January 30-February 1
The group-participation style of dream work Jeremy Taylor has pioneered and developed over the last 30 years has startling and profound effects on both beginners and seasoned professionals. Under Jeremy's gentle guidance, people regularly uncover multiple layers of meaning in virtually every dream shared, from the tiniest fragment to the longest epic. This releases extraordinary creative energy, emotional awareness, and deep healing.
At the heart of Jeremy's work with dreams is the conviction, born of experience, that these archetypal energies can change not only our individual, personal lives, but also our collective, social, cultural lives. Carl Jung used the word "archetype," from Heraclitus, to mean the repeating patterns of the deep unconscious, patterns that appear in our dreams, sacred narratives, and great art. A conscious appreciation of these archetypal patterns brings people together in our shared, common humanity, despite the differences of class, race, gender, age, beauty, ability, intelligence, and mental and emotional stability.
Jeremy is fond of saying "Dreams are the best show in town!" In his hands, dream work is a "contact sport," not a "spectator sport." We all project our own inner work onto the dreams shared by others. It's hard to see our own dreams with fresh eyes, but it's easy to see someone else's dreams with fresh eyes. Only the dreamer can say for sure what a particular dream means, but the universal, archetypal language of dreams means that our guesses, speculations, and projections about another's dream will likely awaken the "aha!" of recognition, not only in the dreamer, but in us all.
Jeremy Taylor is an internationally renowned innovator of group process in dream work who blends the values of spirituality with an active social conscience and a Jungian perspective. He is the author of three books; the latest is The Living Labyrinth: Universal Themes in Myths, Dreams & The Symbolism of Waking Life. His earlier books, Where People Fly and Rivers Flow Upstream and Dream Work have been translated into many languages. Jeremy appears regularly on local, regional, and national radio and TV, pioneered on-line dream work as host of AOL's innovative dream work show, and teaches with Matthew Fox at the University of Creation Spirituality and the innovative Starr King School for the Ministry, which recently awarded him an honorary doctorate in Sacred Theology. He co-founded and is a past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams and is a long-time friend of Rowe. He has explored so deeply in myth and dream that he's emerged a practicing shaman, with conscious roots in the Anglo-Celtic tradition.
"Working with dreams over 30 years has convinced me that we're inherently interesting, creative, generously energetic creatures. The cosmos manifest itself in an endless dance of creation and when we are deeply asleep, we reveal our divine origins and connections by creating whole, playful universes every night. The symbolic language of this collective hymn of creativity is as simple and clear as a blossoming wild flower, and as somber and complex as the struggle of predator and prey." -- Jeremy Taylor