🌓 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
We’re talking about what psychologists today would describe as the “adaptive unconscious.” Timothy Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, has described this in his important book Strangers to Ourselves (a very Augustinian title!). Over the past twenty years psychology has come to appreciate the overwhelming influence of “nonconscious
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adaptive unconscious
the brain is commonly regarded as a thinking machine, but it’s more often the opposite: a machine that tries to circumvent thinking. This is because cognition costs time and calories, which in our evolutionary history were scant resources.
a machine that tries to circumvent thinking
“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
what is happening in this dream follows Jung's observation in the Mysterium-that when consciousness descends into the unconscious, it at first has frightening results."y To begin with, it produces poisonous animals such as dragons, serpents, and scorpions.
Dr. Stanton Marlan • The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Book 10)
Many centuries ago Hawaiian spiritual masters came to the same conclusions reached by others in various times and places: that there is an aspect of consciousness which operates covertly and indirectly (the subconscious); that there is an aspect of consciousness which operates openly and directly (the conscious mind); and that there is an aspect of
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Another aspect of the unconscious is that it will always seek out the path of least resistance.
Dr. Matthew B. James • Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
When you change who you’re being, you’re basically killing off your old identity, which completely freaks your subconscious self out.