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CHAPTER 26. MEDITATION: WATCHFULNESS, AWARENESS, ALERTNESS – THE REAL TRINITY
rightly, the miracle is, once the dream is analyzed completely – that means you become aware of its
reason, why it happens, why it is, of what it is constituted – once you become aware of a dream, its
total structure, root and all, it disappears.
To summarize: to be aware of a dream is the death of the dream.
And after a few years of psychoanalysis when all your dreams slowly disappear.... Then Freud
became aware that there is still another depth. He died before he could penetrate the other depth,
but he had found it, discovered it: the unconscious.
Jung tried to go as deep into the unconscious as possible. It is easier in hypnosis to reach the
unconscious of any person, very easy. Hence in the future hypnosis is going to become part and
parcel of every psychology. In India it always has been, because three years of psychoanalysis is a
wastage of time. Within three minutes you can be hypnotized and all your dreaming process can be
put aside; then there is direct entry into the unconscious.
Because Jung was interested in hypnosis, Freud condemned him as unscientific. It is not right.
Hypnosis is a scientific method of digging deep into you. And when Jung tried to go deep into the
unconscious, there is still another layer: the collective unconscious, the unconscious of the whole
humanity.
Everybody has it; and sometimes from that collective unconscious you get ideas, but because they
come from so far away from your conscious, you think that they are coming from somewhere outside
you. When Jesus hears the voice of God, it is not God speaking, it is the collective unconscious.
But it is so far away that poor Jesus can be forgiven. He simply is mistaken, and he had no idea that
there are depths within depths depths behind depths.
This collective unconscious is to do with the mythological. Hence, Jung became interested in
mythology to discover its existence, just as Freud became interested in dreams to discover the
existence of the subconscious. Mythologies are dreams dreamed by the whole of humanity over
thousands of years, but those mythologies carry some idea, some significance. For example,
the Indian mythology that life for the first time appeared as a fish. The first incarnation of God is
matsyavatar: incarnation as a fish. A strange mythology – how did they figure it out?
Out of this vast world of animals, why did they fall upon the fish? – some indication from their
collective unconscious. Now science says that perhaps life was born first in the ocean. It comes
very close to the fish. And the child in the beginning, in the mother’s womb, looks like a fish. He
moves from there and passes through all the stages that man has passed through in millions of
years – there is a point where he looks like a monkey.
Jung’s discovery of mythology and its connection with the collective unconscious is of immense
importance. But he stopped there because he was afraid, and obsessed with death, just as Sigmund
Freud was himself obsessed with sex. Anything you brought to him – I say anything, and I mean
anything – he would immediately manage to make it sexual. Whatever it was, it did not matter; he
was capable of making it sexual.
Freud’s whole mind was focused on one point; but perhaps that’s the only way. In a small life, what
can a man do? If he can work out only one idea in its totality, then he needs to be obsessed;
From Ignorance to Innocence 385 Osho