The name for our site comes from the idea of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who said that consciousness "must always remain the smaller circle within the greater circle of unconsciousness, an island surrounded by the sea." The waters that surround are the world of the ego, where consciousness is stranded and where the subconscious mind is mostly in control. The hope of a better world and future will come from an individual effort in each one of us to live a more conscious life.
