“What was unreal is real, what was real is unreal.” -Jung, from the Red Book Prior to the fantastic experiences he would later illuminate as the Red Book, Carl Jung considered himself a wholly rational man, a trained scientist and critic of Christianity and other forms of religiosity. Yet through his visionary adventures he was [...]
In German legend, the doppelgänger or double-goer is a ghostly version of oneself who follows us like our shadow. When it appears however, the doppelgänger becomes a harbinger of death, pointing Shelley to his drowning in the Mediterranean, or a portent of the future, like Goethe meeting his future self on the road to Drusenheim. [...]
The other day I finished moving into a new apartment in the Friendship neighborhood, and in the morning after my first night there I looked out my third story window and was shocked to realize that the view corresponds almost exactly to the view from the window of the house I lived in years ago [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
I finally started reading the text of Jung’s Red Book last night, and it is as revelatory, revolutionary, and vitally important as I suspected it would be, not just in terms of Jung’s psychological theories but in taking a stance for a broader spiritual approach to reality that is even more lacking now than when [...]
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Still preparing to dive into “The Red Book,” I reread Jung’s essay, “The Transcendent Function,” in which he describes the technique that he used for his process of self-experimentation, a method for consciously delving into the subconscious and uniting them, which was also the practice he recommended to patients in order to continue working on [...]
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
I couldn’t sleep last night, as inspired as I was having begun to read Carl Jung’s Liber Novus, his “Red Book.” My first impression is that this is a massive tome; at 16x12x2” it is easily the largest book I’ve ever laid hand on, and just turning the pages takes a substantial effort. But it’s [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, listening to M.Pyres, dancing up and down over my copy of Jung’s “Red Book” [on his theories of interpretation] finally arriving, though won’t have time to dive into it for a couple weeks due to the increasing school work load. But soon. For the time being here’s some links that have been building up [...]
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Over the past year I have been going through an extreme crisis of faith. Due to a number of physical, emotional, and psychic challenges I found myself last winter in a state of disillusionment, that everything I had previously held to be good, desirable, possible, and expected in the world may not have been the [...]
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
A recent article at Psychology Today suggests that dreams may serve the function of training us for how to deal with threats. Citing the vast number of nightmarish and negative dreams over fantasies and problem solving, researchers believe that dreams may be a practice-place for understanding how to respond to real-world difficulties, even to the [...]
Thursday, December 6, 2007
From an interesting series of articles called, The Trouble with Dream Studies, on the relationship of dreams to science, from the Dream Studies Portal: “…in the study of dreams our personal beliefs influence our perception so much that we literally experience different realities. That’s why dream interpretation is dismissed by hard scientists, and also why [...]
