FALLING IN LOVE: Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

Jung says, “Love is a power of destiny, whose force reaches from heaven to hell.” Falling in love in an initiation into the divine—light and dark—as personal and archetypal forces combine and combust. In thrall to the magical other through whom we experience newfound parts of ourselves, we fall into a reality that transcends and possesses us.

Ardor takes us by surprise and opens us fiercely and intimately to our inner world, exposing us to ourselves. Whether it leads to commitment and partnership, or casts us into disillusion and heartbreak, passion must pass. We need to know and grow a capacity for loving that makes us more whole, and more able to love the other in another. We shall become kinder and wiser…and bow to the excitement and aliveness of falling in love.

HERE'S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:

"I am looking at myself in a mirror in my waking-life bathroom. I lean close and notice that my two upper front teeth appear to be loose and crooked. I touch one and it skews out of alignment. I panic! I try to realign the tooth and it falls out with a gush of blood. I touch my other tooth and it too falls out. I hold the teeth in shaking hands as I try to fit them back in place. They won't stay in. I am horrified and unable to do anything. The teeth seem to grow larger in my hands, looking more like an animal tooth--like a sealion canine tooth I have in my waking life. I wake suddenly with the intense urge to check my teeth to make sure they are still there and okay."

REFERENCES:

Aldo Carotenuto. Eros & Pathos: Shades of Love & Suffering.
Jan Bauer. Impossible Love: Why the Heart Must Go Wrong.
James Hollis. The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other
John Haule. Divine Madness: Archetypes of Romantic Love.

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