Finding the Old Master

Dreams Unfolding

It seems I’m heading for an old haunt, when I remember if I go South, I can visit a place I’ve been away from for years.  I go in and everything seems deserted until I make it to the back hall and find a movie theater.  I go in and sit.  The place is about half full.  

Then I’m at a huge wood table in an office that belongs to an Asian couple.  They are architects.  The woman is telling me about the importance of being oneself.  She tells of an old master she studied with who never sat down, but alway stood during everything, his back hunched.  While she is telling me of him, she tranforms into him and he begins to sketch the design for our next project.

my response:

The return to abandoned place yields unexpected discoveries.  Never in this dream locale have I found the movie theatre before.  It seems as though those seated in the theater relieved I finally showed up so they can start the movie.  The segweigh into the next scene as if the oriental setting is the movie, or the dream within the dream.

The Asian setting shows how far from consciousness this next locale.  The architects are coupled, completing each other and the ability of the woman to transform into the master shows the mercurial aspect of these figures.  When the master emerges, he is tall and thin, his bent posture not from breaking down physically, but from the manner in which focused attention gathers in him.  It is he who is doing the sketching for the projects that are emerging.

What seems so far from consciousness is the recognition that these creative centers are fueling the designs I’ve been living.  While I can identify the deep resources of psychic energy now available, I’ve not recognized that the focused intent belongs to these centers as well.  Any crediting of the ego with the designing role would simply be an inflation, and unproductive.  If that were happening, I doubt the figure would have emerged here.  Instead this vision seems more in response to articulated uncertainties as to the direction to take next, not an inflation.  I did not see the resulting sketch, but feel I can move forward confident in what has been rendered.