Thoughts on this Dream Series

AziMuth

I’ve been publishing my dreams as they happen for a few months now.  Based on some of the comments I have received here and on Twitter, there are a few point I need to make. 

Jung stressed working with the dream series and not just the individual dream, which is why all the charlatans seem like tourists with loud radios at the beach, who never really getting more than their feet wet, never really ever learning to swim in the ocean.  The anima, or soul, leads one on an unfolding journey.  To explain away any one dream image is to miss the larger patterns that are emerging.  In fact, driving too hard into any one image will likely interrupt the flow of the series as a whole.    Hence my caution about dream dictionaries and the like.  Once an outside source is providing the frame, you are no longer relying on the anima to do that for you.  That is not to say that outside sources should not be incorporated into one’s work.  It’s matter of perspective and priority. Amplifying a dream image can yield great results and at times the anima seems to suggest that tact.  

Another point I need to make.  The work unfolding with the dreams presented in this blog do not constitute a Jungian dream analysis.  Instead, they present the work of an analysand who would then takes the dreams and the responses into analysis to consult in a deeper and much more personal way the process of individuation, the integration of the complexes, and the subtle calls of the spirit.