Reincarnation discovery through dreaming
Sabine Lucas, PhD. a Jungian psychotherapist identified in her book, Past Life Dreamwork, the archetype of Reincarnation (Bear and Company, Rochester, Vermont, 2005). “Like all archetypes, it is surrounded by a symbolic field, which our dreams are staking out…the unconscious knows a great deal more about reincarnation than we do consciously…Reincarnation seems to be a creative dynamic process that runs in circles of simultaneous existence, with each incarnation being only part of a much greater whole.” (pps. 243-244). Dr Lucas identifies 3 types of reincarnation dreams: “1. Classic type: Direct, factual and lacking normal dream features and has the déjà vu feeling of half-conscious memories. 2. Information type in which the dreamer is directly informed or simply knows by direct experience. 3. Hybrid type which is the most common type and combines the realistic and symbolic elements. In this type boundaries are blurred and other interpretations are possible. When ever [...]
The Horoscope and integration of the personality through psychosocial tasks
What follows is a description of theories used in my clinical social work practice and my consultant work for astrologicalpsychology.org. These theories and their application are the bases of operations in astrology and psychology disciplines. There are sections of practical experiments which can guide the beginner to the Huber method to discover how to actualize insights into this method of horoscope interpretation. Psychological Social Development: The first thing is to understand in the lifecycle is the work of Eric Erickson and Bruno and Louise Huber. These theorists identified the developmental stages and critical psychological tasks starting at birth with the establishment of the ‘I’ to the moment of death. An individual goes through psychological conflicts which need to be resolved for healthy growth to occur during his/her whole life long. They include when a child is developing the sense of "I"; entering in the school world as an elementary student; [...]
Induced collective American psychosis
A global event today in the face of multiple social, theological, humanitarian and political crises induces the feeling that rapid change is being imposed upon all nation states. These changes are disrupting the traditional ways of living in the most general sense; a threat to our way of life is upon us! That the "Other" , the Stranger, the Foreigner, the Alien are all seemingly threatening the status quo and social order in all countries makes it easy to project blame on people who do not share our ethnic identities, our cultural values or our religions. Global climate change crosses nation states borders and demands mitigation as infrastructure is destroyed by floods, weather events, and failed ecosystems. Whether a country is to have a centralized government in democracies to mitigate these threats is even in question. Advanced Technologies make it possible for Artificial intelligence to take the human factor out [...]
Freud and Jung in dream analysis
The above figure identifies three structures of the Freud Psyche theory: Id , Ego and Superego. The Id is the most unconscious and represents instincts that operate and erupt into our conscious minds; the Ego is the reality tester, mediates the impulses from the Id and refers them to the conscience or moral compass in the personality that evaluates the consequences of acting on Id impulses. The function of Dreams. In psychoanalysis, Freud used dreams in the analysis of the transference in which he also used the relationship between him and the patient as a symbolic relationship related to parental figures of the patient. Sigmund Freud asserted that defense mechanisms of repression (unconscious forgetting) and displacement (symbolic associations to the dream image meant to disguise it) are there to preserve sleep because conscious knowledge of the real meaning of dreams would awaken the dreamer. An idea merely existing as [...]
The Dreaming Mind
Dreaming mind Dreams lead a person out of a neurotic conflict by the process of individuation. “Health and individuation, however are not always aligned; what is healthy for one dominant ego-image at a particular stage of life may be decidedly unhealthy for the nascent ego-image in the next stage of life.” (Hall, p. 28), For example, if an individual is facing the issue of leaving home and becoming more independent from her family vs. staying home and not venturing out. It causes anxiety to accomplish this because it could fail. This is an example of a developmental task that reveals a psychological conflict- stay or leave home The process of individuation which is driving subliminally the process, is the ‘enemy’ of what the person wants which is to stay at home and not face the anxiety of being on one’s own. “Individuation is a larger and more complex concept than [...]
The spectrum of severe mental health disorders and astrological research- a beginning
A continuum of Mental Health Disorders: This article will explore the factors both environmental and genetic that lead to a sliding continuum of mental problems rather than discrete disorders. The medical model has been imposed upon mental disorders which has rules for categories of separate disorders. This dictates which medications are used and which add to the stigma of mental illness by pathologizing the diagnoses. The medications have difficult side effects which turn my clients to homeopathic treatments like cannabis, alcohol, and other remedies with fewer side effects. Nature and nurture: I am departing from these diagnostic category biases by bringing astrology into consideration which has implications as to the genesis of these disorders (karma?, genetics?, the birth trauma?). The environmental factors which play a role in severe mental illness of schizophrenia are related to birth complications, particularly prenatal viral infection. (Cannon, et. al, 1993) Subjects also showed attention problems, [...]
Visitation dream of deceased person(s)
Dreams can be communication from entities beyond the phyiscal plane, i.e. deceased people.(Dreams and Astrological Psychology, Grove, John, p. 81). C. G. Jung broke psychological ground when he declared in his medical degree dissertation that parapsychological material ( evidence of dream-induced telepathy) was not evidence of pathology but of autonomous complexes.(Chartet, F. X. , Spiritualism Foundations of Jung's Psychology, p. 297) Autonomous complexes are split off parts of the psyche usually associated with trauma or shock or breach of our boundaries and have developed a seemingly autonomous life, apparently an independent will of our own. Though we are unconsciously identified with them, autonomous complexes are subjectively experienced as other than ourselves. Autonomous complexes act upon us, feel like our most intimate self, eventually need to be owned, but paradoxically , don't belong to us. The seeming autonomy of the archetypes and complexes is what gives rise to the ideal of [...]
Emergence of the Lion
The archetype of the Lion has long been associated with the constellation of Leo in the Zodiac. Throughout history, the lion has been correlated with the solar principle. In the glyph above, it represents the beginning of spring as the constellations of Taurus, the bull is being slayed by the lion, in which the Sun emblematic of the planting season is conjunct Taurus in April/May (Persepolis, 500 BCE). The Lion as an archetype is also symbolic of the ego, the ruler, and as the 5th sign of the zodiac, it is expression of existential wishes and desires. In Bruno Huber's developmental astrological psychology, the movement of the AGE Point (AP) through the twelve astrological signs represents psychological tasks as a person interacts with the environment. The AP takes six years to traverse one house which is symbolic of the field of activity associated with the traditional astrological houses. The [...]