
The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

Like allowing your eyes to adjust on a dark moon, synthetic lights must be extinguished before constellations will appear.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
repeating motifs in creation stories, fairy tales, and myths from around the world.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
One of the most exciting things about dreamwork is that after enacting different choices in waking-life as an offering to psyche, you may receive follow-up dreams to affirm (or correct) your responses. Like a conversation that deepens when both parties feel understood, our symbols become richer and deeply affirming when we enact the teachings of ou
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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.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
I knew the dream was showing me how the Jungians I so dearly loved had built their educational and business enterprise on an older, feminine way that had been left for dead.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
Longing is the vital impulse at the centre of every living being that inclines it to wholeness.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
The invitational field we are creating is a form of prayer—it is the starting point for all sacred connection. You can think of it as clearing an emptiness for magic to descend into your life, a sacred enclosure for the holy to enter. Whether you are listening to an elder’s story, comforting a person in grief, learning how to track an octopus, or c
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I know of no other practice as bonding as sharing dreams. Because of the subtle nature of the experiences we have in the dreaming dimension, sharing them cuts through the superficial to reveal the most intimate concerns of the soul, often unexpectedly, to the dreamer themselves.
Toko-pa Turner • The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams
the wisdom traditions understood dreaming as a portal into another world.