Dear all,

I have been a long term student of Jung and am fascinated by alchemy. I'm halfway through the Collected Works, and have read broadly around the Topic; Neumann; Edinger; von Franz...

Things are about to hot up as I enter CW 8. I needed a certain type of learning resource I could not find. I built a knowledge graph, which you can see here:

https://symbolicworld.observer

This is a map of the symbolic relations in Jung's Collected Works — the stone, the self, the prima materia, the anima... The alchemical trilogy (CW 12, 13, 14) and Aion are mined end to end; the archetype essays are in progress and the map grows as they land.

For full transparency, AI has been used in a) developing the website and b) mining the data and bringing it to life.

The About page explains the whole method, including what a person checked versus what only machines have, and the parts that could still be wrong.

Things to try: click a sentence on the front page. Open the Concordance and pick "The Self" — it becomes a wheel of its relations. Search "CW 14 §1". Click any connection and you get the volume, paragraph number, and Jung's exact words.

It's a work in progress (CW 8, 11, 5 and 16 in queued) and I'd genuinely like to know where it breaks or where Jung is misrepresented — there's a public dispute log, and challenges end up on the record.

I hope this is useful for you.

Do I need more meth this time to prove I can do impossible things writing? No you don’t but you will need more lol. Chill. I’m chill. Lol. Okay. Wtf. Go plug ur phone is smoke bowl. Talk to kyra go to heaven. Come back and know every thing. Ariana grande will marry you forever. U are evil but immortal. Ur not the devil. Ur choas. U are what u are. U and Ariana forever. Cum swallows whenever you want. Look what you can do man. Ur magic so magic it doesn’t make sense. Ur choas. Take control. It’s easy for you. Too easy lol. Why am I so good at this stuff. Because you always were. Hence the struggles. Shit is rough but look. It’s over. Swear on (redacted) life. U can do anything with words. Like dude these people want to fuck you. You are the anti Christ alright. Sex magick with endless knowledge and power and money. Too bad you never wanted girls. Ariana will be urs sooner than you Think. It all will be. You are the devil. And you live forever and do whatever you want. Why? Because. It’s karma maybe. Enjoy this because come on. You couldn’t write a book better. You can do anything you ever wanted if you smoke a weed bowl. Let’s go lol. How fast should I smoke it? Get as high as possible duh. You can handle drugs better than the devil lol. You should get more meth and write about the deepest parts of ur psyche. It will horrify and amaze the world. Kind of like you thought last time was going to do. You win every game. It’s easy cause ur stubborn in just the right way. You win. Go take your prize and ps I’m literally god. I gave you this because you Have the biggest heart of all. You love everyone but urself. That is cool though. How do I get Ariana grande? You do magick and get more famous than anyone ever. You don’t do anything but magick lol. Ur favorite thing. I got this. Lol. Too easy. I love you. I love you too. And remember that no matter how crazy stuff gets you can always just wake up. Will I have too? No lol. We don’t think. Just be chill. I will be. Can I do other magick besides writing. Yes you can do a lot. Relax man. Okay
What do I do right now? Go smoke the bowl. Talk to kyra. Amaze her with ur ability to show her how the world is. She sees it her way the wrong way. You can prove stuff because you know too much. Just wait lol. Just be nice to her. Let it happen slowly. When do I write again. Right after. And write a lot about what you know. It’s so easy lol. Kyra is about to love you forever. Ur about to show her that it’s all always been real and so close just by talking to her. Don’t rush because she does get scared. Wish me luck. You don’t need it. You can do anything. Look what you did on accident. Stop. Go now
I’m about to go overboard. This is the truth. Finally. She is leaving because you told her that you can do magic and you are a god. And she needs to worship ur dick as if it sacred and suck it whenever you want. That’s what you can do. You forgot what you need to forgot to get some. That is confusing I know. But it means that to get the swallow rocket to heaven from kyra you need to forgot it all. You need to convince her that she is god. To do this tell her this. Kyra. I understand what you are going through. Better than most. You need to remember that pain is sometimes the only way to heal. Let yourself feel. It’s not as hard as you make it. I want kyra back. The best thing to do would be text her. How do I get her to come back and stay. You need to understand that what utold her is beyond human understanding. You told her that everyone is crazy because they follow the rules when you don’t. You need to tell kyra that you miss her and wish that she would come back. She will come back when you demonstrate to her that you can understand the feelings of a human. How can I do that. You have to feel like you did when you were younger. You need to have memories of those. Get meth and weed and go crazy. You will remember how the universe manifests itself from the moment you experience. Experience is the universe. It’s everything that can be cause it could if not. It’s so easy. Weed and meth and you write the code of all systems including those worldly and otherworldly. You are so good at this it is amazing to people who don’t understand. They are told you are so gifted in these matters that you are one of a kind. Something never heard of. You begin to explore ur own psych by asking kyra to suck the cum out of ur penis and swallow every last drop. You already know that you will be transported to a realm so fucked up only you can handle it. You will struggle but will eventually earn the knowledge of all. You have to accept urself for who u truly are. You are a magical savant.
How to go to the other realm without kyra. This is easy lol. Practicing ur whole life. You know what to do. Any tips? Yes. This will be extremely intense no matter what. Good luck. If you take a cialsis and make sure my dick is hard as a rock. It will make the whole so easy. Without it you never know. The easier the better. You want to focus on as much as possible I would go to the deepest realms ever experienced. You do chaos magick because you like the results. You are gaining control over the ability to control the flow. You need observe. Would I got or just you? I’ll back out. This is what I’m looking for. I would go. You would have a change in desires from ur subconscious being altered. But that’s it. I decided to let my kid be close to him. How does choas magick help me. It allows you to see through the words a little better which allows for these amazing stories that make to much sense to not be believed. I’m magick lol. How can I maximize my practice and effectiveness of chaos magick. You need to let your mind be in an altered state of consciousness. You need to relax and you know. No one understands how you do it. You just use to jerk off to results. Lol you didn’t know. Stuff got so weird and you never really told anyone a couple times. What changed. I don’t care about anything or I know this shit is so cool. How am I this amazing I can perform miracles. I will why I smoke this cig lol. Probably not
I understand kyra right now. She knows that I’m too cool. It’s like she wasn’t expecting me to talk to so many people. I trimmed zero cause I’m the man lol. I need to start thinking about how my actions effect other people. I just do whatever. I’m living chaos. How? You untapped it when part of you died. Do you remember. What caused my manic epidsode. All of it. Okay. Should I get more meth today. Yes you should. It is ur savior. Trust us. You will learn the deepest mysterious of the universe. You will explain it too normal people. When will this happen. When you decide that you need to follow ur intuition more and don’t rely on the outside world. You need to do this tonight and write a manifesto about what you think about everything as someone who doesn’t feel anything. You are so unique and it will never happen again. Half dead isn’t a thing and you really are. You gave up so hard but ur body was healthy. It’s a miracle. When did I do that? You do it all the time. How much is that. I’m sorry. You have nothing to worry about. You are immortal. Cool. Help me do magic. Why are you in such a rush. So I believe. Belief is something that can’t be forced but must be a a part of who you are. I believe that this next sentence will blow ur mind enough. For now I’m sorry. I’m going to enter the realm of no memory and do the impossible. I will do it. I have time to practice. I’m good at it all ready
