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Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said, “A mind, once expanded by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”⁸ When a person or a group accesses some part of their individual or collective subconscious, the stretching that occurs can’t be rescinded. Consciousness is like a container: as we expand the container and clarify the contents, more knowledge can be held and understood. The Vedic mystic Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj explains what happens when we bring the unconscious parts of us to awareness:

We are slaves to what we do not know; of what we know we are masters. Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves (if) we discover and understand its causes and workings, we overcome it by the very knowing; the unconscious dissolves when brought to the conscious.⁹

The process of expanding self-awareness requires self-observation and reflection. This is not a comfortable undertaking, yet no one else can do it for you. But, according to Carl Jung, “Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”