TY - M-10318
AU - HekmatAfshar, Mohammad
TI - Archetypes And Visions: Dreams And The Rise of Contemporary Esotericism
T2 - Scientific Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

PY - 2025
VL - 3
IS - 1
SN - 2584-0622

AB - This essay considers the intimate relationships between archetypes, dreams and modern esotericism and the symbolic function played by these terms in joining the material and the metaphysical worlds. It explores the transmutational function of dreams as vehicles for self realization, healing and higher consciousness, by integrating findings from science, psychology, anthropology and spiritual pathings. To bridge dream phenomena such as lucid dreaming, out of body experiences (OBEs) and neo Shamanic practice, the essay discusses Carl Jung's archetypal theory and the symbolic stories. Subtle bodies, changed states of awareness and symbolic language, are seen to highlight existing esoteric viewpoints. The study merges historical practice and modern therapeutic and cognitive science by integrating the thought of dream rituals, scientific exploration and personal experiences of authors like Alice Robb and Meg Bartlett. The research reinforces the interdisciplinary nature of dreams as a source of latent knowledge, with a unification of both scientific knowledge and spiritual questioning in the esoteric practices of the present day.

KW - Archetypes
KW -  Dreams
KW -  Esotericism
KW -  Symbols
KW -  Lucid Dreaming
KW -  Transformation.
DO -