There has always been much talk of the unconscious. Sadly psychologists today considering themselves modern (sic) and evidence based have turned there back on such wooly notions! However, wiser heads know better, as Jung said: Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
We have a psycho-motor unconscious which is more mechanical but useful and this governs things like memory or being able to drive automatically and not think about it. However, we refer here to that deeper unconscious that knows all about you and is observing you as you read this…. haha what fun to write that! It remembers all your childhood dramas and yet can pin these together to inform you as to why you are having difficulty with your boss.
In that sense your unconscious participates in your life. However, it is also like a conduit to the great unknown. I have had premonitional dreams as have millions of people, where do they come from? We can access knowledge we dont normally know in everyday life & like Chopin, Mozart & in recent times McCartney who have ‘downloaded’ music that seems to come from nowhere.
Finally, there is a far deeper side to the unconscious and that is spiritual. As M. Scott Peck wrote in The Road Less Travelled: ….the interface between God and man is at least in part the interface between our unconscious and our conscious. To put it plainly, our unconscious is God. God within us.
If you want to go your individual way it is the way you make for yourself, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other. If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and surefootedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious. C. G. Jung (In Dunne, the Wounded healer of the Soul)
When travelling the solitary path, that only you can do, you are not alone! When you follow the mob/herd you will feel very alone in your heart!
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