before starting to communicate, will often start to deliver far more clear and detailed messages.


Effective techniques for improving dream recall include keeping a dream diary and establishing a good sleep pattern.


Where dreams are remembered in the wee hours of the morning, some people suggest writing in a bedside notebook their key elements, plus all remembered dialogue, odd-sounding words, and numbers. This material can be transcribed in more detail first thing in the morning.


Encountering archetypes In ancient Greece, the philosopher


Plato had hypothesised the existence of unchanging non-material forms that precede and shape the material world. Many centuries later, Plato’s ideas were adapted by Jung as ‘archetypes’, a name he gave to what he saw as important psychic energy centres of the inner planes. While Freud was content to stick with


the notion of a personal unconscious, Jung went a step further to propose an additional ‘collective unconscious’. This invisible mind-field shared by a society, a race, or all humankind, could be viewed as a reservoir, or distillation, of human experience. The collective unconscious has strong similarities with the worldview


of indigenous peoples, who commonly believe that their ancestors are in some way living with them in the present. Jung believed that archetypes structure


the collective unconscious, and subtly shape the contents of the personal unconscious. Archetypes are most clearly seen in collectively held myths and fairy tales. Archetypal figures, including the Great Mother, Wise Old Man and Trickster, will be ‘clothed’ in the local costume of a culture but the basic archetypal forms continue to recur in dream accounts from diverse cultures. Many Jungians consider these archetypes to be as old as humankind. The books of Tolkien, such as The


Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, are considered remarkable for the large number of archetypal characters that make an appearance, suggesting that the author may have possessed remarkable psychological insights.


The jungian individual In particular, Jung identified six important


structures. • The persona is the public mask that we present to the outside world. In today’s complex society we are likely to have several of these. Generally speaking, we are more comfortable living in roles such as ‘mother’, ‘teacher’ or ‘scientist’, as this lubricates social interaction.


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• The ego is a term for the individual’s self-awareness centre, and link to the


external world, the place where people spend most of their waking lives. It serves an important role in protecting a person from being overwhelmed by the unconscious, which could result in conditions such as psychosis or schizophrenia. At the same time, the ego may also obstruct avenues of inner communication. The process of dream and archetype exploration involves journeying to places that lie beyond the ego.


• Despite its sinister-sounding name, the shadow is not necessarily evil. Instead, it symbolises our repressed energies, or the parts of our personalities that remain unlived or unexpressed; highly logical people are likely to possess an artistic shadow, and vice-versa. Our unlived potentials lie dormant in the shadow. As humans, we tend to identify with their our positive qualities while denying the shadow (which tends to be fairly primitive and uncultured), although awareness of one’s shadow side is highly beneficial. According to the late Jungian dream analyst Marie-Louise von Franz, the best way to gain insights into one’s own shadow is to list the qualities in other people that we dislike for no rational reason. At a mass level, societies often attempt to deny their collective shadow, perpetuating a shaky self-belief in their own virtue by projecting their


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