Mar 21-23, 2008
The group-participation style of dream work Jeremy Taylor pioneered over the last 30 years has startling and profound effects on both beginners and seasoned professionals. Under Jeremy’s gentle guidance, people regularly uncover multiple layers of meaning in every dream shared, releasing creative energy, emotional awareness, and deep healing.
Carl Jung used the word “archetype,” from Heraclitus, to mean the repeating patterns of the deep subconscious, patterns that appear in our dreams, sacred narratives, and great art. Projection of these archetypes onto others is a natural, subconscious process. Becoming aware of our projections enables us to act more creatively and responsibly and enables us to see our shared, common humanity, despite the differences of class, race, gender, age, beauty, ability, intelligence, and mental and emotional stability. We all project our own inner work onto the dreams shared by others. It’s hard to see our own dreams with fresh eyes, but seeing someone else’s dreams fresh is easy. Only the dreamer can say for sure what a particular dream means, but the universal, archetypal language of dreams means that our guesses, speculations, and projections about another’s dream will likely awaken the “aha!” of recognition, not only in the dreamer, but in us all.
Jeremy Taylor is an internationally renowned innovator of group process in dream work who blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He wrote Where People Fly and Rivers Flow Upstream, Dream Work, and The Living Labyrinth: Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams & The Symbolism of Waking Life. He appears regularly on local, regional, and national radio and TV, pioneered on-line dream work on AOL, teaches graduate level courses, co-founded and is past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and has been coming to Rowe for 25 years.
“Working with dreams has convinced me we’re inherently interesting, creative, generously energetic creatures. The cosmos manifests itself in an endless dance of creation. When we’re deeply asleep, we reveal our divine origins and connections by creating whole, playful universes every night. The symbolic language of this collective hymn of creativity is as simple and clear as a blossoming wild flower and as somber and complex as the struggle of predator and prey.”
— Jeremy Taylor