tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499986596622423521.post4722104512510697488..comments2022-03-27T18:48:39.444-07:00Comments on The Daily Dreamer: An Uphill StruggleCarla Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00129846919326725888noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499986596622423521.post-45810235280471022622014-01-31T11:59:48.353-08:002014-01-31T11:59:48.353-08:00Great comment, Emily! After posting this dream it ...Great comment, Emily! After posting this dream it occurred to me to notice the parallel between killing and eating the snake and the Eucharist, in which the god, who has been killed, is symbolically eaten. This rite reflects similar ones in early Greek mystery religions. Carla Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00129846919326725888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6499986596622423521.post-3245865278256487542014-01-31T08:38:22.687-08:002014-01-31T08:38:22.687-08:00I looked up the symbology of eating a butchered sn...I looked up the symbology of eating a butchered snake, but could find no direct comments about it. But there was plenty about the ouroboros - the snake eating itself. This has a lot of meaning - in Kundalini yoga the awakening of energy in the lower spine. For Carl Jung, the ouroboros is the assimilation of the shadow and part of the individuation process. But, because I had a dream years ago of two snakes being killed and presented to me in a pie to eat, I have been really curious about this concept. The snake is also a symbol of consciousness awakening such as in the story of Adam and Eve. It was the snake that brought consciousness to them by telling them to eat the apple. There is also a lot of male energy in this dream, a lot of movement in the psyche. And, after a bull is killed in a bullfight, it is slaughtered and eaten. This double symbol of eating the animal appears in the dream. Eating and consciousness - taking in matter and transforming it - to spirit? So, are we humans trying to have a spiritual experience, or are we spirits trying to have a human experience? Great dream!Emilynoreply@blogger.com