Evolution of the Dream Movement Since 1982 Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 $7.00 USA/$8.50 Canada
A Journal Exploring Dreams & Mythology
“I Am Your Grandfather... “ • Russell Arthur Lockhart Dreaming Our Way to the Heart of the World • Robert Moss Discovering the Mythic Dimension in Dreams • with Jonathon Young Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 1 Tending to the Soul of the World • An interview with Richard Wilkerson 2 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 3 Statement of Purpose
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4 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Table of Contents
The Mythic Connection Upcoming Focus 9 Discovering the Mythic Dimension for Volume 22 No. 2 in Our Dreams An Interview with Jonathon Young Evolution of the The Art of Dream Manifestation ‘Dream Movement’: 12 “I am your Grandfather... “ Feminine Perspectives Dreams, Synchronicity & the Future by Russell Arthur Lockhart, Ph. D. Lifeline: 4 Weeks The Art of Dream Education: The Dream Movement after you receive 16 How Close Have We Come to Restoring this issue. Dreams to Their Rightful Place in Society? by Montague Ullman, M.D. 19 Dreaming Our Way About Our Cover Artist to the Heart of the World by Robert Moss Cover Art: “Soul” 23 Tending to the Soul of the World ©2003 by Lois Stanfield, An Interview with Richard Wilkerson LightSource Images 26 Pioneering Dreamwork O.N.L.I.N.E by John W. Herbert, Ph.D. Lois Stanfield has been working a 29 How the Dream Movement is Creating s a graphic designer and digital A Viable Profession: A Model in Progress artist/photographer for twenty by Cody Sisson years. Her designs and images have 32 Lucid Dreams, Nested Dreams graced the covers of scores of books by Curtiss Hoffman and publications. Recently she mar- ried her many years of experience in 34 Frequently Asked Questions digital imaging with her love and About Dreams study of dreams and spiritual truths with Eric & Tom Goad, Nicki & Roberta Ossana and is focusing on creating fine art Dream Inspired Poetry images that radiate love, grace and 36, 37 Tears of Blood • Sacred Psychology beauty. by David Sparenberg “Soul” was created to represent The Art of Dreamsharing the wholeness of self and the unfold- 40 The Phenomenon of Voice Dreams ment of the spiritual self to higher by Dean McClanahan truths within the grace and beauty of Features God’s love. 6 Editorial 42 Book Reviews Fine art prints and greeting cards by Victoria Vlach & April Chase of this and similar themes can be 44 Dreaming Insights Into Relationships found on her website at http:// by Janice Baylis, Ph.D. www.lightsource-images.com. 45 DreamTimes by Marlene King 48-51 Networkers/Dream Groups/Classified
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 5 DREAMS.... Show us the future, lives and culture. The vast number of shed light on the past.... people who have been becoming Editorial even past lives. aware of the many functions dreams serve on an every day/every night ♥ ↔ ♥ We Know dreams are essential and basis has increased considerably over vital tools in therapy, yet they can be the past few decades and it is to people engaged in silence, in our journals, What is the Dream — like those contributing to this issue with our spouse, our children, our — that credit is to be given. They are Movement? One could write an neighbors, in dream groups.... among the pioneers in western culture. entire book in answer to that question. because we know that we all dream, This, for me, is the Dream Movement. But then, it could be summed up with every night. these five brilliant, yet simple words This publication has been filled for In dreams, we are often prepared for gifted the ‘movement’ by Monte over twenty years with accounts of the death of a loved one, and Ullman: “If it were my dream... .” how dreams have changed and in- There!.... is provision of ground for Those words typify the movement, the spired individual lives and I am so contact with them from the ‘other ‘socialization’ of dreams. The move- grateful to have contributed. This issue side.’ ment from sharing dreams almost contains the voices of many indi- exclusively in a therapeutic setting to Dreams are known to have been the viduals actively involved in achieving dreamsharing with friends, in groups, catalyst for authoring books, our common goal. To each contributor, even on the beach or in line at the composing music, creating new our gratitude for the experience and grocery store. As Robert Moss so inventions, inspiring poetry, knowledge shared, the time and accurately states in his article, “ ... the creating art & sculptings. thought given. ‘if-it-were-my-dream’ protocol for Dreams Prophesy, they Appreciation to Janice Baylis for commenting on someone else’s dream Are Spirit’s way of speaking to us... her four+-year-old contribution/ developed by Montague Ullman, has Dreams... HEAL. column “Dreaming Insights Into been a tremendous gift to dream- Relationships, which concludes with workers all over the map.” ( Moss, p. 20) Dreams... REVEAL.” Thank you, Monte. Please consider ≈ ≈ ≈ ∞ ≈ ∞ ≈ ≈ ≈ this issue. Watch for a compilation of this issue one heartfelt tribute to your So, where have we been and where these priceless articles in her new Especial thanks incredible contribution. Visualize are we headed in terms of ‘Evolving a booklet, coming soon. to our Advertisers hands clapping and hats tipping to you Dream Cherishing Culture?’ Three+ , past, present and and surrounding your picture on page decades ago, when my own dreams future and to you, readers, a special 16. They’re there! began inspiring and beguiling my request to support their work; we need attention, there was very little inform- to support one another because re- In a talk I gave a few years ago on ation available to help me understand gardless of progress made to date, we dreams and Dream Network Journal, the what was happening, what was being have a long way to go! To all Region- following was part of the presentation, communicated. Though what I shared al/Contact Dreamworkers (p. 48), if I may quote myself: sincere gratitude for offering your ≈ ≈ ≈ ∞ ≈ ∞ ≈ ≈ ≈ (above) is brief, there is considerable insight in those few words, gained services and expertise so willingly. “We have learned that dreams.... primarily because the information is For giving gift subscriptions and ... can be incubated to solve problems, there for us, now, and dreams are generous contributions, gratitude to answer questions, provide guidance becoming recognized as a valuable Sally Burgin, Rita Dwyer, Allen Flagg, Mary Flaten, Edith Gilmore, Brooke Dreams often provide timely part of our being, of our lives. Heartsong, Curtiss Hoffman, Dean warnings for ourselves or for As is mentioned throughout this McClanahan, Frank Stefano, Rosemary another. issue, there are organizations, groups, Watts, Noreen Wessling and Leon Van Provide insight! books, publications, movies, etc., that Leeuwen, You... and many others too Bring darkness into light. are helping us individually and co- numerous to mention. Your generous Dreams.... Awaken us. Frighten us. llectively... but in the final analysis, it support makes it possible to continue ♥ Shake us up. Puzzle and perplex us. is what we each do with the ingenious this work. My love to you all. content presented to us in our dreams Allow us to awaken within them Note: As seems to happen on the average that counts. Whether we share with a and, if we are inclined, control them. of every two years, we found ourselves friend, in a group, in therapy — or behind schedule and have combined Vol. In dreams, we can meet together in simply hold the images/story in mind 21#4 & Vol. 22#1/a double issue. If you are the Dreamtime reality... a time and until the signs and synchronicities in a subscriber, we will be extending your space beyond time-place. our everyday lives provide the hint or subscription by one issue to compensate. In dreams, we can FLY! confirmation — dreams are becoming Thank you for your patience and Or Die... and Be Reborn an accepted, and expected, part of our understanding. 6 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 and created many reference pieces I have a weekly dream interpre- which I can share. I am also very con- tation group meeting at our house, as nected with other Dream Tenders and well as a French conversation group, Letters so use them as references quite often (about 4 people in each). These meet- as needed. ings are the result of a delightful ♥ ↔ ♥ I also wanted to tell you that this couple having started a Natal South new issue of Dream Network is really Coast group as part of a country-wide great. I have enjoyed every single ar- movement called the U3A, or Univer- After reading your Credo, (see ticle immensely and really want you sity of the Third Age, in which elderly http://DreamNetwork.net/credo- to know that all your hard work is ap- and retired people come together to .html) I felt very much in alignment preciated. ␣ Excellent job! Be well, teach one another, for free, whatever with the intention of the Dream Net- Bambi Corso, Newbury Park, CA skills they might have acquired dur- work.␣ Since dreams have been such a We welcome with openheart Bambi to our ing their working years. Everybody huge part of my life for about 23 years, listing of contact persons (pg. 48). To all gains, some by learning, others by I have developed a passion for them readers, please realize these fine dream- teaching and all by staying actively that is one of the driving forces in my workers are offering to help you find your busy. life. I think the reason for this passion way in dreamland. Take advantage of their Now whether all this activity is is that the dream has such an ability to expertise(Editor) like Nero playing the fiddle while bring people to consciousness, to wake Rome was burning is another question. . ≈ ≈ ≈ ∞ ≈ ∞ ≈ ≈ ≈ up to oneself and one’s surroundings; But ultimately one can only play one’s one of my biggest life goals is to assist part to the best of one’s ability. We have in any way that I can in bringing con- Dream News from South Africa little influence on world events, other sciousness to this planet. I know the I want to share that I plan to than to send thoughts and feelings of healing ability of dreams to bring the make a trip to Cape Town, where I love and peace out into the world at smallest and biggest things into focus, spoke on dream interpretation at the large, a love and peace we must first and so my motivation and intent in Body Mind Spirit festival at the Uni- feel in our own inner being. making myself available is to just point versity of Cape Town last year. This BE well, GO well all dreamers - people in the right direction, and help time it is to give a similar talk at the Charles De Beer, Umtentweni SA them to understand what a true gift Art of Living Festival which will be held email: [email protected] and portal dreams are. I already do on 5th-6th April 2003 in Cape Town. that whenever I see an opportunity, as We hope to again stop over at Copies of Charles De Beers two ex- I realize how little most people really various places on the way to meet ceptional books are available for purchase know about dreams and how they friends and give talks to pay our way; ($10 each) through DNJ, PO Box 1026, rarely know who to consult about it. I will also be selling some copies of Moab, UT 84532 I have studied under Dr. Stephan my 2nd book. The itinerary is in the ≈ ≈ ≈ ∞ ≈ ∞ ≈ ≈ ≈ Aizenstat for a few years now and process of being drawn up, and we have completed all of his Dream Tend- What a surprise to have just re- will probably leave here around 15th ing courses, coming out of them as a ceived the recent issue of DNJ and see of March, and back a month or so later. Certified Dream Tender. I am con- that you used one of the collage im- Last month, I gave a poorly at- stantly working on expanding my ages I’d sent. Thanks for the extra cop- tended half-day workshop on dream knowledge in this area to include a ies too. I’ve read on about half of the interpretation in Pietermaritzburg, variety of other things, such as Arche- issue: really evocative, excellent ar- but as this was my first such work- types and Mythology.␣ ticles! You’re doing just super with shop (as against the many talks on the As far as what resources I would your choices of topics and material. subject) I was quite pleased with the need, I believe that a list of other Congratulations to you! Be well and experience and was given some valu- people in my area that are contact keep on dreaming your dreams on- able tips. I can build on this if I can people would be beneficial. I have a ward. Frances Ring, Boca Raton, FL arrange other such workshops in variety of resources already, including Durban and Johannesburg. We stayed (We apologize for having misspelled a large library of books to refer to over with friends near PMBG and had Frances’ name (not Francis) in acknowl- people, the Dream Group booklet that a lovely time, the whole trip being edging her as our Cover/Collage Artist for I purchased online from Dream Net- most enjoyable! the last issue/Vol. 21#3. Editor) work on how to start a dream group, I also spoke on dreams at the ≈ ≈ ≈ ∞ ≈ ∞ ≈ ≈ ≈ and some cassette tape series that I Durban Lodge of the Theosophical have found helpful. In addition, I am ou are doing a great service to Society last month; it was well at- Y a member of the Association For The the dream community with DNJ. I tended, much appreciated and we Study of Dreams and have also taught very much appreciate your efforts! stayed over with friends and had a a dream workshop at a Yoga retreat Regards, Curt Hoffman, Ashland, MA most enjoyable outing. Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 7 “ Mythology is the“ Mythology is the interface betweeninterface between what can be knownwhat can be known and what is never to benand what is never to ben discovered, because it isdiscovered, because it is a mystery transcendenta mystery transcendent of all human research.of all human research. It is the source of life!”It is the source of life!” Joseph Campbell
