YOU AND ‘THE OTHER’.
And if we use the ‘coat-hanger’ again..
A diagram of the human being’s INNER world
could look like this.
CONSCIOUS UNCONSCIOUS
Outer self Inner
Self
Mind,
Thought Body, Feelings
Spirit Soul
Say/Speak Behaviour/Do
Theory Practice
These are Split apart..
but can find unity and can
Come together (Merge)
as one and Create New Life
together, and then
separately and together as partners
Serve this new Life as it grows.
This diagram is showing a Split between 2 equal parts; equal in
importance, but not necessarily size. Each needs the other, and they need to
come together to Merge to create the possibility of New Life. This Merging
feels pretty good; ‘heavenly’, in fact. This merger is our ‘partnership with
God’ through the logic that the Unconscious/InSelf = God/Life/Self (GLS). This
is the reason that new life is able to come in, ie the merger activates the
Holy Ghost.
Creative people are able to access this merging and
bring it into their lives. The Creative process brings New Life into existence.
And now something wonderful happens. We have
activated the creative process and brought in new life, but now we need the
attributes of both our conscious and our unconscious separately, but working
together to Serve and protect the needs of that new life as it grows from germ
to adult and able to fend for itself in the cold world ‘out there’.
Notice also that the process of growing the child
changes the parents; they are not the same people at the end, that they were
before they began.
Note here that the attributes on the same sides of
the lists are not necessarily the same thing. viz. the Soul is not the same as
the Unconscious, and the Spirit is not the unconscious or all theory, and so
on. What the diagram is trying to do is emphasize that there really are a lot
of splits (or dualities), and creativity comes out of their merger.
While a diagram of any human being’s OUTER world
could look like this.
MALE FEMALE
Masculine Feminine
Yang Yin
Active Passive
Outgoing Incoming
and so on.
These are Split apart..
but can find unity and can
Come together (merge)
as one and Create New Life
together, and then
separately and together as partners
Serve this new Life as it grows.
This diagram is showing a Split between 2 equal parts. Each needs the
other, and they can come together to Merge. This Merging feels pretty good,
(‘heavenly’, in fact) and is referred to as ‘sex’ or ‘making love’.
The merging process can create the possibility of the
New Life of a child. (The mystery of the Holy Ghost has been activated.) And
now something wonderful happens. We need the attributes of both the male and
the female separately, but working together, to Serve and Protect the needs of
that new life as it grows from germ to adult and able to fend for itself in the
cold world ‘out there’. Notice also that the process of growing the child
changes the parents; they are not the same people at the end, that they were
before they began.
This external model looks to me remarkably similar to
our human model for marriage and children, but notice that it is also
the model for our internal relationship for creativity from within our selves.
This external model is in front of our noses all the
time; it is the model for our internal selves hidden in broad daylight, you
might say.
Thus we can use the most important human model in our
external world as the model for our internal world. We can use the external
model of the creation of the new life of the child and the need for the skills
of both partners in promoting (= Serve) the welfare and growth of that child,
to understand the internal mechanisms of our own growth in awareness and
consciousness and creativity, which leads to the expression of Self.
As 2 separate parts merge for a time, (they ‘know’
each other) which feels ‘heavenly’, there is the potential for the true
creativity of new life. Yet both these parts are needed separately in a
partnership to Serve this New Life and bring it to fruition or maturity, so
that it can create new life and so on. Thus life renews itself eternally.
All parts of this model are useful.
·
The better we
are at knowing ourselves, as in, finding our own unity, the more we can partner
with others and/or with God, yet it works the other way as well.
·
What we create
can teach us about ourselves.
·
Bringing up
children ideally requires the separate and equal skills of both partners
working together to Serve the needs of each child. Both are Serving Life and in
that learn more about themselves.
The upshot of all this is that in healing our own
internal split, as in, we are making the 2 one, we …
·
find our Self;
our own unity, and are able to Express this Self and in so doing we find
great satisfaction, fulfillment and true self-esteem (TSE).
·
learn how to
come into partnership with and talk to God.
·
become properly
Creative which helps our whole Self to Grow
·
are able to
properly mobilize all our separate attributes to Serve New Life.
·
we start to
behave to others as God does to us.
So the funny thing is that we have to find our own
unity within if we want to come into partnership with God, but that is because
we are part of God.
So, how do we get to this partnership with God? This
is basically the ‘raison d’etre’ of this discussion and requires more
concepts or ‘building blocks’ to explain.
God as Unity.
God has worked out how to unite Her 2 selves,
and out of this She is able to Create Life.
This is the reason for the commandment of “Thou
shalt have no other gods before me”.
When we ‘worship’ gods, we stay caught up in the
duality of earth structures because, for the sake of our own ability to
conceive of them, these gods have gender and they have limited energies. Many
of them have human qualities including perversity. I’m using ‘limited’ only in
opposition to the unlimited abilities of God, which we really cannot conceive
of. God is quite ‘in-human’ in this way.
If we only worship said gods, it’s just going to be
harder to get away from the duality into the unity, which isn’t easy anyway.
Even introducing a ‘devil’ as an explanation for and in fact a complete failure
to understand our ‘Why’s of Life’, mucks up our understanding of and ability to
‘get at’ ‘making the 2 one’.
However, I see nothing wrong in worshipping gods after
God (although we have to be careful about the ‘worship’ bit, or even thinking
of others as ‘gods’ as well; see chapter 2). There are many ‘gods’ out there
with a myriad of fine attributes worth emulating. There are also many people
alive and dead worth emulating too. All have a ‘medicine’; an energy that
appeals to you that you may wish to bring into your life, and that’s what ‘worshipping
gods’ is for, because we can feel closer or more personal with energies that we
can comprehend. Many a ‘god’ has answered many a prayer.
But, Unity
and its expression is where one’s greatest satisfaction and fulfilment lie, and
that’s what I want, and am writing this because I think you may want it too.
There is another concept concerning our unconscious
that I wish to introduce here and expand later and that is..
We come in with Filters. More on this later in MBTI chapter.
All our perceptions of our world are filtered
through our own, well, filters. In other words, we appear to be designed to
deal only with our own small, internal versions of what’s out there. Our
filters are part of our personality and keep us utterly unique. There are
advantages and disadvantages. As a simplistic example, a pink filter on a
camera might make some things look ‘nicer’, which is why we may use that
filter, but many things will not appear as they actually are. This is what our
filters do to us. However something may appear to our own perception, it may or
may not be ‘the actuality’, and certainly not for someone else.
The thing to remember really is that we appear to
‘come in’ with a pack of filters ready made that have to be sorted out. They
may or may not be an issue for us, but it’s wise to remember they are always
there.
We don’t know our internal world, and we have filters
on.
Now I wish to turn to the emotions.
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