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Ohh man! I'm so active listening to this awesome video Thank you so much and much love ❤️ That made me want to more explore about Carl Jung work and art.
When washing my dishes, I have imagined being interviewed on TV. For example, the interviewer might ask me what the causes of depression are, and solutions. Absolutely brilliant inspired answers would flow through me.
As a child I distinctly remember any time I took a bath and sat facing the tile wall all of the sudden I'd be imagining being interviewed on tv and explaining something about my life, weird I just remember that I'd never put words to that before
Every time I find myself in a mundane activity (essentially anything that doesn’t have my full interest) I also get lost in my mind. I’ve been extremely imaginative ever since I was a child, which I used to cope with my isolation and boredom. As I’ve aged, I thought it would melt away, and in some aspects it has, but for the most part I am still extremely internal and imaginative
I have a feeling this could be one of those things many of us do, but never mention.... I do it myself; I think when I'm grappling with an idea that is new or fresh to me. It's pretty clear to me that I (probably most people) "think better" out loud, and I think this is the minds attempt to mimic that. You simulate a dialogue to try and get "beyond" yourself and your typical thought processes
This is how I stopped having panic attacks and I didn’t even realize it. I used to have bad anxiety and panic attacks as a teenager. Over time every time I felt the anxiety coming up, I’d begin imagining a dialogue between logical self and my fearful self. And in these daydreams my logical self was in a white lab coat and glasses in a dark office sitting behind a desk, and my fearful self was the patient expressing his fears and symptoms. I started being talked down from panic attack until one day I just stopped having them
@@Brian-mc7iw sure! I can’t promise your anxiety will disappear completely. There are times since I was 14 (I’m 23 now) where I’ve had panic attacks as a response to severe stress or loss. Anxiety is normal. Anxiety is natural. It took about a year or so maybe a little less, for my anxiety to stop effecting my day to day life. From age 14 I struggled and by the time I was about 17 I had almost no struggles with anxiety whatsoever. But like I said, it pops up every now and again throughout the years
Currently doing this alongside psychodynamic therapy and occasional psychedelics. It’s really helps so much with my racing thoughts and anxiety. I imagine it more as a debate between two people that I’m viewing as a third party, and I have the power to decide the argument is over, when previously it felt like I was in this eternal back and forth with some mysterious critical voice
I often imagine I’m the only soul in existence. Everything and everyone that surrounds me are but mere reflections of myself. This is an experience for myself by myself to avoid being lonely in the void of nothingness.
I use active imagination all the time, I use it to try and solve my inner problems I am going through and something I have noticed that in these sessions where I’m essentially imagining my conversations with people in my life, I tend to be way more articulate and able to present myself in a more clearer way, than I do in real life and with conversations with people in my life.
For anyone struggling with fear of facing the unconscious I tell you what helped me. Approach you’re unconscious from a place of love and friendliness. If you focus on feeling love when approaching your scary unconscious characters I guarantee they will no longer scare. You have to love and accept them for who they are because they are apart of YOU. When you focusing on loving scary unconscious material they will drop any attempts to attack you and they will respect you. They will be receptive to friendly discussion. If you approach them with fear they will feed on it attack you. It’s sounds cheesy but choose to love them, and at the very least they will respect you while being open to civil discussion.
this statement, as many others in this comment section, is supported and supports what C. Jung wrote, "We know that the face of the unconscious is not rigid -it reflects the face we turn toward it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect., friendliness softens its features.".... and the narrator on this video as well. thank you for sharing
I have to disagree with this- though I'm sure the Jung quote about being friendly towards the unconscious contents is true, there are also quotes of him saying overtly that some contents should not be assimilated; they are not part of the personal unconscious, but the collective unconscious, and may be hostile th-cam.com/video/svpNqorqpMA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AltrusianGraceMedia
unconscious dosent care about your feeelings. Thers a reason we are devided from it and any emotional realtion to it is it love or hate it will lead you to self-deception. And im not sayin you should ignore emotions or that they are deceptive. But they are not and de facto truth You should observe those emotions and try to understand them in relation to your imagination or introspection.
I've lived most of my life doing this. I grew up alone so I used to have to talk to myself a lot. Than I would imagine myself in alternative worlds where different teachers would help me learn new things about life. Its funny I learned a lot more from them than most people in real life. It can seem like mental illness to most but if you let them know what your doing they tend to understand at least a little. I've sought council from all different kinds of beings challenged demons till they revealed they were angels & wrapped myself tightly in several deep wisdom filled journeys. It can be fun. If your sane going a little mad can actually be quite healthy. Everyone should be atleast a little crazy.
Same thing happened to me, active imagination is awakened when there is no external interruptions, it grew on me when i spent about 3 years alone in my child years, i get shocked by the amount of knowledge the unconscious offers me when I’m in need, iv never had a teacher besides it.
I can trigger it spontaneously during the daytime by imagining myself turning the lights on in my head when there is total darkness. And when the lights come on I see a long hallway lined with doors that go on forever. I call it the infinite corridor. Each door goes somewhere completely different. I think the imagination gives us glimpses at the multiverse and it’s potential to manifest itself in our world
Active Imagination is something I, and I'm sure other people, have been practicing for a while without actually knowing the term for it. Thank you for making this video going into detail about the subject. Not that I care, but I feel less crazy. My art is a direct reflection of my dreams and active imagination. And thanks for the resources in the video as well. I'm gonna be more diligent in my practices.
@@Zelchinho Just remember it's not the same reality as the one you're used to being in. And you can turn it off and on, just create your own ticks for it. Do more research on it too.
I’m not sure if this is anything related but for almost my whole life I’ve had conversations, casually, everyday in my head. I’m not sure if this is an offshoot of this or just schizophrenia or something (which is unlikely). One thing that was weird is while watching this video multiple times I got extremely emotional for no apparent reason and would start tearing up/crying. But who knows.
I'm jumping back and forth between Jung's Red Book, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, and Ellenberger's The Discovery of the Unconscious. My point is, to write and narrate this video took a tremendous amount of study. Thank you for your effort! I can't imagine how long it took you to prepare for this.
@@kseniasemenovykh6767 I've got the Red Book in my office but I'm waiting on it. I've mostly just flipped through the artwork. So the Discovery of the Unconscious has been great so far. Very readable. It's a history of earliest treatments that would eventually become dynamic psychology. It kind of details the split between what became medical care... and what became depth psychology. Though it's very readable... it is also close to 900 pages. So it's a beast.
Did this coupled with breathing exercises for about 3 hours once. I was walking out of a dense Forrest on a path that climbed many small hills in a meadow. It was easily the most vivid experience I had had up to that point and after walking awhile I decided to sit and meditate at the top of one of the endless hills. After a while someone told me to get up. Around me were three shadow people. I asked who they were and one introduced himself as the creeping death and the other two as the fearful and noble deaths. I asked why the others were not speaking and he told me he spoke because I was currently in his domain. He was very insistent that I get up and keep walking the path. He said that one day one of them would come for me but for now I needed to keep moving. I walked for a short while after that talk but before anything else happened my then infant son woke up from his nap and pulled me out of it. It was insanely realistic and I still remember it vividly feels crazy to talk about.
That’s super interesting, perhaps this means that your currently on track to a “creeping death” (dying of old age not having lived a noble or fearful life, just an average one) and if you change your path in life you can achieve a noble death. I’m not stating anything supernatural here btw, this is what I believe your subconscious mind believes about you. Perhaps it’s a message to pursue a more noble path in life. I believe that being a parent is an extremely noble task though, so perhaps if you believe the same you can achieve the “noble death.” This is all just speculation though, you know way more about your own life that me and can come to way more accurate conclusions as to the meaning of this than I can, if any meaning at all.
@bobross4447 I think it was more so that I decided to sit in that moment rather than walk, but that could be how I was I feeling about myself subconsciously. I lived a very wild life up until about 2 or 3 years before he was born. I wasn't trying to die per se, but I was very willing to for the sake of a thrill. I honestly didn't expect to make it this long, but I did somehow. I really don't desire the thrill chasing. I feel exhausted of it. But there could be a part of me that wants to express itself that no longer gets to. It felt too significant to be completely meaningless. I had a very strange relationship with the concept of death back then, but now that I have my son and my wife to look forward to, the existential dread pops into my head like it never has before. Very strange thing being conscious.
It's been a few months since I read this comment, I had to search through my youtube history to find it again. Then the comments of this video. This has really stuck with me ever since I've read it.
Having ADHD, being introvert and having almost no friends in my life, talking with myself in my mind is one of the insane things i do in my life to keep me sane, not quite the same thing described in the video but it's still a way of learning about myself. Doing this saved me from going into deep depression, i still think i'm depressed but in a much more superficial way than i once was in, i used to always be in a downer mood, but not anymore. These conversations aren't me talking with myself literally, they're usually me imagining myself someone asking me something, and then i start talking, i discovered many things about myself that i would only find out if other people confronted me about it otherwise. Beyond the psychological effects this does, it actually helped me learn english. Since i had no one to talk to in english, when i was starting to learn it i'd talk in english in my mind, and whenever i hit a roadblock i'd try to find ways to fix it, and it's how i learned english by myself with the help of video games as a kid.
I have a few friends but not anyone I can actually discuss topics like this with so 99% of my conversations happen in my head. Smalltalk bores me tremendously and that's all the majority of people know how to do. Talk about their life, the sports games, the weather, the latest gossip.
@@redrustyhill2 I don't really like small talk but don't mind doing it, i just absolutely hate repeating it. Doing small talk one day is fine, doing the next day or next week is what kills me, my brain keeps trying to find ways to innovate the conversation and then realises nothing would work or would sound natural, so i get frustrated.
Me too! I learned English by talking to myself out loud because I was very quiet at school. On another note, I feel that I am more comfortable expressing my emotions in English and feels weird expressing it in my mother tongue. I wonder if it’s because my English is more fluent or is it because different languages we learn represent different inner parts of ourselves? And the English side of me feels more detached that it’s easier to talk about emotions?
@@rebecca37094 Maybe you're just more comfortable to use english instead, it's the case for me, though it's not just for emotions. If the topics of your monologues were about emotions, it could be because of that. If there is such a thing as different languages for different parts of ourselves, it could be that you gave it that attribute somehow. At the end of the day, i don't know. For me i just express myself better in english than in my native language, but that could be because i don't get to talk to too many people in real life, so i engage in online talk in english way more often than i do in person talk in my native language.
I used to always speak out loud to myself while doing something hard, pretending I’m making a TH-cam tutorial. I also have ADHD and this really helps keep me focused on the task. I know that if I stop talking (making the tutorial) I’m off focus and need to get back to what I was doing. It’s really beneficial in my opinion. As far as language goes, I do the same thing. When I was learning german I would make tutorials, and make conversations with myself in German. They key is the challenge yourself. Ask things you know will make you think.