8 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 The Mythic Connection Discovering theDiscovering the Mythic Dimension in Our DreamsMythic Dimension in Our Dreams
An Interview with Jonathon Young
Interviewed by Roberta Ossana
JY: The center is a training group that the dreamer, the message is amplified. offers around a hundred seminars a A dream with a magical charac- year nationally on uses of mythic tales ter might suggest a fairy godmother to understand personal psychology. or a sorcerer. One does not have to be The idea started brewing in 1995. I had a classics scholar to know a few sto- just finished establishing the Joseph ries with supernatural characters. A Campbell - Marija Gimbutas Archives good way to host a significant dream and Library at Pacifica Graduate Insti- image is to read several parallel tute. I had also launched the James mythic adventures right away. Any Hillman Collection. My last big project detail in the dream that reminds us of at Pacifica was creating and chairing a a story is a bridge. Extensive research Department of Mythological Studies in not necessary. The dreamer can just offering masters and doctoral pro- glance through the key images in the grams. At that point, I had been teach- dream and see if any stories featuring ing in academic settings for twenty those items come to mind. The quick years, and wanted more time to travel association is often the best, even if we DNJ:␣ Thank you for taking the time and lecture. I started the center and don’t see why immediately. for this interview, Jonathan. Since you began doing seminars on the mythic If we have a series of dreams with are a new personality to our readers, imagination. It has been deeply re- magical figures, we might be getting would you please begin by sharing a warding to speak around the country information about personal mythol- little of yourself: your background, on ways to maintain a rich inner life. ogy. Any recurring image is likely to your passion and bliss? DNJ: : Would you give an example reflect the underlying pattern of our Jonathan Young: My interest lives. It takes great diligence to dis- in symbolism was fueled by studies of the process of calling up mythic sto- ries to understand a dream? Further, cover the story that is going on in one’s with Rollo May back in the seventies, life. The repeating motifs of dreams during my doctoral studies in psy- how can our dreams help reveal our unique personal mythology? provide clues. Finding the wisdom chology. The idea of using mythic sto- tales that match our dreams is the next JY: ries to understand dreams and other ␣␣ Often, an image in a dream will big step. aspects of the inner life took hold of be reminiscent of a mythic story. Say DNJ: my imagination during that time. I the dream takes place in an old tower. DNJ: You said, “A good way to host grew up in a strongly religious family On waking, the dreamer might notice a significant dream image is to read and knew stories from the Scriptures. that the tower seems like the one in the several parallel mythic adventures It was an epiphany to discover other Rapunzel fairytale. It deepens the ex- right away.” Which sources of refer- wisdom tales from around the world. perience of a dream to review the tale ence would you recommend to the Many great spiritual leaders taught and reflect on the symbolic implica- average person interested in their through parables. The inner journey tions of how the dream image appears dreams — but who may not be famil- is the story that we seekers are living. in the story. The location of the tower iar with mythological stories or fairy I want to live it well. in a forest suggests immersion in dif- tales? ficulty or mystery. The courtship Or, said another way, how do we DNJ: What is the Center for Story and theme points toward wholeness. If any find the wisdom tales that match our Symbol? How did it come to be? of the aspects of the story resonate with dreams? Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 9 Joseph Campbell and Jonathon Young
JY: JY:␣ First of all, a person dedicated to JY:␣␣␣␣ My sense is that our lives, includ- he described the mythic dimensions of studying their dreams could ask them- ing dreams, are richly archetypal. My familiar symbols from the Judeo- selves each time they review a dream perspective on this is a bit more sweep- Christian tradition, I found a level of if anything in it reminds them of a fa- ing than some other observers. I see engagement with images that had lost miliar story. That alone can begin re- daily life as abundantly mythic. Even their luster. He showed that the great vealing links between dreams and ordinary activities like shopping for spiritual traditions could be seen as mythology. Another approach is to groceries have qualities of ritual activ- rich psychology. After decades as an make lists of favorite stories. It doesn’t ity. In the supermarket, it is easy to earnest seeker, I discovered a way to matter if they are fairytales, myths, imagine that one is a hunter seeking see the significance of everyday expe- movies, novels, or television shows. sustenance. Virtually all stories, from rience. Virtually all fiction has mythic ele- action movies to TV comedies, are full Even the small comments Joe ments. Next, review key dreams to see of initiatory elements. made at meals were memorable. I if there are any key images that also The dream is everywhere we look. mentioned once, as the food arrived, appear in the stories. Many of my cli- I see symbols and archetypes in almost that I used to say grace before meals, ents found they had a whole series of every aspect of contemporary living. but had let it go. After some changes dreams that fit certain genres of sto- There are so many ways to work with in my beliefs, I wasn’t sure exactly who ries that they loved. There are several the mythic imagination. Those who I would thank. He said it was a fine fine books on dreams listed at my record their dreams regularly tend to ritual. He suggested that we might website, folkstory.com. The one that gain this perspective gradually over thank the animals and plants that had comes to mind is Inner Work by Rob- time. So do those who keep journals, died to provide life through the food ert A. Johnson. read poetry, paint, or compose music. we were about to eat. It was part of how he saw the whole world as a sort DNJ: DNJ:␣ A photo of yourself and Joseph How do you define the rela- of holy picture. Campbell accompanies this interview. tionship between dreams and mythol- When I was chosen to be the cu- He is one of my most cherished heroes ogy? rator of his archives, it felt like a true as well. Tell us about him. About JY: Joseph Campbell agreed with Carl calling. It was a great honor to work knowing him. About being so im- Jung that dreams are personal samples extensively with his wife, Jean Erd- pressed with his knowledge and per- of the mythic imagination. Myths are man, on how the collection would be son that you developed the archives like dreams that we have shared over assembled. A major effort involved and library that continue his legacy.␣ a long time. The more practice we get keeping everything as he had orga- What is the most significant or exploring our dreams, the louder the nized it. The system he developed to revelatory event you had with Joseph stories speak to us. The more we pon- keep his papers and books revealed his Campbell, directly? der the timeless tales, the deeper the perspective. He saw a deep underly- insights we gain from our dreams. JY: When I was assisting him at semi- ing pattern connecting the world’s nars, there were moments when he wisdom teachings. DNJ: Does this relationship only ex- was virtually explaining the secrets to DNJ: ist when the dream and/or symbols a fulfilling life. He gave me back a Would you be willing to share under consideration is clearly of an sense of the radiance of living. When one of your own most important archetypal nature? dreams-a dream, perhaps, which led 10 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 you onto this path-whose meaning example, the stories I already knew Courses on was amplified by a mythological would be sufficient to reveal the way story? to fulfillment. Shifting this perspec- Mythic Stories JY:␣␣␣␣ There was an important dream tive brought a profound feeling of in Depth Psychology possibility. It involved overcoming that I had in the eighties about the with Jonathan Young, Ph.D. my cultural insecurity and claiming time I was spending a good deal of Storyteller • Psychologist • Founding Curator time at Joseph Campbell’s seminars. the riches at hand. Joseph Campbell Archives In it, DNJ:␣␣ May I share one of my own Continuing Education Credit Available I am in Tijuana, Mexico trying to dreams for your response in this con- find my way across town. There is an text? Call 805 687-7171 for brochure old fisherman who knows the way, but JY: ␣␣␣␣ Certainly, I’d be happy to reflect or browse folkstory.com he isn’t around. I find his boat and on one of your dreams. notice a pair of his well-worn trousers. I DNJ: I had this dream several years hold them up and see that they would fit You are in the realm of the arts, a ago. It occurred after Dr. Campbell’s me. Finally the old fisherman shows up. place celebrating the imagination. This death and not long before I was to He has a marvelous kindly quality. He setting might mirror the part of your make a presentation on dreams and tells me that the street just across from inner life devoted to creativity. The fes- Dream Network at a conference. where we are standing will take me tival is a special occasion which may where I want to go. I protest that the I am walking through a park in my home indicate that the creative dimension is street he is suggesting is a dead-end that town with Joseph Campbell. something you value highly but per- goes less than a block. He says that there There is an Art Festival in progress and haps don’t visit every day. has been some recent work done, and the we are observing the happenings, You seem comfortable with Camp- street now goes through. surveying various booths, talking with bell, suggesting that this dream char- When I reflected on the dream, it people... essentially enjoying the occa- acter represents values that you know reminded me of the legends of Mer- sion. At one point, Joseph becomes quite well. This energy shows considerable lin. The great magician often appeared enthralled with the wares at one particu- autonomy in the dream, going into a as a common person of no great rank. lar booth and engages in conversation lively conversation with an artist on his If we treat ordinary people with re- with the artist. I am not involved in the own. This implies an alliance between spect, one might be the sage who exchange... or the subsequent purchase the qualities constellated in the image could tell you what we need. I could he makes. He then appears very fully in of the mythologist and the dimension tell that the old fisherman was also Jo- front of me, within inches of my face. of imagination. seph Campbell, who was showing me He holds up a necklace he just purchased, The concluding details are par- how to proceed in my journey. The hands it to me and says: ticularly arresting. Campbell reap- symbolic connection with religion was “I want you to give this to Joseph pears abruptly and quite in your face, clear. I was in the process of leaving Campbell.” as if to demand your intense attention. my fundamentalist roots behind and As I was awakening, I was struck The part of your life that would honor choosing a new set of beliefs. with the obvious Quest-ions: How can Campbell’s teachings seems to be gain- The pants fitting suggested that I give it to him when he’s giving it to ing priority among your inner agen- one day I would guide or advise oth- me? On another level, I knew he was das. He holds up a necklace. That is a ers. The street that was close at hand deceased, and thought I was to some- feminine object of beauty. It also re- turned out to be the way. This matches how deliver the necklace to him ‘on the minds me of the elegant chains of of- my love of using familiar stories and other side.’ fice worn by high officials long ago. well-known cultural symbols to teach JY: The dream starts in a landscape The Lord Mayor of London still wears the great mysteries. The tales we al- that is familiar to you, as if to make a fancy necklace-like badge of office on ready know are full of mythic wis- clear it is a message to you about your ceremonial occasions. dom. Mexico has often been a meta- life and work. Clearly Joseph Camp- If my free association means any- phor for the unconscious in my bell is a mentor figure. As such, he thing, it implies that the feminine val- dreams. This stems from a simple vi- could represent your inner wisdom or ues that your work honors will take sual pun. Mexico is below the U.S. on higher self. Examples from stories of you to a position of influence. The maps, just as the unconscious is be- this energy would include the Fairy dream came just before you were to low the conscious in many diagrams Godmother or Glinda, the Good Witch. give a significant lecture. It reveals a explaining psychological theory. We all have the benefactor waiting foresighted awareness that there The nearby road was no longer a within to guide us, even though they would be many more important pre- dead-end. The Merlin character was disappear occasionally to let us find sentations in your future. telling me that familiar avenues our own way. They then reappear un- Campbell’s request that you give would lead to the goal I sought. For expectedly with mysterious advice. (Continued on page 39) Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 11 The Art of Dream Manifestation
“I am your Grandfather…” Dreams,
Synchronicity
& the Future[1]
by Russell Arthur Lockhart, Ph.D.
