We imagine the unconscious as something inside us ... But the unconscious can equally well be imagined outside of our bodies, out in the world, like a dark, wild forest through which we roam. There are equal measures of mystery in dreams and wilderness.
— Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft
We imagine the unconscious as something inside us ... But the unconscious can equally well be imagined outside of our bodies, out in the world, like a dark, wild forest through which we roam. There are equal measures of mystery in dreams and wilderness. — Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft
Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
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Somehow you have to access the subconscious mind, where all your deeper impulses and urges
Stuart Wilde • Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power
‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung
The unconscious is a marvelous universe of unseen energies, forces, forms of intelligence—even distinct personalities—that live within us.
Robert A. Johnson • Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
This inner world is just as real, perhaps even more than the tangible world, because our presence, our choices, our being in that outer arena is governed by the psyche’s agenda, not the ego’s. Our dreams are not here to comfort us or make life easy. That is why so many of us pay so little attention to them. Rather, they ask of us attentiveness, res
... See moreJoseph Lee LCSW • Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams
Though the unconscious remains distant from ego awareness, we do have the symptom, or the dream, that is conscious, and each visitant has one foot in the dual realms. By respecting and tending this manifestation of the unconscious, we can finally begin to discern the direction of the psyche’s desire for us.