Bones

Bones are what remains. Many Indigenous traditions treat bones as the seat of spirit — the essential structure that ancestors become. Tibetan Buddhist sky-burial returns the body to the elements by exposing bones to vultures, honoring the teaching of impermanence. Jungian analysis reads bone-dreams as encounters with essence: the skeletal structure of the self, revealed once surface has been stripped. A dream of finding bones often accompanies periods of psychological stripping-down; a dream of buried bones, material of the self that has been hidden a long time. Notice whether the bones are human or animal, whether they are whole or broken, and what you do with them.