“The union with Tao also relates to the mental awakening that occurs when you have successfully practiced the alchemy. The essential idea is that before birth you have a pristine, untarnished state of enlightened consciousness without a false idea of self or other. After birth, you learn to perceive in terms of the language and norms imposed by your culture. This socialization process obscures the original, innate purity of perception. By relaxing the mind into its natural state, the Dragon Gate practitioner regains his original mind.”
Secrets of Dragon Gate: Ancient Taoist Practices for Health, Wealth, and the Art of Sexual Yoga / Steven Liu and Jonathan Blank. (Page 28).

Yes, there’s other directions in me too, starting 40 years before that. I knew it was “just” knowledge, perception . . . seeing the truer reality.

A theme I could have started with. Then there was Washburn, rewriting psychoanalysis here, with his elucidation of a triadic form of development, “The Ego and the Dynamic Ground” . . . and it got me going along these lines. But its not unfamiliar: Jung spoke in these ways too, and he started giving me some applied ways.

The good thing is I worked on it in my own, and began explaining it in my own language and ways. Moving on . . .

Its where I’m at.

These pristine origins, and our goal . . .

The aboriginals, Lee, may consider this as the “sacred.”

This division, and being caught within it, separate, may be the starting point, even orientation, of a lot of Western ways . . . Hell ya!

Then I’ve come in, even within this level, and says there is another form of functioning. The newer psychologies . . . philosophy. I did it. The West is beginning to move on, catch up, or uncover some of the older ways that were barred.

I think the issue is we are being allowed, put into a position, in which we have the option to being a distinct self, with free will; but to function properly, also to be in connection with a greater reality, and ultimately, our pristine origins. Its the Opus, our test.

It started becoming more interesting, functional, in a lot of newer unique ways.

Knowing, interacting, realizations.