The point

The point I am trying to make in nearly all of these posts, the point that is central to understanding all that I write here, the point from which all the rest of my theory flows, is that everything has a psychic counterpart. Imagine looking at a river, or looking out into the ocean. Water is an especially good example because most people feel it: your insides seem to shift when you gaze upon moving, running - even stagnant water. It has an effect on us. Historically we have tried to capture the effect that water has on us with poetry, or beautiful words. Descriptive language. Can we not say, though, that there is water inside of us? Not, of course, the hydrogen and oxygen fusion we are used to, but inner water.

It makes very little sense upon first hearing it, but the more we get comfortable with the idea, the more sense it makes: We are humans. Humans reflect. We are the only species, in fact, that reflects. We observe the world. We notice. We take note. And that which we have apprehended takes on a life of its own. It transforms into something else. Everything we perceive. Everything we see is at once registered in another meter. Matter becomes psyche.

At lower levels of consciousness the difference is difficult to recognize, but as people grow in consciousness they report a kind of harmony, or fusing with nature. Well, what have they fused? What were the two things that were not One before? It might be reasonable to say matter and psyche. Perhaps when we grow in consciousness there is some inner counterpart to the sun - a "psychic light" that shines upon a greater portion of the collective unconscious (this is a term used by Carl Jung that essentially means the psychic universe). This "collective unconscious" mirrors the material universe.

It's craziness. It's crazy. It's obscene. But it's true.