In a metaphor, from the very beginning of our life, we are involved in a kind of creative dance. Let's imagine that we are connected to something remarkable that is playing its music in our mind. We come into the world with a melody which needs to be danced, but as it turns out, for various reasons we are not able to bear this role. Reality is less romantic when it forces us to live up to its rules. From birth we only experience our Self through another person, therefore the features of our individuality clash with judgment from others on whom we are totally dependent on, until we become what they were. From the day we are born we just try to hang on, and survive. A relentless need to adapt consumes all of our energy. As a consequence we create Persona, behind which a void appears and like a black hole devours all that melody with a force proportional to the size of our Persona. As we go through life instead of living it, we become alien to our Self, and the growing void within us causes unrelieved dissatisfaction. On another Tuesday afternoon, we are having another glass of wine, hoping to find some answers; "I am sad, tired and unhappy for no reason." or "I feel like I have it all, but I'm still sad." It is as if there is something in us that is not quite right. In other words, out of tune.
The melody we bring into the world is our personality, and the dance itself is what Jung called the individuation process. The tricky part is the realisation, that music translated into the language of the human psyche, consists of both virtues and evil. Perhaps the most difficult and, at the same time, the most terrifying thing for a man is to face this truth, and the evil behind it. To defeat the demons and find peace on a level where our personal feelings merge with the mischievous affairs of the collective unconsciousness which grasps life force as it is, with no distinction between good or bad. That being so, as long as we live, we are being charged with this force, and we live to act it out. What we deny, repress and project away, is what comes back in our dreams. Some of the dreams that we have, may symbolically reveal our destiny. Some of the dreams that we have, may symbolically reveal our destiny. Jung's theory says that everyone is born with a unique blueprint for their life and in a way, from the day of birth is who he/she becomes later. Through the experience of birth and a bond that a child develops with the mother, the eternal experience is transferred from the collective unconscious to the field of the child's unconscious. Therefore, we may have dreams that reveal our path of life with what it carries. Such dreams map us through the territories of our lives and prepare for the individuation process.
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