Making Pathways Into The Mind

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, 

it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” 

– Carl Jung

There is no doubt in my mind that we are largely ruled by our core beliefs. Now to what degree we are affected by such beliefs can amount to a long and arduous investigation. It seems very likely that they colour and taint the particular lens in which we perceive the world; therefore they merit our attention and consideration if we value clarity and well being.

“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” – R. D. Laing

Now what should happen if our main beliefs are in conflict with one another? If we are conscious of them, then we can deliberate upon their intricacies and possibly find a way to reconcile the contradiction. But when our opinions are poorly understood because we are guarding them or denying their existence in order to conform to a cult/ure, then things may get rather complicated and emotionally unsettling.

“And when the eye of the soul is really buried in a sort of barbaric bog, dialectic gently pulls it out and leads it upwards...” – Plato, Republic VII 533d

It is also my intention here to widen the play-field to adopt various tools and life strategies so as to extract and analyse my beliefs. As my own psychotherapist per say it is my goal to rid the blockage in my own eye before providing insights on how to attain clarity. This experiential method may lack degrees, certificates or letters after my name, but should my investigation bear fruit and help others to make pathways into their own unexplored psyche, then my work may not be entirely in vain.

“For you would not find out the boundaries of psyche, 

even by travelling along every path: so deep a logos does it have” – Heraclitus