I am so delighted about a place for Jungian dreamwork

[Helia]

I would like to say something about HELIA...MY DREAM NAME....and SYNCHRONICITY

I do have a god child in germany named Laetitia
Her communion ( catholic) happen to be in the same church my father went to ( and me as a school kid)...
In that night after her ! Communion i had a dream where i was given a new name, no more Angelika...my real name...but from now on my name was Helia !
The most interesting synchronicity that all this happened in that church where my father and me went to.
To clarify...i am not in favour of organized religion..this old church had beautiful windows...when the sun lit the windows it was something very special...
Thank you for reading, Helia

 

[CosmoDreamer]

Hi Helia, this is a great story. Thank you for sharing! I didn’t know what synchronicity meant in the context of Jung, so I looked up a definition:

the acausal, meaningful coincidence of at least two events—one internal (a psychological state) and one external (a physical event)—that occur at the same time and seem interconnected, despite having no apparent causal relationship. It's a principle that suggests an underlying order in the universe where matter and psyche are linked,

Is this definition similar to what you’ve learned studying Jung @Helia ?

 

[Helia]

Exact....that is what he meant...and when one looks back, one might see a lot of " coincidences". In my german language it is called ZUFALL...That what falls toward you...🎏

 

[CosmoDreamer]

@Helia , Do you believe that there are not a lot of "coincidences" in the long term? That everything is interconnected in some way eventually?
I am not very spiritual, but I believe that life has a way of "hinting" at me sometimes.

 

[Helia]

Absolutely....i had a lot of those "hints"....you might know that..sometimes all the doors open into the right direction...
That happened to me\us when planned to move to canada...🎏

 

[PaulKH]

"I am not very spiritual, but I believe that life has a way of "hinting" at me sometimes."

Beautifully shared, Helia. And I have had *so* many instances in my life, even while being a science-trained-and-minded analyst, which matched Jung's fantastic description that I'd have to "turn a blind eye" not to see them. (And I have no desire to "protect" science from the mysterious; a compulsion so many self-assigned intellectuals seem to have.)

Instead, I leaned with open mind toward the possible, with the explorer's excitement of seeing what will then happen and adjust accordingly. So don't sell your spirituality short, Cosmo; in that, basic/starting spirituality requires but two things: openness/awareness to the possible and a positive attitude set. Everything else can come (or not) in stages as you experience your life and are touched/moved by what happens to you.

So, it helps to not get religious elements confused with spirituality: structure, stricture, coercion, defensiveness...those are all aspects of *religion*, not spirituality.

 

[Helia]

Spiritually...
David Tacey wrote a very special book
Jung and spirituality...

Another definition suggests itself: “Spirituality is an innate human capacity to experience transcendent reality.” In this definition, the transcendent is emphasised. Why do we hunger for transcendent reality? Jung says it is because we are not only made in the image of God but the soul is made of God. The divine is an essential aspect of our nature. When this aspect is thwarted, it makes the spiritual desire within us even more desperate to seek expression.