There is so much reference to Self that one may wonder, what is this mysterious Self about? Apparently it is something different than the Ego?
In the psychological evolutionary process it took immense efforts for the human Ego to separate itself from the unconscious.
So we should not – like it is often done in the New Age community – deprecate it or say we have to get rid of it. No, we must recognize it as our point of consciousness where we access the physical world of time and space.
It is here where our evolution of consciousness can only progress, where the lessons of becoming “ripe”are learned, to be allowed to approach the spiritual plane.
For the immature Ego it is very dangerous to have dealings with the spiritual world. Where is the spiritual world?It is our unconscious.
When the immature Ego has dealings with the unconscious, psychosis and complexes arise.
Now in regard of the spiritual plane, the unconscious, the categories of time and space no longer apply.
This is the realm, where Ego and Self may come to know each other, Ego is reborn as Self, not annihilated, but integrated. Self is the “Imago Dei” beyond logical categories, of paradoxical nature, man’s totality. It is of numinous power, the experience of the Self is always a defeat for the Ego.
It is a very complex and difficult thing to explain in words.
Experience of Self happens in individuation as C.G. Jung describes the process.
Others name it the “philosopher`s stone” or heaven and earth united, in the Tree of Life it is Tiphareth and Malchut reunited.
So let’s go on with the Great Work to restore the Creator to His throne at the center of human existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 expressed how we can enlarge the area of consciousness through the intuitive faculties and that we should come to rely on intuition rather than the complex exterior knowledge which we accumulate through life.
“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”
How often have we experienced that a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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