Entering the center of the self
The book Structure of the Psyche is a map of the "inner" world that explains how the Self - The consciousness is realized in the psyche and in the body. Concepts such as ego, trauma, complex, depression, or soul are levels of the psyche. They are levels of consciousness and this work structures these levels and clarifies their relationship with the body so that a person can orient themselves in their world and create the world harmoniously. He learned to have a dialogue with himself so that he could find freedom and the meaning of life, in which a woman and a man are not just a woman and a man, but are whole beings, because they listen to the needs of their inner self and let themselves be guided by it. Then concepts or structures are not important, but being in human nature, in the feeling of accepting everything, including all pain, shadowy manifestations or love, from the connection with everything ordinary and extraordinary, because it is part of our creation, part of the world - the psyche.
About "me" about the author and this work
At the age of 21, after years of searching, I discovered my life's mission and I found it in something I call "the study of the human soul". I am learning to listen to the soul of a person. That part of us that is hidden and non-existent for many, but for me it is as real as the sun in the sky. At the beginning of my journey, I had a huge urge to know my own soul, or why I actually exist. And because I took these questions deadly seriously, I could not go and study psychology in the classical way.
I lasted about half an hour at the university. As I entered the building, I was struck by a deep sense of anxiety that screamed: "Run! Run away!" When I found the classroom where I was supposed to get my student number, my unconscious physically weakened me so much that I didn't even pick up my number and in a blackout I processed the fact that I was suddenly outside the building in feelings of devastation, misunderstanding and endless chaos.
This began my initiation journey into the study of the psyche. Shortly after that, I created my own study. I started traveling, living in a certain place for a long time, where I collected dreams and stories from the people I was visiting. I was fascinated by traveling and comparing the differences between people. Their myths, their images, their views and experiences of the world. In total, I traveled for 10 years, living in 7 countries on 4 continents. I wanted to learn from those who are based on experience and not on beliefs. I attended the school of Gábor Maté, Garry Lineham, learned from Rupert Spira, Sadhguru and others. My main supervisor was Pjér La Šéz in 2017, who introduced me to depth psychology by C.G. Jung. Then in 2021, Emil Páleš and Marie Keltnerová joined him.
During my travels, I learned about amazing stories of people and the extremely deep dreams of their souls. But also about enormous chaos and confused people. My life's desire was to learn about the psyche, so I could not avoid my own chaos, which brought me to the brink of death several times. My first 15 years could be described as a state where I unconsciously decided between life and death. When I came into this world, I spent the first month of my life in an incubator, when it was unknown whether I would survive at all. For the next 15 years, I had severe asthma, when I could not catch my breath even in the middle of the night. The feeling of nothingness, rejection, abandonment, ruin, misunderstanding, chaos, the state of being, which was also in my experience with university, are my closest teachers, who determined that from my first breath I would be focused more on the unconscious/soul. Therefore, I felt intrinsically that the study of the soul - the unconscious is my work in this world.
This work and my work as a therapist comes from the true authority, which is the soul and no human institution can replace it. From an early age I let myself be guided by it and unconsciously experience the deep human desire to be in contact with my soul. I soon realized that self-knowledge determines the quality of our existence, the entire manifestation of our life is based on this relationship and modern man, who is not aware of this, harshly encounters it in his pathological relationships, illnesses or addictions. If the human consciousness (ego) is not connected to his unconscious (soul), then it will inevitably create disharmony.
I discovered that every human being has their own concept of themselves and the universe, which they somehow explain, but few are in contact with this universe, in dialogue. With each new story from another person, I discovered a different piece of the psyche and the desire deepened within me. By 2024, I had collected over 5,000 dreams. In listening to them, I began to hear the language of the soul, which is not linear, "three-dimensional" like our consciousness, does not move from left to right, up and down, within the limits of some chains of causes and effects, but expresses itself nonlinearly - symbolically.
Symbolic language is the archaic (original) language of man. For example, myths, fairy tales, or even the Bible itself are based on it. Symbolic language requires thinking in images. Every memory, thought, feeling, fantasy, or emotion we have contains an image. Every mental process contains an image, evoking individual feelings, impressions, experiences. They are complex experiences of the soul. These images are the subject of my study.
