The Peddler of Swathom and the Archetype of the Fool

In this episode:
We look at how the attitude we take towards our dreams changes our experience of them, and affects our relationship with our inner lives.

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Sources for quotes and more:

1. "The psyche is indistinguishable from its manifestations. The psyche is the object of psychology, and — fatally enough — also its subject. There is no getting away from this fact.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
2. S1 Ep. 20: Taking Dreams Seriously
3. "I share all your prejudices against dream-interpretation as the quintessence of uncertainty and arbitrariness. .." ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
4. "It is on the basis of theory, for instance, that I expect dreams to have a meaning. I cannot prove in every case that this is so.... But I have to make such an hypothesis in order to find courage to deal with dreams at all." ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
5.  The Peddler of Swaffham from 'English Fairy and Other Folk Tales.'
6. “I must content myself wholly with the fact that the result means something to my patient and sets his life in motion again. I may allow myself only one criterion for the result of my labours: does it work?” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
7. “In many ways the journey seems to be a foolish gamble...”  ~ Thomas Merton in 'New Seeds of Contemplation.'
8. “The right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings.” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 12.'
9. “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth...” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 9ii.'
10. “Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things.... A certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.”  ~ William James in 'The Will to Believe.'
11. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us” ~ from

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For more on living a symbolic life:
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