“Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist upon a challenging proposition: You must live truthfully. Right now. And always. Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, and the demands of what we might become.” LooksFactsDreamSeemsMightForceChallengesRight NowDemandEqualNotionRefuseWho We ArePropositionsOur DreamsInevitabilityKnuckles Author:Marc Ian Barasch
“A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery.” WantDreamHealingCasesMysteryUnderstoodMake SenseCracksWant U Author:Marc Ian Barasch
“We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream bids us, Demolish it. We wish to believe we're separate from one another, but the Dream insists, We are in this together. We are pleased to believe Time is a one-way river from past to present to future, yet the Dream reveals, All three times flow into one. We wish to seek pure virtue and avoid all stain, but the Dream avers, The dark and the light are braided and bound.” WorldWayBelieveSelfDreamLightTogetherPastThreeWishSocialDarkVirtueWallPureFlowRiversBoundsOne WayThree TimesCraveInner SelfPersonaStainsEither OrDemolish Author:Marc Ian Barasch
“By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.” MayDifferentSoulDreamRomanceGoalPerfectHealingMaterialsAchievementAimAffairWakingModestNicheNourishmentDefendersReciprocal Author:Marc Ian Barasch
“Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.” LittlesHardDreamBigsGrowthAttentionDivineDevilTasksFaithfulFearfulPsychicsTheologianLutherExaltedSardonicRisky Business Author:Marc Ian Barasch
