Wise Powers

One day, at approximately one o’clock in the early morning, I was awakened by a terrifying dream. I couldn’t understand why I felt such terror. None of the dream’s scenes were capable of instilling that prevailing feeling of terror. It felt like the dream was attempting to resurrect something inside of me and understanding it was unusual to me. So I sat there, deep in thought, with my mind racing and reasons swirling, barely persuading me that this was the cause of my overwhelming fear. As the fear waned, and I was unable to understand the reason behind the emotion. Frustration presented itself as my companion during that morning.

What a friend that frustration, in which you are without any goal. In frustration, you feel as if everything has lost its value. My frustration grew because I couldn’t understand why I felt so fearful from a dream that had no reason to be frightening. Then I found out that cause and emotion have distinct natures.

In the beginning, upon awakening, I found myself strongly influenced by Freudian thinking, as I was journeying back in time in an attempt to uncover the root cause of that prevailing emotion in order to achieve salvation.

Then I went to my library, reflecting on the books on my shelves, each holding its own unique memory. A sense of relief washed over me as I glanced at a book discussing Adler’s psychological theory. Sitting there, I thought about the book, trying to recall why I had not been reading it as much as the other books. Then I decided to give it a share of reading, and during my conversation with Adler, something struck me. His theory, which he refers to as individual psychology, struck me as it is collective in nature. Mostly concerns the power motive. The theory approaches things from another perspective, but it bears a resemblance to Freud’s theory. At its core, it’s simply another manifestation of the same instinct. Here we find that the instinct was replaced by the power motive, causing a new manifestation of the same instinct. Power is, in most cases, the source of most disputes between people, and what’s even more troublesome is how it forces convictions onto emotions.

Rational convections were enforced into inherently irrational emotions. It was similar to the moment I attempted to clarify the cause of the fear I had in that dream that wasn’t truly terrifying. Upon waking up, I immediately relied on my rational nature to find a cause and make sense of it. It is as if my soul was telling me that these are two opposites, each of which has its own nature, whose union is not by a search into the past and then trying to find the cause, it could be in some cases, but in this particular instance by finding a third nature or third function that constitutes the mediator between these two opposites. Otherwise, the rational and the irrational will continue to tweet in their own way on a separate path.

And I found out that what is considered a weakness and what is considered a strength when they both come together, a new term called wise powers, is born.

- ?? Saud