Comments for Kelly Bulkeley

Comment on 2025 Dream Animation Film Festival 1 by Makki Al Moosawi

Makki Al Moosawi — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:35:52 +0000

I was reminded of when I was in elementary school, 10 years old at the time, and now I’m 58. I won a prize for a drawing I made of a barber cutting someone’s hair. I focused on the scattered hair strands floating in the air and falling to the ground. Those strands, before being cut, had lived and faced a life full of dust in the air (climate change) + barber visits (a recurring, inevitable gathering) + the falling of the strands (something the person eagerly awaits to feel relieved from the burden of heavy, bothersome hair)
The hair strands and dust in the air (climate change): My idea about the hair that ‘lived’ and faced dust in the air adds symbolic layer, as if the hair itself carries an environmental story, exposed to external elements before being cut. This aligns with the concept of dreams reflecting our concerns about nature
Barber visits (a recurring, inevitable gathering): The idea of the barber as a ‘secret meeting’ like ‘The Council’ in the film gives a ritualistic quality to a daily routine, as if it’s an unavoidable event.
The falling of the strands (awaiting relief): Linking the falling hair to the relief from its weight with the ‘Premium Death Package’ in the film. It feels like the hair represents a burden, and its fall resembles liberation or preparation for a new phase, much like the old woman’s anticipation in the film.

Comment on Dreams in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Tony Voss

Tony Voss — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 08:44:54 +0000

I’ve just read your essay “A MidsummerNight’s Dream: Shakespeare’s Play of Dreaming” in the Dreaming journal. (December 2020) Well done! What a beautiful piece of work, full of implication for readers, scholars, playgoers and theatricals. I will continue to think about your work.

Comment on Moving Dreams by Laurence H Kant

Laurence H Kant — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 05:13:03 +0000

Wonderful story. Jeremy was a powerful interpreter of dreams. For me, as a scholar (history of religion, including a lot of work on symbols) and as a poet, this story was deeply moving. We had a lot of conversation on symbol interpretation, which is one of my things, and I gave him some of my thoughts on the topic. I have way too many books and a vast collection (including a lot of depth psychology). In a digital era, I could see the dumpster beckoning (even though I currently have a designee in my will), but what you did with Jeremy’s books is a whole more useful.

I did not know Jeremy well in this life, but I connected with him at a gut level. I’m deeply grateful that I had that chance three years ago. He told me that I needed to get out there and share with the world my writing and work. I’m still working at that. The temptation for me to hide out, cover crawl, and stay in the shadows can be quite strong, but I hear his voice right now. More than ever, I want to be more of a presence in the world. I’m listening.

Comment on Memories of Jeremy Taylor by David Miller MD

David Miller MD — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 01:54:58 +0000

Jeremy was one of my two greatest mentors for dream work. The other was Brugh Joy who Jeremy and I used to reminisce about during the the limited time I had the privilege to know Jeremy.

Comment on Moving Dreams by Meg Whitaker-Greene,LMFT, MIPD graduate

Meg Whitaker-Greene,LMFT, MIPD graduate — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:37:14 +0000

I am very moved and delighted by your description of the power of Jeremy’s library . I have known Jeremy for 43 years since I came to Starr King School in Berkeley . Jeremy was teaching dream work there. I assisted him at his request in 1985 and 86 with his semester long classes. He wanted a female perspective including mythological projections at that time. He led and I assisted the groups. I now lead dream groups. My daughter Hillary who is a psychologist in Tacoma, WA area met Jeremy when he gave a seminar in Bremerton , WA at the UU church many years ago. She started a dream group that lasted for 8 years until she and some others moved to other towns. I happen to be visiting her now. She is very happy to know that Jeremy’s library will be only three hours away from her. I wish it were closer to the Bay Area( selfishly!) ! However, I am relieved to know that the thousands of volumes that I so often looked at in Kathy and Jeremy’s home will have a new home and that that library is intact!! I will make journeys to this library as will many others. Thank you so much for your dream which is coming true!! The Rev. Meg Whitaker-Greene, LMFT, MIPD graduate.

Comment on Moving Dreams by Claire Johnston

Claire Johnston — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:29:24 +0000

In reply to Bitsy Broughton.

Let me know about the dream library, too. I’m over in Vancouver, Washington. I took 3 classes and got my dream worker certificate from Jeremy. Wonderful man to work with and learn from.

Comment on Moving Dreams by Lynda

Lynda — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:36:30 +0000

Thank you for your continued love and dedication to dream research. I look forward to visiting Portland one day!

Comment on Moving Dreams by Peggy Parks

Peggy Parks — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:05:35 +0000

Hi Kelly. Please let me know the location of the library. I am in San Rafael but moving to Portland in April. Thank you for taking such loving care of his precious library

Comment on Moving Dreams by Lin

Lin — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 02:16:25 +0000

Dear Kelly, Thank you so much for sharing this moving tribute of my beloved teacher, Jeremy, and shedding more lights into his life. I worked with Jeremy in the past 5 years as a dreamer and had been deeply inspired by his depth and breadth of knowledge, compassion, and generosity. He had been so kind and encouraging in my spiritual journey. What a soul and what a loss to us in this lifetime. Yet through the dreamwork and preserving his writing and books, his work will continue. Thank you for doing this important work. I would love to visit this library one day and honor his memories.

Comment on Moving Dreams by Torrey Byles

Torrey Byles — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 03:39:09 +0000

Dear Kelly,
Thanks for this endearing anecdote about my beloved teacher, Jeremy (and Kathy). Personal libraries must stay together! Books are geometrically more valuable in an comprehensive collection, than they are individually. I learned this lesson as my brothers and I closed up the estate of one of our more eccentric, and favorite aunts, who was an alternative health practitioner and lab technician. Oh the incredible collection she had! We ended up giving much of it to a natural and alternative pharmacy, in the San Fernando Valley. Also, the breadth of Jeremy’s knowledge and erudition reminds me of scholars such as Isaiah Berlin or James Hillman. Reading and listening to these brilliant minds, just like listening to Jeremy, and you get the impression that they have read everything!!! It is wonderful. Thanks for doing this important work!! On behalf of humanity and in particular the dream community, we applaud you!!