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.
…let's look first at some biblical dreams, a dream which changed the history of the Jewish nation, the dream of Jacob's Ladder. And Jacob dreamed that there was a ladder reaching from the earth up to heaven. And the angels of the Lord were ascending and…
…proof that god sends dream and that dreams have an important even they speak of god sent dreams they are communications with God now Jacob goes to a certain place near Haran and there because the sunset he lies down and he puts a stone as a pillow…
…down and he puts a stone as a pillow under his head and that certain place is mentioned again at the end of the text that Jacob said this is truly the house of God and so on this is one of the oldest beliefs of mankind that in the landscapes there…
…on high mountains or goddesses. and in a flat country where they have no mountains it can also be some other special place now Jacob didn't know that this place was a sacred place he concluded it from his dream he said that must be a sacred place I…
…sits there where we want to sit we are exactly like dogs but in the landscape the tribes have the same thing and so Jacob hid there on a sacred place where he's now talking psychologically his soul could open to the divine influence through a dream and…
…sacred stone which is a primitive thing under his head a kind of fetish which makes him capable of connecting with the beyond Jacob goes asleep and the sun sets the setting of the sun could be interpreted as the blotting out of consciousness he goes…
…situation that dreams were mostly attended as means to predict the future or to know the future and there the Lord predicts Jacob that he he and his descendants will spread over the earth and the Lord will be with them he receives a confirmation…