Reply #20: I was "Freuded" for a couple of years, when I had managed to ... [View All]

... escape fundamentalist Christianity years ago, and had nothing but an emptiness for a time. And then five years later, I found a woman Jungian, and knew I had come home. The Freudian was a help, in his limited way, and was the first person to ever really listen to me. That was quite valuable.

I've considered the three major factors that helped me out of the early fundamentalist conditioning that I rejected by the time I was five to be the U.S. Army (which took me to Korea and Germany by the time I was 12, and let me see a larger world), the Freudian therapy, and finally, Jung. Jung was highly psychic (although I don't know that he ever used that term), and spoke of communication with a nonhuman entity that he considered a guide. He honored the dream state as valuable and real. He, and his work, are fascinating!

This whole conversation is making me feel I should find a Jungian group for support right now -- and they exist in abundance in Santa Fe. I've also done a lot of dreamwork, so why do I keep dealing with stress, going it alone with worries over the fate of my life and that of the planet????? I should know better! :)

THANKS, H20 MAN.


My concern now is that Jung understood the power of archetypes, but his knowing didn't prevent the war he could see coming. Can we? I guess that's what the OP is all about -- our being proactive rather than passive receivers.