The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

Like all of nature, we are constantly moving through cycles of flow and hindrance, life and death.

good example of a wounded feeling-function is the person who is pathologically nice and accommodating, even when they are secretly seething or harbouring resentment. They may dream of anger and aggression until they are able to give expression to their waking-life disagreements in a productive way.

Often a new attitude will threaten the old guard—the thing that keeps us stuck and is invested in maintaining its status in the psyche.

She was born of two mothers, seen and unseen, both sources of essential nourishment.

imagination isn’t a thing, or even a faculty, it’s a field of collaboration—a

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.

Our job is to come into conversation with that desire, uncomfortable as it may be.

Once you have discovered the secret longing of the dream during the courtship process, it is important to take a symbolic step in the direction of the dream’s prompting.

existence. Like the sunflower, the nautilus shell, and the spiral galaxy, we came into life with an inborn pattern to fulfil. But the paradox is that we are also living in a participatory universe.