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6 week class Series: Communication with Self- Understanding Dreams, Symbols and Coincidence

Aug 28th, 2010No Comments

What are your dreams trying to tell you? The part of you that knows what is best for you is trying to communicate with your conscious mind all the time. It does this through dreams, metaphors, and coincidence and uses the language of symbolism.

This class series will show how to interpret your dreams and experiences to get guidance from the ultimate teacher- yourself.

Michael Hoffman is a transformational speaker and psychotherapist who has specialized in interpreting dreams and symbols for the past 25 years.

Classes are Wednesday nights, 7:00 to 8:30pm, September 29, 2010 through November 3, 2010 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, 4340 West Fort George Wright Drive, Spokane, WA. This class is free. It is designed so people can retake it and still get value. Child-care may be provided with advanced registration.

For more information call 509-850-7694 or email: info@michaehoffman.info.

So come find out what you are trying to say to yourself.

What are your dreams trying to tell you?

Oct 21st, 2009No Comments

I see dreams as a way our inner consciousness (aka. unconscious, soul, higher self, etc.), or the part of us that knows what is best for us, tries to communicate with our conscious mind. It communicates with symbols. There is new interest in symbols due to Dan Brown’s recent book The Lost Symbol. I believe our ego defends our conscious mind against any communication that threatens it maintaining control and the status quo. But our ego renders our whacky dream content harmless and lets it pass through. So if we decode the symbolism or “interpret” the dream, we can understand what are inner consciousness is trying to say to our conscious mind. I call it “communication with self” and consider it the most pure guidance that we can receive.

I find Carl Jung the most helpful reference to understanding symbols am dreams and recommend his book Man and his Symbols. (Make sure you get the hardback edition with the cool pictures.) I do not recommend getting a dream dictionary that lists all of the symbols’ meaning. Better to to a feel for the symbols’ meaning by reading some Jung or Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth is excellent). Or better yet… sit in a dream group with someone that understands symbols and dream interpretation.
So next time you have a really strange dream, ask yourself, “What is it trying to tell me?”