Another thing I’ve noticed, which reinforces my suspicion that buoyancy is the spiritual currency, is a pattern in my dreams. They seem to be aimed at healing buoyancy leaks. An odd dream I had last night seemed at first to be difficult to decipher, and I was reading all the wrong “messages” into it, until I happened to notice that it was an exact retelling of an event that had happened earlier that day, when viewed from the perspective of emotional buoyancy injury. All the characters were played by different people, and the props were different items – such that I might never have consciously related the event with the dream – but the buoyancy injury was of the exact same type, delivered in the exact same way, with the exact same emotional issues at play. The internal playwright had taken the buoyancy threats and transposed them to another setting, with different players and props, all cleverly employed to examine the issues in a fresh light.
Month: August 2019
From Joseph Campbell:
“It is important to know how old you are in spiritual development, where you are on this path. The function of initiations is to commit one’s whole psychological pitch to the requirements of a particular stage in life. The big initiation is when one has to leave the psychology of childhood behind: the death of the infantile ego, which is dependent and obedient, and the birth of the self-reliant adult participating in the society.”
– Joseph Campbell
A Joseph Campbell Companion, p. 84