The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
A couple nights ago I had this dream: My husband in “conscious life” and I are traveling down a two-lane highway. He is driving and I am in the passenger seat beside him. The road ahead is smooth and flat. The surrounding landscape is covered with short, clumpy grass and dirt, like you’d find out West. The sky [...]
On Saturday night, I saw the new James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. As I watched Bond grapple with his grief at loosing his lover Valenka (she died in Casino Royale), I was impressed by how the movie’s creators chose landscapes that mirrored Bond’s emotional state. As Jungian analyst Marie Louis Von-Franz states in Man and [...]
Late last night, we Americans elected our next president. But in some ways, Barack Obama is our first president because he has the greatest potential to be a true president of all the people. His bi-racial heritage makes him a living, breathing example of the melting pot demographic we have always — at least theoretically – held dear. Obama’s upbringing and adult experiences have given [...]
Earlier this week, I had the following dream: I am outside, looking down at a woman who is kneeling on the ground. A young man, a murderer, takes a chain saw and chops off her head. I see the bloody stump and can’t believe he actually did it. Two women are now with me and [...]
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