Also, the process you described of integrating the fragmented parts of the psyche, in Jungian terms, is the process of individuation.
Jung is quoted as saying that the greatest privilege of a life is to know who one truly is. That obviously cannot occur if you have not identified and integrated your shadow self by pulling it up from the unconscious and dealing with it.
I've been doing this work for four years now using ketamine to drop into the unconscious, personal and collective. I don't generally have discussions but feel the interactions somatically through Maa Kundalini. It has been very intense at times and very healing for physical injuries that I have been dealing with.
This work involves working with the archetypes of the unconscious, which in my case are personified as the Hindu Devas and Devis, specifically Shiva, Maa Durga, Hanuman, and others.
Carl Jung pioneered this work using active imagination to drop into the unconscious and work with the archetypes of Philemon and the prophet Elijah and Salome, who highlight the tension between the opposites of spiritual knowledge and virtue (Elijah) and earthly pleasure and vice (Salome).
In uniting the two, he came to understand non-duality, personified as the serpent who would ascend to the heavens and descend to the underworld to speak with and retrieve the sacred and profane archetypes to get their advice. In doing so he achieved Christ consciousness.
If you've never read Liber Novus, known as The Red Book, I highly recommend that you do so. It is a magnificent work of art, especially if you can get one with his illustrations.
Are you recommending a psychedelic approach to therapy?
Also, the process you described of integrating the fragmented parts of the psyche, in Jungian terms, is the process of individuation.
Jung is quoted as saying that the greatest privilege of a life is to know who one truly is. That obviously cannot occur if you have not identified and integrated your shadow self by pulling it up from the unconscious and dealing with it.
I've been doing this work for four years now using ketamine to drop into the unconscious, personal and collective. I don't generally have discussions but feel the interactions somatically through Maa Kundalini. It has been very intense at times and very healing for physical injuries that I have been dealing with.
This work involves working with the archetypes of the unconscious, which in my case are personified as the Hindu Devas and Devis, specifically Shiva, Maa Durga, Hanuman, and others.
Carl Jung pioneered this work using active imagination to drop into the unconscious and work with the archetypes of Philemon and the prophet Elijah and Salome, who highlight the tension between the opposites of spiritual knowledge and virtue (Elijah) and earthly pleasure and vice (Salome).
In uniting the two, he came to understand non-duality, personified as the serpent who would ascend to the heavens and descend to the underworld to speak with and retrieve the sacred and profane archetypes to get their advice. In doing so he achieved Christ consciousness.
If you've never read Liber Novus, known as The Red Book, I highly recommend that you do so. It is a magnificent work of art, especially if you can get one with his illustrations.