𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 .... 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡, 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲.

 

When people become acquainted with the unconscious they often get into an extraordinary state—they flare up, they explode, old buried emotions come up, they begin to weep about things which happened forty years ago.

That simply means that they were prematurely detached from that stage of life; they have forgotten that there are buried fires still burning. Then they were unconscious, but when they touch the lower centers, they get back into that world and become aware that it is still hot, like a fire that has been left forgotten under the ashes.

But take away the ashes and there are still the glowing embers underneath, as it is said of pilgrims going to Mecca: they leave their fires buried under the ashes, and when they return the following year the embers are still glowing.

— Carl Jung

And, from Lance Kelly ...

The Surrender of Self

The self, which is the mind and emotional body, is a mass of psychic force until transformed through living as a more conscious being in the world. In the normal mode of living, the self doesn’t need to exert unnecessary energy beyond its vital needs, which it extracts from its host body – the person. This it does through the fluctuating emotional reactions that are typical symptoms of unconscious living. But when someone begins to take command of their inner kingdom (which is when the focus of intelligence turns inward), the self no longer has things its own way as before. Startled by the sudden intrusion from the light of consciousness on its dark underworld, the self withdraws a little deeper from conscious scrutiny. In this temporary vacuum there is then an inrush of enlightened energy, which is characteristic of a spiritual awakening. But it’s not long before the self returns to regain its lost ground within the subconscious space of the psyche.

As the spiritual process unfolds and the individual perseveres in overcoming the insidious nature of the self, more ground is made through the purification of the inner space. The consequences for the self, in no longer having the freedom as before to influence the life, is that it becomes more troublesome than before. The entity of pain must now exert more forceful energy to sustain its presence in existence. Unbeknown to the self (since it has no knowledge beyond what’s been experienced in time) its body has now been reduced in mass, amplifying its presence as extreme discomfort and pain. In a desperate attempt for attention to experience itself, the core of self begins to consume its energetic body; the intense pressure being registered is the self dying and not the purity of the man or woman.

The suffering must be borne without self-judgement or trying to understand why it’s happening. This is spiritual humility and a selfless offering to the Most High. It’s to be valiant and one-pointed in the devotion to a higher love. The self is being made to capitulate but will resist all the way when it feels its power is being weakened. With perseverance, the self eventually yields and kneels before the altar of the Lord: the absence of all knowing that is the reality of God. This obliterates the final taint of self as the total surrender to the Divine Being that sustains life everlasting.

Finally the self, having been eroded by the unrelenting light of the spirit, has been transformed of its defiant nature. This coincides with the realisation of the state of immortality. The self has not died but is now aligned with the one good and serves life at the behest of the Divine Will. The task is then to bring the knowledge of the spiritual realisation into the world through the living life. Only in the harsh material environment of the western global society can the truth of existence be validated as a completion of a particular phase of the spiritual process.