DREAMS, BONES, & THE FUTURE: ENDINGS is now available for purchase
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Dreams, Bones & The Future: Endings, is now available for purchase.
This is the third volume of the trilogy.
The first two volumes are also available.
Here is the purchase link for volume 3.
The sixth extinction is underway, and for the first time in the history of the world, such an event will involve the extinction of humans. This reality is hard to face, and for this reason it is not faced in any way that is meaningful. But the animal body, the human body, not limited to the limits of rationality or the barricades of defenses, knows what is coming and makes its knowledge known primarily through dreams. To unflinchingly face the end, then, humans must attend to their dreams, both as individuals and in larger groupings. Why this is so is the subject of the final volume of Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell’s trilogy, Dreams, Bones & the Future: Endings.
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Here is a comment from John Woodcock.
John Woodcock
Dreams Bones and the Future
In reading this astonishing book, I experienced an ongoing explosion of images. I had to lie down on the couch. My head was heating up. I had arrived at the centre of the book and the chapter on the I Ching—the HOT centre! “Here is what a disciplined imagination can do if you release the horses,” I thought. As I calmed down, at the point where Russ is speaking of Venus, replenishment, the feminine, I recalled that I had only recently been drawn again to the ancient story of Sleeping Beauty. I re-read Franz’s account in The Feminine in Fairy Tales but was unsatisfied. I was struck by a question: how does a prick from a spindle send the princess and the entire kingdom into a 100 year sleep (after the curse of death was softened)?
The story has to do with beauty, and secular responses to beauty, once beheld. As I lay on the couch I suddenly realised that the 13th fairy and her spindle must have something to do with fate or destiny. The Kingly Court beheld the gift of Beauty lying there before them, showered her with blessings but left out something crucial. So her destiny became hers and the Court’s fate! They had left out the possibility that her destiny may not have anything to do with what the secular Court and its secular interests wants it to be. The Court imposed its self-serving desires on the child, invoking the wrath of the neglected goddess, presumably the Norn who has the power to “cut the thread”. Death was softened to a stasis for 100 years. What was Beauty’s destiny? It seems to have something to do with replenishment since after 100 years of stasis, the Court was replenished, following the masculine-feminine pattern Russ is exploring in his chapter. As Hillman wrote, psychology today is stunning in the absence of any exploration of beauty. It’s equally stunning to painfully observe how concrete political or economic decisions never include beauty as a criterion for real action in the world. At crunch-time beauty is the first to go in favour of efficiency etc.
Well, enough for now. After I recover a bit, I will go on with this revolutionary book.