“Dreams are part of our human survival kit, part of what has kept us going, and evolving on this planet. Across history most people have valued dreaming for two reasons beyond all others: because dreams enable us to see into the possible future, and because they put us in touch with sources of knowledge and wisdom beyond the ordinary mind.”
― The Secret History of Dreaming
― The Secret History of Dreaming
“Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.”
― Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole
― Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole
“The power of healing comes through the wound. If the physician is healed, he will lose his power to heal others.”
― The Secret History of Dreaming
― The Secret History of Dreaming
“The struggle inside the cocoon between the defenders of the worm state and the agents of winged possibility is one that I was still living, one that many of us surely experience in times of spiritual emergence. We may find ourselves pounded into mush, hanging upside down from whatever we can cling to — and yet have the possibility and destiny of becoming much, much more.”
― The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse
― The Boy Who Died and Came Back: Adventures of a Dream Archaeologist in the Multiverse
“The cherry trees are disconsolate lovers;
they can't hold their pink smiles
after the unkindness of that night.
The wind here is straight from Chicago -
it will snap you unless you bend.
The news from far-off money towns
is the clamor of falling towers.
Yet my woolly dog is happy chasing
a well-chewed stick and a wet spaniel,
a green-headed duck is talking quarks
with a brown-headed duck on the lake shore,
and my friend is reading poems of spring
in a language she knows only in dreams.
The wild cherries will bloom again.”
― Here, Everything Is Dreaming: Poems and Stories
they can't hold their pink smiles
after the unkindness of that night.
The wind here is straight from Chicago -
it will snap you unless you bend.
The news from far-off money towns
is the clamor of falling towers.
Yet my woolly dog is happy chasing
a well-chewed stick and a wet spaniel,
a green-headed duck is talking quarks
with a brown-headed duck on the lake shore,
and my friend is reading poems of spring
in a language she knows only in dreams.
The wild cherries will bloom again.”
― Here, Everything Is Dreaming: Poems and Stories
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