We are the Book of Life.
We dream constantly. We dream when we sleep. We dream when we are awake. Have you ever wondered why we assign the same word for the images we see when we sleep and the images we want to see when we are awake? Dreaming is a creative act. It is the way we construct our reality. It is the way we learn about what we are made of. It is the way we relate our inner world to the world around us.
Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology attempted to decode the dreams that we dream at night. By studying the symbols of our dreams, he saw that some dreams are universal to man. He believed it was part of a human collective unconscious.
He believed that these dreams are passed on from generation to generation. Inspired by Jung's work, Joseph Campbell, the father of mythology connected the myths of man to dreaming. He once said that "Myths are public dreams and dreams are private myths."
The symbols we see in dreams and in our myths are the source of the stories we tell. They are the vocabulary of human imagination. But the stories we tell and cherish are the dreams of life. Not just of human life, but of life on earth. They are the stories of the collective mind driving evolution towards its ultimate end---eternal life.
Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology attempted to decode the dreams that we dream at night. By studying the symbols of our dreams, he saw that some dreams are universal to man. He believed it was part of a human collective unconscious.
He believed that these dreams are passed on from generation to generation. Inspired by Jung's work, Joseph Campbell, the father of mythology connected the myths of man to dreaming. He once said that "Myths are public dreams and dreams are private myths."
The symbols we see in dreams and in our myths are the source of the stories we tell. They are the vocabulary of human imagination. But the stories we tell and cherish are the dreams of life. Not just of human life, but of life on earth. They are the stories of the collective mind driving evolution towards its ultimate end---eternal life.