Jung: The Dream is a Natural Occurrence

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I take the dream for what it is. The dream is such a difficult and complicated thing but I do not dare to make any assumptions about its possible cunning or its tendency to deceive. The dream is a natural occurrence, and there is no earthly reason . . . → Read More: Jung: The Dream is a Natural Occurrence

Jung: There is No Dream Theory, per se

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Everyone who analyzes the dreams of others should constantly bear in mind that there is no simple and generally known theory of psychic phenomena, neither with regard to their nature, nor to their causes, nor to their purpose. We therefore possess no general criterion of judgment. We know that there are all . . . → Read More: Jung: There is No Dream Theory, per se

Jung: Dreams Continue Even While Awake

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In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.

Carl Jung (CW 16: The Practice of Psychotherapy, “The Practical Use of Dream Analysis,” 125)

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Jung: Dreams Come From the Unconscious

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As in our waking state, real people and things enter our field of vision, so the dream-images enter like another kind of reality into the field of consciousness of the dream-ego. We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreams Come From the Unconscious

Jung: Dreams Show Us Our True Nature

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Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreams Show Us Our True Nature

Mythology is not History

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In our tradition, however, these images–the symbols–have been applied to historical events. In our religious traditions, we interpret the motifs of the Virgin Birth, death, Resurrection, and Ascension has particular, temporal episodes. If you begin to doubt the possibility of these occurrences, your faith may be troubled. You will lose the symbol . . . → Read More: Mythology is not History

Spiritual Consciousness as Inborn Instinct

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I’m sorry to say that things are so infinitely soft for us these days that we’re drifting apart. There is no aspiration that’s been put in front of us to pull people together, nor any overwhelming fear to drive us together. Well, don’t worry about society. What we are focusing on here . . . → Read More: Spiritual Consciousness as Inborn Instinct

Participation mystique: mythological cosmologies are functions of dream and vision

The phantasmagorias of dream and vision are of “subtle matter.” Extremely fluent and mercurial, they are not illuminated, like gross objects, from without, but are self-luminous. Moreover, their logic is not that of Aristotle. In dream, we all know, the subject and object are not separate from each other-though they seem so to the dreamer-but . . . → Read More: Participation mystique: mythological cosmologies are functions of dream and vision

On Art, Nature, and Consciousness

“Shakespeare’s definition of the function of his art, “to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature,” is thus equally a definition of mythology. It is the revelation to waking consciousness of the powers of its own sustaining source” (4). Creative Mythologies (Vol IV of The Masks of God)