🌓 unconscious
“Unconscious beliefs are not intrinsically good or bad. The point is that you want to uncover them and maybe balance them so you can be consciously empowered.”
from Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path by Dr. Matthew B. James
🌓 unconscious
Our isolation from the unconscious is synonymous with our isolation from our souls, from the life of the spirit. It results in the loss of our religious life, for it is in the unconscious that we find our individual conception of God and experience our deities. The religious function—this inborn demand for meaning and inner experience—is cut off wi... See more
Liam James • How Ignoring the Unconscious Keeps You Trapped in a Limiting Identity: A Jungian Perspective
Understanding what the unconscious is trying to communicate means learning its symbolic language. Without this understanding, the unconscious images that rise above the surface of our consciousness in dreams and fantasies will be lost on us, and we’ll miss what they have to teach us.
How Ignoring the Unconscious Keeps You Trapped in a Limiting Identity: A Jungian Perspective
Beyond involuntary and compulsive behaviour, there are two ways the unconscious bridges the gap to speak to the conscious mind: dreams and imagination .
How Ignoring the Unconscious Keeps You Trapped in a Limiting Identity: A Jungian Perspective
How To Summon the Wisdom of Our Unconscious Inner Guide
youtube.com“I have my eye on the central fire, and I’m trying to put some mirrors around it to show to others. Sometimes the edges of those mirrors leave gaps and don’t fit together exactly. I can’t help that. Look at what I’m trying to point to!”
Joseph Lee LCSW • Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams
“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
Dreams address the unfinished business of daily life and anticipate future events. The unconscious takes in information that consciousness misses and tells us through dreams what we have missed and misjudged. Because the unconscious is ahead of consciousness, dreams can alert us to possibilities and probabilities that may lie ahead. Dreams foster p
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Having studied myths, symbols, and religious material, Jung posited a collective unconscious, a deep layer of psychic experience common to humankind. This concept is unique to Jungian psychology. The repository of prototypical, instinctual human experience over millennia, the collective unconscious is a wellspring of inherent, universal patterns an
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Staying with the darkness allows something to happen that escapes us if we are hasty. If we resist our natural tendency to take flight before painful experiences, we can descend into the dark aspects of the unconscious, which is necessary if we are to make contact with what Goethe calls "infinite nature"' Turning toward such darkness requ
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