Last night I dreamed that the ultimate truth cannot be known and even exists, I woke up with a shock. It's like peeling an onion, I thought at the time. When you try to remove the veils there are always new ones. And when you've completely dismantled the onion, you're left with nothing. Is reality in the sense of the ultimate truth an illusion so I wondered?
It is not possible to know the ultimate truth from this life. Once I had an intense experience while I was praying. At great speed it went up, until I was all at the ends of this world and there was a yellow light when I was aware of my body in a gaping void, and a voice heard that said, "There's nothing." That made me decide to focus my energy on a more earthly life. However, the blood often crawls where it cannot go and now I find myself reading again on the spiritual path.
According to the Tibetan Death Book, it is only possible to perceive the world behind this world when you succeed after your death to become part of it by freeing yourself in the Bardo from the chains of life. But what if the only thing you have to free yourself from and or can your own urges, feelings, ideas and character traits be in this life? Man generally seeks salvation, either in a God, a religion or at least in something he or she generally sees as higher than himself. What is it?
Suppose the search is one for our shadow and anima or animus. These are initially hidden archetypes. According to Carl Jung in the human psyche, archetypes are the universal, mythical characters in the collective unconscious of man. These archetypes are equally common to people around the world. Archetypes are intrinsic human motives and evoke deep emotions. Many people do not seem to be aware of or become aware of this. The path to go during our lives is that of awareness, recognition and implementation of these archetypes in our existence. But what about universal and earthly love?
Love is the pursuit of harmony and perhaps the most important thing we need to learn, in addition to self-knowledge. It is probably also impossible to become a harmonious human being, both inside and outside. Here comes Jung again. The idea of Jung was/is that during his life man should balance his often dualistic nature. Dualism is the idea that there are two opposite sides, for example good and evil, love and hate, body and soul or spirit. Jung was inspired by the Greek mythical figures the Dioscures, better known as the twin Castor and Pollux, one mortal and the other immortal, the constellation Gemini. In this context, the Austrian psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, refers to the "Doubleganger'. The doppelganger is our brother, when you are a man, or sister when you are a woman, who we must discover and learn to love. That's fucking tricky, but it might not take a God. The ultimate truth is hidden in the spell "Know Yourself" on the temple of Apollo in Delphi. Maybe the dream wanted to tell me.
