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The following is excerpted from Sailing Home: Using the
Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
, published by North Atlantic Books. 

We long to come home
because we don't feel at home where we are, and we have a memory of home that beckons
us with its rightness. Like Odysseus, we know that, whatever it takes, we have
to go back, because our lives and the lives of those we love depend on it.

Why did we leave home
in the first place? We left home because we had to, however conscious or
unconscious of that need we were at the time. We needed to leave so that we
could become the person we were meant to be. We knew we couldn't remain in our family,
in our hometown, in our simple and naïve heart, forever. When we were in the
womb something made us uncomfortable and pushed us out into the harsh world. We
went on with our life until something made us uncomfortable at home, and forced
us outward and onward. There is no Odyssey without an Iliad ("a poem of force,"
Simone Weil called the Iliad), and there is no returning without leaving.

Almost all great
religious traditions work with the theme of "leaving home." To join the
Buddhist order is to become a "home leaver," renouncing your worldly home and
family for a life without possessions, home, or fixed identity — a life of
wandering. In this, Buddhist monastics imitate the Buddha, who, disturbed by
the inescapable indignities of sickness, old age, and death that he sees all
around him, leaves home in the middle of the night, seeking a way out of the
impossible predicament we call living. In the Bible, Abraham is rousted out of
his home by God, who commands him to "leave your father's house and all that
you know and hold dear and go to the land that I will show you." Jesus leaves
the loving support of his disciples to enter the desert for forty days and
forty nights (imitating his people, who abruptly left their sorry homes in
Egypt for the desert where they wandered forty years, and Moses, who prepared
to lead them with his own long wilderness exile). Mohammed flees Medina. Native
Americans go off alone into the mountains to fast and seek visions. So, too,
Telemachus finally leaves home secretly, sailing away under cover of darkness:
"And the prow sheared through the night and into dawn."

Leaving home means
setting aside all we know, all that is secure, authoritative, comfortable, and
binding, and shoving off for parts unknown with no road map and no guarantee of
finding your way. Though it can look like — and even in some cases can be — a form
of running away, an act of cowardice, real home-leaving is courageous,
requiring heart and force. To go forward you must leave everything behind, and
even though the past may seem to be persistent, lodged as it is in our very
bones, it is one thing to be bound up by the past, doomed to repeat it or to be
held back by it endlessly, and another to use it as a springboard for a journey
that goes beyond-to where, one can never know.

So, leaving home,
often literally and always metaphorically, is a necessary step along the path
of the journey of return. After your long waiting, which is an inner ripening,
comes expression, a wail or a scream or a poem, and then action; you climb into
your boat, crew and provisions in place, and push off into the dark sea for
parts unknown. What does it take to motivate you to leave behind everything,
and to set forth on a dangerous mission without knowing where you are going or
precisely why? Is fear enough, fear that life is growing shorter by the day and
that you haven't really begun to live? Fear that the foundations of the life
you have built are so shaky that you need another approach, a new foundation?
Or fear simply that you have not loved and that after all these years you have
no idea who you really are? Fear is a good motivator. Probably a certain amount
of it is necessary. But fear alone is not enough. Home-leaving requires a
vision more stimulating and more sustaining than the vague notion that we have
to "get a life."

After rousing
Telemachus out of his doldrums, motivating him to go forth into his real life,
Athena leaves, literally flying away like a bird:

 

But as she went she
put a new spirit in him

A new dream of his
father, clearer now,

So that he marveled
to himself

 

In leaving home we
must do more than simply flee; we also must move toward something uplifting and
challenging, however vague it may be. And even if, like Telemachus, we receive
this vision through contact with others, the vision can't be someone else's property;
we have to make it our own. And it must be powerful enough to motivate us, to
awaken us from our slumber, to turn our paralyzing fear into action. Though our
adventures on the open sea might not be identifiable to the outward eye, and though
our setting forth will result in the end in our coming back to where we started
from, we don't know this at first, and the journey is real to us, desperate,
crucial, and difficult. So we need a considerable force to get us started.

Telemachus finds this
force in a "new dream of his father," that is, a new confidence that his father
is alive, that knowledge of him is possible, and that he must seek it. As a
son, a father, and a spiritual teacher who is often mistaken for a father, I
know how powerfully motivating (for good and for ill) a vision of "the father"
can be, however ambiguous its
unconscious effects. In our time we have necessarily criticized what we call
patriarchy, the social order that customarily places men in positions of unassailable
power, with all the social and psychic injustice this inevitably brings.

Traditional patriarchy
also has underlain our spiritual realities as well. God has been seen as "the
father," seat of spiritual power and leading force of our inner journeying. Men
have been considered to be in charge of religious life, women relegated to
secondary roles. We want now to overcome this ancient bias, to elevate mothers
as well as fathers, and to go further than this, beyond hierarchy and control,
toward a sense of personal empowerment inside and out.

