Dreams As Our Deepest Resources?

Rev. Jeremy Taylor was a teacher at Starr King School for the Ministry on Holy Hill in Berkeley for many years, particularly in the realm of trauma-taming Group Dream Work. His The Wisdom of Your Dreams: Using Your Dreams to Tap Into Your Unconscious and Transform Your Life, is one of the guidebooks I’ve fallen back on when the walls seem to be creeping in and memories and monologues begin to go bump in the night during our Shelter-In-Place.

What a world view! “Every dream comes in the service of health and wholeness,” BONK “…The oppressions that are delivered with love are far more difficult to throw off than the oppressions that are delivered with malice,” OH NO! and

“This individual …process of fully becoming the unique, whole, fully alive human being my genetic heritage and personal experience call me to make manifest in the world also reflects and stimulates collective developments in human awareness.” 

And evolution. Evolution of the human species? Did he really say that? Did Carl Jung really say that, too?

WOH! That is one big jump. You mean, ME all alone in my room or with my Zoom dreamers are CHANGING THE WORLD? Just by CHANGING OURSELVES and HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER in this inside-outside, super-vulnerable super-crazy-outlandish-yes-no-maybe-boundaries time? This time that is sort of Not Time/Eternal Existential Waiting For Godot-sort-of time?

Just saying. Or am I intuitively prophesying by way of the Collective Unconscious?

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