Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00176)

Spiritual Psychologist, Dream Researcher Targets Anti-Dream Prejudice
in Departments of Psychology

Drawing from his 2,000-typed page, 15-year dream diary, social and 
spiritual psychologist Wyatt Ehrenfels (Ph.D., 1997) composed an
expose/epic dream thriller (Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun) based 
on actual nightmares (including archetypal, precognitive, religious, 
and lucid dreams). The book depicts with clarity and impact the 
symbolism and synchronistic connection between these nightmares and 
waking events involving the author's struggle against an anti-dream 
prejudice within departments of psychology, who, in a manner of 
speaking, "sell their souls" for tenure (i.e., life after the Ph.D.) 
and membership in a professional community that requires them to 
surrender their wills and wits in exchange for access to one-size-
fits-all sources of guidance, validation, and even identity. 

Having his first General Psychology and Personality Theory textbooks 
by the age of 13, a young Wyatt Ehrenfels, inspired by a vivid 
childhood dream life, took to CG Jung, reading nearly his collected 
works by his sophomore year in college.

Across three graduate schools, Ehrenfels suffered the indignity of an 
anti-Jung/anti-dream prejudice and received his Ph.D. under a cloud 
of political embattlement at the age of 27, going out triumphantly 
with his wildly popular doctoral dissertation exploring the 
relationships among dream characteristics, blood chemistry, and
coping styles in terminally ill cancer patients.

Unable to build a competitive vita as a graduate student under fire, 
Ehrenfels opted not to pursue a tenure-track teaching/research 
position in universities, withdrawing from academic life to spearhead 
an initiative aimed at exposing the complexes and repressions that 
comprise the "Unconscious" of modern academic communities and that
seek to compensate, in classic Jungian style, for elements of the 
professional culture that undermine an accurate, adequate, and 
authentic science of the human condition.

Toward that end, Ehrenfels amassed a coalition of authors, developing 
his own web portal and writing his own book (culled from a diary that 
encompasses years of political imbroglios and concurrent dreams).

NEWS PAGE:

http://www.fireflySun.com/news.html

AUTHOR PAGE:

http://www.fireflySun.com/