Dreaming is something like Jung’s active imagination, where the dreamer encounters dream experiences on paper, through dance, or in her head, in the form of inner dialogues or visualizations.
The shaman’s dreaming, however, involves the sense of energy and does not revolve simply around insight or the improvement of every life. Through noticing, identifying, differentiating, confronting, and following unusual secondary processes as they appear at any moment, shamans have always derived a vitality and renewed sense of themselves. That is why shamans and healers today give you the impression that they are connected to something infinite and ungraspable.
- Arnold Mindell, The Shaman’s Body, p79-80
