The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams

Aspire to dream kinder dreams. Dream of the ancient love that is driving your destiny. Dream of rooms you’ve not yet discovered, and worlds you didn’t know existed. Dream of eternal flames, mysterious springs, and entryways through roots of trees. Know that the earth’s creativity in you is fathomless. Give your novel ideas form in the world. Honour

Remember that the Imaginal World is a real place unto which you are umbilically connected. It is, and always has been, as much a source of life to you as the material world. But like the alchemical cauldron, the quality of ingredients you place there determines how well you are fed and, in turn, how well you feed the world.

Let the correlations between the worlds show themselves on their own time. All that is required of you is to make room

Unlike fitting in, belonging had to be dynamic. This meant that exile and loneliness were equally vital on the path of true belonging. This became a core idea in the book. My old pattern of belonging had to dissolve and decay for a new, more sophisticated paradox to emerge.

existence. Like the sunflower, the nautilus shell, and the spiral galaxy, we came into life with an inborn pattern to fulfil. But the paradox is that we are also living in a participatory universe.

In dreamwork, we are stepping into the imaginal borderlands to consciously participate with those images that shape us instead of allowing them to replicate autonomously. As we engage with our metaphors, we change the way we see the world. Like doubling the number of colours we can paint with, we develop a subtler and more complex palette for viewi

me, I realise that in conceiving this book, I too have been made anew.

Though we normally think of parts making up the whole, in fractal geometry the whole makes up each part.

The term “fractals” was coined by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975. It describes geometric shapes that repeat their pattern on every scale. In other words, the whole shape can be found within each small part—like how the blade of a fern is made up of tinier ferns. This phenomenon, where each scale is embedded within the next like Russian