I think of science, and all culture as something which is the experience of the formless which can be differentiated from its origins in chaos, the shapeless original substance of psychic matter. And that we learn to grasp it by realizing that what we call I, that ”thing” when it is turned into a symbol of itself reconnects to its original background of formlessness. It becomes what that is. And in this transformation it also mediates a relation to it. But first the physical aspect of it must also be transformed from its focus on procreation to becoming an embodiment of the totality of the constant recurrences of all life. When that transforms into psychic matter we become part of all Nature. To that which surrounds us at all times and in every direction. It is the air we breathe, the water we drink, the very earth that we are made of. The whole physical universe. All that supports us will become an aspect of what before was only limited to the objects of our sexuality. We become Nature and share our beingness with HER, with pure nature as an undressed personification of femininity in its formless aspect. She will become both our physical vessel and a psychic entity of beingness. Through the symbolic I-ness, we return to the source of the world as experience. It is almost like we follow our I-ness in its move into a formless symbolic character of psychic matter. The substance of which all things are made of and comes from, and the reality it now mediates from what it has become. We will find that one side of us is deviant, and that it is with this part we have a relation to ourselves and to its greater totality.
Edward Edinger formulates this experience in the words of psychology; ”The human ego is a part of the self as the objective psyche. It owes it existence to the fact that it has been able to separate itself, and exist like a separate entity, but still a part of it. Its got an organic living connection between the medium that it was born out of, and its own separateness.” Annoyingly precise. But since I have accepted the conclusion that every experience must be formulated into the typology of its time, I have to admit that it makes individuality understandable in its unique sense of a larger context.
This is an experience of something that every individual must consciously and carefully translate into a modern objective context, or they will never separate from the collective mind, and its impulsive unconscious life.