Author's Dreams

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Apologies for cross-posting - if you've read this on the other list,

please delete!

This is a dream from a book by Sue Monk Kidd ( " Dance of the

Dissident Daughter. " ) There is something about her writing that

strikes me as inauthentic - for someone who has been in Jungian

analysis, she seems remarkably free of awareness of her own shadow.

It strikes me as a " happy bunny, lovely rainbows " kind of book -

and it's setting my teeth on edge. :-)

Here is a (self-described) healing dream she had about 2/3's the way

through the book:

" I am wandering through a dusty old museum looking at statues of the

divine. All of them are male. I wander a long time until I come to

one of those hidden rooms that often turn up in dreams. Inside is a

huge-lapped, marble statue of a seated woman. A Goddess. She looks

very much like in the 'Pieta' who held the grown, crucified

Christ in her lap, but *this lap is empty. So I climb up into it,

and to my astonishment the marble turns to warm, soft flesh. The

Goddess comes to life and holds me, kissing my wounded places. "

This seems to be a very conscious creation to me, more of a

reflection on a dream than capturing the images itself - and it

seems a little too pat to me. She didn't identify this as a

numinous dream at all, but one that informed her to " not keep her

distance from the sacred feminine experience. "

So all, what is your opinion - is this dream for real? Does it ring

true to any of you?

I appreciate your opinions . . . clearly I am wrestling with my own

shadow material with this book and trying to put my finger on just

what it is that's evoking my " eeyuck " response.

:-)

Maureen

(nope, the one in Toronto)