Learning..

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read or write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." ~Alvin Toffler

Dreams- Jung & Freud

Carl Jung: Dreams: channels through which unconscious enters consciousness. Message from the unconscious-aims at our well-being & wholeness, contain secret of life meaning. Dream symbols: expressive & impressive..expression of what's going on at an unconscious level of psyche; & make an impression, leave imprint , influencing direction of dreamer's personal development from that moment on. Active imagination to associate; individuation process, religion is therapeutic.

Jung:

Psychological types:

(1) attitudinal (2 types extrovert & introvert)

(2) functional (4 types: Thinking, intuitive, feeling,sensational)

Persona;

The unconscious : reasons cannot reveal the truth about yourself. it imagines & speculates. Pure consciousness perceives reality directly, knows things themselves, experientially. Consciousness & unconscious to come together as equal partners. Personal unconscious & collective unconscious

Individuation: self realization stages:

(1) The shadow

(2) anima animus :soul image (anima- male/feminine aspect of male psyche; animus- female/masculine aspect)

(3) mana

(4) the self

Freud: Dreams are expression of the gratification of sexual desire, free association, religion is neuroses

Subconscious: Id (instinct) & SuperEgo (moral)

Conscious: Ego

Ego defences

(1) Repression

(2) Regression

(3) Projection

(4) Rationalisation

(5) Compensation

(6) Sublimation

(7) Displacement

(8) Identification

(9) Reaction - Formation : Life instinct (Eros) and Death instinct (Thanatos)

(10) Symptoms

(11) Neuroses and psychoses

Tao Te ching

"Knowing others is intelligence,
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength,
mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich."
Tao te Ching

Dreaming is a form of planning

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau

"When the faculties of the mind are understood, it will be found that every form and shape originated in the imagination. It is through the imagination
that the formless takes form."
Charles Fillmore

New Paradigm

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.” David Bohm

"Nothing's either good or bad but thinking makes it so." Shakespeare

"When we take a person as they are, we make them worse, but when we take a person as if they were already what they should be, we support them in becoming what they can be." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe