The lecture by Vivien Dietz was called Imagination: The playground of Fairytales. She began her lecture by telling us the purpose of fairy tales. This purpose is to access your soul essence and to connect with your magical shamanic inner child. You must first access these things before you can move forward in your life. She told us that we all have to walk the path of life and we need to find our own truth while doing so. We can do this by using our imagination because it allows you to look at life from new perspective. To access our imagination we must use the right side of your brains, which she sees as feminine. To help us better understand what she was talking about she had the whole room close our eyes and find our shamanic inner child, by making us think that we were on a magic carpet flying to find him. This child helps us on our path and helps us use our imagination. When we read fairy tales we need to look for the hidden messages to help us build inner strength. Fairy tales also can help us go through a transformation. During a transformation we go into an altered state and we lose touch with ordinary reality and we may lose our memory for the time being, but after there will be a rebirth into our transformed self. We will feel youthful and full of energy; it is a gateway into our lost innocence. Vivien then continued her Lecture by talking about Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. She told us that Aladdin is going through a journey from depression to enlightenment. When his mother first rejects the lamp, Aladdin takes and it helps him throughout his journey because the lesser genie grants his wishes. The rejection of his mother is a sign that she does not want to connect to her son or know about his soul essence. She went through a breakdown of all the characters and symbols in the tale. Two examples of what her breakdown included were the magic cave representing the unconscious mind; something we don’t know, and the lesser genie representing the subconscious mind; something we have forgot. The second and last tale she told us about was the Velveteen Rabbit, where the rabbit goes from anxiety to optimism. She talks about how the rabbit was made real by the little boy and the rabbit would not think anything less of himself because this is how the boy made him feel. When the boy doesn’t need the rabbit anymore he tries to go out into the wild and is eventually changed into a real rabbit instead of a toy. For the bunny to go through the transformation he had to first find his inner child. All the information that Vivien shared with us was very interesting. She definitely gave me a different way to look at life and fairy tales. I learned a lot of why fairy tales are important and how they can show us all these different transformation and messages.
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