The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

To strengthen the imagination, we must favour and engage what I call the aptitudes of the soul—receptivity, the body’s wisdom, intuition, relationality—qualities typically associated with women and “the feminine.”

Imagination is not a thing. It is not a muscle we have to strengthen or a part of the brain that we need to unlock. It is not bestowed on a chosen few “gifted” creatives. It is a place where something begins. Inherent to us all, the imagination is a reality—quite unlike this one—where visionaries have always travelled to harvest new images and idea

Archetypal/Collective:

It’s often when we venture one step into a new way of being that the old attitude feels threatened and rears up twice as fiercely.

Prospective:

We can begin by reuniting our estranged worlds, seen and unseen, by tending to their equivalence in our lives.

Most symbols in a dream need to be courted for their underlying meaning, but feelings are the raw and unvarnished truth of your soulbody experience.

"agnostic reflex." This is the deeply ingrained habit of mistrusting or being sceptical about that which is mysterious or unseen.

While our ancestors’ memories may not be directly accessible to us, their trauma expresses itself in our genetic and psychic make-up.

The unfortunate result of not being guided by deeper wisdom is personal and collective disorientation.