Dear Reader,
I have been feeling into the word Metaphor these last months since our inaugural issue. This past fall, we officially opened the Center for Archetypal Dreamwork with general classes about Archetypal Dreamwork and classes for those who are interested in becoming Archetypal Dreamwork Therapists. One of the classes I was privileged to teach was a class on Seeing through the Lens of Metaphor: Exploring Mythology, Metaphor and Archetypal Dreamwork –some of the pieces in this issue have come from the fertile writing of the students from the class.
Metaphor, when taken to its etymological roots, means little vehicle which carries something across. A little truck, a little vessel which carries a treasure across a distance. Like the dream. The dream is a vessel into which the Archetypes pack a visceral experience that, if we allow it, will carry us across. Across what and to what? Across the great chasm that separates us from our true selves, the part of ourselves that can deeply feel and live from that feeling place.
Sometimes, what comes from our creative lives can also do that – a poem, a song, an essay, a story, a painting, a drawing. Sometimes, the image, the sound, the color, the story can transport us, in a little way, across the divide, carrying us from our usual state of separation to a moment of feeling, of being reminded of who we are.
We hope the pieces in this issue of Deluge, each one a little vessel, transport you, even if for a moment.
Enjoy,
Susan Marie Scavo
Co-Editor