Toko-pa Turner is a poet, dreamworker, and bestselling author of Belonging. Blending the mystical tradition of Sufism with a Jungian approach to dreamwork, Toko-pa founded the Dream School in 2001. Through the Dream School she teaches and supports a network of more than a hundred thousand dreamers worldwide. Her book Belonging, explores exile and the search for belonging through the lens of dreams, mythology, and nature. The book received several awards, including the 2018 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2018 Gold Readers’ Favorite Award, and the 2018 Silver IPPY, and has been translated into 10 different languages. Along with speaking and teaching, Toko-pa is working on another book, titled The Dreaming Way, which will be available in the fall of 2024. I truly enjoyed my conversation with Toko-pa, and I hope you do as well.
In our conversation we discussed mysticism, wisdom, turning inward, having a relationship with soul, Anima Mundi, paradox, fundamentalism, symbolic dimension, addiction to certainty, safety as illusion, parenting, abandonment, emotions, Sufism, mystical branches of Islam, Rumi, grief, cosmos, physical reality, imagination, divine, whirling dervishes, Carl Jung, the presumed supremacy of rationalism, animism, magic, dreams, dreamwork, the inner world, myth, Narnia, archetypal energies, patterns, reverence, depth of psyche, precognition, higher intelligence, DNA, recurring dreams, Sophia, feminine image, courtship, courting our dreams, symbols, curiosity, the art of asking good questions, active imagination, resistance, trauma, Dream School, and belonging.
Episode Details:
Guest Name: Toko-pa Turner
Dreams Drops Course: https://toko-pa.com/dream-drops/
Website: https://toko-pa.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tokopaturner
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DreamworkWithTokopa
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