🌓 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
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
... See moreAntonio Damasio • Feeling & Knowing
enriched state of mind
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.
Dr. Matthew B. James • Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.
thekcpgroup.com • The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.”
“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
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)
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
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