MMY WEST VIRGINIA GRANDFATHER , my dad's dad, was once the checkers champion of the entire state. I didn't like checkers, so he taught me to fish and not to beMM afraid of those saucer-sized water spiders lurking in the rivers there. My California grandfather, my mom's dad, was a baseball fanatic. He taught me to play baseball and took me to games and introduced me to the players—like shortstop Billy Shuster, my boyhood idol. He played for the old Los Angeles Angels and I'd always go with grandpa when they played the Hollywood Stars at Wrigley field. It's gone now. Both grandfathers too. Parents as well. All memories now. Before Mom died, I had a dream. A man of 50-60 or so, dressed in an old and obviously hand-knitted sweater and wearing a cap like I'd never seen before, came up to me, close enough to touch, and looked me dead in the eye. “I am your grandfather,” the unknown figure said, drilling the words so deeply into me I could only believe him... in the dream.
12 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 action. Only silence and that piercing Of course, since I had known both initial dream of my grandfather, my look. mother died. Even so, another eight my grandfathers, there could be no The dream came a third time. years would pass before I finally took literal truth to this strange claim. So, I I can feel even now the cold shiv- up the search for my grandfather in reveled in the idea that I had an ering the dream brought as I woke. I earnest! “inner” grandfather, one who looked was scared. I could feel in my bones ␣␣␣ The service tag my mother had like he might be “of he sea” (that rough that the dream meant something, some given me was metal. On one side, in sweater and moldy cap). meaning I was not getting. That's why raised, silver-soldered hand lettering, As a Jungian analyst in my profess- dreams repeat themselves. I told my were the initials, USN, my grand- ional life, I am accustomed to working analyst again with some urgency and, father’s name, Frank Davis, and two with dream figures imaginally, giving out of exasperation, he said, “Go tell dates: 12-14-17 and 8-24-9s. USN them the weight of time and warmth this dream to your mother.” How he obviously stood for United States of attention. This attention takes the arrived at this bit of instruction neither Navy. I took the date 8-24-9s, to be my form of conversations, or picturing he nor I could ever fathom. After much grandfather’s birth date. The other such images in paint or making them resistance, I did as he said. And when date quite possibly was the date of his in clay, or otherwise “manifesting” I told my mother the dream, she enlistment. The photograph showed them, perhaps in listening to them tell became hysterical, and in the midst of him as a serious young man in Navy their stories or watching them unveil her wailing, cried out, “How did you uniform. On the obverse side of the themselves in myriad ways. So, it was know?” tag, was my grandfather’s thumbprint, natural for me to take up these imag- It took forever to get the sense of imprinted in the metal. How strange inal efforts in relation to my newly what she was asking. She was so upset. it was to put my thumb on his! Hardly announced grandfather. When she finally calmed down, she a day passed when I didn’t touch his Technically, Jung called these pro- told me that when her mother was thumb this way, a gesture, in spite of cedures “active imagination,” and the dying she revealed a long held secret so much delay, which said: “Yes, key was to approach such dream that the man my mother had known grandfather, I will find you.” I attached figures without agenda and wait for as her father was not her father. Her his tag to my Swiss Army Knife and to them to respond spontaneously. So, I true father was a man named Frank this day, it’s always with me. turned to this imaginal realm and Davis, a sailor she had fallen in love At last, armed with these dates and reimagined this grandfather of my with while her first husband was away all resistance overcome, I called the dream world. And yes, there he was, at war. She gave my mother Frank's Office of Naval Records and was told looking at me with those eyes. I waited service identification tag and a picture that without a serial number, it would in silence and he said nothing. I spoke of him as a young man, and told her: be very difficult to find a particular to the figure, welcomed him. No “That's all I have left of him, except for individual record. Unfortunately, the response. Just that look. I painted his you.” use of serial numbers didn’t begin until picture. Silence. Over the next days, I My mother, being a fiercely proud 1920, and my grandfather most likely tried all this again and again, the redhead, kept this story and these joined the navy in 1917, according to outcome always the same. Just that things hidden away for years, not the tag. I persisted, however, and asked look boring and drilling through me. telling even my father of what she had where the physical records were kept Time passed, events intruded, and I learned. And as my mother told her for the year 1917. After many inquiries, forgot my grandfather. story to me, she gave me my grand- I finally spoke to someone in a deep Some weeks later, I had the dream father's picture and his tag, and said, basement in St. Louis, told them my again. Just as before, the same figure, “He seems to want you to know about story, and with their enthusiastic that same sweater and cap, again him.” cooperation, set them to looking spoke those words: “I am your grand- Spurred by the dreams and my through the records by hand. father.” At this point, I told this dream mother’s stunning-revelations, I vow- After much searching and narrow- to my analyst. He told me to redouble ed to find my grandfather. However, ing down, I was finally sent the my imaginal work with the image. I like so many good intentions, I kept enlistment and discharge papers for did. No change. The figure simply putting off this search. There were Frank Davis. I learned that he was born would not speak in these imaginal always good reasons! My mother in Mertens, Texas, on August 24, 1890s; encounters. I had never before exper- insisted that Frank Davis had died a he had indeed joined the Navy on ienced such muteness on the part of young man, although admittedly this December 14, 1917, just as was shown an image. I made a sculpture of this was only a “feeling” she had about on the tag. He enlisted as fireman third figure and called it “Grandfather of the him. For reasons she would not elab- class. He was discharged for an un- Inward Seas.” [One can get a bit carried orate, she was reluctant to have me do specified “physical disability” only a away in these realms!] I did everything anything that might open something few months later, on June 18, 1918, I knew how to do (or my analyst knew she wanted to keep at rest. So, I given $3 for bus fare, and sent from how to do) to engender some inter- delayed my search. Four years after the Brooklyn, New York to Tobe, Colo-
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 13 rado. His occupation was listed as So, at last, in September 1991, I set worsened. I was able to find a record farmer and his disability upon dis- off to find my grandfather. of my mother’s death and birth dates charge was indicated as unrelated to My first stop was the Animas in the Social Security Index, but no military service. The papers indicated County Courthouse in Trinidad. There record at all for Frank Davis. Feeling that Tobe was the residence of his I searched for the birth record of my quite discouraged, nose dripping, mother, Lula Davis--my newly dis- mother. I came to an immediate dead sneezing and full of fever, I left Pueblo covered great-grandmother. end, because I didn't know what she and headed toward Kim. Instead of My mother was born on April would have been named. Delphene taking the main highway, I took the 19,1919, in Trinidad, Colorado. Assum- Elizabeth… what? What surname back roads, wanting to drive slowly, ing a normal pregnancy, she was most would she have been given? So, I went guzzling NyQuil and gobbling cough likely conceived sometime in July 1918. to the newspaper records for April drops all the way. Frank’s discharge and travel to Tobe 1919, scouring all the birth announce- For the first 60 miles east on US in June 1918, was an important con- ments in the local paper. There was no Highway 50, I went through forgett- firmation that he was in the Trinidad mention of my mother under any able little towns like Avondale, Fowler, area where my grandmother, Francis name. There was no announcement of Manzanola, Rocky Ford, Swink; forget- Maybeth Talbot, was living. her birth. Of course, since she was table because there was nothing tying Excitedly, I called information in illegitimate, that made a certain am- me to them. The scenery was flat Colorado and asked for Tobe, only to ount of sense. I knew that my grand- desert, grasslands of the old Comanche be told that there was no such place. mother’s father was a prominent territory. At La Junta, before I turned Undaunted, I called the Public Library photographer in Trinidad and part of south on State Road 109, my cold was in Denver, and after locating a very the inner circle of Trinidad's high getting much worse and I was totally responsive librarian, I learned that society at the time. This birth must exhausted. As I looked at the map and Tobe was never a full-fledged town, have been a scandalous problem for saw there were no towns, no monu- but only a Port Office, located about the family. No doubt the announce- ments, nothing at all for the 50 mile 10 miles east of Trinidad. The librarian ment of my mother’s birth was supp- drive between La Junta and Kim—just also gave me the name and phone ressed.␣ Back at the courthouse, I straight road across a flat plain—I number of Ike Ostein, of Springfield, looked through all available birth decided to stop and spend the night. Colorado, telling me that — although certificates for the time period. There Common sense dictated that I would an amateur historian — he was the was no certificate for any name re- be in better condition to explore nearest thing to an authority on the motely similar to my mother’s name. whatever Kim would offer me after a history of Southeastern Colorado, and At the public library, I discovered long sleep. Stopping at a motel as might be helpful to me in my search phone books for the period 1917-1919. undistinguished as any other in these for connections to Tobe. I found the address for my great parts, I unfolded myself from the car, I immediately called Ike, and I told grandfather’s house and went to see stretched, and became quite dizzy. him what I knew about Frank Davis. it. It was still there and I took a picture. Suddenly and inexplicably, I found He was not familiar with any specific Curiously, I felt resistant to bothering myself taking an instant dislike for the Davis family members, but did direct the present tenants with a request to motel. I don't know what put me off, me to the owners of the general store visit the house itself. I wanted to find but the feeling was extraordinarily in the small town of Kim, the closest something of my mother in this town intense... almost a fear. In any event, it town still in existence near where the but there was nothing. Someone was sufficient to get me on the road Tobe post office used to be. He also suggested I go to Pueblo and look up again, dizziness and all. I looked for kindly sent me several of his books on both her and my grandfather in the another motel but there was none. And the history of various locales in South- sources there. I was told that, in the so, in this strange state of mind, I eastern Colorado and seemed more Mormon Church of Pueblo, Colorado, headed south for Kim. than pleased to find someone actually there was a near copy of the famous It was nearly five in the afternoon interested! It seemed he had many Mormon archives in Salt Lake City. when I entered Kim, population 80, as more books than readers. the sign proclaimed. It was not hard I figured I now had enough gen- I was very disheartened by not finding the general store. It was across eral knowledge to make a trip to finding any record of my mother. the street from the gas station. I Trinidad worthwhile. I felt compelled Moreover, I began to come down with reminded myself I should fill up before to find confirmation of my mother’s a rapidly developing cold. On the leaving. As far as I could see, except birth. I would search out Tobe, even if eighty-mile drive north on Interstate for a few houses and a few more it wasn’t there anymore, and go to 20 to Pueblo, I was miserable. I arrived buildings, this was the extent of Kim. Kim, seeking connection to someone in a terrible mood, inflicting it un- Parked in front of the general store, who might know of the family called mercifully on a most amiable librarian trying to work up the enthusiasm and Davis, a man called Frank, and his at Pueblo’s Mormon Archive. In spite energy to go in, I recalled from reading mother called Lula. of her enthusiastic help, my mood (Continued on page 46) 14 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 The Art of Dream Education
The Evolution of the
Dream Movement
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 15 How Close Have We Come to Restoring Dreams to Their Rightful Place in Society?
