(This could almost go on to Sub Club Black; but it’s more archetypal than mystical.)
The River Styx
The river Styx is the boundary between the Conscious and Unconscious minds. It is a liminal zone. And having a little understanding of it is helpful.
When there is a concept or information that you are learning, a skill that you are practicing, or even a desired reality that you are building, there comes a moment where it will cross this river–this boundary zone. At that moment, it seems to disappear. You were practicing and making improvements, but now there’s a sense of having lost it.
What happened?
It is making the journey into a deeper part of you. Once there it will be even stronger.
This is the difference between someone who can say things in a language and someone who knows the language. In order for the language to become known, the body must embrace and learn it, in addition to the verbal-analytic thought process. The language must, in other words, cross the river Styx.
Understanding and cooperating with this process will remove unnecessary stress from the learning process.
Funny that the above just came to me this morning. I’ll attribute it to New Learning Experience.
