It was only on the sidewalk going into the house, just minutes before my appointment, that she told me the person I was about to meet was not a therapist but an astrologer. So it was, in the Spring of 1984, that I thought my student Miranda was taking me to another therapist of some kind when I went with her to a home in downtown Bar Harbor. I came to feel like I was losing my toehold on reality and various friends tried to help, some sending me to ministers, others to counselors, others to psychiatrists and psychologists. But I dismissed it as “just a coincidence.” Over the next six months, however, I lost another friend, two aunts and an uncle and everything in my life began to fall away. When I told Ed, he reminded me of the words I had heard. Five days later I learned that my friend Hazel Crafts had dropped dead. I then dismissed the whole experience, given my academic prejudices, but my husband remembered what I had told him. You will give up everything and your life will be transformed.” I was married at the time and I woke up and told my husband, thinking that he must have heard this loud voice. It began with the first of what I have come to call my “voice-over dreams.” No action, no figures, just a voice that said: “Friends will die. I was a very logical, rational Cartesian college professor, locked into the world of theory and abstraction like only an Eastern Ivy League intellectual can be, when, in November 1983, my world began to come unraveled. Years ago I too had a very low opinion of this ancient branch of knowledge-until I was forcibly, shockingly disabused of my prejudice in this regard. Many Americans, nearly all academics, and some of you readers of this blog might at this point start rolling your eyes. There is also another source of information, which Jung used on occasion to better understand his patients, and also to study the relationship of married couples. A third way is by watching one’s dream guidance, and beyond just watching, actively seeking the guidance of the psyche through an interactive dream practice. Another way is by consulting the variety of mantic arts, the results of which, on the collective level, often are hard to decipher or interpret. There are several ways one might address these questions: One way is with the use of Intuitive Imagery, which I have used with several friends who are adept in it. And in part, my attitude stems from my reading of Jung, and his conviction that our collective future will see some sort of “impending world catastrophe.” As people have read the previous essays posted to The Jungian Center’s blog, they have asked me for specifics: what’s coming down? What are we, as a society, looking at in the next few years? And when might we expect the challenging times to arrive? In part, my attitude stems from my reading of Native American sources about the actions of the United States government over the last 400 years, and Native predictions about the karmic consequences of those actions. In part, this stems from a series of dreams I had back in 20 which suggest some of the challenges we are likely to face in the coming years. Those essays make it clear that I am not a fan of our current culture, government or society, nor am I very optimistic about the future. In previous essays I have made references to possible forms of the future for America and American society. An Examination of America’s Potential Future in Light of Its Astrological ChartĪn Examination of America’s Potential Future in Light of Its Astrological Chart
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