11-01-2011, 03:35 PM
(11-01-2011, 08:17 AM)3DMonkey Wrote:(11-01-2011, 02:44 AM)Ens Entium Wrote: Isn't it that integration of those things that are subconscious just allows one to look at the many ways of being and the many actions that exist as just the distortion of the person one has come to be (with more integrated) and no longer 'not you'? Just a sampling of what you know yourself to be?
It would seem that, in integrating subconscious material (beliefs, attitudes, desires, etc) by acknowledging it, it is given the context of 'one form of. Identity'. And so, the way one thinks about it and deals with it changes. Is this not how one's definition of oneself expands?
I would, rather than referring to this as a type of 'containment', refer to it as an increase in transparency between the two. Allowing one to 'swim' deeper.
I'm just wondering why any of that is necessary. Unintegrated unconscious is still a part of one's life and, frankly, it's a valuable part in every interaction.
Valuable in what sense?
I wasn't meaning that integration negates the subconscious. I think there will always be (surprising, valuable, 'unique',...) things that emerge from outside conscious awareness. I just meant that it helps to see identity in more relaxed way- it allows greater capacity to accept others and to interact with them as they are, and more skillfully as you see where they are coming from and what is attracting and nudging them mentally.
Also, recognising (now previously) subconscious motivations and investments of value and virtue (which are often invested in a confused way) helps to remove compulsion, obsession and the sorts.
I have feel I haven't really responded properly yet. I don't think it's a matter of 'having to'. On a simpler level (and also as an analogy) one can interact from an ignorance of some fact or understanding and live with it or one can work to remedy that. I think this is similar.