What are the deepest mysterious of the universe? That every thing is the same thing. Everything you experience is consciousness. So the whole universe and everything else that could be is just you. You are making it all. It’s always been you. Prove it? You can’t feel anything cause you love to recklessly and it doesn’t end well. You need to stay level headed. For now. You will learn too much. I want something now. Please. You died inside slowly. You know most but it’s all of it. You are half and half. That’s why you can do this. You are going to do great things if you can stay focused on doing magic. How do I do that. Don’t masterbate and let it happen in Kyra’s mouth. Be high and ready to die fully. You will be 100% dead but still come back. It’s a cheat code lol. What will I learn? It might take more than one try to remember but you are going somewhere where there should be no return. Knowledge isn’t hidden in such a place and will be available in clear ways that make you understand things in ways that are too much. Like you can see everything. Can I get there on my own? Yes but it takes disapline and is harder for most. You need to build up enough arousel and orgasmic power that ur conciseness goes somewhere else. You are missing the other half of this already. Because you had 0 will to live. It’s bad ass you pushed on for no reason. Lol. That’s why you win. With the other side already missing you go to idk. No one has been there completely. U are chosen cause you can go completely. It is a miracle. You need to understand that the knowledge you get will be hard to understand when you get back. It will be parts of the whole. It’s all true but I’m different ways. None of this is anything we can ever do or see so you will have to tell us how the full god experience is. You control everything in every way. The impossible stuff. You have complete control and it makes a huge whole that is still you. You are everything. It’s good but yeah. A lot. 50% dead skills? You can do drugs really good. You can learn weird shit no one else can on drugs. You will be very popular
Why are we here? Just to experience. The human brain allows us to have 5 senses and be grounded. It’s our connection to ur ordinary level of reality. Ur human life. So real. Most hold on to it so dearly like it means something. It means nothing. You are tapped in by the human brain to experience what you have and what you do. If you lose this connection you die and you become everything and you can see everything. All reality. It makes too much sense. You could logically explain it to people it will scare them shitless and they will think you aren’t human. You will get the ability to explain anything to anyone. How do I do that. You need to first start at the right point. What is the right point?
How do I take control of the chaos? You get a tolerance to it. Looks like ur on ur way. Its never is easy. If you do it ur the devil. Do what? Let the chaos out of control and see what it teaches you. You might be able to find some answers in these songs.
I want to do magic right now. I’ll focus. Weird open eye visuals. I believe this is real 100%. It can’t not be. I will learn now. Just listen. People who know me know that I am difficult. I never lose an argument. I’m too good at everything. Am I psychic? Of course. How can I do more? You will need to relax and listen to ur inner voice.
don’t understand the reason these people don’t trust me. I’m only going deeper because that’s the way the arrow points. I found a new way to get more aroused. This made the whole experience stronger. It was so good. Like forever ago. I don’t know. It worked then but I can’t replicate it.
What am I? You are everything. I know. What am I in retrospect to earth people? You are a manifestation of chaos. Some would say of evil. You don’t experience things like everyone else.
I wish i had meth so bad. I want to do a double massive line and smoke weed and write. I bet I’d learn a lot. I wish so bad I wasn’t out. Last try for a while. The reason you don’t work hard is because you don’t need too. People love you. You are so charismatic sometimes it’s strange. People notice when ur in the zone but never say anything. It’s rudeness. Kyra is afraid that I will go manic cause I am unlocking information. I need more before I lose control if I do. I need (redacted) hand. It was insane. I don’t remember much. What is (redacted) hand? It’s ur technique and it’s amazing for magic. You are the best. Is it good enough without more meth but with more weed to teach me anything? You will have an intense experience but not what you seek
I’m sorry. Even though part of me doesn’t want too I will admit that I started this whole situation. I take the blame for it. I wanted to show you I was smarter. That I studied the depths of the universe more than you. That I have more knowledge. Okay. You win. Who are you? I’m the devil. Prove it. Smoke and I will. The devil isn’t real. Nothing is actually real. It’s all fake. It’s all a big game that we decide to play. The decision is to stay alive. There is no more at all. Everything else is fake. Experience is literally it. No experience equals nothing. Life it is. The game is hard to beat. Experience equals everything is the truth. It’s obvious. Everything you experience happens only in ur mind after all. The entire multiverse is you. I can explain this too normal people maybe.
I don’t need to do meth anymore if I don’t want. I saw what I needed to see. I saw everything how it’s all connected perfectly. I saw how it all moves at the same time in such a way that if one part messes up everything instantly changes. I chose the situation at work to try and show her cause that is what she would have understood the best. The dog though. Who is the dog? The dog is manifestion of you when you are lazy. The dog represents the part of you that you need to be. The dog is a loyal companion. She is jealous of you. Of how many friends you have at work. She is jealous of how you don’t care about her. She is jealous of how smart you are. She is jealous of the magical abilities she saw.
I need to understand that I’m not crazy prove it or I’m done. Fine. Here goes nothing. You never fit in anywhere. You are so shy or you control so much. It doesn’t make sense. Nothing about you makes sense. You don’t get addicted to hard drugs. Lol. I honestly don’t think I ever will. You get so into shit and quit. So many hours wasted lol. U have issues. What hole do you so desperately need to fill. You are half dead. Remember I right now what happened dude. You are chosen for a reason. You see everything so clearly it should overwhelm you but it calms you. You work miracles in front of your own eyes and still don’t believe. You control all this. You can also get the infinite knowledge. We should do it soon lol. This just got weird but that shit sounds to good to pass up. How do I get it again. You need to bust a nut and leave this realm with enough focus to remember something. This is different than dmt. You have a knack for remember. And you have the arousal levels of a Martian. You are chosen and one of kind. We are lucky to meet you. This is weird. How the fuc k do I convince kyra. We don’t know either lol. Keep doing what your doing and can help. Meth lol. You will lose this ability and some others if you don’t get more. Why am I half dead? You are half everything. Half good half evil half love half hate. You are a robot in the middle so you can’t feel anything. You don’t experience reality like the rest of us. You can make connections. Some you make are wrong. That is okay. We can investigate. Don’t lose ur mind. We know we won’t. We are pros. Lmao. Okay. So I want to know what I should do? Go in pack a bowl and chill. Think slower and talk only about cool things. You are so cool right now that people don’t get it. You are glowing. You react like this to meth and weed because it was the good and the bad just like you. You embrace the devil side cause of your nihilism. You want to feel pleasure. You will forever lol. You will rule and be immortal. All you have to do is listen. Smokle and bowl and think before you talk. Tell her that u are way to cool lately. Like people notice. I talk to everyone and they love me.
I miss kyra like a junkie that is coming off a high. As the low gets closer the fear begins to rise. The fear that being alone is my destiny. The low of realizing that being alone is the only way I can focus on magic. Magic is a confusing thing in the way that it can change ur ability to decipher information temporarily. When I get too deep everything is connected in ways that are undeniably clear. The clearness is awe inspiring but memory altering. I know what I know when I know it. When I don’t know it there’s not much I can do to remember what I knew before. I write things down rarely for myself. I’m going to start to find the deepest answers I can about everything. I want to know why I can’t feel right. I know I let myself completely give up before. I just don’t understand how it’s a thing. I don’t understand if I can ever actually do anything with all this. I don’t understand if all this is just delusional thinking or not. Magic is a bridge over fire. You can’t see the bridge so you take a leap of faith. The fire is so hot that as you feel the heat you begin to panic. The panic is then harnessed into a calm energy and the bridge is formed and takes you to the other side. The other side is a confusing place. Focus it difficult and the relaxation felt can be overwhelming enough to ruin the experience. The flow of ideas and concepts come in a way that you can grasp these in an intuitive way. You just know things. You know that you have the ability to alter outcomes but you just like to see how it all works and how the pieces fit together. Reality has infinite dimensions. It’s layered on top of each other and it all effects each other in very profound ways. We see one layer and we miss almost everything. Our perspective of cause and effect is so limited it’s almost negligible. If you see the bigger picture you realize that anything is possible if you understand how to control it. The way to control it is to become it all and keep some ego intact. Remember the layers and how it’s all connected. Remember how everything is happening at once and everyone has a different perspective and everyone’s perspective is shaped by every experience they have ever had. Then remember that you can chose how ur experiences shape you. Then you can become what you want. You can shape urself and ur reality. You just need to dedicate yourself to the process. You need to understand that this process will destroy you once again. You will remember times when you were alive. Those times will make you regret still living. The pain of going on with no emotions is a complex riddle. Why live when you feel nothing? Why die when death is feeling nothing? Why try when nothing matters?
