Mandalas have been used in many ancient cultures like Buddhism, Hinduism, Native American, Australian Aboriginal as a symbol of the universe and wholeness. Literally speaking, mandala is a geometrical form – a square or a circle – abstract and static, or a vivid image formed of objects and/or beings. It’s a cosmic diagram that reminds us of our connection with the infinite. Interestingly, Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist, explored the psychological effects of mandalas, while studying Eastern religion. He is credited with introducing the Eastern concept of the mandala to Western thought and believed its symbolic of the inner process by which individuals grow toward fulfilling their potential for wholeness. According to Jung, “In such cases it is easy to see how the severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder of the psychic state– namely through the construction of a central point to which everything is related, or by a concentric arrangement of the disordered multiplicity and of contradictory and irreconcilable elements. This is evidently an attempt at self-healing on the part of Nature, which does not spring from conscious reflection but from an instinctive impulse.” Jung used mandalas in his psychotherapy by getting patients, who had no knowledge of it, to create individual mandalas. This enabled him to identify emotional disorders and work towards wholeness in personality. He realised there was a great deal of similarity in the images they created. “In view of the fact that all the mandalas shown here were new and uninfluenced products, we are driven to the conclusion that there must be a transconscious disposition in every individual which is able to produce the same or very similar symbols at all times and in all places. Since this disposition is usually not a conscious possession of the individual I have called it the collective unconscious, and, as the basis of its symbolical products, I postulate the existence of primordial images, the archetypes.” Mandala is like a design that triggers something within us, a sacred geometry in which we recognise our self and our place in the cosmos. It is an ancient and fundamental relationship from which we have strayed and the mandala is the key that can help us return to it. Especially, when the inner self is challenged by ego, harmony has to be restored. During such times, mandalas can guide you to listen to the inner voice and find yourself. Like Jung stated, “It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation.” Image source Jung currents Jung and the Mandalas
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Carl Jung’s Psychological Diagnosis Using Mandalas
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Behind the Mask: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.” – Joseph Campbell. The bridge that spans the gap between finitude and infinity is the human torn between being both an animal and a god. This is the ultimate challenge on the path toward self-actualization: the counterintuitive balance that must be maintained between honesty and hypocrisy, the ruthless acceptance that the perception of reality is inherently a metaphor for reality. The price of admission is a commitment to the constant realization that we are eminently fallible creatures crammed with delusions, base emotions, biases, and holier-than-thou tendencies, on the one side; while also reveling in the exact uniqueness of our improbable being and magnificently enigmatic propensity toward god-like creativity, on the other side. There is hypocrisy inherent within the human condition, sure, but there is nothing saying that it cannot be sincere. Sincere hypocrisy is an act of credo qua absurdum, embracing the absurd. Man can, in one breath, admit that existence is inherently meaningless and, in the very next breath, deny that meaninglessness as meaningless and affirm his existence as meaningful. “To acknowledge untruth as a condition of life,” wrote Nietzsche, “this surely means resisting customary value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that ventures such a thing, just by doing so, places itself beyond good and evil.” If, as Isaac Newton wrote, “I have seen further than others by standing on the shoulders of giants” then it behooves us to don the masks of the great heroes who have gone before us in order to see further than they did. The art of mask-wearing is akin to standing on the shoulders of giants. I’m using the term “mask” as a symbol that metaphorically represents the act of “standing on the shoulders of giants.” But, and here’s the rub, each mask is meant to be broken. The most important mask to break is the first one. If the first mask is not broken, then the Shadow remains in an unconscious state. By breaking the first mask we force the Shadow into conscious awareness. One of the more important lessons learned by self-actualized people is the recognition that the primordial self consists of a menagerie of personas and sub-selves, each with the power to wear a plethora of masks. This includes shadowy persona and ‘dark’ sub-selves. Like Jung wrote, “Everyone carries a Shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it becomes.” And so the bête noire ‘the black beast,’ the arbitrariness of self, must be discovered rather than ignored, must be embraced rather than suppressed, and must, above all else, be forced to move in a new way, through a new passage. A sacred turning in you turns the universe. And so, a sacred turning of your shadow transforms the shadows. One should not shun the shadow for fear of being immoral. Nowhere is it written that one cannot be both compassionate and individualistic, both humble and daring, both stable and rebellious, both respectful and insurgent. Balance and moderation in all things is the key, especially with the Shadow. But even balance and moderation must be tested from time to time in order to discover New-chaos, which can eventually be transformed into New-order. Like Louis Herman wrote, “By accepting the inevitability of our shadow, we recognize that we are also ‘what we are not.’ This humbling recognition restrains us from the madness of trying to eliminate those we hate and fear in the world. Self-mastery, maturity, and wisdom are defined by our ability to hold the tension between opposites.” Breaking the first mask humbles the shadow. It frees us to move on to the next “mask,” to leap onto the next “giant’s shoulder.” We don’t do this because we want to walk the path of the giants, necessarily, but because we want to learn what they have learned, and then see further than they did. The knowledge gleaned becomes a sacred tool that we can place into our “sacred tool bag” for use on our own unique path. With the Christ-tool we move this obstacle. With the Buddhist-tool we remove that obstacle. With the Nietzsche-tool we leverage this obstacle against that obstacle, thus removing both obstacles. The more sacred tools we use, the clearer our path becomes. The more shoulders of giants we stand upon, the further we see. The more masks of ancient heroes we don, the more sacred things appear. The world becomes a giant playground of interconnected, sacred knowledge, and it’s all ours for the seizing. Our individuation unfolds into godhood. Our self-actualization is at hand. And what do we discover? The more we know, the more we realize how much we don’t know. So we better cultivate a good sense of humor. Image source: The Journey begins, by Parablev Native American Gas Mask The Shadow
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Yin-yang Dynamics: Explaining Jung’s Anima Animus
