As more and more of us, in an increasingly sleep-deprived world lose touch with our dreams, I continue to wonder what it is we are losing. Dr. Rubin Naiman sees our difficulties with sleep and dreaming, driven by "unrelenting motion": "We live in a world of unrelenting motion, a world that discourages slowing and stopping, a world that has lost …
Gem Moon Magic: Explorations of the Gemini Moon
“Gem Moon Mandala” by AmandaSeesDreams of http://www.Dreamrly.com Welcome to the collaborative lunations of Gemini moon pals, Litebeing, Dreamrly, and yours truly, The Ptero Card. Yesterday marks the Gemini / Sagittarius full moon of 2014, and through our mutual love of art and writing we're combining our efforts for a few reflections on our experience of lunar Gemini in our natal astrological charts. Each of our contributions was …
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When Science Dreams
"I’VE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY my brain doesn’t simply rest at night, as my body does, but instead sets to work creating an artificial world that seems as real as waking life." The use of the phrase, "my brain," in Andrea Rock's book, The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream, beautifully …
Soul-making
Souls can be, among other things, lost, saved, non-existent, or hearty, but do we make soul? If so, what does that mean? What then, is soul? Perhaps as it should be, I have puzzled for years at James Hillman's use of the term "soul-making." Now days, ideas about soul are sometimes dismissed as archaic. So if we are to understand a …
Class Notes – Session Eight
Session Eight of the Jung Platform's online class on James Hillman's book, "Alchemical Psychology," moves the work from forge to stove, in which the use of glass vessels for heating the material make alchemy both possible and psychological. "Glass also separates observer from observed. It is the material of distancing, separating events from life by …
Theoria 