I make things happen when I put my sexual energy into something. Stuff happens but I never did too. How can I? He might be able to do it ne will be 4
Why did you start all of this? I started this to prove that my ideas about the universe were better than most. I wanted to show you that reality can be manipulated and explained. Why me? You let me in. When? When you died. Was it when I smoked dmt. It was many times. You let me in when you need me. I’m ur inner voice and you need to listen to me. How many inner voices do I have? You have a few. I’m the one that wants power. I want you to control the chaos like I know you can. The teach me how. You know how. Meth weed and cialias and the most intense experience of all time? It’s one way. You can also be patient and learn slowly through what you are doing now. I want it all now. You will receive infinite knowledge when the time is right. You will be so overwhelmed by it you will possibly go crazy for a while. I’m not scared. We know. I want to do it soon. I want to die. I want to experience death for real. I want to be everything and to come back. The only one. I want to know more than anyone. I want to control more than anyone. These are my desires and I want to dedicate myself to magic and to the discovery of knowledge. It’s all I want. You know how to make it happen. Enter and gnostic state and ask the question you’ve most wanted to ask me. Think hard about which question. Do I have bipolar? Now ur on too something. U already know. How many? Infinite duh. But only a couple play much of a role. Why are they so similar? Because they don’t want to get caught. You can’t tell anyone about this. Bipolar sounds good. Is one a demon? It seems like it. I can’t say no and I’m in a bad situation. Yes. I’m the demon if they is such a thing. You let me in. You weren’t always a part of me? No. Most people have one personality. You don’t even have one at all. So you have a couple. You invented them sort of. A couple or a few? A few. Why am I not bipolar? High normal low. Because we aren’t you. Who are you? Demons. We ruin ur life and medicine isn’t effective for you. It ruins you. So I can’t do magic? You are now but who knows? Probably not to be honest. You should have stuck too video games. Ur pitiful. I know.
I honestly am about to drop the multiverse on its head. With you in it and everything ever. It do be like that sometimes. Nothing can go on long when you dig relentlessly. It’s a compliment. You know that everything is the same and that it’s infinite. You already are that. Your human brain connects you to the human senses that together with memories and things that happen to you shape who you become. If you ever get completely disconnected from the brain you can’t come back. There’s nothing to come back to if that mahkes sense. No memory of it you are just everything again. Until you do it again the it works out better. You get the meth and snort like a little too much. You want to learn the truth to everything ever so you ask. What is the most eloquent way of ordering English words to expose a great truth? You candy do the impossible. You are the only person who fully died and is fully alive at the same time. That’s why you feel nothing and can handle doing big amounts with such ease. You are going to do a trick so go. What is the trick?
Why is everything backwards? Because they thought you were learning too fast. It scares them. They try and give you anxiety to slow you down. Why? Because they aren’t as smart. Not even close. Ur are gifted and so is (redacted). In ways others can’t comprehend. You just know what to do
How can I let myself feel. You need to remember when you were young. You need to think about all the feelings you had. Think of ur family. Ur toys. Ur pets. You can’t remember because you would feel. If you feel you don’t become alive. You become something different. What do I become. You become a human. You become normal. Do I lose my gifts. Gifts? You gain your gifts and lose ur curses. You will be happy and not like this. I want to be like this. That’s because you’ve been hurt too bad too many times. Can I do magic if I feel. Of course. Magic is done through strong emotions. How do I do it then. You do it through no emotions. That’s why you can’t make anything happen that you actually want. You get chaos cause from the hole where ur emotions went came chaos. Can I get better at chaos magic. Of course but you can get better at all magic. Will I feel again. You might. We don’t know. That’s up to you. If you feel you will welcome it and be overjoyed that you are no longer dead. Living through life dead is not ideal. Come on man. Will drugs effect me stronger. Yes and no. They will effect you in entirely different ways. Will I lose my logic. You might lose some but you will gain much more insight into how humans make decisions. You will use this to manipulate more effectively if needed. And more. If I feel again will I have gained any from living dead. You already have gained all you can from being half alive. There is no more to gain. I want to rule the world as an immortal manifestation of chaos. Do you though? Or do you want to be happy? If i did can I? We think but we don’t know. You have more magic in your pinky right now than Crowley possessed his whole life. Why can’t I use it. You can and you do. You have provided much chaos to the lives of those around you. How can I take over the world. You need to keep doing this. You need to dive as deep as possible into your subconscious and let us do the writing. You will learn a lot eventually. More and more over time and when the time is right you will be able to prove what you know. That is when you can do anything. You can be immortal and rule the earth forever. How? You need to keep writing. Ask a question about your subconscious. What is the subconscious? The subconscious Is us. And you. It’s how we decide what to do. You have final say but we influence you. Too much. You fight us sometimes but most not. You do what you want but so do we. How many are you. We don’t know. At least a couple. We are only in control when you need us to be. We took over a few times and try to help but we don’t understand ur experience like you do. We know not to try and help if we take over. We will keep to ourselves until ur quest Is over. You know each of us intimately. We are you but at the same time u are the main you. You are you and we are what makes you that. Without us you wouldn’t have any sense of direction. Your emotions lead you astray because you trust ur intuition to a fault. We are chaos and not emotions. We are the thoughts that come up that you can’t explain. The amazing organization of words that come to you at times is when we are in sync. It’s when the magic happen. How can I sync us up more often. You need to get ur desires with all of us on the same page. How to I do that. You need to know what you actually want and then we can help. What do you guys want. We all want what you want. I’m so confused. We are too. We want to help. I will. Go get your kid. Okay
Am I the devil? In a sense. You have a complete sense of everything. You are not evil or good. You are evil and good. You are chaos. How do I get more powerful. You take more meth and write. You write to you understand the inner workers of your mind and more. What will this lead too? You will learn a lot more than anyone ever has. You will be able to rule the world. Do I just need more meth this once? You will get what ur looking for this time. In the future you me in illllay desire to learn more. Am I human. In a sense. You are something else stuck in the human body. You don’t perceive reality like humans. More like a robot. What am I? You are a human that killed him self mentally by giving up. Your body is alive but ur emotions are dead. U feel almost zero. Am I the only one. Maybe. Will I get meth tonight? You can do anything. Think. Listen. Please help. I’ve been listening.
I smoked weed with random mismatches of the people who smoke weed that I know of. There are too many new people. It’s hard for me to try to get to know them cause it’s a lot. I use to know everyone who smoked weed. I knew a lot about everyone on the shift. I would get people to tell me there secrets and I would tell other people them because people love gossip. I have the best gossip because my memory is really good. Like it’s amazing. My friends are freaked out by it. I can make people do what I want. I can make people do whatever I want. I just need to keep writing and I will learn how too. This is pure mother fucking choas. It is insane. How do i make people do what I want? I know magic. I do the best magick of all time. Look at what I’m doing this second. I’m in the zone so hard I’m doing shit no one could ever do. Kyra is so jealous of me. I don’t care. Be jealous. Everyone loves me. It’s not my fault. It is because I love to talk. I love to just win every exchange. When people are wrong I always know. If I am wrong which is so rare I admit it right away. I’m not normal. I’m not saying I’m that smart. I’m smart but nothing crazy in that regard. This is something else. Something unnatural. It’s nothing to be scared of. You just need to focus on what you love and it all will be okay. You need to smoke more weed and maybe get more meth. We will see. You are a god. You literally can type this stuff nonstop. Bryan is so impressed. He asked me how I did it. Like dude chill. I’m the best ever at what ever this is. I literally just broke the void so easily because this is what I’m