by Montague Ullman, M. D.
The short answer is: We have hardly made a dent. The long answer is that even though the goal may never be reached, there still remains a goal... and for the first time since the rise of the Industrial Revolution, a start has been made. I will briefly call attention to what I consider to be the signifi- cant accomplishments and what I see as the main obstacles that work against achieving that goal.
16 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Looking Back... Dreams are a Universal Network Journal, addressed to the Human Experience general public and describing various Note that the title refers to the approa-ches to dreams and how to rightful place in society. It is over a This very brief backward glance work with them. Dream groups are being led by both mental health pro- century since dreams have found any reveals something quite remarkable. fessionals and lay people. Feeding into place at all in western culture. There is Dreaming is a universal human ex- this has been the dual purpose of the a place, but a very limited one. I am, perience, always was and always will Association for the Study of Dreams of course, referring to Freud’s disco- be. Phylogenetically we have the same in fostering greater scientific interest very of dreams as the “royal road to neurological substrate for dreaming as other mammals. There is indirect in dreams and orienting the general the unconscious.” The shortcoming evidence that imaging occurs in the public to the personal significance of of that remarkable insight was that cyclical REM states of animals as well one’s dream life. An offshoot of this dreams were so theoretically en- as humans. Because we are more gifted interest has been the appearance of meshed in his early discovery of the intellectually than other mammals by college courses on dreams as well as psychopathology of hysteria that it virtue of our larger frontal cortex, the doctoral pro-grams sponsoring orig- required a novel and elaborate meta- likelihood is that animals’ dreams are inal research on dreams. psychological system to guide one more concrete and more akin to photo- The second is that within the onto that road. graphic replays than the imagery of psychoanalytic movement there have The universality of dreams was man. Our gift of metaphor has enabled been changes which I believe will channeled into the very narrow con- us to transform feelings and thoughts ultimately lead to the conclusion that tainer of the practice of psychoa- into abstract symbolic imagery. dreaming consciousness is a natural nalysis. Dreams became firmly lodged Dreams have been recognized as healing system as much as any other in the domain of the expert. Elaborate such and put into good use in antiquity bodily system. Revisionist theories of psychoanalytic training was required and in pre-literate cultures. Dreams the Freudian canon are slowly leading before one could embark upon that were awarded a proper place in the in this direction. Instinct theory is road. Should an outsider venture onto social order. Woven into the mythic yielding to more adaptational views. it he or she would come upon a huge and religious underpinnings of the Wish- fulfillment is no longer the sign saying: PRIVATE PROPERTY: social order, they had a special function fundamental impulse shaping our BEWARE OF THE ID! Freud did write in the maintenance of that order. All dreams. Jung’s views are closer to the a book on dreams addressed to the this disappeared in the Middle Ages truth about dreams, in my opinion, public outlining his theory of dreams when the Church, fearing the appear- than Freud’s were and have come into and introducing his new science of ance of Satan in the dreams of the focus in the past several decades. In recent years a trickle of psychoanalysts psychoanalysis. With the possible pious, banned the dream books that of different theoretical persuasions exception of Erich Fromm’s book, The were coming off the newly invented have engaged in group dream work Forgotten Lan-guage, most books on printing press. The Industrial Revo- open to the public. This could never dreams, until recently, were subse- lution managed to finish the job begun by the Church. Dream life went under- have been possible at the time I started quently written by psychoanalysts for ground. No social space was given to my psychoanalytic training in the mid- psychoanalysts. It was not until the last dreams in a society so entranced by forties. forty years following the REM-dream technological invention and scientific There is one other trend that is studies emerging from Nathaniel discovery. worth noting. It has not occurred in Kleitman’s laboratory at the University this country but has occurred in of Chicago and the consciousness- Returning Dreams Sweden. I have had the opportunity raising move-ment of the sixties, that to the Dreamer over the past three decades to train a cracks occurred in the wall separating great many people, professional and professional and layman. The wall is There are two significant develop- non-professional, in the theoretical still there, breach-ed in recent years by ments in recent years that bear on the approach I use in experiential group only a small number of psychoanalysts talk of returning dreams to the people dream work. This captured the interest who have written books inviting the who dream them. The first is the of Eva Zetterburg, a member of the public in and providing them with the growing dream group movement. Swedish Parliament. In turn, she tools they need to repossess their Along with this has been the flurry of interested a half dozen other members dreams. books and periodicals, like Dream of the Parliament in the possibility of
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 17 exploring and supporting group safety of the dreamer. There will be THE VARIETY OF dream work as a preventive measure problems in resolving these issues DREAM EXPERIENCE in furthering the mental health pro- when so many different theoretical Expanding our Ways of gram. She has not yet succeeded in structures are in place, such as Jungian, getting the funds necessary to initiate Freudian, Gestalt and various com- Working with Dreams this program but—along with a half binations. Second Edition dozen other members—she did succ- My own experience is that foll- by Montague Ullman and eed in arranging a one-day session owing a particular theoretical structure Claire Limmer, editors with representatives from all the health creates a situation where a leader who agencies serving the Stockholm Com- has mastered one or another theo- The versatility of dreams — their mune (Stockholm and its suburbs) retical position stands in a different intrinsic creativity and their healing where I had the opportunity to orient potential — extends beyond their clini- relationship to a group lacking this cal usefulness. This versatility comes them to my approach in a lecture and background. Theory can be an im- to life in the way this book’s contribu- to engage in dream work. Another pediment to the extent that it tends to tors have succeeded in extending slight bit of evidence of government set the leader apart from the others dreamwork into the public domain: the interest is the inclusion of experiential who are not privy to the same body of home, church and educational arena. dream group work as I practice it in a knowledge and technique. Dream The various new perspectives include: chapter in a high school text. Ulti- work flourishes in what might be • Literature mately if we are ever to achieve an called a psychological democracy, • Creative Writing enduring cultural impact, we will have when everyone works only with their • Cultural Anthropology to gain support from above, in the own given curiosity, imagination, political structure, as well as grow • The Priesthood feelings and sensitivities and where the from the ‘grass roots,’ from the grow- leader participates in dream sharing in • Political Science ing public interest in dreams. the same way that everyone else does. • Computer Science His or her only special responsibility • History Understanding the is to keep the group within a safe • Psychosomatic Medicine and Challenges We Face structure. Recourse to a particular • Individual/ & Group theoretical system runs the risk of Psychotherapy. Aside from considering these casting the dream into a particular Taken together, they illustrate the positive trends, it is important to mold. I work with only the basic far-reaching value of understand- understand the obstacles in the way of phenomenological features of the ing our dreams and how much they dreams coming into their own in our dream (its relevance to the present life can tell us about ourselves. culture. I’ll mention only a few. Dream situation, the integration of past felt groups have sprung up in a somewhat In this second edition of The memories to the present and the Variety of Dream Experience, signifi- helter-skelter fashion led by people profound honesty to be found in the cant changes have been made in the with different theoretical orientations resulting metaphorical imagery). The way the group process is structured, and with different levels of experience. two skills necessary to work with making it easier to master and more I don’t feel that reading books alone is dreams, listening and dialoguing with effective in its application. a sufficient basis for organizing groups the dreamer, can be taught to anyone. New chapters include: on a paying basis. Unless one is a The real difficulty that now con- 1. The importance of dreamwork in mental health professional or someone fronts the dream-oriented community the framing of pastoral counselors; who has had sufficient training in the is whether or not there is enough 2. How the experiential dream particular method being used, the concern with personal and social question of competence arises as to group process can be integrated honesty still available in a material- their readiness to take on unknown into group psychotherapy; istically oriented society to nourish the others and charge for their service. I personal and social truths that emerge 3. How the principles and rationale don’t qualify anyone, regardless of in the course of long range dream of the dream group process can how many special training sessions work. The level of destructiveness now be of help in individual therapy. they may have had. What I do stress, being played out in the world scene is however, are the skills they have to $62.50 HardCover * $20.95 Paperback a frightening reminder of how far we master, such as managing group are from harnessing political power to Order from SUNY Press process when tensions arise. There are human needs, one of which is to %CUP Services PO Box 6525 many things that can go wrong with facilitate emotional growth. Ithaca, NY 14851 whatever structure that is set us, which This is the main area in which our 607.277.2211 if not handled well, can threaten the dream life excels.♦ 18 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Dreaming Our Way To The Heart of the World
©2003 by Robert Moss If we could fold time, travel forward a century or two and then look backward, I believe we would find abundant confirmation that the rise of the dreamwork movement is one of the most important developments of the modern era.
