Friendship and Healing: The Dreams of John Adams and Benjamin Rush

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Sheila Zarrow writes:

Dr. Joseph Henderson used to be mentor to me for a few years until his death in 2007 at age 104. He felt a deep connection to American history, used to be most interested in John Adams, and had spent some time on Benjamin Rush’s farm. When I told Henderson about how I had spent three years meditating on the foot of Adams’s statue in Worcester, Massachusetts, he enthusiastically encouraged me to study Adams, a study that led me also to Rush. My journey into their world ran parallel to my journey inward and the many synchronicities that came along with the writing of Friendship and Healing are testimony to the eternal nature of the living psyche.

The letters of John Adams and Benjamin Rush depict the friendship that grew between the two as the course of history brought turn into their lives and forced them to change themselves. Of particular interest are the dreams both men described in their letters and the evidence Zarrow has uncovered about how they thought to be the effects of their dreams.

Rush, in his seminal text on medicine, wrote that dreaming is “as much a native faculty as memory or imagination.” Dreams have meaning well beyond the personal and the present. They have got roots and tendrils that stretch all over the unknown inner world of our psyches. At the same time as we sleep, they make connections between our lives and the lives of others all over history, back through mythology, and out to the eternal. Friendship and Healing explores one bright thread in the history of our country through the letters and dreams of two men who were there at first.

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