Jung
agreed to see a woman who had “incurable” insomnia that had resisted all
previous treatment. In her presence, he found himself remembering a lullaby his
mother had crooned to him in childhood. He started humming it aloud.
The song was about a girl on a little boat on a river, full
of gleaming fish. It evokes the rhythms of wind and water. Jung’s patient was
enchanted. From that night on, her insomnia was gone. Her regular doctor wanted
to know Jung’s secret.
“How was I to explain to him that I had simply listened to
something within myself?," Jung reminisced, late in life, in the presence
of his assistant Aniela Jaffe. "I had been quite at sea. How was I to tell
him that I had sung her a lullaby with my mother’s voice? Enchantment like that
is the oldest form of medicine.”
Once again, we see that Jung's practice was that of a true shaman
of the west.
DREAMING WITH JUNG
A new weekend
adventure at magical Mosswood Hollow, near Duvall, Washington, on
December 9-10
Jung labored to bring
together the best of Western science and scholarship with ancient ways of soul
travel and soul remembering. Throughout his life, he was guided by dreams and
synchronicity, and in this class, we will learn from his practice rather than
his theories.
We’ll journey, like
Jung, through the many-tiered House of the Soul. We’ll walk with the Sacred
Guide, as Jung walked with his Philemon. We’ll meet the Shadow. We’ll discover
that dreams unlock the limitless field of nonlocal mind he called the
collective unconscious.
We’ll develop learn to navigate by synchronicity and practice field perception as Jung did when he watched the movements of wind and
water, of a fox or a beetle, as he counseled his clients by Lake Zurich.
Details here.
Art: Child and Boat
by Edmund Tarbell (1899)
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