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paradigm of how I acquiesced and sacrificed my
freedom to avoid facing death and aloneness. This
suffering later became an initiatory illness that
eventually brought me to my incubation. I now also see
my suffering in the dream as the seed of my conscious
awareness; an awareness of my connection to a very
primal serpent power. Snakes are terrifying and tempting.
They are close to the energy of life. Pleasing the snake
is my covenant with the archaic source of my being; my
inner relationship to life itself. Incubation has unveiled
the snake as the source of my inner voice of
individuation.
Incubation may or may not bring extraordinary visions. The visions are not solutions in themselves. They may be inspiring models for new ways of being, but the true arduous work is to bring what I learn into my life and to change my ability to change. Incubating my inner voice is taking the snake's temptation to become conscious of its energy. How I manifest my inner voice depends on how fully I maintain my covenant with the snake. Sources1. Castaneda, Carlos. Tales of power. New York: Simon
& Schuster, 1974.
2. deBecker, Raymond. The understanding of dreams. New York: Bell,
1965.
3. Eliade, Mircea. Myths, dreams and mysteries. New York: Harper & Row, 1960.
4. Hillman, James. Revisioningpsychology. New York: Harper &
Row, 1975.
5. Jung, C. G. The archetypes arid the collective unconscious. Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1969.
6. Reed, Henry. "Dream incubation: A reconstruction of a ritual in contemporary
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