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  • SAVING THE PLANET, STUDY 2

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    Dear blog friends,

    I promised you a second dream study on ecology and here it comes! Last time, I let you with the question: What do dreams advice to save the planet?

    An answer to this crucial question can be found in the article that Christiane published on her French blog on 23 october 2019. I can't wait to share it with you, so I give her the floor:

     

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    It's been almost a month since I wrote anything on my blog. It is not that I forget my blog friends, but I have been completely absorbed in the preparation of my two-day seminar, which just took place this past weekend: "Dreams and the Bible" was the subject of study on Saturday; that of Sunday was "The Wrath of God and the Wrath of Christ in the Bible, and in the dreams of the past and the present". It was a rare, intense, exciting and oh so instructive research work!

    But back to our blog.

    Three weeks ago, I embarked with you on an investigation. Do you remember? I brought up a dream about a burning issue, a dream that dealt with a planetary catastrophe.

    We see scientists, institutes, governments all over the world searching, discussing. Opinions are contradictory and the ordinary earthlings no longer know what to think.

    In front of this general confusion I therefore asked the question:

    What is the position of the unconscious about a cosmic catastrophe? Do dreams talk about it? And what do they say?

    To answer this question, I presented the dream of a dreamer in her forties:

    "Threat of planetary disaster".

    What was it about?

    In the dream, an astrologer who studies the planets announced to the dreamer that the earth was going to be destroyed by a missile. The earth symbolised the body of the dreamer, the planets represented the men who appear at night in her life. As for the missile, it designated the tyrannical ideas of the dreamer who refused to enter into an ongoing relationship with a man.

    The dream warned the young woman that she had to change her conception of love relationships: in fact, she was putting her life as a woman in danger by refusing to make room for the man, by refusing to engage in a lasting relationship that was not just for pleasure. The dream advised her to learn how to build a bond with man.

     

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    The study of this dream led us in conclusion to ask ourselves the question:

    Would there be a relationship between the outside world and the inside world?

    Could the quality of our outer earthly environment be related to the quality of our inner life, which the alchemists called "our inner earth", whose other name is the unconscious?

    Would our outer earth be sick because our inner earth, our unconscious, is mistreated?

    And now here's a new dream that may come to give us some more information. He came in 2011 to answer the direct and unambiguous dream incubation question right in the middle of our research topic:

    "How to save our planet?"

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    Maud, the dreamer, had received a long and detailed dream in response. It is now up to me to present this dream and its interpretation. Despite my concern to remain succinct, the study is a bit long, but it is worth reading it through to the end.

     

    Dream
    I find myself on a gravel road, deserted, and I turn left. I hear a rustle and see a dustbin. I tell myself it must be a rat. It doesn't bother me. I'm sure it's going to run away when it hears me approaching. I stop in front of the rubbish bin and look for the rat.

    Instead of a rat I find a small hole in the planks of the rubbish bin at road level.

    There is a tiny elephant in the hole.

    How can it be so small? It's a perfect elephant! I am baffled. I can hear the clinking of the chain it is attached to.

    I bend down to greet it and touch it with my fingers.

    A new creature tumbles out of the hole. What is it? It's a monkey, tiny too. It fits easily in my hands. I can feel its silky fur under my fingers and I'm happy to meet it.

    And here comes another creature out of the hole again.

    Oh, he's a miniature human. Could it be a gnome, a leprechaun? I help him to get back on his feet, but he doesn't like it at all and he gives me a "scolding".

     

    What is this fairy tale and what does it have to do with healing the planet?

    This is the incubation question that we must constantly keep in mind during the interpretation.

     

    Interpretation


    I am on a gravel road, deserted. I turn left.

    By incubating a dream Maude has entered the natural and solitary path of dreams; she moves away from the right, from the conscious outside world, from its order, its mastery and its conceptions, to move to the left, towards a world of another order, towards the unconscious world that will answer her question: how to save our planet.

    The dream then draws her attention:

    I hear a rustle and see a dustbin.

    First answer: if it is a question of pretending to save the planet, then the dustbin must be taken into consideration. Which is to say?

