Ruin,
Your father is a prime candidate for the outer masculine the dream is addressing. But I believe the dream is les focused on him than the inner masculine {although related since the relationship/non-relationship with the father actively shapes the inner masculine}. The last sentence in the dream about calling the police may be alluding to the relationship as well as the being invisible part. He treated you in one way and others outside the family different {better}.

As for the inner masculine. dreams often provide insights to personality and personal attitudes. If the image of the crab and the meanings/applications I provided fit, you can assume it is a focus of the dream.

The denial question was mentioned because I took it you consciously knew you were in denial of some emotional energy. If you are not then the question is mute.

Let me say something about teachers/mentors/gurus. Something my spiritual mentor Joseph Campbell said about following a 'guru' {mentors}. "I think that is bad news". "One of the big spiritual truths for the West is that each of us is a unique creature, and consequently has a unique path". Blindly or fervently following a mentor will only lead you as far as the guru/mentor achieved. Campbell was most instrumental in my education in Jungian psyche. But I have my own path which is unique and quite different from his or anyone else. Learn from teachers but also learn to strongly focus on the inner teacher which is your own uniqueness. You are different from your peers, you have realized your creative talents {this seems to be a major focus of your dream}. When the inner self takes the lead in the dreamer's life, life opens up and where there were walls doors begin to appear. The creative/spiritual {not religious} aspect is where we realize wholeness. If you do it for money you are off your path. If you do it because it is what the soul desires there is meaning to life.

Jerry

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Ruin,
I think of religion as a 'creation' of man whereas spirituality is an aspect of nature {and connected to nature}. An important concept exposed by Jung is we all have a spiritual aspect just as we do a shadow and anima/animus. All religions are myth {see Evolutionary origin of religions. Jung's archetypes are the primal symbols of our own nature and we use these archetypes as a spiritual guide to the discovery of selfhood {Self}.

As for the myths. Joseph Campbell describes in perfect order how the evolutionary aspects affect the psychology of a culture, and vice versa, in his Lecture series Mythos which evolved from his original book Transformations of Myth Through Time {here is my page at Myths-Dreams-Symbols website which speaks to the origins of images we find in myth and dreams The Perennial Philosophy of the East}. An excerpt from that follows.

Campbell:
Myth comes in the same zone as dream, and this is the zone of what I call the Wisdom Body. When you go to sleep, it's the body that's talking. What the body is moved by are energies that it does not control. These are energies that control the body. They come in from the great biological ground. They are there. They are energies and they are manners of consciousness. But we also have in this body this affair of the head, and it has a system of thinking on its own. There's a whole manner of consciousness that stems from the head-set, and it is different in its knowledge from that of the body. When a baby is born, it knows just what to do with its mother's body. It is ready for the environment into which it is put. It doesn't have to be instructed, these things happen. This is the work of the Wisdom Body. That same wisdom brought the little thing onto form in its mother's body. It was shaped by these energies that live in us, and of which we are the carnal manifestation. This wisdom of the dream, wisdom of the vision, is the wisdom then of the perennial philosophy. When you dream, your waking conscious aspect does not understand the dream, and so you have to go to a psychoanalyst, who doesn't understand it either. The interpretation is gradual and it comes from the exploration, by the head, of your won wisdom. And so we find that there is a kind of radical distinction between the perennial philosophy in its mode and axioms, quite different from the axioms and mode of the rational system.

Focus for a moment on, 'When a baby is born, it knows just what to do with its mother's body'. The wisdom body. 'It was shaped by these energies that live in us'. These energies are Jung's archetypes. An inherent set of instructions humans {all animals as a matter of fact} are born with.
When the turtle hatches from its egg it knows to run to the water. A young kangaroo, or joey, is born at a very immature stage when it is only about 2 cm long and weighs less than a gram. Immediately after birth it crawls up the mother's body and enters the pouch.
These are the set of instructions provided by nature.

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