[Philip Quinlan]

Mark

Vis-a-vis the conscious and the unconscious I have this to say:

In the modern mind we think of consciousness as the thing we share and the subconscious as private. I believe the reverse is true. Our conscious minds are very individualistic and ego-bound. The subconscious is, in effect, our storehouse of racial memory and primitive responses to the basic shared experience of the human condition.

On the subject of wealth:

My brother is a banker. I said banker. He tried to convince me once that transferring numbers from one screen to another equated to the creation of wealth. I told him that there was no material wealth that wasn't ultimately dug out of the ground (usually by some poor sap on low wages). Right here and now I feel somewhat vindicated in that view.

In the same way, for me, there is no spiritual wealth worth sharing that isn't dug out of the subconscious (again by some poor sap, like me, albeit on rather less modest wages!)

I think I shall replace my "hawk" avatar with a dove...

:-)

Philip