A bit of a rambling disclosure. When I had my own experience, I wrote it down. It was as if part of me was in that room in my home and another part of me -- the larger part of me at that time -- was in this entirely different world and experiencing it as every bit as "real" as what we call "real" in this plane of reality.
What follows is a tiny slice of that world. The symbols, the opposites and the archetypes are plentiful...
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When Tess stumbled sleepily from the bedroom Gallagher was already up and sitting at the table. He had a chess board laid out in front of him. Tess went to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee and then joined him at the table. Gallagher looked up and smiled. She yawned, sipped her coffee, and smiled back. "Are we going to play?" she asked.
"No," Gallagher said. "We're going to try something different. Which one are you?"
"That's easy," Tess said. She quickly scanned the board, lifted the Black Queen out of the arranged pieces and set it to one side of the board.
"Why black?"
"Because I understand shadows," she said. "I understand the dark."
"All right," Gallagher said. "Which one is your AC?"
Tess selected the White Bishop from among the pieces and placed it next to the Black Queen.
"Why white?"
"Because he is pure."
"And Limh?" he asked.
"L is for Limh," Tess intoned as she placed the Black Knight next to the other two pieces.
"What about Leprosy Man, is he here?" Gallagher questioned.
Tess went to the kitchen and opened the cutlery drawer. She returned with a long butcher's knife and placed it along the farthest edge of the table.
Gallagher carefully observed her actions and made some notes on his clipboard. "And your mother?"
Tess made a circling motion through the air with one hand.
"What does that mean?" Gallagher asked.
"She's here. Everywhere," Tess replied.
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The character of Tess represented the
Ego -- basically in a lost, bewildered and confused state. The character of Limh represented aspects of my personal
Shadow. The character of Leprosy Man represented the
Negative Animus (or the Negative side of the Masculine). The character of Gallagher represented the
Positive Animus (or the positive side of the Masculine). And the character of the
Self was represented by that Mother presence that was Everywhere because that was Kali.
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Gallagher nodded. "Are there any other characters in this play?"
"Just bit players," Tess replied. "No one important. Oh! Except for Skadi." She placed a Black Bishop with the other pieces. "Skadi doesn't need to be fixed at all, she's self ack-choo-a-lized. But she's important and she's a friend, and it's always a good thing to have a friend nearby. Besides, even self-actualized people need hugs. As for the rest of those pieces, we don't need any more. Everyone's here," she said with a wave of her hand.
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Each of those "characters" could also be linked to real people that had been present in my life: Limh to a female friend; Gallagher to a male friend; Leprosy Man to a frightening male I had encountered; Kali to my own mother; Skadi to yet another friend.
There would have been a portion of time when I projected my own inner images upon those people and they carried the projection because of a characteristic in common that served to hook and hold the projection in place. In the state I ended up in however, it was just me and my projections there. That's how I figured out that they
were my own projections -- because no other people were physically present with me in that space.
It was this experience of my own, that allowed me to see how the characters in the movie
Fight Club all related back to the central character of Jack (the Ego).
In terms of your son's experience we can possibly place the projection his uncle carries as being in the territory of the
Shadow while the projection his female co-worker carried take us into the realm of the
Anima. There may well be other pieces there too that we simply haven't seen yet.
~ Namaste
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