Life-transforming Change is Possibleby Following Your Dreams.
There is a powerful force in our universe. Religions call it God or the Divine or Spirit, healers call it innate wisdom, Jungian psychologists call it the Universal Unconscious, pantheists and some scientists call it Life or aliveness. Recovering a deep connection to that aliveness brings us back in alignment with our Selves as an expression of creativity and potency. Our cultural conditioning has focused us on success and survival in the world, making us feel more and more alienated from each other and our Essence. We have become disconnected from knowing that we are supported by divine forces. Miraculously, the psyche, speaking through our dreams, give us clues to the puzzle of how we got off track and how to get back to our divine connection. Archetypal Dreamwork is a post-Jungian way of being with the images and feelings in dreams, the language the dream is speaking. It is very different from Freudian analysis, or any analysis for that matter. It is even different from most Jungian dreamwork, in that it requires a dropping of the old self, the old way of surviving in the world, and a becoming new again. Feeling fear and pain are a natural part of being human. But we have been taught to deny and ignore those difficult feelings. We expend a great deal of psychic energy avoiding feeling the vulnerability required to let ourselves admit that we hurt and are afraid. Instead we compete, analyze, judge, feel self-pity, shame, blame, project. These patterns are often so deeply ingrained in us that we cannot even see them for what they are. We are blind to knowing that our childhood hurts and fears are, in fact, driving our behavior. We have lost not only the capacity to feel painful feelings, but along with that the capacity to feel the deep love and joy that come with divine connection. Every part of a dream is either an expression of our alienated self or an invitation to connection to divine guidance. Traditional dream interpretation is often flawed because it is based on bettering how a person functions in the outer world. Because it is based on those values of survival and success in the world, the result is a soul-alienating perspective. Archetypal Dreamwork is concerned with reconnecting a person with their inner essence. Essence is the place where our joy, potency, and creativity dwell. Elaine Russell has been involved in studying Archetypal Dreamwork for fourteen years and for four years was a student member of North of Eden, a training program for teachers, led by the founder of Archetypal Dreamwork, Marc Bregman. She was licensed in Vermont where she lived until 2007, and is a registered counselor in the state of Washington. She offers introductory classes and workshops for people interested in finding out more about this work and she sees clients on a one-to-one basis either in person or on the phone. Contact If you are interested in having an introductory session or attending a class, call 206-963-3117 or email dreamwork101@gmail.com. "That love is all there is, is all we need to know of love." |
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