Christopher & Dana Reeve: In Sickness & Health
3-11-06 In Sickness & In Health
Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman so well, alias Clark Kent, news reporter for The Daily Planet, died on October 10, 2004 at the age of 52. He had existed for 9 years in a state of paralysis from the neck down. Before that he had been a very active stage actor (his favorite profession) a Hollywood actor of course, and a sailor and a veteran and skilled rider of thoroughbred horses. Mr. Reeve's wife Dana died this past Monday on the 6th of March, 2006. They were in love--this husband and wife. And when Christopher lost all his vital powers that love was no longer capable of being satisfied in the normal ways of the human organism. Mr. Reeve had been robbed of his sexual powers. He and Dana had been married for only 3 years at the time of his fall from the horse, named "Eastern Express," on the 27th of May, 1995. This true story has been running through my mind for the past week. It is a remarkable story for me because I also value physical activity much in the fanatical way Mr. Reeve did. I have a crazy love for strenuous physical exertion and for superb food and hot long baths and of course the deepest intimacies capable to the human---the passionate love of one woman. To observe a fellow human being of such fame & health as Christopher Reeve brought so low changes one in some almost unfathomable & irresistible way. That experience becomes Myth---Our, your & my, Experience as long as we are Conscious of our true inner Nature. For nine years Dana & Chris stayed true to eachother & Battled The Grim Reaper and foot tooth and nail for Restoration of Christopher's Life Force and the renewal of his Feelings throughout his body. Science could not assist him at this stage of our evolution.
We often complain about this and that---especially our lame romantic lives when they fall empty or dull. For a long time I have noted (and I mean for 25 years and longer) that no matter how many nights one suffers from Unrequited Love it is still a tremendous Force in one's life to be Alive & potent with health. Even without the immediate gratification that we naturally seek with one Object of Desire. I say it is still something extraordinary to experience Desire itself and to have The Power Alive & Functioning inside one's amazing body. This feeling was made even more intensely present to my consciousness when I began to read the life story of Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana. There was something so satisfying in their continuing love after Christopher had lost his most precious sexual powers and all the attendant sensations and emotional pleasures that go with them and was relegated to a wheel chair for the remainder of his life. This truly was a national & universal experience, an heroic event in the life of the nation in which every one of us participated if we so wished. Such is the nature of Love. It is never merely individual egoistic experience but it is in some way Human Collective Experience that goes beyond the contours of the bodies of the participating individuals in especially such a grand and generally known instance as that of Christopher & Dana Reeve. There is no question about it this couple brought their love or rather their love brought them out of their private ego lives into the realm of the collective life of the nation and they became mythological figures. And we participated in their joy and suffering insofar as we permitted ourselves to do so. I cannot prove this by logic of course. But I know it to be true because I experienced it.
RLG
Christopher Reeve, the actor who played Superman so well, alias Clark Kent, news reporter for The Daily Planet, died on October 10, 2004 at the age of 52. He had existed for 9 years in a state of paralysis from the neck down. Before that he had been a very active stage actor (his favorite profession) a Hollywood actor of course, and a sailor and a veteran and skilled rider of thoroughbred horses. Mr. Reeve's wife Dana died this past Monday on the 6th of March, 2006. They were in love--this husband and wife. And when Christopher lost all his vital powers that love was no longer capable of being satisfied in the normal ways of the human organism. Mr. Reeve had been robbed of his sexual powers. He and Dana had been married for only 3 years at the time of his fall from the horse, named "Eastern Express," on the 27th of May, 1995. This true story has been running through my mind for the past week. It is a remarkable story for me because I also value physical activity much in the fanatical way Mr. Reeve did. I have a crazy love for strenuous physical exertion and for superb food and hot long baths and of course the deepest intimacies capable to the human---the passionate love of one woman. To observe a fellow human being of such fame & health as Christopher Reeve brought so low changes one in some almost unfathomable & irresistible way. That experience becomes Myth---Our, your & my, Experience as long as we are Conscious of our true inner Nature. For nine years Dana & Chris stayed true to eachother & Battled The Grim Reaper and foot tooth and nail for Restoration of Christopher's Life Force and the renewal of his Feelings throughout his body. Science could not assist him at this stage of our evolution.
We often complain about this and that---especially our lame romantic lives when they fall empty or dull. For a long time I have noted (and I mean for 25 years and longer) that no matter how many nights one suffers from Unrequited Love it is still a tremendous Force in one's life to be Alive & potent with health. Even without the immediate gratification that we naturally seek with one Object of Desire. I say it is still something extraordinary to experience Desire itself and to have The Power Alive & Functioning inside one's amazing body. This feeling was made even more intensely present to my consciousness when I began to read the life story of Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana. There was something so satisfying in their continuing love after Christopher had lost his most precious sexual powers and all the attendant sensations and emotional pleasures that go with them and was relegated to a wheel chair for the remainder of his life. This truly was a national & universal experience, an heroic event in the life of the nation in which every one of us participated if we so wished. Such is the nature of Love. It is never merely individual egoistic experience but it is in some way Human Collective Experience that goes beyond the contours of the bodies of the participating individuals in especially such a grand and generally known instance as that of Christopher & Dana Reeve. There is no question about it this couple brought their love or rather their love brought them out of their private ego lives into the realm of the collective life of the nation and they became mythological figures. And we participated in their joy and suffering insofar as we permitted ourselves to do so. I cannot prove this by logic of course. But I know it to be true because I experienced it.
RLG
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