“None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow.” —Carl G. Jung It has been a long time since I remembered a nightmare. Suddenly, I have had two related nightmares in the span of five days. A notable number [...]
Read MoreSince I am still recovering from the busyness of planning, coordinating, and producing the Dreaming & Healing conference, I figure I might as well explore what happened to my brain in the process. 21 days after the conference has ended, I am still tired and my brain is still peculiarly touched [...]
Read MoreI 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, [...]
Read MoreAs you now know, I am, and have been for quite some time, engaged and occupied with organizing the Dreaming & Healing conference, so I will share with you the articles my dear colleagues have been writing in support of our collective endeavor. Our first guest writer, dear friend and colleague [...]
Read MoreYou may have come across this very inspiring, very challenging invitation from 13th-century Sufi poet and mystic Rumi: "A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." In contemplating this quote for several years, and with the intention to forsake as many half-loves as one whole heart requires, I [...]
Read MoreDreamwork is in part the work of unpacking the multiple layers of meaning latent in our dreams. Rather than looking for external, predetermined references and definitions to interpret our dreams, we explore the infinite worlds and dimensions of possibility inherent in every aspect of our dreams. While there are many [...]
Read MoreFor the past two weeks we have been contemplating why and how blame and guilt show up in our nighttime dreams and waking life. After considering what is behind our hiding or running away, and behind our polarizing everything into right and wrong, perhaps we are ready to consider dreammaker’s [...]
Read MoreIt is often the case that our dreamtime reactions, as our automatic waking life reactions, are based on assumption and prejudice---conditioning from past experience---rather than on inquiry and curiosity, which would require our disidentified abiding in the present moment. Far from criticizing us, dreammaker offers us the opportunity to objectively [...]
Read MoreIf we have been curious about dreams for long enough, surely we have read or been told that whenever we are running away from something in our dreams, we should turn around and find out what it wants. In our dreams, we may have the police after us, killers stalking us, [...]
Read MoreHow often are we so offended and indignant in our dreams, suspicious, judgmental, unyielding or utterly relentless, persistent, unwavering? How often are we so quick to declare victory, to revel in our self-righteousness, celebrate our vindictiveness, or dwell in our sense of loss and wallow in our victimhood? It cannot be [...]
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