The War against myself

It’s a frustrating war because even if we declare ourselves the enemy we haven’t identify anything.
If I am my enemy and the enemy is attacking, who and what are fighting?
I do not know the enemy, and as the enemy cannot know myself. All battles are lost.

“If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.” The Art of war

Heaven and Earth, “As above so below” That which is Below influences that which is Above, and that which is Above influences that which is Below. Whatever happens on any level of reality (physical, emotional, or mental) also happens on every other level.

When I change my outer objective experience my inner subjective experience is also changed and vice versa.

The objective world can create my subjective sense of ‘self’ – my subjective world can create my objective sense of self.
(Our current culture focuses on the objective extraverted world and devalues the subjective introverted one. So most people’s sense of self is created by outer forces which may account for the increase in the number of the depressed…)

Jungian philology has ladled the combatants as, shadow, animus, anemia, and weapon of choice projection.
As I understand it the shadow consists of our worst and best aspects of ourselves, the Anima the ability to feel, intuit, sense or “being” – subjective and Animus the physical, action, reasoning or “doing” – objective.

When these aspects are not integrated into the ‘self’ the tendency is to project them on to others and projecting, create conflict.

If I am the enemy to defeat myself I must know myself and knowing myself, become, integrating and taking responsibility for aspects of my ‘selves’ the good the bad and the ugly. I must reclaim my projections and make my own.

Thus the battle lines are drawn, objective experience pushing up against subjective experience, each creating the sense of self, each creating and distorting the other. Thus some aspect of our experience of self is always illusion.

All creation is also destruction and every destruction creation, this is the paradox of life, the root of all conflict and all hope.
Life requires death and death requires life.

A Subjective desire for death is the desire (often unconscious call) for change, the call to let go of the old and no longer working, and in letting go making space for the new, the “virgin birth”.
But as below so above and so this subjective desire for death which is really a call for growth can become objective act of suicide. To this extent we create our world.