Seven years ago, literally due to an accident, i started drawing... i was so absorbed in reality that i went into a deep place (unconscious)... after the first 4 or 5 drawings, i looked at them and i was surprised and thought: "who drew 'this'?" since then I find myself in that 'place', alone in the room, completely surrendered to creativity, and putting in my drawings the various visits and dialogues that are present through the unconscious. it's a lonely path... however it allows me to cleanse the ancestral cells. I like this channel, thanks for sharing. greetings from Portugal.
@@elvenatheart982 well, honestly I dont know if Im more complete, but Im less judmental of others and my self, Maybe I've Change the lens of my eyes, and started a deep work of my inner connection. (Sorry for my 'poor' English 😐). Thank you for askind 🙏 big hug for you my friend.
Once I was complaining in my head about the neverending laundry and dishes...I heard a female voice saying, "at least you have clothes on your back and food on the table." It was very humbling. My mind went to the struggles my Irish ancestors had and I realized that I should be grateful.
I'm not sure that I would be happy or sad when I would hear somebody else answering in my head😅. Is it the first sign of madness?!!😮. Sorry, I was negatively positive there 😊
It's literally your true self you're engaging with, unfiltered by the constraints you enforce. I didn't know it was anything other than normal to engage your imagination this way.
In my life I have been addicted to many things. Drugs, Sex, Internet. After watching this video, I am quite confident that I need to use this technics in my whole life. Because my addicton seem to be so powerful by all this 13 years. Every day I feel feelings like emptiness or beeing unreal. Hope to connect all my archetypes and personalities living inside me. Greetings from Poland. You are very smart person. All videos are very interesting and clever. great respect for You and all good for You :) Thank you
I cried so much listening to this… my culture insists on ignoring these “voices” as they are another entity seperate from me. But as I grew older I learned that these are in fact parts of ME and I NEED to understand them…. This video just made me cry because it just relates so much and doesn’t alienate the inspiration we have.
Wow, I've been doing Active Imagination unconsciously and have been wondering why my life had been so surreal lately.... this video was a relief that I wasn't going insane through introspection.
same, ego alterego superego unconcious ect.. lucid dream and all.. disolution of the ego to then brag about having no ego wich is ego dust left. its facinating but also funny hehe , braging about knowledge and experience, and low key fake modesty to empower others and feel amazing by being more proud than let known
@XeL you've done the things in this video before right? like in the middle of doing things and not just boring things or ample time? I get how this guy is making this sound like that. But is that what you're stepping up to?
Throughout history scientists and artists have used their dreamscapes to create and make groundbreaking discoveries, it’s as if our dreams are part of grand structure that relates to the entire universe, somehow knowing more than we do. If only more could access that world in a conscious state, I wonder what the world would be
When you say dreams i guess you mean imagination. If so ok, if you think of dreams as total black out , on bead dreams , i would challenge your thought and ask: what scientists ( not artists) have made their discoveries through dreams and what discoveries?
“Until you become conscious, the unconscious will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Yung This phrase made sense the first time I entered this state of introspection, as it seems to me it was the condition that Da Vinci ''was' There is a very interesting article by Alain de Botton about this heightened state of consciousness, mentioning Da Vinci
I always have the seconds of maximum creativity when I'm about to fall asleep. Not quite awake but also not quite slumbering yet. I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon and if other people also share this experience. It's so powerful to the point that I get lyrics for new songs and plot structure for novels.
Also look into the Silva mind control method, accessing beta/delta/alpha brain waves when in different levels of sleep give you incredible abilities of the mind
I’ve been searching material for Active Imagination for quite a while, and I’ve never seen such a detailed, insightful and inspirational video like this one. Incredible work!
I’ve been doing this since I was a young boy. I still do this all the time. Conversations with people, being interviewed on deep topics, being praised for my greatness as a sumo wrestler, what a habit of thought to have.
Well this was friggin powerful and right on time. I’ve been going through a period of intense upheaval and transformation and it has give me a lot of fear but also excitement about where I am going in life. When I closed my eyes to listen to this it was like I was watching a wall-like barrier with images/beings pressing their hands and bodies into it just brimming with potential and the desire to reveal themselves. Images came so readily and as I listened it was almost as if I was being guided on how to make them positive experiences. Thanks for this. I’m definitely going to incorporate this into my regular practice.
Oh Man this is the stuff I have been searching for in my life. It's a confirmation & a reminder as a artist who has had a artist block for way too long. Definitely lifts my spirits & at the same time realize I need to do more research on Carl Jung who spent his lifetime working on the subject
This video completely describes my first and at that time only mushroom trip. I already had hyperfantasia and lucid dreaming almost every night since my childhood. Been through severe ctpsd and dissociative identity disorder due to domestic abuse. Finished my therapy at the age of 28 and had my mushroom trip at 30. It felt like I reconnected and gained back something that was lost long time ago. First I was scared when shrroms started to change my cognition state. Then I heard a voice telling me "are you scared again? Don't worry, we need to talk" I didn't really hear this inner monologue. It was "knowing", a clear knowing "something" told me that. Some part of my psyche became autonomous and started to talk to me. I've never felt so strong and free in my life. During trip I didn't care anymore what other people thought about me because I could be my own support and my own protector. Seeing my hidden powerful part of psyche was exactly something that scared me. All this resource and energy hidden deep inside. Instead of looking inside I tried to search for outer sources of energy. After that trip during next two months my flashbacks about my former abuser completely stopped bothering me for the first time in my 30 years of life. I nowadays feel deeper connection to other people and it feels now I have more "space" in my head. Brain fog finally cleared. And it was only 1,5 g of shrooms. I can only imagine how this Yung technique could work with higher doses. How many people can be saved from their traumas.
You described a psychedelic experience, once while I was tripping I had a theory that imagination could just be memories or memories of others since we humans could all be in one consciousness.
When I watched Inception for the first time, I thought I was going crazy, seeing similar dream techniques to my own on a screen. Years later, I now actively write fiction, and have used this technique in writing since I became what I consider profficient in the art.
Already progressed far into this, learning from scratch and out of nowhere. Can vouch for this with experience. It was unlocked through bringing back my drawing hobby, which I didn't know, the single character that kept invading the pictures that I just imagine, was this figure. Now I have active conversations, through symbols, drawings, or journaling. A naughty and playful companion, that never gets me bored. Even so, it's only the voice of the unconscious. Manifestation does make it real. It wants to come to reality, or be a part of "self" in reality.
i have one as well.. its so naughty and cute..a little aspect of me like an alter ego. and theres this one as well, a guy dressed in primeval character, a bad boy persona.. this one makes me scared because i get to fall in love with the bantings and antics lol... i no longer practiced or converse with them too much because im afraid of them sometimes,.. l tend to lose my identity and reality. but theyre so playful 🥰
omg I didn’t this was an actual thing that has a name! I’ve been doing this unintentionally for many years when I’m trying to fall asleep in bed. I’ll let my mind wander and try to observe as the things I’m imagining shift and morph without my control. Thanks for this amazing video
I use active imagination to fall asleep at night. Interestingly, I have noticed a significant amount of lucidity to my dreams. Didn't know it was because of this though.
Same here, but I fall asleep so quick & peacefully but then wake up multiple times between 2 AM - 4:30 AM from hellish dreams, most horrible nightmares...they make my blood run cold.
2 times in my life I had mystical experiences with my unconcious or the collective unconcious. I just know that I tapped into something I didnt knew existed in me. I had very crystal clear dreams, normally I only have very vague dreams and thoughts if I have dreams at all. But during this event I had crystal clear images in my mind. Also I had thoughts coming to me very fast, I started to write them down as they came. I wrote like 50 pages in 2 days with really beautiful poetry and really deep stuff. I never really wrote before. It got in contact with what I really want from life, which I thought I knew but showed me something completely else. This experience changed my life because since then I have a complete different perspective on the world and on myself.
i fell asleep after listening to this video, and i had one of the most vivid and horrifying dreams i’ve ever had. definitely something worth looking back into and reflecting on.
Great modern sages lol 😂 I'm 26 Chinese in Australia your philosophy is so bizarre to the common public but in our own common psyche our own isolated solitude .. That is where your content shines !! Good work 👍
What I did is I listened to a guided heart-opening meditation by my Guru, and at the same time during that period I was constantly connecting with his energy and trying to remember the past that hurt me. I couldn't remember almost anything, and then one time during the meditation, I suddenly started to remember, many images just started popping in my mind. I healed so much during this period. What I did here is, I was inviting light in my being, opening my heart and feeling highly elevated emotions such as love, forgiveness, connection, gratitude etc. and that light alone started to shine upon all the darkness within me, so the darkness came out by itself.
Eastern philosophy/spirituality has delved deeper into said concepts. The knowledge has existed for thousands of years in the form of the vedas, upanishads and other scriptures and have been used by several sages to achieve self realization with the help of a guru. The mind/the soul holds unlimited power, that can break the boundaries of comprehension. I recommend you to read 'The autobiography of a yogi' by swami yogananda. I came across the concepts of eastern schools of thought with regards to spirituality, only relatively recently despite being an Indian myself. The soul transcends the body and the body becomes lifeless once the mind delves deep enough and rise above to the crown of our heads to see the 'absolute truth'. This is what the Indians called Samadhi. Shortly before going completely mute, the person demonstrates erratic behaviour, sometimes identifying themself as god, since they understand that the soul is a piece that mirrors god himself. I'm convinced that this is what happened to Nietzsche. Unlike other religions and dogma, the spiritual school of thought, especially the one derived from paramahamsa Ramakrishna emphasizes that all religious pursuits are different paths to realize the same god. I hope you do give some of these avenues the time of your day to investigate. Channels that could help - The spiritual Bee. - The supreme yogi.
This is one of the oldest methods for unlocking the human subconscious. In Upanishads it is used in a form of dialogue between teacher and student. Where the teacher is the subconscious and the student is the conscious mind. In indian philosophy it is referred to as Gyan yoga(yoga of knowledge).
Same in Zen Buddhism. The teachers would not answer any question and give random answers to their students. They would let the question stew in the students mind. Until they finally came to a realisation after debating themselves on it. The answer came from within, not outside.
Have you done it? I've been reading the comments but I'm not sure how to start. Is it just like meditation, but I hold an image or do I let my imagination just run until something happens?
This was absolutely fantastic and well put together. You actually helped me understand individuation more than I previously did, and I also realized that I often meet with these archetypes yet don't interact much. I must begin doing so.
I may have been doing this for a while. On my lunch break at work I would often op to go to my car, close my eyes and take what I would call a "power nap". It's not entirely accurate, I am firmly conscious most of the time but I just let my mind wander in all directions. The thing keeping me grounded is my watch because I need to keep track of time anyway. To me I find that far more rejuvenating than a meal. I find keeping my mind focused on a singular task for hours on end to be exhausting. It's like fighting to keep the dog on the path while taking him for a walk. Once you sit down on a park bench, you can relax and let him play.
