Jimmy Dore
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Podcast Appearances
I mean, you've done DMT and all that shit, so you get all that.
But he was able to give himself like a mushroom trip when he was conscious without taking mushrooms, right?
And he would call it active imagination, right?
So he could go into his unconscious and confront all these things, like archetypes and God that lives in your unconscious.
And he had to have a person that was there to make sure he didn't go crazy.
And so he did this for like four years, from like 1913 to 1917.
And he wrote it down in a thing called the Red Book, which he would not allow to be published forever.
for 50 years after he died because he knew if people read it, it would discredit his work in psychology because it sounds crazy, all this shit.
It's like he had mushroom trips and he would write it down, right?
And so what he did, so during those four years, he then spent the rest of his life trying to explain to people what he had learned in those four years in ways that they could understand it.
And so that's what the rest of his life was about.
And they asked him, I remember they asked him, do you believe in God?
He says, I don't believe in God, I know.
And I was like, man, that's badass when you can say shit like that.
And so anyway, I started to get into this.
And so he figured out that we have a collective unconscious because he would see these symbols in his dreams and he knew that they were like meaningful, but he didn't know what they meant.
and then he started to study alchemy which alchemy isn't what you think it is alchemy was about turning a psychological lead into psychological gold and they were on to a lot of and they had to keep it secret because of the church i guess and so they had to speak in code kind of and so he started to read alchemy and he started to see these symbols that were in his dreams that they had written about and they had already figured out what it meant and he was like well how the
Could I have a dream about something?
I didn't know any, I never read this book before.