Connect to Become Free
Connect to Become Free We begin without edges. At the moment of conception, there is no self pressing against an other, no inner world sealed off from an outer one. There is only the womb — a seamless, breathing equanimity, self and world indistinguishable, one warm continuity. Then birth arrives like a verdict, and everything that was whole is suddenly separate. This is the wound we spend our lives translating. Psychology has long argued over our primary will. Is it pleasure, as Freud believed? Power, as Adler insisted? Meaning, as Frankl found in the ruins? But trace the arc of a human life from its very first moment and something older reveals itself — older than desire, older than ambition. It is the Will to Connection : the primal, reparative drive to recover what was severed, to find again the world we once inhabited from the inside. This is not mere sociability. It is structural. We do not simply meet people — we build them inside ourselves. Object R...