Man has a soul and...there is a buried treasure in the field.
C.G. Jung- unpublished letter to Eugene Rolfe
Helen M. Luke, Jungian counselor and writer affirmed the way of the Inner Life, the attending of images that speak through the realm of dreams or, as she phrased it, "The Voice Within" and helps us to recognize the mystery of the divine. She believed that, "This voice is speaking less and less in the language of collective institutions or through external rules or morality, and more and more in the individual soul. Man can, indeed must in this age, seek individually his interpretation of the voice within."
The "Voice Within" speaks to us from the unconscious (use use the terminology of C.G. Jung) and, whether or not we hear it consciously, it is an all-pervading influence in our lives. Those of is who attend to our dreams will certainly have experienced moments when an actual voice speaks with such authority that we know immediately that its words cannot be set aside, however little we may yet understand them, whereas other voices may make suggestions that are highly suspect. In the face of these it behooves us, at the First Epistle to John urged, to "question the spirits whether they be of God." (4:1)
Anyone who seeks for meaning in his inner life must therefore learn to listen with all the discrimination of which he or she is capable for that which he or she recognizes, however dimly as the ultimately single voice with a thousand names. It comes to us from the ground of our being and brings in a unique way to each individual an intuition of the unchanging oneness of life. It speaks through work or though image and the looking and the listening are ultimate one experience when we have ears to hear and eyes to see.
Helen Luke, The Voice Within, Kaleidoscope
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