Waking Up to the Inner World:
Dreams, Myths, & Archetypes

Jeremy Taylor

Mar 12-14, 2010

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The group-participation style of dream work Jeremy Taylor pioneered over the last 33 years has profound and startling effects on both beginners and seasoned professionals. Dr Taylor says, “All dreams, (even the worst, gut-wrenching nightmares), come in the service of health and wholeness and speak a universal language. Under Jeremy’s emotionally safe, 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 emotional stability.

It’s hard to see our own dreams with fresh eyes, but seeing someone else’s dreams is easy. We all project our own inner work onto the dreams shared by others. The universal, archetypal language of dreams means that our guesses, speculations, and projections about another’s dream may awaken the “aha!” of recognition, not only in the dreamer, but in us all, though only the dreamer can say for sure what a particular dream means.

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. 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 27 years. We are honored to welcome this exciting teacher back.