A Lost Lamb In The Depths Of Darkness (I)

Establish a correlation between your two faces, without letting your reason be strangled by some coordinates enforced by external forces.

Clarice Starling managed to find the murderer known as Buffalo Bill. She even reaches his home, the cursed place of horror. She feels her life is in danger, alone in the depths of the darkness producing the most terrifying dread, freezing her drive to do something constructive. The necessity of maintaining a toughened material composure against the extraordinary environment surrounding her imposes courage above the normal limits, supplying an energy that tends to run to its lows.

The weird force, which tries her from a subtle angle, surrounding her, almost paralyzing her in this unprotected area, changes position in an annoying way, thus widening the variation coefficient of tension. Terrifying, this force emits vibrations with different and more accentuated intensities, gives shivers and heart palpitations accompanied by a strong indisposition.

Suddenly, everything gets a somber connotation. The inability to tolerate the feelings of inhibition and frustration depresses Clarice. She seems surprised by an abundant flux of heat which tends to destabilize her vitals. This flux enhances the transfer of the energy which stirs blood molecules, triggering a rise in blood pressure. The brain goes into a state of inert thinking which weakens the capacity to react. Cerebral energy reaches a maximum in intensity, triggering a fast wear and tear of the senses.

How do you assess the need to understand yourself during an experience of imminent danger, when everything that manifests as sensitivity has the potential of a “declining identity” consequence?

The probability to fall in the middle of the unknown, unable to find the optimal way to avoid the danger (equivalent to the inability of your own personality to express itself freely), it entails the existence of an increased incidence of the reference event to which you partake. This fact places your judgment and your emotions in the situation to suffer a defeat, sometimes a catastrophe. In certain circumstances, leadership becomes quite troublesome, very difficult to treat.

Leadership, as a favorable means of getting out of this unknown that doesn’t ask for the permission to sabotage yourself if you’re not careful enough, can divide all the convictions you represent, sensitivity, or the emotional and psychic comfort. And reason requires certain flexibility in creating a relevant and correct image of who you truly are in these moments. Because the reason for a different vision of yourself is the main component of change, ensuring a correct vision which doesn’t allow you a firm grip in defending a non-performing model of being, and the necessary dedication in order to put it into practice.

Declining your identity in a situation of danger, when you are firmly convinced that there is only one way out (the unforeseen courage), is similar to trying to compare a plum with a cactus: you must gain from an experience of enjoying a pleasure in pain, surrounded by the feeling of being helpless in a hostile environment.

What position do you take in perceiving a borderline experience between life and death, in connection with an eventual cause that cancels any attempt to transform yourself into a meaningful form of reality meant to make sense of the individual trajectory?

I fondly remember the words of Victor Hugo: "What man has not entered, at least once in his life, into this dark cavern of the unknown? None of the acts of his conscience had been final."

Through this he draws attention to something that can’t be ignored, granting leadership a certain function, that of previewing your truly representative personal image with an extremely unclear resolution of a suffering that can be multiplied endlessly. Leadership is a permanent process of autocorrecting the judgment errors that could create a mental block in moments of fear and uncertainty. Hugo lets it be understood that getting away from the area that raises problems and creates hesitation is beyond the narrow vision about yourself which has been created by a mind tormented by inner struggles.

Nothing makes you more uncertain than a kind of battle with an unusual character, adopted without a prior analysis to the impact it has on you. You end up struggling in the inertia of inaction and your own inability when the processes and stages of the "heat wave", exemplified by those negative thoughts with pour incessantly through your mind aren’t avoided. And leadership cancels itself automatically if you struggle between your own suspicions and your own strengths.

It would be wonderful if you followed this advice any time you closely experience that weird feeling, that untamable shiver owed to a badly defined identity: "Open your eyes wide in order to refresh your profoundly cobwebby vision. And to make clearer and clearer the horizon surrounded by a think mist."

Can you overcome the limitations of pain tolerability in relation to the transformations that occurred after the events that marked you through their very impact?

The stimuli coming from a foreign environment are taken by sensory organs. And the more powerful and frequent the stimuli, the quicker to overcome the limits of thought and reason. If these limits aren’t overcome in relation with the transformations that have occurred after adopting certain quick and non-fundamental decisions, then you won’t be able to ensure the avoidance of a conflict with yourself.

And thus, the two opposite sides, your two faces, the brave one and the fearful one will threaten each other directly or indirectly, leading to the destruction by sacrifice of your reference position. This position works continuously, if the guiding needle of leadership, which validates your reactions and superiority, is in relation with the two forces.

In order not to touch the quantitative limit of uncertainty, establish a correlation between your two faces, without letting some coordinates set by external forces to strangle your reason. In any situation, the pain you feel can be overcome by the imperative of a higher purpose, that everything that happens to you negatively is a means of stepping on yourself.

The leader is the person who manages his fears with calm and confidence, able to experience the feeling of control over the situation he is experiencing.

A Lost Lamb in the Darkness’s Depths highlights the possibility to fall on the negative side of leadership, when you don’t want to overcome your own limits under the conditions of an intensification of some supraliminal external, as well as internal stimulus.

* Note: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)