Writing The Illicit

6 July

Practice - Journaling into the unconscious

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~ C.G. Jung

The Illicit is what's forbidden by law, rules, or custom to maintain order.
However, there is no thought, feeling or desire that can hurt anyone, only actions can.

Thoughts are the result of the conditioning of the body/mind being pin-dropped in the exact moment of time and space that you were born. Every genetic, environmental, familial, social, political, religious and commercial agenda in your proximity had skin in the game. This was out of your hands.

Nothing is without cause, therefore any thought, feeling or desire that has arisen is the right one.

Thought impulses are not what we think they are.

They are like the mythic tales of our lives unconscious unmet feelings and needs. When we take the laws of the material world, the intelligence of order, and apply them to thoughts, feelings and desires then we are placing an unavoidable condition of being alive, our inner dragon, in the inner dungeon of shame, draining resources and clogging up the pipelines of our energy, confidence and intuition by avoiding and suppressing these unconscious impulses.

Rather than running away from, or fighting this dragon, if we can stop, breathe, feel and write without filter, then we will find that the dragon is not what we imagined it to be and that the inherent power within the dragon can now be reintegrated into our being and translated into living our true identity and purpose.

“There is no forbidden thought, feeling or desire. But we need to trust ourselves and our lives radically. We must realise that we are not our thoughts, feelings and desires, that they are just energies, constantly flowing through the body/mind, changing and moving in relationship with the entirety of existence, completely outside of control and understanding. We must know them instantaneously and embody them consciously. If we can not do this then these thoughts, feelings and desires will have a far greater unconscious influence over our choices and behaviours than we realise, ever increasingly pressing down on our vitality and freedom”.

So here is the process.