Seeing Into the Life of Things - Book Launch

"With grace and poetic clarity, Rodger Kamenetz inspires us in Seeing into the Life of Things to use our imagination and our dreams--the great factory of personal imagery--to inhabit our world more fully and joyfully and gain access to other worlds that mystics, shamans, and creators have always wanted to visit. He reminds us that instead of trying to interpret dreams according to ego assumptions, we can use dreams to correct self-limiting ego agendas and interpret everyday life. The parts of the book that are memoir are terrific, from pausing to commune with a blue flower growing out of a New Orleans sidewalk to auditing a dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama on how to tame 'afflictive emotions.' Kamenetz encourages us to turn to an 'inner board of directors' who may include departed teachers, available in dreams. He invites us to recognize, with Wordsworth, that depression (and a host of other…