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In this episode:
We explore how paying attention to our dreams can help us to expand our experience of the depth and meaningfulness of life.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. Harriet Tubman and Paul McCartney dream stories found in 'The Secret History of Dreaming' by Robert Moss.
2. Abraham Lincoln dream story as told in 'Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865' by Ward Hill Lamon.
3.  "There is a dream dreaming us," from Laurens van der Post from 'Where Will All the Stories Go?' in Parabola Magazine, vol. 7, no. 2.
4. "When dreaming I'm guided to another world" ~ Creed, from the song 'Higher.'
5. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allan Poe from the poem 'A Dream Within a Dream.'
6. "Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
7. Butterfly Dream from Chuang-Tzu.
8. “What proof could you give if anyone should ask us now, at the present moment, whether we are asleep and our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are awake and talking to each other in a waking condition?” ~ Socrates in Plato's 'Theaetetus.'
9. 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare
10. 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 1.'
11. The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man  by C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 10'
12.  'The Way of the Dream' by Marie-Louise von Franz 
13. “All consciousness separates, but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal self dwelling in the darkness of primordial night.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'

Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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