ABSTRACT
Throughout history, man has regarded the dream state as something awesome and mysterious, in which strange supernatural omens could be revealed, new courses of action and behaviour demonstrated. An early Jesuit missionary among the Iroquois, Father Fremin, wrote that they had substituted the dream for a divinity; in other words, they had made dreams their god. Freud tended to analyse dreams from the viewpoint of their having certain motifs whose meaning was constant. Jung made the vital discovery that not all contents of a dream relate to personal memories or neuroses, and this is extremely relevant to magical theory. Most practitioners of modern magic accept the Jungian view that the gods of mythology, which may be revealed in dreams or in visions, trances and ritual, represent inner processes which are normally subconscious. Dreams are thus valuable not only for an analysis of sexual, and other, neuroses, but they may also be used as a technique for acquiring magical consciousness.
