It occurs to me that it\u2019s possible that what people call the unconscious mind is at least partially super-conscious. It isn\u2019t repressed so much because it\u2019s nasty and we don\u2019t want to think such thoughts, but rather the things it\u2019s thinking are so subtle that they can\u2019t be recognized, or so subtle that there are no words for expressing them. Perhaps super-consciousness would totally boggle our minds and thus mercifully represses itself. That is to say, a fair part of what we call \u201cunconscious\u201d is not less conscious or childlike, but more conscious and beyond-our-understanding! That is to say, it\u2019s not just pushed down because its morally repugnant. It is so complex and subtle that no words can effectively express it. The adult human psyche defends itself from what would be morally unthinkable, but rather the mind unconsciously avoids that which it cannot conceive!<\/p>\n
Consider that you don\u2019t even know how you move your bowels, or heal a cut. You don\u2019t avoid this knowledge; rather, you can\u2019t even begin to take responsibility for its subtlety. That is, it\u2019s not just \u201cLet\u2019s not look at what we\u2019re doing,\u201d but rather what we\u2019re doing is so subtle and complex that you couldn\u2019t begin to understand! Super-conscious mind is much faster and more clever than you are. Some of what is unconscious is indeed repressed\u2014Freud was in this sense dimly cor-rect; but much of the out-of-conscious-mind is not so much repressed as mind-boggling.<\/p>\n
Parts of the unconscious is indeed influenced by childhood, but much of the unconscious mind isn\u2019t at all childlike or naive! So we need to re-think the subconscious mind, giving it far more power than we have. Freud made it just hidden and child-like so he could analyze it, but analyses took years and they didn\u2019t do half as well as they thought they could. I don\u2019t think it occurred to Freud that the unconscious mind could think circles around him! That\u2019s because the unconscious mind is so very clever. You couldn’t make up this stuff half so well! Radical idea, but fits with learn how to relax and let your higher unconscious do its thing<\/p>\n
Psychosomatic illness is a great trick. If we recognize the unconscious mind as far smarter, we\u2019ll see it as more clever, and indeed so clever as to disguise and out-think any simple \u201cinterpretation.\u201d Georg Groddek—an early 20th century physician with an overlay of some psychoanalytic thinking— was closer to the truth that we are lived by an \u201cIt\u201d that is us but far more clever than us. Some interpretations offer the deep mind a new outlet, and sometimes it works, but that doesn\u2019t mean that the one doing the interpretation really understands.<\/p>\n
Healing is at the high 8th or even 9th dimension. All we can do is surrender to it, obey it, serve it. The \u201cHigher Unconscious\u201d is unconscious because it would boggle our brains (literally) to know what it\u2019s doing. Consciousness is a narrow but necessary layer to serve God in certain ways, but it is not the be-all and end-all by any means. It\u2019s an attack on human narcissism. It\u2019s just not true that if it can\u2019t be thought (by humans) it\u2019s not worth thinking. That\u2019s so painfully narcissistic, but one must open to super-human intelligence to get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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