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
“The urge to become what one is is invincibly strong, and you can always count on it,” wrote Jung, “but that does not mean that things will necessarily turn out positively. If you are not interested in your own fate, the unconscious is.”2
Joseph Lee LCSW • Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams
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
Jung's archetypes. He saw these as bridging the unconscious realm of instinct and the conscious realm of cognition, in which each helps to shape the other,160 experienced through images or metaphors that carry over to us affective or spiritual meaning from an unconscious realm.
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
into the subconscious, through visualization, for example (since our subconscious mind does not clearly differentiate between what we see and experience with our physical senses and what we imagine or visualize). One way to become aware of
Dan Millman • THE LIFE YOU WERE BORN TO LIVE:: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose
When we equate the psyche only with the mind, it renders dreamwork a purely mental enterprise. I’d like to encourage you to think of psyche as a place, accessible to each of us, where we can travel to be in communion with the sacred.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
The unconscious is a marvelous universe of unseen energies, forces, forms of intelligence—even distinct personalities—that live within us.