    The dustbin contains everything you don't want, everything that you voluntarily reject because you think it is dirty, rotten or useless.

     

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    Isn't this how the dreamer, influenced by the prevailing conceptions, pictures her unconscious?

    I will not tire of recalling these words of Jung at the end of his life:

    "Sigmund Freud' ideas confirmed most people in their contempt for the unconscious psyche. Before him, its existence was ignored or neglected. Now it has become a moral rubbish dump. This modern point of view is certainly narrow-minded and unjust. It doesn't even coincide with the known facts."

    This rubbish bin on the left, on the solitary road, therefore represents in the dreamer what she considers to be her unconscious, which, as some therapists claim, is filled with dirty memories and experiences, traumas, negative rubbish, which we must get rid of.

    The dream would therefore invite the dreamer to pay attention to the rubbish that would soil her unconscious.

    I tell myself that it must be a rat. It doesn't bother me. I'm sure it will run away when it hears me approaching. I stop in front of the rubbish bin and look for the rat.

    - Could the rat, which lives underground, symbolise the male sex?

    - It runs around and bites: could it indicate the sexual desires that nibble at the flesh?

    - The rat devours and destroys, so it could also represent gnawing negative thoughts, worries and sorrow that eat you up.

    Anyway, Maude, who feels strong, is convinced that if she looks into her unconscious, she will chase away this filthy rat, her repressed desires, her negative thoughts.

    But the dream shows her something else.

     

    Instead of a rat I discover, at road level, a small hole in the wooden planks of the dustbin.

    The assembled planks have come apart and can no longer hold the enclosed contents that will escape at road level.

    Why does the dream give this detail: at road level, at ground level?

    What the dream wants to show lies neither in the aerial heights of various intellectual conceptions, nor in the spheres of moral ideals or disembodied pseudo-spiritualities. The dream asks the dreamer to look at what is at the very bottom.

    If, therefore, she claims to be helping to save the planet, she must first lower her head, look down, humbly, and take into consideration earthly life, the life of the body, the "low" instinctive realities, thrown away in the dustbin.

     

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    And what is it that is stirring and making noise in the unconscious bin?

    Three beings different from humans appear successively. Two animals and a gnome: they are therefore instinctive vital dynamisms that she has thrown away in the dustbin.

    These beings are all three tiny. Why?

    Their size indicates that the dreamer finds it difficult to grasp, to measure these unconscious dynamisms within her. She does not recognise their dimension and underestimates them.

    Let's take a look at these three creatures.

     

    There is a tiny elephant in the hole.

    According to the Buddhist myth that the dreamer knows well, the white elephant is the image of the god Ganesha who was the father of Buddha, it symbolises earthly wisdom.

     

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    No other animal has a larger mass of flesh. No other is in such broad contact with the earth, its realities and laws, as this pachyderm with enormous feet is. Its trunk and huge ears indicate that it sniffs, smells and hears the subtle world better than anyone else. It has its feet firmly on the ground, it follows his nose and listens to its intuition.

    The elephant thus designates the incarnate spiritual instinct. How then can the spirit be received and experienced in the flesh, if the earthly body is not large and strong enough to receive it?

     

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    Yes, but here's the thing...

    The elephant is tied up.

    The dreamer doesn't even care that she has chained her intuitive abilities, she considers them as rubbish and trash and condemns them to oblivion. But the dream reminds her of their existence.

    I bend down to greet the elephant and touch it with my fingers.

    Thus the dream suggests to her to recognise this intuitive force in her that she has excluded, to become aware of it, to contact it, to greet it by bending down with humility.

    This is the first task to be carried out to save the planet.

     

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    Under these conditions, if Maud gets in touch with her instinctive "nose", her intuitive wisdom, then she allows another faculty to present itself immediately:

    A new creature tumbles out of the hole. What is it?

    It's a monkey, also tiny. It fits easily in my hands. I can feel its silky fur under my fingers and I'm happy to meet it.

     

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    Now the dreamer gets in touch with sensations and inner perceptions, she finds pleasure in caressing the body of this small animal: thus the dream reminds her of the reality of the sensual pleasures that her female body can experience.

