The mysterious nature of time

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It's also necessarily acceptance of other-self. Jung referred to this process as 'individualization', as in the individual is more and more free from the thoughts of other selves (the 'collective' or status quo).

Yeah..other self as self, that's what I intended..corrected it. I wish I would have read Jung 10 years ago. I'm debating whether or not to bother at this point. It's amazing what he was able to accomplish.

Emotional reactions are from the unconscious - it's disowned aspects of self emerging.

This is hard for some to understand. When it comes to more abrasive aspects of the personality, people often have trouble integrating those. I have found it's easiest if you understand that an other self has those traits for a reason, and they are going through their own process of embodying those aspects for particular lessons. They are on their own learning curve experiencing what they have to, so who am I to criticize their level of beingness or naivety? Instead of judging, have love. In this way you accept who they are instead of expecting them to be how you want them to be.

One of the only coping mechanisms available to this type of unconsciousness is projection - where personally undesirable qualities (qualities which themselves are not fully accepted) are attributed to the 'attacker'.

Coping is a good word that would probably be synonymous with holding onto blockages. There is a resistance in accepting the other, and so we project them as doing this or that to justify how we feel instead of releasing the blockage through acceptance. It seems that emotions tend to carry certain biases with them that need to be overcome. I'm not saying to overcome emotion, but to overcome bias. This is what catalyst really is..an opportunity to examine emotion to remove bias and integrate it within the self through acceptance.