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 worlds, according to Toko-pa, are deeply important within our personal searches for belonging. Modern society demands that we estrange parts of ourselves in order to “belong,” but this false belonging will never satisfy. Rather, Toko-pa focuses on finding interior belonging. What is internally guiding us towards our potential?

Blending the mystical teachings of Sufism in which she was raised with a Jungian approach to dreams, Toko-pa Turner is a Canadian author, teacher, and dreamworker. She founded The Dream School in 2001, from which thousands of students have since graduated. She is the author of the award-winning book, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, which explores the themes of exile and belonging through the lens of dreams, mythology, and memoirs. This book has resonated for readers worldwide, and has been translated into 10 different languages as well as winning multiple awards for excellence in publishing. Her work focuses on the relationship between psyche and nature, and how to follow our inner wisdom to meet with the social, psychological, and ecological challenges of our time.

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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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