Dream Focus
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 4:00 am
I was reading the first text of Corpus Hermeticum, for our reading group starting on the upcoming monday, where Poimandres reveals a vision of elements and principles and in my naive train of thought wondered who sees such pure and elementary visions? While this vision is perhaps less individual bound, we can also remember elementary dream visions appearing clearly in C.G. Jung's patient's dreams that on the other hand were more closely tied to an individual process regarding the elements.
So an idea came that if one would be in a certain stage of nigredo, perhaps a Black aspect devotee, where ascetism might naturally lead to focusing on the most elementary pillars of nature, wouldn't it be curious thing to meditate on these matters through dreams. The hypothesis is that when you focus on the bare bones of the elements deeply, or adopt a set of symbols you meditate regularly on, you would create a dynamic focus point upon which the unconscious would need to react, acknowledge and mirror one's individual relation to them. From there one could proceed to work through self-reflective analysis of dreams and dynamic action according to challenges revealed there.
I even speculated whether Jung might have given some incentive to his patients, a simple geometric talisman perhaps to mark the beginning of an analysis or something. Such a small yet significant gesture might actually direct the focus more naturally and less forced way. Do you have any experience of a similar conscious direction of focus for dream work and do you see something that is crucial to remember doing this kind of practices?
So an idea came that if one would be in a certain stage of nigredo, perhaps a Black aspect devotee, where ascetism might naturally lead to focusing on the most elementary pillars of nature, wouldn't it be curious thing to meditate on these matters through dreams. The hypothesis is that when you focus on the bare bones of the elements deeply, or adopt a set of symbols you meditate regularly on, you would create a dynamic focus point upon which the unconscious would need to react, acknowledge and mirror one's individual relation to them. From there one could proceed to work through self-reflective analysis of dreams and dynamic action according to challenges revealed there.
I even speculated whether Jung might have given some incentive to his patients, a simple geometric talisman perhaps to mark the beginning of an analysis or something. Such a small yet significant gesture might actually direct the focus more naturally and less forced way. Do you have any experience of a similar conscious direction of focus for dream work and do you see something that is crucial to remember doing this kind of practices?