The Living Room

There is such rich symbolism in the myth of Parsifal. It beckons to enquire further into the subject.

You will remember, Parsifal is a story of a “fool’s journey” – and it takes someone with the innocence of a humble and simple being, a divine child if you will, to master all the perils on the path, to follow counsel of the wise and not fall prey to their own illusions. It is the innocence, the simplicity that allows to approach the holiest of the sacred – the holy grail, the symbol of the divine, our interior life, that if we drink from it will bring redemption. And it is the encounter with innocence that heals the wounded fisher king, the symbol of the wound every one of us receives growing up, and can never forget. The suffering stays with us until redemption, or enlightenment.

So it appears that the wounded part in us needs to find something in ourselves that is about the same age and the same mentality as we were when wounded. This explains to why we keep searching and repeating the same situation over and over again.  But in order to heal, we must allow something entirely different to enter, because it cannot be the old mentality. This is why we need to find the “young fool part” in us to be healed.

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