Probably it _is_ something particular to me with respect to its application to Essene Healing. With respect to the dream, I have noticed that Archetypes show up when someone close to me dies. They appear to pull things out of my experience to assemble a symbolic story that I will eventually be able to understand. The coracle-boat comes straight out of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the shape of it in the dream was very similar to that of the brain pan in the skull. The living woodcut, carved from deep red cherry, says that it is symbolic. My father in law floated for years in his brain-pan coracle on a sea of red life, as we all do. But at the end, he found he could no longer remain in his coracle. He was surrounded by seas with nowhere to go from his shrinking boat. And then Death shows up, wearing the beloved hat of his kindly, caring younger brother. I am sure that kindness took my father-in-law by the hand when it was time to leave the coracle behind. It would not have surprised me if Death had put down his black hood to reveal the kindly, smiling face of the brother-- But that was not part of the dream...
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With respect to the dream, I have noticed that Archetypes show up when someone close to me dies. They appear to pull things out of my experience to assemble a symbolic story that I will eventually be able to understand.
The coracle-boat comes straight out of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the shape of it in the dream was very similar to that of the brain pan in the skull. The living woodcut, carved from deep red cherry, says that it is symbolic. My father in law floated for years in his brain-pan coracle on a sea of red life, as we all do. But at the end, he found he could no longer remain in his coracle. He was surrounded by seas with nowhere to go from his shrinking boat. And then Death shows up, wearing the beloved hat of his kindly, caring younger brother.
I am sure that kindness took my father-in-law by the hand when it was time to leave the coracle behind.
It would not have surprised me if Death had put down his black hood to reveal the kindly, smiling face of the brother-- But that was not part of the dream...