Sensually precious skin
So, look, peer at your skin. This
is the reality of your individuality, your separateness,
and your potential isolation. Yet, if you peer at and sit in silence
with your skin you eventually "get it"—that
you are related, interconnected, linked. You then grasp that you
did not generate your own skin. In fact, you come
to realize that you are skin because of others,
here, your parents. You open yourself to making present the Forever-Family.
Your skin, then, is memory, present
and future. “You” are in your skin,
but so are “others.” All those who came
before you as family, and all those who will come from
you as Forever-Family, whether physical or spiritual.
As you explore your skin, you come to realize many
of its peculiarities. That “it”—and
so, “you”—have certain needs.
To be touched by another. There are hands to touch. Lips to press.
Arms to embrace. Though you come to manage and control these, you
observe, in yourself and others, an almost uncontrollable
urge to touch, hug, embrace.
Through touching you discover yourself
as you discover the other, namely, through embracing. This is the
creating message. “You” become as “others” become
known, felt, embraced, etc.
There are urges and desires which
you come to know and to observe, and you learn about the big, vague
words used to wrap these urges and desires, such as, Love, Friendship,
Loyalty, Hunger, Adoration. These are words which
seem only to point you in a direction or towards someone, because
they are words which never seem fully attained.
You learn quickly that not just love but intimacy is something which
you crave again and again.
Continue—Skin