This makes so much sense! I too have “naps” at work. Sometimes for a bit too long haha but even just 15 mins can do wonders for your mind and body. I feel more energized than when I wake up after 7 hour sleep and I walk out of the bathroom stall thinking a lot more clearly, sometimes still seeing/remember the things I saw and heard when I was in that “nap” state. Wish I knew more on how to do this more effectively.
There's a few things that are absolutely real and I've had first hand experiences with that fascinat and intrigue me. 1. Lucid dreams. I've only had one so far and I did not let it go to waste.. I pulled over at a grocery shop and looked closely at everyone's faces.. yes they all had the same face.. kids, adults, gramps, men women.. they had same face just different age/ sex related features.. they had npc type repeat dialogues.. I wanted to explore more but I woke up. 2. Early morning realizations. These realizations has served to help me pull myself out of trauma. I used to get nightmares but these early morning realizations or reflections of the dreams explained my nightmares and it freed me. This has happed to me on multuple occasions. I can elaborate on this if anyone is interested. 3. Active imagination: this is something that I've been consciously attempting to manifest but so far I've only had a few shallow images and scenes that didn't make any sense. But it happens when I'm in that in between state of being partially awake and partially asleep.
@@ohnree4110 well there's a proper term to that phenomenon. Its basically a very clear state of mind. When your body is still asleep early in the morning and your brain wakes up after a dream or something, or when you've been thinking about some thoughts throughout the day and go to sleep thinking about it, you wake up with those thoughts and since your brain is at its max distraction free state, your brain can connect different pieces of information like jenga pieces and you see the bigger picture. You do need to collect the pieces first though.. pieces are information and knowledge(correct, accurate knowledge and information), data points of information that connects to each other and then everything makes sense. At some point this is called the "insight" which one of my bpd friends told me that her doc told her about it to help her with her emotions etc. Opposite of insight is called pathological/psychotic insight (refer book interpretation of schizophrenia by uhh some guy named aviolie not sure). One insight makes you sane other insight derives you insane. My schizophrenic friend told me that she has been told the secret of the universe which drove her insane... she also mentioned the puzzle pieces thing .. but it's opposite in her case. Also look into intuition..(caudate putamen)
@@nemoianpaw9929 nightmares are the things you're most afraid of /anxious about represented symbolically. But if you've done any research.. enough research then something connects in your head and you get to rise up from the nightmares and also your trauma. I can't go into specifics as its personal and going into specifics isn't going to gain you any more insight.
I regularly have “interviews” with Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan, sometimes my grandpa. We sit and they point out things I’m actively avoiding or not paying attention to. Some of my life’s greatest revelations have come out of these imaginary interviews.
Been practicing and have done this about 7 times so far and it honestly makes me tear up at how understanding the folks in my subconscious are. For example one person who says his name is Anori (long black hair, fair skin and red eyes) says he represents my spirit/drive. The sum of the conversations I've had with him are basically him reassuring me (through various symbols) that I do have drive in life and that, in time, I'll learn to stop the negative thoughts in my head.
I’m an anxious and ( leaning towards) antisocial person. A few years ago I started using active imagination as a way to comfort myself and view things critically, but also realistically. I’ve never actually ‘let go’ in the sense that active imagination has to take it’s own shape, and I think it could be an interesting way to go about this.
This channel is my first real dive into Jung and his ideas. I'm really enjoying it and appreciate the work you have put into it. This aspect in particular- active imagination, is something I've always done. It will be really interesting to approach it with more tools and intention. Thanks man!
Woooow so thats how its called. I have used this technique out of the blue recently and it helped me in every single area of my life. Financially, personally, taking care of myself, health, confidence everything has gotten better. I really believe people that can do this should do it, it will help you understand and regulate yourself incredibly better.
I also plunged into the depths when I was contemplating my deepest set fears and becoming so frustrated with how they have shaped me and how they will impact my future. I repeated a mantra “Death is always near” suddenly an overwhelming sensation washed through me, then darkness and a deafening noise. I plunged deeper and deeper until I came up a sliver of light, with streams of light flowing out of it. My sensations were not bound to my body. In the moment all thought had ceased, I felt limitless potential and the capacity for growth, I felt the universe inside me. At last a thought came. “This is who I am” I feel like I saw my soul in some ways or rather the collective soul of all existence and I felt connected in a way I can’t describe. All that I care to say about my path now is that I wish to experience as much as I can with my moments on earth.
Duder... I applaud your presentation, which I have just finished listening/watching. I've come to know these characters that you describe more or less as a set of tools left on various parts of my own personal path for me to find throughout my life. Once I had a greater grasp on the meanings of love, hate, and indifference I've found which of these tools are useful, which ones need maintenance, and yet others that serve no purpose to me or my ends. They all have their own personality which is the salvaged fractures of what was left over from my psyche after I lost grip with reality in 2016 and made a visit to the psyche ward. This video offers these parts of myself a greater clarity as to knowing themselves and also peace of mind for me as I have suspected that I am more than just one man living out his days on this great rock I call home. Cheers brother!
I think it’s segments of your subconscious aka what you’ve noticed and forgot about and then that part light up. Idk I’m on acid hopefully this makes sense. We are very valuable and can do so so much with our minds. Just because were fragile does make that any less so. Nothing is more powerful then the energy of your essence.
Whenever I find myself confronted with big emotions and feelings I pause and imagine someone is asking me “how are you feeling right now?” Or “ how does this make you feel?” And I respond in a way that calms me and makes me think logically vs going down with my emotions. 😅 I’m happy to read others do similar things!
Holy cow thank you so much for this. I had never heard of Active Imagination and it perfectly describes what I've been lacking in my life. Wonderful explanations, thank you so much
Anyone imagine scenarios while listening to music or driving, it’s like you’re there but you’re not at the same time. Also I feel like we imagine things constantly that when we come across a real scenario it seems real familiar(deja vu), making it seem like we saw the future somehow but can’t put a finger on it
I've been doing this for sometime. I enter into a meditative state and just observe my own internal imagery until sometimes it becomes alive. Honestly thought I was schizophrenic or experiencing a form of psychosis or something. Extremely interesting - very similar to a psychedelic experience.
This happens to me spontaneously and it's scary cause I got into a car accident because of it. When I go deep my brain refuses to process reality so I can't see cars or people around me. I'm more cautious now when I'm driving but it is amazing how quickly I can drift off.
@@pluutoop that sounds like disassociation. Having a little experience with that, you're description sounds very familiar to what that feels like. I would look into it.
As I closed my eyes I had like a rush through 20 dreams I had and in every Dream there opened a Door to the next one. Like I found a Solution in every Dream to deal with the Issue . thx for the video!
I've been doing this for a long time, a very long time, the extending out of dreams venturing off into my imagination, I'd always start off in the same forest sitting on the same corduroy road and start to wander from there, suddenly I feel a lot safer knowing what I'm doing rather than just aimlessly wandering
I’ve only had a few situations where I have experienced this I think. It was in a meditative state before falling asleep, but I was not asleep. It was as if I had a TV screen in my head and I was tuning into different “channels” seeing different characters. In one of these, I was sitting at a park on a bench across from this middle aged man. He had pretty blue eyes and white hair and was an attractive looking man for his age and had kind of a sparkle in his eye. He looked right at me and said: “(my name), do you know who I am?” I shook my head no. And he said, word for word, “I’m known as your father, domestic abuse.” Which doesn’t make sense grammatically but it sounded like he was calling himself “Domestic Abuse” or something. I “woke up” immediately and withdrew myself because it shocked me for some reason to hear him say that to me so I didn’t get much further than that. My father in this life was never physically abusive, so I don’t know what it could have meant. But it was very strange
Thanks so much for this. What a great video, and a well timed one, for me. I had been trying to solve a question of mine, and you gave me the key to unlock it. I have been having dreams of adventure at night, I have been contemplating how to go on an adventure in real life. Asking friends, talking about it with others to see what they thought. Also Remarking that I wanted a big dream to learn from. I have not been feeling satisfied because I have not being able to have the big dream at will. Your video has helped me realize what my adventure is going to be. I am going to embark on learning how to actively imagine.
I imagine directing a movie about different experiences I have been through, but I imagine the audience being in the theater and finally understanding why I did the things I did.
Even as a person who read Jung’s work, not all of it. I came across Active Imagination but never really understood it. But I remember in my hypnogogic state. As a poet, I was thinking of how to use images to make a narrative out of it. And also think randomly of words and in a shamanistic sense, try and find revelatory metaphoric meaning and insight out of a conglomeration of thoughts and images. I remember one time, I thought of a rock, and the rock started shifting in my mind into different images and places. Its like I activated a dream by which I can control the object in the dream and the narrative in the dream. At the time, I didn’t know I was actively imagining. But now I know.
while I genuinely enjoyed this and I do appreciate your content and time, I feel it's so important to remind anyone planning on attempting this practice MUST use discernment and NEVER assume that all of the figures who present themselves are benevolent or have your best interest and safety in mind. Always remember to start each practice with some sore of prayer/cleansing/request for protection from God or your spirit guides.
@@_shadow_1 you are probably already surrounding yourself with a good energy and high vibration. Stay positive and compassionate. Present yourself like a glowing candle to everyone and anything around you. Remember that our true source is pure love and light.
I got this immediate unsettling feeling of despair that made me shudder slightly when the narrator suggested that I invite the involved entities to personify themselves... The weight I've had from the evils I've investigated and understood hasn't been invited by me in that respect yet so who knows what's waiting
Best book I ever bought! Meditation is practice. Practice to experience a lucid journey in the kingdom. The kingdom "is among you" already. But your ego guards it. Mara/Satan guards it.
Wow. Mind blown at how it fits into my world and ready to stop running from my archetypes; certainly apologize to some; and begin the conversation/expression. This is truly amazing!!!
I do this all day every day. I only talk to myself really cuz I have no friends, but I mostly put myself back 100s of years ago with my ancestors in Germany living in tribes.
What an incredibly amazing video! I'm speechless that this type of content is made available for free by people like you. So first of all: thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating this! Having read some of Jung's work about archetypes and having done some shadow work lately, I feel like this is what is calling for me next. But this exercise honestly terrifies me - even though I am in my mid-thirties and not a very anxious person by nature. I cannot believe how brave and fearless (and fully conviced by his scientific approach) Jung must have been, when first experimenting with stuff like this - being fully aware of the fact that nobody could keep himself in check if things went out of control but himself. This man really was unbelievable. Plus, I honestly salute everybody in this comment section, who is doing this exercise voluntarily and sharing your experiences so openly with others. Your courage, fearlessness and experience is truly inspiring. So I think I'll prepare as best as I can, remember to bring the student mindset and an attitude of love and go meet the demons that are probably waiting for me. It's scary, but probably the most life changing exercises we can all do (especially when Jung decided to devote the majority of his life to this single exercise).
