as published in the INELDA newsletter As soon as I entered the apartment, this private place, something broke. The towel rack fell. The shower curtain could not hold the waters that washed me down, and the floods began. The washing machine started seeping, the air conditioner started leaking, the remote control [...]
Read MoreIn my dream, I am arriving late at an end-of-life doula training. My colleague is overworked and exhausted, and she is falling asleep at the podium. I am there to step in to teach. I tap her on her shoulder and she does not wake up. Willy, who died in [...]
Read More"Where was my father when he was alive? He was in my consciousness. Where was my relationship with him when he was alive in the physical body? The love that I felt, the connection, the bond, were all in my consciousness. Where is he now? In my consciousness." — Deepak [...]
Read MoreAs we more and more move our personal and professional lives online and into video conference rooms, we may question our capacity for intimacy, connection, and making meaning of our lives, our work, our interactions, our relationships, our individual and shared experiences through screen images and speaker sound. Those of us [...]
Read MoreOur 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 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 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, [...]
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