difficult  to  tell  where  the  dreamer  was  in   the dream
image at that time. This is because the  entire process of
suppression and Shadow build-up, explosion, confession,
revelation  of  the  truth,  and   absolution  took  years  to
unfold   and  these  phases  overlap   to  varying   degrees.
However,  as   the   dream  image  opens,  the  Shadow  is
already almost fully activated and possessed by evil. This
could  imply  that  in  the  dreamer's  life  a  considerable
network  of  Shadow material  existed  and was beginning
to exceed his capacity to deal with it.
      It  can  be  seen,  however,  that  once  the  cycle  was
completed,   one   final   step    beyond   absolution   was
required.  And that step involves becoming conscious of
the  process  the dreamer  had  experienced.  The  dream
discussed   here  had   long   since   been  forgotten   and
relegated  to its proper,  barely  understood place  in  the
dream diary.
     There   began   to  occur   a   series   of  meaningfully
coincidental events which  drew  the dreamer's attention
back to the period of  the dream and  eventually focused
his attention on  the dream itself, and  quite  relentlessly
so. No amount of  personal association seemed to speak
to the reason for this dream returning.  Finally, when the
dreamer re-applied himself to interpreting  the dream in
terms  of   the   old  situation,  he  could  see  the overall
process and how its cycle was concluding.
     The third  level of  interpretation  is transpersonal, an
application  to  the whole of  mankind: past, present  and
future. Here  we  have  an  otherwise  personal  situation
now relating to the sum total  of  human history. We see
worldwide  ramifications. Basic  to  our study of dreams
and the inner  life  in  general is  the realization  that  the
outer world in some wondrous way provides an accurate
mirror of the inner processes. It  is  as though  the outer
world   is   constructed   as   a   blend   of  each  person's
projection of it.
    The collective nature of this realization becomes clear
through  our  analogy  between  the  Shadow  activity and
the nuclear  reactor. The  analogy  takes  on even  greater
meaning viewed in a global context, when we realize that
the  very  existence  of  nuclear  weapons  is  somehow a

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