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We imagine the unconscious as something inside us ... But the unconscious can equally well be imagined outside of our bodies, out in the world, like a dark, wild forest through which we roam. There are equal measures of mystery in dreams and wilderness. — Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft
- So the mundus imaginalis is the Otherworld, and also the Underworld, and the Dreamtime, and also the Heavens, and really every place mystics have claimed to visit and from which they've brought back visions, wisdom, invention, and inspiration. It is where the gods are met, and the saints, the ancestors and spirits, whether that be in ecstatic tranc... See more
from The Imaginal World — RITONA // A Beautiful Resistance by Rhyd Wildermuth
Stuart Evans added
If we accept Jung’s model of the collective unconscious, we are naturally and irrevocably connected to each other, to all of creation, in a way that transcends time and space. In its timeless nature, the collective unconscious is a remembrance of things past as they anticipate the future.
from Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web by Sandra Easter
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- Experientially, received within one’s own quiet subjectivity, it appears as an allusive aliveness, a meaning presenting itself in “glimpses and visions,” a foretaste or reminder of a higher order of being to which the human heart actually belongs and to and from which it responds, with infinite tug. The imaginal nudges us, beacons us, corrects us a... See more
from Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault
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- Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jungfrom Carl Jung Quotes - Who looks outside, dreams
noriak added
Seth's conception of consciousness certainly corroborates my own experience, and I think that sometime or other each of us finds bits and pieces of "other conscious-ness” in our minds, lying there like odd shiny pebbles on the shores of our awareness. As children we may have reacted with delight and astonishment, turning such thoughts over and
... See morefrom The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher by Jane Roberts
Claudia Dawson added
- When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jungfrom Carl Jung - When an inner situation is not made conscious...
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