GRGR(7) Deeply Surrender

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Wed Aug 4 08:07:09 CDT 1999


These few sentences on Eventyr's predicament are nicely suggestive  of the
knowledge problem we all find ourselves suffering from--for example, not
knowing or being sure of what's in the mind of another person, or perhaps
especially related to Carroll's case what takes place (has taken place) in
our own mind. And yes the "repressed"  would seem to be a part of it
through not necessarily the scariest part because there is some chance
there of dredging up the Unconscious but the minds of others are
forever a dread we can not escape though we would fain do so.

		P. (wondering what's going on in his own mind)

On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 schwitterz1 at juno.com wrote:

> "[...] he's been brought up a Christian, a Western European, believing in
> the primacy of the "conscious" self and its memories, regarding all the
> rest as abnormal or trivial, and so he is troubled, deeply. . . ."  (p.
> 153)
> 
> And the bombs continue to Fall as we cling to this belief in the primacy
> of the "conscious" self. 
> 
> The quotes around conscious are the author's.
> 
> We are all troubled, deeply. . . .
> 
> Perhaps we should consider the notion of the primacy of the deeply
> troubled "unconscious."
> 
> The quotes around unconscious are mine.
> 
> And yours.
> 
> Who will serve as intercessor "between what (we are) supposed to be and
> (ourselves)?"
> 




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