The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination (29 page)

p. 101
Harriet Tubman's story is a remarkable example
: Robert Moss,
Dreaming True
(New York: Pocket Books, 2000): xvii–xxiii.

CHAPTER 5: WHERE MIND AND MATTER MEET

p. 107
Pauli noted with razor-sharp acuity in his extensive correspondence with Jung
: C.A. Meier, ed.,
Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters 1932–1958
, trans. David Roscoe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001): 36–42.

p. 107
“We need to build cathedrals to is omorphy”
: Meier,
Atom and Archetype
, 139.

p. 110
archetypes are not structures but “habitual currents of psychic energy”
: Beverley Zabriskie, introduction to Meier,
Atom and Archetype
, xxxii.

p. 112
The brilliant analyst and classicist Marie-Louise von Franz, who knew both Jung and Pauli well
: Marie-Louise von Franz,
On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance
(Toronto: Inner City Books, 1980): 21.

CHAPTER 6: THE NINE RULES OF COINCIDENCE

p. 114
Jung had a little garden room on the lake, where he would often receive clients
: Barbara Hannah,
Jung: His Life and Work
(London: Michael Joseph, 1972): 293.

p. 114
Jung's willingness to trust an unexpected incident — and accept it immediately as guidance for action
: Ferne Jensen, ed.,
C.G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff: A Collection of Remembrances
(San Francisco: Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco, 1982): 21.

p. 118
He gathered his personal experiences and experiments in this area in a most interesting article he titled “Mental Telegraphy”
: Mark Twain, “Mental Telegraphy,” in
Tales of Wonder
, ed. David Ketterer (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003).

p. 126
In his remarkable memoir
L'Amour fou
(“Mad Love”), the surrealist poet and provocateur André Breton
: André Breton,
Mad Love
, trans. Mary Ann Cawe (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1987): 33–34.

p. 128
To experience these things fully, Baudelaire reminds us, we need to be in a state of “poetic health”
: Georges Poulet,
Studies in Human Time
, trans. Elliott Coleman (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1956): 266–67.

p. 130
The phrase comes from Baudelaire
: Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances, in
Les fleurs dumal
, trans. by Richard Howard (Boston: David R. Godine, 1982): 193.

p. 133
There is a forest people in northern Zaire for whom travel is very perilous
: Alden Almquist, “Divination and the Hunt in Pagibeti Ideology,” in Philip M. Peek,
African Divination Systems
(Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991): 103.

p. 134
it was a “mirror for princes,” a book of guidance that a medieval Persian philosopher-prince on the border of Persia composed
: Kai Ka'us ibn Iskandar,
A Mirror for Princes (Qabus Nama)
, trans. Reuben Levy (London: Cresset Press, 1951): 28.

p. 137
Appian of Alexandria was a famous historian in the heyday of the Roman Empire
: “Fragment A: Concerning the Divination of the Arabs” in
The Roman History of Appian of Alexandria,
trans. Horace White (London: Macmillan, 1899): 2:489.

p. 140
In
Fire in the Crucible
, his study of creative genius, John Briggs rightly observed
: John Briggs,
Fire in the Crucible: The Alchemy of Creative Genius
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988): 278.

p. 145
Yeats accepted reading assignments from “spirit instructors”
: William Butler Yeats,
A Vision
(London: Macmillan, 1937): 12.

p. 147
His early novel
Louis Lambert
is a tale of the strange life of a young explorer
: Honoré de Balzac, Louis Lambert, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring. Available online from Project Gutenberg,
www.gutenberg.org/ etext/1943
).

CHAPTER 8: COINCIDENCE AND WHAT WANTS
TO HAPPEN

p. 159
The Romans grew and maintained a world empire this way
: R. M. Ogilvie,
The Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustus
(New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1969): 53–69.

p. 161
Carmen Blacker, a wonderful scholar of Japanese oracles and shamanism, wisely observes
: Carmen Blacker, “Japan,” in Michael Loewe and Carmen Blacker, eds.,
Oracles and Divination
(Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1981): 72.

p. 162
The Duke of Zhou — known to history as King Wu — gathered an army
: James Legge, trans.,
Shu Jing
, vol. 3 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1960): 281–84.

p. 163
John Lukacs, a brilliant historian of the modern age, has been drawn to study parallelisms in
big
historical events
: John Lukacs,
The Duel: The Eighty- Day Struggle between Churchill & Hitler
(New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001): 16–52, 195–210.

