Buglight art

A Hermeneutic and Rhetoric of Dreams

"I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment
on my life" --David Ignatow

A lieutenant with balls.

"A preliminary note needs to be made that studying dissociation can itself be dissociating. So, if in the process of reading this paper you find yourself unaccountably "zoning out", "losing consciousness" or going blank, please recognize that as a symptom that you are coming up against what we all need to come up against, and find a place to re-enter the text with your attention fully connected." --Dissociation Dynamics, the Alice Miller Finding and the Social Organization of Torture

Quotes About Metaphor

Working with Color in Dreams

Easy Dreams: a different take on dream interpretation

Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Reasearch on Consciousness

A Study Guide for C.G. Jung's Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar

CG Jung Seminar Series

Scherer & Ouporov

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): About light, depression & melatonin

Jungian Dream Analysis

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

"In I Remember, whenever we were handed something, we were to say 'I remember', or acknowledge the action in some visibly apparent way... The Doors of Perception required that we touch each doorframe as we passed through... At this point, a provocative question was posed: Could we be dreaming at that very moment? ...Stephen stressed the importance of making reality testing habitual and encouraged us to keep a vigilant eye out for dream-like events in waking life which would help prepare us to recognize the anomalies in our dreams." --Diary from Lucid Dream Camp

"FBI agents... monitor Internet sites, libraries and religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of potential criminal activity"

Bomb making in Oklahoma

"The first simulation... involved Pakistan exploding a nuclear device on its own territory to stop an advance by troops from India, which has a 2-to-1 advantage in conventional military forces. It involved Pakistan exploding a 10-kiloton atomic bomb to stop an Indian advance on Muzaffarabad, the capital of the section of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan. (The Hiroshima bomb produced an estimated yield of 18 kilotons.)..."

"Bion perforated the mystique of ontic "objectivity" implicit to logical-positivistic, deterministic science and revealed its own unsuspected mythology--its absolute dependence on sense data. Applying his concept of reversible perspective, he found myths, both collective and personal, to be themselves "scientific deductive systems" in their own right... Bion founded... a numinous discipline based on the abandonment of memory, desire, and understanding... "seeing things as they truly are -- without disguise". He was preoccupied with the question of how we know what we know." --Bion's Transformation in 'O' and the Concept of the "Transcendent Position"