Pets: A Lived Relationship with Soul

This Jungian Life Podcast · Aug 13, 2020 · 1h 11m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠When far from life in the wild, relationships with animals are often through pets. We find kinship and difference in our friends of very foreign origin. Pets let us be tender, elicit nurturing, and help heal trauma through secure attachment. Our creatures keep our secrets. They accept our lapses and shadows. They invite us to play and appear in our dreams--and when they are gone, we mourn.

Henry Beston said, “In a world older and more complete than ours [animals] move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we…