I finished Taylor’s Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill yesterday. A surprisingly good read. It fascinates me, how similar is the weaving of dreams and life that he sets out in the book to the views and explorations that I’ve woven together in my life. His interests and stances are surprisingly similar to my own. He quite unflinchingly addresses Good Questions. It feels like he is an Ally.

It’s interesting how, over the years, having seen his name on banners outside Divine Science church, based on nothing external, I created a most constricting picture of Taylor as an adversary. My poverty thinking created him into Mr. Negative, without knowing anything about him! I projected onto his name all my own shadow stuff about Dreams and dream work. “He must be all airy-fairy!” I’d think. “He’s loose with ethics! He doesn’t know the Dark Side of life!”

This book certainly belies absolutely all of these projections. He demonstrates for that Dreamfulness, as I conceive of it, does make sense, that there are others believing in it and trying to embody it too.

His dedicated work with Dreams has allowed him to write such a book. He has been valiant and stalwart in heeding dreams. He has intelligence, a broad mind, and curiosity, resulting in a stance of integrity and grounded optimism as far as dreamwork goes. Truly, an Ally. What a surprising Gift!