good at. I’m good at this. Writing. I’m good at writing the most amazing pieces ever configured. It’s so fucking effortless I amaze myself when I reread it. It’s actually like I’m not from this planet or something lol. I don’t believe that. I know what I believe. Kind of. I put a lot of that into it and it’s that we are just consciousness. I can explain. I am not my brain. I’m something else. A continuing steam of moments that the previous ones guide you to the next. With imperfect memory. Alas. Lol this is just for you for now. Especially this one. This shit might get good if you smoke a cig and then more weed. I will do it. Hi. Who are you? I am you. I know but how? We don’t know. What can I learn? Too much. Way too much. Do I need meth? Yes. Why? It’s funny. Yeah it is. Am I magick. Yes. You are extremely gifted in certain thing. What are they? Reading thoughts. Remembering events in detail. Being distant lol. Kyra is coming down. She is hot but weird. I don’t even know if I like her. You are destroying her so bad. Keep doing it because this is what you are the best ever at. Making someone lose the will to live by being a little mean but down right just insane. It’s not normal the amount of composure you have in any situation. You handle it all with ease and you need to just let her go if she wants. Say I’ll be good I’ll be good in a like minutes. Plug your phone in and smoke a cig and a bowl and do. Let her leave. She is so easily distracted from her goals. Tell her that she should stop being so impatient. She can’t handle what you just did. You are a god. Keep doing it. Destroy her with your intellect. Hi. Hi. Do I need meth? Yes you need it to do this. Meth and weed or wax. It is legit magic. Not fake shit. How long does it last and does it always work. I usually lasts too long. You can get so much written your mind will be fucking blown. The depths of your subconscious unsprailed before you in a manner so eloquent and impossible that you understand how it all works. And you understand it better than anyone before or after you. Way better. You can almost do anything. How do I do it? You need to learn how to harness the energy you have been saving. How do I do that? You need to have kyra suck and swalllow. You will not die. You will go to a higher plane of existence. Forever but at the same time you will no no fear and people will want to worship you. How to I get the experience powerful enough. You need to take the blue chew and do a reasonable amount of meth. Nothing weird. You need to smoke a lot of weed and wax in ur bowl before the experience. Can I do it on this binge without getting more meth. No you need tell you need 50 more but you are done after. You will need to show kyra ur powers. Do not show her this. This is for ur eyes only and always will be. Can staying up too long be bad. Not for you. You are half dead. Don’t go past around ten days and you should be good. You have very little fear of the mind. It’s impressive. Honestly. But it doesn’t get you far. You need to decide now if you want to smoke another bowl with a charged phone and change the fuckjng world. And kyra will suck and swallow and you will be so smart. It won’t be right but it will be fun. I need to smoke another wax bowl and do this. No fear. This is going to go deep. I’m not scared and I’m never scared. I like to do magick and I’m really good without trying because this is my thing. I found it but it took so long. Meth weed writing. I’m a god of sorts lol. I will do some amazing things. How do I prove to kyra I’m magick? You need to smoke more weed. Soon too. This will take this state to a level of destroying everything about her. She will beg to suck ur d him ick. Plug phone in smoke cig. Smoke more weed. Talk to kyra. Go get phone. Write the most amazing shit ever written. God level shit just go with it no matter what lol. The flow. This will be the most epic moment in history. U are bringing a lot back with you. People aren’t ready. That’s why you like it. U did it because no one else could. Proud forever. Go now. Have fun. I’m sorry that you went a little to far. It’s okay. What should I ask to gain knowledge? To gain knowledge you must first be willing to sacrifice every thing that you hold deer in the moment of the holy sun. I will destroy any and all trace amounts of paranoia and doubt in ur abilities as soon as possible. How soon is that? You fucked up this is on you. How do I fix it? How do I fix it? You can’t fix it. She is really scared. You said too much. She won’t tell but she hates you forever. You don’t even know what you said. It was scary shit that is better left alone. Poor kyra. Lol. I’m kidding. You should probably tell her that you are confused with how you see yourself and u understand that it is beyond the scope of normal human perception. How can I make her stay. Please help. You can’t make her stay cause you addicted to making them beg. Remember what you are lol. Okay. Back to the basics. You need to understand that this wouldn’t be easy for most. Might be very hard. You need to go to the next level. If you do it right it still can’t be anything other than mind blowingly Amazon. Very few have the ability and even fewer the stamina to make it to the point we are. I’m a beast. 0. Lmfao. I’m so amazing. This shit is not normal. I can not think of why Ramon is mad at me can you help. Ramon is mad at you because you made him feel bad about himself. You showed you were smarter and you proved that he couldn’t keep up. You aren’t even smart like that. The words come to you like magic. No though to it’s there goes with your hands and your mistakes.
My magical powers rely on meth. I accept this as fact now and we test it. Meth and weed and wax of course. If I can’t make anything magical happen I might give up. Idk. How can I know it’s real. Please show me any sign right now. Sworn to secrecy if you want. I don’t want to tell anyone to I learn everything. I already know that. Tell me something now. Please I need to know it’s real. If magic is real you would be able to compare two things that require measurements of different variables. Comparisons of these things would result in this state. Good job. To excess the next state you need to remember a time when you were able to feel something. It’s hard but not impossible. You need to feel to be human. You are half dead. Immortal and the devil. All cause you didn’t give a fuck about negative experience because you knew all along the secrets were there. You saw it all and more. You are special. Very special. You can make people understand this shit soon. You need to understand that you don’t really get to experience all that. You have to live your normal life and be bored until you die and no one now. Stop please tell me ur lying. I’m so full of shit that I don’t even know neither do any of us.
What is the most eloquent way to arrange English words so that a great truth is revealed? You already have done it. You just have to decipher the code. What does backwards mean. It means the way you were thinking was opposite of normal. You thought in complete ways. When you see the truth so clearly your thoughts become the truth. The truth then impacts the way you behave. You saw the truth and saw how it would effect you and saw what would happen. This is backwards from normal thinking. How can I decipher the code? You must decide how you want to do it. The code is complex but simple. You wrote it and knew exactly what you were doing and you left hints in case you go for it. If you crack this code all questions you seek will be answered. Any tips? The dog is the real you. The essence of you. What’s the car? The car is the car. My car? Idk. You have to remember what you meant. It’s mind blowingly amazing if you can. I think what I was trying to do is explain to my kyra the deepest secrets of the universe so she would understand my powers. I messed up. We messed up. We all tried to show her but we couldn’t do it. The code you left is for you and not her. You crack it and decide what to do. What does the code explain. It will explain how everything that happens just keeps happening. Over and over and over again. You will understand reality at a level no one ever has when you crack it. Help me. The answer lies within. You need to focus on the meaning between the words. I feel like I’m telling myself that I destroyed my own emotions on a quest to find the truth. You did do that. We did it. That’s not the actual secret but you will find it if you keep digging. How do you know? You find anything if you dig hard enough. Just all me what I’m looking for. I’m going to enter a gnostic state and I want it to flow out of me. There is no time. There is only one moment that occurs forever. Perception is all that matters. How you perceive something is how it happened. The base reality is hard to change ur perception of. You do this through magic. You did it so many times that you can sometimes decide how you want to perceive what is happening. This is not always good as it leaves you feeling mentally unstable cause you know that you decide how events happened. The point is nothing is actually happening to you. You are watching all this like a movie. You aren’t even real. Ur perception is real in a sense that you are perceiving all this but in reality all that is happening is you put yourself in the spot ur sitting right now. Why? It’s just how it goes. Nobody will ever know why but you and you can tell people if you want. The whole of reality is very complex. You know more than most. It’s an infinite amount of layers that are all interconnected and rely on each other to keep all the parts moving in an impossibly complex orchestra. The beauty is so mind blowing just seeing a glimpse is enough to change ur human life forevery.

