Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health

Day Dreaming Your Way to Wellness

Abraham Hicks’ Law of Attraction has a lot in common with Carl Jung’s Active Imagination, a process of self discovery.

Day dreaming is a way to know yourself and receive information from the subconscious, the higher self, and maybe even ‘Other.’ Being in a particular mode of day dreaming, where you’re aware that you are daydreaming but you’re not actively scripting is the place where you get the messages. The message is in the movie, the unscripted dream. Hicks would say, just be there, observe, don’t do anything, especially don’t analyze the dream while inside the dream! Just be! That’s exactly what Carl Jung says about Active Imagination.

The Red Book is a collection of Jung’s experiences while being in the Active Imagination, the day dream. Philemon is his spirit guide, who he saw and interacted with as he would a real person. Philemon was as real as anyone. It wasn’t like Philemon was a one time character. He was a recurring character who was more solid with each interaction.

One could argue that’s just the subconscious and archetypes. Fair enough, Carl argued for that, being the leading psychiatrist exploring the unconscious mind. Very few since him have openly…