Sublime

The word “psychedelic” is taken from the Greek words psychē (“soul”) and dēloun (“to make visible”, “to reveal”).

The concept of this individualized soul-image has a long, complicated history; its appearance in cultures is diverse and widespread and the names for it are legion. Only our contemporary psychology and psychiatry omit it from their textbooks. The study and therapy of the psyche in our society ignore this factor, which other cultures regard as the k

This summoning of internal imagery may seem like the description of miraculous oracular powers, but it is really the simple process of uncovering something our deeper psyche already knows. The deep psyche or soul, left to find its way, will offer up or recognize in the outer world the images germane to its place on the path of life.

Psyche is the part of you that can be separated from your body.

The ancient Greeks called it the etheric body. This is where the real you resides. It’s also where your real feelings reside.

The Ego, Jung tells us, is that part of the psyche that we think of as "I." Our conscious intelligence. Our everyday brain that thinks, plans and runs the show of our day-to-day life. The Self, as Jung defined it, is a greater entity, which includes the Ego but also incorporates the Personal and Collective Unconscious. Dreams and intuitio

This, in a nutshell, is the claim of panpsychism, literally, the position that “everything” (pan-) is “minded” or “psyche’ed” (psychism). Such an answer, by the way, is already coded in a way that links “mind” and “life,” since the Greek psyche referenced both (as well as “soul,” by the way).

• Eidolon (εἴδωλον): A ghostly phantom or illusory double in Greek mythology, reflecting an unreal or idealized image of a person or thing.


• Daemon (δαίμων): A divine or spiritual being in Greek philosophy, acting as a guiding force or moral conscience between gods and humans.