What stuck me most and resonates until today is the katabasis scene, when Odysseus visits Hades to consult the seer on how to make his journey home. Katabasis and the underworld has always appealed to me. That scene is powerful in many respects. For me, it relates to building a living relationship with the unconsciousness, to venture int…
What stuck me most and resonates until today is the katabasis scene, when Odysseus visits Hades to consult the seer on how to make his journey home. Katabasis and the underworld has always appealed to me. That scene is powerful in many respects. For me, it relates to building a living relationship with the unconsciousness, to venture into the depths of myself to seek counsel. It also relates to my current practice (which I've just begun) of ancestral reverence and cultivating a reciprocal relationship with my ancestors. Jung said something really interesting (I don't have the reference). I believe he said that the unconscious is the realm of the dead and the ancestors. What I am coming into is an understanding that dreams and the unconscious are both here and there, inner and outer, personal and collective, psychological and generational. It is not only the place where we meet ourselves, it is also where we meet others. We are ever so intertwined in each other's destiny. There is no escaping that reality.
Beautifully put. It’s paradoxical in a sense, but really in my eyes, complementary. The unconscious contains its opposite, the many layered experience of life in all its shades and colors. We may see through one lens at a time, but it is intertwined, as you said.
What stuck me most and resonates until today is the katabasis scene, when Odysseus visits Hades to consult the seer on how to make his journey home. Katabasis and the underworld has always appealed to me. That scene is powerful in many respects. For me, it relates to building a living relationship with the unconsciousness, to venture into the depths of myself to seek counsel. It also relates to my current practice (which I've just begun) of ancestral reverence and cultivating a reciprocal relationship with my ancestors. Jung said something really interesting (I don't have the reference). I believe he said that the unconscious is the realm of the dead and the ancestors. What I am coming into is an understanding that dreams and the unconscious are both here and there, inner and outer, personal and collective, psychological and generational. It is not only the place where we meet ourselves, it is also where we meet others. We are ever so intertwined in each other's destiny. There is no escaping that reality.
Beautifully put. It’s paradoxical in a sense, but really in my eyes, complementary. The unconscious contains its opposite, the many layered experience of life in all its shades and colors. We may see through one lens at a time, but it is intertwined, as you said.