TOKO-PA TURNER on Dreams of Belonging /342

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week’s guest, Toko-pa Turner, invites us to consider that our dreams may serve as important guides throughout our lives. Diving into the intimately intertwined world of psyche and matter, Toko-pa considers the ways we may rehabilitate our imaginative capacities. We cannot simply dispose of that which goes beyond physical observation. Instead, centering the importance of feelings and sensing, Toko-pa encourages us to take time and pay attention to dreams. Dreams and our interior w...

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0:57.2	Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Iyani Young.
1:01.2	Today we are speaking with TogoPod Turner.
1:05.0	There is something within us that knows who we are supposed to become,
1:11.2	and in our dreams we see evidence of that, and when we learn the symbolic language of dreams,
1:18.0	we can get better at following or living in harmony with that ordering principle.
1:26.8	Blending the mystical teachings of sufism in which she was raised with a youngian approach to
1:32.2	dreams, TogoPod Turner is a Canadian author, teacher, and dream worker. She founded the dream
1:38.1	school in 2001, from which thousands of students have graduated. She is the author of the award-winning
1:44.3	book Belonging, Remembering Ourselves Home, which explores the themes of exile and belonging
1:49.8	to the lens of dreams, mythology, and memoirs. This book has resonated for readers worldwide and has
1:55.6	been translated into 10 different languages, as well as winning multiple awards for excellence
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