I just got finished with the Elfquest book (yes, book, not graphic novel), and it got me to thinking.
Allowing recognition for a moment to be a possible reality, humans would never have it in quite the same manner elves do (for instance, we dont die), but much of what they described I recognized as a very human phenomena anyway. I know every writer draws from expereince, and that would make the base experience drawn from human in this case, but still...
...do you think humans can and/or have experienced Recognition? If so, what do you think our natural laws wih it are? How does it compare or differ to the elves?
And outside the pseudo-science qustions--have ou ever in your life experienced anything you could honestly consider recognition, or as close to it as a five finger can get?
Allowing recognition for a moment to be a possible reality, humans would never have it in quite the same manner elves do (for instance, we dont die), but much of what they described I recognized as a very human phenomena anyway. I know every writer draws from expereince, and that would make the base experience drawn from human in this case, but still...
...do you think humans can and/or have experienced Recognition? If so, what do you think our natural laws wih it are? How does it compare or differ to the elves?
And outside the pseudo-science qustions--have ou ever in your life experienced anything you could honestly consider recognition, or as close to it as a five finger can get?
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Re: Recognition
Wed, January 11, 2006 - 11:34 PMI have felt somthing that could be described as recognition.
Although humans dont deal with this the same way elves do socially.
Recognition is just remembering the friend/family/lover that has always been with your spirit.
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Re: Recognition
Thu, January 12, 2006 - 7:55 AMOnce about 8 years ago, while playing with entheogens and practicing some intense tantra with a close friend, I swear to God I saw my friend's soul. This was not the result expected and was shocking and disturbing in some ways. It was so beautiful....and yet now I felt bound to someone who was supposed to be just a friend and it created a lot of strange weirdness for us for a while. It was so intense, that my immediate reaction was to run to the window and throw up. But I haven't ever experienced anything while completely sober. I have managed to come close to recreating that experience under similar circumstances.
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Re: Recognition
Tue, January 31, 2006 - 7:16 PMmolly, i also had the experience of seeing (what i thought was) my friend's 'soul' in a flash of white light. it has happened to me twice so far in my 28 years, and i do not doubt that it is recognition.
now recognition of what, i'm never sure...
i think it might just be recognition of someone who is to play a large role in one's life, or perhaps some kind of communication between their spiritual guides and your spiritual guides... a kind of 'head's up', or something. or some kind of anomaly in the energy field. or some kind of trick of the light. or something.
see? i've tried to talk myself out of believing that this actually happened, and i've used every little excuse in my puny human vocabulary to discredit what i know i felt. all i do know is that it was intense indeed, and i basically had to go to the window to thru up, albeit an entheogen-less vomit. for the rest of my life, i will probably question this experience.
neither person is someone i see as a lifemate (think back upon: dewshine's first feelings about tyldak), but then again who knows what's actually going to happen in the end...
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who knows about recognition, really?
not me.
i'm only on elfquest number 8 right now.
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Re: Recognition
Wed, February 1, 2006 - 12:57 PMNo doubt this person is a significant part of my life, although he has had a troubled road.
It's funny because he almost never calls or sees me....but when he has had the biggest craziest troubles of his life I'm the one he turns to without fail. He used to just turn up on my doorstep every now and then. Or else I get a letter from prison. Then he gets out and I have no way to reach him and our paths happen to intersect the two days I'm back in town in three years.....
I love him deeply, but would not want to have a relationship with him. Maybe in another lifetime. Yet I have had several mutual friends be like "I always figured you would end up with_____".
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Re: Recognition
Wed, February 1, 2006 - 9:52 PMAs we dont undersand our own experiences ....niether do the elves understand theirs.
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Re: Recognition
Sat, February 11, 2006 - 1:14 PMI had an experience with an ex of mine. We were joking around and suddenly I looked into his eyes and was completely shocked. Literally! It felt like a jolt of lighting that went down my spine. That's when I really really fell in love with him. Even though we were awful for each other! Logically I knew it wasn't right, but there was no denying the connection. I felt like he was someone I'd always known. We didn't last, and thankfully we didn't produce a cub either *wipes brow*. Really though, I can't think of anything else that would have been as close. For me, he seemed to be the perfect partner for the path I was on at that time. A heart I felt safe giving all my love to.
But Recognition isn't as much about falling in love as it is about an over whelming urge to come together to make a new generation of elves. Thankfully I haven't had THAT experience! I'm so not ready for children yet! heh.. -
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Re: Recognition
Sat, February 11, 2006 - 10:41 PM<<But Recognition isn't as much about falling in love as it is about an over whelming urge to come together to make a new generation of elves. Thankfully I haven't had THAT experience! I'm so not ready for children yet! heh>>
my firstborn is the result of recognition as you describe...
there was no denying that she called us together
still am in awe of that powerful time
and in gratitude for the experience -
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Re: Recognition
Sun, February 12, 2006 - 7:14 AMYou know now that I think of it, my friend has a child that I'm sure must have been recognition. The father and she had absolutely nothing in common. She has an amazing daughter as a result, however.
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