There is a wonderful approach to our relationship with the infinity of the night sky and the influence of our nearest planets on our lives. In the inner conceptual thinking of Australian Aborigines, shooting stars are the cosmic spark that exists in everything, and are the energy that permeates all life in all its forms. When it hits the earth, it infuses it with that energy. Which then creates all forms out of the earth it entered. Every soul and our psychological beings. And if we see the sun as the light of the ego that creates consciousness out of the cosmic background with which we formulate the world using words, we move beyond it, to its great sparkling starry sky. This means that we become able to shift our focus to where we can look in from the outside of the limitations of our consciousness and allow ourselves to be absorbed by a cosmos in creative interaction with any singular constellation of stars and planets, and to a background source of influence on our psychic life that fills our interior with energy as we look out into the timeless space we have above our heads. From this perspective we follow the sun of our consciousness that descends each night into its vast unknown darkness, as it then rise again each morning before our eyes. And every time we name what arises in this meeting, this unknown interior becomes something that we constantly transform into the recurring and known world we enter again each morning. We are made of it and we embody the energies we are imbued with as it also are transferred to us by the nurishment we need and we provide it with. Life is energy, and the psychic energy we follow whose forces guide us whether we formulate them or not, and regardless of how we choose to formulate them, they still choose us through our inner life when we allow ourselves to interact with it in a way which also makes us transcend pure reason, and its one-sidedness and destructive influence on our inner being. We all need to spend much more time alone in ourselves to be able to consider it as something in others as well as in everything around us too without constantly placing ourselves in others because we have not yet found our own psychic configuration which is the personal constellation of how it interacts with us in a composite way. I am not saying that we should change our thinking to that of the Aboriginal world of thought, but what I am saying is that the timelessness we experience and feel within us is also the night sky we see ourselves in that has opened our inner person to what we have formulated for it historically in what we call our time, wherever we are in it. Aboriginal or not. It is still there as something independent of us, and whether we call it dreamtime, psyche or describe it through theoretical physics and astronomy, or the symbolic geometry of our interior life.
Because quote, ”the Western understanding of the cosmic order, discovering a non-empirical realm of the universe that doesn’t consist of material things but of forms. These forms are real, even though they are invisible, because they have the potential to appear in the empirical world and act in it.” Professor Lothar Schäfer from his paper, Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century. Read it here >>
It is indeed the source of the mystery that man has sought in many different forms and cultures, in this union of all opposites, its guiding principle and wholeness which seems to formulate itself from the same infinite psychic experience that we have tried to translate into language as long as man has existed. Where affect and irrationality in contrast to rationality and control in an self-observing way is our long and arduous journey to the “field of offerings”.