The secret of photography is to be there when the picture is no matter what the price. That is the only thing that sets photographers off from people with cameras. Everybody has a good enough camera these days. But everybody is not there when the picture is. And these days, I am not there when the picture is.
A reporter asked Carl Jung if he believed in God. Jung said, “I don’t believe. I know.” And the reporter did not follow up with, “What do you know? How do you know it?” And in failing to do so, the reporter failed us all. But there is enough here to encourage the rest of us to make our own discoveries in throwing away belief and digging deeply into knowing. Ask! Seek! Knock! Turn the world upside down until we KNOW what needs to be known! That’s the way to do it. And sitting with our intuition is a big help along the way. Intuition doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. And the Psyche has been reduced to talking to the dead. There is more to Psyche than telling fortunes, and more to intuition than knowing when it will rain.
We can make a regular appointment with our Intuition and with Psyche (Intuition is the interface between us and Psyche, and it would not be too far wrong to think of Intuition as Psyche’s interpreter.) Dropping into the silence and asking Intuition about knowing, not as conviction, but as experience, and anything else you would like to talk about with your Intuition. Ask and sit quietly, seeing what comes to mind. As we practice this practice we will develop a perceptive depth that we might not have without it.
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