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Dream and fairy tale remind us of how we live in symbols before and after we have words for our experiences. A symbol is not a meaning but many meanings constellating. Symbols help us move emotionally. They lend form to what is pre-verbal, looking for form. They often express more than words because they carry more of the resonances of an experience. The unconscious is looking for its next form in a symbol, in a process of becoming conscious. They mark passages and changes. These are practices of dropping down into our connection to symbols and following them.

Week 1: right brain seeing

Week 2: dreaming the poem

Week 3: poetic number

Week 4: sculpting the poem

Week 5: into the woods

Week 6: surplus reality