Attributes of Integration


Nigredo
Real Self

1. capacity to experience a wide range of feelings deeply with liveliness joy, vigor, excitement and spontaneity
2. capacity to expect the appropriate entitlements
3. capacity for self-activation and assertion
4. acknowledgment of self-esteem
5. ability to soothe painful feelings
6. ability to make and stick to commitments
7. creativity
8. intimacy
9. ability to be alone
10. continuity of self
11. recognition of the shadow
12. identifying the inferior function


Albedo
Individuated Self

1. ability to regulate real self
2. beginnings of object love (withdrawal of projections)
3. coordination of all four psychological functions
4. meaning/aliveness
5. synchronicity
6. creative use of dreams
7. vision/imaginatio


Rubedo
Divine Self

1. stable individuated self
2. compassion/grace
3. equanimity
4. bliss/ananda
5. non-dual being
6. multipiciatio
7. transcendent functioning








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