26-07-2013, 09:05 PM
Stan Wilbourne Wrote:Quote:"You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaksin a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier."
"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dreama grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thoughta vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"
Thanks, Tracy. Quite beautiful.
I would add, if I may, a slight variation on Twain (who I greatly admire too).
Who is the dreamer and whom made the dream? Any why the dream at all?
The human imagination, if properly trained and laboriously honed is a truly miraculous faculty. A fifth element so to speak. The cosmic oyster.
The secret as Twain implies in the foregoing is to be conscious of it's (own) freaks.
Then things change.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14