Considering there is no “I” without “other” and both are the complex collision of our nature/nurture equation this work of art is timelessly important! How much of what we’ve become is “our choice” and how much has been driven by unconscious dynamics we did not choose is still up for debate. As for the idea of “Hell” that is relative to some degree yet painfully obvious in many circumstances; intractable pain prolonged over time, extreme involuntarily isolation, etc.
That “sense of I” that is integrally entwined with the “sense of other(we)” is sometimes a choice and sometimes not. Does one choose the “Hell of an abusive childhood?” Does the adult that is grappling with PTSD without knowing or understanding it choose the “Reoccurring Hell” that continues to show up in their lives?
IMO, and life experiences, most of what we consider Hell is unconsciously chosen and that cycle can only be broken when we bring the depths of our subjective interiors to the surface of our awareness in which it can be objectified and transcended(healed). Free will is not truly activated until the depths of the complexities of our beings come into the fullest expanded awareness possible and even then it doesn’t end…
Considering there is no “I” without “other” and both are the complex collision of our nature/nurture equation this work of art is timelessly important! How much of what we’ve become is “our choice” and how much has been driven by unconscious dynamics we did not choose is still up for debate. As for the idea of “Hell” that is relative to some degree yet painfully obvious in many circumstances; intractable pain prolonged over time, extreme involuntarily isolation, etc.
That “sense of I” that is integrally entwined with the “sense of other(we)” is sometimes a choice and sometimes not. Does one choose the “Hell of an abusive childhood?” Does the adult that is grappling with PTSD without knowing or understanding it choose the “Reoccurring Hell” that continues to show up in their lives?
IMO, and life experiences, most of what we consider Hell is unconsciously chosen and that cycle can only be broken when we bring the depths of our subjective interiors to the surface of our awareness in which it can be objectified and transcended(healed). Free will is not truly activated until the depths of the complexities of our beings come into the fullest expanded awareness possible and even then it doesn’t end…