Simon, that's very funny and a good walk-on line. did you intend it, or is it just me? how many times must it be said that there is no locked room, no box labeled unconscious. Precisely, they came to my attention.... I could have noticed sooner, but I can't blame Dr Cottage, web-buster sales or the locked room. It's giving up the hope for a better past.... Perhaps it's a good thing to be my own fool, rather than nobody's fool... it's a good thing to see that I didn't want to see the webs, rather than be victimized by an unknown entity which does not exist. I created it, I can respond to it. It's just so sweet if compassion is present... else, we are eaten alive in the jungle. Arriving at the present moment, it's only yours truly inside this bag of skin.... that's a kind of liberation. It's not a mystery that I have my own civil war at times. I can stand tall in feast or famine. Silly example to make a point.Simon E. wrote:But neither were they somehow an inevitable part of the subtle anatomy of the cottage, and of all cottages.
They had a cause, and they came to your attention and you got out your duster.
Cottages don't have a wee separate locked room at the back where cobwebs are born and lurk.
Even if Dr Cottage -Freud claims that they do, and that whats more he is the very fellow to sell you a web-buster...
The Unconscious is simply faulty learning...
As this thread progresses, I'm see some interesting eddies in the river. The insistence on uncovering unconscious process which may or may not be categorized as an entity, a thing. it occurs to me that to frame it this way is both a victimization of oneself, and a justification to not take direct responsibility for one's actions. Far better to say, I did it, I don't understand. That is honest and empowering. It does not render one helpless. It just might invite a bit of understanding too. I also see an assumption that one must be perfected before awakening. This is not true, I don't believe this is a Buddhist perspective. These issues have been examined to no avail.
The questions that are arising, the forces, the concerns are all good inquiries.... it's just that the answers are coming too soon and from the outside and from bad psychology. each person takes this on differently. I have said this better before. No more energy left tonight.
with the day I had, I'm waiting for my multiple to come to my rescue.
Have to agree that most multiple cases seem to be what you described. what do you make of reports of changes in physiology? .... OH! that's not so mysterious, body follows thought?? as soon as I typed the question, the thought followed... what would you say?
) personal opinion as a registered psychologist and pseudo-Buddhist is that psychotherapy and Buddhist practice don't really mix well/complement each other. It's kind of like pressing the accelerator and brake at the same time.
