Nekyias (@CarlJungMemes)
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EPISODE 2: THE DREAM (old version)
🕑 Added 2022-09-22 21:25:27 +0000 UTCIn our second episode, we explore the first stage, or "starting point" of the Katabasis and journey through depression. Specifically, we are interested in defining the "Dream," in order to build a foundation for Episode 3 (The Collapse of the Dream). We talk about moths, metaphysics and meaning, as well as our modern understanding of reality. This episode utilizes philosopher Federico Campagna's ideas, particularly from his work Technic and Magic, to start to build a foundation toward a more helpful understanding of reality. This episode was also heavily influenced by Psychological Types (C.G. Jung) and Matter and Memory (Henri Bergson). This is the second of two complimentary episodes.
The Dream (text from the original guide):
"The Dreamer knows nothing of the Dream. Until and unless it collapses, the Dreamer cannot know anything more of the Dream than what she is, with limited vocabulary, able to gesture toward broadly—concepts like identity, worldview, self-mythology, personal narrative, ideology, belief and schema are the best words we have. I use the “Dream” to refer to our personal understanding of reality. Most of us live inside the Dream. The Dream is always, at least partially, mistaken for the truth. I will use the term Dreamer to describe the depressed individual, although life inside the Dream does not necessarily lead to experiences of mental illness—it is only when the Dream grows too distant from truth and begins to collapse. Sometimes, the dreamer is able to mend the Dream, or otherwise temporarily bolster a collapsing Dream with the help of a current prevailing ideology. Barring this, the collapsing Dream will send the dreamer into a state of crisis—this marks the beginning of a depression."
Comments
Raven
I'm late to the party but I wanted to start at the beginning. Very much looking forward to your teaching.
Jon Rex
So as a person who's lived with chronic depression most of my adult life I don't like the characterization that depressed people are somehow "disconnected" from objective truth (whether this exists at all is another topic). This is to say that if anything depresed people have a more accurate view of the world because we don't ignore aspects that others might look away from because they're unpleasant, complex or painful. Thank you for sharing your vision. I've long struggled with medical model as it currently stands and glad there's a growing shift away from that paradigm.
