Reviews

Dream: Come down stairs and my Mom is visiting.  She hands me a newspaper that has a positive review of the work I’ve been doing in one of the articles.

Amplification:

It’s an interesting dream fragment for many reasons.  Blogging tends to bring a great deal of compliments into ones consciousness.  First time visitors to a site often send quick notes if their initial glace at the site pleases them.  Real readers tend to get engaged and provide feedback through comments.   It’s truly different then the experience authors had a hundred years ago.  And the flattery can be a type of pitfall, a seduction that could pull one from the true path.

Yesterday I posed a specific question not to you my readers, but to the Psyche.  This dream, the response.  I asked Psyche what it thought of the work I’m doing in this place.  I come downstairs, to a place where the maternal aspect of the psyche is emphasized, and the review is positive.

I posed a similar question before beginning to blog this dream journal, asking if the psyche felt it would useful.  What I hope this demonstrates is that we can engage the psyche objectively: “as if”  the Self is autonomous from our conscious control.  Once we have that perspective, a relationship can be established.  This is what Jung points to in his writing on the transcendent function.  Then we begin to see the “as if” is how it actually is…