Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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just as we all are gypsies of a sort in this life - in this world, so, too, we are in that other world - the dream world - the place where we are free to travel to places known or places unknown - free to travel far and wide - travel without fear - without trepidation - because just as we individually create our reality world, so do we each create our dream world -
Jung, on dreams, in his "ubergang":
a small hidden door to the most deep hidden and secret corners of the psyche, an entrance to the cosmic night, which was the psyche before there was any trace of an ‘ego’-consciousness:
and what will remain the psyche, no matter how far our ‘ego’-consciousness might stretch itself…
all consciousness acts to divide, but in our dreams we take the form of a more universal, true and eternal man who wanders through the darkness of the primal night.
There he is still the whole man, and this wholeness is in him, not distinguishable from nature and devoid of any ego-consciousness.
From this all unifying depth the dream arises; no matter how childish, grotesque or immoral the dream might be."
4 comments:
Love this quote. In the end, isn't it where we all live?
and i love this quote too - just speaks so directly to the truth for us all - don't know how i'd missed it prior to the other day when i came across it somewhere - but i do love it! thanks for coming over and leaving a note - have a glorious day!
Alot of depth here. Are you saying the sanctum sanctorum is accessible to anyone? But "anyone" means awareness, you can't exist without being aware - even if you're mentally faulty. By finding something "hidden", the dream-door, and going thru means entering a "primeval" place "that was soul" how can you "know" w/o consciousness? Without collective consciousness how would we be aware of our quest? Perhaps this non-being non-entity "soul" did exist before awareness did, but it's like the tree falling and no one hears it, what sound does it make - you remember that. Same thing, if there's no consciousness to contemplate what a soul is, how can it exist? Isn't a soul or spirit connected directly to our ability to recognize it? Lotsa questions lol sorry! It shows I really pondered this one!
hi cathy - so glad to see you here - and girl, you DID ponder - and beautifully deeply so! how wonderful your thought, insight, perspective - i think the key word in this situation is perhaps "ego" - just now i briefly glanced at an excerpt from jungian psychology in perspective at page 24 [which i was unable to copy and paste - but i googled jung and conscious ego to find it] - complex pondering for sure and would that i had the physical/mental whatever it would take for an in-depth discussion - i'm still fighting this silly bug the fatigue carries on - in any event, thank you ever so much for initiating such a delicious pondering - let's pick up with it again once i have done away with this uckyinmyhead stuff! :)
please come again soon! it's always a pleasure!
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