Facets of a Diamond – Blog

Psychoanalysis, and all the other psychologies, are concerned with what I call the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate. All the effort is to reduce the hate and so increase the love.

But always there will be some hate remaining, never only love. Never transcendental.

They do not Know that there is a Deep Unconscious

Bill had lost twenty five pounds in weight, but, strangely, his belly seemed larger than ever. He asked me what he could do about it. My first hunch was that there was a weakness of the abdominal muscles, but I could not find it on examination.

Yet there must have been a problem. When I asked

Every day at the end of my meditation I sing: Thank you, thank you, thank you, you all.

To us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives.
- W.H. Auden, “In Memory of Siegmund Freud”

Freud’s most important contribution: all our activity, mental and physical, is determined by our unconscious. Our decisions are never really based on logic.

It seems to me that the tragedy of Freud is that knowing his deep inner shall I say despair he chose what he called self-analysis rather than meditation: to find out what and why rather than Who?

Every morning I would lie in bed and look up at the skylight. And every morning became obsessed by the one corner that was not square.

Hindu sages speak of finding “the Unseen through the seen” — looking past the physical to perceive the divine, cosmic reality that lies behind it.

As with sages, so with healers.  The Unseen within us is the Soul and the task of every healer is to find it within every sufferer.  The true healer is a

Two little pebbles, thrown at random – if random there be – onto a tray of sand.

Place them at Peace – and you will be too.

But how? Just ask them – from your heart.

(2012)

This hand is you and your other your spouse. Bring them close together, then have them touch – and then interlock them.

You have now created a new Entity: the two of you fused as One. This is Fusion, this is Love.

We used to think of the stars, with nothing in-between. Now we learn that the great mass of the universe is composed of vital invisible dust, occasionally compressed into discernible objects.

And our world is filled with Spirit. But all we know are its condensations.

As air, I enclose in my cupped hands the Universal Spirit.