I thoroughly enjoy the way you pair particular works of art with your narration. This visual component helps me to deepen my focus. Your reminder of the value of tuning in to the active imagination came at the perfect moment. Thank you!
as you probably know already, some of the art work features is actually from the RedBook itself, also William Blake, etc. Indeed, all well combined in this video.
@@1kenneth1985 Thank you for the information! Some of the artwork was familiar to me -- some not. I enjoyed how the art enhanced the meaning of what was being said. I'm sort of diving back into "Jungian waters" after years away, and I'm having a blast! I appreciate your taking the time to reply to me.
@@susanzoeckler4926 just noticed: i sent a 2nd response w/ further pointers/suggestion in regards to CGJung audio's online - which got promptly deleted. pity. Thanks again though for your earlier response/acknowledgement.
@@1kenneth1985 Interesting..... I confess I have no clue who deletes what or why. I always appreciate additional breadcrumbs along the path -- they lead me in new directions. Thanks, again.
Does anybody else lucid dream often, but sometimes when you close your eyes you start dreaming in under 30 minutes? This has been this case for me for a very long time, and I think this is the explanation I’ve been looking for. The funny thing is I didn’t even look for it, I’ve been thinking about doing some research but still haven’t. Then this pops into my recommendations. If anybody else experiences something similar please respond. You’re not alone. If enough of us are out there, I’m thinking we should create a Reddit or Discord group to share our experiences. Best wishes to all.
Just discovered this. It s amazing. Do everything u forța do for you and dont be stressed, let the things come and happen, wait, Even if you did something good or Wrong. Cheers to Everyone love allways people Around you!
This feels closely related to many psychedelic experiences I have had. I personally had a terrifying lsd trip a few years ago, it felt as though I was having a war within my own mind. Having introspected upon this trip for a few years I theorize that psychedelics may be, as I like to call them, a key that unlocks the door to the unconscious... I now know that the war I had fought was really my ego trying to fight off my unconscious, and the unconscious was victorious. I hope to become a psychologist so as to unravel this perplexing mystery which I now intend to make my lifes work.
@@GameHub1- I'm currently doing my final year dissertation for my bachelors degree, I have a lot of steps i still need to take but i have a goal and a plan to attain it. As for any other psychedelic experiences, I haven't had any more since the comment was posted originally. This is mainly because for me to fulfil my spiritual development and understanding, i need to get some professional credibility first. So that why I have made it my priority at the moment. In summary, I feel very good with where I'm at, thanks.
I thought I was just taking to myself, analyzing myself, things around me. Imagining myself in different situations and over some time I grew to be able to separate my mind from my body. But what really did it for me was Psilocybin mushrooms, want trip I didn’t really experience a visual trip but more so one within my mind. I literally separated my souls from physical body in my mind. That’s when I realized our body is really just a machine ran by our souls and the more you focus on your Conscience and the voice in your head what I think is your soul the more you’re able to separate your mind from your body. Or maybe I just need to stop getting high but I do feel I have the ability to separate my mind from my body. I can’t really explain it.
I get this, it’s such a hard feeling to describe but it makes sense. Psilocybin truly triggered it for me, I feel a lot more understanding of the world around me at times, and am far more content.
I did something similar via meditation, I saw a golden orb above me with purple flowers around me. I have no fucking clue and I dont know what the flowers were :(
Yes it’s like this intense dominanting light that produces emotions so complicated and strong and it’s crazy the human body can even feel it. Like it’s from nature we are so much more then we think.
I do this before sleep as im drifting off. I always wondered how i was dreaming without being in REM sleep. I also do this during meditation. It just comes naturally to me. It's like watching a movie with no real plot behind my eyes
When I finally realized we are ruled my the subconscious, I was able to see why I do and have issues, that I have currently changed. I discovered this in a coma. It's been 9yrs and am a completely different person now!
I write stories in my free time and I already used some of the methods before I watched the video I was even aware that I am dreaming so I could do everything I wanted to do like jumping from tree to tree cuz I was following a train driving past me (idk why to be honest) but it was a very intensive experience for me. It is really interesting to see that you can get more into this stuff and I am really glad that I found this video. Thank you very much!
This is what creative writers do! Sort minutae, bothersome things, different facets of the personality, reinvent events, battle trauma, and so much more. I must get that Red Book!
I had this doubt and pain in my heart regarding my husband. It was getting stronger every time, scaring me because he is a very good man who loves me deeply. But the feeling was so strong that it would wake me up. One night I woke up with it telling me strange things about him, fear consumed me. I began to believe that I was going crazy, things were getting worst and out of control. But then, I saw this emotion like a black concrete ball sitting on my heart chakra. It was heavy and dense. Right there, I imagined the physical form of my heart chakra change, I felt like I was someone else. This was right after waking up. It was crazy, I imagined to have changed the way my heart chakra received information. It was like a wave or a gravitational center that changed its central force and shape. It became unfuckwithable. That dense matter was gone, and I was changed physically and emotionally. I am different now.
Oh wild. I'd never heard of this, but I'm Type II BiPolar and ADHD. I follow Astrology and, as I realized I was going into a manic state, I checked the astrological positions, I had remembered it was an eclipse, and Venus was aligned with the Sun on a tight grouping I have in Libra. I got locked out of the house a bit later and stood around in the garage for a while to warm up. It was so loud in my head and giving me so much anxiety it was just driving me up the wall. I decided to try assigning the 'voices' planetary identities and holy shit did that ever help. Like, it was a loud argument in my head but I couldn't keep track of who was saying what until then. Then I immediately realized they were all talking to each other and with my observation to focus on each at a time, they started communicating their needs and started supporting each other and everything quieted down quickly.
Very interesting and high-quality video. I like the idea of greeting the unconscious without blindly following it. Giving the ego a place in the conversation, but holding on to the keys. That also emphasizes the importance of having a guide, someone who can ground you to the external world when needed, so as not to get lost in the internal. Great work, and a great jumping-off point for more research.
I can relate to this completely: it’s like the feeling of seeing a place for the first time , then revisiting and noticing the differences, but this place is real as … this world. As a child it was a coliseum filled with other dreaming children. I had this dream more than I can count. In this place the children slept and played games with these other “things” . The games were brutal in nature. Severed limbs were the cost of losing, yet the players were all in a duality of consciousness and were not afraid.
*“The ego is a small island surrounded by a deep unseen ocean of energy where huge forces are at work. Active imagination is underwater diving.”*
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Was the one that caught my attention. 🤔 Thanks
I'm up for this. Individual and collective variables to be considered. Think the distortions stem from the Roman Catholic Church.
I love this analogy! 👇🏽🏆🌹
Ohh man!
I'm so active listening to this awesome video
Thank you so much and much love ❤️
That made me want to more explore about Carl Jung work and art.
When washing my dishes, I have imagined being interviewed on TV. For example, the interviewer might ask me what the causes of depression are, and solutions. Absolutely brilliant inspired answers would flow through me.
As a child I distinctly remember any time I took a bath and sat facing the tile wall all of the sudden I'd be imagining being interviewed on tv and explaining something about my life, weird I just remember that I'd never put words to that before
Every time I find myself in a mundane activity (essentially anything that doesn’t have my full interest) I also get lost in my mind. I’ve been extremely imaginative ever since I was a child, which I used to cope with my isolation and boredom. As I’ve aged, I thought it would melt away, and in some aspects it has, but for the most part I am still extremely internal and imaginative
Anyone else hear psychedelics out of that?
I thought I was just trippin….. woah guess I’m not the only laddie here
I have a feeling this could be one of those things many of us do, but never mention.... I do it myself; I think when I'm grappling with an idea that is new or fresh to me. It's pretty clear to me that I (probably most people) "think better" out loud, and I think this is the minds attempt to mimic that. You simulate a dialogue to try and get "beyond" yourself and your typical thought processes
this is one of the best comment sections I've ever read.
fascinating anecdotes
thanks for sharing everyone
@@intuitive1986 other people's description of their shadow self
Yeah, reading comments is way better and more satisfying than watching a boring movie ot tv show on Netflix.
Dude for real
Right? 😂😂 wtf am I reading 😅
This is how I stopped having panic attacks and I didn’t even realize it. I used to have bad anxiety and panic attacks as a teenager. Over time every time I felt the anxiety coming up, I’d begin imagining a dialogue between logical self and my fearful self. And in these daydreams my logical self was in a white lab coat and glasses in a dark office sitting behind a desk, and my fearful self was the patient expressing his fears and symptoms. I started being talked down from panic attack until one day I just stopped having them
ill try that, after how long did ur anxiety subside? im in my late teens rn and i wanna rid my anxiety completely, could you assist me
@@Brian-mc7iw sure! I can’t promise your anxiety will disappear completely. There are times since I was 14 (I’m 23 now) where I’ve had panic attacks as a response to severe stress or loss. Anxiety is normal. Anxiety is natural. It took about a year or so maybe a little less, for my anxiety to stop effecting my day to day life. From age 14 I struggled and by the time I was about 17 I had almost no struggles with anxiety whatsoever. But like I said, it pops up every now and again throughout the years
That is super cool actually, I am gonna try that.
ugh i absolutely love this comment! That's amazing
Currently doing this alongside psychodynamic therapy and occasional psychedelics. It’s really helps so much with my racing thoughts and anxiety. I imagine it more as a debate between two people that I’m viewing as a third party, and I have the power to decide the argument is over, when previously it felt like I was in this eternal back and forth with some mysterious critical voice
I often imagine I’m the only soul in existence. Everything and everyone that surrounds me are but mere reflections of myself. This is an experience for myself by myself to avoid being lonely in the void of nothingness.
I am real.
Trust me I am real
sus @@AonghusCarone
Crazy because that’s exactly what you are.
We ARE all one, experiencing things. Im starting to believe when we die it’ll all make sense.
I don't think everything will start making sense even after dying@@BeforeThisNovember
I use active imagination all the time, I use it to try and solve my inner problems I am going through and something I have noticed that in these sessions where I’m essentially imagining my conversations with people in my life, I tend to be way more articulate and able to present myself in a more clearer way, than I do in real life and with conversations with people in my life.
You seem to be naturally introspective
Hey give me your insta , just wanna talk to you about it please
For anyone struggling with fear of facing the unconscious I tell you what helped me. Approach you’re unconscious from a place of love and friendliness. If you focus on feeling love when approaching your scary unconscious characters I guarantee they will no longer scare. You have to love and accept them for who they are because they are apart of YOU. When you focusing on loving scary unconscious material they will drop any attempts to attack you and they will respect you. They will be receptive to friendly discussion. If you approach them with fear they will feed on it attack you. It’s sounds cheesy but choose to love them, and at the very least they will respect you while being open to civil discussion.
this statement, as many others in this comment section, is supported and supports what C. Jung wrote, "We know that the face of the unconscious is not rigid -it reflects the face we turn toward it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect., friendliness softens its features.".... and the narrator on this video as well. thank you for sharing
@@queencass9127 I didn’t know there was a quote for what I said thanks for sharing that.
