Eternal LifeIn mythology the hero must visit the Underworld Hades, conquer death, and then return unharmed to the world of the living. This pattern, which occur in several myths, reflects the development shown on figure 7, because the only path to point C is by going through B (the Underworld). If the hero, i.e. the individual human being or the entire human species depending on which level you look at it, reaches point C before the hero dies, he has conquered death. Figure 6 might be a help to understand why this is so. The person B, whose actions in the world are controlled by his ego-consciousness, identifies with his ego: I made that action, I wrote that song, theory or story, I bought that house and that car and they are mine. His heart is with himself, with his ego-consciousness and when his body dies, the egoconsciousness dies with it. The person C, whose actions in the world are controlled by his higher consciousness, identifies with the higher consciousness, he is the higher consciousness - they are one. His heart is with the higher consciousness.
The following passage from the Bible explains it in a similar way:
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth not rust consumes and thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."[Bible, 70, Matt. 6:19-21]
For the person C, when the physical body dies, its like when your bicycle breaks and you have to separate from it. Depending on how much you identified your riding-experiences with the bicycle, you might feel a little sadness, remembering all the good experiences you had with it, but thats it. Later you might choose to buy a new bicycle (re-incarnate), although you thereby put constrains on what you can do.
HadesWe are today at the present time in history at point B, i.e. in the deepest and darkest part of the Underworld Hades. The horrors of Hades are so evil, that even the greatest of the greek heroes, Achilles, who endured this fate, said that it was worse than being a slave to the meanest of men on earth. When people do not see it, its because they do not remember anything else, they are in a state of “forget-fullness” - they identifies life with riding the bicycle.
What we consider as happy moments in life, like sex, experiences of flow and of being in love, and of being on drugs, are nothing but glimpses of where we really belong. They are “consoling-sweets” and a security blanket for the soul and if they are viewed as more than that they conceal what should be the focus of all actions: Liberation from ego-consciousness, i.e. moving from B to C. Moving from B to C is not easy though because the modern man and modern society has now reached the neurotic state.
A neurotic patient will meet everything the psychologist do in a very suspicious manner. The attitude will shift to hostility or even hatred towards the psychologist if he proceeds with his healing attempts. If the session is a group session with several neurotic patients, they will not hesitate to execute the psychologist, and afterwards feel that they had every right to do it - he was a disturbance to the neurotic conscious structures in their head. The alternative to removing the source of disturbance is assimilating it, which a neurotic brain can not do without falling apart.
Therefore the only possibility for the psychologist is to gain the confidence of the patient, by talking about concepts he is familiar with. But during the conversation he must build up unconscious material, just below the normal consciousness threshold. This is done for instance by using mythological symbols which is a part of the collective unconscious, or he can by analyzing the patients dreams find symbols in them that will affect the unconscious.
This procedure may take several sessions depending on the condition of the patient, but when the psychologist feels that enough unconscious material has been gathered, he suddenly unleashes it all by confronting the patient with it in a single session. This will tear the patient’s neurotic world apart, it will collapse like a house of cards. Then the psychologist must ignore the screams and agony of the patient, and wait like a cruel god, untill the patient comes crawling on his knees drained for everything that even resembles a will of his own ego. The psychologist must become the whole world for the patient - not untill then can the healing process begin. Woe to the man who blocks the path of healing for another! He shall tremble with fear when he sees the signs of the Heavenly WRATH to come! Now WAKE UP beloved Sons and Daughters of the Eternal One! Evilness has awoken from its sleep! You are the Light! Gather your strength and wait for the Heavenly sign! He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
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