The breadth of intuitive access to such huge resources the original and true Internet of the Earth may give dreaming a more central role in the coming years. The extraordinary and unprecedented challenges of living in a planetary culture are upon us. Our times require guiding mythologies and inventions appropriate to the new situation. We must evolve. We must also learn how to navigate intuitively in the unknowns of nonlinear systems, in times of fast-paced and incremental personal, social, and planetary transition.
Dreams can be hugely helpful here since they are so often prescient.
As Ferenczi said, Dreams are the workshop of evolution. So we do our dreamwork not just for ourselves as isolated individuals trying to become better human beings, though that is the central challenge. But we do dreamwork, especially in groups so that the free activity of the unconscious may find its way out of the private mind and into the world. This may take place in writing, in stories and film, in our daily inventions at work and home, in songs and play, in our discussions with others. Inventors and problem-solvers, mothers and teachers, cab drivers and artists, business folk and computer hacks, children and the ancient ones, all have equal access to the creative intelligence of the species.