Chrysalis: The Psychology of Transformation
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Awakening to the Persona
The persona is necessary because people on different levels of consciousness respond to a situation with very different antennae. Jung was one lecturing on the topic when a student accused him of being hypocritical if he used a persona. We must be conscious enough to know when we are using a persona and for what reason. Christ warned against casting pearls before swine. Now to return to Kuchal. When the conscious ego is able to release repressed psychic energy or reconnect to unconscious body energy then babies appear in dreams. In my experience, I have found that individuals tend to repeat the pattern of their own actual birth every time they move through a birth canal onto a new level of awareness.
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