c/marie-louise-von-franz
Primary-source archive of Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998): her dream films, interviews, and lectures on dreams, death, time, and alchemy.
…of Bethlehem which guided the kings towards the newborn little child Jesus The guiding star we had already before in Gilgamesh as being the principle of individuation, one's innermost divine destiny or cosmic destiny the meaning of one's life what guides…
…head again. And he went crying inside. And I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever done. in this dream we see again Gilgamesh and Elkidu so to speak in another variation the two boys are friends but they are also as contrasts the friend onto whom…
…for you that means you should come out of your spaceship and return to earth this dream closely parallels the dream of King Gilgamesh that we looked at earlier It seems strange that the dream of an ancient Sumerian king could be so closely connected to…
…to earth we can say that this realization at the end of his dream that he has to come down to earth is exactly what Gilgamesh had to realize after the star had fallen upon him namely he had to realize and make friends with the earthly man who by the…
…the star had fallen upon him namely he had to realize and make friends with the earthly man who by the way in Gilgamesh epic first attacked Gilgamesh Enkidu attacked Gilgamesh and they first had a big battle before they made friends and then went for…
…him namely he had to realize and make friends with the earthly man who by the way in Gilgamesh epic first attacked Gilgamesh Enkidu attacked Gilgamesh and they first had a big battle before they made friends and then went for their heroic journey together…
…he had to realize and make friends with the earthly man who by the way in Gilgamesh epic first attacked Gilgamesh Enkidu attacked Gilgamesh and they first had a big battle before they made friends and then went for their heroic journey together and so we…
…his fate will have to do with an integration of the feminine principle which is the moon that is different to this Gilgamesh epic at that time the matriarchal world of unconsciousness had to be overcome by the hero and nowadays four thousand years later…
…dream now in which the star is the central image. It's the most ancient dream in the history of mankind, the dream of Gilgamesh, king of the ancient walled city of Uruk. Gilgamesh was a powerful leader, and they felt his dream was important enough to be…
…It's the most ancient dream in the history of mankind, the dream of Gilgamesh, king of the ancient walled city of Uruk. Gilgamesh was a powerful leader, and they felt his dream was important enough to be inscribed in stone. Here's the dream. In the…
…has and so if we interpret this dream from a modern standpoint we could say that up till the moment where the star fell upon Gilgamesh he fulfilled a collective role of the king he was the hero and the king and he probably was a very ambitious man he…
…represents as we saw before the uniqueness because every soul has one star in heaven and we can say that up till now Gilgamesh with all his collective power achievements has not yet done anything unique on the contrary he has only filled out a typical…
…role but the people kiss the stars feet they prostrate themselves before the stars so that it means the real greatness is there is probably Gilgamesh up till the star fell upon him also thought he was a great man he was a king he was a hero he was…
…the people worship is that star stone that greater thing in him so that in that dream there is also a little teaching for Gilgamesh don't take all the honor people give you for yourself don't lap up the compliments they give you for yourself it is that…
…heaviest load your necessity to become a unique individual that's what they worship in you not you and so from then on Gilgamesh becomes the servant of his unique heroic task to the search for immortality very few people follow their own star today why…