Carl Gustav Jung — The Spirit Assumes Human Form

I had this dream after my illness in 1944.

It is a parable:

My self retires into meditation

and meditates my earthly form.

To put it another way:

it assumes human shape

in order to enter three-dimensional existence,

as if someone were putting on a diver’s suit

in order to dive into the sea.

When it renounces existence in the hereafter,

the self assumes a religious posture,

as the chapel in the dream shows.

In earthly form

it can pass through the experiences of the three-dimensional world,

and by greater awareness

take a further step toward realization.

Carl Gustav Jung

Memories, Dreams, Reflections