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 MoreToday 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 MoreI have heard it said that what we are good at is not a strength if doing it does not strengthen us, if it drains or abhors us. At the same time, what gives us strength may come naturally—or rather, impulsively—to us, yet it is not necessarily what is easiest [...]
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 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 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 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 [...]
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