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Huge and Hugr: The Norse Polypsychic Self

August 17, 2024

“The air and the paths were alive with magic.” The words come from the Volsunga saga, which excited Richard Wagner and Tolkien and still excites the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. They are spoken when völvas – seers, forest witches – are doing some body swapping. They are arranging for two men to swap bodies for sex in one case and for deception in the other. Swapping bodies, how is that possible? 

 
We are deep in a world of sorcery and magic, of dreaming and dream travel, in which the self is not recognized as some kind of unitary thing. There are four members in the polypsychic family. They travel in and out of bodies where they reside and can take different forms. They can become animals or birds or aquatic creatures. They can change gender. Gods do this. Giants do it. Seers and sorcerers do it. Any human may release one of their parts to wander beyond the body, in one form or another, in their dreams. 
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GROWING BIG DREAMS

I am thrilled to announce that my new book GROWING BIG DREAMS will be published by New World Library on September 29. My aim is to help us all use the gateways of dreams and imagination to get through hard times and grow our visions of a larger, more abundant life so strong that they will take root in the world. Surely a book for our times and our condition. It’s available for pre-order now.

Here’s a fun note on the pre-history: A year ago, I had a clear vision in the space between sleep and awake of the manuscript of my new book being delivered to my door in a baby basket.

July 6, 2019: Hypnapompic zone

Baby Basket at My Door

Someone is at the door, making a delivery. I go to the door and look out into a narrow street of whitewashed houses, flooded with sunlight. At my door someone has left a baby basket. Really? I look more closely. Instead of a baby there is a bundle of typed pages, neatly stacked and tied with both pink and blue ribbons. I know this is the next book I will publish. Feelings: happy, excited

At that point I had not decided what my next book would be or made a publishing plan. After I shared my dream and the drawing with my wonderful editor Georgia Ann Hughes we agreed on a plan for the book.  GROWING BIG DREAMS, which contains a chapter on the creative gifts of hanging out in that liminal space between sleep and awake, was officially published on September 29. The audiobook version, narrated by me, is available on Audible.

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