If the soul of the world desires to express itself in terms of the logic or images of our current technological world, a crucial psychological task for the soul phenomenologist must include knowledge of the major thinkers of our time. Concepts, images, language and vocabulary that are collectively accepted and understood come to the assistance of the dreamer who may otherwise be overcome by images or symbols that appear strange and unconnected with contemporary thought. I’ll give an example here of my having to come to terms with the soul self-presenting images and logic, via my dreams, that belong to past ages, past worlds. For years I had been assailed by dream images that bore little connection to my western-trained mind. I was as they say, “losing it”. In 1985 I travelled to India where finally I could “breathe”. There in front of my grateful eyes, on every street corner, were the very symbols that had emerged tumultuously in my psyche. I suddenly felt at home! But I remained alienated from the modern world and its images, and thinking.
This essay is an exploration of the world soul’s self-presentation of images and logic that constitute our modern world—our technological world! It is also a weaving of two disciplines—existential phenomenology and soul phenomenology. You will hopefully be taken on an imaginative journey just as I was taken on an actual psychological journey, to the threshold between two worlds, one nearing its telos , the other still incipient. The soul phenomenologist can “arrive” at this threshold only when her personal psyche is relatively integrated and she can thus distinguish, in conscious feeling , her subjective psychology from the objective movement of the soul of the world, here our technological world, as it unfolds towards its telos of self-consciousness. In other words, the dreamer needs to distinguish, in feeling, her own ego desires from the ‘I’ of the soul of the world and its desire or self-movement .
SOLITARY WANDERER: Coming Home!
