Carl Jung's Transpersonal Dream Interpretation

Carl Jung's Transpersonal Dream Interpretation

In this video, I cover Carl Jung's ideas surrounding a transpersonal critical control point that Jung seemed to observe through interpreting his patient's dreams. He noticed that his patient had a series of dreams that depicted a pagan god figure and it seemed to Jung to be the dream operating as a self-regulating system that would unconsciously align the dreamer with a transpersonal (beyond the personal into a shared collective) aspect of the psyche.

Carl Jung thought that observations like this, as well as the observation of the effect these dreams seemed to have on his patient's showed that transpersonal dreams operated as a kind of self-healing mechanism. Once a person was able to establish a relationship with the transpersonal that this would have a therapeutic effect and increase the wellbeing of the patient.

Carl Jung did not however claim that this meant there really is a pagan god that the dreamer was connecting to. Rather, it is 'as if' the dreamer is having a vision of god, and we can see the therapeutic benefits of such an experience, but we can't claim that there is anything beyond the manifest image. So it is a symbolic and therapeutic experience, where the personality is expanded through building an unconscious connection or bridge to the transpersonal (collective psyche, i.e. The Collective Unconscious).

I hope you enjoyed this video on Carl Jung and Transpersonal Dream Interpretation. If you would like to share any of your dreams in the comments below and maybe other people could assist with interpretation or at least share in the wonderful unique dreams you are having. Please also comment if you think some of your dreams seem to have characteristics of the transpersonal.