From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
The subconscious mind has two sides. One is connected with the unconscious, the bottom part.
When you are deeply asleep, dreams are moving at the bottom part of the subconscious. The
conscious is very far away. But when you are waking up in the morning, you are coming closer to
the conscious mind, then the top layer of the subconscious is dreaming.
That’s why your consciousness can hear little bits and pieces of dreaming, and in the morning
you can remember something. But that is only the tail of the elephant. The whole elephant has
disappeared, you have no notion of it. And of course the tail makes no sense because the elephant
is not there.
Hence the psychoanalyst is needed to find out the elephant: what kind of elephant it was, whether
it was an elephant or a camel or a cow or a horse, because you have only a tail – perhaps not even
the whole tail, a few hairs of the tail.
The whole function of psychoanalysis is to put those hairs together and to figure out whose tail this
can be; to dig you from this corner and from that corner, and hit you from this point and that point, so
something comes up which is there, but of which you are not aware. The psychologist almost makes
the whole animal on the basis of the few hairs of the tail. That’s why there are so many schools of
psychoanalysis.
It was bound to be so. Sigmund Freud wanted psychoanalysis to remain one integrated movement.
It was impossible, because the work of the psychoanalyst is more or less imagination: he has a few
things in his hand but those things can lead to any conclusion.
If you go to Sigmund Freud then those same hairs will prove you are sexually obsessed: that is his
elephant. And once he has found the elephant you will start seeing according to his vision, and you
will find explanations that perhaps he is right. And perhaps he is right.
If you go to Adler, he has a different kind of imagination: will-to-power. For Sigmund Freud it is
will-to-sex, will-to-reproduction. To Sigmund Freud it is more of a biological phenomenon than to
Adler.
To Adler it is more of a political phenomenon: will-to-power. If you take the same hairs to Sigmund
Freud he will manage to figure out and discover perversions of sex in you. And I am saying perhaps
he is right, and I also want to say perhaps Adler is also right.
If you go to Jung then he will find through those same hairs some mythological phenomenon. It will
not be biological, it will not be political, it will be mythological. And I want to say: perhaps he is also
right.
All these three continually quarreled, not knowing that man’s mind has multi-aspects, that it is not
exhausted by one explanation, that not only are there these three, there are more possibilities. Just
a few more Freuds, Jungs and Adlers are needed who have some poetic imagination, and some
scientific way of explanation.
Man’s mind is multidimensional.
And every dimension is connected.
From Ignorance to Innocence 375 Osho