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cool dream
Jung searched for expressions of his theory of Individuation in post Roman European Alchemy. This imagery of a perverted child like demonic root vegetable decapitating and killing you as you watch bears signs of the "Nigredo"
"In the Nigredo (black) phase, we start to become aware of all those parts of ourselves of which we were hitherto unaware......................we feel our old attitudes dying, but may even feel our body itself is dying. ......................... What is actually happening of course is that the previous neatly organised personality is undergoing a process of breaking down, and we perceive that process as if it were happening to our body, not just to our ego. ..........images come of being reduced to a bare skeleton, which is then ground to dust, which is then cast to the winds.......... gives a measure of how completely the old personality has to be dismantled before its new integrated version can form in its place............ "< http://www.zyworld.com/DrBernardSButler/Alchemy.htm >
Interestingly the "Self" is often represented in a dream as a child or as our child ( a beautiful and incapable one) of course your "child" seems quite capable but it is fun to think of you "Self" as attacking your "ego" or some aspect of it.
................... There are giant potato like things that are moving along the ground. Their faces are deformed and terrifying to look at. They're coming for us. ................they're demonic and dangerous.
...................... It pops up out of the ground and it's this gremlin like thing with rough patchy grey-green skin. It reminds me of a horribly disfigured child. It stares at me and smiles.
The creature jumps up, takes my head and rips it from my body...............my headless figure against the wall. The eyes in my now detached head are lifeless and the expression on the face is non-existent..................... it takes my head and it smashes it against the brick wall. The force of the impact is so strong that blood splatters across the wall and there is nothing left of it except fragments of bone and my hair. Everything else is smattered across the wall in a bloody mess.
Jung searched for expressions of his theory of Individuation in post Roman European Alchemy. This imagery of a perverted child like demonic root vegetable decapitating and killing you as you watch bears signs of the "Nigredo"
"In the Nigredo (black) phase, we start to become aware of all those parts of ourselves of which we were hitherto unaware......................we feel our old attitudes dying, but may even feel our body itself is dying. ......................... What is actually happening of course is that the previous neatly organised personality is undergoing a process of breaking down, and we perceive that process as if it were happening to our body, not just to our ego. ..........images come of being reduced to a bare skeleton, which is then ground to dust, which is then cast to the winds.......... gives a measure of how completely the old personality has to be dismantled before its new integrated version can form in its place............ "< http://www.zyworld.com/DrBernardSButler/Alchemy.htm >
Interestingly the "Self" is often represented in a dream as a child or as our child ( a beautiful and incapable one) of course your "child" seems quite capable but it is fun to think of you "Self" as attacking your "ego" or some aspect of it.
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