Chapter 1 |
excerpt from
EPILOGUE
I was once asked by an editor to describe how Healing Dreams might "help the average person be effective in their daily lives." The question flummoxed me. The best answer I could give was that I had no idea. None of us asks to be confronted in the middle of the night with mysteries, oracles, and conundrums; to have something barge into our inner lives that we did not invite. When I first began to explore my dreams, with death in full pursuit, I hoped for some hint whether to dart right or left, some guidance to save my skin. But my dreams rarely accomodated me. Indeed, I often wondered if they had any meaning beyond the wordless (or if words, enigmatic) implosion of the experience itself. To interpret a dream is difficult under any circumstances, but particularly Healing Dreams, whose emotion-laden images seem less like symbols than living presences. Big dreams are summons from the unknown. They give voice to what we have hidden from ourselves, with all the risk and potential that implies. To gaze upon our dreams intent upon a purely pragmatic meaning is to miss the admonishment of the old Hindu proverb: "When a thief looks at a saint, he sees only his pockets." This book began as an attempt to make visible my own journey through the imaginal realm. But the Healing Dream have visited me many times since, and has had its say about the process. I have heard its voice not just in my own dreams, but in those of others. I have been surpised how often disparate dreamers told me their dreams about a strange fish emerging from the water, a symbol of a dream's emergence from the watery depths of the unconscious....
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