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Stephanie Thomas Berry's avatar

I came to this post after having an alchemical haunting dream: a terrifying ghost was in a separate bedroom of a recurring dream house, wrapped in sheer curtains. Drenched in terror, I asked her why she was here, and she became the head of a goddess statue that was grossly animate. The ghost had injured and/or decapitated a man, and I realized she was dangerous and I had to get her out of my house. I put her head in a pot, smashed it with a stone, then buried it outside. But instead of getting rid of her, I was horrified to see that she reemerged with short gruesome legs, turned a light gray, and was walking stiffly around. So I knew I would have to invite her back inside my house, because it was her house too. So then she became a normal woman, like myself, and was in my bedroom, once again wrapped in sheer curtains.

This is by far the most fascinating haunting dream I’ve ever had, because of the alchemical transformation, and I am going to give you some credit for it, because you queued up in my psyche the alchemical process when looking at my raviolis (what a hysterical sentence!). And now I’m eager to hold a seance with this transformed ghost, to see what she has to say.

Thank you so much for all your work with this Substack! It has recharged my lifetime dreamwork practice and I am immensely grateful.

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richalon@me.com's avatar

Hi Alyssa! Really great to hear how you worked with the dream and (as a former dream-weaver told me once), how you “dreamed the dream onward”. The idea of shadow work being a seance is creative and marvelous; it stirs my imagination as having another perspective with dream work. Thank you for your vulnerability and guidance in deepening our awareness into the realm of Psyche. All the best to you.

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