What Remains When All Is Taken: Standing in the LA Wildfires

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Fire strips everything away, leaving only what truly matters. In the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, homes have become ash, familiar streets are unrecognizable, and life feels uncertain. But fire is not just destructive-it is also transformational.
Pamela Power, a Los Angeles Jungian analyst and author, joins us in exploring the psychic tensions that arise from this experience. Fire erases yet reveals. It devastates yet clears space for renewal. Loss forces us to let go yet also asks: What endures? Though grief pulls us down, something in us reaches toward life. The weight of ashes is real, but so is the quiet, unseen stirring of what comes next.
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[@jima3345]

I can empathize with Pamela facing a traumatic situation and wish her the best.
Those in LA who had their attention gripped by what they had to do to evacuate, and where they might begin again if need be, brings to mind a Hermann Hesse quote:
"Every beginning offers a magic power that protects and helps us to endure".

[@TheLena9191]

Appreciate you having her on. Feeling for everyone in LA and southern Cali from BC ❤

[@jazw4649]

....institutional authorities often behave badly in disasters, in part because they assume that the rest of us will behave badly in the power vacuum disasters bring on and thus they too often turn humanitarian relief into aggressive policing, often in protection of property and the status quo rather than disaster victims. But ordinary people generally behave magnificently, taking care of each other and improvising rescues and the conditions of survival, connecting with each other in ways they might not in everyday life and sometimes finding in that connection something so valuable and meaningful that their stories about who they were and met and what they did shine with joy.
.....William James said of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, “Surely the cutting edge of all our usual misfortunes comes from their character of loneliness.” That is, if I lose my home, I’m cast out among those who remain comfortable, but if we all lose our homes in the earthquake, we’re in this together.
From Rebecca Solnit Essay When the Hero is the Problem

[@amandadetour4365]

It gives dramatic juxtaposition to how we are numb to the epidemic of homelessness vs those who have lost homes dramatically. Nice homes. Real homes. To fire. With resource by comparison. Perhaps it gives us pause to be reminded of the container we give those who lose everything all at once as compared to those who have made a lifetime of homelessness.

[@GinaGraziano-h7l]

It’s like dancing with the devil there and honestly I pray for everyone that has had to go through this. I am very sorry. I ask myself every single day how and why we play with nature and the causes and effects it brings. I also ask myself how and why we are playing games with AI. This is just the beginning unfortunately. I send my prayers.