Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams which repeatedly dealt with the same theme. Beside my house stood another, that is to say, another wing or annex, which was strange to me. Each time I would wonder in my dream why I did not know this house, although it had apparently always…
The dream that started Carl Jung’s conception of the Collective Unconscious
from the Red Book It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything depended on my keeping this little light alive….
Jung’s Last Mandala: 1927From Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 223 I found myself in a dirty, sooty city. It was night, and winter, and dark, and raining. I was in Liverpool. With a number of Swiss—say half a dozen. I walked through the dark streets. I had the feeling that there we were coming from the…
From Claire Dunne’s Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul, page 209: Man and His Symbols, Jung’s last work, had a typical birth. The highly successful Freeman interview prompted a publisher’s request for a book of Jung’s “more important and basic ideas,” this time “for the people in the market place.” No, said eighty-three year…
A few years later Wilhelm was staying as a guest in my house, and came down with an attack of amoebic dysentery. It was a disease he had had twenty years before. His condition grew worse during the following months, and then I heard that Wilhelm was in the hospital. I went to Frankfurt to…
Jung narrates his first dream, when he was three or four years old: In the dream I was in this meadow. Suddenly I discovered a dark, rectangular, stone-lined hole in the ground. I had never seen it before. I ran forward curiously and peered down into it. Then I saw a stone stairway leading down….
From The Asheville Jung Center Len Cruz, M.D. May 15, 2010 Dream: Jung and his father are in a mosque. They find themselves kneeling and beginning to bow. Evidently, Jung’s father bows fully allowing his head to make contact with the floor. However, Jung stops within a millimeter of the floor. He will not permit…