Night reading, as a strategy to bringing back inner calm, to carry us back in the sand of sleep, is highly interesting.
Night reading allows to re-colonize mental processes that had been given over to the anarchy or raw words.
Our daytime rationalizing mechanisms are ineffective.
Through night reading – and writing – practice, we can inhabit these channel deeply.
There are similarities between this approach and a therapeutic perspective : through the intervention of the book – or the therapist’s – we regain enough hold on those mind energies to start functioning again and move towards a more stable inner ground.
Another approach, much more radical, blunt, direct would be to instantly dive into the darkness of this night ocean and observe all undercurrents at play in vivo.
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My first thought was that, by « night reading », you meant something like « reading the night », or contemplation in the darkness.
Perhaps that betrays a preference on my part for the bluntness and directness you suggest in your last paragraph.
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I had this same hesitation regarding the meaning of night reading and wasn’t exactly sure it meant what I wanted it to : reading during nighttime.
NIght reading, as you note it, sounds a lot like fortune telling,
Sky scrutinizing
Cosmos deciphering.
Soul piercing.
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In that sense, it can be done any time – simply by investigating the darkness behind the eyelids
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Oh yes…night as a wearable device.
I never realized I always carried my night with me wherever I went.. A pocket night.
Thanks Simon.
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You’re welcome. It was a surprise to me, also, when someone pointed out this rather obvious matter.
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