The distinction of mind, or consciousness in a larger but purely phenomenal sense, and self  is that which invites the discovery of illusions. It may be naive but is a strong attractor, a view that you keep returning to after circuitous journeys, perhaps a local minimum of some energy like quality. This view is also continually under attack, either with the aim of expanding the understanding of consciousness so that it absorbs 'self', or attacking self directly as the distorting element leaving consciousness to then correct itself. The methods of such an attack may be largely rational and so appeal to a more inclusive and grounded truth, but even if this is so there is no guarantee that the resulting view is itself any sort of attractor, that it can sustain itself at the high level of that energetic quality that it seems to require. The order of consciousness, and this includes what it normally called the unconscious, is that of being as presence. The self, in so far as it is being, is so in a more eminent sense that makes it unassimilable to mind. It is the opposition of these two sides that is of greater interest than any supposed unification, or perhaps it is that any such unification must be from the side of self and not of mind.