“The Hindus say that without Shakti, the personified feminine life force, Shiva, who encompasses the masculine ability to act, becomes a corpse. She is the life energy that animates the male principle, and the male principle in turn animates action in the world.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Este. According to Carl Jung the psyche was composed of three components: the ego, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. The ego, in its multiplicity, represents our consciousness. The shadow, in its multiplicity, represents our personal unconscious. And the archetypes represent our collective unconscious. The archetypes animus and anima emerged as Jung observed the mingling of his male and female clients, in the hopes of understanding the human condition in a deeper more self-actualized way. The best way to imagine the anima animus is to picture a yin-yang in your mind. The anima is the black dot on the white side, and the animus is the white dot on the black side. Men are like walking white-sides with black dots. Women are walking black-sides with white dots. An individuated man will have a more prominent and magnanimous black dot, just as an individuated woman will have a more prominent and magnanimous white dot. In less psychologically healthy people their dots are mere pinpricks. Basically, the anima is the unformed feminine that’s forming within a man. The animus is the unformed masculine that’s forming within a woman. The psychological unity which enables us to think of ourselves as individuals is in some ways vulnerable (Feminine/Shakti) and in other ways robust (Masculine/Shiva), but never either/or (or neither/nor). The Eternal Feminine is all that is vulnerable and pregnable within us, all that is wild and fertile: our inner-garden. The Eternal Masculine is all that is invulnerable and impregnable within us, all that is structured and firm: our inner-strength. Our full potential as individuals, whether male or female, is an amalgam of these forces, and a balancing of these sacred energies. Jung’s goal with developing the archetypes anima and animus was the unburying of the wild and innate aspects of the self. It gave us something to leverage soul against ego, an existential tactic that cracks open the ego so that soul can emerge in an authentic way. It gives us a door to open into the deeper self. This deeper self is the health of all humans, the balance between nature & the human soul, yin & yang, man & anima, woman & animus. When Man does not meet anima and Woman does not meet animus, only one-dimensionality reigns. But when anima meets Man and animus meets Woman, the tacit, prescient, visceral self becomes multidimensional, and a kind of existential double-jointedness occurs. Animus/Anima archetypes in Jungian psychology Even more amazing is the alchemy that occurs when a woman’s animus engages authentically with a man’s anima. Paraphrasing Jung, No man can converse with a woman’s animus for five minutes without becoming vulnerable to his own anima. And so, no woman can converse with a man’s anima for five minutes without becoming vulnerable to her own animus. And suddenly our romantic relationships are deeper than we could have imagined before. We are suddenly able to tap the philosopher-stone of Her animus with the cornerstone of His anima, and we gain the almost alchemical ability to turn the tables on the polarity of the universe. This kind of multidimensional power opens up everything, cracking our old, stagnant world view right down the middle and revealing that everything is connected just as everything is moving. Shiva moves in and out of Shakti. The sacred masculine moves in and out of the sacred feminine. Darkness moves in and out of light. Inner moves in and out of outer. Everything moves in and out of nothing. It’s all one big beautiful bouncing dance between the God-that-forgot-it-was-God within Him and the God-that-forgot-it- was-God within Her. And oh, what an amazing dance it is. Image Source: Anima Animus Yin Yang Dynamic balance
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Embracing Your Shadow Self
“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, the one I feed the most.” Good and evil exists within us. Carl Jung looked at the subject of good vs evil in a very different light. According to him, one cannot deny the existence of the dark side in oneself. We all are susceptible to negative emotions, consciously or unconsciously, that is why chemistry recognizes so many negative hormones within a human body. Jung named this particular existing “dark side” in humans – Shadow. A shadow is “sum of all personal and collective psychic elements which, because of their incompatibility with the chosen conscious attitude, are denied expression in life.” Jung wrote, “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” Our ego likes to think that we are inherently good human beings and we don’t dwell in any negativity. But then one day when somebody hurts us, we go overboard with anger and resentment. In another situation, if we experience failure or someone unexpectedly points a finger at us, we are suddenly filled with fear, confusion and guilt. Our first instinct in such situations usually is to defend ourselves and protect our identity. We can feel the vulnerability in our stomach but we manage to put up a face and justify as much as we can. Once the situation is over, our conscious mind forgets about it because there are plenty of other things to deal with. Neuroscientists recently proved that human thoughts have rhythms and frequency which has a major influence on our behavior, and good and evil are facets of human behavior. The vulnerability and anger, which you truly felt, never got a chance to display itself and it got stored in your shadow, which is resurfacing time and again in the form of insecurity and negativity, acting as a catalyst to negative actions. This storehouse of emotions in your shadow has an immense role to play in your relationship with yourself, particularly in setting yourself free. The world is simply a mirror, reflecting back to us our own inner state. If you are overflowing with love for yourself and others, you’ll experience people who are feeling this love and their love is reflected back towards you. On the other hand, if all you see in your outer world is disharmony, anger and fights, then there must be an inner battle happening deeper inside. Unless we come to terms with our own dark side, we’re condemned to be its victim. The effect of non-confronted shadow is immense – need to control, need to exert power, need to show supremacy out of INSECURITY. It’s the shadow that is ruling the consciousness and becoming the root cause of turbulence in oneself which is continually projecting itself on others. Confronting the Shadow According to medical psychology, our consciousness must confront the shadow for a sound mind and body. The shadow needs to be sublimated in order to break free from its chains. Consciousness is never bounded; it’s inherently free. Jung noted that to achieve wholeness largely depends on the ability to own their own shadow. What does owning our shadow mean? Your ego doesn’t like your shadow. So, it subsides all the possible chances you take to figure out things that weigh you down. Nonetheless, you can begin the journey by self-observation and introspection. You can start by making mental notes of negative feelings, which leads to contraction of energy in your body. Once you reach to the root of the feeling, what you want to do with it will be at your command. You might want to convert it into something positive to be at peace and rise to a higher self. Once you have acknowledged the existence of anger and vulnerability to yourself, you will figure out a conscious solution to deal with it. It will no longer have the power to unconsciously rule over you. Your shadow will become your friend which will help in overcoming the thoughts that bring you down. A thought that feeds your energy is good for expansion of your consciousness and a thought that lowers your energy is contracting your consciousness (false consciousness). Good vs evil is better understood in terms of expansion and contraction of collective feeling of humanity! “The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts.” – Lao Tzu Image Source Wolf Carl Jung Wolf Shadow
