There’s a lot more to learn from reflecting
on your birthing and personality development cycles, but the
point here is that you grew by interacting with
the group in an “me/We” dynamic.
The group forms you, and you form the group. You are a child,
but you also grow into a parent as you
parent.
How then do the group’s collective
and communal ideas and values get transmitted to
you? You get a bit of an insight into this when you have your
first multi-cultural encounter. If you travel
to a non-Western country, the jolt can be quite rude. While
you recognize that all people are just people, you begin to learn
about “cultural values” and “social assumptions.” People
dress, eat, speak, interact in ways that sometimes baffle, annoy,
perplex and even frighten you. Young Western women who visit
a Middle-Eastern country are often angrily confronted by men
who are in a rage over the fact that they are not wearing a head
cover or are wearing lipstick or smoke, etc.
When you look at institutions that
strive to change your behaviors, you get a sense
of what we mean by deep sleep dreaming. Take military
Boot Camp. For millennia, military trainers have turned sweet,
milk-cheeked adolescents into ultra-violent killers.
They do this by breaking down before building
up. They break-down the bonds you have with your
family and society and make you rebuild them through your identity
as a warrior. In short, they inspire you with a broader and
deeper vision and imagination. They tell you that if you act
according to their vision and imagination—creatively imagine
and so become a killer—that your family and social group
will honor you and consider you a cultural hero.
The insight Earthfolk work from is based in the
experience of war veterans. They return and
often quickly re-adjust back into society…yet, the warrior
dream never ends. They live two lives: waking
life and dream life. In their dreaming life they remain heartfelt
killers. They struggle during wakefulness to keep the dream from
making that warrior present in everyday life.
Continue—Deep
sleep dreaming
