The unconscious sends all sorts of vapors, odd beings, terrors, and
deluding images up into the mind - whether in dream, broad daylight, or
insanity; for the human kingdom, beneath the floor of the comparatively neat
little dwelling that we call our consciousness, goes down into unsuspected
Aladdin caves. There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: The
inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared
to integrate into our lives. And they may remain unsuspected, or, on the other
hand, some chance word, the smell of a landscape, the taste of a cup of tea, or
the glance of an eye may touch a magic spring, and then dangerous messengers
begin to appear in the brain. These are dangerous because they threaten the
fabric of the security into which we have built ourselves and our family. But
they are fiendishly fascinating too, for they carry keys that open the whole
realm of the desired and feared adventure of the discovery of the self
destruction of the world that we have built and in which we live, and of
ourselves within it but then a wonderful reconstruction, of the bolder,
cleaner, more spacious, and fully human life - that is the lure, the promise
and terror, of these disturbing night visitants from the mythological realm that
we carry within.
Friday, May 8, 2015
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