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Nov. 13th, 2013 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
promenyI'm starting to realize the power of the subconscious, or what is termed as the "anima" in psychoanalysis.
I've been very much influenced by it. Of course, you usually do have a basic factual knowledge of it, but you start to appreciate it a lot more when you start to connect the dots. The dreams that I have had have really highlighted a lot of things about me that I otherwise would have never known, but was still nonetheless a part of me.
I think back to when I thought I was transgendered. I'm deeply humiliated by that, but I still understand why I was confused. I would get a feeling or a vision in my head of a woman in my youth, and I had so much empathy that I could connect to that, to the point of dissociation, where I thought that was a part of me, when it wasn't. I was just able to enter into a different emotional and psychological mindset so strongly that I could literally become something else.
I have a theory that those who dissociate have very high levels of empathy, or at least they don't have a defect in it. I had very strong levels of it when younger, and I suppose I still have the ability to do so now, despite having grown more callous.
In any case I think that these ideas will help me in both my philosophical and mystical work, and I can see how it will help me with my meditation practices as well. I've been doing that a lot more.
I've been very much influenced by it. Of course, you usually do have a basic factual knowledge of it, but you start to appreciate it a lot more when you start to connect the dots. The dreams that I have had have really highlighted a lot of things about me that I otherwise would have never known, but was still nonetheless a part of me.
I think back to when I thought I was transgendered. I'm deeply humiliated by that, but I still understand why I was confused. I would get a feeling or a vision in my head of a woman in my youth, and I had so much empathy that I could connect to that, to the point of dissociation, where I thought that was a part of me, when it wasn't. I was just able to enter into a different emotional and psychological mindset so strongly that I could literally become something else.
I have a theory that those who dissociate have very high levels of empathy, or at least they don't have a defect in it. I had very strong levels of it when younger, and I suppose I still have the ability to do so now, despite having grown more callous.
In any case I think that these ideas will help me in both my philosophical and mystical work, and I can see how it will help me with my meditation practices as well. I've been doing that a lot more.
