So, we are moving from that “apparent” level, one’s identifications, back into that “intrinsic” one, into our oneness with the universe, connected/interconnected, in touch with all the multifaceted/multidimensional aspects to it all, and of oneself.

We are “Selves entwined within the universe in an interconnected field of meaning and knowledge.”

“Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.”
― Paracelsus

The point is to move from the ego’s banal collections to the more lustrous connections/interconnections of the truer Self . . . The Life World within the Greater World . . .

I was thinking of that differentiation into some of those more problematic levels, and was trying to push more into the Life World. I suddenly got this vision of a card sent to me, with some writing inside. The message was to send them back as clear as possible what I could visualize: it was something like a longer cylindrical metallic object being pulled out, like giving birth, with some longer elements stretching out behind, like with the Magnapinna. Their response was then to come in, point out something, and add some extra parts on one side, for balance: it looked like it was being attached to this beautiful chrome and perfectly blue frame of a restomod. I then blurted out that I had also turned off the lights, with a switch to the feeling of being a lighted, alive, and conscious boy. There seems to be a positive push in this vehicle direction, symbolically, for ordinary life; but moving along experientially in both worlds. That helped me make a decision.

Strangely enough, I had the curiosity to wonder what else is up down here. I saw three figures sitting next to a wall, with gnarly looking grimaces. There was a switch of perspective, and then I saw these dark hooded creatures coming in. It was then that I read the chapter called The Dark Court, in the book “The Secret Lives of Elves and Faeries,” by Rev. Robert Kirk, that seemed surprisingly synchronous to all this.

I realized, that with the figure/ground, there can be many possible ongoing perspectives at any one point, with feelings, related to, and more. I was wondering later if there were a variety of moves between the separate and intrinsic modes. It could be complicated; there are many levels, issues, and entities around.

Likewise, I’ve upped the context from the separate mode, in which the ego whom has to learn to deal with those shadowy elements, into the interconnected context, of being a part of the whole, as Jung put it. Functionally, this is where intent and the figure/ground comes in for me: there is much more to life here!

I was thinking of how drawing constellations is like the figure/ground; though they believe there is also an esoteric connection here, as far as one’s world and life goes. Interconnected . . . the quintessence!

“To understand correctly the meaning of the words alchemy and astrology, it is necessary to realize the intimate relationship and identity of the microcosm and macrocosm, and their mutual interaction.”– Paracelsus