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Jung’s Theory of Introvert and Extrovert Personalities
Personality refers to an individual’s pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make a person unique. There are multiple kinds of personalities we encounter in our day-to-day lives — strong, charismatic, open-minded, shy etc. Carl Jung’s perspective on personality is quite insightful; he wrote that what appears to be random behavior is actually the result of differences in the way people prefer to use their mental capacities. Jung’s theory on personality types shows the various behavioural patterns and attitude. Using the theory, you can delve deeper into your own mind and comprehend your thoughts and feelings. The Attitudes: Introversion and Extraversion According to Jung there are two mutually exclusive attitudes – extraversion and introversion. “Each person seems to be energized more by either the external world (extraversion) or the internal world (introversion).” The introvert is more comfortable with the inner world of thoughts and feelings, so they will see the world in terms of how it affects them. While the extrovert feels more at home with the world of objects and other people, and is more concerned with their impact upon the world. Introverts are more comfortable living alone and being by themselves. They depend on their “me time” to recharge; they become immersed in their inner world and run the risk of losing touch with their surroundings or their outer world. They also tend to be introspective and keep their social circle limited. Extroverts, on the contrary, are actively involved in the world of people and things; they are socially active and more aware of what is going on around them. They like to be part of groups, communities and probable places where they get a chance to interact. The idea of being alone terrifies them, leaving them alienated from their inner selves. Jung noted that none of us are completely extroverted or introverted, but we certainly connect to one or the other attitude. In all of us, lies an unconscious mind – one which is not conscious of feelings and thoughts all the time, but those feelings and thoughts are capable of affecting our lives nonetheless. If you take an extrovert you will find his unconscious has an introverted quality, because all the extraverted qualities are played out in his consciousness and the introverted are left in the unconscious. (Jung in McGuire & Hull, 1977, p. 342) Now, if the extroverts develop to know how and when to bring their unconscious introversion into composition and similarly, when introverts know when to bring their unconscious extroversion into composition, they would have command over their mental space and not vice-versa. For example, extroverts depend on their external environment all the time. But in life we all face situations where the solution to our problems lies within us. In this situation, if extroverts learn to introspect, they would save themselves from a lot of anxiety and restlessness. Similarly, introverts depend on their thoughts and feelings too much. Much research has been done that shows introverts are at a greater risk of falling into depression because of their particular habit to isolate themselves in troubling times. Here, if the introvert consciously works on activating the dormant extrovert quality and choose to speak with people about his/her problem, that might improve their situation. If nothing, one gets a different perspective than the one making rounds in our head. One has to work on choosing the right attitude that fits in context to the situation. At times introversion is more fitting; and sometimes being extrovert is a better way to deal with a situation. If one develops flexible approach to deal with their personality, then they are not narrowed by the limitations of being affiliated to their sole personality type. Going further on this line of Jung’s theory, he said that we all think, feel, sense and experience the world in many different ways. He identified four essential psychological functions: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. Each function may be experienced in an introverted or an extraverted fashion, and one of the functions is more dominant in each one of us. Some of us depend on thinking and feeling rather than sensing and intuiting. Understanding this psychology could be quite fruitful to understand our world and people who influence our thoughts, feelings, senses and our inner voice. Let us understand the eight different personality types using the chart below: As Jung noticed, in each of us, one type is dominant than the rest. Suppose, A and B are told to expect danger in a situation. Here, A is a logical being and is ruled by thinking attitude. He carefully analyses the situation and finds no probability of danger, which makes him take a logical decision to proceed with the situation. B, on the contrary, is guided by intuition, he is having a strong intuition about definite occurrence of danger. And so, he decides to find other ways to go about the situation. The idea is to understand that in times when we are exposed to dynamic situations, it is great to have a state of mind that is dynamic in nature. At times going by logical thinking is of more importance than catering to confused feelings whereas at other times, believing in your intuition is much more important. You can use this knowledge to know yourself and your actions better. Don’t be confined to one particular state of mind or personality, rather use your freewill and freedom to mould your personality. Don’t be trapped in an enigma, as you are inherently free to be whatever you want to be; use this freedom to your advantage. “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.” ~ Bob Marley References & Image Sources Carl Jung personality Jung’s Introversion and Extroversion Attitudes Extrovert vs. Introvert Introvert’s mind Jung’s personality type
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How to Find Yourself through Your Perception of Others
“We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life” –Carl Jung If we take any random person then pick five people in their life and interview them about said person we are bound to hear five different perceptions about them. One person may perceive them as funny, kind and warm-hearted while another person may see them as irresponsible, immature, and unintelligent. So whose perception is the correct one? One of the biggest key in the path of self-awareness is the knowledge that our perception of others has nothing to do with them and everything to do with us. We literally concoct our own perception about people that we meet based on our own relationship with ourselves and our own personality traits. The ego, fearing attention being brought to it, tends to always look outside of itself for someone or something to “blame”, when in fact, it is only recognizing its own traits in other people. For example, let’s say a person has never experienced the feeling of envy, how could they recognize this trait in another person if they have never experienced it? We can only recognize traits in other people that we also possess or at least have possessed, which means turning our attention outward and blaming or judging others is a pointless endeavor. When we come to realize that our opinions and judgments of other people have nothing to do with them and everything to do with our own ego, we are then able to use every reaction we have towards others as an opportunity to bring light to an aspect of ourselves that needs healing. “What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue, we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us”- Simon Fuller Our reactions to other people are the keys that unlock the forming of an integral and authentic relationship with our self. If we pay close attention to who or what brings about a strong emotional reaction from us we are able to utilize this to our advantage. Negative reactions indicate either one of two things. One being that either we