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This is a 12-page excerpt from "On Becoming an Alchemist: A Guide for the Modern Magician" by Catherine MacCoun. It presents a new (to me) approach to dreamwork.
She says that the dream is not the teaching, it is the “souvenir” of the teaching, the leftover remnants, the husk. So instead of interpreting the dream (which would be to mistake it for the teaching), you treat the dream as the lowest rung of a ladder, the only one that your conscious mind can reach, and use it to travel back up to find the teaching or entity that was the source of the dream.
The method feels almost sacrilegious in the way it uses the dream as a tool instead of attempting to preserve it.
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On Becoming an Alchemist (full book)
She says that the dream is not the teaching, it is the “souvenir” of the teaching, the leftover remnants, the husk. So instead of interpreting the dream (which would be to mistake it for the teaching), you treat the dream as the lowest rung of a ladder, the only one that your conscious mind can reach, and use it to travel back up to find the teaching or entity that was the source of the dream.
The method feels almost sacrilegious in the way it uses the dream as a tool instead of attempting to preserve it.
Download
On Becoming an Alchemist (full book)