The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

When we don't have our beauty reflected, we may internalize the ugliness and unworthiness we are shown.

Like mycelium, psyche does not discern who deserves its beneficence, since we are all connected. Across the mycelial-like threads we call dreams, we receive practical knowledge, transmissions of wisdom, creative solutions, opportunities to grow, and yes, even a place to compost our dying material.

By learning to think analogically, we are learning the interconnected and participatory language of the earth.

metaphor is nature’s way of communicating through us.

Once I’ve worked with a dream, I like to name what I love most about it and suggest a ritual to enhance and give thanks for its medicine.

metaphor exists in an ecology.

Resonance occurs when the unique vibration of our truth is being sung and we recognize it with an effervescence of emotion and sensation. This form of remembering is called anamnesis in Platonic philosophy. It’s the recollection of innate wisdom from a time previous to birth, or perhaps a fold in hyperspace that gives us a brief memory of the futur

This is why art and poetry are so important to culture. It is the job of the artist to catalyze consciousness on behalf of the collective. They must be courageous enough to enter the imaginal in order to find living metaphors to bring back to this world and in doing so, redeem culture.

When we cultivate fresh metaphors by tending to our dreams, we tap into the generative power of nature to make and remake the world.