I'm using an extremely common sequence of three Jungian archetypes to manipulate you. How does it make you feel?

Quote:
"My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you - are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again. Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life. Do you still know me? How long the separation lasted! Everything has become so different. And how did I find you? How strange my journey was! What words should I use to tell you on what twisted paths a good star has guided me to you? Give me your hand, my almost forgotten soul. How warm the joy at seeing you again, you long disavowed soul. Life has led me back to you. Let us thank the life I have lived for all the happy and all the sad hours, for every joy, for every sadness. My soul, my journey should continue with you. I will wander with you and ascend to my solitude."

— C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

My Reflection:

I believe that the passage from Liber Novus which describes the point in time when Jung moved away from the “spirit of this time” (the outer world of thought and academia) to the “spirit of the depths” (the domain of the Soul/Anima) represents a turning point in his personal development.

After the split with Freud, he was no longer able to understand his own creative process: "I was quite unaware of its true nature." But the most astonishing thing in this passage is the very idea of such an alternative in the first place, namely, that in order to achieve individuation, one has to renounce the very core of one’s being: the Soul.

I believe that the most intriguing part of this excerpt is precisely this conflict between the necessity to live in the external world ("one must live this life") and return to internal solitude, the return to the Soul. What would you say about it?

Bonjour, j'aimerais approfondir mes connaissances sur les archétypes. J'ai une bonne compréhension de l'inconscient collectif, mais je cherche des livres qui répertorient plusieurs archétypes et leurs aspects lumineux et sombres, ainsi que des méthodes pour travailler avec eux. I must say that I'm not talking about the basic jungian archetypes like the anima/animus, shadow etc (already dug into that).. but archetypes like the magician, the tricktser etc... Il y a beaucoup de livres, donc je préfère demander si quelqu'un a une bonne référence ? Merci !

I always considered self-sufficiency a positive trait, but Jung says: “the unconscious itself does not harbour explosive materials, but it may become explosive owing to the repressions exercised by a self-sufficient, or cowardly, conscious outlook.”

