My group presentation is focusing upon Ch. 4 in Kane's "Wisdom of the mythtellers". This chapter had me locked in fully the whole time. I took each section very slowly because there was so much to embrace. The creation story of the Earth was how the chapter began and it was so mythical while incorporating a mysterious beauty into that creation.
Reading Kane's Chapter 4 brought so many thoughts to my mind. How does one separate the real world from their dreams? Is it possible to even separate them? Myth like dreams creates an astonishing energy within- yet that energy can also be very external.
"The act of creating is a sort of rememering" (Kane 132).
Do we create our own dreams on some unconscious level in order to remember certain things? I love this quote from Kane because it is so true. We create many things in order to remember, whther it be a scrapbook, image or writing.
Kane also speaks of dreams as a portal. He refers to a portal into "Pattern" but I could not help but think dreams are a portal into so much more- in a way they are a portal into reality, desires, what we may think of as the impossible and a portal into another life. Dreams are so powerful because they can reflect things that have or have not happened. But why do we dream of things that have never happened and HOW?! When I try to think about the process of dreaming I am absolutely set apart from reality, I feel as if I enter a whole new world. This world is full of mystery, wonderment, and possibility. Just as in reality, in dreams anything can happen- things can go unfinished. While dreams are so different than real life they are also so much the same. Aren't both a mystery to some extent?
Kane also says, "There is something sacred about our feelings, something that prefers not to be talked about." (page 143)
Is this why we have dreams? Are some of our feelings meant to be discovered only by us and by dreaming we can uncover those feelings?
There is so much to discover within this chapter but right now I feel like it is out of reach...for the moment...
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