Quote Originally Posted by SKA View Post
But as I see it, the subconscious is infinitely more than just an Archive for our Experiences and Perceptions. It also appears to be the "location" of our Moral Consciousnous and Creativity. And god knows what else. Let's explore.
In short I see the subconscious to be the underestimated TRUE intelligence of mankind. Too bad it is rather seen and labelled as the "Lowest, most primitive" and emotionally troubled and insane part of the Human Psyche by mainstream Science.
That is why it is subconscious in the first place is because we don't accept it. It is all the parts we of our mind that either we are not alert enough to notice, or we don't want to admit is part of us. Gandhi was celibate for his religious reasons. In his autobiography he says that all day he never thinks about sex but at night that is all he dreams about. That is because he has been suppressing his sexuality and driving into the shadows of his subconscious. If you ignore something it doesn't go away. It builds up. When Gandhi was older he started sleeping with teenage virgin girls in his bed. He would sleep with two or three naked virgins. He wouldn't have sex with them because his tool didn't work anymore because he was old and he had destroyed his life energy by too much fasting and driving his urges into the subconscious.

But the subconscious isn't necessarily have to filled with demons and skeletons. In fact, the more that we allow ourselves to be conscious, the more we accept and own of ourselves, the greater and more expansive we allow ourselves to be, the more honest we are with ourselves regarding our faults and our shadow, all these will help to bring the subconscious into consciousness. It is like turning on the light and seeing your room is a mess and you clean it up and you realize that there are no monsters in there so you don't have to be afraid of your room.

Carl Jung said that one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the subconscious conscious. The subconscious is huge. Every single experience of our life is recorded there whether we remember it or not. Every thought that we have ever had. Every feeling we have ever had is recorded there. The subconscious keeps us breathing and our heart beating. Most of our self, our being, is subconscious. And that which we think we are, the conscious, is just a flickering blip of awareness.

The way to allow it into consciousness is to be willing to listen to it. It wants to be heard. It is like a child, it has the emotions of a child and doesn't really care about logic and rationality. It cares about feelings. So listen to your feelings. Practice lucid dreaming. Listen to the messages in your dreams. Learn the language of symbols the subconscious uses to try to communicate to you in your dreams. Own your shadow. Accept that you have bad, dark, evil, parts to yourself, that you sometimes are an asshole or a bitch. Accept it. Look at how you have hurt people in the past. This is all stuff that we deny. When we are an asshole we blame it on someone else and say that they deserve it. Excuses are excuses. Aknowledge all that yuo have been denying. Turn on the light. Then forgive yourself and realize that you have acted this way because you weren't conscious. Start cleaning up the room.
The subconscious is very very wise, but nobody listens to it.