Watchers

Socrates heard a voice that instructed him... Ernest Shakleton claimed that an invisible presence helped guide him to safety during his polar crisis.... The painter Max Ernst communed with a hybrid bird creature named Loplop, and it was a source of his creativity.
Sometimes in my solitude it seems as though my mind divides itself and another being assumes whirling reality- this being is neither good nor bad, and speaks other languages yet i can understand. Jung's ideas concerning dissasociation and channelling relate well to Heideggers premise- our minds our not our own anyway. Human individuality is an aberration, the 'Fall' really did take place and the goal is to restore consciousness to the primal unity it once possessed...but the chess player does not understand that is playing against itself, scaffolding towards a Wagnerian climax: 'Childhoods End.'