Despite this
important and ubiquitous contemporary imperative, we can't deny the persistent
power in our psyches of the archetypal figure of the father (beyond any
particular father or male person). The relationship with the father figure, as
I suggested earlier when I spoke of my own father, is fraught with undercurrents
of passion and violence. Yet we can't dispense with it, any more than we can
dispense with our biological father, no matter how disastrous a force he has
been in our lives. The father, as well as the mother, gives us life, a genetic
code and a psychological imprint with which we spend our lives working. Along
with the mother, he is "author" of our lives and, if we want to claim that authorship
in his stead, we can only do it through negotiation, by transferring his power
to ourselves. Although we may prefer to forget about the father, to skip this
thorny negotiation, one way or another we must go through this step, however
painful and scary it might be, if we want to find our own authority.

The father is also
something larger than a powerful male archetype in our lives; he is a metaphor
that contains our feeling for the world we enter when we leave home. Formidable
and foreboding, that world bears down on us with its full intimidating weight.
That weight had been dragging down Telemachus, but when he shoves off in his
boat to seek news of his father, he is inspired with new possibilities. No
longer stuck with the absent father as the stumbling block, the heavy inert
dragging force preventing all movement and reducing him to impotent
complainant, Telemachus can now see in the absence and unknown fate of his
father a creative dream calling him onward. We can put this in the context of
the four Buddhist truths: in finally leaving home, Telemachus digests the first
Noble Truth: that conditioned life is suffering. In receiving a "new vision of
his father," he intuitively grasps the second and third Noble Truths: that
suffering has a cause, and an end.

These metaphors of
religion, myth, poetry, and art provide us with the new dreams, the new visions
of possibility, however idealistic or imaginary, that can give us the force we
need to go forward. Religion, myth, poetry, or literature can take the longing
and the absence we feel and transform it, not by glossing over it and
pretending it isn't there, but by giving it energy and purpose, raising it to
another level so that we can see a way out of our doldrums. For Simone Weil,
the absence of "the father" is not a tragedy but an infinite opportunity for
transcendence. "God can only be present in creation under the form of absence,"
she writes. "Nothing which exists is absolutely worthy of love. We must therefore
love that which does not exist."

Present-day society doesn't offer us
much in the way of vision. Instead of vision we have consumption, in place of
the journey we have the mortgage. We are enjoined to go to well-lit,
merchandise rich stores to shop for our true satisfaction, rather than to
rummage around for it in the obscure corners of the soul. And even when we are
offered religious comfort, more often than not it is in the form of worn-out
piety, or cut-and-dried doctrines of certainty that close down our questioning
and journeying, rather than providing us with spiritually challenging practices
that might open us up. To sail out onto the sea of stories, ride the inner
waves of fear, courage, and endurance, so that we can come home with some sense
of joy and grandeur, we need a vision more meaningful than what the mundane,
present world has to offer us.

I
am inspired by the vision of the compassionate servant, a person who finds a
deep peace and satisfaction not in accomplishment or accumulation, or even in
mystical transport, but rather in wisdom gained through service to others,
through friendship, love, silence, and truth. All religions I know of offer
this model. Such a vision does not necessarily require that we be hermits, monks,
or saints, that we scorn the "things of the world" as evil or decadent. Though
this vision sometimes requires renunciation, periods of time (for some, perhaps
a whole lifetime) when we naturally find that it is better to be quiet and to
have nothing than it is to run around in search of that elusive something we
think we need, the life of the compassionate servant can be a full life, a life
of joy, interest, and discovery.

In Buddhism the
vision of the compassionate servant is imagined in the figure of the
bodhisattva, literally an "enlightening being," committed to bringing peace, happiness,
and illumination to all, certain that this is not only possible, but that it
will definitely be achieved. The bodhisattva is naïve and enthusiastic, hard to
discourage, always kind to others, feeling their feelings and suffering their
sufferings, sparing no effort, refusing no vows that might lead to the final
achievement of his or her impossible goal to save everyone, eliminate all evil
and delusion, master all spiritual teachings, and in the end merge with all
others to become nothing but pure holy truth itself. Though utopian idealisms
can be toxic, the bodhisattva vision (and similar visions in other religious
traditions) has the potential to do better than this, for it is grounded in
practical kindness, in the ethics of nonharming, flexibility, and listening,
and in the thoughtful consideration of what will really work in this world as
it is, not as it should be, to benefit others. So the vision of the
compassionate servant can be a healthy vision, offering us immense scope for
our living, without twisting us out of shape as normal people.

One can't find one's way
to a spiritual vision like this through reading about it in books (though books
might encourage us to seek it) or wishing it were so. Like Telemachus, we need
a little help from our friends, and usually a certain amount of effort on our
part. But if we have the help and make the effort, we can find a vision, and,
finding it, can muster the courage to leave home as our ancestors, real and
imagined, did before us. We too will set forth, prow pointed toward the dawn.

