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the Waking Dream - Ray Grasse

The Waking Dream:

Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives
Ray Grasse
Paperback / Published 1996
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MINI-REVIEW: I can't pretend pure objectivity as a reviewer for Ray Grasse's newest book - we've had too many fascinating conversations over the years on the topics he covers here: synchronicity, the world as Divine Mind, symbolism as the approach to the reality that is more real than mechanistic science can allow, Kriya Yoga as taught by Goswami Kriyananda and Shelly Trimmer (Barbara, Ray, and I have benefitted from their teaching) as a unique bridge between Eastern and Western esotericism. But Grasse has taken his explorations far beyond the level of fireside idea-swapping into a penetrating exploration of these topics and more.

For eight chapters Grasse leads us through ever more subtle understandings of what it is to know reality as a symbolic process. He begins with the synchronicities, those extraordinary seeming coincidences that have given meaningful moments to even most skeptics, and which were a preoccupation of C. G. Jung. To grasp, even for an instant, that distant and disparate elements of thought, perception, and action may combine to enforce a transcendant meaning for oneself, is to participate in a symbolist's vision of reality. Grasse then pursues symbolism through history, philosophy, literature, spiritual knowledge (especially of karma and the cycles of existence) and spiritual practice (ritual, in its many forms). But, at last, the author leads us to his central topic as he addresses the workings and the meanings of "The Astrological Universe," both as astronomical-psychological phenomenon, and as the source for both scientific and spiritual understanding.

Particularly clarifying and inspiring is Grasse's explication of the relationship between planetary archetypes and Yogic chakras, and the energies that inform both. (Readers of Barbara Schermer's Astrology Alive will find her discussion of Kriya and astrology both extended and clarified.) And Grasse takes yet another step down the spiraling path of wisdom as he looks at the primary archetypes of number and form. I will leave those explorations to the reader of Grasse's fine book - and I do encourage you to be such a reader! For truly, as Larry Dossey says on the jacket of "The Waking Dream, "this book "is CPR for the soul!"

–Bob Craft

 

 

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