I am still coming—sometimes crashing, sometimes floating—down from a most incredible, inspired, insightful, healing, transformative, blessed, eye-opening, life-changing waking dream journey that was the Dreaming & Healing biennial conference in San Miguel de Allende while in the intimate and beautifully vulnerable company of the most wonderfully divine community of friends, colleagues and participants from around the world.

I would like to mention here, with the deepest and most heart-felt gratitude, some of the most openly eccentric, highly sensitive, nuanced, intuitive, empathic, shamelessly authentic, touched and transformed by losses, outstandingly talented, very extraordinary beings who were present, who contributed with body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit, and who made the Dreaming & Healing experience most fully, exactly what it was meant to be:

Ever-growing Love and infinite gratitude for Karen Herold of Wise Transition, Sakura Nimura of 6 Impossible Things, Tariq Nasraldeen of Transpersonal Travel, Pepe Valencia of Sin Miedo a la Vida, Montse Brito Rocha of Habitando el Cuerpo, Verónika Gabuccio, Dayana Paz, Ian McCartor, Sylvia Marroquín of Recursos Propios, Janosh Chassan of Janosh Chassan Films, April Miller McMurtry of The Moon is My Calendar, Ken Ross of the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation, Uchechi Kalu, Carlos Chancelor, Alison Bastien of Tienda la Victoriana, Juanita Benedicto of Twelfth House Readings, Laura Rodríguez of Inspira Mundi, Michelle McNeil of Dream Journey of the Soul, Tzivia Gover of the Institute for Dream Studies, Jeanne Denney of the School of Unusual Life Learning, María Luisa Castro, Jess Miramontes of JessOnirica, Franchezca Pinzón, Lisa Sidor, among so many more who deserve to be mentioned!

Even when I have received, carried, and ensured the materialization of its intention and message, as you know, this conference is, was, has been, and continues to be an intense labor of love, not just for me, but for everyone who has had any part in its inception, production, happening, manifestation and execution throughout.

The experience has left us with a lot to contemplate, integrate, and act upon, and I am infinitely grateful for every person, every connection, every breakdown, every breakthrough, and every lesson it has graced me, and us, with.

Here is a humble briefing of what I have been able to gather so far from the very human experience of taking on the myriad of tasks required—from trusting, surrendering, containing, transforming, transmuting, channeling, and manifesting instruction to graphic design, copyright, advertising, editing, promoting, recruiting, article writing, negotiating, programming, scheduling, coordinating, funding, soliciting, fundraising, crowdfunding, cheerleading, budgeting, delegating, and so on—to organize and put on the container for a co-dreaming experience:

1. Taking on the full 1-year production of a 10-day conference can result, upon completion of tasks and event inauguration, in the significant shut-down of our left brain, to the point of not being able to process or understand words spoken to us, or remember our beloved’s name
2. The body may respond to the taking on of this responsibility by becoming hyper vigilant and poised for action, allowing only for sleep and rest in short stints of 4 to 5 hours at night, and 20 to 30 minutes during the day, unable to rest any more for as long as 3 months in anticipation of the event; the experience is, far from insomniatic, a joyful excitement about and sharpened focus on and attention to the details and preparation
3. Sleep deprivation comes with tending to new life, so I am told; apparently sleep deprivation is also a requirement for those of us too dedicated to a life of service and absorbed in channeling divine instruction to crash into the earth plane, expose and discover human imperfection, become vulnerable to judgment and criticism, and, conversely, become exposed and vulnerable enough to be unapologetically and thoroughly embraced, appreciated, celebrated and loved, and to be unguarded enough to fall in love
4. We must be willing to fall in love with our humanity, other people’s humanity, and with the fact that everything that begins will come to an end, every dream we will wake up from, everything alive will die
5. Everything in life is a practice for death and it really helps to show up to our life every moment with this practice very present in our minds and hearts
6. Every gain emerges from a loss, carrying with it the necessary losses for the gain to be possible; every loss allows for a new gain to emerge, inherently carrying with it the necessary deaths and rebirths, if we dare to pay attention
7. Spit and magic, death and life, loss and gain, unconscious and conscious, sleep and waking, are intrinsically connected and part of the whole experience, and we are constantly invited to embrace the whole experience and not just one side of it
8. Every experience is a reflection of our current inner condition, an invitation, a lesson, and an opportunity for growth, greater self-awareness, and deeper, more expansive unconditional love
9. It can be disorienting, confusing, foreign and scary, while at the same time inspiring, marvelous, reaffirming, and magical, for us and for those around us to witness how the process of birthing new life takes shape, how it exposes us, challenges us, humbles us and transforms us
10. It can be very uncomfortable, and equally rewarding, to not be in control, to navigate the unfamiliar, to have our expectations challenged, to be surprised with what actually is, despite our hopes, our intentions, our illusions, and dreams
11. It is important to be willing to be uncomfortable and to sustain our faith despite the magical shit show that can be the process of bringing spirit into form, of manifesting subtle essence into dense matter
12. It is immensely helpful to be more mindful of how those we love and play an important part in our lives may interpret and misinterpret our actions and non-actions, just so we can, if at all possible, and without compromising our integrity or dishonoring our truth, avoid their suffering, or at the very least be able to fully honor it
13. Some people will tend to choose to create or perpetuate suffering, and there is very little we can do about it
14. We can love, accept, support, hold, guide, listen to, witness, accompany others in their process, and we can only save, fix, heal, transform ourselves
15. It is good self-awareness practice to take full responsibility for our actions and non actions, and to honor how they might land on the wounds of others, even when we cannot shift or change their reactions
16. An immense joy and fulfillment comes from witnessing the generous evidence proving that all risks, all efforts, all dives into the unknown are worth while, that they all come together to manifest divine will and a higher plan for the benefit of all
17. My gratitude and love for everyone’s presence, support, perspective, ideas, talents, skills, unique contributions, beauty, heart, is ever expanding
18. No amount of thanks and gratitude or kind and generous gestures is enough to express and convey the depth and breadth of my gratitude, but I will keep trying

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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