are attached to an idea or belief about the way things SHOULD be or the way someone SHOULD behave which means we are trying to force our own agenda on to other people, when in fact, no one HAS to behave the way we think they should. Anytime we hold people to OUR expectations of them instead of accepting them as they are, we are sitting in resistance of the present moment. The other thing a negative emotional reaction can indicate is that there is an aspect of our self that we are not wanting to look at, so we are literally finding it in other people as a clue to us that we need to bring awareness to this trait in ourselves. As Carl Jung said, “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.” We may think that we are victims of circumstances, or that life is just randomly happening to us, when in actuality, our own unconscious is trying to make itself known to us through our external circumstances and through people that we meet. When we start seeing our own self as the “problem” in every circumstance, we are then able to shed the light of awareness on all parts of our “shadow” self (or the part of our psyche that our ego tries to hide from others and sometimes even our self) which will consequently heal these traits in ourselves. In order to truly heal a part of our self that we have become conditioned to hide from the world we must start to practice 100% honesty with ourselves. If we are experiencing anger, we admit and allow our self to experience anger, when we experience fear, we identify the fear and only become aware of it. It doesn’t mean we have to judge ourselves as good or bad because of the emotions it only means that we are aware of it, and are then able to send unconditional love to these parts of ourselves. Although, it may sound terrible to always see ourselves as the “problem” and always have to turn our hand and point the finger back at ourselves when we so badly want to point it at another person, it actually is the most empowering move we can make. When we see our self as the “problem” we automatically become our own solution. If it is our own perception of the world and our relationship with ourselves that is causing us to see shortcomings in others, we become completely empowered to change the situation by merely healing the parts of ourselves that is identifying and resonating with the same “problem” in them. When we start to see our self in everyone we meet we automatically start forming an honest and authentic relationship with ourselves. In this honesty we are able to cultivate our own awareness and consequently we become calmer, more confident and more accepting of every aspect of ourselves. And when our relationship with ourselves is loving and accepting, we start not only seeing these same traits in other people but we realize that things or people that used to bring about a strong negative reaction from us are now met with forgiveness and compassion. We quite literally change and heal our relationships with others by changing and healing our relationship with ourselves. Image Source Blame game Meditation
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6 Common Dreams and their Interpretation
Carl Jung was thoroughly convinced about dreams being symbolical representation of one’s unconscious mind & future indications. In his books on Dream analogy he stated dreams to be, “a spontaneous self-portrayal, in symbolic form, of actual situations in the unconscious”. To the untrained mind, they may appear to be mere illusions or impressions from mundane life but to a trained mind, dreams are a mental state with an arrangement of pattern. Dreams is the language our mind adopts to communicate with us. But based on our intuition and the ego, we can actually decipher & understand this hidden language of symbols, images and sensations. The average person has three to five dreams per night, but some may have up to seven dreams in one night. According to Jung, dreams serve two purposes – the first is the ‘compensatory’ purpose which “add to the conscious psychological situation of the moment all those aspects which are essential for a totally different point of view.” Here the dreamer has dreams that balances his psyche & conscious self, as in waking life the conscious mind suppresses or overlook certain superfluous contents like feelings, thoughts, emotions, etc. In order to create a harmony, the dreamer will release these suppressed emotions by way of dreams. These dreams are highly symbolic and if understood, one can look into the avoided topics and solve them consciously. The second function of dreams is to bring forth future messages or indications, what Jung calls a “prospective function. Although this function is not easy to tap, dreams do indicate the future possibilities or warnings from the intuitive self of what might unfold. Highly attuned souls can have regular insights to future in their dreams, often referred to as premonitions. Dreams can be of multiple types, but these visions can be recurrent in nature too. With every dream having a meaning & something to say, some of the common dreams with their messages are as follows: Falling/Drowning Dream Dreaming of falling is one of the most common form of dream themes. This suggests a lack of control in life, insecurity, low confidence, fear of failing or instability, either in one’s personal life or work space. According to Sigmund Freud, dreams of falling indicate that the dreamer is contemplating giving in to a sexual urge or impulse, and lacks indiscretion. Falling dreams typically occur during the first stage of sleep. Examine your waking life and look for parallels in your dream, this can help you bring your unconscious perceptions into your conscious awareness. Naked Dreams Another common dream experienced by many is naked dreams. You might find yourself either partially or completely naked in a public situation where you would normally be clothed. Dreaming of being naked symbolizes your feelings of vulnerability and exposure. Metaphorically, clothes are a way of concealing or taking up a different identity to mask who we are inside, but without them you are completely defenceless. It may be telling you that you are trying to be something you are not, or you are fearful of being ridiculed and disgraced. Maybe it is a new job you are applying for, or a new relationship, your anxieties are magnified in such dreams. Shed off the mask and embrace the real you! Missing or losing a tooth Typically, this kind of dream includes crumbling teeth, loosing teeth one by one, missing one tooth, rotting of teeth and growing crooked. While this kind can have multiple meanings, teeth dreams are most common during transition phases in one’s life like women going through menopause. Teeth symbolize power, beauty & overall confidence. Falling of teeth may indicate you are feeling powerless or anxious in a situation & you want to take control but are unable to do so. Also, if during the dream one is unable to communicate, it may indicate an issue in expressing oneself. In Chinese lore, if someone loses their teeth in a dream, its believed to be a punishment for lying, and in Greek culture it indicates that a family member or close friend is sick or even near death. Chasing Dreams Originating from the feeling of anxiety & stress, one of the most relatable meanings of chasing dreams is when the dreamer is putting at bay a vital issue that needs attention in waking life. When one refuses to acknowledge other’s point or have a habit of running away from their own situations, they face such dreams. It could be so, that you might be chasing yourself in the dream, which suggests a habit of self negation or self contempt. A natural fear which is suppressed in waking life is brought forth by the mind in the dream state. But if you are the chaser, it might mean an ardent desire to achieve something or sort out a situation in life. An important thing to ask yourself is what are you running from? Confront your innermost fears and anxieties in life and connect