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portraits of the psychic life-process.’ Some to tell us something about us that we don’t
dreams are more important than others, know. They are showing us attitudes we
but they are all important. have that are hurting us, that are keeping us
from becoming our true, authentic self.
“Consequently, the dreams stand in strict
contrast to his conscious behavior. They Dreams are an experience of
move along a progressive line and take the the transcendent.
part of the educator. They clearly reveal
their special function. This function I have
called compensation. The unconscious According to Jung, the unconscious will
progressiveness and the conscious take the same attitude toward you as you
regressiveness together form a pair of do toward it. In his book, Dreams, God’s
opposites which, as it were, keeps the Forgotten Language, Jungian analyst/
scales balanced.” Episcopalian Priest, John A. Sanford
— Carl Jung, Two Essays in Analytical says, “If we work with our dreams, then
Psychology, paragraph 182 we are working with God within us.”
Dreams strive to regulate and modify
So, the first thing is to honor our dreams as the affects of our splits, our complexes
a SACRED TASK. Paint them, sketch them, — including our father and mother
write them down and if at all possible, complex. Here are two examples of
speak the dream out loud. They are trying dreams that will make this clearer.
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