What we get from an image is different for everyone, and you cannot force it. But it’s like this…the speech part of you is different than the image part of you. “I’ve been chasing that since I was 18 years old. Lynda brightened, stood, and walked over to me.
“I was wondering if I could talk with you for just a moment about what you mean when you talk about the power of an image.” I hesitated to interrupt her private space, but I knew I would regret not asking her the question that had been burning inside me for weeks. Lynda was seated on the steps near the lodge, waiting on her ride to arrive. The Power of Image in the Rapture of Being Aliveīefore the world changed to a new normal, I had a chance conversation with Lynda Barry at the 1440 Multiversity campus. What Joseph Campbell refers to as the rapture of being alive. Richness in sucking the marrow out of life. It would be like placing me in a room of 100 people for weeks, forced to converse in small talk, over and over, without the ability to find a quiet table off to the side, where I could be alone, recharge, and think.īut even as an introvert who can function peacefully while in isolation, I have felt deep pangs of longing for the color of living a full life…a life of free movement and profound joy without limit. The lifeline…life blood…for the extrovert. Confined inside without ready access to the energy and vibrations that emanate from others while out in the world-engaging and interacting. I tried to imagine how that must feel…trapped…claustrophobic.
The introvert was at his desk, peacefully working away in a state of flow. The extrovert was on bended knee, looking out his window, wailing in pain. I saw an image yesterday depicting how extroverts and introverts are faring during this time of quarantine and sheltering at home. “I’m devoted to the idea that the use of images can not only transform our experience of time and space, but also has an absolute biological function that is directly tied to an essential state of being which is this: the feeling that life is something worth living.” ~ Lynda Barry I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” ~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life.
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