with your true self. Death Dreams These dreams can cause a feeling of panic & shock, but as every other dream they too hold a symbolic representation and should not be taken at face value. Death dreams can mean that you are entering or exiting an uncertain phase in your life. Such dreams are about change, and for change to happen, we need to end old behavior/attitudes, old ways of being or old beliefs and make way for new things to enter your life. If you are dreaming of your own death or a death of a loved one, it just means that there is some part of you or that relationship that needs immediate attention or you are harboring feelings of anger, resentment, jealousy against that person in your waking life. If you are dreaming of a person who has died long back, it means your subconscious mind can relate to a specific characteristic of that person with someone in the current life or there is some unfinished business. Death dreams represent different parts or aspects of your life that you want to change or have difficulty looking at. Use it to change your perspective about things and focus on your inner growth. Driving Dreams Dreaming that one is driving a vehicle and it is out of control signifies that you don’t have the control you are looking for or want in your life, or you need to steer your life in another direction. It can also mean you are trying too hard to control things, and need to relax a little. Dreams of delays, crashing or being lost can indicate you need to understand your current situation and see what needs changing. Crashing can also be related to your emotional or physical state, and its a clear sign to take some rest or slow down. If you are a passenger in the car, it signifies passivity and you might be following someone else’s decisions, but you are not confident about their decisions and that is why the car is not in control. “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce Good or bad, dreams are a glorious way set by universe to help us create a perfect harmony in conscious and unconscious mind. Dreaming serves as an outlet for those thoughts and feelings we repress during the day, find new paths and gives an insight into your inner self. References and Image Source Dream Dream Symbols Dreams Driving dream Death dreams Falling down dream Falling teeth Death
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The Seven Archetypes of Human Consciousness
The endless faces of the human psyche become a fascinating playground when it comes to Jungian archetypes. Used in storytelling and psychological methods and dream work, the countless numbers of archetypes provide a framework for the potential paths of the human hero. Jung outlined that each person should identify and work with twelve main archetypes running through their lives and use them to understand themselves better; their disposition, how the world sees them, and ultimately, their shadow. Here are 7 particularly transformative ones that can help us to look within. As with our circumstances and past lives, it is best not to associate with one or two in the ego’s need to be labeled, but to recognize that we display all facets within our psyche, whether they’re dormant or active, and that archetypes can embrace the notion that we’re all interdependent; an expression of the same source and the reflection of one another. We are one. THE CHILD The Orphan, the Wounded child, the Nature, Magical, Divine and Eternal child all lay deep within. We all have an inner child and the type we need to nurture can tell us a lot about what really wrenches at the chambers of our hearts. The Orphan is the lost child, without a solid identity they have the opportunity to feel deep suffering yet see life for what it is without attachment. Its shadow is its likelihood of becoming the victim, consumed in its loss, much like the Magical child it will assume it will be ‘saved’ and that fate has more strength than its own actions. The Divine and Eternal child represents the wise master who is already beginning to return home, they are the sages and prophets who have much to teach us and are calm and all knowing from a young age. When we begin to take these steps towards the light we will find within us a great sense of innocence and the true loving nature of the world, unlike the Orphan who must be street wise and dog eat dog. THE RULER The Matriarch, Patriarch, King, Queen and Ruler use leadership as a means to express and discover themselves. How we treat others when handed great power can tell us a lot about ourselves and the storybooks are littered with this archetype: the good and mighty rulers, and the tyrants. The Ice, White Queen or Witch, represented by the Queen of Swords in the Tarot pack is particularly interesting as well as prevalent and questions our traditional notions of ‘evil.’ A woman who has had her heart broken again and again has become so ‘cold’ that she removes herself from society and becomes isolated in a blizzard-ridden landscape, luring children and followers to ride her chariots through the snow. She is one who can be found in all of us and calls upon us to melt our hearts and trust again, to reconnect with the hero/ine or Goddess within ourselves and rediscover the positive aspects of the Sacred Feminine of kindness, loving compassion and community. In a way we are all coming in from the cold. THE CLOWN The Jester, Tramp, Joker or Fool’s shadow is those who have become bitter and use their humour to make cruel jibes at those around them. They can be dewy and dim or jackal-like tricksters who invoke the ever-present comedy of life. They call on us to detach from the harsh realities of life and take it with a pinch of salt, often doing so in a seemingly cruel fashion. They are the masters who have no emotional connections or family but who cause a spark of interest in us and can have a deep impact on us if we meet one. Humour and wit equates power and with this archetype looks can be deceiving. They also often appear as the everyman and are seldom associated with romance; their path is of a higher calling than love in relationships, they often befriend a child to mirror the innocence and simplicity within themselves. THE VISIONARY The Creator, Visionary, Magician and Revolutionary, traditionally very much separate archetypes, have more similarities than you might think. They are the leaders who lead the crowd through their independent thought and ahead-of-their-time ideas. The Magician in the Tarot pack is often one who has mastery over words and the four elements, as is the scientist or inventor. The Revolutionary is usually more inspired by action, but within this umbrella archetype there can always be found the lone walker who goes against the current, is ridiculed throughout their quest to find their feet and then ultimately followed and revered when finally taken seriously. Passionate and solitary, they are always building; empires, inventions and magical spells, they often blur with the Hermit archetype and can seem more than a little crazy. EXPLORER The Explorer in this case I’ve put as the Hero; the individual who leaves home to find themselves, battles monsters and then returns home to slay their own demons. As with all journeys, we travel far from home only to discover that what we were looking for was on our doorstep the whole time. As with Freud’s Oedipus, we can often be so lured away from home that we become drunk on illusion and make huge mistakes, coming face to face with our worst nightmares and invoking tragic consequences. On the other hand, the plight of the hero is the most exciting and adventurous of the archetypes. We all have the hero and heroine within us and it’s often this role that we are avoiding in the form of our true potential. TEACHER The Guide, Healer or Teacher is someone to beware when drunk on power. They are the ones who may come with two faces, much like the Politician or Preacher, but unlike them, to the intuitive among us are easy enough to spot. A true teacher and guru is one who