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"If the unconscious can be recognized as a co-determining factor along with consciousness, and if we can live in such a way that conscious and unconscious demands are taken into account as far as possible, then the center of gravity of the total personality shifts its position. It is no longer in the ego, which is merely the center of consciousness, but in the hypothetical point between conscious and unconscious."

"By paying attention to the voice within, the individual achieves a new synthesis between conscious and unconscious, a sense of calm acceptance and detachment, and a realization of the meaning of life."

"The science shows that the secret to high performance isn't our biological drive or our reward-and-punishment drive, but our third drive - our deep-seated desire to direct our own lives, to extend and expand our abilities, and to live a life of purpose." 

finished.

Chapter 6 Knowing the Field There are no hard divisions between densities and dimensions. They merge at the edges, like the spectrum of colors in a rainbow. Red bleeds into orange, and orange into yellow. The only thing that anchors us in the third density is our state of consciousness.

Can the human mind be content to renounce the deepest and most profound questions of existence in favor of a life of unknowingness, distraction, and frivolity? Only the frightened and the disenfranchised find consolation in such devices of psychic blackout.

" Our sense organs throw raw data into the brain, and the brain creates models of reality based on the software that is running. Foremost among that software is the code of BELIEF. (emphasis, mine) Everything we comprehend passes through it and is heavily colored by it. It follows, then, that we should know precisely where our beliefs originate from, how accurate and relevant they are...

A good read so far. Engrossing.

" Our truth deepens as we deepen. No experience of it will ever be repeated in quite the same way, ever again. Even on the same kind of day, with the same kind of thinking, when everything looks much the same as it ever was, truth is always created anew from one moment to the next. As Heraclitus observed, 'No man ever steps into the same river twice.' " From pg. 17: The Unfoldment ~ Neil Kramer

From the introduction: "Jung believed that there was a natural and proper path of development for each individual; and that neurosis might actually be a valuable signal which indicated when, through intellectual arrogance, a false set of values or an evasion of responsibilities, a person was straying too far from his own true path"

So—between bald
truth and naked lies, lies the land in which bullshit is highly
necessary, functional, and appreciated.The ability to offer it
with skill, tact, and impunity can be understood as the tri-
umph of maturity and civilization over the forces of barba-
rism, darkness, and impotence.