the Self Presents The Collective Unconscious Pt 11

Episode #11 from the series 'the Self Presents The Collective Unconscious' for Fnoob Techno Radio.

“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical."

― C.G. Jung, The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

The Self Presents: The Collective Unconscious Pt 2

Second episode of my show The Collective Unconscious, recorded for Fnoob Techno Radio. This episode aired October 3rd, 2015 and features the likes of Juho Kahilainen, Cavalerra, A. Mochi and Milton Bradley, among others. A total of 18 songs in one hour. To give you all a taste of what's out there.

Inspired by the works of Carl Gustav Jung.

“Very early in history men began trying to express what they felt to be the soul or spirit of a rock by working it into a recognizable form. In many cases, the form was a more or less definite approximation to the human figure – for instance, the ancient menhirs with their crude outlines of faces, or the hermae that developed out of boundary stones in ancient Greece, or the many primitive stone idols with human features. The animation of stone must be explained as the projection of a more or less distinct content of the unconscious into the stone .” - Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols
 

"When the fantasies reach a certain level of intensity, they begin to break through into consciousness and create a conflict situation that becomes perceptible to the patient himself, splitting him into two personalities with different characters."

The Self presents: the Collective Unconscious Pt 1

Here's the first episode of my show The Self Presents: The Collective Unconscious. It aired at September 5th, 2015. As always in my techno sets, this set is influenced by the writings of Carl Gustav Jung.

The collective unconscious - so far as we can say anything about it at all  - appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious... We can therefore study the collective unconscious in two ways, either in mythology or in the analysis of the individual. (Carl Jung. From The Structure of the Psyche, CW 8, par. 325.)





Archetypes constitute the structure of the collective unconscious - they are psychic innate dispositions to experience and represent basic human behavior and situations. Thus mother-child relationship is governed by the mother archetype. Father-child - by the father archetype. Birth, death, power and failure are controlled by archetypes. The religious and mystique experiences are also governed by archetypes.

The most important of all is the Self, which is the archetype of the Center of the psychic person, his/her totality or wholeness. The Center is made of the unity of conscious and unconscious reached through the individuation process.

Three times the road

three times the road

always the wrong turn

keep passing by

the gas station

the gas station

where the air is full

of gasoline fumes

and scents

of rubber rubber

if wheels fail to spin

pull the plug

pull the plug

get in the car

murderers won't go there

hide the axe

murderers won't drive there

spill the poison

murderers won't go to

the gas station

the gas station

it's home on the road home on the road home on the road

meet me there

i will pull over

meet me there

the gas station

gasoline fumes

i will love you there

the gas station

make love to me there

drive three times

three times

murderers won't go there

i'll hide the axe

if you swallow the poison

- NT 2007

At the Limit

At The Limit

A timelapse vision
will offer no insight
-no final version
of life's wildest delusion

Still I ponder these questions
by looking within
and opening up
to the farthest of realms

Embracing connections
with innumerable dots
birthing countless expressions
in crystalline consciousness

Can i see further
than my own contemplations?
can i step beyond
my own temple of thoughts?

And enter the dance
with the Symbol of Self
in a unifying moment
of belief in this Life

Now I'm filling the blanks
and I'm writing my novel
I'm creating my dreams
while staying awake...

-NT

From Dream to Eternity

Blaming well shaped shadows for the fading light. Knowing the sweet sounds in the air come from a certain direction. Looking up, neon lights blinding me.

Another night. Another me. Changing dimensions like clothes. Fresh. New. Trendy.

You. My dimension. Right now. Time doesn't exist. Time is irrelevant. Space. Space is irrelevant.

We are. We dress ourselves in this moment. Let us be.

(NT)

the Self - Confronting the Shadow (A Techno Play in Three Acts)

i) Climbing the Mountain
After a long internal struggle, he has made the decision. To no longer be afraid to step forward. To face the shadow side of his unconscious head on. Adamant not to flinch, to take this journey to the end. Filled with a sense of ecstatic bliss he starts his ascent of the mountain. His odyssey takes him through hymns in the wind and he passes countless archetypes, those primordial images that pre-exist the Self. The trickster, the snake eating its tail, anima figures. He hums mantras and dances to percussion so the body and the mind can become one. The realisation: 'you can't fall off a mountain!' He reaches a calm near the top of the mountain. A cave near the center of the soul, close to the inner nucleus of the psyche. Chanting, a trance, a waking dream. It is here where the real inner journey towards the shadow side of the Self begins.

The Self - Confronting the Shadow (A Play in Three Acts) by The_Self on Mixcloud

ii) Tapping into the Dream
In the dream things start to intensify. Eternal sounds come from both high above and deep below and start to envelope his Being. Aspects from the ancient and everlasting collective unconscious try to tap into him, trying to defy his Ego. Pure fear dances around the fire together with pure joy and his feminine side devours his masculinity and vice versa. Time becomes an eternal becoming of past-present-future in a crystalized image of future memories. A tower of psychedelic understanding weighs heavy on his heart, arrows of longing pierce his soul. Yet no harm is done because he searches this dancing of the Ego and the Soul.

iii) Acceptance and Rebirth
At the most frightening of moments it dawns on him, the realisation of what is necessary. He looks around and despite the chills over his spine he knows. He takes a deep breath and with full responsibility he accepts. His glooms, his downfalls, his fears, his desires. The fringes of his unconscious start spinning, spiralling towards the inner nucleus, towards the Self. He realises the ultimate core might never be reached, but that Life Herself is an eternal becoming Whole. He hears his unconscious calling out: "Look at me!" And as he stares into the dark depths he realises his vision plunges deep into his own eyes. A circling, a spiralling, a dancing! In an ever returning rebirth, aimed towards the completion of rituals, the Becoming Whole of the Self.

Mix - Collab 001 - Syst M & the Self - 'Encounters with the Anima'

Syst M & the Self - Collab 001 - 'Encounters with the Anima' by The_Self on Mixcloud