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Mirror 55 · The Mind

Dreams

Dreams are not messages from the gods or prophecies of what will come. They are the psyche speaking in its native language — the language of image and emotion — and if you learn to listen, you will hear things your waking mind cannot say.

The rainforest of the Peruvian Amazon is a place where the boundary between waking and dreaming has never been sharply drawn. The Shipibo people, who have lived along the Ucayali River for centuries, do not distinguish between dreams and reality the way Western cultures do. For them, dreams are real...

Reflection question

What would change in your life if you truly believed this?

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