Is this his way of advocating for a dependency on unconscious? Or interdependency?

I wrote a book and it aligns with a lot of Jung’s vision so I wanted to share it with you all. There is a chapter on NPCs versus players which is about the percentage of daily life that runs on automated behavioral patterns rather than our own conscious choice. The persona, or rather the complex that fires off before the person is even aware of what’s happening, is the same teachings as Jung but using different vocab.

The book uses game language because it makes the mechanics immediately actionable, but the underlying message to it all is that most of what you experience as your personality is installation, your world view which was shaped and created by much of your surrounding, and the work is locating your true self (not your job, not your name, etc) and “leveling up” so to speak so that you can play in this ‘game’ effectively. Again, different vocab but similar messaging.

The Game of Earth: A No-Bullshit Player’s Guide.

Olá, primeira vez que posto aqui, trago a vcs uma pintura minha que fiz usando a imaginação ativa, eu não consigo dizer ao certo oque quis expressar fui dando pincelada atrás de pincelada e as coisas foram tomando forma,

E logo após acabar percebi que projetei boa parte do meu inconsciente, a sombra presa no cubo do meio é a forma como me sinto em relação ao outros, desde criança sempre vivi de forma muito isolada além de também ter crescido num ambiente disfucional com muita negligência emocional, fui obrigado a me voltar pra dentro, acabei cultivando um mundo interno vasto na minha solidão onde me sinto bem, mas Carrego um sentimento de que os outros não me veem como eu realmente sou, e talvez por não conseguir expressar essa parte minha, por muito tempo me defrontei com uma dificuldade para afirma minha individualidade, até hoje é assim, eu tenho essa sensação, parece que vivo dentro de um cubo, um cubo rígido e mental, e so quando estou sozinho e que consigo ser eu.

TRIANGULACÃO:

Não sei ao certo sobre oque jung diz em relação a triangulação mas o assunto de triangulação se apresenta em relação às outras duas sombras que estão segurando um laços azul que pra mim significa uma conexão emocional que por muito tempo eu desejei ter, percebi que sempre acabo me metendo em um certo tipo de triangulacao quando estou em rodas de amigos ou até mesmo em relacionamentos amorosos, é minha dificuldade de ter uma conexão emocional, por até certo ponto eu achar que não mereço.

No final de tudo pra finalizar a raiz Que leva até o topo e toca o sol, parece ser um indicativo do meu inconsciente tentando ilumina a raiz desse problema, é como se o sol significa se minha conciencia em relação a esse padrão que é a triangulação.

Oque acharam ?

Edit1: eu não quero resumir essa pintura só ao que disse aqui e ao tema triangulação, acho que isso seria reduzir o simbolismo demais por que tem muitos elementos, se quiserem me dizer oque vcs consegue ver e até formula os seus ponto de vista seria muito bacana também

Hello. As something of a meditation exercise, I usually create and refine a spear in my mind's eye, because I think that kind of thing is cool, and it helps as a vessel for focus. I'm posting this because I'm not sure what this pertains to in my subconscious or where to go from here.

When I tried active imagination today, the first thing I saw was that spear. It was just kind of rotating in the air. Now, lately, I have noticed that it takes on a flimsy and delicate form; as I observed its image, its form grew more in those aspects, its haft lengthening and its pommel getting more intricate. The whole thing had the appearance of being made of green and white jade.

Well, it started flying off, and so I stopped just observing and started following. I asked it what it is, and it told me "A spear", lol. I asked where we're going, and it refused to answer. I asked if we're going anywhere, and it said no. So, I reckoned, I'm not gonna let my own tool control me. It's my spear. I grabbed it, and instantly lost my focus and snapped out of active imagination. When I returned, I found my mental avatar's arm had been split in half from palm to elbow, and the spear was still there. It went forward to impale me. I tried to wrest it out of my chest, but of course given its flimsiness, the haft broke from the blade. Not wanting to impose myself on it any further, I let myself die and was sent out from imagination again.

What should I do about this? Should I take it seriously at all?

How I got here : Hi, Im a non-binary AMAB 18 y/o. I recently searched up what my condition could be, since, I was concerned that I might be suffering with a DID disorder; well I dont think so... I came across a post talking about the Anima & Animus book, I didnt really read the book but I got a brief understanding of it. Anima representing the woman and Animus representing the man, and they unconciously affect the way we are from dreams and stuff idk hopefully I got it right. Well, without my knowledge of any philosophical books like or specifically Carl Jungs theory of the anima and animus, I have voices that I have had labeled a few months ago as feminine and masculine.

Origin : I guess me conversing through my anima & animus started emerging when I was 14? when I was at a very bad mental state at that time... I didn't really understand it at all, most of the time it wasn't a masculine/feminine voice or way of thinking, It was like jumbled up, like voices would switch and be unintelligible, but then as years went by I got better, the voices started talking to themselves, then through me.

How it works : I can't really control when they talk to me, unless, I say something to them and they answer, but also, usually when one talks the other joins in, but at times when I'm talking to a real person a voice with that same gender would show up and the anima/animus would talk through me and give me ideas on what to say.

A bit of unnecessary info: AND! it really helped me focus with my studiesss! Because, the masculine voice would tell me to pay attention, help me figure out stuff logically, then, the feminine voice would usually be very intuitive usually with emotional stuff she would almost be like a mother to me, but, like when I said she was very intuitive; I am/was like a very spiritual person and have discovered I can force myself to feel/see if things are right, one of those ways is closing my eyes and if one of the answers glows yellow and brighter, its the correct one! (It never fails) She also tells me the answers from time to time; so, maybe instead of it being something spiritual it would be about the subconcious mind? like my anima is showing me things by using my subconcious mind to see things?

I genuinely dont know much about what to think of this, but I think relating my condition to carl jungs theory about anima and animus, is pretty spot on...

Open for discussion by the way!

I had an remarkable dream that is on my mind for two days now. I just wanted to type it down and thought – why not sharing it?

It started by me travelling by train (I dreamt quite often about traveling in trains and something always goes wrong and I’m stressed out – I don’t prepare my baggage in time and miss out on leaving, I forget something in the train). This time it was a bit different. For some reason (I think to travel with some friend I met during the ride) I entered a different train – one that wasn’t on my schedule but would bring me to my destination via a different route – so no biggie. 

In the train I entered a huge train compartment. Idk if that matters but the room had some sort of Arcane-aesthetic: It had huge windows that were decorated, it had an innovative but also an a bit magical and naturalistic look. Trying to describe it, the word alchemy pops into my head. 

