The Unconscious Mind

The unconscious works in mysterious ways. So much of our life plays out behind the curtain of the conscious mind. Everyday experiences of work, relationship, family, recreation and daily living occupies the time spent towards living. What little time we have left is spent with the rewards of putting in the hard days at work and forging a life for ourselves. These rewards are endless: shopping, movies, holidays, alcohol, drugs, food, sex, self-absorption and all the latest digital gadgets that entertain and amuse us.

We have separated life into work, and it’s reward, pleasure. The harder we work, the more rewards we want. Life has become this duality. As people we have become entrapped in societies aspirations while climbing the ladder of success. Our life purpose is shaped by society. Morals and conventions dictate how we live and we become slaves to it. We believe we are free; but we are not. What we think, how we behave, the God to believe in and the careers we choose is shaped by society.  The question you have to ask is: am I free from society and it’s pressure to be someone? Because that someone will be shaped by society, with its brutality, wars, religious beliefs and the propaganda of success and happiness. While ever you are a part of society-society owns you. Freedom is not just within, but without.

Is it no wonder that our unconscious is filled with worry, loss, loneliness, and fear that comes from our spiritual misdirection. With our conscious mind occupied with self-interest there is no room for spiritual purpose. Our life, if we have the courage to see, has become a shallow existence with a deep bottomless ocean of the unconscious beneath it. The unconscious is always trying to express itself through the subconscious to the conscious. The depths of our spiritual being has now become the depths of our unconscious. The light of our spirituality and the magic of correct living is obscured and lost to the endless search for the fulfillment of the self and it’s conformity to society. Life purpose is now the complete happiness of the self. This illusionary life has created the self. When we follow the path of self fulfillment we close the door to spiritual expression and illumination.

The workings of the unconscious and the meaning behind mostly hidden from the conscious. The day-to-day workings operate on the superficial aspect of the mind. The building blocks of knowledge, experience and the memory from it are stored in our brain cells. It is from this memory we operate. Therefore we function from the reservoirs of memory based on past experience. Life comes from the past; not the future. We often have a premonition or an intuition of something that is going to happen-if we are tune. Psychics are known to “see” beyond our everyday experience and peer into past lives. The relevance of this in our own lives is debatable. If this insight comes from someone else then it is not our own. If we can’t see it then we should look towards the reasons why there is a lack of insight into our own lives. Visions or insights from someone else into our lives is merely entertainment. Unless we become more consciousness of our own life then we havent gained the experience and learned from it.

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