"The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight." - Joseph Campbell

The unconscious is always active. Sleep just takes away the sensory noise and makes the unconscious visible to us.

"Man, all too proud, figures that he is the master of his movements, his words, his ideas and himself. It is perhaps of ourselves that we have the least command. There are crowds of things which operate within ourselves without our will." - Pierre Janet

Reincarnation was invented to enable me to finish my to-read list

Did Carl Jung ever write about lucid dreaming? Jung used Active Imagination to let the ego consciously interact with the subconscious. This is exactly what lucid dreaming allowes one to do as well.

Whew, just back from my first time ever doing Active Imagination as described by Robert Johnson. 30 min in there drained my energy. Not much speaking, but a lot of strong imagery. Anybody who doubts the power of the unconscious, or its independence from the ego must try it.

Me saying it 👀

Reality can only be known by accepting its irrationality and unpredictability, and viewing the world in its own right.

Luckily, materialist reductionism has no true believers.

"Those who think of themselves as being open-minded are often even more prone to stick to their first understanding as they believe to be without natural prejudices and therefore don’t see the need to counterbalance them." - Sönke Ahrens

"Many notions which are current today have started in the works of the mystics as mere aspirations towards a more perfect knowledge." - Pierre Janet

Nietzsche's 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' was an extremely popular book among the European youth in 1890-1910. How far we've fallen...