has overcome the many pitfalls of the ego in order to help others in all sincerity. To practice what one preaches is a great achievement and to awaken others with merely a word is even greater. Stepping aside – having achieved hero status already – in order to lift others up and let them shine is a path that radiates true wisdom and cannot be taken lightly. In fact it is probably the weightiest responsibility we might take on; carrying others on our shoulders and deflecting a multitude of projections is no easy task. And lastly… SEEKER Wanderer, Disciple and Dreamer, the Seeker is one who appears to be wandering aimlessly with no real goal, but in actual fact is the most freed up for spiritual transformation. Unlike the more ostentatious actions of the Hero/Explorer, the Seeker is much more secretive, nomadic, keeping to the hills and quietly inquiring about all walks of life. To truly be spontaneous and open to danger is where the real adventure begins, and many a seeker can be found in mythological and psychological wisdom. Like Siddhartha by Hesse and many a seemingly ‘lost’ soul it can take great bravery to be completely unattached. The shadow side may be a student who is constantly schooled and never ejected into the waters of life, but to be constantly learning with a thirst for knowledge more often than not leads us onto the path to enlightenment. Questioning everything and searching every corner of this world for answers, the Seeker if she/he knows themselves will not fall into the trap of a charlatan Guru but find a true master or be able to eventually master themselves. Being unattached to earthly desires and distanced from such attachments as family, career and even the pulls of karma, the Seeker often sticks to high places to remain the observer of human nature and steer clear of any obstruction to the divine. Although this is only a sample of thousands of archetypes that infiltrate the human psyche, it may trigger an interest in you to discover which archetypes are running through your life and which ones you may be inspired to investigate further Image source Orphan The Snow Queen by Elena Ringo Trickster Teacher Archetypes
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6 Archetypes to Help Us Get in Touch With Our Shadow Selves
Hedonist/Addict/Lover If we think of life before mindfulness as encompassing either pleasure or pain, then most of us will gather around one polarity in an addictive fashion… and can therefore be classed under the Glutton or Addict archetype. The Addict may be addicted to pleasure as a Hedonist or Lover, or they may be addicted to pain; as a Workaholic or any number of things one can be addicted to, such as food, gambling, or harmful drugs. People are often addicted to one or the other to take the pressure off, as a distraction from their worries and shadow selves, or as a means to escape a particularly disturbing person or situation in their lives. Whatever your addiction is keeping you from, it’ll probably come served as some form of denial, cold platter and all, and once overcome will open all sorts of doors for you. Letting yourself free from your cycles of addiction – no matter how harmless they seem – will lighten your load and give you a sense of empowerment. For the addict is most certainly involved in a power struggle. The moment you depend on, or let anything ‘external’ control your life, then you’re setting yourself up for a whirlwind of trouble, no matter how socially acceptable your weakness happens to be. Above all, the Addict will stop at nothing to get their fix… Might you be one of them? Gossip/Networker/Bully/Coward Another possible guise our ‘shadow’ can take and is better understood as an archetype, is the Gossip. I think we’ve all been there; it can take a huge amount of sacrifice – both of the fear of being liked and of our precious reputations – to stand up for the underdog instead of joining in. More often than not, we become the Bully or Coward in order to secure our place in the hierarchy of society, whether we’re children in a playground or not. The most subtle forms of cowardly bullying find themselves woven into most social interactions and groups, and are particularly present in situations where people come under the spotlight; at work, within family… as people this is how we determine status and rank in an ‘evolved’ species such as human kind. To become more and more aware of the moments of cowardice present in most of our lives and overcoming it by fighting for the underdog can be a daily practice, but there are some of those who fit the archetype of the Gossip and Networker down to a tee. There are those of us who seem to thrive in such situations, and often become a ringleader steering the bullying in the right direction, ironically mistaken into thinking they’re fighting for high moral codes that the underdog or scapegoat might’ve breached. Their followers and crowd are those so driven by fear, they also begin perceiving some injustice. And with that the crowd becomes a mob; tearing at the metaphorical flesh of the underdog, eager to rid their pack of those who threaten their collective ego, any scrap of supposed evolution lost in the dust. In these situations we become animalistic. We become ignorant, we become dumb. Miser/Midas The story of Midas goes like this: Midas mopes about wishing he had more money (being secure and perfectly affluent as he is), makes a ‘vain prayer’ in the direction of his greedy desires and is ‘blessed’ with the gift to turn whatever he touches into pure gold. At first this is great fun and he goes around touching cups and saucers and probably his washing machine in delight at the intense novelty of the whole thing until he finds himself experiencing the first pangs of hunger as dinner time comes around. He goes to the fridge. Woops, turned to gold. Goes to the cupboards, woops turned to gold. In the end his daughter approaches him and he accidentally turns her to gold too. Weeping over her frozen statue, he eventually dies of starvation. Although we may not all be driven to such drastic measures to satisfy our lust for gold, there may well be a nugget of the Miser archetype in all of us. It’s all about attachment; do you attach yourself to the lighter side of life and pine over it until the wave begins to lift? Do you find yourself aching for a bit more land, a nicer kitchen or better car? Or perhaps you just plan each dollar down to the very last cent and often skip it when the donations basket comes ‘round? Although it’s easy to be desensitized, and yes we probably all do our bit and shouldn’t have to stress over it, we are still hugely rich in comparison to most of the world’s population. And yes it is all an illusion. What we think we need and what we can do without is all in the eyes of the beholder. Remember the essentials; oxygen, shelter, food and water. And what was the fifth one? Oh yes, laughter and people to share it with. Revolutionary/Warrior/Knight Though it may seem glamorous on the surface, the Knight can actually be incredibly shadowy. High on a power trip and intoxicated by the feeling that they’re ‘fighting for God’, or on a crusade to save the holy land… the Warrior and Revolutionary may think they’re do-gooders, when in fact they invite violence into peaceful people’s lives, often leaving a bloody trail behind them. Violence for the sake of peace, war in exchange for the correct and self righteous road… Although many of us may desire to help others in becoming such an ostentatious figure, take heed that it’s not solely your own needs you are satisfying. CDo the people you’re saving actually need or even want to be saved? Or are they happily learning at their own pace and on their own terms? Is your holy land even relevant or desirable to those you seek to help? One shoe certainly does not fit all… especially not your spurred boots that can appear quite alarming and aggressive to down-to-earth villagers who just want to harvest their crop. Artist/Writer/Creative/Inventor Again, another