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“Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.” ~Joseph Campbell In discussing the role of dreams . . . → Read More: Private Myth/Personal Religion Ancient healers were in many ways like today’s psychotherapists in that they also treated the patient for psychological ailments. Ellenberger describes the ancient healer: The healer may or may not be proficient in the treatment of fractures, in the knowledge of drugs, in massage, and other empirical treatments that are often left to lay healers. . . . → Read More: Healing Dreams – Part II “I swear by Apollo the physician, by Æsculapius, Hygeia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath….” –The Hippocratic Oath by Hippocrates As is made clear by the opening line of the Hippocratic’ Oath, a healer would swear . . . → Read More: Healing Dreams – Part I “Myths are public dreams and dreams are private myths.” – Joseph Cambpell As Campbell explains it, expounding upon the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, myth and dreams are connected in that mythology is the picture language of the psyche and dreams are the native tongue of this language (Flight 21-22). Dreams, visions, and . . . → Read More: The Function of Dreams in a Private Mythology |
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