On Life after Death
The self and earthly
man in time and space was illuminated by
two dreams
of mine.
In one dream, which I had in October
1958, I caught sight
from my house of two
lens-shaped metallically gleaming disks,
which
hurtled in a narrow arc over the house and down to the
lake. They were two UFOs (Unidentified Flying
Objects). Then
another body came flying directly
toward me. It was a per-
fectly circular lens, like
the objective of a telescope. At a distance
of four
or five hundred yards it stood still for a moment, and
then
flew off. Immediately afterward, another came
speeding through
the air: a lens with a metallic
extension which led to a box a
magic lantern. At a
distance of sixty or seventy yards it stood
still in
the air, pointing straight at me. I awoke with a feeling
of
astonishment. Still half in the dream, the
thought passed through
my head: "We always think
that the UFOs are projections of
ours. Now it turns
out that we are their projections. I am pro-
jected
by the magic lantern as C. G. Jung. But who manipulates
the apparatus?
I had dreamed once before of
the problem of the self and the
ego. In that earlier
dream I was on a hiking trip. I was walking
along a
little road through a hilly landscape; the sun was
shining
and I had a wide view in all directions.
Then I came to a small
wayside chapel. The door was
ajar, and I went in. To my sur*
prise there was no
image of the Virgin on the altar, and no cruci-
fix
either, but only a wonderful flower arrangement. But
then I
saw that on the floor in front of the altar,
facing me, sat a yogi
in lotus posture, in deep
meditation. When I looked at him more
closely, I
realized that he had my face. I started in profound
fright, and awoke with the thought: "Aha, so he is
the one who
is meditating me. He has a dream, and I
am it." I knew that
when he awakened, I would no
longer be.
I had this dream after my illness in
1944. It is a parable: My
self retires into
meditation and meditates my earthly form. To
put it
another way: it assumes human shape in order to enter
three-dimensional existence, as if someone were
putting on a
diver's suit in order to dive into the
sea. When it renounces
existence in the hereafter,
the self assumes a religious posture,
as the chapel
in the dream shows. In earthly form it can pass
through the experiences of the three-dimensional
world, and by
greater awareness take a further step
toward realization.
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