"....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.
"Words do not express thoughts very well.They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish". Herman Hesse 1877-1962
