Comments on: Intuition is more than a hunch

By: Ripples — Stepping Stone Partners

Ripples — Stepping Stone Partners — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:40:38 +0000

[...] Intuition is more than a hunch [...]

By: ccseed

ccseed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:45:30 +0000

Great questions all…Reason will avoid the rabbit hole at all costs…but perhaps, not unlike Dante’s dark wood, the descent to the underworld is a journey worth taking. As for knowing if things are right? Well again, that takes the admission of the "other" that is the psyche. It’s been my experience that whenever an interpretation is way off, the next dream or fantasy or constellation of the unconscious materials will make that point loud and clear. And I’d also add the value of doing the work with another. In my own journey to become a Jungian analyst, I undergo analysis (as do all Jungians) with another analyst, the relationship creating the "sealed vessel" for exploration, experimentation, and encountering.

By: ccseed

ccseed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:25:05 +0000

Precisely.

By: jamenta

jamenta — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:19:33 +0000

heh. Maybe i'm right, maybe not!

But enriching one's daily experience is rewarding. Why not then?

By: ccseed

ccseed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:07:05 +0000

Thanks for hammering out a creed that rings true to these ears…

By: jamenta

jamenta — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:02:33 +0000

I am thinking maybe it's not about getting there, but rather expanding your sense of the journey.

Being aware of the dimensions of your daily experience and enriching it via your awareness of other parts of your psyche that belongs and doesn't belong to you.

Consciousness is a journey and getting there may be an illusion. The journey then is all.

Fuller awareness of the journey brings richness to our experiences?

By: ccseed

ccseed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:53:01 +0000

You may get there, but without recognizing it…

By: ccseed

ccseed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:52:02 +0000

I'll add that the process of becoming conscious, or widening consciousness, does not in my experience speed anything up and it can be filled with dangers like inflation, addiction, depression, but then again, the world not focused on becoming conscious is filled with those dangers as well.

By: jamenta

jamenta — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:49:00 +0000

It seems like much effort to get to a place you're going to get to anyway eventually. No?

By: ccseed

ccseed — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:45:47 +0000

Great questions all…Reason will avoid the rabbit hole at all costs…but perhaps, not unlike Dante's dark wood, the descent to the underworld is a journey worth taking. As for knowing if things are right? Well again, that takes the admission of the "other" that is the psyche. It's been my experience that whenever an interpretation is way off, the next dream or fantasy or constellation of the unconscious materials will make that point loud and clear. And I'd also add the value of doing the work with another. In my own journey to become a Jungian analyst, I undergo analysis (as do all Jungians) with another analyst, the relationship creating the "sealed vessel" for exploration, experimentation, and encountering.