Dreams

Underlying Reality Beneath It All

June 21, 2008
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As I have gotten older and had a chance to catalog my dreams, I’ve noticed that each dream, though bizarre and individual in narrative, are beginning to self-assemble. It’s as if I am given only brief, random glimpses into another life – a life that keeps on moving even when I’m not around. This is not a normal life and perhaps the oddity of it all comes from our conscious attempt to make sense of the nonsensical. However, over time, recurring geography, architecture, people, machines, and themes all overlap into something more cohesive than random.

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By What Myth Am I Living?

February 17, 2008

I haven’t really written much in the past few months – other than posting stuff on politics from other sites. I’ve been reflecting on the past. I remember someone once telling me that as you get older you get the most vivid flashback memories of your life. That is what’s been happening to me. Every moment I spend unglued from the internet or work, I am forced to confront those memories. For the most part, my memories of the past are quite good.

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Hunting for Papa

November 16, 2007

We entered a huge structure, like the Great Pyramid. We were on a quest to find some stuff that my grandfather (Papa) had hidden there. Some of my family was there with me. We explored several areas and could not find what we were looking for. Everyone else that was there was running to get out.

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Interesting Internet

July 9, 2007

The Philosophical Foundations of Jyotish

Universe mostly forgets its past during cosmic rebirth

Winding Through “Big Dreams” Are the Threads of Our Lives

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The Last Mimzy

June 30, 2007

Only occasionally do I see a movie so good that I feel compelled to write about it. I saw The Last Mimzy over the weekend and it is a beautiful story; it’s a story of hope and the simple love of a child. It is also a story of how interconnected we are to the Earth. For so long we have had a view of nature as something separate from us, something we have control over. However, as the famous quote says, “The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. What he does to the Earth he does to himself.”

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An Interview with June Singer

April 3, 2007

Back in 1998 I interviewed one of my favorite Jungian authors, June Singer, for the old Jung Index web site. The interview is no longer available on the internet and it would be a shame to lose it. The format of the interview was collaborative – over email – so many people participated and were able to ask questions. So, here is the original interview from November 1998 – a tribute a great woman, who brought Jung’s psychology within my reach.

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The Dreaming Mind-Brain

October 18, 2006

From the Journal of Analytical Psychology, “In this paper I discuss the nature and role of dream and the dreaming process in Jungian clinical practice in the light of neuroscience. Insights from contemporary neuroscience support rather than contest Jung’s view that emotional truth, not censorship or disguise, underpins the dreaming process. I use clinical material to illustrate how work with dreams within the total interactive experience of the analytic dyad enables the development of the emotional scaffolding necessary for the development of ‘mind’.”

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Slip Into a Former Dreamland

October 16, 2006

I woke up this morning in a new place and found myself looking out the window into a new city and wondering how I arrived here. It was nine months ago that I died and it is somehow appropriate that it is now, nine months later, that I am born again. All of those past impossibilities that seemed so distant have found their way back into my life. The scale is much smaller, more manageable, and I wonder whether any sort of greatness lay ahead. I would not want to use my past as an excuse for my future.

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