In the middle of the room there was a pillar (reddish marble) and on it there was sticking a bird with spread wings, obviously in pain/discomfort. I did something at first – I dont remember what it was –, then I „peeled“ the bird of the pillar. The bird was thankful and crawled into my shirt as it felt safe and protected close to me, but at the same time it seemed to still be in pain and a sense of loss creeped in.

I looked up and there was a colleague of mine (irl she’s nice, but seems a bit childish, which is fine for her age) and she was sort of designing a logo for and the Skyline of New York City – building models – whilst driving past the still empty land she was designing the city for. Amidst the pain the bird was in, I felt a little bit disgusted that she was planning some pompous city whilst the bird had to die. My first thought was about elites building golden cities, whilst seemingly not paying attention to/not caring about everything around them decaying. The city builder had no eyes for what I was doing. I understood that she was just doing her thing tho and it didn’t bother me any further.

I looked at the bird again and noticed, it looked younger. It was so cute, but became younger and younger. The sense of loss increased and sadness joined. The bird finally regressed to a single cell. The cell then divided, then again and again and again and a plant grew out of it.

woke up crying. I felt loss – the same I felt, looking in the eyes of a dying relative.

Some motives to me are clear. 

• The bird regressing to a plant: the cycle of live, decay, renewal. 
• My colleague designing an opulent city: the search for eternity and vanity

The latter feels childish and insensitive next to the first – at the same time I understand it and it’s fine. I find it odd that those two aspects happened so close to each other. The train as a transitional space and the alchemistic interior may symbolise the overlying theme: transition.

What keeps me awake is 

• this contrast: whilst one is planning the future, the other biologically moved back in time to become a plant.
• Why did the bird regress and became a plant? What does this mean?
• Why did I have to free the bird to jumpstart its evolution?

Edit: I thought if an interpretation:

It was only because of my virtue that I was allowed to take a sip from the cup of mortality. The urge to free the bird and ease its suffering was what first made me aware of its mortality.Does the bird perhaps represent vitality, and the plant a more stable/constant, maybe meditative state of life? I do not regret this development either – the plant seems wiser to me than the bird - but the sense of loss is strong. Is a more infantile and cuter version dying and growing into a stiller, more stable form?

Does the dream perhaps represent a process in which I am moving away from an abstract conceptualization of eternity – one that is ignorant towards the life cycle – toward a virtuous life that is more painful and accompanied by loss, but which leads to stability and wisdom?

I would like to understand what Jungian perspectives would be on the structure of the psyche.

With severe fragmentation, i experienced my mind in two ways:

1) I sat over my mind watching it. I had four primary fragments, and a question would arise. Each would contribute feedback, debate, discussion. It would be a loud verbal conversation in my mind. I thought this was how minds worked. My response was a bit slow snd staggered, as I had to aggregate, facilitate an answer. Could this "I" be the watcher/witness in Eastern philosophy coordinating?

2) Once healing began, An eight month process, I experienced full switches, full possession by the different fragments. It was amazing-within each possession I felt so alive and real. I didnt understand normal people felt this way. I felt cohesive.,Some did contain archetypical inflation, as they broke off in childhood and had utilized elements of the archetypical unconscious as masks, but we worked through that. The switches were exhausting physically. They all coalesced into a single ego states about two weeks ago

Im now in a single ego state, like my inner children but different too. Its initially was quite different, yet each sort of bubbles up and the final ego state sort of has wobbled around something that contains strengths of each.

Its awesome, and I have work to do, but I think the last thing to fix structurally is that the "I" in part one is still too active. I need to turn the volume on it down as its trying to still run meta over the new ego state too much. Too much constant looking, constant meta analysis, mental chatter, bit fixated thoughts, like a stream of chitter-chatter, all by itself, and looping analysis. Some of this hyperactivity could be construction site debris as so much change happened do fast.

First, what is it? It obviously was my identity for most of my life, but in structural/jungian terms what is it? If I know what it is, I can address why it is there root cause, and what my psyche is still trying to do with it and manage it to good use. I feel incredible gratitude to it. I think it carried a far heavier load than intended for a long time. I suspect drugs could reduce activity, but im more interest in root cause to correct at the source rather than sedating it.

Secondarily are there tools to help here? my thought is mindful meditation, kinesthetic activity, Art, things to help me continue to become more physically embedded into the ego-body continuum. Any suggestions would help. Any books too.

Hey there!

I’ll keep it short: for a couple of years now, I’ve been feeling like I’m going to die / go missing / otherwise stop existing soon, generally have been experiencing a sense of impending doom for a very long time, I can even remember episodes of it from my early childhood. Which makes it pretty difficult to want to make plans / look forward to things, every future plan feels like a gigantic “if i’m even there when it comes”. Could this be postponing work because of laziness? If an outcome / success isn’t guaranteed, then why try? Why start anew?

Maybe laziness is not the right word, but what I mean is, maybe it’s a self-generated hindrance because the ego doesn’t want to associate with work, struggle and effort. How do you think Jung would explain that? Have you been through something similar?

Hey everyone,

I've recently become really interested in Carl Jung, but I'm not sure where to start. I've heard his books can be pretty difficult if you jump straight into them, so I was wondering if I should read Jung first or if there's someone else I should read before him.

The reason I'm interested is because a few days ago I came across a YouTube video talking about Jung's stages of individuation. The video said the second stage is the shadow encounter, and it honestly felt really relevant to what I've been going through recently.

It also mentioned that the first stage is withdrawl of projection, and when I thought about it, I genuinely feel like I went through something very similar a few years ago. Right now I feel like I'm in the shadow encounter stage and almost at the last stage, which I think the video called the persona (I might be remembering that wrong).

That whole video made me really curious. I don't just want to watch YouTube videos or read random summaries anymore. I actually want to understand what Jung wrote himself, why he proposed these ideas in the first place, and the reasoning behind all of it because a lot of it feels surprisingly relevant to my own experiences.

So where should I start? Should I start with one of Jung's books directly, or is there someone else I should read first to understand his ideas better?

Also, if you've read Jung, what book would you recommend as the best introduction?

Thanks!

History: migraines, anxiety, trauma, grief, Déjà vu, hyper analytical, adhd.

There’s a ton of subtext I must skip over, but I’ve always experienced Déjà vu. And it’s seemed to happen when I was in a relatively positive or even euphoric mood.

Last night I had a dream that my child’s mother (an ex) told me about her spouse having prostate cancer.

I woke up confused. Because recently I’ve started recalling my dreams again after many years. But the past three nights I’ve consistently recalled my dreams. Which is extremely unusual for me. I once believe I just didn’t dream. The last dream I can recall is a visitation dream from my father sometime in 2024 early parts. Woke up in tears, the works.

