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Dreamwork
Journal Keeping
Labyrinth
PERSONALITY TYPING:
Enneagram
Myers-Briggs
Prayer and Meditation
Spiritual Direction
Illness and Healing
We are
asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin
We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by . . .
reflection.
Thomas Jefferson
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti
A dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor,
prompter, stage manager, author, audience and critic.
C. G. Jung
Within each one of us there is another whom we do not know. He
speaks to us
in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from how we see
ourselves.
C. G. Jung
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but
expresses something as best it can.
C. G. Jung
The dream-work . . . does not think, calculate, or judge in any way at
all; it restricts itself to giving things a new form.
Sigmund Freud
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Joseph
Campbell
Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.
Gail Godwin
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is an art
required to sort and understand them.
Montaigne
Seven hundred years ago . . . people took dreams as seriously as the
psychiatrists do today.
T.H. White
A dream which is not understood is like a letter which is not opened.
The Talmud
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We offer
- An Introduction to
Dreamwork course
- Dreamwork groups
- Dreamwork in
spiritual direction.
Paying attention
to and working with our dreams is a wonderful tool for both the spiritual journey and for healing. Our dreams hold
our own sacred
wisdom.
Jeremy Taylor teaches that ALL dreams come
in the service of health and
healing; and, that no dream comes unless there are actions we can
take
in response to it that will make a difference. Dreams do not
come to tell
you what you already know.
Although the symbols and metaphors of our dreams
can be confusing, the
dreamer knows the meaning of the dream on some level and is always
the final
authority in interpreting the dream. All dreams have more than
one level of
meaning and we can even work with old dreams to get new meanings.
Dreams can be very illusive. To remember
and work with your dreams, it
is almost universally recommended that you write them down. We all
know how
quickly we can forget dreams. Consider keeping pen, paper and
flashlight on
your nightstand. Unless you write them down immediately, most
dreams
evaporate from our memory before the end of the day, or sooner.
Keeping a dream journal is important if we are
going to work with our
dreams. By keeping a dream journal, we get to know our own symbols
and
metaphors and their meanings.
In working with dream interpretation, write down
as many details as you
remember. Record the emotions you feel when you wake up from
the dream.
Look for connections to what is going on in your daily life.
Look for themes
and recurring symbols. Dreams, like meditation, provide us
with the seeds
for growth because they connect us to our unconscious issues,
desires and
truths.
In starting to work with dreams, it can be very
helpful to have a
dreamwork group or a Spiritual Director who has some experience with
dreamwork.
L
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Haden Institute
The
Association for the Study of Dreams is a non-profit,
international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and
applied investigation of dreams and dreaming.
See also
Dreamwork
Journal Keeping
Labyrinth
PERSONALITY TYPING:
Enneagram
Myers-Briggs
Prayer and Meditation
Spiritual Direction
Illness and Healing
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