The dream is the path, the language of the soul.
Place in dreams is important. Something is on the shelf, or in the backyard away from public view. An action takes place at a childhood home, in a church or other holy place, or in the strong tides beneath the ocean. Place may be implied by the … Read more...
For some, there comes a time when even the archetypes seem to collapse, when the very functioning of the psyche departs familiar symbols. The themes and structures that carry the life story shift and break. The heroes and villains, the magicians … Read more...
In the early stages of change there often comes a special dream. Vivid, the figures archetypal, the message profound but puzzling, these dreams transfix us, are seldom entirely forgotten or fully understood. I refer to these dreams as … Read more...
It is fascinating to see how the dream maker sees us, the person we think we are. Unnerving, too. In times of big change, she holds a gun in one hand and a promise in the other. I am not sure if there is more of this dynamic or process showing … Read more...
The way we know Coyote best is in his rude and irreverent mode. He holds up a quirky mirror and we laugh at ourselves, at how Coyote sees us. Our defenses, the elevation we give to who we are and what we want, crumble. We laugh at his antics, … Read more...
For a while when I was young I saw a Jungian therapist. She was trained in Europe, was a medical physician who worked in oncology with the people who were near the end of life. Even though she was winding up her practice, retiring, she agreed to … Read more...
When you dream, from where do you see the action? Are you in the car that crashes, struggling up the mountain, the one who is locked inside the room? Are you one of the dream's main actors? In other words, where is your identity … Read more...
Some dreams carry big answers. The dream could have come to any of us with little change in its meaning or instruction. These three are among my favorites. One is the dream of a Cherokee woman become Sundancer. Big brown eyes, big heart, … Read more...
The Flicker, a beautifully and softly colored bird, is shy, easily startled, but even so she has poise. When frightened she doesn’t flap about in panic as so many birds do, but seems to know exactly the direction of escape, where the darkest part … Read more...
It is difficult to know why we put a negative spin on our dreams. Perhaps it is the language of therapy and religion with its focus on what is denied, avoided, the lies we tell ourselves. But, as I have written before, dreams are bigger than this, … Read more...
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