Celtic Art by Anjalice Rigan Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 19 In my brighter vision of what is to access immense sources of energy and 5. Dreaming is for the community come, our society will be guided by knowledge at the heart of subatomic as well as the individual. dream helpers who are dreaming with space. Dreaming, they reach out to We need many more dream help- and for the Earth itself. Their constant educate and inspire those who will ers from all walks of life, contributing work is to help those around them to help humanity to find its way. a panoply of rich and varied perspec- use dreams for guidance and healing, I found myself tives, personalities and life experi- as a direct line to the God/Goddess we In a recent dream, voyaging into the world of the Kogi, a ences, to bring the gifts of dreaming to can talk to. Dream helpers play a cen- dreaming people who live on a sacred people where they live. tral role in health care; now it is recog- mountain in Colombia and succeeded in nized that dreams diagnose problems The next step, it seems to me, is isolating themselves from the outside before they manifest and that dream very simple, and hugely important. If world until the 1980s. I made my dream imagery and conscious interactive we are going to become a dreaming journey to the Kogi at the invitation of a dreaming offer vital tools for healing. society again, we need ways to make friend who had spent many months with Dreamworkers help the dying to pre- it easy and safe — and fun — to share them and had brought me a personal pare for the afterlife journey by follow- dreams with other people anywhere, message from one of their shaman- ing the path of the soul in dreams; in anytime. Our first service to others, as priests. I met a being who showed this way they learn to go through the dream helpers, is to confirm and vali- himself first as a giant bird, then as a swing-door of death with confidence date other people’s dream experiences, man in a conical hat. I saw vivid scenes and grace. In the workplace, the day and to encourage them to claim the full of his people on the mountain they begins with dream leaders helping col- power and energy of their dreams. regard as the heart of the world. Then he leagues to share their dreams and to And we need to be able to do this in opened a vision gate for me, inside the grow community visions. In our the thick of the hurry-sickness and dream. To my surprise, I found myself schools, our children become storytell- manifold distractions of contemporary looking at seemingly ordinary, middle- ers, communicators and creators by life. class Americans going about their daily sharing and giving creative expression business. I was catapulted into the mind to dreams, and get credits for doing this. Lightning Dreamwork of one of them and I was horrified. Here In this happy future, dream guides Over many years of teaching and was a decent family man, trying to do his are valued because they midwife cre- practice, I have evolved the simple and best, in utter ignorance of what is ativity and healing. Above all because powerful method for everyday dream happening to the forests and the seas, of it is understood that they help us to sharing that I call Lightning Dreamwork. the psychic forces that breed hatred and connect with soul and recognize that Like lightning, it is very fast and it fo- violence, and of the nature of the soul. this is vital to our survival as an evolv- cuses extraordinary energy. In the In that moment, I understood the ing species in balance with our envi- workshops, we allow just 8 minutes for immense cost of our Western igno- ronment. Dream travelers are re- the whole process to be applied to a rance, from the point of view of an spected because it is now common single dream. This does not mean that indigenous dreaming people. knowledge that they have direct access we can’t spend an hour — or a day — And I knew that the return of the to the flux of consciousness that par- with a dream when we have time and dreaming ways is the antidote. ticle physicists found to lie at the heart the dream invites that depth of explo- of matter—more specifically, to the ration. It does mean that when we use Dreamworkers may follow many dif- ‘hidden’ six or seven dimensions of the this process we always have time to ferent approaches to dreams, but by multiverse identified by superstring share our dreams, no matter how busy my observation they agree on the fol- theory, even before the end of the 20th our lives may be. lowing: century. The Lightning Dreamwork process In my darker vision of what is to 1. Dreams are important! makes it possible to share dreams and come, I see dream travelers and dream- 2. The only ‘expert’ on a dream is receive helpful feedback just about workers helping to rebuild our world the dreamer. anywhere: in the office, the E.R., at the after a catastrophe. In spontaneous 3. Dreams connect us to sources of family breakfast table or in the check- dreams and visions over many years, guidance that are wiser than the ev- out line at the supermarket. The guide- I have found myself traveling into a eryday mind. lines make it easy to share dreams with possible future in which an order of 4. Dreamers should help each complete strangers or with intimate priestess-scientists are trying to repair other, wherever possible, to open friends and family. the havoc caused by the ignorance and a safe and sacred space where This process incorporates the ‘if- violence of men of power who did not dreams can be shared and the it-were-my-dream’ protocol for com- listen to dreams. The dream priestesses dreamer can be offered non-intru- menting on someone else’s dream de- of the future have perfected the arts of sive feedback and guided to take veloped by Montague Ullman, which community dreaming and group appropriate action to honor the has been a tremendous gift to dream- dream travel, and have been able to dream. workers all over the map. 20 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 There are four key steps in the else what a dream means for them; we Lightning Dreamwork process. I have say only what it would mean for us, if written the instructions as if you are it were our dream. working one-on-one with the dream. In a dream circle, one member would Step Four: play ‘lead partner’ in guiding the pro- Taking Action cess, with the others contributing their to Honor the Dream suggestions and associations in the ‘if- it-were-my-dream’ phase. Finally the partner says to the dreamer, “How are you going to honor this Step One: dream?” ... or “How are you going to Telling the Dream act on the guidance of this dream?” as a Story with a Title Dreams require action! If we do not do something with our dreams in The dreamer tells the dream as waking life, we miss out on the magic. simply and clearly as possible. The Real magic consists of bringing some- dreamer should always be encouraged thing through from a deeper reality to leave out his/her autobiography, into our physical lives, which is why and tell the dream as a story, complete active dreaming is a way of natural in itself. When we do this, we claim tice, the dreamer may need to ask sev- magic ñ but only if we take the neces- our power as storytellers and commu- eral specific reality check questions fo- sary action to bring the magic through. nicators. We also avoid the appearance cusing on specific elements in the Keeping a dream journal and sharing of giving a license to others to probe dream. Here are a couple of broad- dreams on a regular basis are impor- into our personal lives, which must brush reality-check questions that can tant ways of honoring dreams and the never be permitted in dream sharing. be applied to just about any dream: powers that speak through dreams. The dreamer should be encour- - Do you recognize any of the people But we need to do more. aged to give the dream a title. It’s or elements in the dream in waking Turn a dream into a bumper amazing how the deeper meaning and life? sticker. This is always helpful. When shape of dream experiences jump into - Could any of the events in this dream we write a personal motto from a high relief when we do this. possibly happen in the future? dream, we not only distil its teaching; we begin to bring its energy through. Step Two: Question 3: What would you like to The Partner Asks Create from a dream: turn the dream know about this dream? into a story or poem. Draw from it, The 3 Vital Questions This simple question to the dreamer paint from it, turn it into a comic strip If the dreamer has forgotten to give the provides a clear focus for the next step. take a physical action to celebrate an dream a title, the partner should ask Step Three: element in the dream, such as wear- him/her to make one up. The next step Playing the ing the color that was featured in the is for the partner to ask three key ques- dream, traveling to a place from the tions: ‘If it were My Dream’ Game dream, making a phone call to an old Question 1: How did you feel when The partner tells the dreamer, ‘If it friend who showed up in the dream you woke up? were my dream, I would think about use an object or create a dream talis- The dreamer’s first emotional reac- such-and-such,’ man to hold the energy of the dream: tions to the dream are vital guidance The partner is now free to bring in A stone or crystal may be a good place on the basic quality of the dream and any associations, feelings or memories to hold the energy of a dream, and re- its relative urgency. the dream arouses, including dreams turn to it. Perform the dream through of their own that may contain similar spontaneous dance or theatre use the Question 2: Reality check themes. Often we understand other dream as a travel advisory: If the The reality-check question is de- people’s dreams best when we can re- dream appears to contain guidance on signed to establish whether the dream late them to our own dream experi- a future situation, carry it with you as reflects situations in waking life, in- ences. a personal travel advisory. Go back cluding things that might manifest in It is very rewarding to receive a into the dream to clarify details, dia- the future. Dreams often contain advi- totally different perspective on a logue with a dream character, explore sories about the possible future, and it dream, so sharing in this way with the larger reality and have marvelous is important not to miss these mes- strangers can be amazingly rich, as fun! In my workshops, we practice sages. By running a reality check, we long as the rules of the game are re- dream re-entry with the aid of help to clarify whether a dream is pri- spected. One of those ironclad rules is shamanic drumming and enter each marily (a) literal (b) symbolic or (c) an that we never presume to tell someone other’s dreamspace (with permission!) experience in a separate reality. In prac- Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 21 as trackers, to support the dreamer’s journey and to bring through additional guidance. Share the dream with some- one who may need the information. To the Place of the Heart Sharing dreams in this way opens paths to limitless ad- venture and healing. Once we have mastered the Lightning Dreamwork process, we can play the role of dream helpers and dream ambassadors (quite literally) on any street cor- ner. We soon find that dreams bring us, and can bring our communities, back to the place of the heart. When I was teaching in California in October 2002, I found myself in a dream that made this very clear: Mountain Lion Pulls Me Up to the Place of the Heart I am climbing a steep cliff, carrying a small white box. The cliff is hard to scale, but someone at the top lowers a beaded strap to me. When I grasp it, I am startled to see that the other end is held by a mountain lion. The mountain lion pulls me up, immensely higher than I had expected, until I am on a lofty peak with a commanding view over the coastline and nearby towns and forests. Now the lion directs me to open the box, and I take out a beating red heart. When I place it on a boulder at the summit, the heart beats steadily and powerfully. I know that the heartbeat is reaching people across a great distance. I feel the heartbeat shepherding them towards healing rhythms in their lives, and recalling them to the wisdom of the heart.
