“greatly feared the nature of the inner self”
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Our unconscious mind stores information below the level of our awareness, yet this material dramatically impacts our lives. We make decisions and choices based on the beliefs, attitudes and values hidden in the deep recesses of our unconscious that was often put there by our family, religion, culture, etc. A 2018 survey noted an unconscious belief in 721 students in majority-white high schools in which one-in-five agreed with this statement: “Members of one racial group are more ambitious than members of another racial group because of genetics.”[i] Perhaps they were raised with this unconscious belief and never thought to question it?
“We have deep structural problems that have been a half century in the making, under both political parties, and that are often transmitted from generation to generation. Only in America has life expectancy now fallen three years in a row, for the first time in a century, because of ‘deaths of despair.’”[ii] Our unconscious self, our false self, creates the dystopia and despair we experience.
Insight # 57 comes from Seth who is a “disembodied personality” (not present in the material world of form). He was “channeled” by author Jane Roberts beginning in 1963. Seth’s insights are profound not because of where they come from but because of their intrinsic truth.
“In your society, therefore, the black race has represented what you think of as chaotic, primitive, spontaneous, savage, unconscious portions of the self, the underside of the ‘proper American citizen.’ The blacks were to be oppressed then on the one hand and treated indulgently as children on the other. There was always a great fear that the blacks as a race would escape their bonds—given an inch they would take a yard—simply because the whites so greatly feared the nature of the inner self, and recognized the power [shadow content] that they tried so desperately to strangle within themselves.”[iii]
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Additional Reading:
- The Unconscious, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 2
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[i] Harmon, Amy. “Science Class Defies Racism With Genetics.” The New York Times. December 8, 2019, p. 22.
[ii] Kristof, Nicholas. “Who Killed the Knapp Family? The New York Times Sunday Review. January 12, 2019, p. 4.
[iii] Roberts, Jane. The Nature of Personal Reality. New York: Bantam, 1974, pp. 266-267.
