Dream Novel -- Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun, Now Available
Mar 01, 2004 07:55 AM
by wyatt_ehrenfels
http://www.fireflySun.com
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 based on actual dreams and events to
depict his struggle against an anti-dream prejudice within
departments of psychology.
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).
http://www.fireflySun.com/news.html
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