ABSTRACT
Inspired by the song Ladies and Gentlemen and Garders philosophical novel, Dreaming Dakini suggests that for Jungians the perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence is the everyday endeavour of sliding on the ego-self axis. This chapter shows how she draws on body memory and the power of imagination when relating to the image of her therapist on a screen. Theresa of Avila used the image of watering one’s garden as a metaphor for mystical prayer. Another gardener, the French impressionist Claude Monet said that while painting he entered into a state of mind close to prayer. In the Buddhist tradition, The Great Mother Prajna Paramita symbolizes an open state of mind, referred to as emptiness. The emptiness out of which everything is born, arise and dissolve. A well-loved child, with the Sunday blues.
