Observations placeholder
Jung, C G - The symptoms of the onset of death
Identifier
011923
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Quoted in Dr J C Barker MD, MRCP, DPM – Scared to Death – An examination of fear, its cause and effects
Jung alluded to this expression of unconscious psychic activity which often precedes the approach of death by considerable interval. He wrote that
“as a rule, the approaching end was indicated by those symbols which, in normal life also, proclaim changes of psychological condition - rebirth symbols such as changes of locality, journeys and the like. I have frequently been able to trace back for over a year in a dream series, the indications of impending death, even in cases where such thoughts were not prompted by the outward situation. Dying, therefore, has its onset long before actual death. Moreover, this often reveals itself in peculiar changes of personality which may also precede death by quite a long interval."