Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming

In contrast, Tibetan Buddhism enlists the imaginal mind of its followers. It accepts the forest of images that we live in and teaches its adepts to plunge in, travel through, and eventually come out on the other side of the forest. The ultimate goal of both great paths is enlightenment by detachment from all forms, verbal or imaginal.

Mirroring leads us to contemplate the possible juxtaposition of two completely opposing images, for instance Beauty and the Beast, as a "shocking" contrast. This is the law of opposites. The "shock" enables the blocked movement present in dichotomies (such as either-or, good and evil, beauty and beastliness) to "explode&quo