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Using Dreams to Find a More Soul-ful Career by Rizwan Virk Part 1
"I want to know for what a man is preparing himself. That is what I read out of his dreams."
~ Carl Jung ~
Today, after the great boom and bust of the last few years, many of us are looking for looking for a more soul-ful job, career, or business - one that is aligned with, and in fact, helps to fuel, our own spiritual growth.
One important tool in this search that is often overlooked is the power of our dreams to help guide us in our search for more fulfilling work. Many Native American societies, such as the Iroquois, believed that dreams reveal "the wishes of the soul".
A "big dream" was one that often revealed the life and career path that a dreamer's soul was calling out for. By following your dreams, you could not only lead a more spiritual life, you could fulfill your particular destiny.
As a powerful example, Deganawidah, an Iroquois, had a vivid dream about a "Tree of Peace" that tied together different tribes that were constantly battling each other into a coherent "League". So powerful was his dream that he spent the rest of his life assembling the sparring tribes around his into the "League of the Iroquois", which provided for a "powerful" federal structure that contained each of the Five Nations.
This structure proved so valuable that when the Founding Fathers of the United States, men like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, were looking for a model for the newly formed nation, they explicitly based the federal and state governmental structure of the new Constitution on the structure that was built by Deganawidah from his dream.
What about the modern world?
You might think, "Well that's great - but Native societies are very different from our own. What does that mean for me today? Can my dreams have an impact on my career today?"
You might be surprised to learn that throughout modern history, and continuing to the present time, artists, politicians, and scientists have used their dreams to help them with their careers:
Arts:
James Cameron, who was working on B movies at the time, had a particularly troubling dream vision of robots emerging from the flames. He drew a picture of his dream vision and told all of his friends about it. It eventually became the basis for his first big film, The Terminator.
Salvador Dali used imagery from his dreams extensively in his paintings, including his famous image of clocks drooping in The Persistence of Memory, after having read The Interpretation of Dreams by Freud.
Rizwan Virk is a writer and entrepreneur who has started, grown, and sold, several high technology companies. His businesses have been featured in publications ranging from the Boston Globe, to Information Week and Inc. magazine.
Mr. Virk is the author of Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior, a book about spirituality and business. It is available at Zen Entrepreneur.
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