Working with Projections

[zenmaster]

"how we experience things here" experience as in 'collection of perceptions' or archetype 4?

It's both, you can't learn anything without experience and nothing new can be added to experience without perception.

What you're saying suggests to me that if a projection is withdrawn then the personalised nature of the still unconsciously provided perceptions is recognised, that the subjectivity is perceived as a thing? (Since personal/subjective component is now more defined by virtue of withdrawn projections.)

Yes, the subjectivity is perceived as being an operable aspect of the experience at which point conscious judgment can also include that reality.

How does one withdraw a projection? Is it something that needs to be continually done or can classes or 'levels' of projected material be written off?

It is a natural consequence of the process of individuation here. When you begin to become self aware (of aspects of self), experiential catalyst identifies itself from self. When you see reflected catalyst you eventually understand that any reaction to it must also be you, and so responsibility of teaching/learning with that awareness may begin. As more of yourself becomes conscious, more is able to be seen in reflection.

Also, if, as you say, all perceptions involve our unconscious (via projection or not), what does that mean for intellectual explication of subject of study, especially when projection is still there?

This is a good question. The vast majority of our experience is not abstracted by thinking - it's direct and spontaneous. However, science, for example, has come to "understand" projection, as bias. Methodology is used to improve clarity, limit ambiguity and to robustly test assertions. What non-scientists don't seem to understand is that the appeal of science is not some kind of knowledge authority as a scientist might be considered, but the care taken to properly present knowledge. There is no coincidence that more clarity is more utility.

And so basically, a good way to deal with this mechanism would be to try and see what is being kept sub/unconscious by our bias? Is that correct?

It is not only more helpful to oneself but more helpful to everyone, because people are confused enough as it is. If we have a choice in how we present catalyst, we should exercise the choice. We have not been doing so, and that's part of the reason our lifespans have been shortened.

An analogy is that pollution may be considered catalyst for learning, just as any catalyst. That does not mean that we should have more pollution to clean up.