    With the elephant the dream has just evoked intuitive faculties and wisdom. Could these qualities be related to sensual pleasures? According to various current research on this subject, orgasm would make women more intelligent. (1)

    Thus with the two little animals, the dream invites the dreamer to rediscover instinctive reactions, everything that is experienced in the body: feelings, sensations, emotions, dreams, precognitions, premonitions, intuitions and inspirations, which are expressed in the inner world.

     

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    These are the spontaneous manifestations of the unconscious. But the dreamer, who does not understand and control them, has condemned them on the conscious and rational level and has excluded them in the dustbin.

     

    And here comes another creature out of the hole again.

    Oh, he's a miniature human. Could it be a gnome, a leprechaun?

    The word gnome is a combination of two Greek roots: genomos meaning "inhabitant of the earth", "earth-dweller", and gnōmē meaning "thought, intelligence". The gnome possesses great knowledge of the telluric secrets, he is the spirit of the earth, he knows its secrets and laws, he knows where the underground treasures are hidden, which he can also give to humans. He therefore symbolises the spirit of the unconscious, whose resources and creativity exceed our conscious intelligence.

    He falls into the dust and I help him to get back on his feet, but it makes him angry and he gives me a scolding.

    The dreamer thinks she's doing the right thing by helping the gnome up, but he makes her understand that he doesn't need her services. He even gives her a scolding. Why is this?

    The gnome, the spirit of the earth, does not need her services, which annoy and irritate him.

     

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    So what can we deduce from all these images and this scenario?

    Maud asks for a dream that will allow her to help save the planet. An elephant and a monkey appear, coming out of a bin.

    These animals show her that the spontaneous and natural unconscious life, both spiritual and animal, has been soiled and rejected. In order to help planet earth, Maud should therefore first take care of herself, welcome her "nose", her intuition, her feelings, and also the pleasures of her sensuality. She should concretely give back to her physical and spiritual instincts their rightful place.

    Then the dream introduces her to a gnome, the spirit of the earth, which possesses the intelligence of its secrets and laws. It is he who knows whether the planet is sick or not. It is he who knows what to do if the planet is sick.

    In fact, with all her good intentions, with her questioning to heal the planet, the dreamer annoys and irritates him. She disturbs him, she hinders him in his activity. What is she doing here? Why does she pretend to pick him up? He copes very well with his position on the floor. He hasn't asked her for anything. He doesn't need her. Let her leave him alone, he knows what he has to do, he can stand up by himself if he feels like it.

    And she, let her mind her own business, let her take care of her own land, her intuition and the pleasure of her senses, let her be aware and respect the instinctive manifestations of her body instead of judging them as dirty and rejecting them.

     

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    The spirit of Nature is furious that Maud wants to meddle in its business, the earth. What does she know about the plans and laws that govern it? How can she dare to claim to save the earth when, with her rational conscience, she is not even capable of understanding the intelligence of nature? Has she not thrown everything that is earthly and instinctive into a dustbin?

    Do we not again recognise the arrogance of the conscious which believes itself to be omniscient, omnipotent and able to save the earth, thus acting like it is the master of the earth?

     

    And here, as in the previous dream, we come to ask ourselves the question:

    Would our outer earth be sick because our inner earth, our unconscious is mistreated?

     

    Conclusion

    Don't be surprised if my study does not go in the direction of certain current ideas shared by the dreamer. I have already told you: the dream has precisely the unpleasant habit of drawing attention to exactly what we don't think, what we don't see, what we don't know, which is nevertheless of vital importance. It invites us to broaden our minds and to welcome other ways of seeing and conceiving.

    For my part, I loved this dream. It gives relief and confidence. It shows that Nature knows what it has to do and does not need our help, which only bother it. Nature is wiser than we are.

    Jung said:

     

    "I'm not one of those people who believe that they have to make sure that cherries have stems.

    I stand here, watching what nature is capable of".

     

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    And if now it is the cherry tree in the garden that is sick, what can we do to save it? A burning question that a dreamer once asked her dream.

