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Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. It erases anxieties, it puts them in accord with the inevitables of their life, and they can see the positive values of what are the negative aspects of what is positive.
As easy as that. When I was growing up tales of King Arthur , tales of the medieval knights, tales of the dragon slayers were very strong in my world.
Dragons represent greed, really. The European dragon guards things in his cave, and what he guards are heaps of gold and virgins. And the problem of the psychiatrist is to break that dragon, open him up, so that you can have a larger field of relationships. Jung had a patient come to him who felt alone, and she drew a picture of herself as caught in the rocks.
From the waist down she was bound in rocks. And this was on a windy shore, and the wind blowing and her hair blowing, and all the gold—which is the sign of the vitality of life—was locked in the rocks. And the next picture that he had her draw had followed something he had said to her. Suddenly a lightning flash hit the rocks, and the gold came pouring out, and then she found reflected on rocks round about the gold.
There was no more gold in the rocks, it was all available on the top. And in the conferences that followed, those patches of gold were identified. They were her friends. Do you see what I mean? This is killing the dragon.
At least the European dragon; Chinese dragon is different. But this is the negative one that cuts you down. What I regard as the aim of my life and so forth. It might be too small.
It might be that which pins you down. And so the environment is your dragon, as it reflects within yourself. Slay that dragon in me? My general formula for my students is: follow your bliss. And in doing that, you save the world. I mean, you do. The world is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting it around and changing the rules and so forth.
And the way to bring it to life is to find in your own case where your life is, and be alive yourself , it seems to me. But you say I have to take that journey and go down there and slay those dragons. Do I have to go alone?
But ultimately, the last trick has to be done by you. What is it? Now this I know a little bit about from athletics. The athlete who is in championship form has a quiet place in himself.
It is the condition that comes when you are not compelled by desire, or by fear, or by social commitments—when you hold your center and act out of there.
The Way. I mean, how should I get rid of fear? There are exercises that different teachers will give you, but they may not work for you. And all a teacher can do is give you a clue of the direction.
Most people hear that term and, like me, have only a veiled understanding of it. Now, that plant sends forth little feelers to go out and clutch the plant, and it knows where the plant is and what to do, and where the tree is, and it grows up like this, and it opens a leaf, and that leaf immediately turns to where the sun is.
There is a plant consciousness. There is an animal consciousness. We share all of these things. I mean, the whole thing is consciousness. I begin to feel more and more that the whole world is conscious; certainly the vegetable world is conscious.
And when you live in the woods, as I did as a kid, you can see all these different consciousnesses relating to themselves. Scientists are beginning to talk quite openly about the Gaia principle. And, you see, if you will think of ourselves as coming out of the Earth, rather than as being thrown in here from somewhere else—you know, thrown onto the Earth—we are the Earth, we are the consciousness of the Earth.
These are the eyes of the Earth, and this is the voice of the Earth. What else? And all of life is a meditation; most of it unintentional. These are all perfectly, very important concerns, but they have to do with physical conditions, mostly, and spiritual conditions of the children, of course.
So how do you get that? Then you think about the myths. What the myths are for is to bring us into a level of consciousness that is spiritual.
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