For many years, Carl Jung studied dying people and published his observations shortly before his own death. Here is what he discovered. 1. You do not have a soul. You are the soul. 2. As people drew closer to death, their dreams changed completely. 3. In their dreams, the ego began to fade—along with concerns about reputation, wealth, success, and identity. 4. Symbols of homelessness, mandalas, circles, and images of completion began to appear. 5. These symbols appeared in a specific sequence, as if the psyche knew that death was near. 6. The psyche was preparing for a transformation—or a return. (Jung explored this deeply in his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections.) 7. In their final week, patients stopped fearing death. It wasn't because they had found religion. It was because their unconscious had shown them something—a vision, a knowing—that their "small self" was only a temporary construction. Beneath it, something was waiting. Something that had already been there. Something that did not die. Jung called this the Self—the part of you that existed before you were born and continues after you pass away. 8. Most people never meet their true Self. They live their entire lives identified with their ego—the small self that is terrified of disappearing. 9. But those who do their inner work—a process Jung called individuation, the integration of the unconscious—they meet their true Self while still alive. And when they do, they no longer fear death. Why? Because they realize that the part of them afraid of dying was never real. The small self, the ego, is just a mask—a temporary structure built to navigate the world. It was never who we truly are. 10. This realization is not about preparing for a next life. It is about waking up—now—and knowing what you really are, before death arrives. 11. If you wake up before death, you understand that you wasted your life on a false assumption: that you are only the small self, the ego. The ego is not in control. And if you never looked deeper, you missed the one thing that truly matters: the true Self—the eternal part of you that was there before you took birth and will remain long after your death. 12. Jung also discovered a pattern in the dreams of dying people—four stages that emerged months before death. He saw these as the psyche preparing for the final curtain. Stage One: The Journey The person dreams of journeys—long roads, distant lands, crossing rivers, climbing mountains. Stage Two: The Guides Dreams fill with animals, old figures, and guides. Jung called these archetypes—universal symbols that appear in every culture, like the Wise Old Man or the Great Mother. When these figures appeared night after night, Jung knew the dreamer was being guided—not by the conscious mind, but by something deeper. The true Self was preparing them for what comes next. Stage Three: The Light The dreams become luminous. They are filled with light, golden views, glowing cities, radiant figures. Patients would wake and describe these dreams with tears in their eyes—not from sadness, but because the dreams felt so real. The unconscious was showing them their true Self, the place they were about to return to. Stage Four: The Dissolution In the final stage, the person stops dreaming about themselves. The individual self fades away. Instead, they dream in symbols—unity, circles, mandalas, spirals. The true Self has fully emerged. No longer separated. No longer alone. Connected to something infinite. In these final dreams, the ego dissolves. What remains is pure consciousness—no longer personal, but universal. 13. Jung documented these four stages across different cultures and belief systems. The pattern was always the same. And he noted that those who practice contemplation—who do the inner work—can experience the true Self without being in the process of dying. My Video: Carl Jung's Final Message Before He Died https://youtu.be/sZa6rGbPFzY My Audio: https://divinesuccess.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/Podcast5/Carl-Jung's-Final-Message-Before-He-Died.mp3
