about the Other. Or about both you and the Other. Or about the web that contains you both. It’s best to enter wild conversations with the central intent to become better acquainted with a nonhuman being, rather than, say, to receive some oracular information about yourself.
THE SOUTH FACET OF THE SELF AND THE DESCENT TO SOUL
The underworld of Soul is a wilderness — an outback defined not by a particular geographical location but by a state of consciousness, a frame of mind, a realm of the psyche in which meaning, metaphor, and symbol percolate from their generally invisible depths and flow through our moment-to-moment experience like creatures from another world. Sometimes it seems to be a circus world, but more generally it’s a sacred one, a heaven or a hell exuding eloquent signs of portent or promise. Here, denizens of our personal unconscious mingle, strangely, with archetypes of the collective human unconscious and creatures of the terrestrial wild, and it is often difficult to discern which are which. To our astonishment or bafflement, our own individual Souls might appear in a great variety of shapes and guises. Characters from dreams and nightmares materialize out of nowhere. We find ourselves faced with unavoidable and seemingly fated tasks and trials — supremely challenging adventures, perhaps impossible but nonetheless necessary ones — and we recognize that how well we engage with these quandaries will determine whether or how fully we’ll realize our destiny in this lifetime. Every move we make seems critical and fraught with significance.
In order to thrive in such circumstances — and certainly to benefit psy- chospiritually — we require an instinctive aliveness, an ability to respond without thinking, or prior to thinking, like an animal with corporeal faith in its natural embeddedness in the world, an animal equipped with instincts not merely for survival or defense but for imaginative response and enchanted play. What is needed is an experience of belonging to one’s place so profound that it seems as if the place itself thinks and feels for you, that it opens the way for you to proceed simply by virtue of the fact that it knows you and recognizes how you are meant to be there.
In other words, in the underworld, you need to be rooted in your human wildness and your indigenous belonging.
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