Online Event, Hosted by East West Bookshop!

“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness.” Carl Jung.

I will be back at the wonderful East West Bookshop on February 17 via an online Zoom event on how to connect with our intuition using dreamwork.

HERE’s the LINK to REGISTER (Recording available). More context below!

So, why pay attention to our dreams in the first place?

Dreams connect us to our deeper self. They are also the simplest way to connect with the unconscious and tune into what’s happening inside our psyche.

When we dream of drowning in an ocean or going down the steps into a basement or meet an injured animal in a dream, we are encountering our inner life imaged as pictures & stories.

In our modern world, our inner life is often looked at suspiciously.

Even if we’re interested in our dreams, that interest is either dismissed or discounted. There’s also the idea that listening to dreams is “superstitious nonsense.”

This is even though the study of dreams has a rich & textured history. Psychologists as different as Carl Jung, Erich Fromm and Sigmund Freud were deeply interested in dreams and how they connect us to the deeper, unexplored parts of our self.

Erich Fromm called dreams “the forgotten language.” The same language of metaphors & symbols is used in all our dreams. Across the world, across cultures, people have similar dreams of flying, of falling down cliffs, of being naked in public. We also have beneficent figures show up in our dreams — an old grandmother or a father figure or an animal that give us a felt sense of being supported.

So, dreams have not only fascinated us as human beings, their study has been a huge & integral part of many different psychological theories.

Dreamwork is a huge thread in my book The Empath’s Journey, which talks about my experiments with life as a sensitive person. As sensitives, we are deeply tuned in to both the world around us and our inner world.

Working with our dreams is a wonderful way for sensitives to connect with our intuition.

In this talk, based on my book The Empath’s Journey, we will learn how to use ideas from Carl Jung’s work & Jungian depth psychology to work and play with dream images.

Using specific dream examples, we’ll learn, amongst other things:

• How dreams always come to tell us something we are not consciously aware of.
• Why simplistic dream dictionaries don’t work.
• Why one symbol or image can have very different meanings in different people’s dreams. Paris in my dream does not necessarily have the same meaning as Paris in your dream.  
• Why even nightmares come to tell us something. 
• Why we have recurring, repetitive dreams.

Going into my dreamworld has been one of the biggest adventures of my life.

I hope this talk will help you get started with exploring the uncharted vistas of your own beautiful, wondrous self! There are deep mines in your soul. There are diamonds and rubies.

Dreamwork is about excavating them, about giving our authentic self a seat on the table, about being an explorer into the ocean of our own self & finding that there IS something bigger that holds us.

I hope to see you there.

HERE’S the LINK to REGISTER.

With love,

Ritu

LOGISTICS & DETAILS

1. In case you can’t make it live, East West Bookshop will also send you a recording of the talk, which will be available to view for 7 days afterwards.
2. Since the talk is online, you can participate from anywhere in the world. (Of course, if you wish to attend live, please remember to convert the 7 pm – 8:30 pm Pacific Time of the event to your own time zone HERE to see if it’ll work for you.) 
3. I know we’re all tired of Zoom calls. Please just come as you are. There’s no pressure to participate, though there’ll be time to ask questions about your dreams.

Ritu Kaushal is the author of the book The Empath’s Journey and a silver medal awardee at the Rex Karamveer Chakra awards, co-presented by the United Nations in India. Find out more about Ritu HERE.

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