Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,

and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,

and Cape Cod.

Thank you. visions have a peculiar and interesting place in Yong'ian thought they're not dreams they're not exactly like fantasies. They're not hallucinations.

Visions from Jung's perspective represent an intense intervention from the unconscious that breaks

through into our waking mind and forcing us to see and experience

something extraordinary, which is not present in the physical environment. We're more familiar

in the accounts of mystics and saints,

having visions of angels or of God or of other religious figures,

the devil visiting them and tempting them.

Jung had visions, particularly at times of tremendous physical or psychological stress.

So today we thought we would try to parse out the difference between these various kinds of supersensory phenomena and see if we can wrap our head around a little bit.

And today it's going to be Lisa and I because Deb is having a lovely vacation with her family.

Visions.

Yeah, I mean, we came up with this topic.

We hadn't talked about it before and immediately said, well, what's the difference between a vision and a fantasy and a hallucination and a dream and active imagination. So we're not going to pretend

that what we're about to say is going to be somehow the final word in any way. But we thought

it would probably be a good idea to try to parse some of this before we really get into the

topic, just so that we've defined our terms a bit.

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