Every front has a back and every life has a public and a private reality. In the practice of “dreamwork” we use the terms “The Conscious” and “The Unconscious” to understand the parts of us that we ordinary identify with and know about ourselves in some sort of orderly fashion and predictability vs the part of us that is more hidden behind the scenes(or underground to use a green metaphor) and often surprises us with unexpected behaviours or bursts of unplanned genius and creativity. In truth, in a balanced life, we need to allow for the activities of both territories.
Ancient writers, philosophers and poets have often used the garden as a metaphor for the soul and I find that it is so, as an expression of the way we live our lives. Thoughtful awareness, intention, focus, purpose, conscious planning and follow-through often (but not always!) produce the results we intended. The garden, tamed and contained…
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The Greening Spirit 
Dear Christine, This was a wonderful visit to the back-yard mind, — or the ‘meadow’. Thank you so much, — I/we need to contemplate the inner/outer, the overload of the obvious, crowding out the hidden. ‘Underground’ is a good simile for me, – helps with the grounding that it so much needed… And, the ‘Meadow’ proves to us once again, how much is rising up from hidden & over-looked spaces. Again, Thank you! EssJay
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