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I/Tulpa
What do you when you’re a fan of Carl Jung and Napoleon Hill? The same thing if you have chocolate and peanut butter. You mix the two and see what you get. I was already working on active imagination, but I stepped up by using Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich, chapter 14, the Invisible Counselor Technique. I invited Carl Jung to be one of my invisible counselors by letter. Not too long after, I had the following Dream.
the set up
Standing over a body on a gurney, partly exposed from a deliberate draping of cloth, is in and of itself particularly disturbing, but when that body is partly open due to battle wounds and further opened by the intentional use of a scalpel is downright horrifying, made worse by the fact that I was holding the said scalpel. There was a pounding in my ears and a squeezing of eyes to refocus, thinking to myself ‘this isn’t real.’
It was not just a visual. There was a heat coming off the body. An assortment of smells, including the stench of feces from a tear in the intestine, and a variety of cleaning agents, was such a powerful assault I was on the verge of retching into my mask. You would think the mask would help block smells. I also worried that if I cried, tears might fall into the body. Can you imagine, killed by tears? Then the sounds began to register. The bustle of people moving and equipment shifting places, and an irreverent banter that was simultaneously sexist and playful…
