Meaning Of Dreams
Thursday, April 5th, 2007The content of our dreams has traditionally been thought to reveal a higher spiritual order. Jacob’s Ladder by the artist and mystic William Blake (1757 - 1827) portrays the dream of Jacob from the book of Genesis:”And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching […]
Sleep And Dreams
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007Carl Jung believed that unconscious archetypes broke into our dreams, often appearing as characters from myth or legend. The animus, for example, which Jung held to be the male energy in the female unconscious, could emerge in the form of an idealized man, such as a knight in shining armour. The trickster, the […]
Coping With Delusions
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007It would at first appear contradictory to give advice on how to cope with delusions. The argument is that persons with delusions by definition believe their irrational ideas to be both real and true; therefore, they cannot be argued or reasoned out of them. This is correct. Nonetheless, persons with delusions often […]
Causes Of Delusions
Monday, February 26th, 2007One of the principal mental disorders associated with delusions is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by illogical thinking; often there are other signs and symptoms such as hallucinations. However, it is important to understand that a mental disorder such as schizophrenia is not in and of itself a “cause”. […]
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