In this episode:
We explore how paying attention to our dreams can help us to expand our experience of the depth and meaningfulness of life.
Sources for quotes and more:
- Harriet Tubman and Paul McCartney dream stories found in 'The Secret History of Dreaming' by Robert Moss.
- Abraham Lincoln dream story as told in 'Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865' by Ward Hill Lamon.
- "There is a dream dreaming us," from Laurens van der Post from 'Where Will All the Stories Go?' in Parabola Magazine, vol. 7, no. 2.
- "When dreaming I'm guided to another world" ~ Creed, from the song 'Higher.'
- "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allan Poe from the poem 'A Dream Within a Dream.'
- "Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
- Butterfly Dream from Chuang-Tzu.
- “What proof could you give if anyone should ask us now, at the present moment, whether we are asleep and our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are awake and talking to each other in a waking condition?” ~ Socrates in Plato's 'Theaetetus.'
- 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare
- 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 1.'
- The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man by C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 10'
- 'The Way of the Dream' by Marie-Louise von Franz
- “All consciousness separates, but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal self dwelling in the darkness of primordial night.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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