© 2008, 2011 by Norman
Fischer.  Reprinted by permission of publisher.
 

Teaser image by gnuckx, courtesy of Creative Commons license

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Curious to learn more about ketamine? This guide includes comprehensive ketamine resources containing books, studies and more.

Ketamine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to ketamine has everything you need to know about this “dissociative anesthetic” and how it is being studied for depression treatment.

Ketamine for Depression: A Mental Health Breakthrough
While antidepressants work for some, many others find no relief. Read to learn about the therapeutic uses of ketamine for depression.

Ketamine for Addiction: Treatments Offering Hope
New treatments are offering hope to individuals suffering from addiction diseases. Read to learn how ketamine for addiction is providing breakthrough results.

Microdosing Ketamine & Common Dosages Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing ketamine.

How to Ease a Ketamine Comedown
Knowing what to expect when you come down from ketamine can help integrate the experience to gain as much value as possible.

How to Store Ketamine: Best Practices
Learn the best ways how to store ketamine, including the proper temperature and conditions to maximize how long ketamine lasts when stored.

How To Buy Ketamine: Is There Legal Ketamine Online?
Learn exactly where it’s legal to buy ketamine, and if it’s possible to purchase legal ketamine on the internet.

How Long Does Ketamine Stay in Your System?
How long does ketamine stay in your system? Are there lasting effects on your body? Read to discover the answers!

How Ketamine is Made: Everything You Need to Know
Ever wonder how to make Ketamine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how Ketamine is made.

Colorado on Ketamine: First Responders Waiver Programs
Fallout continues after Elijah McClain. Despite opposing recommendations from some city council, Colorado State Health panel recommends the continued use of ketamine by medics for those demonstrating “excited delirium” or “extreme agitation”.

Types of Ketamine: Learn the Differences & Uses for Each
Learn about the different types of ketamine and what they are used for—and what type might be right for you. Read now to find out!

Kitty Flipping: When Ketamine and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Read to explore the mechanics of kitty flipping.

MDMA & Ecstasy Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to MDMA has everything you want to know about Ecstasy from how it was developed in 1912 to why it’s being studied today.

How To Get the Most out of Taking MDMA as a Couple
Taking MDMA as a couple can lead to exciting experiences. Read here to learn how to get the most of of this love drug in your relationship.

Common MDMA Dosage & Microdosing Explained
Microdosing, though imperceivable, is showing to have many health benefits–here is everything you want to know about microdosing MDMA.

Having Sex on MDMA: What You Need to Know
MDMA is known as the love drug… Read our guide to learn all about sex on MDMA and why it is beginning to makes its way into couple’s therapy.

How MDMA is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make MDMA? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how MDMA is made.

Hippie Flipping: When Shrooms and Molly Meet
What is it, what does it feel like, and how long does it last? Explore the mechanics of hippie flipping and how to safely experiment.

How Cocaine is Made: Common Procedures Explained
Ever wonder how to make cocaine? Read our guide to learn everything you need to know about the procedures of how cocaine is made.

A Christmas Sweater with Santa and Cocaine
This week, Walmart came under fire for a “Let it Snow” Christmas sweater depicting Santa with lines of cocaine. Columbia is not merry about it.

Ultimate Cocaine Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
This guide covers what you need to know about Cocaine, including common effects and uses, legality, safety precautions and top trends today.

NEWS: An FDA-Approved Cocaine Nasal Spray
The FDA approved a cocaine nasal spray called Numbrino, which has raised suspicions that the pharmaceutical company, Lannett Company Inc., paid off the FDA..

The Ultimate Guide to Cannabis Bioavailability
What is bioavailability and how can it affect the overall efficacy of a psychedelic substance? Read to learn more.

Cannabis Research Explains Sociability Behaviors
New research by Dr. Giovanni Marsicano shows social behavioral changes occur as a result of less energy available to the neurons. Read here to learn more.

The Cannabis Shaman
If recreational and medical use of marijuana is becoming accepted, can the spiritual use as well? Experiential journalist Rak Razam interviews Hamilton Souther, founder of the 420 Cannabis Shamanism movement…

Cannabis Guide: Effects, Common Uses, Safety
Our ultimate guide to Cannabis has everything you want to know about this popular substances that has psychedelic properties.

Cannabis and Ayahuasca: Mixing Entheogenic Plants
Cannabis and Ayahuasca: most people believe they shouldn’t be mixed. Read this personal experience peppered with thoughts from a procannabis Peruvian Shaman.

CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
A ground-breaking study has documented the superior therapeutic properties of whole plant Cannabis extract as compared to synthetic cannabidiol (CBD), challenging the medical-industrial complex’s notion that “crude” botanical preparations are less effective than single-molecule compounds.

Cannabis Has Always Been a Medicine
Modern science has already confirmed the efficacy of cannabis for most uses described in the ancient medical texts, but prohibitionists still claim that medical cannabis is “just a ruse.”

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