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#Quotes #dreams #CarlJung “What is the purpose of the total dream life of the individual? What role do dreams play, not only in the immediate psychic economy of the human being, but in his life as a whole? By observing a great many people and starting their dreams (he estimated that he interpreted at least . . . → Read More: Dreams and Individuation #JosephCampbell #quotes #dreams The bold and truly epoch-making writings of the psychoanalysts are indispensable to the student of mythology; for, whatever may be thought of the detailed and sometimes contradictory interpretations of specific cases and problems, Freud, Jung, and their followers have demonstrated irrefutably that the logic, the heroes, and the deeds of myth survived . . . → Read More: Campbell: Modern Mythology is Pantheon of Dreams #JosephCampbell #quotes #Mythology #herosjourney I would like now to review the archetypal myth of the hero’s journey as I dealt with it in The Hero with Thousand Faces. This is what Joyce called the modern myth: an archetypal story that springs from the collective unconscious. Its motifs can appear not only in myth and literature, . . . → Read More: Hero’s Journey is the Plot of Your Life #JosephCampbell #quotes #dreams #Mythology But what if you want to gain some idea of what your myth is while you are living it? Well, another way to try to discern your destiny–your myth–would be to follow Jung’s example: observe your dreams, observe your conscious choices, keep a journal, and see which images and stories surface . . . → Read More: Discover Your Myth Through Dreams #JosephCampbel #quote #Mythology I say the way to find your myth is to find your zeal, to find your support, and to know what stage of life you’re in. The problems of youth are not the problems of age. Don’t try to live your life too soon. By listening too much to gurus, you try . . . → Read More: Become a Realization of Your Own Myth #JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology A mythologically grounded culture presents you with symbols that immediately evoke your participation; they are all vital, living connections, and so they link you both to the underlying mystery and to the culture itself. Yet when that culture uses symbols that are no longer alive, that are no longer effective, it cuts . . . → Read More: The Way to Find Your Own Myth #JosephCampbell #CarlJung #Mythology #dreams #quote Soon after he began keeping his dream journal, Jung recognized that his dreams corresponded to the great mythic themes that he had been studying and working on Symbols of Transformation. Mandalas began coming–Jung was the first to become interested in mandalas as a psychological vehicle of self-discovery. Jung had two . . . → Read More: Jung: Some Dreams Correspond to Mythic Themes #JosephCampbell #quotes #Mythology #dreams Now, that’s the big thing, to activate your imagination somehow. You can do this by taking suggestions from somebody else. You must find that which your own unconscious wants to meditate on. With his imagination activated, Jung found all kinds of new fantasies coming, dreams of all kinds. He began making . . . → Read More: Jung’s Discovery of His Myth #JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology 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 #JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology #CarlJung When Jung said he wanted to find out what the myth was by which he was living, what he wanted to find out was what that unconscious or subliminal thing was that was making him do these peculiar, irrational things and giving him problems that his consciousness then had to resolve. . . . → Read More: Personal Myth as Consciousness Resolved |
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