and HereHorizon, Inner search, Liminality, Soul searching1 Comment

I look at the horizon sometimes, mesmerised at the fact that I can see something I will never be able to reach. I remember it took me some time as a child to grasp the concept. I kept asking where exactly that ‘horizon’ was, as if it were a geographic spot and I needed the…

Searching from

By: theintrovertedtree 18th Jan 202114th Sep 2021

Inner search, Introversion, Philosophy, Psychology, Waiting and HereInner path, Inner search, Search, Searching, Soul, Soul searching, Wait9 Comments

The other day, it occurred to me that maybe I’m not searching for, but ‘searching from’. I wonder if a search is not a flight. If it is not a statement, a recognition that I don’t want to be ‘here’. A void, silent and permanent. I wonder, once again, if a search is not an…