Robert Bosnak ~ dream + memory
“When you pay attention to your dreams, you inhabit a much larger part of your soul.” Robert BosnakEmbodied Imagination, based on neuroscience and on the phenomenological work of C.G. Jung, James Hillman and Henry Corbin, as well as on theories of mimesis, complexity, and non-linear dynamics, assumes that all psychological states are embodied.
In a hypnagogic state, a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, a dream memory or a historical memory, traumatic or not, can become a flashback experienced as identical or similar to the previously experienced events.
Slow and careful observation while in a flashback state leads to the experience of multiple affective embodiments. These affective embodied states are anchored as sense memories in the body and can be triggered simultaneously. In this way a network of experience comes into being which is very different from habitual conscious experience. By containing a network as differentiated as possible, new cognitive positions are obtained and deep psychophysical changes become possible.
Slow and careful observation while in a flashback state leads to the experience of multiple affective embodiments. These affective embodied states are anchored as sense memories in the body and can be triggered simultaneously. In this way a network of experience comes into being which is very different from habitual conscious experience. By containing a network as differentiated as possible, new cognitive positions are obtained and deep psychophysical changes become possible.
"I'm trying to go back to the preconceptual Jung where Jung was a phenomenologist himself and he just looked at what he saw and what he experienced. ...
"... I am trying to get back to, the visceral direct experience of the phenomenon. The difference in my work and Jung's work is that I slow down the process of being inside the image environment to the point that it goes so slow that it suddenly jumps into the body and becomes an embodied experience. ...
"... we're finding in neuroscience that cognition and the neocortex is involved in dreaming and that therefore meaning can come from dreaming itself. I think that more of these connections are going to be found. You have to see that neuroscience is very, very young. MRIs started in 1993, so we've been doing MRIs for 16 years and the resolution on MRIs is about as good as photography in the 1820s, so it is just beginning. And I think neuroscience as it matures will find more and more connections between their field and ours."
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2010/01/aim_20100102.mp3"... I am trying to get back to, the visceral direct experience of the phenomenon. The difference in my work and Jung's work is that I slow down the process of being inside the image environment to the point that it goes so slow that it suddenly jumps into the body and becomes an embodied experience. ...
"... we're finding in neuroscience that cognition and the neocortex is involved in dreaming and that therefore meaning can come from dreaming itself. I think that more of these connections are going to be found. You have to see that neuroscience is very, very young. MRIs started in 1993, so we've been doing MRIs for 16 years and the resolution on MRIs is about as good as photography in the 1820s, so it is just beginning. And I think neuroscience as it matures will find more and more connections between their field and ours."
Jungian psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Robert Bosnak is a dream worker. To him dreams are an ecosystem of imaginings—powerful bodily experiences populated by characters with their own intelligences. When you encounter the images of your dreaming mind do you find one Self, or many?
His book ~ Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art and Travel
No comments:
Post a Comment