Late at night I page through esoteric texts and remember where I've been.

[jackshoegazer]

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.  The will practice Indian yoga with all its exercises, observe a strict diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from the literature of the whole world - all because they can not get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls."    - Carl Gustav Jung
 

 

I found my answer and moved on.  If you linger in the unconscious too long, you become like Theseus and Pirithous in Hades - you sit and you are stuck and you forget why you are there.  Remember: the shaman did not live in the unconscious - the shaman would only visit, find an answer or reunite a fragmented soul, and then come back.  It is not a place for the living.

Comments

[dakini-grl.livejournal.com]

My meditation teacher was fond of saying "Do not self-medicate with spirituality."

While I used to believe metaphysics/yoga/etc. were the answer to Everything, now I feel they are excellent tools to have in the tool box.

Agreed. There's no substitute for being there.