How to Practice Dream Work (and Decipher Your Psyche)

[Wake Up World]: Whimsical, wonderful, bizarre, horrifying, embarrassing, joyous, uncanny … welcome to the mysterium tremendum – or awe-inspiring mystery – of the dream world.

Most of us go to sleep at night and totally take our dreams for granted.

Perhaps we dream of a place from childhood, have a strange nightmare, or some other garden variety dream that keeps re-emerging. But we quickly brush it aside upon waking and continue with our day.

But dreams, in all of their strangeness, are a powerful doorway to the Soul.

If you’re on a path of self-growth, spiritual development, or simply want to know more about who you are, don’t ignore your dreams. Dream work is one of the most rewarding and profound inner work practices out there.


Dream work is the practice of unpacking and deciphering the meaning of your dreams for the purpose of gaining more self-awareness, spiritual growth, and life direction.

Dreams themselves have been interpreted for thousands of years. But in recent times, dream work has been popularized and further developed by figures such as psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung....<<<Read The Original Article Here>>>...

 

The Original Pioneers of Mind Control on Why You Must Protect Your Mental Sovereignty Now

[Waking Times]: You don’t believe everything you see or hear in the media, do you? Good, because if you did believe it all you’d most likely end up on psychiatric meds.

You see, we live in a hyper-communicative environment, and we’re bombarded by an exceptional amount of messages and mediums practically every moment of everyday. There is an insane amount of information coming at you, and most of it is intended to influence your thoughts or beliefs in ways profitable to the messenger.

This is the essence of mind control: influence someone’s thoughts, and you influence their behavior.

Every bit of media that you allow to enter your consciousness influences your thoughts and/or beliefs in very real ways. If you let it, that is. But most of us consume media in a very passive state of consciousness. Either in the background while doing something else, or after a long day when the brain is exhausted and your will power has been sapped.

In this state, ideas and suggestions are absorbed by the subconscious mind where they go to work changing beliefs about the world and what you need in order to survive in it.

The key to maintaining sovereignty of your own mind is in being aware of just how real this impact is.

When you look back at the dawn of this era of mass communication, you find that as the technology of radio, television and film evolved, so did the scientific understanding of how these new mediums could be used to achieve the goals of those who create and distribute media for profit or propaganda.

The so-called father of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays ruminates in 1928 about the need to control the habits and behaviors of democratized citizens. He asserts this as a responsibility of those in power.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of…. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.” –Edward L. Bernays, Propaganda (1928)...<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>....

A Hindu Priest Explains How Your Subconscious Mind Can be Reprogrammed

Waking Times: The subconscious mind is akin to that unseen portion of an iceberg which remains underwater. Some believe that up to 95% of our mental activity takes place in the subconscious, just below our conscious awareness. This ‘underwater’ portion of the mind is never inactive, though, as it continues to collect and process information even when we are asleep.

According to the Freudian model of the unconscious, the contents of the subregions of the mind are the primary guiding influence on a person’s behaviour, habits and urges. And in his study of the psyche, revered psychoanalyst Carl Jung relates the importance of paying attention to what is going on in the lower parts of the mind, saying, “until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”...read more>>>...

The Psychological Model of Magick

Sigmund Freud's theory of the subconscious revolutionized Western thinking in general and psychology (which he did not, as some people are wont to believe, invent all by himself) in particular. Suddenly, man was seen as a being which was only partially conscious and in control of itself. While psychology is still fighting for its academical recognition as a science, it has stamped its mark on therapeutic disciplines - and on magic.

The psychological model of magic does not purport to explain how magic works, its only premise is that the subconscious (or, as Carl Jung later retagged it, the unconscious) will do the job if it is properly addressed and/or conditioned. This again is achieved by magical trance, suggestion and the use of symbols (i.e. selective sensory input) as tools of association and as a means of communication between the magician's conscious will and his subconscious faculty responsible for putting it into effect.

Aleister Crowley dabbled a great deal in the psychological model which comes as no surprise as he not only tried to keep up with all major academic disciplines of his time but thought himself to be the world's greatest psychologist into the bargain. But all considered he remained a traditionalist exponent of the spirit model: after all Aiwass was, in his belief, a praeternatural entity. Nevertheless he did have a knack of explaining magic in psychological terms to make it sound sensible to the sceptics of his time.

A more radical approach was taken by Austin Osman Spare whose sigil magic rests on the basic tenets of the psychological model. Spare's brilliant system is in principle an inversion of Freud's theory of complexes: by actively suppressing his will in the form of a graphical sigil and forgetting it, the magician creates an artificial "complex" which then starts to work on similar lines just as suppressed, subconscious traumas will cause neurotic behaviour etc.

The psychological magician is a programmer of symbols and different states of consciousness. He is not necessarily in need of a transcendent otherworld or even subtle energies, though in practice he will usually work on the assumption that one or the other (or both) do in fact exist and can be utilized by his subconscious. Authors such as Israel Regardie, Dion Fortune, William Butler, Francis King, William Gray and to some extent Pete Carroll subscribe to the psychological model which seems to be the primary domain of the English speaking world of magic and which has become the prevailing paradigm ever since the seventies of this century.

A Word on 'Freud’s Complex View of Inner Self'

Sigmund Freud was the famous philosopher who studied the problem of conscious and influence of emotions. Everybody knows Freud as the author of well-known concept of three levels of person: id, ego and super-ego, which is considered as complex view of inner self.

The reference of Freud to the conscious mind is what can be called today “available memory” anything that can be brought up on mind is named available memory. Freud thinks of them as of the smallest parts of mind.

According to him, the largest part is unconscious. Unconscious takes account of the things that are not available to realizing such as instincts and memories which are very hurting to face. Freud said that the unconscious is the basis of the motivations. It does not matter whether they are simple, as the wish of food, or such motives as scientist or artist. So people can deny or accept them, resist or deny of being conscious of these motives and they may be acceptable only in hidden form.

Freud describes the id as something, consisting of immediate needs. Then he says that the ego represents reality and it serves for id, as it looks for the necessary means to satisfy the needs of the id. Super- ego is described by Freud as the conscious. The biggest part of time and efforts are devoted to ego, as people are always searching for the means to satisfy their requirements and wishes. The super-ego in its term serves to represent the conscious and reflect the society. In most cases people are looking for satisfaction of the id with the help of the things and means which are acceptable by society.