Summary

The Adventures of a Solitary Soul - H. J. Sharp

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Dream 9 - The developing role of the Angel

It was around this time that I became interested in C. J. Jung and began to systematically read his Complete Works. I began to realise clearly that many of the clairvoyant experiences, seeing ghosts, making the shadows build, hearing on occasion the voice, were all projections of my own inner self. I also began to realise clearly that training in dreaming - learning to watch myself fall asleep and into the dream was a powerful method of linking with what Jung called the "collective unconscious". I then began to be taught by my special dreams. The Angel took me into the dream and we stood together as pupil and teacher as the dream unfolded and was interpreted by the Angel for me. It was at this time that I started painting some of the dream subjects as a method of meditation upon them. This also enabled me to reach other levels of understanding of the dreams. These paintings when put into correct order give a visual record of the various aspects of the journey. They go beyond the words.

A persistent theme of the special dreams was of a long and difficult journey, of climbing up a high mountain. When one came to a very difficult or impossible part of the journey, the Angel was always able to take me past or through that part if I really wished to go on and if for that part "I became the Angel".

On another occasion the theme was of being in a special house in which each room opened off another room and you had to find your way into the inner works of the house. Another theme was of being trapped in the massive machinery. The only way out was to become the Angel and to wreck it and burst forth.

Another odd theme was of being in a large sprawling multi story hotel or conglomeration of buildings which had a strange lift. You got into it and it started to ascend normally, but then it would begin to go sideways on a track. The side ways excursions were often interminable.