80. Imagination, Memory, Dream

Beneath the threshold of ordinary consciousness lies a genuine spiritual world.

On the one hand, the ideas point to the nervous basis, and on the other hand, to the spiritual essence, which can only be grasped in imaginative ideas: a world that affects people to whom scientific concepts are not applicable. Above all, the concept of the unconscious causes the greatest confusion.

Analytical psychology does not have a sufficient theory of memory and works with dreams based on inadequate ideas.

The contents of the imaginative world live in memory. What comes from this world enters the soul life in the same way as impulses from the sensory world. But the spiritual enters with it. It remains misunderstood if the human being does not rise to conscious knowledge of the spiritual world.

In dreams, the content is the unimportant. The impulses at work in it are the important thing. Its course. Its inner drama. The soul brings to light unprocessed spiritual content in it and intersperses it with processed content.

In addition, emotional life has its counterpart on the one hand in the rhythm of breathing; but on the other hand in a world that is accessible only to inspired knowledge. This world belongs to human experience between death and a new birth.

And so the life of the will: on the one hand, its counterpart is metabolism; on the other hand, the content of the intuitive world. In this realm is the knowledge of repeated earthly lives.