one who is incredibly desirable to us in this masculine, get ahead and shine society that we live in. But be careful you don’t get too wrapped up in your own ego… the Writer and Artist can become so engulfed in creativity or perfectionism they are driven quite mad and become consumed in their own inadequacies as a mere human. Like Icarus there are downsides to walking alongside the Gods in their pantheon. The same goes for the Inventor. To play God is dangerous, and more often than not one gets burned. Princess/Victim/Prostitute/Femme Fatale Though not strictly feminine, the Princess represents all that is within us that needs to leech off others and attach ourselves to them because of our fear to face life head on. The Princess becomes a Victim, waiting for a Prince to rescue him/her and pretending they have no individuality or independence of their own. Princesses can become incredibly apt at convincing themselves and everyone else that this is their ‘purpose’; like any caregiver who has learnt to become co-dependent they are willing to do anything; cook, clean, sing to the neighbouring wildlife… Like the Addict, the Princess is in denial, and usually needs to work on their sense of self and self love in order to grant themselves the Heroine status they deserve. The Prostitute and the Femme Fatale are similar to the Princess, yet instead of granting the completion of household chores they grant sexual favours. Again they don’t have to be women with flirty dispositions; the Prostitute is that part inside of us who readily gives away our talents to any Tom, Dick or Harry without expecting much in return. Both archetypes draw on our need to reaffirm our sense of self-respect and re-draw our boundaries. Are you letting others walk all over you and take more than they deserve? These archetypes are just a sample of what may be dressing itself up to the nines and posing as a positive aspect of who you are. To explore our shadows is a healthy thing; for then we get to truly know ourselves and can begin to love every single part of our being. To know and understand every one of our masks is an adventure, a journey to through the darkness to the heart of the self, a journey into the light. Reference & Image Source Archetypes Midas Inventor Knight Femme fatale Hedonists Archetypes
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Collective Unconsciousness: Exploring the Deepest Layer of our Psyche (Jungian Philosophy)
“The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the “sin qua non” [indispensable ingredient] of the world as an object. It is in the highest degree odd that western man, with but very few- and ever fewer- exceptions, apparently pays so little regard to this fact. Swamped by the knowledge of external objects, the subject of all knowledge [the psyche] has been temporarily eclipsed to the point of seeming non-existence.” ~ Carl Jung The psyche plays an important role in the creation of our universe, the seemingly outer world is not separate from the psyche that is experiencing it, but is in fact a reflection of the psyche itself. According to Jung, psyche is a self-regulating system, that seeks to maintain a balance between opposing qualities while constantly striving for growth. Jung saw the human psyche being made up of 3 layers – the conscious mind (ego) where our sense of identity or conscious awareness resides, the personal unconscious, Jung’s term for the Freudian unconscious, that includes contents in the consciousness which have been forgotten or repressed. The third layer is the collective unconscious which represent a form of the unconscious (that part of the mind containing memories and impulses of which the individual is not aware) common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain. Jung in The Archetypes and the collective Unconscious said, “The collective unconscious is a part of the psyche, which can be negatively distinguished from a personal unconscious by the fact that it does not, like the latter, owe its existence to personal experience and consequently is not a personal acquisition….the contents of the collective unconscious have never been in consciousness, and therefore have never been individually acquired, but owe their existence exclusively to heredity. Whereas the personal unconscious consists for the most part of complexes, the content of the collective unconscious is made up essentially of archetypes.” In order to experiment, Jung tested several groups based on their dreams & fantasies only to find that Freud’s definition of the unconscious mind was limited. There was another part of the mind shared by these individuals in form of symbols, which they had no conscious access to, and he referred to them as “ancestral heritage of possibilities of representation common to all human beings and, perhaps, even all animals.” These symbols & themes were further termed as archetypes. Jungian Archetypes The collective unconscious was expressed through ‘archetypes’, which appear as symbols, instincts and imagery throughout our existence, and manifest fully during sleep & imaginations and also during myths & fairytales that have been handed down from one generation to another. “The main source, then, is dreams, which have the advantage of being involuntary, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche and are therefore pure products of nature not falsified by any conscious purpose.” Archetypes are also referred to as collective representations or primordial thoughts expressed through various cultures, traditions and ideologies. Jung highlighted a number of archetypes, including the ‘anima, animus‘, the ‘mother’, the ‘shadow’, the ‘child’, the ‘wise old man’, the ‘spirits’ of fairytales, and the ‘trickster’ figure found in myths and history. Adam Adamski in his paper on Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious of Carl G. Jung in the Light of Quantum Psychology said, “Archetypes are the means of action and may take the form of images, dreams, or they are a stimulus to a specific action. Jung says that dreams are archetypal guidance and are the wisdom of past generations. Unaware parts of the psyche are often associated with certain events with an archetypal pattern, with similar events taking place many times in history. Archetypes often carry a strong emotional charge, because relationships with people are the result of differences in the dominant sphere of archetypal feelings.” Examples of Archetypes The Anima & Animus Both man & woman have the characteristics of the other as archetypes resting in their psyche. While the mirror image of a man in a female’s unconscious mind is called Animus, the mirror image of a woman in a male’s s unconscious mind is called Anima. Also, when a man or woman projects the psyche of anima or animus onto an actual woman or man, feelings like infatuation, idealization or attraction for the opposite sex is cultivated. When we fall in love at first sight, then we have found someone that “fills” our anima or animus archetype particularly well! Anima & animus vary in terms of exposure leading to male characteristics or female characteristics in an individual. Jung believed that we are all bisexual in nature, since we all have both masculine and feminine aspects to our nature, but due to society’s expectations we achieve only part of our society’s expectations. The divine union of anima & animus is known as Syzygy, representing completion and this opens up everything, cracking our old, stagnant world view right down the middle and revealing that everything is connected just as everything is moving. Shiva moves in and out of Shakti. The Shadow The shadow is the darker side of our psyche or those characteristics, which are repressed by the conscious mind and considered unfit for exposure to the outside world. It is like a ‘latent disposition’, which is instinctive and irrational in nature. Freud referred to the shadow as an animal within us & Jung considered it as an unidentified aspect of our ego. It is often projected on