A Changing World: Let’s Go Deeper Still
Dear Alums,
The quickly changing world-scape continues to create uncertainty and agitation. Of course, many of us are feeling the economic impact of this uncertainty and emotional strain of continued physical/psychological/isolation. The “shifting-sands” make predictable patterns of living, anything but familiar and certain. Yet, in addition, beauty shines through. As I write this to you, I am hearing so many songs of the birds outside my home office. Their melodic voices now able to be heard in the relative still of the so little ambient noise. The “Quiet,” too, a new part of a Changing world.
In times like these (have there ever been times quite like these in recent memory?), an opportunity presents itself. Yes. Let’s support one another, particularly in our Community of Depth Psychology, Imagination and Dream to live a more fully animated life. Let’s personally and collectively engage in a praxis of “creative incubation.” Let’s go deeper still.
I suggest the following steps:
1) Write down either a sleeping or a waking dream
2) Now write it out a second time.
3) Identify what feels to you the most resonant line or two in your descriptive account.
4) For the third time, write it out once more, this time poetically. This need not be a “perfectly crafted” poem. Simply, in imaginative play, spontaneously write out the lines poetically. Remember a Dream loves to be met by a Dream and/or a Poem.
Now, let’s share our poems in the wider Alumni Community. Let’s offer back what moves through us. No matter if the images that visit are beautiful or horrific, lets each offer back the “poetics” alive in realm of our collective imagination.
So, gift our community with your poem by sending it to us here, and we will post it on our websites.
Together, let’s continue to contribute to our community of the caring, a community rooted in the regard and love for imagination, dream and for one another.
With warm feeling and love,
Steve Aizenstat
Founder and Chancellor
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