I shared this dream with a circle I was leading. We did more than discuss it. We agreed to travel inside it, in a con- scious group journey assisted by shamanic drumming. We climbed the mountain to receive healing and guidance in the realm of the animal guardians and the place of the heart. The heart center is where we find courage, and reconnect with what truly matters. Our role, as dream helpers, is to encourage each other to go there, and move beyond our conflict and confusion to the heart of the world. ♦
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© Robert Moss 2003 ROBERT MOSS is a lifelong dream explorer, a shamanic counselor, a novelist and a former professor of ancient history at the Australian National University. He teaches and practices Active Dreaming, an original approach that incorporates shamanic techniques for conscious dream travel and for bringing healing and guidance through interactive dream- ing. His many books include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates, Dreaming True and the novels The Firekeeper and The Interpreter, which describe the world of ancient Iroquois dream healers whom Robert first encoun- tered in his own dreams. Robert has founded a contemporary Dream School that offers classes and depth workshops at many levels, and a 3- year training for teachers of Active Dreaming. Visit his website at www.mossdreams.com.
22 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 TendingTendingTendingTending to the Soul of the Worldto the Soul of the World An Interview with Richard Wilkerson by Eric Snyder of the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group (BADG)
Eric Snyder: What, in your view, The 1980’s might be called the greatly enhanced by the Internet and are the most significant benchmarks/ Dream Movement Decade. The num- other networking organizations. The successes in terms of educating the ber of books on dreams and dreaming ability to network across the globe has public about dreams in the past 30-40 proliferated. The Dream Network brou- advanced the feeling that dreams are years? ght dreamers ideas together from a treasure crossing all national and Richard Wilkerson: In terms of around the US and the world. The religious boundaries. This has led to a dreamwork, the 1960’s break-out into pioneers in dreaming got together and sophistication in relation to dreams peer groups, the early books, the started the Association for the Study and dreaming that is unparalleled in experimental dream groups, the net- of Dreams, and dream groups could be history. There are many institutes, working newsletters and magazines found in all the US states and major schools and organizations that study like Dream Network Journal , the more cities. Lucid dreaming had moved dreams in relation to science, anthro- formal ASD organization and con- from the category of the occult to pology, psychology, religion, the arts ferences and finally the Internet. science, and New Age spirituality and humanities... and see dreams as a crucial part of these studies. The couch to culture break-out of reinforced the notion of the dreamer the 1960’s, where individuals began being the final authority on the mean- Eric Snyder: How do you see the experimenting with the multiform ing and value of their own inner ‘Dream Movement’ at this time? encounter groups that were somewhat experiences. Orthodox religious Richard Wilkerson: guided by the hope of liberation institutions that had persecuted people Slowly spreading, interconnecting, outside of traditional psychology and sharing dreams for centuries began to very rhizomatic. enlightenment outside of traditional offer dream groups. The ASD Dreaming The Dream Movement is difficult spirituality, seems to me a big marker journal found its way into major to capture as a whole at any one time in the change of dream sharing. Before educational libraries and international and period. One of the defining that time one had to embark on dream- and regional conferences were held on characteristics of the movement has work quests within the confines of a regular basis, bringing together been the lack of defining charac- therapy, or to be invited into a rare anthropologists, scientists and re- teristics. That is, dream folk tend to esoteric spirituality group (Like A.R.E. searchers, clinical therapists, religious do a lot of their work on their own and dream research groups). leaders, writers, and dream-inspired this trend is manifested outwardly as This evolution was fueled in the artists. well. Multiplicity of movement and 1970’s by researchers and their books. The 1990’s saw the advent of the plurality of progress follow along the Writers like Patricia Garfield with Internet and the ability for anyone who polyvocity of ideas and polytheism of Creative Dreaming, Ann Faraday with wanted to share dreams to quickly its spirit. A strong individualism Dream Power, and Henry Reed’s develop a group of peers from any- pervades the dream movement cul- Sundance Community Dream Journal where around the world and discuss ture. There are thousands of books, synthesized the emerging ideas, tech- their dreams. The number of people websites and groups, hundreds of niques and experiments of the move- who are now interested in dreams has organizations, and several schools ment and put them into a media form grown geometrically since the 1960’s, with a dream focus, yet no real key (books and journals) accessible to the and the educational outreach to inter- texts, trends or manifestos as with general public. ested individuals and groups has been Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 23 other movements. One may at the Richard Wilkerson: Dreaming trend that humankind has always been same ASD conference find a presen- and dreamwork resist commodi- about building networks, moving tation on benefits of dreamwork right fication, totalization and imprison- ideas, integrating rich interconnections along side a presentation about dream- ment. Dreaming and dreamwork in rhizomatic fabrics of space and time. work being nonsense. One can find in promote liberation, play, health, and Dreamworkers are superb in these a single issue of Electric Dreams e-zine creativity. I expect this to be true for skills, and understand even at begin- an article by a postmodern philo- the next century as for the last. ning levels of dreamwork how asso- sopher on the random valuation in ciations work. What seems clear to me now is that dreamwork alongside an article by a In the first view of associations or dreamwork, dream studies, dream self-proclaimed guru on the dreams connective syntheses, we can expect science, and dream-inspired works and enlightenment. This individual- the Dream Movement to break into have proven themselves to be an ism is also the movement’s strength older patterns and flows of reality and important part of any project. This is and a sign of the maturing tolerance make new connections; breaking up true in two ways: the first in terms of and ability to hold together in one older organizations and connecting wholeness and completion (no cog- space many competing and opposing with people and their dreams in novel nitive science is complete without an ideas. Some dream organizations, like and productive ways. Using the older accounting of dreams, no spiritual or ASD, do have ongoing mission state- terminology, we might say that the psychological work complete without ments but others, like BADG (Bay Area future of the Dream Movement is dreamwork, and so on) but also as a Dreamworkers Group), function more about placing itself alongside as many creative source, as friend and guide, like interest groups online (i.e. they get other fields and practices as would be inspiration and creative source. together when there is an interest, and useful; dreams and health, dreams and In the short run, I see the dream disband when there isn’t). creativity, dreams and business, movement providing continual supp- dreams and spirit and so on. But this The movement is advancing most ort for individuals interested in dreams would just be a simple kind of expan- all of the original projects, and adding and that are ready or able to break out sion which the Movement is not likely new ones which are beginning to delve of the programming of everyday to take, given its nature of subverting into areas usually not considered as consensus reality. I feel this is happen- this type of expansionism and in its being the province of dreaming, such ing at the level of therapists sensitive offering novel alternatives. as politics. Dream activism groups use to dreams and educated in dreamwork Rather, its more likely that as the dreams to talk and discuss major as a practice of dissolving neurosis, as Dream Movement comes into contact collective issues of the day, and to plan well as recreational dreamers who with these organizations and regimes, activities that may take the future in bring a sense of being and inherent they will change or metamorphosize the course or direction of the group meaning to the world of dreaming in ways unexpected. Dream art, for values. Many dream groups since 9- itself. This liberation is also made example, will not just become a sub- 11 have opened up the strictly dream- available by anthropologists who teach category of types of art, but become as-ego viewpoint and added the us about radically different approaches aesthetico-political and/or poly- dream-as-worldself viewpoint. to dreamwork in other cultures. Our psychotechnic movement that cuts While dreams are still a great dream-concerned scientists remind us between the lines of various traditional mystery and science has barely opened of the material forces that go into the fields. the crack in the door between the many facets of dreaming. Our support In the second view or level, where dreaming brain and the dreaming of the development of peer and part- the Dream Movement in the future will mind, emerging research is offering nership paradigm grassroots dream provide new models for networking in new models of dreaming that haven’t groups, both online and off, will offer virtual territory and disjunctive syn- been challenged since Aserinsky and sanctuary and growth for those who theses, we can expect some very novel Kleitman’s 1950’s REM studies. These want support in their journey. Our transformations. Organic networks studies help dreamworkers to weigh support of schools, publications and that are alliances of communicative and judge the various dreamwork organizations that provide support for communities — rather than hard- theories. (Is the dream material all day dreamers will, in the near future, make wired circuits — will be distributed residue, how much of the dream is the pathway to dream awareness a less and connected by protocol rather than influenced by physical forces, by psi difficult and more networked, more more restrictive bonds. The virtual- forces, by psychological and spiritual diverse experience than in the past. ization of the Dream Movement is not forces and so on). Looking further down the road, I about its going online. In a few years Eric Snyder: What do you envision would like to integrate into this the Internet will disappear. As Stephen or suggest that we, as individuals and speculation the notion brought up by Aisenstat mentioned at the 1999 ASD collectively, create in the next 40 years? Pierre Levy that “Humanization is International Conference, soon the We’re looking for blueprints and/or virtualization.” In this view, the walls and floors will be alive and roadmaps into the future, here. dream movement parallels a general dreamworkers are positioned to help
24 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 the world understand how to live this kind of virtual reality. That is, dream- workers know how to move about in insubstantial material and create meaning and value. This is going to be vital as we move into living and working more and more in simu- lations, more and more in the hyper- real. The Dream Movement has always been partially an exploration of virtual reality and its boundaries. This sensitivity to the bio-dramatic features of the virtual dreamworld will be needed in the future; first with com- puter-mediated virtual reality, and then with bio-logical and quantum fields of reality where the limits of what skin is and where our skin is will be stretched, where one senses friends around the globe, where presence and absence are measured in terms of emotional distances rather than miles. In this sense, traditional dream- work will be expanded to include not only the inner work and play of dreams of the individual for the individual, but then also carry out- ward what is learned and lived in- wardly. The inner world of the dream has always been taken as a kind of communicative community; as we begin to live more in virtual space, we will see these skills transfer to the world itself. Is it not that the world will become dream or the dream the world. Rather, the skills and sensi- tivities of developing rapid rapport with other-ness and development of on-the-fly communicative commun- ities — which prove to be so much of our inner dreamwork — will allow us to tend to the soul of the world in mutual embrace. ♦
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k by John W. Herbert, Ph.D. O.n.l.i.n.e
