I Myself Am a Dream: Awakening into the Fields of the Imaginal

Susanna Ruebsaat
Start Date: 07/09/2023
End Date:28/09/2023
Scheduled course
Online

Overview

Lying deep beneath our personal and literal histories, vaster regions of the psyche beckon the ego to awaken into the fields of the imaginal.

As we engage our personal and collective narrative – our myth – as if it and we are dreaming processes, we may gain entry to different ways of being in the world and within ourselves. Lying deep beneath our personal and literal histories, vaster regions of the psyche beckon the ego to awaken into the fields of the imaginal, the mundus imaginalis.

Here we come across particular collective dreaming processes the human psyche has been cultivating over millennia.

Let us follow these archetypal dreaming processes through our bodies as it guides us into our living extensions of active imagination through the psychic expressions of logos, eros, mythos and chaos.

Having Jung’s theory of the functions of the psyche—thinking/feeling, intuition/sensation—as a supportive backdrop for our inquiry, we can engage our relationship to logos, eros, mythos and chaos in their roles and contributions to individuation. Heeding our mysterious telos, Psyche’s deeper intent for each of us, we are drawn down into the depths of the unconscious and beyond.

Four Thursdays – September 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023 7- 9:00pm, UTC-5 on Zoom

This course is for all persons interested in:

>> Transformative and contemplative practices
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 Embodiment and Arts-Based research and expressive arts
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 Jungian and Depth Psychological studies
>> Art Therapy and counseling trainees

>> To explore through “mark-making” and using a “word-catcher”.

>> To consider the unconscious as the future that is entering me/you in this moment of dreaming in order to become transformed.

>> Through soma and symbol explore how everything that has happened to me is living in me. And still I am called to be here in this very moment.

>> Working with emotions as if they are our children.

>> Asking the “right” questions through a process of embodiment-contemplation-embodiment-contemplation, i.e take this dream/this image seriously and ask: where does it lead me?
>> A symbol points a finger towards… but does not say do this or do that.

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