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    The Language of Dreams: A Jungian Approach to Dreams, Dream Interpretation, and Spiritual Dreamwork
    The Language of Dreams: A Jungian Approach to Dreams, Dream Interpretation, and Spiritual Dreamwork
    The Language of Dreams: A Jungian Approach to Dreams, Dream Interpretation, and Spiritual Dreamwork
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    The Language of Dreams: A Jungian Approach to Dreams, Dream Interpretation, and Spiritual Dreamwork

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    Dreams are more than random neural firings in your brain. They’re a language. The entity sending you nightly messages in this nonverbal, symbolic dream language is your own unconscious mind. All dreams, even the scary or disturbing ones, have your best interest at heart. They’re messages from you to you.

    The “dreammaker” is you, your unconscious mind, which speaks in images. The intended recipient of the dream message is also you, your conscious mind, which uses words. Interpreting dreams, then, is mostly a matter of translation.

    The more you work with your dreams, the easier interpretation gets. Yes, you have to learn the language of imagery in which your personal “dreammaker” speaks, and that takes effort. But over time, that language will sink in and become natural to you, the way someone studying French or Spanish eventually stops needing to look up every word or phrase. Eventually, they simply speak the language.

    And, with practice interpreting your dreams, so will you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Paradigm Press
    Release dateFeb 12, 2019
    ISBN9780463162040
    The Language of Dreams: A Jungian Approach to Dreams, Dream Interpretation, and Spiritual Dreamwork
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    Jack Preston King

    Jack Preston King is the author of "In Defense of Magical Thinking: Essays in Defiance of Conformity to Reason" and other books for rebels against the spiritual, creative, and cultural status quo. He writes unruly poems, short stories and novels, too. Visit him on the web at jackprestonking.com. He's also on Twitter, Medium and Facebook.

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      The Language of Dreams - Jack Preston King

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      The Language of Dreams

      A Jungian Approach to Dreams, Dream Interpretation, and Spiritual Dreamwork

      Copyright © 2019 by Jack Preston King

      Published by New Paradigm Press

      All Rights Reserved

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      Cover design by Jack Preston King

      Contents

      The Language of Dreams - What dreams are, and a simple Jungian method for interpreting their meaning

      What Are Your Dreams Trying to Tell You? - Find the hidden meaning in even your most puzzling dreams

      The Mythic Meaning of Your Dreams - Myths, fairytales, and archetypes of the collective unconscious

      What Does it Mean to Have an Inner Life? - There’s more to you than meets the eye — even your own eye

      You’ve Interpreted Your Dream — Now What? - Make it real with ritual

      Dream Reality is not an Oxymoron

      Precognitive and Visitation Dreams

      Disembodied Voice Dreams

      Waking Dreams and Visions — How They Work

      Waking Dreams and Visions — Two Real Life Examples

      Bibliography

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      The Language of Dreams

      What dreams are, and a simple Jungian method for interpreting their meaning

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      Remember, a dream is a letter from home. It gives us information about ourselves that is not readily apparent to us when we’re awake, or we’re in the state of the ego alone. It’s an extrasensory kind of information and intelligence that comes to us when we’re asleep.

      — Clarissa Pinkola Estes, The Beginner’s Guide to Dream Interpretation

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      What Dreams Are

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      The image above is a map of your psyche, as understood in Jungian Psychology. The thin, beige arc at the top is your Persona, your public personality, the part of you that you show the outside world. The small red and blue box labeled EGO is the private you that you experience yourself to be on the inside, but seldom show other people. The horizontal line slicing through ego marks the division between your conscious awareness and everything about yourself that is unconscious, hidden not only from the outside world, but even from yourself.

      Note that almost all of who you are, in your fullness, is below the line. Your personal unconscious, cultural unconscious, biological unconscious, the collective unconscious, your shadow, anima or animus, and all the archetypes within your psyche live outside your conscious awareness. Using the proportions on this map, something like 80% of your total self is unknown to you.

      That 80% of who you really are, which you rarely (if ever) engage in waking life, sends you messages every night in your dreams.

      So the first important thing to know about dream interpretation is that every dream is a communique from your (larger) hidden self to your (smaller) conscious self. All dreams,

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