Dreaming into Knowing

The image of pushing your fiancé overboard from an ocean liner is a story of ill-fated love at the level of Titanic. Letting go can seem just this difficult and momentous to us. Sometimes we try to do things in a way that makes changing our mind impossible, yet, as we see in this dream, we are also capable of surprising ourselves with what we may do next – all in an effort to protect ourselves from some fear or pain, imagined or not. (At the end of this post there are instructions and a link to download this recording to your computer.)

Jeane: So the next dream feels like this couple is going to get married, and maybe they’ve been kind of enemies before. But now they’re getting married. But at the last minute they change the venue of where the wedding is going to be held – and not everybody knows that. But I seem to figure it out. 

And I see that now they’re getting married on this big ocean liner. But then I see that she seems to have this little wire, with little flags on it, attached to him. But she goes over and tosses him off the ocean liner, in front of the ocean liner. So he goes into the ocean, in a big arc with the little line of flags attached to him. 

And then I see her running, and I realize that she’s going to jump off the other side of the front of the ocean liner. And I can’t quite figure out if what she’s actually doing is killing them both, or going to save him after she pushed him.

John: It’s kind of a dream that portrays the insanity that we have in terms of not being able to let go. And therefore we’re aboard something that’s unfolding, and yet we are stuck with our predilections. And the predilections haunt us, even though maybe what is unfolding could be wonderful. It keeps us from being able to see that it’s wonderful. 

And so, in adding to this theme where something is expansive and something is contractive, the attempt in the micro of the marriage, or of the holding and pulling of something together, is an attempt to do it in the micro. It doesn’t quite work that way because it’s reflective of something that has to occur in the macro.

And what has to occur in the macro is the catching up with the intertwinement that is all part of even the flow to where your orientation is not so micro, but it is in the macro in terms of how everything is ensuing. 

But if you’re unable to do that, and you are too radically thrown around by what is going on in the outer, you’re inclined to make deleterious decisions. You’re inclined to make decisions that are made from the standpoint of a type of woundology, as opposed to from a clarity of a greater overall consciousness. 

So, the macro aspect of this dream is what is important, because the portrayal of what will take place if you only look at this from a personal micro level, is that you are inclined to be your own worst enemy. And then from a macro level, you’re inclined to come to see and recognize that there is a much bigger picture that is going on, and that you have to drop some sort of nuance about yourself in order to catch up with it.

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