ease their exploration of possible issues In dealing with comput- why dreamwork can be so power- of concern. ers and computer access, ful and helpful. For the have-nots, the subject of Next, encouraging the dreamer to there has been much discussion dreaming and dreams is often confus- acknowledge that a dream can be a about the “haves” and the “have- ing. Bob Haden recently commented source of divine guidance incorporat- nots.” Those who have had com- that people frequently dismiss dreams ing the individual’s experience, beliefs, puter access have had a vast world “because they are unfamiliar with the and needs would provide a basis for of knowledge that was available to dreamworld and don’t know what to accepting the wisdom a dream can of- them. do or say, much less sense that there is fer. Emphasizing that dreams are usu- I feel a parallel situation exists usually gold in this metaphorical mes- ally concerned with issues of health or in the realm of dreamwork: there sage from the divine.” [Dream Network well being would be helpful. To provide a rationale for further are those who have experienced the 21(3) p.39]. I agree. discussion, bring up the idea that if the power of working with dreams and I think we can take several steps to help the have-nots to become en- dreamer were fully conscious and clear those who have not. I feel the big- about an issue, there would be no need gest challenge that we have is to gaged with their dreams. The most common questions I am asked about for the dream. Acknowledge that the find ways to introduce and encour- imagery involve being pursued or message is usually in the form of meta- age the have-nots to take the plun- threat of death. Explaining that these phor or image. Here is where specific ge and join the haves. I feel this ef- metaphors can relate to a call for help can be given. Einstein commented fort needs to be on a one-to-one or change in one’s life may allow the that (paraphrased) “The significant one-to-many basis. But we, the dreamer to be more comfortable with problems we face cannot be solved at privileged haves, need to explain the dreaming process and therefore the same level of thinking we were at
26 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 when we created them.” it is time that I start nurturing my was similar to the activity shown when As an individual dreamworker, “self”. I feel pulled by my grandchil- we are awake and solving new prob- we can help by leading the dreamer to dren and my “beau.” I want to get my lems. The “I’ll sleep on it” process has look at alternative possible meanings own person together, to COOL it from been confirmed. for an image. We need to encourage worrying about others about things If we have computers, we can those unfamiliar with dreamwork to that are out of my control, even if it is share our interests and knowledge us- expand their thinking and feelings asked of me. Evidently you all have ing e-mail. We could form our own about a dream in order that they can picked up faster than I what my inner private groups to share in dreamwork. see it not as a puzzling bizarre image self has been trying to tell me. There are a host of Internet web sites or nightmare, but as an alternative way Group dreamwork is an excep- we can suggest. If each of us took a of viewing the message. tionally powerful way to accomplish little time to find the sites we like (they Another helpful aid is to share a this. Each member of the group claims do come and go, unfortunately) and short illustration of how someone has the dream as his or her own and shares encourage a have-not to take a look, it related dream imagery to a real life how he or she would feel about the would allow them to expand their situation. Here is a dream I use to il- dream, and what it might mean in his awareness of dreams and dreaming. lustrate the power of dream imagery: or her life. All offerings are made in This dream was one of a series shared the form of “If it were my dream,” or Looking Back Over 40 years on the Seniornet (computer users over “In my dream.” No comments are The first time I had to deal with 50) side of AOL. This dream recurred made in the form of “Your dream the dreams of others was about forty several times over a two or three year means . . ..” or “I think you . . .,” etc. plus years ago, when one of my boys, period. Later postings disclosed that I have made the above suggestions about six or seven at that time, had a she was recently (3 years) widowed. for one-on-one conversations because series of “bad dreams.” My wife was She had a family and a new beau and I believe there are so many have-nots concerned and discussed the subject she dreamt: who have never ventured into the with our family doctor, who referred realm of dreamwork because they us to a psychiatrist. I find my self in a sort of sauna-it seems have never been given a rationale for We met with him, and I still re- as if it is an exercise gym. We had doing so. If they really get the itch to member the feeling of sitting across the finished our workout and are waiting, move on into dreamwork on their desk of a grossly overweight chain- talking to each other, waiting for our own, the authors mentioned later have smoking authority, listening to the de- turn at the “tub.” I look at the tub; on all written excellent books which can livery of absolute Freudian truths the lower half, there is a canvas sling; on help the process get started. about the dreams of a six-year-old. the sling, a woman is stretched out on A treasure of information may be Something just did not seem right to her stomach, her bottom half is draped available within a dream, but it some- me. with a white sheet (as we all are draped, times requires the help of another in My next exposure to dreamwork but fully) and her upper part—her order to look at the dream in a differ- was in the early 1960s, when my life boobs—are in water that has ice cubes ent light. With all the dreamwork I took a different direction. I attended a have participated in, and with my dream group of Edgar Cayce’s Asso- completely over the top. We are all awareness of the power of dreams, ap- ciation for Research and Enlighten- waiting to get our turn to freeze them. preciation of clarity, etc., there is al- ment (ARE) members, and I was The temp in the room is not cold, I am ways more gold unearthed when I stunned to hear how different indi- not cold, I am just standing there share my dream with another. It is fan- viduals related their dream imagery to waiting for my turn. The water is a tastic if one’s mate or close friend can concerns of their lives. I started record- lovely yellow, our sheets are bright share dreams on a near daily basis. I ing my dreams, and spent a term at the white; it is not at all frightening but think it keeps us “fine-tuned” to what C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, where I rather just a waiting feeling in all this is going on. began to experience the richness and ecru, yellow and white. I believe medical technology is fi- directness of dream imagery. nally coming to the aid of humanistic In one seminal dream, for example, The consensus of the group was: inquiry, into previously inaccessible ar- (a) A spa is a place where one takes care I am standing on something reminiscent eas of research. With medical imaging of one’s self; of the plank on a ship (walking the techniques, we can now observe, for (b) Physiologically, bosoms provide plank) that extends over water. Objects example, what the brain is actually nourishment, usually for family; and doing when we are sleeping. A key of all sorts fall vertically from the sky, (c) Perhaps it is time to “Chill out” on observation for me was the confirma- and I know they represent all the various the nourishment of others. tion that during the REM phase of activities of “life.” I want to experience Dreamer’s Feedback: I do know that sleep, the activity observed in the brain life fully, so I put my arms up over my Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 27 head at an outward 450 angle to catch mat suitable for research. I have been and gather in as much of the stream of able to relate my dream content to “My hope for the future of life as I can. In a matter of moments, daily diaries, confirming that my I am crushed and swept into some form dreams have commented on my phys- the Dreamwork Movement of oblivion. ical condition, tracked changing atti- tudes, and occasionally have pre- This same dream scenario was re- is that dreamwork skills sented me with metaphors that pro- peated a second night with the same vided guidance for a lifetime. Truly, a will be made available and result. On the third night, I decided to veritable goldmine. hold my arms up vertically, gathering Much has happened in this 40-year accessible to the only as much of the life stream as ap- time span. Jump ahead to today: in the plied to me. I stood there, taking in writings of Gayle Delaney, Ann Fara- average person and that what was allotted to me, and I let the day, Jayne Gackenbach, Patricia Gar- rest stream by. I assimilated the flow small dreamsharing groups field, Stanley Krippner, Charles Mc- in total comfort. In a flash, I recognized Phee, Alan Siegel, Jeremy Taylor, will become more common. that I could not be all things to all Montague Ullman, Robert Van de people, and that I could not have any Castle, and many others, or in the ar- Dreamwork promotes vested interest in the outcome of my ticles of Dream Network, one can find a endeavors. If asked for help I would treasure of information about dreams, mental health and helps assist where I could; I could share my and how to work with dream content. knowledge and understandings, but us see beneath the surface Today we have a myriad of ways of the primary responsibility for each working with dreams, both within and of events both person’s well-being would rest with without the confines of a therapist’s office. that individual. A major transition has taken place waking and dreaming. My next major dream guidance in working with dream content. No came when our family business CEO longer does the interpretation of a Dreamwork can be a vital died, and I spent a few years intensely dream rest with an outside authority working on company matters. I expe- filter in helping us gain who tells the dreamer what the dream rienced the conflict of duty versus the “means.” Today, there are much more feeling that I really did not want to be needed perspective in a cooperative processes available, the active head. I wondered if I should whereby the dreamer can find help world increasingly dominated consider withdrawing and possibly re- from another dreamer or dreamworker. turning to school. I asked for a dream by powerful influences to address this issue. One of the early pioneer influ- ences in the grass roots movement to upon our perceptions of I am standing in a green meadow of get dreamwork out of the analyst’s a rolling landscape. Trees are in the office and into the public has been the reality. The success of the background. Looking down valley, on a work of Montague Ullman, who de- Dreamwork Movement will rise to my right, is a flat concrete veloped a protocol by which the foundation, four corner posts and a basic dreamwork was shared by persons rely upon our contribution roof (no walls). I walk up the rise and within a group. Although Ullman has onto the concrete. I know immediately a very specific protocol for working of tools and skills that this is the foundation of my new with his method, the basic approach enabling ordinary people home, and that I will get instructions on of sharing in dreamwork on the basis how to complete it in the form of jungle of “If it were my dream” or “In my to incorporate the benefits drum beats and rhythms. dream” has been utilized by many other dreamworkers. My computer of dreamwork Needless to say, we found profes- online dreamwork also draws from sional managers, I returned to school, parts of his methodology. into their lives.” and in 2000 received my Doctorate in There are wonderful aids and Psychology, with a dissertation titled many Internet online sources, that can “Group Dreamwork Utilizing Computer stimulate thinking about a dream, Eric Snyder, Mediated Communication ..” While helping one “to look at it in another Bay Area Dreamworkers Group studying at Saybrook, I was able to way,” which is essentially the task we work with my own dream records, (BADG) have as dreamworkers. ♦ now over 6,700, in an electronic for- 28 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 How the Dream MovementHow the Dream Movement is Creating a Viable Profession is Creating a Viable Profession A Model in Progress by Cody Sisson
If you were to sit back, close your eyes When I close my eyes and think about my most memo- and allow yourself to think of a learning experience that rable experience, I think about the first time I ever worked was memorable, what would come to your mind? Perhaps on a dream. It all started after awakening from a night- it was life changing, or just an experience you cherish. It mare in the middle of a November night in 1996. I was may be a lesson from a long time ago or it may have been sweating, crying, and frightened to the point where I got something that happened recently. If you would like, try up, wrote the dream down, and actually drew pictures of this exercise right now and after considering the memory those frighteningly vivid images. At the time, I was the CEO for a while, bring yourself back to the present moment. of a manufacturing company I had founded over a decade What images or thoughts came to your mind? What earlier, complacently comfortable, living the life my busi- feelings emerged as the images of that learning experience ness afforded me. That day, and for a few weeks afterward formed? If you are like most people, what you may have I went about the business of everyday life until a number recalled was not some grand epiphany from a college lec- of ‘situations’ cropped up at work that upset my eating and ture hall or a teacher standing at the front of the room shar- sleeping patterns... and I experienced a general inability to ing his or her wisdom with you. More likely it was a much deal with business issues. At the time I still did not relate more personal experience where some inner feeling in- the nightmare to the disconcerting events, but when I did spired you to move in a certain direction, or a tough life sleep, I would have vivid dreams that kept the raw energy lesson hit you squarely between the eyes. Some people of that nightmare percolating. When I got to the point where define these as moments of grace or, as I look back on my I was having trouble functioning, I sought out a Jungian most memorable moment, I saw it as a wake-up call. therapist who helped me unlock the message of the dream.
