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🗓️ 16 June 2022
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Guest Machiel Klerk has worked with dreams and healing traditions worldwide; his new book is Dream Guidance: Connection to the Soul through Dream Incubation. Religions, shamanic practices, and depth psychology have recognized the significance of dreams and sought their aid. Dreams open into a deeply intelligent source Jung called the two-million-year-old man. This inner companion is interested in our development and life purpose, and he transports us nightly to worlds of vivid images, fulsome feeling, and embodied experience. Dream incubation invites these encounters into consciousness through a well-defined process: identify a problem, develop a question, and create a ritual of receptivity. Questions related to life direction are especially likely to elicit response. Record the dream immediately upon waking, reflect, and relate its wisdom to waking life. Everyone dreams, everyone is connected to this mysterious source, and everyone has something meaningful to live and give. Our dreams are willing to help us.
Lisa’s Dream Incubation Question: What is the most important thing I should bring forward for this podcast?
Lisa’s Dream
“There is a guy who is maybe on a skateboard; I am maybe on a bike and with Deb. We are following him. He is enjoying the speed bumps and the twists and turns in the road. I have a somewhat superior attitude. I am going very straight. I think that we are exactly the wrong people to be following him because we have such different approaches. He seems to really be enjoying himself. When we stop, he comes over and is speaking to me. It is clear he is attracted to me, flirting and telling me I’m beautiful. It is hard for me to hear, but I make myself stay with it. I make myself continue to meet his eye. I make myself say “thank you” and accept the compliment. I know he is totally sincere. He says he knows that one day I will be tucking him into bed. I respond that I don’t think that is going to happen, and he says he knows it will happen. I know that our lives are very different and he can’t really understand mine. I mention something about almost having gone to college in the South, but there were no gothic universities. This man asks me what that means, and I am noticing how “out of his league” I am. Still, I can feel his real sincerity and my own surprising attraction to him.”
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0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, |
0:07.1 | Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation |
0:12.3 | that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. I'm Lisa Marchiano, |
0:20.1 | and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
0:22.5 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
0:27.5 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod. |
0:37.3 | Today on the podcast we are delighted to have with us, |
0:40.7 | Michael Clark, who is a mental health therapist, an international speaker, a dream worker, |
0:47.4 | and the creator of the Young platform, as well as, most importantly, for our discussion today, the author of a new book on |
0:57.0 | dream incubation called Dream Guidance, Connecting to the Soul through Dream Incubation. |
1:05.0 | The three of us have had a chance to read the book and we're all thrilled about it. We're glad it's out in the |
1:12.7 | world and we're really happy to be discussing the book today here on the podcast. And I believe |
1:18.9 | Mahil, the book releases on June 14th. Is that correct? Do I have that right? Yes, that's correct. |
1:26.9 | Okay. We are recording on June 13th. So by the |
1:29.6 | time you hear this, the book will be out in the world and you can go and order it, which you should do |
1:35.4 | immediately. So in any case, welcome. Thank you. It's such a pleasure to be with the three of you. |
1:43.5 | I've listened to many of your podcasts and so it's a joy to be a part of it today. |
1:49.4 | I am reading your book now for the second time. What I said to you before, I will try to express a little more cogently now, which is what a very, very readable, accessible book this is, |
2:06.0 | of how clearly you describe the way to encourage or incubate, as we say, dreams, in language that |
2:16.1 | everybody can understand, steps that everybody can take, and yet |
2:20.8 | with the depth and the subtlety and the completeness that this process has richly deserved, |
2:28.5 | but in my experience, has never had before your book. |
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