Architecture of Meaning

Cultivating Meaningful Engagement for the Highly Sensitive Person

…While I do not begin to suggest that sensitives and visionaries know how climate change is going to play out, I would say that many sensitives and visionaries live with a sense of how large events will play out or come to pass that surpasses all logical explanation. In some ways it is as if they lack the filter that limits the ability of most people to see beyond the present….

If a pebble is dropped in the pond, it is as if the sensitive or visionary feels or sees as far out as the 100th ripple….As crises spread, deep change is mandatory. Someone aware of the ripples can be confused as to why it takes such crisis for most citizens to even begin to consider the need for change. This is part of the pain of carrying a capacity for vision - or for the awareness of the exponential.

In a culture that puts a premium on production, mastery and outward engagement, an introverted, sensitive or evolving man has no model for his journey. There is no commonly shared vocabulary for his experience. In a dieing culture, any man moved to untangle himself from the crumbling infrastructure is at a loss when it comes to understanding the process of disengagement.

Whether it is the high functioning attorney who has a stroke at age 35 and must learn to walk and talk all over again, the financial advisor that must relinquish the notion of making clients money in a falling market, the entrepeneur committed to sustainability who comes to understand there is no saving the planet or the management consultant who must watch his wife die of breast cancer - when these men face the abyss, there is no philosophy, book or cultural movement to support them.

We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual…If we had keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot, Middlemarch

It is rare to find a book on depression that touches upon the causal elements and dynamics of the depression itself. It is as if the writer - still suffering under the veil of depression’s shadow - is writing from within the condition. Unfortunately, by the very nature of depression, if you are in it - you can only write about what it is like - you can not write about what it is.

Depression is like a fever or a hallucinatory state. It prevents one from:

~seeing clearly
~accessing the core self
~being proactive
~freedom from disempowering influences.

We use terms like - being in a fog, or the light being dim because depression is very much a condition where the individual’s own energetic self is compromised. In my personal and professional work I would say that I have never encountered a depression that did not have spiritual, emotional and energetic dimensions to it.

…Wroblewski’s work reminds all sensitives that their ability to attend to what is unusual and easily missed by others is a gift to be shared. Wroblewski has dedicated himself to sensitive attendance to language and to the realms of awareness that remain invisible to most. His devotion to, and trust in his own perceptions allows him to bring us a world so rich and memorable that our lives are forever enhanced by the memory of what he shares with us.

Unusual and gifted, words that Wroblewski treats tenderly. He has written a love story about the qualities that many gifted and sensitive people make take a life time to treasure in themselves.