Great Spirits

“Great Spirits meet violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

- Albert Einstein – Nobel Prize Physicist

During the last twenty-three years in my life journey I have experienced overwhelming visions and dreams.  My greatest fear was that I would lose control and separate from the sensory-based reality that most people share.  In the last five years I have forced myself into being controlled and analytical.   As a consequence my ability to dream and see possibilities disappeared.  I did not know how to escape the box in which my mind and soul was trapped.  One day a friend called and asked me to plan a garden.   I then began to think outside of my box and consider new paths.  Then my position at work was eliminated and once released from the analytical and controlled world, I started to dream again.  I began to remember the visions and dreams, which had erupted from my unconscious in what Carl Jung would call an archetype explosion.  I had denied and repressed by inner being, my soul, for so long.   But God in his infinite wisdom has taken me step by step to release me and now I see possibilities for my dreams based on the connections I have made.  Carl Jung writes that the Naskapi tribe operates almost in the total intuitive world and as a consequence, grows closer to God and receives better dreams.   He also discusses the need to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth.   As I think about these comments from a psychological perspective, I realize the surrendering to the will of God is how we can release our souls and dream.  But this runs counter to our belief that we can control the world.   Albert Einstein once said, “Great Spirits meet violent opposition from mediocre minds.”