others, leading us to find the shadow in others. If we are able to merge the light & dark, we can experience oneness and harmony in our self and progress towards self-realization. If we are unaware of our shadow self, then it disassociates from conscious life. The symbol through which it is projected is a villain figure, a dark warrior, spider etc. The shadow can also appear in our dreams as a despised person or even as a friend, sometimes. It is said that one can project Shadow archetype through waking life when he/she is expressing it in uncontrollable anger, aggression & furiousness. The Self It is the sum total of the psyche, with all its potential included. The self is the spirit connected to the universal assimilation of a person’s conscious and unconscious minds. Once we have understood the self, it leads to self-actualization – the ultimate goal of every being. Some of the other archetypes are father – the controlling figure, mother – the compassionate & nurturing, the orphan- left alone with no one to care, the wise old man- the knowledge, the faithful dog – unwavering loyalty, the seeker – one who is looking for eternal wisdom but is a lost soul, the earth mother- nature, the trickster – one who uses misunderstandings & doom among many others. Jung also believed mandalas (the ancient circles from the Hindu mythology) to be the direct window into the unconscious and the inner process by which individuals grow toward fulfilling their potential for wholeness. The theory of collective unconsciousness is vast and extremely enticing as well informative. With understanding of multiple archetypes & symbols available to us, which are time & again exposed through our behavior, beliefs, dreams etc. we can witness the deepest levels of our mind. Image source Collective unconscious Carl Jung Anima Animus Jung and archetypes
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5 Ways to Deal with People You Dislike
“What you resists, persists.” ~ Carl Jung Humans are fallible creatures and in our daily life we often come across people who trigger negativity in us or we don’t get along with but must tolerate. Instead of focusing only on the negative aspect of that particular relationship or the reaction it evokes, it is better to understand the negative dynamics of the situation and how we might be transferring our own unconscious behavior on others. The law of attraction relates to the fact that we often attract things, people and situations in our lives based on our thoughts and attitude. Some annoying quality in other people activates some aspect of ourselves that needs our attention. So whatever we don’t own about ourselves we project onto other people. Debbie Ford further explained this in her book, “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers”, “We see only that which we are. I like to think of it in terms of energy. Imagine having a hundred different electrical outlets on your chest. Each outlet represents a different quality. The qualities we acknowledge and embrace have cover plates over them. They are safe; no electricity runs through them. But the qualities that are not okay with us, which we have not yet owned, do have a charge. So when others come along who act out one of these qualities they plug right into us.” According to Jungian archetypes the ‘shadow’ is the darker side of our psyche or those unconscious characteristics which are repressed by the conscious mind and considered unfit for exposure to the outside world. Our shadow is closely related to our projections, and because we are unable to see the shadowy aspect of our own personality, we project them onto other people. Here are five ways to deal with people you dislike – 1) Become aware of qualities you detest The first step to navigating these tricky relationships is becoming aware of the qualities you find ugly or unacceptable in others, write down a list if that helps. Then, realise that these are qualities that might also exist within yourself. Make peace with these qualities, both within and without. 2) Identify and accept Identifying the reason why they are irritating you and accepting that each person is fundamentally different & unique and to expect another to be like us is an irrational demand. “If you recognize that there is only one like this, it is such precious material, how can it irritate you? Just turn around and see, people sitting next to you are absolutely unique human beings. There isn’t another one like that.. Never before, never again on this planet. Where is the question of irritation? You’re blind, that is why you are irritated,” ~ Sadhguru. 3) Change your way of thinking Often when we dislike someone, we have a tendency to see them in black or blue colors of hatred and contempt. These feelings make us biased towards them and we don’t appreciate anything and everything they say or do. In a situation when it is difficult for you to control the negative emotions, ask yourself simple questions like, ‘will it matter to me after a year?’ or ‘what if I’ before reacting or feeling frustrated. For example, if your boss is shouting at you for any reason, think will it matter to you after five years from now, or what if you focus on positive alternatives instead. This approach will divert your attention and empower you, instead of making you feel helpless. 4) Pause & think Before you, try making a conscious decision to. From this pause, you’ll be better able to proceed with a mind and heart that are at least slightly more open. ‘Pause’ is a powerful word when it comes to dealing with people you do not like. Stop, take a deep breath and replay the situation in your mind or give yourself space and time to consider the outcome or consequence of your reaction. Make a conscious effort to put the judgment on hold for a second and think with a clear mind and heart. 5) Positive annoyance “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Jung As mentioned earlier, we attract people in our lives with similar qualities as ours. Is it just the negative in others that annoys you or the positive as well? Sometimes we are ticked off by other people’s positive qualities as well. For example, your friend might be over polite or kind towards others, which might come across as a way to be more liked by others. But what if this is a quality you want to own but are resisting in some way or the other? If someone’s positive attributes annoy you, it is time you look within and use that annoyance as a tool to become a better person. So the next time you find yourself in a situation with a person you dislike, be it anybody, try to search for similar attitude or qualities inside yourself. When you acknowledge those unacceptable parts of your personality, the need for justification and hostility towards that person will drastically reduce and you will be able to understand yourself and others better. Remember, revenge will not lead to eternal gratification, peace of mind would, and the only person you can change is yourself. Image Source Cameron Gray
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Jung’s Theory of Introvert and Extrovert Personalities
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How to Find Yourself through Your Perception of Others
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6 Common Dreams and their Interpretation
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The Seven Archetypes of Human Consciousness
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6 Archetypes to Help Us Get in Touch With Our Shadow Selves
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Collective Unconsciousness: Exploring the Deepest Layer of our Psyche (Jungian Philosophy)
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5 Ways to Deal with People You Dislike
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Two Ways to Interpret Your Dreams Jung Style
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Animus Rising: The Power of Shakti Birthing Shiva
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