I have to disagree with this- though I'm sure the Jung quote about being friendly towards the unconscious contents is true, there are also quotes of him saying overtly that some contents should not be assimilated; they are not part of the personal unconscious, but the collective unconscious, and may be hostile
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unconscious dosent care about your feeelings. Thers a reason we are devided from it and any emotional realtion to it is it love or hate it will lead you to self-deception.
And im not sayin you should ignore emotions or that they are deceptive. But they are not and de facto truth
You should observe those emotions and try to understand them in relation to your imagination or introspection.
I've lived most of my life doing this. I grew up alone so I used to have to talk to myself a lot. Than I would imagine myself in alternative worlds where different teachers would help me learn new things about life. Its funny I learned a lot more from them than most people in real life. It can seem like mental illness to most but if you let them know what your doing they tend to understand at least a little. I've sought council from all different kinds of beings challenged demons till they revealed they were angels & wrapped myself tightly in several deep wisdom filled journeys. It can be fun. If your sane going a little mad can actually be quite healthy. Everyone should be atleast a little crazy.
Same thing happened to me, active imagination is awakened when there is no external interruptions, it grew on me when i spent about 3 years alone in my child years, i get shocked by the amount of knowledge the unconscious offers me when I’m in need, iv never had a teacher besides it.
I believe this is how we develop common sense when we’re young.
@@ladybug3380 common sense? Do you mean basic navigational survival interactions? Or something different? Like perifrial senses?
@@ghostrebelsociety both?
I can trigger it spontaneously during the daytime by imagining myself turning the lights on in my head when there is total darkness. And when the lights come on I see a long hallway lined with doors that go on forever. I call it the infinite corridor. Each door goes somewhere completely different. I think the imagination gives us glimpses at the multiverse and it’s potential to manifest itself in our world
Active Imagination is something I, and I'm sure other people, have been practicing for a while without actually knowing the term for it. Thank you for making this video going into detail about the subject. Not that I care, but I feel less crazy. My art is a direct reflection of my dreams and active imagination. And thanks for the resources in the video as well. I'm gonna be more diligent in my practices.
but this all seems so scary for me to try
Let's see your artwork...link?
@@Zelchinho Just remember it's not the same reality as the one you're used to being in. And you can turn it off and on, just create your own ticks for it. Do more research on it too.
I’m not sure if this is anything related but for almost my whole life I’ve had conversations, casually, everyday in my head. I’m not sure if this is an offshoot of this or just schizophrenia or something (which is unlikely). One thing that was weird is while watching this video multiple times I got extremely emotional for no apparent reason and would start tearing up/crying. But who knows.
“ I feel less crazy “ ❕❕❕
I'm jumping back and forth between Jung's Red Book, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, and Ellenberger's The Discovery of the Unconscious. My point is, to write and narrate this video took a tremendous amount of study. Thank you for your effort! I can't imagine how long it took you to prepare for this.
Also currently reading the Red Book + the archetypes and the collective unconscious. never heard of the other book you’re studying however
@@kseniasemenovykh6767 I've got the Red Book in my office but I'm waiting on it. I've mostly just flipped through the artwork. So the Discovery of the Unconscious has been great so far. Very readable. It's a history of earliest treatments that would eventually become dynamic psychology. It kind of details the split between what became medical care... and what became depth psychology. Though it's very readable... it is also close to 900 pages. So it's a beast.
Did this coupled with breathing exercises for about 3 hours once. I was walking out of a dense Forrest on a path that climbed many small hills in a meadow. It was easily the most vivid experience I had had up to that point and after walking awhile I decided to sit and meditate at the top of one of the endless hills. After a while someone told me to get up. Around me were three shadow people. I asked who they were and one introduced himself as the creeping death and the other two as the fearful and noble deaths. I asked why the others were not speaking and he told me he spoke because I was currently in his domain. He was very insistent that I get up and keep walking the path. He said that one day one of them would come for me but for now I needed to keep moving. I walked for a short while after that talk but before anything else happened my then infant son woke up from his nap and pulled me out of it. It was insanely realistic and I still remember it vividly feels crazy to talk about.
what breathing excersizes did you do if you don’t mind me asking ?
@antonmurphy-cartiglia24 the wim Hoff
That’s super interesting, perhaps this means that your currently on track to a “creeping death” (dying of old age not having lived a noble or fearful life, just an average one) and if you change your path in life you can achieve a noble death. I’m not stating anything supernatural here btw, this is what I believe your subconscious mind believes about you. Perhaps it’s a message to pursue a more noble path in life. I believe that being a parent is an extremely noble task though, so perhaps if you believe the same you can achieve the “noble death.” This is all just speculation though, you know way more about your own life that me and can come to way more accurate conclusions as to the meaning of this than I can, if any meaning at all.
@bobross4447 I think it was more so that I decided to sit in that moment rather than walk, but that could be how I was I feeling about myself subconsciously. I lived a very wild life up until about 2 or 3 years before he was born. I wasn't trying to die per se, but I was very willing to for the sake of a thrill. I honestly didn't expect to make it this long, but I did somehow. I really don't desire the thrill chasing. I feel exhausted of it. But there could be a part of me that wants to express itself that no longer gets to. It felt too significant to be completely meaningless. I had a very strange relationship with the concept of death back then, but now that I have my son and my wife to look forward to, the existential dread pops into my head like it never has before. Very strange thing being conscious.
It's been a few months since I read this comment, I had to search through my youtube history to find it again. Then the comments of this video.
This has really stuck with me ever since I've read it.
Having ADHD, being introvert and having almost no friends in my life, talking with myself in my mind is one of the insane things i do in my life to keep me sane, not quite the same thing described in the video but it's still a way of learning about myself.
Doing this saved me from going into deep depression, i still think i'm depressed but in a much more superficial way than i once was in, i used to always be in a downer mood, but not anymore. These conversations aren't me talking with myself literally, they're usually me imagining myself someone asking me something, and then i start talking, i discovered many things about myself that i would only find out if other people confronted me about it otherwise.
Beyond the psychological effects this does, it actually helped me learn english. Since i had no one to talk to in english, when i was starting to learn it i'd talk in english in my mind, and whenever i hit a roadblock i'd try to find ways to fix it, and it's how i learned english by myself with the help of video games as a kid.
I have a few friends but not anyone I can actually discuss topics like this with so 99% of my conversations happen in my head. Smalltalk bores me tremendously and that's all the majority of people know how to do. Talk about their life, the sports games, the weather, the latest gossip.
@@redrustyhill2 I don't really like small talk but don't mind doing it, i just absolutely hate repeating it. Doing small talk one day is fine, doing the next day or next week is what kills me, my brain keeps trying to find ways to innovate the conversation and then realises nothing would work or would sound natural, so i get frustrated.
Me too! I learned English by talking to myself out loud because I was very quiet at school. On another note, I feel that I am more comfortable expressing my emotions in English and feels weird expressing it in my mother tongue. I wonder if it’s because my English is more fluent or is it because different languages we learn represent different inner parts of ourselves? And the English side of me feels more detached that it’s easier to talk about emotions?
@@rebecca37094 Maybe you're just more comfortable to use english instead, it's the case for me, though it's not just for emotions. If the topics of your monologues were about emotions, it could be because of that.
If there is such a thing as different languages for different parts of ourselves, it could be that you gave it that attribute somehow.
At the end of the day, i don't know. For me i just express myself better in english than in my native language, but that could be because i don't get to talk to too many people in real life, so i engage in online talk in english way more often than i do in person talk in my native language.
I used to always speak out loud to myself while doing something hard, pretending I’m making a TH-cam tutorial. I also have ADHD and this really helps keep me focused on the task. I know that if I stop talking (making the tutorial) I’m off focus and need to get back to what I was doing. It’s really beneficial in my opinion. As far as language goes, I do the same thing. When I was learning german I would make tutorials, and make conversations with myself in German. They key is the challenge yourself. Ask things you know will make you think.
Seven years ago, literally due to an accident, i started drawing... i was so absorbed in reality that i went into a deep place (unconscious)... after the first 4 or 5 drawings, i looked at them and i was surprised and thought: "who drew 'this'?" since then I find myself in that 'place', alone in the room, completely surrendered to creativity, and putting in my drawings the various visits and dialogues that are present through the unconscious. it's a lonely path... however it allows me to cleanse the ancestral cells. I like this channel, thanks for sharing. greetings from Portugal.
Nice story. Do you feel more complete now?
Is it a lonely path? Or are you simply alone on it?
@@Blackthorn869 very lonely in my case and alone,but not alone also.
@@elvenatheart982 well, honestly I dont know if Im more complete, but Im less judmental of others and my self, Maybe I've Change the lens of my eyes, and started a deep work of my inner connection. (Sorry for my 'poor' English 😐). Thank you for askind 🙏 big hug for you my friend.
@@joshuaallen6196 yes Joshua indeed!
Once I was complaining in my head about the neverending laundry and dishes...I heard a female voice saying, "at least you have clothes on your back and food on the table." It was very humbling. My mind went to the struggles my Irish ancestors had and I realized that I should be grateful.
Lmao yt ppl moment
Sorry that was so dumb it made me laugh
Pls tell how u did it
Bravo
I'm not sure that I would be happy or sad when I would hear somebody else answering in my head😅. Is it the first sign of madness?!!😮. Sorry, I was negatively positive there 😊
It's literally your true self you're engaging with, unfiltered by the constraints you enforce.
I didn't know it was anything other than normal to engage your imagination this way.
In my life I have been addicted to many things. Drugs, Sex, Internet. After watching this video, I am quite confident that I need to use this technics in my whole life. Because my addicton seem to be so powerful by all this 13 years.
Every day I feel feelings like emptiness or beeing unreal.
Hope to connect all my archetypes and personalities living inside me.
Greetings from Poland.
You are very smart person.
All videos are very interesting and clever.
great respect for You and all good for You :)
Thank you
I cried so much listening to this… my culture insists on ignoring these “voices” as they are another entity seperate from me. But as I grew older I learned that these are in fact parts of ME and I NEED to understand them…. This video just made me cry because it just relates so much and doesn’t alienate the inspiration we have.
You cry too easily.
@@malcontender6319 and its blantly obvious that you obviously don't cry enough. Cmon man, you can do it go touch some grass 🙏
I'm so glad you had such a beautiful realization about yourself. Good luck on everything you do! Happy for you.
@@malcontender6319 and what do you cry over?
Shut up u didn't cry stop being dramatic it's cringe as hell
Wow, I've been doing Active Imagination unconsciously and have been wondering why my life had been so surreal lately.... this video was a relief that I wasn't going insane through introspection.
same, ego alterego superego unconcious ect.. lucid dream and all.. disolution of the ego to then brag about having no ego wich is ego dust left.
its facinating but also funny hehe , braging about knowledge and experience, and low key fake modesty to empower others and feel amazing by being more proud than let known
that's astrology related hope your ready retrograde season things are about to get really wild. Saturn just went retrograde today.
