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Dream Weavers

November 30, 2009

I’m creating a dream seminar over on Google Wave, that will be loosely structured. Twice a week I’ll commit to being present for some live surfing, but I imagine that the activity will spill over and take on a life of its own.
So, what to expect. Each week I’ll provide some aspects of [...]

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Entering The Red Book by Carl Jung

November 24, 2009

“The Red Book” has arrived into my care. Much of material I’ve read online tries to provide a context for this unique text. Little that I’ve encountered gets into what “The Red Book” is saying.
So I says to myself, “why not record the discoveries and questions that surface during my reading here?”. [...]

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While Bowling

November 22, 2009

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Had an interesting talk about dreaming with a co-worker last night. We were both chaperoning the senior class trip to a bowling alley. In between our respective frames, we shared childhood dreams and discussed how dreaming is a topic of interest in many spiritual traditions.
She’s been a regular dreamer for [...]

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Acceptance and Absolutes

November 21, 2009

Exploring the manner that two values which are both held as crucial by folks I know form a pair with a unique tension between them…
The first is an adherence to absolutes.
The second is acceptance. Absolutism taken to extremes leads to rigid judgments. Acceptance taken to extremes tends to shy away from the work creative [...]

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Secret Fears

November 17, 2009

“Idealization is a hidden apotropaism; one idealizes whenever there is a secret fear to be exorcised.” – Carl Jung
Ouch.
So collectively, what does that say about the portrayal of woman in the fashion industry?
What does that say about the fascination with foreign sports cars?
How about the polarization of political ideologies?
…dare we admit our fears?
(p.s. [...]

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The Point, Perhaps the Ocean

November 10, 2009

Having had another engaging lunch with @ryansenator, Shadow Beyond, I’m struck as I turn to again to move off from the city, how powerful the reality of the psyche is in my life. While I find no difficulty admitting the ego’s focal point and location in spatial extension, it’s another facet of awareness for [...]

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A Dream Never Says…

November 9, 2009

“A dream never says ‘You ought’ or ‘This is the truth.’ It presents an image in much the same way as nature allows a plant to grow, and we must draw our own conclusions….To grasp its meaning, we must allow it to shape us….Then we understand the nature of the experience.” Jolande Jacobi, Complex/Archetype/Symbol, pg. [...]

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Telepathy and Dreams

November 3, 2009

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“I have found by experience that telepathy does in fact influence dreams, as has been asserted since ancient times.” Carl Jung, General Aspects of Dream Psychology, CW VIII, par 503.
The unconscious acts in ways beyond our ability to explain or control, including the ability to deliver messages that are telepathic.  [...]

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Aspects of the Dream

November 1, 2009

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Jung teaches that dreams have both a compensatory and a prospective aspect.
“But when the individual deviates from the norm in the sense that his conscious attitude is unadapted both objectively and subjectively, the – under normal conditions – merely compensatory function of the unconscious becomes a guiding, prospective function capable [...]

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Purpose, Scope and Value of #dreamlog

October 31, 2009

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As #dreamlog embeds itself into my practice, certain questions arise regarding purpose, scope and value.  These are not questions that have a set answer in my mind, but instead one’s I’m still sifting for.  What’s interesting though, is that a mind that engages the world with framed questions tends to uncover [...]

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