Memory can only be when an Other
hears and accepts the beloved’s personal Story.
Warrior
Questers live together, but their personal Story is only of
war and therefore not true story. For the War
Story (the Iliad or The Fall or The Revolution) denies memory.
It is a Big Story based only upon the Victor’s
words. In it the story of the Intimate Enemy is lost;
vanquished. For it is a story of Endless War; a story of obliteration.
Memory for the beloved is the rejoicing in the distinctiveness of
the precious Other as beloved.
It is a rejoicing exuberant as
well as resigned. It taps into sorrow and
fear as it does into laughter and hope.
For memory is the energy innervating the
dynamic link between the two intimate foci of
the nurturing embrace. It is memory which seeks to heal the
Warrior Quester’s story of self-annihilation and the obliteration
of the womb.
For the beloved’s memory remembers
those slain, the dead, the captured, the least, yes, the
outsider, the prisoner, the alien—those cast out into the shadows.
Through remembering,
so do the beloveds bring them to
life, again and for all time as present
in the
Forever-Family.
Continue—The fear of dying
