21-01-2014, 11:06 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Keith Millea Wrote:A quote from Alan WattsWow. Graphic. Interesting web site too Keith.
Quote:It's like loading the Universe into a gun, and shooting it into your brain.
~ Alan Watts
David Guyatt Wrote:There are - and so far as I can discover, have always been - techniques that one can learn in a disciplined way that achieves the same, or even better results, without any loss of consciousness. You can be fully "there", but also "here" at the same time. There will be no "bad trip". But there will be plenty of trips.
I say better results, because you can control which part of the Collective Unconscious you visit. You need a roadmap to do that, but with training, this is achieveable.
One last thing to add, I think, is that there are people who are born with this ability close to the surface. Travelling in that other world is not a particularly difficult transition. For these people it like falling in a swimming pool. Jung developed his own technique for doing exactly this; he called it "Active Imagination". But it's been around in one form or another for thousands upon thousands of years.
This! A thousand times!
Aye. The Hero With A Thousand Faces...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14