Yes, ultimately, we could say “other,” rather than shadow. Like the other parts of the jig saw puzzle, which can also be more sophisticated and interconnected within the bigger picture, the figure/ground is open to potential.

Once one gets out of the static separate mode, and its authoritarianism, paranoia, into the more real, its much more evolutionary, developmental. It fits the facts better; though we need another way to deal with things, as well.

Transitional . . .

The “games” people play here . . . “externalization” . . . I’m just saying there is something better. You are playing it a lower level: it pulls me down.

The problem with me is I needed a “real” direction in life, not just this colloquial soap opera type thing, and generic symbols.

“Thus a mythology is a control system, on the one hand framing its community to accord with an intuited order of nature and, on the other hand, by means of its symbolic pedagogic rites, conducting individuals through the ineluctable psychophysiological stages of transformation of a human lifetime-birth, childhood and adolescence, age, old age, and the release of death-in unbroken accord simultaneously with the requirements of this world and the rapture of participation in a manner of being beyond time.” p.20

The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor As Myth And Religion, Joseph Campbell, Harper and Row, 1986.

I guess what I was having to deal with was our current Western average man mythology, whether orientated at the High end or the Lower end, that originated from the Western man’s sense of separateness. I found the interconnected mode, and other forms of functioning! That’s why!

Of course, I’m saying something like this:

Living one’s intrinsic nature. Intent. Life world within the Greater world. Expressions.

Ascending interactions of meaning and knowledge. “We are intrinsic selves, entwined within the universe, in an interactive field of meaning and knowledge.

New themes beginning here for me within this. Going past the typical down to earth people things and their symbols, the generic me. A new activation within a second attention, a literal force kicking in, discernible. Like being reborn as a child, a new self, entity, within these higher functions.