Let us not forget the descendent current, flowing into the
unlit places, the lower worlds, and the dark caverns of the psyche. The
invitation here is one of embodiment – into the vulnerability, the chaos, and
the deflating activity of the beloved as she enters into form to reveal
wholeness.
There is something illuminating the way, but just what that
is cannot be apprehended by way of the conceptual. There is no map here for the
territory is too alive, too creative, and too sacred to be pinned down,
controlled, and known ahead of time. While this degree of pure space may be
disorienting to a mind seeking resolution, it is exhilarating in the depths of
somatic being.
It is easy to disconnect from this current, as we overly
identify with the ascending, the upward, the light, and the transcendent. In
the rush to exit immediate experience – for something that is higher, purer,
less messy, and less contradictory – we turn from the waters of life and lose
touch with essence.
While it is natural to have a bias for one current over
another, let us not do so at the expense of fragmentation. In ways the mind may
never fully understand, there is a luminous middle place where the currents
intertwine. It is buried in a secret chamber inside your own heart. Rest there.
Art from Jung’s Red Book
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