Hi,
@Crhis, I see there are many perspectives. For a long time I did a lot of
dreamwork. I ran a community meet-up that presented and discussed dreams. We
had no home school of thought, and I accepted all workshop proposals and simply
added them to the schedule.
I finally understood that each person's dreamer self learns to present its
symbolism in a way that aligns with how the other part of that person's mind
preferred to work with them. Some people are very interested in transpersonal
and global-themed dreams, and that's what they got. Others preferred Freud's
method or had an analyst that used Freud's frame, and that's what they got.
Other's liked Jung, or Gestalt, or ... and that's what they got. Paganini, the
violinist, famously competed against the devil on the violin in a dream. And
Singer, the inventor, received the key change needed to perfect his sewing
machine in a dream.
I'm witnessing a similar process with *shame.* There may not be one way or one
language for shame. As there is a popular book called the five languages of
love—and I run a workshop on the five distinct types of forgiving—maybe all our
emotions have various modes of expression and within ourselves we learn to
experience and express/repress them according to a personal conscious/intuitive
heuristic.
John Perkins, Seattle, WA USA
