Gross Green Goo

The search for a path through life

This line of thinking about negativity interests me because I remember that some 15 or 20 years ago I proposed to my group that we study negativity for a whole year together.

Of course, there was a big argument about it right away, because everybody's molecules were — as everyone's always are — poised to collapse into negativity as soon as something that didn't suit them arrived on the doorstep. Or, rather, returning to the analogy of Penelope's suitors, someone who was actually a terrific jerk appeared on the threshold and got invited in at once as an old friend (which, indeed they were, but not in a good way.)

In any event, it turned out that people felt surprisingly negative about the idea of studying negativity (are we really surprised?) even though the Éminence grise in the room gently pointed out to everyone that this was, in fact, exactly the kind of work that groups were supposed to undertake.

Needless to say, perhaps, but to be said, anyway, is that we never undertook this task. Yet I see now 15 years later that I finally have some better understanding on the question of negativity, specifically in regard to the alignment of molecules – both natural, temporal and eternal, spiritual molecules –and the way that they affect us in their reactivity.