@XeL you've done the things in this video before right? like in the middle of doing things and not just boring things or ample time? I get how this guy is making this sound like that. But is that what you're stepping up to?
@@bobray7790 just experienced my first retrograde mercury..ha wow !
Like a water bug dancing across the sky 😂
Throughout history scientists and artists have used their dreamscapes to create and make groundbreaking discoveries, it’s as if our dreams are part of grand structure that relates to the entire universe, somehow knowing more than we do. If only more could access that world in a conscious state, I wonder what the world would be
reminds me of biocentrism, from consciousness, reality emerges
Now this is where lucid dreaming comes into play, right?
First step in active imagination is to not spend 5+ hours a day on TH-cam.
When you say dreams i guess you mean imagination. If so ok, if you think of dreams as total black out , on bead dreams , i would challenge your thought and ask: what scientists ( not artists) have made their discoveries through dreams and what discoveries?
It would be the world of active imagination.
“Until you become conscious, the unconscious will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Yung This phrase made sense the first time I entered this state of introspection, as it seems to me it was the condition that Da Vinci ''was'
There is a very interesting article by Alain de Botton about this heightened state of consciousness, mentioning Da Vinci
I love Alain de botton would you happen to remember the name of the article pls
The EGO is not my SOUL
@@victoria2651might be his video ‘Higher consciousness’
Your Destiny is fixed..ur fate is what depends! Dont let that too be slipped by emmotions alone
how to enter state of introspection
I always have the seconds of maximum creativity when I'm about to fall asleep. Not quite awake but also not quite slumbering yet. I wonder if there's a name for this phenomenon and if other people also share this experience. It's so powerful to the point that I get lyrics for new songs and plot structure for novels.
Hypnagogia / Hypnagogic state
I grew up like this
If you enjoy this state, try sensory deprivation therapy, aka floating 💙
Also look into the Silva mind control method, accessing beta/delta/alpha brain waves when in different levels of sleep give you incredible abilities of the mind
Im a musician and i've heard one of the most beatiful songs on that point. I always promise myself i will remember them but the next morning i dont.
I’ve been searching material for Active Imagination for quite a while, and I’ve never seen such a detailed, insightful and inspirational video like this one. Incredible work!
Have you read Robert Johnson? Did it help? I'm reading it these days
Try foolish fish yt channel. He has a great guided meditation
It is like a summary of Robert A Johnson's book Inner Work that has been mentioned here. Great book
I’ve been doing this since I was a young boy. I still do this all the time. Conversations with people, being interviewed on deep topics, being praised for my greatness as a sumo wrestler, what a habit of thought to have.
Exactly same thing with me...😅
I have inherently always used my imagination to empower myself. People will pick on you until they see it working. Then they'll hate you. Keep going.
Well this was friggin powerful and right on time. I’ve been going through a period of intense upheaval and transformation and it has give me a lot of fear but also excitement about where I am going in life. When I closed my eyes to listen to this it was like I was watching a wall-like barrier with images/beings pressing their hands and bodies into it just brimming with potential and the desire to reveal themselves. Images came so readily and as I listened it was almost as if I was being guided on how to make them positive experiences. Thanks for this. I’m definitely going to incorporate this into my regular practice.
Did you just say friggin though 😂 because I love that so much lololol
Oh Man this is the stuff I have been searching for in my life. It's a confirmation & a reminder as a artist who has had a artist block for way too long. Definitely lifts my spirits & at the same time realize I need to do more research on Carl Jung who spent his lifetime working on the subject
Read about jung, sigmund freud and
Hinduism upnishad.
How’s that art 💪🏼
This video completely describes my first and at that time only mushroom trip.
I already had hyperfantasia and lucid dreaming almost every night since my childhood.
Been through severe ctpsd and dissociative identity disorder due to domestic abuse. Finished my therapy at the age of 28 and had my mushroom trip at 30.
It felt like I reconnected and gained back something that was lost long time ago.
First I was scared when shrroms started to change my cognition state. Then I heard a voice telling me "are you scared again? Don't worry, we need to talk"
I didn't really hear this inner monologue. It was "knowing", a clear knowing "something" told me that. Some part of my psyche became autonomous and started to talk to me.
I've never felt so strong and free in my life. During trip I didn't care anymore what other people thought about me because I could be my own support and my own protector. Seeing my hidden powerful part of psyche was exactly something that scared me. All this resource and energy hidden deep inside. Instead of looking inside I tried to search for outer sources of energy.
After that trip during next two months my flashbacks about my former abuser completely stopped bothering me for the first time in my 30 years of life. I nowadays feel deeper connection to other people and it feels now I have more "space" in my head. Brain fog finally cleared.
And it was only 1,5 g of shrooms. I can only imagine how this Yung technique could work with higher doses.
How many people can be saved from their traumas.
I wish that they weren't illegal. I mean for most people that doesn't matter, but for me it could mean losing my job and I ain't about that.
AAAAAAHHHH IM SHROOMING AHHHHHHHH
@@_shadow_1 they're in and out in 24 hours. Water soluble.
Oh sweet another schizo comment
@@l0lan00b3 Still, I ain't about to risk it.
Holy synchronicity. I just started my journey and you just posted this video. Thank you!
Dont watch Lifting Vegan Logic, he JoUrNeY everyday almost :D
gotta respect my journey trough consuming and imposing violence to animal unessesarily!
@@XeLTH-cam what?
What journey?!
@@Joseph_Hamilton good question
You described a psychedelic experience, once while I was tripping I had a theory that imagination could just be memories or memories of others since we humans could all be in one consciousness.
i need to trip with u
Lots of people have said this before. Usually after being stoned
@@denniswingo2004 woah people get inspired after being thrown stones at them ? wild
@@RaduP3 lmao
We are 100% one consciousness.
תודה!
Finally, a video with specific, concrete steps for doing inner Shadow work! Thanks, this is very helpful!
When I watched Inception for the first time, I thought I was going crazy, seeing similar dream techniques to my own on a screen. Years later, I now actively write fiction, and have used this technique in writing since I became what I consider profficient in the art.
Already progressed far into this, learning from scratch and out of nowhere. Can vouch for this with experience. It was unlocked through bringing back my drawing hobby, which I didn't know, the single character that kept invading the pictures that I just imagine, was this figure.
Now I have active conversations, through symbols, drawings, or journaling. A naughty and playful companion, that never gets me bored. Even so, it's only the voice of the unconscious. Manifestation does make it real. It wants to come to reality, or be a part of "self" in reality.
i have one as well.. its so naughty and cute..a little aspect of me like an alter ego.
and theres this one as well, a guy dressed in primeval character, a bad boy persona.. this one makes me scared because i get to fall in love with the bantings and antics lol...
i no longer practiced or converse with them too much because im afraid of them sometimes,.. l tend to lose my identity and reality.
but theyre so playful 🥰
@@jJust_NO_ can you explain more
@@jJust_NO_ how is this not dissociative identity disorder
@@lilvro7016 that's what people want you to believe, and to be scared of, for most people it helps them a lot
No judging but read the 2nd paragraph again, this sounds like a crazy person. I wanna get into this too but this kinda scares me
omg I didn’t this was an actual thing that has a name! I’ve been doing this unintentionally for many years when I’m trying to fall asleep in bed. I’ll let my mind wander and try to observe as the things I’m imagining shift and morph without my control. Thanks for this amazing video
Care to help me a bit more on the how to? I watched all the video and still have no idea how to do it, or if I'm doing it it correctly
Thanks! This helped me a lot in getting through this stage. :)
I use active imagination to fall asleep at night. Interestingly, I have noticed a significant amount of lucidity to my dreams. Didn't know it was because of this though.
Same here, but I fall asleep so quick & peacefully but then wake up multiple times between 2 AM - 4:30 AM from hellish dreams, most horrible nightmares...they make my blood run cold.
@@nabeelrafique7166does your heart race?
2 times in my life I had mystical experiences with my unconcious or the collective unconcious. I just know that I tapped into something I didnt knew existed in me. I had very crystal clear dreams, normally I only have very vague dreams and thoughts if I have dreams at all. But during this event I had crystal clear images in my mind. Also I had thoughts coming to me very fast, I started to write them down as they came. I wrote like 50 pages in 2 days with really beautiful poetry and really deep stuff.
I never really wrote before.
It got in contact with what I really want from life, which I thought I knew but showed me something completely else.
This experience changed my life because since then I have a complete different perspective on the world and on myself.
@gabe finkelstein the only way for you to know is by your own experience
i fell asleep after listening to this video, and i had one of the most vivid and horrifying dreams i’ve ever had. definitely something worth looking back into and reflecting on.
Why horrifying?
Jung is my favorite. He understood the power of our Soul. Thank you.
♥️♥️
Great modern sages lol 😂 I'm 26 Chinese in Australia your philosophy is so bizarre to the common public but in our own common psyche our own isolated solitude ..
That is where your content shines !! Good work 👍
I can't even lie I feel so uneasy watching this video. I'm terrified to do this, but I also feel like I've been led to this video for a reason.
Purhaps God lead you here.
or the algoritym is taking you were it want you to be. a confused sheep, ready to be exploited.
How has it been going since you left the comment? Wishing you well...
@@RallyTheTally he definitely did.
@@rainking50 man life is WELL. 🙏 I wish you well also
What I did is I listened to a guided heart-opening meditation by my Guru, and at the same time during that period I was constantly connecting with his energy and trying to remember the past that hurt me. I couldn't remember almost anything, and then one time during the meditation, I suddenly started to remember, many images just started popping in my mind. I healed so much during this period.
What I did here is, I was inviting light in my being, opening my heart and feeling highly elevated emotions such as love, forgiveness, connection, gratitude etc. and that light alone started to shine upon all the darkness within me, so the darkness came out by itself.
One of my favorite TH-cam channels ever. Please, don’t stop.
Eastern philosophy/spirituality has delved deeper into said concepts. The knowledge has existed for thousands of years in the form of the vedas, upanishads and other scriptures and have been used by several sages to achieve self realization with the help of a guru. The mind/the soul holds unlimited power, that can break the boundaries of comprehension. I recommend you to read 'The autobiography of a yogi' by swami yogananda. I came across the concepts of eastern schools of thought with regards to spirituality, only relatively recently despite being an Indian myself. The soul transcends the body and the body becomes lifeless once the mind delves deep enough and rise above to the crown of our heads to see the 'absolute truth'. This is what the Indians called Samadhi. Shortly before going completely mute, the person demonstrates erratic behaviour, sometimes identifying themself as god, since they understand that the soul is a piece that mirrors god himself. I'm convinced that this is what happened to Nietzsche. Unlike other religions and dogma, the spiritual school of thought, especially the one derived from paramahamsa Ramakrishna emphasizes that all religious pursuits are different paths to realize the same god. I hope you do give some of these avenues the time of your day to investigate. Channels that could help - The spiritual Bee.
