Kategorie: Zacharias Mbizo: The Hidden Chamber
-
Underwater Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/8. In these dream worlds, you can dive into the weightless underwater realms, where everything is quite different from the world above water. In a sense, therefore, the underwater worlds are quite close to dream worlds. Behind the Gates of the Waves Immediately after the wave gates…
-
Dreams in Times of Crisis
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/6 Life crises are a very fertile breeding ground for dreams: they open the door to the chamber of the unconscious. Sometimes they show us ways out of the crisis – but unfortunately they sometimes also intensify our gloom. The Hyacinth To your own amazement, you remained…
-
Cosmic Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/5 In some dreams, we can do something that is beyond our reach during the day: fly. This is precisely what happens in the texts presented here: we float weightlessly through space and time and experience life in a completely different way. Bumblebee Flight On the wind…
-
Dreams of Death and Decay
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/4 This stage of the journey through Zacharias Mbizo’s literary dream worlds is not for the faint-hearted. We are travelling right into the realm of Death! Stormy Day As soon as you open the windows, the wind, indulging in the rampage of its lament outside, ruffles your…
-
Winter Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/2 As the name suggests, these literary miniatures take us to a wintry setting. On the coldest day of the year, we will encounter God. – Will he comfort us with his warmth? Or has he, too, frozen to death in this cold world? Winterly Seclusion On…
-
Dreams about Dreams
Zacharias Mbizo’s Dream Worlds/1. At first glance, the language of dreams seems enigmatic to us. However, if we are willing to engage with their peculiar logic, they can help us see things more clearly. This is all the more true when they are a mirror of our own depths. Midnight…
Planet Literature 