Because, on first meeting, this interaction allows you both to see through each other's masks, defenses or smoke screens, the subsequent reaction of each of you can vary enormously. A great deal depends upon what it is that each of you senses within the other person.
The chances are that whatever each of you do see will reflect or enhance some highly sensitive issue of your own. Your individual emotional reactions that follow upon this, are what then characterize this interaction, rather than what actually happened in the first place.
There are usually two extremes here: one is where a glamorized image or some other smoke-screen is quickly put up in order to protect yourself from the other person's psychic perception of your inner truth.
The other extreme is that a great openness remains, allowing a wonderful psychic rapport to manifest between the two of you.This psychic rapport causes you to feel as one, to identify very closely with one another, and to detect at any distance the state of one another.
However, it must be pointed out that it only takes one of you to adopt the first extreme in order, sadly, to preclude or at least greatly diminish the second one. And even when the second extreme has been maintained by one of you, the psychic defense screen erected by the other person could eventually become actually offensive, which would cause the 'open' person to close down defensively too. The outcome here is then a 'psychic war' of projected and imagined fears, which can be quite sapping, physically and emotionally, to both of you.
Generally speaking, because most people are not yet prepared to see clearly their inner truth as distinct from their outer display, the remedy to the negative expression of this interaction is not very acceptable. All the same, here it is. If you are experiencing the negative expression, cast your minds back to when you first met, and visualize slowly and closely what actually transpired at that time. If you can do this, without defensively reacting again, you will gain a great insight into the truth of who you both are, as individuals and to one another.
This interaction reminds me of the Mayan greeting 'In lak'ech' which means 'I am another (like) yourself'. One way or the other this interaction will bring you both an insight into spiritual reality or the mystery of being. How you respond to this determines whether you experience it as fascination or confusion, identification or alienation, love or hate - or a strange combination of some or all of these. |