"...
everyone thinks his psychology is the measure of all things..."
Psychology
“To relieve the isolation and confusion of modern man,
to enable him to find his place in the great stream of life,
to help him gain a wholeness
which may knowingly and deliberately
reunite his luminous conscious side
with his dark unconscious side
-- Jacobi
Just as
the body has its own stages of development, the mind also has
successive psychic
stages and achievements that we attain via the vehicle of
effort, not
(necessarily) time.
There is a universally inherited urge among all of us towards the same attainment – Individuation.
And for all of the things you can do to
improve
your life - nothing else can give you as much
return on your investment as
consciousness can.
We actually spend more time in the
unconscious part of
the
mind than we think, and if I came to write this paper with one goal – it was
to emphasize above all things the importance of developing
consciousness, in order to
facilitate the
Individuation process.
Simply put, there are 2 major advancements in the adult phase of life to achieve Individuation.
Just as
a muscle either grows or atrophies
pending usage, consciousness too must be
exercised in order to become stronger, otherwise it too atrophies[2]
- into
unconsciousness.
In psychology one possesses nothing unless one has experienced it in reality.
Hence a purely intellectual insight is not enough, because one knows only the
words and not the substance of the thing from inside.
[1]
This is in symmetry with the 2nd law of Thermodynamics with
Consciousness as the substitute for Energy, the Unconscious as the
substitute for Space, and Entropy being the byproduct of not harnessing[1]
one’s consciousness.