18-05-2010, 10:08 PM
The Dee angle is indeed interesting and Dee's "familiar", if you will, Edward Kelly, was the man chosen to do his "scrying" for him. Scrying is an old, almost lost term these days, and a better description than the one you wrote above would be difficult to find to describe it:
(my bolding)
Jung's autobiography Memories, Dreams and Refections details numerous similar experiences - which is not particularly surprising, I think. Jung developed a technique he called "Active Imagination" (rather than "active participation") for these experiences and it is close to dreaming but with free conscious will retained (otherwise known as a deep meditative state - as I briefly outlined earlier in this thread), and it was a technique my old Jungian teacher recommended I also use because I already had a fairly extensive ability in such things. Starving, or at least not having an empty stomach prior to undertaking these activities is a requisite - but something must be taken immediately afterwards.
On these occasions one gets to meet an entirely different class of people -- or perhaps "beings" is a more accurate term?
And sometimes you can get tangled up with an Archetype when you boldly step where no one has step-ped before (except someone probably has)... which is not something ever to be forgotten. :call:
Quote:He starved himself at times and was very driven toward active participation in his dreams. There are several time periods he tuned into, one was Roman, another was European America before Columbus (Norse in New England), another was England in the 17th or 18th century with an emphasis on a literary personality there and I suspect he also tuned into Poe, whom he adored. There's also some library outside of time inhabited by a strange race of cone-shaped creatures who are capable of time travel and collect knowledge from all over the universe, with some connexion to Western Australia in the distant past. He did exert his imagination on a daily basis.
(my bolding)
Jung's autobiography Memories, Dreams and Refections details numerous similar experiences - which is not particularly surprising, I think. Jung developed a technique he called "Active Imagination" (rather than "active participation") for these experiences and it is close to dreaming but with free conscious will retained (otherwise known as a deep meditative state - as I briefly outlined earlier in this thread), and it was a technique my old Jungian teacher recommended I also use because I already had a fairly extensive ability in such things. Starving, or at least not having an empty stomach prior to undertaking these activities is a requisite - but something must be taken immediately afterwards.
On these occasions one gets to meet an entirely different class of people -- or perhaps "beings" is a more accurate term?
And sometimes you can get tangled up with an Archetype when you boldly step where no one has step-ped before (except someone probably has)... which is not something ever to be forgotten. :call:
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14