CHAPTER 9: THE PRACTICE OF IMAGINATION

p. 170
As the English philosopher H.H. Price puts it: “Paradoxical as it may sound”
: H.H. Price, “Survival and the idea of ‘another world,’” in J.R. Smythies, ed.,
Brain and Mind
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965).

p. 171
“What we experience directly,” says physicist David Deutsch
: David Deutsch,
The Fabric of Reality
(New York: Penguin Books, 1998): 120–21.

p. 173
One of them may have been the creation, from the demise of the Ottoman Empire in 1922, of a state called Iraq
: At least one of England's prime minister Tony Blair's advisers was well aware of Churchill's “mistake” concerning Iraq. See Christopher Catherwood,
Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq
(New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004).

p. 174
as poet Kathleen Raine wrote beautifully, “Imaginative knowledge is immediate knowledge”
: Kathleen Raine,
W. B. Yeats & the Learning of the Imagination
(Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 1999): 23.

CHAPTER 10: THE SEVEN OPEN SECRETS OF IMAGINATION

p. 180
An image carries a charge; it sends electrical sparks through your whole body
: Jeanne Achterberg, Barbara Dossey, and Leslie Kolkmeier,
Rituals of Healing: Using Imagery for Health and Wellness
(New York: Bantam Books, 1994): 53–54.

p. 182
Nurse Barbara Dossey, who has played a leading role in winning acceptance for healing imagery in the medical context
: Barbara Dossey, “Using Imagery to Help Your Patient Heal,”
American Journal of Nursing
95, no.6 (June 1995): 42.

p. 184
Dr. Colette Aboulker-Muscat, a remarkable teacher of imaginal healing
: Catherine Shainberg,
Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming
(Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1995) is a wonderful evocation of Colette's practice of imagination.

p. 188
The first human to see Easter Island, according to tradition, was a dream traveler
: Interview with Tuki, who claims descent from the first kings of Rapa Nui, in
Smithsonian
, March 2002.

p. 192
In her beautiful memoir of a harem girlhood in Morocco, Fatima Mernissi
: Fatima Mernissi,
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
(Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1995).

p. 194
The sun goddess Amaterasu is shamed and abused by a raging male
: the story of Amaterasu is based on the ninth-century
Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters
, trans. Basic Hall Chamberlain (Boston: Tuttle, 2005): section XVI.

p. 201
A Sufi who studied with Ibn ‘Arabi in Konya described his ability
: Henry Corbin,
Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi
, trans. Ralph Mannheim (Princeton, NJ: Bollingen, 1981): 224.

p. 210
Ursula LeGuin goads us to remember that the important thing
: Ursula K. LeGuin, “A War without End,” in
The Wave in the Mind
(Boston: Shambhala, 2004): 218.

CHAPTER 12: MASTERS OF IMAGINATION

p. 218
a mobile robot, and something akin to a programmable analog computer
: Tom Vanderbilt, “The Real DaVinci Code,”
Wired
, no. 12.11, November 2004, is an entertaining discussion of whether Leonardo developed the prototype for a mobile robot and a computer.

p. 221
It's the third day of her public trial, on February 24, 1431
: Third Public Examination of Joan of Arc in the Trial of Condemnation at Rouen, February 24, 1431. Transcript available online at
www.stjoan-center.com/Trials/sec03.html.

p. 223
He delivers his most famous sentence: “Let us therefore brace ourselves”
: Speech to the House of Commons, June 18, 1940. Text and audile available online from the Churchill Center,
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=418.

EPILOGUE: THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY

p. 227
Take these words from another traveler, William Butler Yeats, who speaks here as magus as well as poet
: This quote by Yeats is from an address he gave in April 1901 to fellow adepts of the famous British magical order known as the Golden Dawn, entitled “Is the Order of R.R. & A.C. to remain a magical Order?” Text in George Mills Harper,
Yeats's Golden Dawn: The Influence of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn on the Life and Art of W.B. Yeats
(Wellingborough, England: Aquarian Press, 1974): 259–68.

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