“See! This is the problem; you guys would never understand it. If I tell you that in my dream I saw Yanni on his deathbed, I knew that he was going to die the last time I met him, and I wanted to be the last person with him when he died.
“But I can explain it to you logically that…”
“You see where the problem is? At the most, what will you say: that I had a troubled childhood, that my dog, Yanni, was the only companion, that we were too close, and that I was only trying to fulfil a wish? You, with all your “psychological insights,” can only conjecture the textbook guidelines to understand a human mind. There is definitely more to it than this dry bookish explanation.”
“No amount of science, psychology, philosophy, religion, or ideology can ever set you free, for you are never bound!”
Take your individuality as the celestial body of the Earth. Repeated bombardment from space, the internal chemical reactions that it has conceived in her womb, and facing life-changing disasters and catastrophes She has nonetheless nourished each and every soul for as long as we have been able to measure. Individuality has a similar colour to it; despite all the external invasions and internal existential crises, it has gone on with its alchemical process of producing life and giving meaning to our mere existence.
There is something very unique about our species. The duplex nature of our being has given us two distinct mental identities. The conscious part of our mind remains facing the outside world. It is attached to the rationale and logic and loosely based on the experiential affairs of a few past generations. The subconscious mind, on the other hand, is like an omniscient ancestor sitting in perpetual meditation while keeping its third eye on our conscious self. We can turn to it for insights, creativity, and spiritual nourishment.
The subconscious communicates through symbols and archetypes that are stored in the ‘collective unconscious’, which is a dynamic reservoir of human consciousness. It is as if all the necessary information learned by our ancestors was compacted and passed to us down the line of the DNA. It is an eternal vocabulary of images, experiences, and evolutionary insights that are innate to human existence. This interconnected data of spiritual Eros speaks to us through symbolism, dreams, mythology, and subliminal experiences.
It is amusing to observe that, unlike our other cousin primate species, only ours has to go through the process of learning to adjust to the social structure. Of course, our cousin species have their own hierarchy and have to understand their place in it. For most of it, they need to learn how to survive and manage their basic instincts in their inner and outer groups. It is only we humans who have developed such a complex socio-cultural web that an individual in his developmental stage has to go through the strenuous task of going against the law of nature and grow out of its basic instincts.
With all the conditioning, partly as part of the family tradition and partly as the norm of the society he is born into. The child, when he reaches the age of ‘ego consciousness,” i.e., when he realises that he has an identity distinct from his carers, has two different realities in front of him. First is the reality of all the outstanding instincts—the ones that are yet to be tallied. This is the individualistic gap that has been created due to childhood upbringing. Second is the stereotypical reality, which is imposed on the child by all the external mediocre expectations of the mass at large.
The child is not mature, independent, or secure enough to be able to make an unbiased decision for himself; therefore, more often than not, he chooses to take part in the circus of second reality, thereby giving birth to his duality. This is the first step towards infectious individuality.
The later years of his development are only a measurement of his achievements against his age. He runs with a white flag in one hand to put it up against the milestone set up by society. This acceptance of mass reality is the stage at which his divide is total. He becomes a product of society. There are two beings existing in one individual.
The mass at large is nothing but a collection of such incompetent and impotent individuals. Mass becomes the wall for the “shadow” of the individual. The mass itself lives by the superficial ideals and policies of a depressed utopian world. There is an absence of creativity, novelty, and progress in the collection of mass.
The psychologists are too biassed in their approach to the process of individuation, as they believe that therapy is the only way to reach the individuation journey. The most important precondition to individuation is the realisation that there is a divide. The acknowledgment of the fact that there is a split in identity is the first step towards the process.
There have been cases where people have realised it outside the realm of therapy. When one shifts his focus from the external chaos to the inner carnival of creativity, intellect, or innocence, he will surely see the way out of duality. There are examples of transformations where therapists have connected their clients to the areas in which they had potential by diverting the force inward.
The end goal of the realisation is to switch off the dissimulation and grow into ‘in-dividuality,” which means there is no further possibility of divisibility of the self and only one whole remains.
I believe spirituality to be the perennial flow of the self through the timeline of collective human existence. Spirituality is the process of diverting all the forces of the running mind inward and experiencing multidimensional “spirit, which is the base of all the emotions and instincts in human beings. It is a process of accepting the subconscious in all its eccentricity, embracing its ancient language, and unravelling its subtle and mystical messages. Acknowledging that one exists beyond the realm of the mass and within the depths of an archaic civilization is spirituality.
We symbolically resemble the Devrish Sufis while attaining the process of individuation. Like the saints, we whirl on our own axis, working our hold on the centre tighter with each swirl. We draw chakras and mandalas, representing our whole selves and the wholeness of the universe we live in. Meditating on the ‘Bindu’ (centre dot) and abandoning all the baggage of past conditioning and the ego consciousness, and from that centre radiating an eternal enlightenment of a new foundation of the self and spreading through encirclement a vibrant diffusion Creating an aura of self-centeredness, awareness, and connection to a spiritual entitlement Here, the self becomes the measuring point of reality. We move in repetitive circles, representing in ourselves the imitation of the solar bodies moving around the sun.
In Sufism, there is a tradition of putting the god in the place of a lover and renouncing and immolating everything for that lover!
Where is this love? It is within!
Where is God? It is within!
Your writing is getting better with every new post. Glad to read something so good on this topic. Very interesting. Good work 🙂
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Thanks a lot:) do share your views future posts as well!
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Good work. (y) 🙂
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Thank you:)
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Well written..
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Hey thanks a lot:)
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👍🏼
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Thanks a lot:)
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Your write-ups are amazing.
