Morton Kelsey - Dream Quotes

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Myth and ritual act as transformers in bringing people the value of spiritual reality, just as an electrical transformer... The dream also provides the same kind of stepped-down encounter.

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One interesting confirmation of this viewpoint comes from the widespread dream research of William Dement... Not only did these subjects who were deprived of their dreams step up the frequency of their attempts to dream, but if they continued to be cut off from completing their dreams, they soon began to show signs of nervous breakdown.

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One of the most important ways of understanding the unconscious—indeed, as Freud saw it, the royal road to discovering the nature of its contents—is the dream. And what is a dream but a series of images that tell a story?

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As Jung worked with patients from all over the world, he began to study the mythologies of different peoples... Folklore and mythology... appeared as the collective dreams of a people, expressing for the group what poetic imagination, phantasies, visions and dreams express for the individual. Both the individual and collective types of experience are vital to human life.

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If humankind is open to another dimension of reality, then the dream may be one of the most common avenues through which God reaches out to us.

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The Eastern or Greek Orthodox tradition has never turned its back upon the dream or the myth.... it has continued to believe that spiritual reality is mediated to men through mythological images in story and actions, and in the pictorial representation of the icon.

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