Nov 1, 2012 |
Today, November 1, is the Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)—a Mexican holiday that can be traced back to its origins hundreds of years ago, to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl, who was know to her devotees as “The Lady of the Dead.” Rituals...
Sep 11, 2012 |
One of my favorite dream quotes is from The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman: “We sense that dreams mean well for us, back us up and urge us on, understand us more deeply than we understand ourselves, expand our sensuousness and spirit, continually make...
Aug 28, 2012 |
“If we think back on any dream that has been important to us, as time passes and the more we reflect on it, the more we discover in it, and the more varied the directions that lead out of it . . . . The depth of even the simplest image is truly...
Aug 25, 2012 |
One of the dreamers I work with recently said, “I haven’t been dreaming lately.” Because so many people are struggling with what’s commonly referred to as “sleep disorders” these days, I asked him how he was sleeping, for if we don’t sleep we cannot remember our...
Aug 9, 2012 |
Even though dream images tell us a good deal about patterns that are time and again highlighted in us as individuals, to mistake this for the work of soul, reduces soul to something located only in us as individuals. The soul work advocated here, however, focuses on...
Aug 9, 2012 |
Dreaming has everything to do with essentialism. This is one of the reasons that there are what’s known in the film industry as “jump cuts” in dreams, where we are in one location, for example, and then another location altogether, or with different people suddenly,...