🌓 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
“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 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
In my proposal consciousness is an enriched state of mind. The enrichment consists in inserting additional elements of mind within the ongoing mind process. These additional mind elements are largely cut from the same cloth as the rest of the mind—they are imagetic—but thanks to their contents they announce firmly that all the mental contents to wh
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enriched state of mind
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.comwhat 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)
If we accept Jung’s model of the collective unconscious, we are naturally and irrevocably connected to each other, to all of creation, in a way that transcends time and space. In its timeless nature, the collective unconscious is a remembrance of things past as they anticipate the future.
Sandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
collective unconscious