Whatever emerges from the unconscious, whether it is an idea, image or an illusion, creates a psychic reality.
I find it useful to reflect on how these dream symbols and situations feelboth during the dream and in the waking world. Things remembered from dreams can be expanded upon throughout the following days and questions can be posed prior to entering into dream states to set intentions for further exploration of symbols.
“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.”
― Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
― Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“Words are my matter. I have chipped one stone for thirty years and still it is not done, that image of the thing I cannot see. I cannot finish it and set it free, transformed to energy.”
― Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
― Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016
“Navel-gazing is not for the faint of heart. The risk of honest self-appraisal requires bravery. To place our flawed selves in the context of this magnificent, broken world is the opposite of narcissism, which is building a self-image that pleases you.”
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
― Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
“All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.”
― Ross Poldark
― Ross Poldark
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