July 16, 2025

Our psyche (Unconscious) is a "very present help in time of trouble." Carl Jung thought that we participate in a Personal Unconscious and in a Collective Unconscious, across the species, and that dreams can be sourced from either the personal Unconscious or the Collective Unconscious.

The Psyche is a mystery at the edge of physical reality. We can experience psychic occurrences but we struggle to find words to explain what we experience, and cannot begin to understand how our sense of things beyond explaining works.

Intuition is a psychic experience that we all are familiar with. Synchronicity is a common encounter. The "Uh-Oh" feeling when we walk into a room, or a restaurant, and know we better walk out of there NOW, is another.

Alan Watts thought that people who lived out of their "inherent intuition" were thought of by their friends as "being lucky."

We can deepen our connection with our psyche by spending time regularly and frequently simply sitting in emptiness, stillness and silence (One thing, not three) and opening ourselves to what we perceive/realize/experience there.

By attending our dreams and exploring them as a mirror-like reflection of what is going on in our life here, now.

I dreamed last night that I found the Elder Wand and used it to become fluent in seventeen foreign languages. I took that to be a reflection of my current interest in the psyche as a magic wand of sorts, and learning its language is synonymous with being fluent in really all the foreign languages there are. I took the dream as psychic encouragement to continue exploring the world just beyond this world of concrete and steel.