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by Paul Levy
In the late eighties I was the book service manager at the C. G. Jung Foundation in New York. I would oftentimes meet some of the major Jungian analysts in the world. One day, one of the most famed Jungians of England was in the bookstore. Taking advantage of one of the perks of the job, which was to get the chance to pick the brains of the leading Jungian thinkers, I began dialoguing with him about a major interest of mine, lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is when we recognize we are dreaming and continue the dream with this recognition. A few years before this conversation I had begun having profoundly significant lucid dreams which had exponentially catapulted my own process of healing and awakening. I was really curious what a traditional Jungian elder would say about the cutting-edge phenomena of lucid dreaming. ... more >>
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