In our tribe we speak to our sons and our daugters so soft they think they’ are dreaming. – American proverb
THE UNCONSCIOUS SPEAKING • HOW TO EVEN TALK TO YOUR OWN BODY
Unconscious is a vast place. • A place? Space? Is it a landscape? Do you imagine it as a library where all your knowledge is stored? Is it just the problem of finding the right book? Does it even have real dimensions? Can it be percieved as, be a vast universe the space as we know it? Our imagination penetrates beyond the limits of universe, does it not? Our metaphores fail in their pettyness in the face of unfathomableness of everything. And what about turning the lens the other way around, into the endlessness of the small. From nuclear physics findings it seems that like out of nothingness, the elementary particles creates, bubbles themselfes into being out of shear nothing vacuum.
Indian Hindu cosmology philosophy presents the metaphysical images of Brahman and Atman. Brahman is the total universe, the ultimate reality, timeless infinite formless, the source of everything. Atman the individual self, the totality of the mind, soul and ego, the innermost unchangable essence of a person. And here comes my favorit part, the outer and inner meet in infinity, sort of bends, merges, flowes into each other. The outer universe meets the inner mind in unison in a total threhundredsixty degree mental loop. They are the same.
Do we see the • As it is unconscious to us, it’s true realms are truly undescribable in concepts and words. The question dives more than deep into how the mind and universe ultimatly function.
But we have clues; we have glimpses, notions, images, feelings, flashes, experiences of daily interactions retrieving memories and getting answers to questions we ask. In some strange way we know that we know all that we know. We have a distinct confident sense that serves us when we demand. But we are also unsure of the real expansion trancending that might be bottomless. What I call the hubris of consciousness can only caption a fragment of the vastness of our unknown.
We believe we think with our consiousness. We do, but not the way generally percieved. Consciousness is more of a command centre, in a sense cut of from immidiate access to it all, also with a veto, intimatly coupled to free will. But not always. In situations of immediate dangerous crisis we find ourselves overtaken by the body’s unknowable actions. Consciousness is no longer trusted by our whole body, thus consciousness loose control. Our all takes command.
Our whole mind, our unconsious is thinking, not just our conscious mind. This is important. But conscious mind thinks it does all the work. We actually think with the whole. The unconscious does all the thinking.
Julian Jaynes claimed that we can function without being aware of ourselves. That’s what animals do. He even claimed that human self consciousness arose late in history. A few millenia before Bc.
Here we come to how it works. Julian Jaynes coined a word “struction”, the word for consciousness asking the unconscious a question, and magically delivering an answer “cast onto the shores of consciousness”, as he puts it. We are constantly asking questions to our unknown not only memories, but also to our real thinker, our totality, our unconsious.
INTUITION
Intuition is the fuzzy border between conscious and unconscious. The conscious has through human evolution and culture grown out of the unconscious. In beginning of time all behavour operated on an unconscious level.
The human discovery of it self must have been a very gradual process. By observing and sensing not only the outside world, man began to notice it´s own behavour. The bodily phenomenon awareness equated to the external awareness of objects and events.
A feeling emotion or notion can be the body being aware of it´s own reactions reacting to an outside happening that the body involuntarily has or chooses to react to. (the instinctive reaction comes first, the awareness afterwards).
The the conscious and the unconscious communicates with each other in a range of different ways. As it´s a complicated entanglement between the too it´s difficult to describe. And the same time everthing about it is vague. In one sense they are both one, belonging to the same system, but of course they operate in different manner.
When the conscious adresses it´s unknown friend it uses different means. A simple question might do. Other times the question is more vague or diffuse, it can even be posed as a notion surrounded by other vague notions hintings in this or that direction, sometime to a bodily sensation connected refered to a memory you know you have but not actual apparent but you knom will help to solve the question.
Sometime it can use pure will to provoke an answer of a reaction. Sometime it presents utter dispare to get an answer. It can have a discussion of course, well known human habbit and popular technique.
We communicate with the unconscious in three ways. Ask and recieve and vague feelings. 1 Ask: We mostly command or inquire. Give me this or give me that. Give me a memory, I have problem, do you have an answer? 2 Recieve: Much more complicated…. We receive messages from the unconscious in a number of different ways; direct words even heard, sentences, elaborate images, even whole poems or melodies. 3 Vague: Only in diffuse notions or unspoken silent uncomfortable unstabelizing uncertancies we get messages like soft notions or dreams.
Be friends with our unconsious. Trust your gut, trust your third brain, your first brain developed as an embryo, the gut. Trust also your left and right. Trust the whole. Observe your inner: If you’re a part of the universe, you can if needed even make a whole body decision. Learn to listen to your feelings. Make them a part of you.
The body of yours, that is your unconscious, talks to you not always strait forward. It talkes in many different ways.
The usual talk is the one you’r familiar with. Just ordinary talking and dealing with images situations coming and going. Talking to yourself, are you one or are you two?
INTUITION AS IT IS
The vaster your knowledge, the better answers your intuition gives. Everyone has intuition but more or less grounded.
To be continued..