“In this deeply touching dialogical work, Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard re-visions the interpersonal as incubator to our oneiric dimension of being. For these authors, dreams as nested ontology give birth to a third body able to nourish our communal dream-weaving capacities—the psychic tissue needed to “hear” our perennial pre-caesurian and caesurian murmurations, screams, and vanishing points. Read Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard and welcome your re-“living,” your silent rebirths, and nourish your ordinary waking perception of reality.”
Loray Daws, PhD, DPsa
Psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist
Author of Introduction to the Work of Michael Eigen
We welcome your inquiries about speaking engagements, presentations, workshops, courses, and more, on The Emotional Truth of Dreams, centered on select key concepts presented and illustrated in our book, including…
Living (revelation and discernment of) Emotional Truth
Nested Dreams (in Dream Mandalas)
Apprenticeship to Grace (through learning from dreams and nightmares)
Dreambody/Third body
Nondual Un/conscious
Nonduality-through-Multiplicity
Other Within
Psychic Democracy
Simultaneity/Synchrony of Time
Singing the Dreams that Wake you Up
Through this book, Willow Pearson Trimbach and Eva Tuschman Leonard carve an astonishing new path of dialogue with multiple intuitive perspectives demonstrating their scholarly care and freedom. Dreamwork in this context is the awakening of the dreamer to liberatory emotional truths. They push the insistence on interpretation of dream to a radical turn—a new method of engaged dream practice, arguing for an ecological interconnectedness extending from the hollow of the dream navel to the ever-evolving Anima Mundi. An unanticipated outcome of this work is its silent reparative impulse to heal the history of psychoanalysis by bringing Freudian, Jungian, and mystical traditions closer in “withness” to a common concern—for life, death, or what dreams may come.”
Shifa Haq
Assistant professor, Ambedkar University Delhi
Author of In Search of Return—Mourning the Disappearances in Kashmir
Confluent perspectives on dreaming, illustrated in The Emotional Truth of Dreams, including…
Integral vision and liberation of dreams (awakening together from, to, and through dreams)
Freudian “royal road” to unconscious process
Jungian symbols, archetypes, and myths—
opening to retrocognitive and precognitive dreams of the present moment
Bionian continuous dreaming throughout the day and night—
and “Memoir of the Future”
Eigenian dreams opening further and being (re)born
Pearson Trimbach on caesuras of dreaming: being and becoming, thinking and imagining
Relational interdependence of dreams and dreaming
Artistic dreams—dreaming through song, music, canvas, painting, ceramics…
Buddhist illusion-like samadhi: seeing into the illusory nature of self and phenomenal world
Buddhist Mahamudra: a fruition of sound-emptiness-sound, clarity-emptiness-thought, bliss-emptiness-feeling, and appearance-emptiness-appearance
Jewish and contemplative Christian divinization of dreams
Indigenous omnipresence of Great Spirit
Being in the presence of Eva one feels a profound depth of care for the soul. You have an immediate ally. Her insight and guidance helps you navigate through stuck places, growing trust in your intuition and increased capacity for open-hearted living. [Her teaching presence blends] wisdom and warmth..."
Dr. Heather Mann
Students’ praise for Willow’s teaching at the California Institute of Integral Studies, PsyD program:
“Willow is an exceptional instructor in every aspect. She is a model of a true professional. In addition to her knowledge base, she has tremendous integrity, which she instills in all her students. The feedback she provided each student was always very insightful, bringing new perspectives to our work. She is a gem.”
“Willow does a great job modeling the therapeutic relationship in the class. She has open ears for feedback and readily acts on that feedback, which is so appreciated!”
“Dr Pearson Trimbach made space in our…group discussions for us to bring whatever we were wrestling with. I felt welcomed, encouraged, and constructively challenged in every class.”
“Willow held space for everyone's experience and introduced ways to expand our thinking beyond our own experiences and preconceived ideas.”