DreamWise, an Experimental College Class on Dreams
(^info-linked) UW Experimental College (< their web site) In the water–world of dreams, imagination trumps logic; and our own intuition is available. All of our wisdom is readily available, to help us realize the way through current dilemmas. In this class, we contemplate meanings of this personal ‘language’, side-stepping quick interpretations to use a slower, catalytic group process. This is a chance to encourage self–knowing, tap our collective wisdom and catalyze clarity on our lives through dreams. The instructor has 30 years experience w/ dream interpretation. Interested people are encouraged to come to as many sections as they like. The instructor will present core information about dream recall and the group process of exploring dreams. Taught by: Janette Brown sec 1: 10/18/14 (<click to register) Sat, 12:00-2pm Location: Wallingford Max Enrollment: 10 General Public: $25 UW Students: $20 Every Autumn here in the Northwest, where the wind can be blustering, I feel a shift. There's a wildness here. Change isn't an easy thing. It's risky and sometimes inconvenient.
Looking at it as an individual, one can feel so alone; but the desire is to want to dive into it. When coupled, sometimes it's more threatening; not knowing what change in relationship will come with what change you want for yourself, diving in isn't as attractive. At least for me, I enter the questions more tenuously. Right now, with the economic climate as it is, there is another factor; money helps me reach for help from my peers or a trusted facilitator. I have done this countless times before. But with resources harder to come by, the temptation is to figure things out for myself. Hmmm. And I do. People find each other! OccupySeattle gives me much hope. People have had enough. They don't want to be humored; they want back the power to influence change. They want real representation. Thrilling: having had enough. There's some point when 'not caring' can help break you through some barrier ... when being "too tight in the bud," means there's nothing for it but to burst into blossom into new beginning, even in the autumn! It's Easter / Spring / and, oddly, the biggest suicide time of the year .. statistically. Second? is Christmas / Chanukah! What a paradox.
I don't know about you. To me, that was a surprise. After all, the darkest time of year is coming to a close. Days are longer; weather is better ... than winter anyway. (Today, there's a windstorm!) Some would say all this describes depression? I don't think so. Today, I was thinking about the Pagan 'hatching egg', the Christian 'death-&-rebirth', and other symbols of leaving one form and entering another. An 'Unkown' other. Good metaphors. In this light, the stats made more sense.: change, and leaving what's familiar to us __ whether what's coming is better or worse, creates a mood. The fact is, the unfamiliar isn't what we are used to. On a feelings level, "different", "unfamiliar" or 'foreign' may not be what we want; and when we do, we generally llike to pick when! Parenthetically, I heard someone point out once that fear and excitement are the same body experience, chemically! And I'm thinking sadness might be the same chemically as coming out of hibernation when you aren't quite ready. Slow has been good; and then ... it's like when Mom used to say, "Get up, it's time for school," slow was even better. So to those of you who feel sad right now, or are just coming out of hibernation mode, know you are not unusual and not alone in it, for what comfort that is. Just waiting, you will find something else is stirring in you; and though we don't consciously pick the time, Life will be moving us forward all by itself. To me, that is a comfort. |
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