the symbolic world of dreams is an encounter with ideas conveyed in their full potency. The symbols in dreams are not meant to convey concepts, but unmediated experiences. An encounter with a symbol in a dream is an encounter with the noumenon of an idea—the thing-in-itself. It is an experience of intimate encounter with something alive , something... See more

This inner world is just as real, perhaps even more than the tangible world, because our presence, our choices, our being in that outer arena is governed by the psyche’s agenda, not the ego’s. Our dreams are not here to comfort us or make life easy. That is why so many of us pay so little attention to them. Rather, they ask of us attentiveness, res

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In The Out-of-Body Experience I suggested a perceptual model of reality whereby human beings, and probably all conscious animals, exist in two states of awareness. There is the “waking state” – that is, the perceptual world shared by other consciousnesses and proven to be consistent and real by the simple fact that other consciousnesses seem to see

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