| This thesis explores the hypothesis that the human mind perceives and receives information beyond its physical body. Imagination, synchronicity, and intuition are researched as examples of a psychic reality, while Jung's concept of the collective unconscious and research in quantum physics are hypothesized as a means through which psychic phenomena occurs. Utilizing a hermeneutic research method, the psychic dreams of C. G. Jung are explored with an emphasis on the therapist and client relationship. Freud, Jung, and their relationship to psychic experience are explored with argument that both Jung and Freud believed in the validity of psychic phenomena. Research is provided which argues for C. G. Jung as both scientist and mystic. If the hypothesis that the mind can receive information outside of its physical body as evidenced by psychic phenomena, intuitions, and images is correct, this must widen the lens of focus in psychology's currents views, thus expanding the field of psychology. |
