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This is Shadowland, a new podcast experience from This Jungian Life that explores the lives of people who work and take refuge in the hidden places of our culture. Lisa, Deb, and Joseph collaborate with songwriter Wells Hanley, creator of I Wrote This Song For You podcast, to bring insight, compassion, and understanding to the darker side of human experience.

Nietzsche wrote, \\u201cI am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.\\u201d

In that spirit, we meet Kay, a 21-year-old single mother who works throughout the American southwest as a self-described prostitute. We explore how she found her way to that life, what she aspires to, and how she holds the complicated tensions between herself, her clients, and the current culture.\\xa0

Here\\u2019s Kay\\u2019s dream that we analyze:

\\u201cI am in a pet store with my best friend and my daughter, who is in a stroller. The woman proprietor went in the back. I saw an alligator in a cage eating a piglet and looked at my daughter\\u2019s stroller -- she wasn\\u2019t in there. Then I am somewhere running through halls trying to find her. I see a lot of kids about her age running around [but she isn\\u2019t among them]. I think she is in the ventilation system because she likes to crawl around. I tell someone to hide the weed that\\u2019s in my car so we can call the police.\\u201d

We shared this interview with Wells Hanley, who was moved to create a song for Kay. We hope you\\u2019ll be as touched by her story as we were.\\xa0

You can support Wells Hanley\\u2019s creative work by becoming his patron here: https://www.patreon.com/iwrotethissongforyou\\xa0

His website is here www.iwrotethissongforyou.com/

SONG: PART OF THE PLAY

music and lyrics by Wells Hanley \\xa9 2020.

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I will listen\\xa0

receive you\\xa0

affirm you in every way\\xa0

And I will hold you\\xa0

but as I\\u2019ve told you\\xa0

it\\u2019s just part of the play\\xa0

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I will undress you\\xa0

and then impress you\\xa0

we\\u2019ll make a game of predator and prey\\xa0

I\\u2019ll be unrestrained\\xa0

but as I\\u2019ve explained\\xa0

it\\u2019s just part of the play\\xa0

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She is hiding in the walls\\xa0

she is watching through a screen\\xa0

She is frightened to come out\\xa0

so she lingers there unseen\\xa0

calling, \\u201cMama, help me!\\u201d\\xa0

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I\\u2019ll be your Echo\\xa0

a kind of mirror\\xa0

your missing Helen I am willing to portray\\xa0

And you may long to claim me\\xa0

but you\\u2019ll never tame me\\xa0

I\\u2019m too refined for that clich\\xe9\\xa0

You see, my heart is never part of the play\\xa0

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See her high above the crowd\\xa0

see her fall into the cage\\xa0

See her flee into the walls\\xa0

as she steps onto the stage\\xa0

crying, \\u201cMama, help me!\\u201d\\xa0

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You call me princess\\xa0

tell me I\\u2019m beautiful\\xa0

I\\u2019m not immune to the things you say\\xa0

But when the curtain falls\\xa0

I walk these empty halls\\xa0

and even though I can never go, I can show you the way\\xa0

and I will swear that everything\\u2019s ok\\xa0

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Hush little baby, don\\u2019t say a word\\xa0

about what you\\u2019ve seen or about what you\\u2019ve heard\\xa0

There\\u2019s a fat, hungry beast in need of a meal\\xa0

so don\\u2019t ever share\\xa0

no, don\\u2019t tell a soul what you feel

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Music and Lyrics by Wells Hanley \\xa9 2020.

Singer: \\xa0Ali Thibodeau at https://linktr.ee/deaueyes

RESOURCES:

Learn to Analyze your own Dreams: https://thisjunhttps://thisjungianlife.com/join-dream-school/gianlife.com/enroll/

\\xa0REFERENCES:

The Book of Symbols,\\xa0published by Taschen

Kalsched, Donald.\\xa0The Inner World of Trauma