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Building in Time

Sometimes new knowledge comes not through books or lectures, but through dreams.

I dreamt of a piece of land owned by my parents;

at its edge I saw an excavation pit and materials stacked for construction.

There were no builders in sight, yet everything was prepared:

the ground was opened, the foundation dug, stones and beams laid out in rows.

My consciousness, surprised, tried to catch up with what had already been accomplished.

The dream suggested a simple thought: a new book is born not by plan or commission.

Temporal psychology and psychotherapy are my building in time

It is raised by forces greater than the personal «I.»

The builders are unseen, yet they act.

The materials are delivered from the depths of memory, experience and tradition.

The foundation is laid in archetypal soil – in the ground of the ancestors,

where life itself is rooted.

And although I write this book in another country,

it carries the experience of all those close to me.

Temporal psychology and psychotherapy are my building in time.

It is erected not only in the scientific field

but in the space of the soul, which lives in several dimensions at once:

in the past, the present, the future – and beyond them.

The book has grown from many years of practice, reflection and encounters.

But most importantly – it is created not only by my hands.

Working within it is the force Jung called the Self —

an architect acting in the depths of the unconscious.

I recount this dream not for the sake of personal detail or autobiography.

The dream is a symbol.

This is how the unconscious sometimes informs us

that the work has already begun and has foundations deeper than any rational plan.

In the text I will strive to join the personal with the universal,

the mythological with the scientific, the metaphorical with the clinical.

The dream opens a door; beyond it begins the exploration of time and psyche.

I invite the reader onto the construction site:

here, among ideas and open foundations,

a new building is rising.

If any house reflects the structure of its author’s consciousness,

then our house reaches beyond personal consciousness —

into the dimension of humanity’s global mind.

This building is neither temple nor university,

but something in between.

It addresses science, yet remains open to eternity.

Its walls will contain precise schemes and living images:

here you will find system, myth, psychotechnics and metaphor.

Thus this book begins.

It has grown on the land given to me by my ancestors,

but looks upward – toward the sky, where words and meanings do not yet exist,

yet the foundations of both are already forming.