Our dreams invite us to consider our associations to the word and gesture of sacrifice when we are invited or forced to make offerings we had not considered in waking life. What kinds of situations are our dreams forcing us to put up with and tolerate? Often the most difficult [...]
Read MoreAs in waking life, considerable emotional charge usually comes with the event of separation, of feeling left out or of feeling left behind in our dreams. We are traveling with a group, and suddenly we find ourselves left behind and having to make our own way. We are participating in [...]
Read MoreThere are times in life when the sense of lack and loss is overwhelming, and there are other times when we don't even have the chance to realize something is missing. And so we find ourselves losing something or someone or someplace or sometime in our dreams, from our wallet, our [...]
Read MoreOne of the great questions in dreamwork comes up when we try to explain how and why elements from our sleep dreams literally appear in waking life. Some of us know this as synchronicity, Carl G. Jung's concept referring to apparent chance encounters or coincidences that are loaded with meaning due [...]
Read MoreSome of us have heard the saying, "we don't see things as they are; we see them as we are" (anonymous). Unconsciously and by default, we generally see, perceive, and evaluate through the lens of our past experience. To the process of making sense of our life's episodes we bring [...]
Read MoreThe moment we commit to dreamwork, it seems, we become more aware of our dreams. Even when we used to remember our dreams but have failed to for a while, the moment we consider engaging with dreamwork, we begin to remember again. We are ready to pay attention, and the [...]
Read MoreIt is very tempting to feel accomplished and fulfilled when the me-in-the-dream, the dream ego, does something heroic and saves the dreamtime day. The dream ego is the aspect in our psyche that is most identified with our waking self, with our waking ego, personality, and assumed personal identity. And it [...]
Read MoreJeremy Taylor, DMin (1943 – 2018) I am very saddened and also very deeply moved as I share with you the sudden passing of dear teacher and mentor Jeremy Taylor, DMin, early in January, only two days after the passing of his beloved wife Kathy Taylor. Jeremy was one of the greats, having made [...]
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