Carl Jung's Final Message Before He Died | What He Discovered:
For many years, Carl Jung studied dying people and published his observations shortly before his own death. Here is what he discovered. 1. You do not have a soul. You are the soul. 2. As people drew closer to death, their dreams changed completely. 3. In their dreams, the ego began to fade—along with concerns about reputation, wealth, success, and identity. 4. Symbols of homelessness, mandalas, circles, and images of completion began to appear. 5. These symbols appeared in a specific sequence, as if the psyche knew that death was near. 6. The psyche was preparing for a transformation—or a return. (Jung explored this deeply in his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections.) 7. In their final week, patients stopped fearing death. It wasn't because they had found religion. It was because their unconscious had shown them something—a vision, a knowing—that their "small self" was only a temporary construction. Beneath it, something was waiting. Something that had already been there....