Telepathy and Dreams

Thank you Richard, that analogy of the search light was very helpful. I'll check out "Inner Work" as well. Happy #dreamlog insights!

Could you clarify when you say "when the insight arises out of the ego relationship to the unconscious."
How does the ego have a relationship to the unconscious?
What are other ways that insights arise into the conscious without the ego in the way?
Thanks. PS When I woke up today, I had a blank on my dream last night..and I usually remember. So what does that mean? Empty my ego? :)

Well, it's sort of like ego consciousness is a spotlight in the darkness and it only is aware of what it places attention on. It's living in relationship to the parts of ourselves not illumined by the searchlight, those parts in the darkness, which living in relationship to the unconscious is like. The ego is not in the way per se, in fact it's essential for consciousness. Arrogance within the ego complex can get in the way though... Living in relationship to the unconscious tends to expand consciousness, or increase the capability of the searchlight....

Not remembering a dream often just means that the images did not have enough energy to cross the threshold into consciousness...

The most accessible manner for developing the ego-unconscious relationship is spelled out in Robert Johnson's "Inner Work"

Hi Richard, I came to your blog because I noticed the #dreamlog hashtag in your tweets today. Somehow tonight I came across an article about Jung's book , The Red Book. It is in the New York Times, kind of long but very fascinating.
I sometimes have telepathic images in my dreams, and then I see them 2 or 3 days later. Sometimes a week or even 2 years. I guess reading this article is some kind of symbol for me of understanding more of my psyche. I have no knowledge of Jungian or other analysts except the fact that I know them by name. Now after reading this article, I am very curious to know more.
So...what do you think of waking dreams? Here is the link I was reading in New York Times tonight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09...
Let's see what I dream tonight:)

Thanks for sharing. Jung's image of the personality not only extends
into the personal unconscious, where those aspects of ourselves we
wish to reject reside, but into the collective unconscious, where a
transpersonal reservoir of psychic contents continues to stir down
through the ages.

Jung's insights open up vistas into the fullness of our humanity.
Much of the "splendor" attributed to saints in the past is a
collective inheritance. The projection of these aspects of ourselves
onto the "sainted" is a useful collective attitude, as it protects a
weak ego from being overwhelmed or swamped by the contents of the
collective unconscious.

It's really easy for an ego to mistakenly attribute telepathy for
instance to it own power, when the insight arises out of the ego
relationship to the unconscious. The same can be said of
premonitions, visions, and synchronistic events.

I second Jung's comment on the fact of telepathic events in dreams. It has been the most significant and most overlooked fact about dreams by mainstream psychology for many decades - and is still is today by many of the main branches. Mainly because of the strong bias against supernormal phenomena.

Once you have directly experienced this phenomena in your own dream - either some kind of clairvoyant transference of knowledge or precognitive, then you realize that such events spoken of for centuries - going back to Saul and his medium in the bible, to present day - and also what Jung and others such as Swedenborg and many others have testified too - then the acceptance of this amazing phenomena (and yes it is still amazing to me even today) opens up a whole new level of psychology - that Jung was brave enough to grapple with.

Freud very much early on refused to accept the possibility of "occult" phenomena and indeed, it was one of the central points Jung eventually left Freud - in the new famous account (at least in paranormal literature) Jung provides in "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" of his argument with Freud and the loud multiple near thunder-clap of wood/table nearby, the second splitting Jung predicted moments before it occurred.

The acceptance of psychical phenomena shifts dramatically the foundation of psychology since then the psyche no longer can be totally anchored in the body it shakes up the bounderies of cause-and-effect given the fact of precognitive events.

Perhaps Jung's acceptance of psi events within the psyche and how he worked hard in his life to integrate it into the psychology he developed made him both shunned by main mainstream during his lifetime - and even considered a crack-pot, but also in the end, will make his psychology the most far reaching and the one that will last well into the next century - until some other visionary/scholar arrives and opens up our eyes even further to what the psyche is and is capable of.

Our rational prejudice would rather dismiss these occurrence as part
of the fringe...faced with certain evidences which experientially are
irrefutable, all the mind can do is gaze in wonder...