    Next time we'll see what the unconscious has to say about it...

     

    Notes

    (1) http://leplus.nouvelobs.com/contribution/1127528-le-sexe-rend-plus-intelligent-enfin-on-cesse-de-croire-que-le-coit-nuit-a-l-intellect.html

    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/how-sex-affects-intelligence-and-vice-versa/282889/

     

    Illustrations

    I would like to thank the painters and photographers whose works allowed me to illustrate my blog.

    The proposal, a painting by contemporary Scottish artist Jack Vettriano: http://tillart.co.uk/

    Healing the planet: http://christinekane.com/

    Rubbish bin: https://fr.123rf.com/

    "The unconscious is a moral bin": http://koreus.com/

    Miniature elephant: http://wadbuzz.com/

    Elephant: http://fondecran.biz/

    Monkey: http://en.123rf.com/

    The two paintings of the young women are the work of the contemporary Russian artist Serge Marschenikov: https://www.pinterest.fr/chris91610033/serge-marshennikov/

    Gandalf: http://arwen.undomiel.com/

    Jung: http://babelio.com/

    Remark

    I have taken up here the study of this dream that I published on my French blog in June 2013. Today I have tried to give you the essential marrow of it.

    http://christiane-riedel.blogspirit.com/archive/2013/01/06/deux-bonnes-nouvelles-la-fin-du-monde-n-aura-pas-lieu-et-une.html

    The current version was published on the French blog on 23 october 2019:

    http://christiane-riedel.blogspirit.com/archive/2019/10/23/sauver-la-planete-etude-2-3142943.html

     

  • HOW TO INTERPRET AN OBJECT IN A DREAM

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    COFFEE AND COFFEE BEANS

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    Before we continue with the next chapter on dream incubation, I think it is time to transmit another lesson to help you interpret your own dreams.  Today we will see how to interpret an object.

     

    A particular frame of mind

    As I have already mentioned (April 14th 2011), before starting, you must put yourself in a certain frame of mind :

    You must put aside all previous knowledge and all pre-conceived ideas.  The use of symbols’ esoteric dictionaries, and other related compilations are to be banned, as well as tarot cards and such.

    You must remember that  YOU WILL FIND BY YOURSELF, with a little research, reflection and patience.

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     You must express the ideas that come to mind.  You will learn to keep the pertinent ones and drop the others.

     

    Example

    Here is a fairly common image that I will decipher by going through the famous interview technique’s  5  steps.

     

    Here is Sabina, she studies her dreams. The day before she has just worked hard to interpret one of them and at night she dreams :

     

    I drink a coffee, it’s very good.

     

     

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    Now, pretend that you are Sabina and here is how you are going to proceed to analyze the image of the object “coffee”:

     

    1- First step

    Question #1:   WHAT IS IT ?

    You ask the question : What is a coffee?

    Your answer as Sabina :  it is a drink obtained from coffee beans.

     

    You can’t find the meaning of the drink without understanding the meaning of its basic ingredient.  So you find yourself at the outset of an exciting investigation and ask question #1 again.

     

    Question #1:  What are coffee beans?

    Answer: they are beans growing on coffee trees, which have been roasted.

     

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    2- Second step

    Question#2:  HOW IS IT ?

    How are coffee beans?

    Answer : they’re small and hard.  You can’t use them as is. It doesn’t taste good.  They have to be put through a whole process of transformation before you can get a coffee from them.

           

     

    Advice : gather only a few answers, that is usually sufficient.

     

     

    3- Third step

    RECAPITULATE

    Go over the associations given in step 1 and 2 and choose the most abstract ones : 

    “ coffee beans cannot be used as is, they must first go through a process of transformation.

     

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    4- Fourth step

    ESTABLISHING THE LINK WITH THE EVERYDAY LIFE

    You are going to look for what the meaning of the coffee beans corresponds to in your everyday life. 

    For this:

    - You repeat the recapitulation sentence,

    - And you add the essential question which will always be the same :

    “ In relation to yesterday, when I put so much effort looking for the meaning of my dream, what does it remind me of, either inside or outside myself, something that cannot be used as is but must first go through a process of transformation ?”

