Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong

When we lack a connection to anything larger or bigger than us, it’s like a piece of our soul is gone.

Fashioned from the earth, we are souls in clay form. We need to remain in rhythm with our inner clay voice and longing. Yet this voice is no longer audible in the modern world. We are not even aware of our loss, consequently, the pain of our spiritual exile is more intense in being largely unintelligible.

This is where dreamwork and belonging almost become synonymous. One of the basic tenets of both dreamwork and of belonging is to learn how to become hospitable towards the dark, repulsive, ambiguous figures that appear in our dreams. Instead of running from difficulty, we practice at turning towards what is chasing us, even inviting it to intensify

Like the mythical Grail, we all want to open ourselves to purpose, to create a capacity through which the mystery may express itself in our lives. Yet even for those of us who follow this vocational call, the perpetual allure of the external world, with its promises of success, wealth, and status, is powerful and can cause a gradual but critical sh