Book

The book is the narrative rendered in an object you can hold. Jewish tradition speaks of the Book of Life, in which each soul’s deeds are inscribed; medieval Christianity of the liber mundi, the world as God’s second scripture. Jungian analysis treats dream-books as the life-story of the dreamer — chapters already lived, blank pages ahead. Finding a book in a dream often marks a teaching arriving; being unable to read the text, a knowing not yet accessible to conscious thought. Notice whether the book is familiar or strange, whether you read it, and whether anyone else can see what is inside. A book opening by itself is classically a message the psyche needs you to receive.