- The supreme yogi.
This is one of the oldest methods for unlocking the human subconscious. In Upanishads it is used in a form of dialogue between teacher and student. Where the teacher is the subconscious and the student is the conscious mind. In indian philosophy it is referred to as Gyan yoga(yoga of knowledge).
Wow.. that's interesting. I will look up Gyan yoga.
I think Jung read them early in his career.
*NOT ANOTHER OVERPROUD INDIAN'S BS AGAIN. 🙄*
Same in Zen Buddhism. The teachers would not answer any question and give random answers to their students. They would let the question stew in the students mind. Until they finally came to a realisation after debating themselves on it. The answer came from within, not outside.
Have you done it? I've been reading the comments but I'm not sure how to start. Is it just like meditation, but I hold an image or do I let my imagination just run until something happens?
Exactly what I needed to reiterate that I am not being irrational unreasonable or wrong. So relevant to hear right now for all listening
Don’t ignore criticisms though
This was absolutely fantastic and well put together. You actually helped me understand individuation more than I previously did, and I also realized that I often meet with these archetypes yet don't interact much. I must begin doing so.
I may have been doing this for a while. On my lunch break at work I would often op to go to my car, close my eyes and take what I would call a "power nap". It's not entirely accurate, I am firmly conscious most of the time but I just let my mind wander in all directions. The thing keeping me grounded is my watch because I need to keep track of time anyway. To me I find that far more rejuvenating than a meal. I find keeping my mind focused on a singular task for hours on end to be exhausting. It's like fighting to keep the dog on the path while taking him for a walk. Once you sit down on a park bench, you can relax and let him play.
This makes so much sense! I too have “naps” at work. Sometimes for a bit too long haha but even just 15 mins can do wonders for your mind and body. I feel more energized than when I wake up after 7 hour sleep and I walk out of the bathroom stall thinking a lot more clearly, sometimes still seeing/remember the things I saw and heard when I was in that “nap” state. Wish I knew more on how to do this more effectively.
There's a few things that are absolutely real and I've had first hand experiences with that fascinat and intrigue me.
1. Lucid dreams. I've only had one so far and I did not let it go to waste.. I pulled over at a grocery shop and looked closely at everyone's faces.. yes they all had the same face.. kids, adults, gramps, men women.. they had same face just different age/ sex related features.. they had npc type repeat dialogues.. I wanted to explore more but I woke up.
2. Early morning realizations.
These realizations has served to help me pull myself out of trauma.
I used to get nightmares but these early morning realizations or reflections of the dreams explained my nightmares and it freed me. This has happed to me on multuple occasions. I can elaborate on this if anyone is interested.
3. Active imagination: this is something that I've been consciously attempting to manifest but so far I've only had a few shallow images and scenes that didn't make any sense. But it happens when I'm in that in between state of being partially awake and partially asleep.
Yes I would like to hear you elaborate on point 2. I think I have gone through something similar but would like to hear your story.
@@ohnree4110 well there's a proper term to that phenomenon. Its basically a very clear state of mind.
When your body is still asleep early in the morning and your brain wakes up after a dream or something, or when you've been thinking about some thoughts throughout the day and go to sleep thinking about it, you wake up with those thoughts and since your brain is at its max distraction free state, your brain can connect different pieces of information like jenga pieces and you see the bigger picture.
You do need to collect the pieces first though.. pieces are information and knowledge(correct, accurate knowledge and information), data points of information that connects to each other and then everything makes sense. At some point this is called the "insight" which one of my bpd friends told me that her doc told her about it to help her with her emotions etc.
Opposite of insight is called pathological/psychotic insight (refer book interpretation of schizophrenia by uhh some guy named aviolie not sure).
One insight makes you sane other insight derives you insane. My schizophrenic friend told me that she has been told the secret of the universe which drove her insane... she also mentioned the puzzle pieces thing .. but it's opposite in her case.
Also look into intuition..(caudate putamen)
@@007lutherking thanks for the info very interesting to read.
But what specifically was the explanation of your nightmares?
@@nemoianpaw9929 nightmares are the things you're most afraid of /anxious about represented symbolically. But if you've done any research.. enough research then something connects in your head and you get to rise up from the nightmares and also your trauma. I can't go into specifics as its personal and going into specifics isn't going to gain you any more insight.
Thanks!
I regularly have “interviews” with Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan, sometimes my grandpa. We sit and they point out things I’m actively avoiding or not paying attention to. Some of my life’s greatest revelations have come out of these imaginary interviews.
Bro Joe Rogan needs to have someone who knows about this stuff on his podcast
Everyone be imagining speaking with Dr. Peterson these days. Gotta wonder if it's really still just imagining anymore...
Been practicing and have done this about 7 times so far and it honestly makes me tear up at how understanding the folks in my subconscious are. For example one person who says his name is Anori (long black hair, fair skin and red eyes) says he represents my spirit/drive. The sum of the conversations I've had with him are basically him reassuring me (through various symbols) that I do have drive in life and that, in time, I'll learn to stop the negative thoughts in my head.
That’s awesome
Amen
Dayum, das crazy ❤
I’m an anxious and ( leaning towards) antisocial person. A few years ago I started using active imagination as a way to comfort myself and view things critically, but also realistically. I’ve never actually ‘let go’ in the sense that active imagination has to take it’s own shape, and I think it could be an interesting way to go about this.
This channel is my first real dive into Jung and his ideas. I'm really enjoying it and appreciate the work you have put into it. This aspect in particular- active imagination, is something I've always done. It will be really interesting to approach it with more tools and intention. Thanks man!
Woooow so thats how its called. I have used this technique out of the blue recently and it helped me in every single area of my life. Financially, personally, taking care of myself, health, confidence everything has gotten better. I really believe people that can do this should do it, it will help you understand and regulate yourself incredibly better.
I also plunged into the depths when I was contemplating my deepest set fears and becoming so frustrated with how they have shaped me and how they will impact my future. I repeated a mantra “Death is always near” suddenly an overwhelming sensation washed through me, then darkness and a deafening noise. I plunged deeper and deeper until I came up a sliver of light, with streams of light flowing out of it. My sensations were not bound to my body. In the moment all thought had ceased, I felt limitless potential and the capacity for growth, I felt the universe inside me. At last a thought came. “This is who I am” I feel like I saw my soul in some ways or rather the collective soul of all existence and I felt connected in a way I can’t describe. All that I care to say about my path now is that I wish to experience as much as I can with my moments on earth.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
This video was ABSOLUTE FIRE !!!!
You absolutely nailed the subject.
Thanks!
Duder... I applaud your presentation, which I have just finished listening/watching. I've come to know these characters that you describe more or less as a set of tools left on various parts of my own personal path for me to find throughout my life. Once I had a greater grasp on the meanings of love, hate, and indifference I've found which of these tools are useful, which ones need maintenance, and yet others that serve no purpose to me or my ends. They all have their own personality which is the salvaged fractures of what was left over from my psyche after I lost grip with reality in 2016 and made a visit to the psyche ward. This video offers these parts of myself a greater clarity as to knowing themselves and also peace of mind for me as I have suspected that I am more than just one man living out his days on this great rock I call home. Cheers brother!
I think it’s segments of your subconscious aka what you’ve noticed and forgot about and then that part light up. Idk I’m on acid hopefully this makes sense. We are very valuable and can do so so much with our minds. Just because were fragile does make that any less so. Nothing is more powerful then the energy of your essence.
Whenever I find myself confronted with big emotions and feelings I pause and imagine someone is asking me “how are you feeling right now?” Or “ how does this make you feel?”
And I respond in a way that calms me and makes me think logically vs going down with my emotions. 😅 I’m happy to read others do similar things!
Thanks
This could be an infinite source of material for any type of Art. Akin to what A.I. is trying to achieve, but even more true and meaningful.
Holy cow thank you so much for this. I had never heard of Active Imagination and it perfectly describes what I've been lacking in my life. Wonderful explanations, thank you so much
Anyone imagine scenarios while listening to music or driving, it’s like you’re there but you’re not at the same time. Also I feel like we imagine things constantly that when we come across a real scenario it seems real familiar(deja vu), making it seem like we saw the future somehow but can’t put a finger on it
I've been doing this for sometime. I enter into a meditative state and just observe my own internal imagery until sometimes it becomes alive. Honestly thought I was schizophrenic or experiencing a form of psychosis or something. Extremely interesting - very similar to a psychedelic experience.
This happens to me spontaneously and it's scary cause I got into a car accident because of it. When I go deep my brain refuses to process reality so I can't see cars or people around me. I'm more cautious now when I'm driving but it is amazing how quickly I can drift off.
It definitely can be frightening when the chorus awakes when you are not used to it
@@pluutoop that sounds like disassociation. Having a little experience with that, you're description sounds very familiar to what that feels like. I would look into it.
Is it very tiring as well like hypnosis and delirious halltcination
Would this method be a good way to manifest the things I want in life?
As I closed my eyes I had like a rush through 20 dreams I had and in every Dream there opened a Door to the next one. Like I found a Solution in every Dream to deal with the Issue . thx for the video!
Exactly the art i could ever hope to see, ever one pulling up forgotten examples from my times in life, its wonderful.
I've been doing this for a long time, a very long time, the extending out of dreams venturing off into my imagination, I'd always start off in the same forest sitting on the same corduroy road and start to wander from there, suddenly I feel a lot safer knowing what I'm doing rather than just aimlessly wandering
All who wander ,
are not lost . ☺
“Not all who wander are lost, all that’s gold does not glitter” Tolkien
You never wandered aimlessly.
I’ve only had a few situations where I have experienced this I think. It was in a meditative state before falling asleep, but I was not asleep. It was as if I had a TV screen in my head and I was tuning into different “channels” seeing different characters.
In one of these, I was sitting at a park on a bench across from this middle aged man. He had pretty blue eyes and white hair and was an attractive looking man for his age and had kind of a sparkle in his eye. He looked right at me and said:
“(my name), do you know who I am?”
I shook my head no.
And he said, word for word,
“I’m known as your father, domestic abuse.”
Which doesn’t make sense grammatically but it sounded like he was calling himself “Domestic Abuse” or something. I “woke up” immediately and withdrew myself because it shocked me for some reason to hear him say that to me so I didn’t get much further than that.
My father in this life was never physically abusive, so I don’t know what it could have meant. But it was very strange
I have similar experiences seeing different people or channels when falling asleep
When you woke up was your heart racing?
Did you figure it out?
Thanks so much for this. What a great video, and a well timed one, for me. I had been trying to solve a question of mine, and you gave me the key to unlock it. I have been having dreams of adventure at night, I have been contemplating how to go on an adventure in real life. Asking friends, talking about it with others to see what they thought. Also Remarking that I wanted a big dream to learn from. I have not been feeling satisfied because I have not being able to have the big dream at will. Your video has helped me realize what my adventure is going to be. I am going to embark on learning how to actively imagine.
