DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Angels persist in dreams, scripture, and art, while modern institutions psychologize them into coincidences or flatten them into greeting cards. In this episode, we explore angels as autonomous psychic facts, reimagined from age to age but always carrying meaning across the unconscious threshold to the ego’s surprise and benefit. When we learn to welcome the sacred messengers and “…fear not, for behold…” they bring tidings that can right the course of our conscious life.
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!
Angels persist in dreams, scripture, and art, while modern institutions psychologize them into coincidences or flatten them into greeting cards. In this episode, we explore angels as autonomous psychic facts, reimagined from age to age but always carrying meaning across the unconscious threshold to the ego’s surprise and benefit. When we learn to welcome the sacred messengers and “…fear not, for behold…” they bring tidings that can right the course of our conscious life.
What is gained, and what is lost, when angels are interpreted as natural law rather than moral ideals?
How does discernment work when a message arrives with certainty and sweeps us into obedience?
When the angel archetype constellates images of UFOs, aliens, or AI, what is it announcing about accountability and authority?
Deb, Lisa, and Joe approach angels as symbolic forms, clarifying how Psyche can engage awe, fear, and meaning.
They discuss:
- Angels as mediating symbols bridging the ego and Self
- Why angelic figures must be morally ambiguous rather than purely benevolent
- Guardian angels and the daimon as images of destiny
- The difference between dreams and incursions, like premonitions
- The wisdom in Jacob wrestling the angel
- Archetypal inflation and its political analogs
- The archetype’s modern costume changes from winged angel to technological evangelist
Mentioned:
It’s a Wonderful Life
Genesis
The Book of Jonah
Exodus
The Book of Psalms
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
The Man Watching
Hemi-Sync Gateway tapes
Read along with the dream HERE.
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