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Most of the time it is be our 'monkey mind' that sets the priorities: Labling certain thoughts, situations, goals etc. as important, serious or crucial in being fulfilled. I have found that is normally the things that are labelled as silly, trivial or insignificant that have the longer term or greatest influence on my personal fullfillment.This is one reason why I like asking open questions: 'What should I be aware of this week?' I may think my week is all about getting x, y and z done, when the real doorway is open somewhere quite different.
"Id" meaning "the inherited instinctive impulses of the individual as part of the unconscious.
Hi surnevs.....we do think that our kind of communication is at the highest level on this planet.
I don't think that mankind has ever had a dependency on intuition, though. Dependency lends itself to images of control or reliance and I do not see intuition as something that mankind is in control of or reliant upon. I'm sure it was easier to connect with our intuition in the days before 'civilisation' burst upon the scene. In those days things were charged with a greater purity and there were not so many ways for our 'monkey mind' to be fed. As civilisation grew so did the monkey-mind where it increasing tried to grab star billing and to stand centre stage pretending to be 'the truth'.
In simple terms the shadow can be viewed as a repository, a store-house if you like, for unmet emotional needs; the id is more a shoot from the hip instigator of ways aimed at meeting unmet emotional needs.Yes there's no connection really between Freud's concept of the Id and Jung's shadow. Pretty important to understand that.
* ".... the animal side of our personality (like the id in Freud) ...."
* We are "the tool-animals" using tools in a significant way;
* " .... communication ... at the highest level on this planet."
I see what you are saying. You are right I hadn't really seen things in the context you describe. Only @surnevs will be able to say for sure which context he was thinking of when he used 'dependency'.I think you're taking the word 'dependency' out of context somewhat. I think it was meant in terms of what we use to get by in our every day lives such as 'I am dependent on my rational mind to make budgeting decisions', or 'I am dependent on my legs to walk'. There's no reference to 'control' there at all but a statement of necessity of usage. Early humans were perhaps less reliant on rational thinking and more reliant on intuition, which I define as 'knowing but not knowing how you know'. They had to be given their world was far less in their control than ours is. Maybe they needed to sense when there was a dangerous predator about and so on. They had to go by feelings more often I imagine.
Communication is not communication if what is being communicated is not understood by the intended recipients of the communication. I place myself currently in this not understanding category.
There is a mazy route of dots through Buddha, Shamans, Non worldly beings, Ancestors,
Ye-es .... The only issue I have with that is intuition is often built on a big base of past experiences. If I'm a nomadic gatherer in the forest and every single time I go down to the waterhole I hear birds singing, then one day I don't, I would be intensely aware of it and would have an intuitive sense that something was amiss, maybe some kind of predator in the area. .In the pre-agricultural era, things stayed pretty much the same, or followed the same patterns, for generation after generation.However intuition is just as alive through all our modern technology. Minds connecting online meet many synchronicities, I don't think modern life blocks intuition it just provides new avenues for it.
I see what you are saying. You are right I hadn't really seen things in the context you describe. Only @surnevs will be able to say for sure which context he was thinking of when he used 'dependency'.
If your perspective is right, maybe 'contingent upon' would be a better phrasing and certainly would not carry any weighting with respect to control.
I see what you mean but then again the point of real intuition is that it really isn't based on past experiences at all it comes from nowhere. If it were just based on past experience it wouldn't be called intuition but 'wisdom' . Knowledge based on past experience and intuition really are very different although I can see at times what looks like intuition is previous knowledge. What you describe above isn't intuition as I'd mean it, it would be beyond that.Ye-es .... The only issue I have with that is intuition is often built on a big base of past experiences. If I'm a nomadic gatherer in the forest and every single time I go down to the waterhole I hear birds singing, then one day I don't, I would be intensely aware of it and would have an intuitive sense that something was amiss, maybe some kind of predator in the area. .In the pre-agricultural era, things stayed pretty much the same, or followed the same patterns, for generation after generation.
Intuition isn't about past experiences. As I said behaviour can look intuitive when you encounter someone very experienced but that doesn't mean past experience and intuition are the same thing at all. Intuition can seem crazy as it often goes against everything you can see and hear. It takes courage to follow it sometimes when there's no outer reason to. I think we all had it well trained out of us as young people and have to relearn to trust it as it doesn't fail if you can discern it's true voice and take it seriously.These days they don't. The world changes so fast that your past experiences may not be a good guide.
It's also one of the reasons that respect for the elderly is such a strong part of stable, traditional societies. The old lived and survived through very similar conditions as the young are going through now, so their experiences are a good guide. These days, the old grew up in such a different world that their experiences don't mean so much for the young.
I remember when I was about ten or eleven, I found a copy of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock lying about the house. I haven't read it since, but I remember the idea that future shock is like culture shock -- only worse, because with culture shock, you can go back to your own society. When the whole world has changed, there's no going back.
I do suffer increasingly from culture shock, future shock, intense nostalgia for times past. And I do find that in the context of a rapidly changing world, my intuition is not always reliable. It seems to be part of growing old in the 20th and 21st century.
I think our intuition was used for self-defence in such a long period that we, like with the example with gasoline versus electricity, never forgot it ie. it's still dominant within us.
I think here you perhaps mean 'dormant' rather than 'dominant' ? Dormant would mean it's there but sleeping within us.I think our intuition was used for self-defence in such a long period that we, like with the example with gasoline versus electricity, never forgot it ie. it's still dominant within us.
I see what you mean but then again the point of real intuition is that it really isn't based on past experiences at all it comes from nowhere. If it were just based on past experience it wouldn't be called intuition but 'wisdom' . Knowledge based on past experience and intuition really are very different although I can see at times what looks like intuition is previous knowledge. What you describe above isn't intuition as I'd mean it, it would be beyond that.
Intuition can be where you get a nudge or an urge that has no cause in the outer world. For example one day leaving my partner at home when I went out I was just continually thinking I should go home but my rational brain argued there was no good reason to. I recall the inner dialogue that went on and on. My body was almost already turning for home all by itself but my brain was saying everything was okay and there was just no reason to go home. I went home quite soon, we spent the afternoon together and he died the next day. I had no reason to think that would happen. He'd been a bit off colour and wanted to rest but nothing that would give that overwhelming message to me to turn back, forget my outing and go to him. I know that wasn't me picking up subtle environmental clues, it wasn't like that
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
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