     At this point you search, you reflect on your own, you pick at your brain :

     

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    To help with your concentration you repeat the question to yourself :

    - Something that can’t be used as is…

    - which must first go through a process of transformation…

    - at this time in my life, when I’ve just been working to try and interpret my dream…

    - what is that ?

    ...on the inside ?

    ...or on the outside ?

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    - …Outside myself?  I can’t see…

    - …Or inside myself, …when I interpret my dream?...What goes through a transformation process ?...

    …Ah ! Those darn coffee beans wouldn’t they represent the symbols in dreams ?

     

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    5- Fifth step

    MAKING VERIFICATIONS

    Let’s see if coffee beans can represent dream symbols.

    To do this, you have to verify that everything you have said about coffee beans can also be said about symbols.

    So you must proceed meticulously and go over all the associations one after the other to check if they also adequately fit to the dream symbols.

    You said : 

    Coffee beans are small and hard. 

     

    dreams,dream interpretation,christiane riedel,judith saint laurent,dream symbol,coofee beans, coffee, interview techniqueYou can’t use them as is, it’s not good.  They must be put through a process of transformation.

    You verify by asking and answering :

    - Is a symbol small?

    -Yes in a whole dream, it is a small element.

     

     

     

    - Is it hard?

    - Yes ! It’s hard to work on.

              - Can they be consumed as is?

               - Oh no ! They’re not consumable, you can’t do anything with them.

    - And for you, what is the meaning of this whole process of transformation to make them consumable?

    - Well, it’s all the work I put into the dream yesterday !  All the interpretation work, which allowed me to transform an incomprehensible symbol into something I can assimilate !

     

    Meaning of the symbol “coffee beans”

    Here in this dream the coffee beans are symbolizing the dream symbols themselves.

    Thanks to her work, Sabina has put them through a process of transformation which made them comprehensible.

     

    Advice

    This step called verification is indispensable.  When the links are rigorous and coherent, you can be sure that you have not made a mistake, and that the found meaning is adequate.

     

    Meaning of the dream

     

    I drink a coffee.  It’s very good.

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    With this ending, the dream is giving Sabina a wink underlining the quality of her interpretation work.  It’s very good !

     

     

    PUTTING INTO APPLICATION

    Following the compliments given by the dream, Sabina will no doubt continue the conscientious work.

     

    A comment

    Foods are  frequent dream images. If you are working with your dreams, it can happen that you dream for example of a hot chocolate, wine, champagne, pancakes.

     

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    The basi ingredients such as chocolate beans, grapes, grains, composing these foods, can symbolize the dream symbols themselves ; fish can also symbolize the dream symbol.

     

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    And all the culinary preparations requiring a lot of work often represent in dreams the dream interpretation work.

    With much attention and love, you are transforming something, that cannot be assimilated as is, in a tasteful food. It is the same with the dream interpretation : your careful work transforms the symbols so that you can understand and integrate the fortifying message of the dream.  

     

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    Illustrations 

    I thank all the artists and photographs whose works permit me to illustrate my blog.

    Thinking woman :nexity-investissement.immobilier.com

    Thinking man : sprlmajor.com

    Cup of coffee : derekberry.wordpress.com

    Coffee beans : colombia-travel

    Roasting : cafevrac.com

                    mon-café.fr

    Searching : leblogdanais.over-blog.com

    Searching : photographie-g.jimbo.com

    Coffee beans : coffeebeans.ic

    Roasted beans : inetgiant.com

    Roasted beans : fantom-xp.com

    Coffee beans :cshisher.com

    Coffee cup and beans : navi-mag.com

    Coffee drinking : blog.thecoffeebump.com

    Chocolate :chocolate-source-co-uk

    Wine : terranova.fr

    Champagne : madecoamoi.fr

    Cacao beans : choco-club.com

    Grapes : ardenne-photo.com

    Wheat grains : fr.123rf.com

    Corn grains : fr.wikipedia.org

    In the kitchen : tribugourmande.com