Dreaming the Undreamable . . .
Depth psychologist and colleague Dr. Willow Pearson Trimbach and I both contributed papers for an upcoming volume (Routledge Press, 2024) on the mystic as a welcoming presence in the work of psychoanalyst, Dr. Michael Eigen. Her inspired paper on Dreaming the Undreamable, reflections on psychoanalysis, dreaming, and art was featured in an interview for California Institute for Integral Studies. Below is an excerpt and link. Dip into Dreaming with Dr. Pearson Trimbach, a little nourishment for your dream life tonight.
“Dr. Eigen’s work allows his reader to imagine and envision the psychoanalytic mystic who has a psychotic core and to see those two truths of madness and mysticism harbored within as genuinely confluent, and even generative, rather than as necessarily discordant or only as destructive. Dr. Eigen allows the reader to imagine herself as such a being—endowed with this human inheritance of psyche’s majesty and psyche’s catastrophe within her alike—and indeed allows the reader to regard psyche’s inheritance within all beings—as potential for contact with the depths in all their majesty and catastrophe. In this way, Dr. Eigen’s work allows the reader to become more fully human, more completely herself.....
I hope readers will listen to their dreams from a place of curiosity and wonder that keeps opening. I hope the voice that says, “what a strange dream” might be gentled to consider “this dream—what a wonder…” and allow wonder, through listening to your soul’s encryption, to unfold…"
Be well, and . . . . live deeply, read daily, and dream plentifully.