"....the person who has started...... on the way must cherish and cultivate whatever strange,grotesque or beautiful growths appear. He must work on his material describing, painting, or modelling it striving by every means to bring it into a form where it can be contemplated and studied, and its hidden meaning discerned": An Introduction to Jung's Psychology.
Jottings
These are Openfoot’s humble efforts to put into words the feelings and thoughts that accompanied his attempts to comes to terms with and to integrate dream and other experiences into waking consciousness. The jottings appear in Openfoot's Dream Books, in other notebooks and on odd scraps of paper. Some are clearly related to a specific dream, others are not. They are generally not dated. For this reason, and unlike the dreams, no attempt has been made to present them in chronological order however they are numbered to facilitate cross referencing.
The Early Jottings tend to be more verbose than the Late Jottings and to describe perceived problems, challenges, dichotomies and emotional states.
The Late Jottings are terse and generally attempt to describe new perspectives that have come from following Openfoot's dream oriented path. They try to reflect the unity in apparent dichotomies and the arising of phenomena from the same ground of awareness.
These are Openfoot’s humble efforts to put into words the feelings and thoughts that accompanied his attempts to comes to terms with and to integrate dream and other experiences into waking consciousness. The jottings appear in Openfoot's Dream Books, in other notebooks and on odd scraps of paper. Some are clearly related to a specific dream, others are not. They are generally not dated. For this reason, and unlike the dreams, no attempt has been made to present them in chronological order however they are numbered to facilitate cross referencing.
The Early Jottings tend to be more verbose than the Late Jottings and to describe perceived problems, challenges, dichotomies and emotional states.
The Late Jottings are terse and generally attempt to describe new perspectives that have come from following Openfoot's dream oriented path. They try to reflect the unity in apparent dichotomies and the arising of phenomena from the same ground of awareness.
Openfoot has also set out his experiences with dreams in the form of essays or articles, some of which have been published. These are made available in pdf format below.
Rambling Through Internal Landscapes: reflections on a lifetime exploring inner worlds. Presents a summary of Openfoot's experiences with dreams which are set out more fully, but perhaps less accessibly, on this web site. This essay was published in De Numine, The Journal and Newsletter of the Alister Trust (for the Study of Spiritual Experience), Issue No. 50 Spring 2011.
Rambling Through Internal Landscapes PDF
Rambling Through Internal Landscapes PDF
Dreams Spiritual, Dreams Scientific. In which Openfoot examines the similarities between different modes of experiencing and investigating the natural world. Reviewing the approaches of science, Buddhism and dreaming he seeks to uncover fundamental, perhaps archetypal, patterns of thought and experience. He argues that these patterns are shared "in common" between what are often viewed as disparate, if not conflicting, aspects of humanity’s approach to the mystery in which we are all embedded. This essay was published in De Numine, The Journal and Newsletter of the Alister Hardy Trust (for the Study of Spiritual Experience), Issue No. 53 Autumn 2012.
Dreams Spiritual, Dreams Scientific PDF
Dreams Spiritual, Dreams Scientific PDF
The Attraction of Opposites - a bit of this and that. Examines that universal human trait of dividing the world into opposites and how having done so we often try to put everything back together again. This play of division and integration is revealed to be a common and archetypal feature of science and spirituality De Numine, The Journal and Newsletter of the Alister Hardy Trust (for the Study of Spiritual Experience), Issue No. 62 Autumn 2017.
The Attraction of Opposites PDF
The Attraction of Opposites PDF