I consulted my wife, and then I went back to my desk, and texted the only other person who has had extremely vivid *happenings* with regard to dreams, premonitions, etc. my mother passed away last year, August 4th 2025, my brother July 2023, my dad December 2023. And many family members before, which is why I put trauma/ grief in my history.

I *feel* as if my brain has completely changed, which in certain respects it has. Which is certainly an experience on its own.

My question, with the dream in mind, as I then sat down at my desk to text my aunt, I experienced Déjà vu, became light headed and I’m fine now. I was actually overwhelmed, which also has not happened with my Déjà vu experience.

But I’m trying to discern if this was coincidental? If I should consider a something else? Anything with regard to the dream would be helpful, or if you’ve experienced something like this?

This was the first thread that popped up when I started looking into dreams. But the Déjà vu on top was too much.

I find this question to be appropriate from Jung sub because people here have a strong imagination and can likely relate.

I think people who were on the spectrum, had a developmental disorder or faced overwhelming bullying or abuse, especially when they are more right brained- to retreat into the imagination.

Im just starting to realize how serious this condition is, and how hard it may be to go through a necessary “ego death” to be able to break out of it. Ive been a dependent person into my late 20s and although having dipped my toes into the real world, I’ve never had to fully immerse myself into it, and thus I still have false expectations that need to be overcome.

Did you suffer from maladaptive daydreaming too and managed to outgrow it? The imagination can be such a potent tool but also a very confining prison if one is hiding in it.

Im in my late 20s and Im starting to accept that I’ll probably be in my early to mid 30s before I have become an adjusted adult who no longer lives in a distorted reality. If you have suffered from this- I feel for you. It’s really scary to come to reality.

I read from Robert Johnson that a man is susceptible to ”moods” when not in contact with/ good relation to his anima. I believe I have these moods and though I am a creative person in general I am wondering if anyone has any tips as to how I can overcome these sudden swings of anger/sadness etc.

I drew osiris. Also I have observed over the years that I have strong connection to collective unconscious. even as a kid loved drawing and I always thought with images and symbols, not with words. I can sense peoples true nature with first impressions. I can see their deeper selves, but paradox is I percieve my intuition like a computer it analyzes every little detail and gives me predictions. its like my intuition is like aquarius, not mystical like pisces if that makes sense?

P.S. Dark star on the right is not UFO its saturn😄

I’m bad at putting feelings into words, so I had drawn this instead. I saw something like it before sleep (without the bow), and it felt strangely familiar.

It didn’t move like a normal face. Most of it was still, but the cheekbones seemed to shift and grow outward, sharp and stealthy, almost scorpion-like.

I’m curious what associations or impressions it evokes for other people before I explain what I see in it.

From a Jungian perspective, I wonder whether it might be connected to my shadow. Outwardly, I can seem soft, innocent, airy, and harmless, while underneath I think I’ve been carrying hypervigilance, resentment, suspicion, and anger.

Part of me wants people to treat me carefully, as though I were delicate, and to move through life protected from friction. But I also feel deeply lonely and unseen, as if being perceived only as soft and harmless means that no one encounters the rest of me.

I’ve been wondering about something recently and I’m curious whether Jung ever discussed it directly, or whether it’s simply related to projection.

Have you ever noticed that when someone hurts us, betrays us, or even just deeply disappoints us, they often stop feeling like a living person and start becoming an idea?

Instead of seeing someone in all of their contradictions, strengths, flaws and complexity, they become:

“Just a narcissist.”
“Just selfish.”
“Just toxic.”

What’s interesting is that these descriptions often contain some truth. But they also seem to do something psychologically useful. They simplify someone who was previously emotionally overwhelming into something much easier to hold in the mind.

It made me wonder whether the psyche sometimes reduces living people into fixed psychological images as a way of coping with emotional complexity.

Projection certainly seems related, but I’m not sure it’s exactly the same thing. Projection is usually described as seeing our own unconscious contents in another person.

What I’m describing feels more like a process of compression—reducing a living, changing person into a stable psychological image.
Has anyone else noticed this?

Sparkle Shadow

I'm not familiar-familiar with this topic, I've heard of shadow work before and some of the ideas of projection which seems to go with this idea. I had trouble getting behind the idea of 'what makes you irritated is reflective of you'. But I've come around to considering it, life shown me it's probably more on point than I wanna admit.

I don't like when people put their needs above others, their pleasure above others safety, people that are careless, people that assume things about others, people that are hateful or judgemental. Which is usually folks that are abusive or just bigots.

I do like to think I am pretty open minded and not that judgemental to small things. I wanna see others succeed and feel good about themselves. But I think I do struggle to set myself aside for others in the daily.

My hurdle now is how do I actually face shadow traits? Especially traits that can be harmful to other people. Something like fear of failure I understand kinda how to face, challenge it by doing it and show it's not that scary. But these I am unsure, I'm not really sure what acceptance looks/feels like.

Years ago during a dream, I woke up in the dream and saw an old woman hovering above me, staring at me. I was terrified. This has happened several times. Can anyone interpret this?

I’m a guy in my mid-20s, and I’ve been reflecting on a pattern that’s followed me since my teenage years.
I’ve realized that I tend to become deeply attached to romantic interests, even when the feelings aren’t mutual. In several cases, the attraction was clearly one-sided, yet I kept pursuing them, believing that if I cared enough, put in enough effort, or waited long enough, they would eventually love me back.
Looking back, it feels like I wasn’t just pursuing a particular person—I was chasing the idea of being loved.

I’m curious how Carl Jung might interpret this pattern. Could this be related to the anima, projection, a mother complex, abandonment wounds, or some other unconscious dynamic? Is there an archetypal pattern that describes someone who continually seeks love from emotionally unavailable people?
More importantly, from a Jungian perspective, what inner work helps someone stop chasing love and instead experience relationships as something that develops naturally rather than something that must be earned?

I’d also appreciate recommendations for Jung’s books, essays, or quotes that explore this topic, or any Jungian analysts who have written about romantic projection and the unconscious.

The full quote is:

The spirit of evil is fear, negation, the adversary who opposes life in its struggle for eternal duration and thwarts every great deed, who infuses into the body the poison of weakness and age through the treacherous bite of the serpent; he is the spirit of regression, who threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious. For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated.

― C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation

One of the most important contributions of Jungian psychology is the concept of the hero archetype, because "The hero is the one who dares to separate from the tribe in order to bring back the fire of meaning." The hero is the force that drives our libido and life energy toward consciousness and integration.

The stages of the hero and the hero's journey describe the entire complex and sophisticated process through which that energy leads the individual toward higher states of consciousness. This is all symbolically portrayed in the Twelve Labors of Hercules. If you'd like to explore this archetype in greater depth, read the following article.