World of Warcraft beta servers are down and I’m reading a book:

The dream and the underworld – James Hillman

It’s awesome and I could write a long article about it when I’m done.

Basically it’s a completely different appraoch to psychology and psychotherapy. Instead of revealing to the “logos” (mind, reasoning) what is hidden (the dreams, and their interpretation as a transforming process, from unconscious to the conscious), Hillman suggests a completely opposite process.

He says right at the beginning that what the psychotherapy currently does not only is unefective. But it’s also wrong and possibly harmful. What is hidden has a sense and purpose in its configuration. Pushing the hidden to become manifest is an error and an illusion because we loose its most important feature and we transform the hidden into something else. So different. Instead he suggests to go deeper and observe the dreams as archaic structures tied to the myths.

A dream as a journey through the underworld.