I was doing my Kum Nye practice the other day, and found myself ascending a long set of white stairs up into the sky. I reached the top, and there was a layer of darkness hanging there, like a layer in the atmosphere. I poked my head through, and a voice asked me what I was seeing, why it was dark.
I pondered it, then decided it was because the light of that place existed at a frequency I was incapable of perceiving, and that what we call light is in fact a species of darkness. I had in mind a quote from the Tao Te Ching: “darkness within darkness: the gateway to all mystery.” I was told this was correct.
Then I got to thinking that we have both an unconscious self that arises from remnants of our animal nature as encoded in our primitive nervous systems, but also an unconscious spiritual side, which is what we are moving towards. We are doubly unconscious–at least, until we cease from being so.
Thus: Immobilization/trauma/sense of belonging/sense of connection with life, fight or flight/play, social consciousness, spiritual consciousness.