Manifestation Mastery

What is Self-Realization?

Manifestation and the theory behind the Law of Attraction has roots in many sources: Eastern philosophy, New Age thought, Science of Mind, and humanistic psychology. Humanistic psychology grew out of the theories of Sigmund Freud, who formulated a system of mind comprised of an ego (what you might normally consider to be your conscious self), a superego (your conscience or higher Self), and an id (your animal or instinctual drives such as the need for food and sex). While Freud’s theories were rather harsh and saw the superego as a disciplinary force instead of a very friendly one, schools of humanism took their cue from Freud’s colleague Carl Jung, who saw the unconscious as a dynamic universal force that bonded humans to each other and to the created world through teh language of symbols and dreams. Developing an ongoing relationship to this dynamic unconscious field came to be known as Self-Realization: that is, the development of a dynamic, creative Self that went beyond the constraints of Freud’s ego self. During the 1960s and 1970s humanistic psychologists such as Fritz Perls offered seminars and retreats where clients could go and explore these concepts by getting in touch with this creative power. Self-Realization is also often used in the lingo of New Age and transcendental philosophies to indicate growth beyond the small individual, separate self into a connected, broader Universal Self.

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