These images (experiences) appear in people I work with in various dream variants and imaginations across all possible cultures. I structure them and put them into a unified symbolic image - the tree of life, which I divide into 3 main parts - consciousness - the crown of the tree, subconsciousness - the trunk and the collective unconscious - the earth/soil. In this image I depict human layers, levels of consciousness, which are for example - spirit, soul, ego, complex, trauma, etc. We control these forces, as they control us. They live through us and unfortunately, that is why man suffers because he does not want to recognize their autonomy. If we do not want to recognize the power of wind, water, nature and recognize the autonomy of these forces, we do not want to recognize that we are parts of an organism that not only surpasses us, but also has consciousness, memory and is inconceivably intertwined in every atom of everything present.
Psyche and its structure
When an inquisitive person asks where their psyche (psyche) ends, it can easily lead to embarrassment. Where is the human psyche? Is it in my body, my head? Does it end in my bones? My skin? And if it ends somewhere, where does it begin?
If we realize and truly see our own experience that we manifest through the psyche, for simplicity we can call it the mind and our body, then our potential is actually infinite and has no beginning or limit. The psyche and the body are our own creation, although for the most part unconscious. The psyche can be perceived for simplicity as the opposite of matter, although the psyche and matter are actually the same thing - namely the manifestation of a whole that has many names - in modern times it is consciousness, the universe - in religion it is divinity - in Native American it is spirit or unity. This unity has been marked since ancient times by the number one, which ancient China named Tao, which comes from the number zero. Zero is the complete basis of everything. The starting point that is not yet Tao - unity. Zero symbolizes the germ of life. All the basis of life is in the shape of zero, for example, a seed or an egg. It is the deepest secret of life from which we come. Zero is the potential of everything - the deepest truth. From zero and one, two grows - it is duality, a world of two opposites - e.g. matter and psyche, yin and yang, femininity and masculinity, etc., through which Tao (unity, consciousness) is realized. These forces are beyond any identification, including identification - "I am a person", which moves in three - in a three-dimensional world, which is defined by height, width, length, or e.g. the triple perception of time - past, present, future. The four is then the result of zero, one, two and three. It symbolizes all these elements in itself, it is conscious unity, being and movement in the present moment, which is actually an image of heaven, or spirit - the consciousness of unity.
(Here I am only mentioning numbers as archetypes for one way of looking at the complexity of our being - the universe in which we move thanks to the psyche).
The main structure of the psyche - consciousness - subconscious - collective unconscious
All this is clearly illustrated in the symbolism of the tree of life, which represents the psyche from the perspective of consciousness. In this image, the human consciousness, which is symbolically represented by the crown of the tree, symbolically our head, our mind and ego, but also functions such as concentration, attention, etc., descends gradually from the human consciousness (tree trunk), where the individual past of a person is found. Our subconscious (trunk) is full of experiences that we have hidden from ourselves under the weight of misunderstanding and pain. The more a person gets in touch with the subconscious, the better he feels, so to speak, "living" in himself, in his physical body. It is easier for him to "be", because he creates and lives in harmony. Our physical body is the equivalent of the psychic subconscious. Our entire individual history is written on and in the body. When we communicate with our subconscious containing memory, prejudices, deeper wounds and emotions, we open ourselves to archetypes (roots), which can be called liberating forces.
If a person reaches these roots, he lives a much freer life. Such a level of consciousness no longer needs support, a system or an external authority to tell him what to do, but the person is already oriented in his own experience. He has internalized the order that is given to him. He continues to build a relationship with his soul, and therefore understands his karma and destiny. He already understands the contents that he projects from himself into space and therefore knows why he is being pulled this way or that way.
A person who no longer ignores the fact that he is contained in the psyche can practically begin to put this information into practice. He begins to communicate with what he was running from. What was shadowy is transformed into light - that is, what was unconscious becomes conscious, the unknown becomes familiar to him and he begins to see his own inner movements, which we refer to as love, ego, trauma, spirit, soul and other subjective concepts of the world, which he experiences as a psychic reality. This means that a person is no longer ruled by the ego, but by the essential aspect of consciousness, which listens to the basic needs of his wholeness - that is, the psyche and the body, and thereby regulates them.