On par with Freud, a dream reveals the mystery of life, and one of the peerless pride changes fate
It was a late winter evening, and a thin mist of rain covered the dirty, gloomy streets. He and a few other people walked down the street, speechless all the way, thinking to themselves, why is it outside in such weather, and they are going to ** again?After walking for a while, the street scene in front of him became familiar, and then he saw an alley with a sign hanging at the entrance of the alley that read"Death Street"Four big words. The group walked down the alley to the higher ground, where they stopped, looked around for a panoramic view of the city, and stumbled upon a large pattern. "
When we think of modern psychology, we first think of Freud, but during the same period, there was another genius in psychology - Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology.
Jung was a scholar of Eastern and Western cultures, and one of his dreams changed his academic path forever, but what was his dream?
He dreamed of a field with a circular pond in the middle of the field and a small island with blooming magnolia trees. The magnolia flowers exude a brilliant light, and the smoke and rain shrouded the surroundings, but the magnolia flowers bloomed so clearly and brilliantly. When Xiao Zheng was shocked by this unusual sight, he found that his friends around him had seen nothing.
Jung realizes that it was a dream!He dreamed of a mysterious mandala.
North Indian flower, mandala, Sanskrit: mandara
A mandala is not a carved or painted pattern, but a map – located in the very center of the city, from where the whole city expands symmetrically from the center. Looking around, each part of the city has its own center, and each center has a bright light.
The sight in front of him was so beautiful that Jung thought he would be stunned by what he saw. That's a mandala!Jung finally connected the image to what it was, which was the mandala.
Mandala is a Buddhist term, and in Buddhism, mandala and"Altar"It's the same concept. At first, the pattern looked like an architectural plan, but over time, the figure gradually became abstract and turned into a mysterious symbol.
The mandala motif in Buddhism represents a form of contemplative meditation that allows people to think in a pure way, and this pattern was transferred from Eastern Buddhist meditation to Western psychologist Carl Jung in dreams, becoming a bridge for his dialogue with the unconscious, changing Jung's academic career.
The mandala pattern is a symbol of the human mind and self. Consciousness is the essence of human beings, transcendence and integration. Each of our lives is like a cog, part after part, and consciousness is the clock that supports it all. It also includes the vastness of the unconscious, which has no racial or cultural limitations, and is as vast and deep as a dream.
Reflection. This dream gave Jung a great revelation. As a psychoanalytic psychologist, Jung excelled in his ability to analyze patients as well as his own minds and hearts. Jung's genius suddenly made him realize that the essence of the mandala was the essence of the mind.
The mandala is an open figure that constantly evolves and then merges, just like our minds. Each of us has an independent life in which we play different roles, as if in parallel worlds. But in the end, each of us, each of us, whose identity is, will merge from our respective foundations and find our true selves. Everyone has many different perspectives in life and can see things that only they can see.
Jung's dream took place in 1927, when Jung was immersed in ancient mystical myths, religions, and philosophies, and his feelings for the unconscious penetrated into his spiritual world, allowing him to experience more deeply through the dream.
Human life is like a lonely ship on the sea, no matter the wind and the sun, we are trying to sail in difficulty, the whole world is chaotic, everyone can only feel the different world by rising vertically, and we can also rise to a new height, as if we can overlook every corner of life, and finally return to the original heart.
The ego is the center of consciousness, and the id is the center of the whole personality, and self-actualization is the pursuit of the id"。
The paradox of life is that in the midst of chaos, we always feel that the soul is far away from us, but our existence is so dependent on this world, we can take a little time, let go of a little chaotic lifestyle, to gain a new perspective, a new world.