Planting Seeds
Since my teens, I have noticed how planting seeds allows, or at least invites, certain fruits to come up.
When I read C. G. Jung profusely, in my late teens and early twenties, I had a long series of text book Jungian type dreams. I planted the seeds of a Jungian view and framework, and the mind responded by using this framework to bring things into awareness. I experienced it as a beautiful play and dance between my conscious focus (Jung's approach) and the Other, the subconscious, interacting with and responding to whatever was happening consciously, allowing more to be seen, acknowledged and integrated into the conscious view.
The same is the case for insights in general. I may have a question, and plant it, simply, with no drama, and some days, weeks or months later, an insights surfaces on the same topic.
And the same seems to be the case in yet another way. There seems to be a readiness to work on or through a certain issue, I plant the seed of asking "let me see what I need to see for this to resolve" or "allow whatever needs to unravel to unravel for this to resolve", and this too seems to happen within days, weeks or months, peeling off layer after layer.
What appears as I and Other here is of course within the same field, the same tapestry of phenomena, all having the same Ground of clear awakeness. Which seems to be why this works. It is just another form of the dance of existence, movements within seamless whole, beyond and including what temporarily appears as I and Other.
Labels: dreams, psychology