Jung

This article was submitted by Jill Davey - Counsellors and Practitioners of Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection

It is as though you were sitting in a little sailboat in the middle of a lake, and had no idea how to manage a sailboat.

If the current was right and the wind was right, you might get to where you were going sooner or later.  Or, you might bob around indefinitely and get nowhere.  Or a storm could come up and you could be overturned and the whole project could end in a disaster. 

But begin the Process, guided by another who has been through it himself and coped with the difficulties and found ways to solve them, and it is all different.  You learn about winds, which are invisible and less predictable, and these correspond to those spiritual forces, which seem to give direction to life without ever showing themselves.  In learning to sail you do not change the current of the water nor do you have any effect on the wind, but you learn to hoist your sail and turn it this way and that to utilize the greatest forces which surround you.

By understanding them, you become one with them, and in doing so are able to find your own direction - so long as it is in harmony with, and does not try to oppose, the greater forces of being.  You may still have to face dangers - there may be swift currents or winds at times, but somehow you do not feel helpless any longer.

In time, you may be able to leave your guide and sail alone, and one-day you may even become a guide for others.  You are not helpless anymore

 inger, June:  Boundaries of the soul, The Practice of Jung Psychology, Pg 9.