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Date Posted: 09:12:44 08/10/02 Sat
Author: Rob
Subject: Cassadra, let's visit on this subject
In reply to: Cassandra 's message, "Thank you, Rob" on 09:45:46 07/26/02 Fri

Previously, I discused an experience in a restaurant about my opening.

I often have these experiences of the darkness. I have wondered if I have opened to the unconscious as Jung might describe this place. From his perspective as I understand it, he believes the unconscious can most easily be accessed through symbology, the dreaming state of consciousness. Thus, A dream, when interpreted accurately can yield a wealth of unconscious material. This concept has been an historical foundation for addressing the unconscious in psychotherapy.

I view this matter differently. I have concluded that my experience of the unconscious is actually an experience of consciousness unmanifest. This is an important difference. When I open to the darkness, I "see" layers of unresoleved issues and problems in other people. (I also have these layers but I cannot "see" them in myself with this clarity.)

I often wonder why we don't experience all these layers in consciousness. In fact, most of us try to avoid these layers. Instead, we choose to watch TV, go to movies, over eat, etc. to keep us in homeostatis. In this static state of being (small b), we avoid those unmanifest issues and problems needing to be expressed as Being (large B). I reference those unmanifest issues and problems as layers.

These layers "look" like a cross section of earth often depicted in geological data. I use this metaphor with care. For as I feel into another person in my open state, I descend into them, viewing layer by layer, like viewing layers of earth, sand, then limestone, then gravel, etc. I always journey down when feeling into another person.

The top layers often represent what the person needs to address as a next step in manifesting consciousness. Layers in the middle are much darker. Those layers contain information about childhood experiences that influence prsent behavior. I may see some childhood abuse experience now portrayed as an unwillingness to commit in an intimate relationship. I am deliberately choosing a generic example of what I experience, feeling into another person. The specific experience is much richer and profound.

The bottom layers I view are often Akashic. These layers are a stream of past life experiences deeply imbedded in unmanifest consciousness. These past life experiences somehow relate to the higher layers of unresolved issues and problems discussed above. Using the preivous example, a person unable to commit in an intimate relationship is plagued with unresolves issues of childhood abuse. I "see" at this deepest level entire lifetimes of abusive relationships for this person. In each lifetime, there seems to be a pivotal moment of resolution. But fear, rage or some other feeling experienced in the moment, blocks that resolution. Unable to overcome this overwhelm, the person "sends" these unresolved issues and problems to the dark realms of unmanifest consciousness. There, they remain, waiting for the opportunity to become manifest consciousness as Being.

This is the clarity I experience of the darkness. My feeble attempts to describe this process to your with words falls hopelessly short of the actual expereince of these events. I know I read as rational, analytical and linear. But I experience all of this clarity in my body. I become flooded with insight into the other person. I have no control of this flow. The experience is ecstatic and terrifying. It is not rational, analytical and linear.

To use another metaphor, black holes exist in the fabric of space. We know little of these celestial phenomenon. The force of gravity is so strong in a black hole that all matter is indescriminately sucked into this event. We don't know what happens to matter once it crosses the threshhold into this darkness. We can only surmise that nothing seems to exist (as we know existence) beyond the threshhold. That is the closes comparison to how this clarity flows into me. I am a little bit like an imploding black hole receiving clarity indiscriminately.

What I experience of this clarity is genderless. It is neither feminine or masculine. It lacks any quality I can describe to you. We may choose to metaphorically personify this experience of the darkness as feminine. May I suggest that Jung did this very same thing when attempting to symbolically define this darkness. My experience of this place defies all symbobolic clarifications.

This place of darkness does feel like the seat of creativity. Everything arises from and falls into this place. Sometimes when I go there, my body cries for relief. I can do nothing to stop this flow. That's why I continuously feel humbled by the experience. I am so insignificant in the face of this process of clarity. I view the process as a powerful ally.

Cassandra, I hope these comments help explain my experience of this opening. Thanks for your intererst. I welcome your comments.

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Re: Cassandra, let's visit on this subject -- Cassandra, 00:06:45 08/12/02 Mon