Our dreams, if we are able to regularly recall them, are evidently committed to providing us daily with information and guidance relevant to our current circumstances in one way or another. In their unique, unexpected—often altogether crude and tactless—ways, dreams offer clues, insight, instruction, and, when asked, they wanderingly [...]
Read More“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 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 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 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 [...]
Read MoreOur dreams invite us to consider our associations to the word and gesture of sacrifice when we are invited or forced to make offerings we had not considered in waking life. What kinds of situations are our dreams forcing us to put up with and tolerate? Often the most difficult [...]
Read MoreAs in waking life, considerable emotional charge usually comes with the event of separation, of feeling left out or of feeling left behind in our dreams. We are traveling with a group, and suddenly we find ourselves left behind and having to make our own way. We are participating in [...]
Read MoreThere are times in life when the sense of lack and loss is overwhelming, and there are other times when we don't even have the chance to realize something is missing. And so we find ourselves losing something or someone or someplace or sometime in our dreams, from our wallet, our [...]
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