The search for meaning in cultural, artistic and dream imagery
In my last entry, I wrote that “Jung and Tarot” author Sallie Nichols stresses the importance of trying to discover the meaning, not the magic, behind the synchronistic events we experience. Nichols suggests we ask ourselves a couple basic questions: “What in me needed this happening?” and “What lack (or potential) in me does this represent?”
That seems like sound [...]
On July 3 I had this dream: I have come into an office during off hours to help out. There are six roses. I was supposed to take photos of each or all of them for the not-for-profit I was working at or volunteering for (this part is unclear). The roses are a deep, blood red, [...]
I’m reading Jung’s work, Synchronicity An Acausal Connecting Principal. In it, Jung defines the concept of synchronicity, provides examples of the phenomenon and gives some possible explanations as to how and why synchronicity occurs.
I’m not through with the book yet, but I already feel I’m going to need a second reading if I hope to even begin to grasp [...]
Earlier this summer I had the following dream: I am leaving a government assembly that was open to the public. I am outside on the sidewalk. It’s nighttime. A bus is parked right out in front on the curb. Another woman, in her early 20s, is with me now. She is blonde too, but her [...]
Most of us have had dreams where we’re exploring the inside of an unfamiliar house, or we’re discovering new rooms in a house we thought we knew well. It’s easy to understand why houses play such a prominent role in our unconscious. Houses are the center of our existence. They are both our private spaces and our [...]
Iconic fashion designer Edith Head once said, “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” While I don’t think Head’s sentiment is true for most of us, I do think it serves as a reminder that we humans place a lot more value on clothes than simple utilitarian protection from the [...]
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