Keep up the good work.
All the best
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Thanks a lot brother!!
Really appreciate your feedback!!
Shall look forward to hear from you more!
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Beautifully written! You are very insightful. We as humans are a troubled lot. Sometimes I prefer the other animal kingdom for being so here and now.
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Hey, we all are!
Unlike other animal kingdom we have done a lot of widespread harm to an individual being by shattering his ego self to fit him into the social ego!
It was notorious of us to have called ourselves- Homo Sapiens, The Wise Man!
Thanks a lot for the feedback:D
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Exactly!
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Interesting post! Thought is infinite, isn’t it?
Individuality within ourselves and the individuality that sets us apart from other people…
Personally I am very divided within myself psychologically speaking, I have more than one personality with more than one view, but ‘we’ are learning to integrate – though that has been something only recently seeming possible thanks to a recent episode of what professionals dub manic psychosis but I prefer to look at as more of a spiritual awakening.
We have the gift of being able to live within our physical existence, it is an experience to smell the flowers, touch the sea, feel emotions, love and pain – much like a video game creates an alternate world for us to lose ourselves in. When we break from that reality we can reach a state of spiritual ‘enlightenment’ or connection where we gain a sense of completion, we no longer crave these earthly senses we perceive in that moment to be almost pointless. Yet spirituality is always here, it isn’t linear nor temporary as our time as physical human beings is. I think that perhaps the lesson that we need to gauge from our connection with spirituality is that we are pure and infinite at soul level and yet we have been presented with a wonderful opportunity to explore, feel and live within this playground called earth and we should do so both with pure intentions and to the best of our ability. We also have the knowledge that in the end it doesn’t really ‘matter’, in the end we will still be able to feel love and light when we look inwards. So as we go forward we must perhaps try to remember not to get too caught up in the limitations of physical society as it is what it is, and not to judge who we are by what materialistic things we have access to.
So yes, we exist beyond it, but we always will so we may as well enjoy existing within it!
xoxo Kate
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This is a blog in itself:) its really beautifully put!
There are two types of madness, one on the individual level and other on the mass level!
Individual madness has an opportunity for psychic transformation and mass insanity on the other hand is a playground of all sorts of mental infections!
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I suppose individual madness is thought out a lot more thoroughly and is physically limited to a single body where as mass madness creates a situation where multiple people are simply feeding off of the energy around them without thinking about what brought them to that place originally…
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Very true!
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Also, if you havnt already, go through the set of articles madman’s Sanity and madman’s Sanity and Maturity. It goes on the lines as you have so beautifully described it:)
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A different perspective to look at Spirituality. Nice. Thanks
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Thanks a lot sir:)
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Very rightly described , it is always very confusing to overcome the spilt personality mentality in today’s world as we get used to it so much losing the power to differentiate between the thoughts……
You really think deep, on top of it you express them amazingly…..
Grt work
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Thanks a lot bhaiyaa! 😀
Keep your appreciation and blessing pouring:):)
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Beautifully put article.
Amazing keep writing
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Hey di! Thanks a lot!! Keep the blessings and support pouring:D
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Nicely written…keep up the good work! 👌🏻😀
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Hey!! Thanks a lot for the feedback!!
Keep the support and appreciation pouring!!
Happy intellecting:D
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Wonderfully written! I am very glad I took the time to FINALLY read this! It can be quite overwhelming at times to have mental duality in life. Society and our true identities playing “tug-of-war” in our minds. Yes, our subconscious is like our Jiminy Cricket, giving us insight on what is happening around us, how we should react, and so on but since people are innately different in every way, what truly is right or wrong? How did society structure itself to have its standards of how an individual should behave, achieve, and live? It’s difficult to see a way out of the day in and day out of duality since we are so accustomed to going along with societal norms.
When you pointed out symbolisms and dreams it reminded me of a conversation my partner and I had. When we sleep we dream. I know a lot of theorists and educators across many disciplines have a variety of ways to interpret what sleep is but I think the best way I can describe it is shutting down a computer or putting it on “sleep-mode”. We see black. Do we dream about what we have experienced/acquired through our life and what is stored in our minds is trying to file those experiences away? Is it merely our inner self trying to make sense of what is happening in our waking life (Freud) or is it something ancient, predestined, a way to communicate what we have experienced in ALL of our past lived to make sense out of this on we are living? But if we knew exactly what it meant would that change the way we view ourselves? These are the things that keep me awake at night lol.
Airyn Longoria
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Lol!
Hey! Thats a really good observation!
Dreams! Well, they remain every psychologit’s sweetheart, theologist’s playground and scientist’s fantasy!
It is one thing that I wish that science does not go too deep into and it remains an alien concept to them. Too much of rational formulas and theories would only make them too cheap and mainstream.
I appreciate your enthusiasm and would to hear from you on my other and future blogs:)
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I completely agree with you. As humans we are ALWAYS wanting to know what something means and do not want to let it just ‘be’ since there’s a void. We need answers to everything. Science is rigid so anything that isn’t observable needs to be made into something that is (e.g., theories, rational formulas, etc.) because that’s the best way they know how. I think dreams can be so beautiful there HAS to be a reason why they are what they are.
Of course! Thank you so much for taking the time to write back 🙂
Airyn
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Very true. Modern science is very rigid, where as World science, as it was before Industrial revolution- was very vast and embracing!
Since the true scientist, one who worth their salt, still do not deny or look down upon any ancient scientific theory and help the modern world to base its theories around it.
And bdw as a matter of fact am working on my next blog which talks about dreams as a source of connection to the sub conscious mind!
Hope to get your views on it:D
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