Have you ever noticed the forest references, most recently "like an echo in the forest"? We know that the usage is a metaphor for the unconscious, but what if we looked at it as it's own archetype, The Forest Dark? "The forest is also a symbol or an (1/6) @BTS_twt @msorchidea https://twitter.com/DlFrede/status/1111707114278449152
"an archetype w/ both positive aspects since you find beauty (& sometimes something to eat) but also troubling aspects as a zone where we don’t know what’s really going on. Maybe this is the important aspect of the archetype – the forest is the place where we can get lost, (2/6)
"but not only in the depths of the own psyche but in a sense that we become aware that we don’t know a lot, that our very idea of reality could be shattered any time. We don’t see the forest for the trees. However, rather than becoming repressed or even depressed, the Forest (3/6
"Dark as an archetype makes us active in a way of becoming alert, & in the end we learn that we need to explore if we want to survive. In some sense things could be seen the other way around: the forest is not so much part of your inner psyche but it can be (4/6)
"something which enters your life from the outside: by walking through the forests of our world we get in touch from time to time w/ agencies, which exist in another realm but radiate their energies from their world into our own, even into our deepest self. We become aware (5/6)
"of creations which belong to another plane of existence." (6/6)
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