“I feel that I’ve been starving. This may be my only opportunity…”
Wow… just wow. I never thought there would be words for the way I feel.
I imagine directing a movie about different experiences I have been through, but I imagine the audience being in the theater and finally understanding why I did the things I did.
Even as a person who read Jung’s work, not all of it. I came across Active Imagination but never really understood it. But I remember in my hypnogogic state. As a poet, I was thinking of how to use images to make a narrative out of it. And also think randomly of words and in a shamanistic sense, try and find revelatory metaphoric meaning and insight out of a conglomeration of thoughts and images. I remember one time, I thought of a rock, and the rock started shifting in my mind into different images and places. Its like I activated a dream by which I can control the object in the dream and the narrative in the dream. At the time, I didn’t know I was actively imagining. But now I know.
while I genuinely enjoyed this and I do appreciate your content and time, I feel it's so important to remind anyone planning on attempting this practice MUST use discernment and NEVER assume that all of the figures who present themselves are benevolent or have your best interest and safety in mind. Always remember to start each practice with some sore of prayer/cleansing/request for protection from God or your spirit guides.
otherwise, you are practically inviting anyone and anything to present itself and has potential to cause you unimaginable issues. Namaste 🙏✌️💫
Why was I lucky enough to get a positve one?
@@_shadow_1 you are probably already surrounding yourself with a good energy and high vibration. Stay positive and compassionate. Present yourself like a glowing candle to everyone and anything around you. Remember that our true source is pure love and light.
CERN let a bunch of the dark ones out just look up into the clouds.
I got this immediate unsettling feeling of despair that made me shudder slightly when the narrator suggested that I invite the involved entities to personify themselves... The weight I've had from the evils I've investigated and understood hasn't been invited by me in that respect yet so who knows what's waiting
Carl Jung invented solo rpgs
😂✊🏼
Tell that to a little kid. 🙃 He gave us a respectable name for them.
Best book I ever bought!
Meditation is practice. Practice to experience a lucid journey in the kingdom. The kingdom "is among you" already. But your ego guards it. Mara/Satan guards it.
Wow. Mind blown at how it fits into my world and ready to stop running from my archetypes; certainly apologize to some; and begin the conversation/expression. This is truly amazing!!!
I do this all day every day. I only talk to myself really cuz I have no friends, but I mostly put myself back 100s of years ago with my ancestors in Germany living in tribes.
Have you written these convos down? What an interesting book that would be!
What an incredibly amazing video! I'm speechless that this type of content is made available for free by people like you. So first of all: thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating this!
Having read some of Jung's work about archetypes and having done some shadow work lately, I feel like this is what is calling for me next. But this exercise honestly terrifies me - even though I am in my mid-thirties and not a very anxious person by nature.
I cannot believe how brave and fearless (and fully conviced by his scientific approach) Jung must have been, when first experimenting with stuff like this - being fully aware of the fact that nobody could keep himself in check if things went out of control but himself. This man really was unbelievable.
Plus, I honestly salute everybody in this comment section, who is doing this exercise voluntarily and sharing your experiences so openly with others. Your courage, fearlessness and experience is truly inspiring.
So I think I'll prepare as best as I can, remember to bring the student mindset and an attitude of love and go meet the demons that are probably waiting for me. It's scary, but probably the most life changing exercises we can all do (especially when Jung decided to devote the majority of his life to this single exercise).
That Jeffrey Raff quote is a favourite of mine. That book is one of the most profoundly incredible things I've ever read. It absolutely blew my mind.
Which book ?
@@BhupinderSingh-yy7st "Jung and the Alchemical Imagination"
I’m listening to this in my car during the last few minutes of my shift and for some reason it helps me relax and feel present. Thanks.
I thoroughly enjoy the way you pair particular works of art with your narration. This visual component helps me to deepen my focus.
Your reminder of the value of tuning in to the active imagination came at the perfect moment. Thank you!
as you probably know already, some of the art work features is actually from the RedBook itself, also William Blake, etc.
Indeed, all well combined in this video.
@@1kenneth1985 Thank you for the information! Some of the artwork was familiar to me -- some not. I enjoyed how the art enhanced the meaning of what was being said. I'm sort of diving back into "Jungian waters" after years away, and I'm having a blast! I appreciate your taking the time to reply to me.
@@susanzoeckler4926 just noticed: i sent a 2nd response w/ further pointers/suggestion in regards to CGJung audio's online - which got promptly deleted. pity. Thanks again though for your earlier response/acknowledgement.
@@1kenneth1985 Interesting..... I confess I have no clue who deletes what or why. I always appreciate additional breadcrumbs along the path -- they lead me in new directions. Thanks, again.
Does anybody else lucid dream often, but sometimes when you close your eyes you start dreaming in under 30 minutes? This has been this case for me for a very long time, and I think this is the explanation I’ve been looking for. The funny thing is I didn’t even look for it, I’ve been thinking about doing some research but still haven’t. Then this pops into my recommendations.
If anybody else experiences something similar please respond. You’re not alone. If enough of us are out there, I’m thinking we should create a Reddit or Discord group to share our experiences. Best wishes to all.
This is one of the most important channels in YT these days. Can't wait to see it grow still.
This channel deserves way more viewers. Keep up the great videos.
Just discovered this. It s amazing. Do everything u forța do for you and dont be stressed, let the things come and happen, wait, Even if you did something good or Wrong. Cheers to Everyone love allways people Around you!
This feels closely related to many psychedelic experiences I have had. I personally had a terrifying lsd trip a few years ago, it felt as though I was having a war within my own mind. Having introspected upon this trip for a few years I theorize that psychedelics may be, as I like to call them, a key that unlocks the door to the unconscious... I now know that the war I had fought was really my ego trying to fight off my unconscious, and the unconscious was victorious. I hope to become a psychologist so as to unravel this perplexing mystery which I now intend to make my lifes work.
how is it going?
@@GameHub1- I'm currently doing my final year dissertation for my bachelors degree, I have a lot of steps i still need to take but i have a goal and a plan to attain it. As for any other psychedelic experiences, I haven't had any more since the comment was posted originally. This is mainly because for me to fulfil my spiritual development and understanding, i need to get some professional credibility first. So that why I have made it my priority at the moment. In summary, I feel very good with where I'm at, thanks.
@@TJ0510 Keep at it maybe we will be analysing your work in the future
I thought I was just taking to myself, analyzing myself, things around me. Imagining myself in different situations and over some time I grew to be able to separate my mind from my body. But what really did it for me was Psilocybin mushrooms, want trip I didn’t really experience a visual trip but more so one within my mind. I literally separated my souls from physical body in my mind. That’s when I realized our body is really just a machine ran by our souls and the more you focus on your Conscience and the voice in your head what I think is your soul the more you’re able to separate your mind from your body. Or maybe I just need to stop getting high but I do feel I have the ability to separate my mind from my body. I can’t really explain it.
I get this, it’s such a hard feeling to describe but it makes sense. Psilocybin truly triggered it for me, I feel a lot more understanding of the world around me at times, and am far more content.
Astral projection 🧿✨
I did something similar via meditation, I saw a golden orb above me with purple flowers around me.
I have no fucking clue and I dont know what the flowers were :(
Yes it’s like this intense dominanting light that produces emotions so complicated and strong and it’s crazy the human body can even feel it. Like it’s from nature we are so much more then we think.
I do this before sleep as im drifting off. I always wondered how i was dreaming without being in REM sleep.
I also do this during meditation. It just comes naturally to me. It's like watching a movie with no real plot behind my eyes
When I finally realized we are ruled my the subconscious, I was able to see why I do and have issues, that I have currently changed. I discovered this in a coma. It's been 9yrs and am a completely different person now!
i found after this that i was more honest to myself about how i feel about people and i felt alot more loving
I write stories in my free time and I already used some of the methods before I watched the video I was even aware that I am dreaming so I could do everything I wanted to do like jumping from tree to tree cuz I was following a train driving past me (idk why to be honest) but it was a very intensive experience for me. It is really interesting to see that you can get more into this stuff and I am really glad that I found this video. Thank you very much!
This is solid gold 👍. Would love a detailed follow up how to. I'd happily pay for a course on this subject.
A Century in the Future, most of C.G.Jung's observations/indications will be understood as the revelations from Spirit that they are !!!
Sorry I can’t really comprehend what u mean are you saying that he was crossing the vile and seeing demons/entities?
Ik it’s a bit late but I’ll appreciate if you could reply.
This is what creative writers do! Sort minutae, bothersome things, different facets of the personality, reinvent events, battle trauma, and so much more. I must get that Red Book!
Thank you very much Carl Jung and speaker host... is was relatable
I had this doubt and pain in my heart regarding my husband. It was getting stronger every time, scaring me because he is a very good man who loves me deeply. But the feeling was so strong that it would wake me up. One night I woke up with it telling me strange things about him, fear consumed me. I began to believe that I was going crazy, things were getting worst and out of control. But then, I saw this emotion like a black concrete ball sitting on my heart chakra. It was heavy and dense. Right there, I imagined the physical form of my heart chakra change, I felt like I was someone else. This was right after waking up. It was crazy, I imagined to have changed the way my heart chakra received information. It was like a wave or a gravitational center that changed its central force and shape. It became unfuckwithable. That dense matter was gone, and I was changed physically and emotionally. I am different now.
What do you think it was? Do you have subconscious doubts about your husband?
Oh wild. I'd never heard of this, but I'm Type II BiPolar and ADHD. I follow Astrology and, as I realized I was going into a manic state, I checked the astrological positions, I had remembered it was an eclipse, and Venus was aligned with the Sun on a tight grouping I have in Libra. I got locked out of the house a bit later and stood around in the garage for a while to warm up. It was so loud in my head and giving me so much anxiety it was just driving me up the wall. I decided to try assigning the 'voices' planetary identities and holy shit did that ever help. Like, it was a loud argument in my head but I couldn't keep track of who was saying what until then. Then I immediately realized they were all talking to each other and with my observation to focus on each at a time, they started communicating their needs and started supporting each other and everything quieted down quickly.
Very interesting and high-quality video. I like the idea of greeting the unconscious without blindly following it. Giving the ego a place in the conversation, but holding on to the keys. That also emphasizes the importance of having a guide, someone who can ground you to the external world when needed, so as not to get lost in the internal. Great work, and a great jumping-off point for more research.
I can relate to this completely: it’s like the feeling of seeing a place for the first time , then revisiting and noticing the differences, but this place is real as … this world. As a child it was a coliseum filled with other dreaming children. I had this dream more than I can count. In this place the children slept and played games with these other “things” . The games were brutal in nature. Severed limbs were the cost of losing, yet the players were all in a duality of consciousness and were not afraid.