If Jung had a dream database composed of dream journals from across cultures and time,how would he use it? What would he look for and what would he find meaningful? Could hefind expressions of archetypes, individuation, or the collective unconscious? This papersummarizes the academic method for quantitative analysis of dream content, then speculates onpossible paths [Read more…]
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Inquiry into Testimony of Dream Healing from the Asclepion at Epidaurus
This paper explores the testimony of dream healing from the ancient Greek healing temple dedicated to Asclepius, the god of dreams and medicine. I wrote this paper as an academic writing sample for my MA in East-West Psychology because I focused on the quantitative analysis of dreams. This paper introduces the cultural practice of dream [Read more…]
Geometry of the Mandala
This article examines the mandala and its geometry as a psychic phenomenon through a Jungian lens. It presented a review of mandala and geometry from a psychological perspective beginning with the golden section and Euclidean geometry. The article related active imagination, geometry, and metaphysics through the mandala. The author offered his own inner experience in [Read more…]
Communication among interstellar intelligent species
This book chapter presented an inquiry into cognitive models within an academic press edited book focused on communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. The book presented three major themes: advances in the physical sciences related to SETI, consideration of implications of communication with ET, and an inquiry regarding messaging with ET. The authors examined the topic of [Read more…]
From lucid dreaming to pure consciousness: a conceptual framework for the OBE, UFO abduction, and NDE experiences
This paper compares the phenomenon of OBE, UFO abductions, and NDEs. Gackenbach observed the similarity of the phenomena and related them to REM dreaming and lucid dreaming. She argues that these phenomena are misattributions reality. Basically, the hypothesis suggests that abductees have a lucid dream of abduction, but don’t realize they’re in a lucid dream, [Read more…]
The primordial mandalas of East and West: Jungian and Tibetan Buddhist approaches to healing and transformation
This paper provides a cross-cultural review of mandalas, which are circular figures used in psycho-spiritual practices like mediation or imagination. The mandala bridges is both an archetype of the self and a fundamental object in constructive geometry, which may bridge the objective and subjective phases of consciousness. Both Western and Eastern use of the mandala [Read more…]
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