The dream is the path, the language of the soul.
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...
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...
There is a DVD called “The Master of the Carriage” representing some aspects of G. I. Gurdjieff’s philosophy. In it the emotions are represented by a horse. Initially, the horse is taken for granted by the carriage driver and that attitude … Read more...
If I only think of the bear in her protective role, or her berserker rage, I miss something beyond the stereotype, beyond the opposites. But if I think of the way she rises on her back legs to sniff the air, rocks from foot to foot, the way she … Read more...
We are born into Eden and then the world breaks, cracks open. Through the crack, or the gates if you will, oozes the substance from which we make ourselves, our individual lives. From this comes our struggle, the development of our … Read more...
Yes, Spider Woman, I am talking about you – this long absence and here you are again. I remember the last time, how you changed my life, brought me in from the desert where I’d hidden, introduced that Chippewa. Now here you are again; I know … Read more...
Dreams give us various images of the sociopath, the outsider, the one who breaks the rules. These kinds of dream figures shock us with their appalling behavior, distorted faces, careless choices. Devils arrive; we pull the trigger, leave the … Read more...
In the last blogtalkradio show I talked more about bear in dreams, about the metaphor she offers. In fact the whole show was about her. If you dream of bear, take these offerings into your understanding - how old she is, the deep and complex … Read more...
When I was writing From the Bone dream figures from a childhood nightmare came many times. In the childhood dream there were two animals – the bear and the catamount. These two arrived at a time in childhood when it became clear that to … Read more...
Some dreams are precognitive. Interpretation of this kind of dream can tease out the message of what has not yet happened and separate it from the other more psychological material. A few of the poems on the dreamtalkwithjune … Read more...
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