Today is the first and the last day of my life. Every day is the first and the last day of my life. Each breath the first and the last, each encounter the first and the last. As a friend recently said, I am practically already dead, except I am [...]
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 MoreIt is very tempting to feel accomplished and fulfilled when the me-in-the-dream, the dream ego, does something heroic and saves the dreamtime day. The dream ego is the aspect in our psyche that is most identified with our waking self, with our waking ego, personality, and assumed personal identity. And it [...]
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