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Over 120 years since “The Father of American Psychology,” William James, wrote Varieties of Religious Experience, mysticism remains on the periphery, as psychology recovers from an imbalance toward pathology. Mainstream theory and therapies have done incredibly well at mapping the shadow. Much less attention is paid to the light, the potent force known as the superconscious.
There’s an understandable tentativeness when psychology enters so-called spiritual territory. The stumbling block with integrating the superconscious is its metaphysical associations. Mysticism, the idea that union with the divine is an experiential possibility, contradicts the dominant ideology of materialism.
And yet, to comprehend the light, you have to see beyond the individual, and beyond the biological. To avoid losing credibility or coming across as unscientific, mysticism has to be implied or whispered, to rock the boat without capsizing. Pioneers have dared to risk capsizing the boat, including James and Jung. But each had to speak the language of the dominant paradigm, and insights are lost in translation, ink diluted to soften the blow.
Only full comprehension of light and dark, and its repercussions on the psyche, will support people through the varieties of religious experience. This is a modest attempt to provide an overview with the framing of unconscious and superconscious, including the gifts, hazards, and qualities of both.
The Unconscious and the Shadow
“You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience.”Robert A. Johnson
The shadow is an aspect of the personal unconscious that contains the repressed and rejected parts of the self, which hide behind the scenes, but influence behaviour. The unconscious, by default, is outside of conscious awareness. There’s a function to this process; imagine trying to live in the world if you had access to every memory, registered every sensation, ev…