What is
The Inner World?
“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens”
C.G. Jung
When we are unhappy or dissatisfied we usually want to change something about the world we live in. The world we live in usually means that which is outside of us. And so the collective agreement is that by changing some aspect of external phenomena this will lead to us being more satisfied.
Maybe.
Changing the features of the external world – new job, new appearance, different friends or associates, new hobby, new home, new gadgets, having children, socialising etc has its limitations.
Firstly the odds are not in our favour for the long term because the external world is full of the continually fluctuating and volatile preferences of billions of other people, as well as the preferences of the rest of nature.
The continual striving and struggle to keep the conditions favourable to us can ultimately defeat us in the end. Further, changing external appearances is really only surface change.
It seems this is where it’s happening but external happenings still have to pass the barrier of our senses and interact with the more foundational aspects of ourselves, our inner world.
This is where the sum total of our experiences are harvested and made sense of. This then informs how we act, and this cycle is infinite.
We continually turn the world into ourselves, and then ourselves into the world.
It could be said that focusing on externals only actually takes us further away from our true selves.
The practices, courses and content on this platform will help to illuminate our inner world – the forgotten half of life, our very foundations.
We simply cannot make lasting change unless we have a greater understanding of our inner world and consequently, a greater relationship with our true selves.