10-09-2019, 06:20 PM
(10-09-2019, 05:20 PM)Paul1131 Wrote: Shannon, please bear with me here, I don’t know that much about what you do, but I had a thought. May be something, may not be. It seems to me that in many systems of symbology (best I can say it while trying to dance around rule 4) a symbolic death is used to mark a transition to a better state of being. I would think that that speaks to the same part of the subconscious that perceives change as death, and it also points to a solution. Maybe the way around that perception is to go right through it. If you can get the subconscious to somehow experience the death of the old quickly and with a minimum of pain, that might really clear the way for the “new you” to be born. A lot of cultures have used that symbolism, and it does seem to work. Or maybe I’m just thinking too much.
I was thinking something similar today in the car.
The subconscious must perceive death differently and with broader strokes. I'm pretty sold that the dark night of the soul described by certain mystics is subconscious resistance on a primal level due to the fear of death/change. Once said mystics went through the dark night they came out on the other side different people. The question is, what causes a breakthrough in those situations? Some went extremely looooong periods of time, years even, under feelings of depression and hopelessness in the dark night and I wonder how we can speed that up.
Wim Hof's story on his experience with conquering the fear of death was particularly inspiring. It was like the cold water under the ice was his baptism out of fear of death.
