🌓 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
“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
When you change who you’re being, you’re basically killing off your old identity, which completely freaks your subconscious self out.
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
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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.
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.
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
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