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 29 It was just moments after the first entific belief structure which defines rectly, they were working in the back- of several ‘Ahas’ that I experienced twenty-first century logic. My Novem- ground, creating situations or ‘triggers’ from working the nightmare that I re- ber 1996 nightmare forced me to look for me to recognize as opportunities alized my life was going to change in at aspects of my life in a context, which, for change. My passionate belief in this a big way. In retrospect, it is sweet to many defies the very logic upon sacred tool is one I want to share, but irony that my wake-up call was liter- which I had built my career. I have how to go about making it my life’s ally that: awakening in the midst of a since allowed my dreams to become work? frightening dream which so captured the guiding force in my decision-mak- Dreamwork as a viable profession my attention I eventually sought out ing and find myself buzzing with ex- the guidance that allowed me to real- becomes an ‘easy yes.’ (I say, seven citement. The energy and passion I feel years later!) With today’s promises of ize a re-awakening to my life’s pur- about dreamwork is noticeably appar- pose. This was the beginning of my science and technology making our ent and has propelled me toward a lives ‘better’ and ‘easier,’ many people study of dreams and dreamwork, new and fulfilling profession. which has led to the creation of the like myself are taking a closer look at There were two recurring dream our rapidly changing world and fast- New England Dreamwork Institute. themes that were instrumental in ini- As you can well imagine, the paced lifestyles, and performing per- tiating drastic changes in my life. One sonal reassessments. For some, this transformation from precision ma- theme was about the ministry. Dreams chinist and CEO to dreamwork prac- reexamination of self and values is ac- about preaching or church would cre- companied by recurring or vivid, in- titioner was perceived by those who ate great anxiety due to my lack of re- knew me as a shift in gears that had tense, dreams or nightmares. Those ligious background or desire to be part who become curious about their no connecting sprockets. From a per- of organized religion. Before my dad son who had always been grounded dreams tap into our wonderful world died in 1999, he asked me to be the one of technology and begin searching for in practicality, my newly perceived to do his memorial service. Suddenly New-Age freak status raised a multi- information about dreams. They do the message of the ‘ministry dreams’ not have to travel very far to stumble tude of questions. Among them: What became abundantly clear: I had to face is dreamwork? How did I go from on books, articles, seminars, websites, my fear of 1) defining my spiritual con- and workshops about dreams, along being a CEO to becoming the creator nection, and 2) giving my spirit a voice. and director of a school that certifies with a multitude of people involved In the process of organizing the memo- with dreams and dreamwork. It soon dreamworkers? Is dreamwork a vi- rial service, knowing I would be ad- becomes apparent that there is a able profession? dressing many critics of the ‘new me,’ Dreamwork Movement well under Dreamwork simply defined is a I discovered the gift of organizing my way! This, coupled with the fact that process of deciphering the cryptic thoughts and beliefs, and presenting North American adults have 1,500 to dream language that our unconscious them publicly. This experience was the 2,000 self-initiated learning experi- uses to speak to us into a form that first taste of something I had not real- ences a year, opens up a world of pos- reveals insightful knowledge about ized my hunger for and has lead me sibilities to address the growing de- our health, careers, relationships and to becoming an interfaith minister pro- mand. our emotional well-being. Because viding worship services on an invita- With these realizations, I was able dreams are a phenomenon that all tional basis for Unitarian Universalist to see an opportunity taking shape. I humans have in common, it is a primi- churches around New England. The envisioned groups of people (dream- tive and natural instinct to share them other recurring theme was that of ers) with common artistic or intellec- with one another. From the beginning school and teaching. All my life I had tual theories coming together to share of time and throughout history, hu- never liked school and had sought out and learn from one another the power mankind has used dreams to decipher alternative, hands-on ways of learning. of transforming life experiences the inner wisdom held deeply within Expanding on the lessons of the min- through the gift of dreamwork. In the the unconscious. As verbal communi- isterial dreams, continually listening to words of my good friend Jeremy Tay- cation has evolved — and as advance- my dream guides, and having the con- lor (author, co-founder of the ASD, and ment in science and technology keeps fidence in a learning style that has director of the Marin Institute for Pro- us entertained and teaches us to ra- served me well, I was able to face my jective Dreamwork), “Dreamwork is a tionalize — we have grown away fears, and with the encouragement of profession whose time has come.” We from this ancient form of validating many people, I have seized upon the have thousands of people yearning for our inner knowing and sharing the opportunity to start my own institute tools to tap into their inner voices. wisdom that is the gift of our dreams of learning. These changes in my life Their primary learning resource is with others. were the result of my learning to lis- based upon personal life-experience As CEO of a technically, mechani- ten to the wisdom of my unconscious with the secondary learning resource cally precise manufacturing facility I through the language of dreams. When being the life-experience of peers. This was—as I’ve just described—im- I was not able to decipher them di- mersed in the advancement of the sci- describes the ancient and sacred art of 30 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Cody’s Ad
dream sharing! It also reinforces the self and others. Each participant then mental or threatening atmosphere. theory that people can and will take embodies the experience as it applies All current workshops are de- responsibility for their own learning, to self. This Learning Experience signed in this manner. Imagine how and supports the belief that facilitators model is also the model of our core the predominately right-brained (artis- work very effectively with any learner process of working with dreams which tic) person might be challenged and committed to a process. Learning Fa- we call ‘ Transformative Dreamwork.’ transformed by embodying the aspects cilitators, rather than teachers, are Transformative Dreamwork is a process of Creative Writing from Dreams, topic-specific experts who encourage that encourages participants to reduce while the typical left-brained person learners to share knowledge while pro- the amount of comparing, relating, and (analytical-minded) could be en- viding additional resources such as intellectualizing of the dream in the thralled with the perspectives stimu- books, inspiration, or audio-visual ma- conscious mind, and focus more on lated by an experience in Dreamwork terials to provide a structure in which recognizing the emotions that are as Art. Dream Yoga, Working a Dream to encourage an exchange of ideas. evoked by taking on the dream as our on the Labyrinth, Dream Poetry, Psy- As I began to design the program own. Feeling the energy of the emo- chodrama, Myths and Dreams are just which would become the New En- tion and weaving that energy into the a few examples of dream-related top- gland Dreamwork Institute I held fast body, noting where and how it is felt, ics where the participants have oppor- to the belief that rather than ‘teachers’ can lead to a deeper understanding of tunities to co-create their learning ex- and ‘lecturers,’ Learning Facilitators the unconscious, often accessing sup- periences by putting theory into prac- should act as guides, moving groups pressed memories, old wounds, intu- tice. All participants are encouraged to swiftly from brief presentations, then ition, or spiritual connectedness. This maintain an awareness of whatever creating a Structure in which to apply process allows each person to embody aspect(s) of dreamwork that resonates the interactive Learning Experience. the dream as his or her own, to breathe with them personally, and through a This model would invite immediate it in, and to just ‘be’ with it, which cre- collaborative effort, a study plan that application of theory transformed into ates an atmosphere of safety within the incorporates this focus can be tailored personal experiential understanding, group. Discussion of the dream is then to meet an individual certification and the exchange of that new-found processed by all from selected personal plan. As a form of evaluating and vali- understanding as an exponential perspectives rather than analytical in- dating the student’s professional com- learning tool: we all become guides to terpretations, thus eliminating a judg- (Continued on page 43) Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 31 Lucid Dreams,Lucid Dreams, Nested DreamsNested Dreams by Curtiss Hoffman nested dreams are for others, but I shouting, that I’m awake. have recorded a total of 122 dreams One of the most dramatic devel- But of course I wasn’t! opments in dreamwork over the past over the past 11 years in which I ei- 20 years has been the widespread ac- ther recall a preceding dream or The contents of these dreams are ceptance of the phenomenon of lucid dreams of the same night, or I am re- extremely variable, and I do not intend dreaming. Numerous books, papers, cording such a dream in my dream to discuss their meanings here, but the and at least one doctoral dissertation journal. Another 28 dreams relate back motif of nesting links them all. In most have been devoted to this subject, and to dreams I recall from previous of them, the dreams to which they re- some researchers have developed tech- nights. Here is a typical example of a fer are ones I can remember having, nological devices designed to enhance pair of nested dreams: sometimes ones which I got up in the lucidity. It seems obvious that all of this middle of the night to record, but in a few cases my dream imagination has interest is about something which hap- Lucid Dream #1 4/11/1996 pens to some of us, some of the time, completely confabulated earlier when we dream. It also seems clear I’m at an organizational meeting in an dreams. And in some of them lucidity that concentration upon lucidity, and empty hall. There is a long table in the is a subject of discussion, or a motif the freedom of action it affords within center and various power tools around. within the dream rather than a direct dreaming, has a self-generating aspect: I am not presiding; I arrive after the experience. A simple example: the more one practices, the more fre- meeting has begun and take a seat at quent and the more vivid lucid dreams the far corner of the table. An old Lucidity Without Content 6/4/1994 may become. colleague is talking about plans for our I dream that I am having several lucid Museum. I realize that this is not right I do not wish to dispute any of dreams; as soon as I become aware that I (since he is dead) but rather than these findings. I myself have had a am dreaming I awaken each time into the interrupt him I pull on the sleeves of number of classic lucid dreams and I frame dream. those sitting next to me and point to have enjoyed them, though I have not This has suggested to me the fol- him. They don’t seem to notice any- sought them out deliberately. What I lowing idea: that lucid dreams are thing is wrong. Then an even older am going to suggest in this brief article nested dreams in which there is leak- colleague starts to speak, reminiscing is that we ought to consider this sub- age between the levels. In other words, about the days when all he had to do ject more circumspectly, and avoid in a lucid dream, the dreamer in the outer for the organization was to pay his what Jeremy Taylor calls the trap of dream becomes aware that the inner dream dues. Now I know that this is wrong, “misplaced literalism.” I am going to is a dream, while the inner dream is still because I know that he died several suggest an alternative explanation of going on. years ago, and that I am dreaming. I lucidity which—while not denying the announce this to the others, and tell experience—places it in a somewhat them that to prove it I will now float to different context. I want to make it the ceiling and back again. I do this, clear that this alternative explanation but they are unimpressed. I try again arises out of my own dreaming. I put to prove it by moving myself through a it forth more in the form of an hypoth- power saw. Finally, I decide to leave. esis than as a fully formulated theory, At the glass door, I encounter a and I welcome comments. workman with a half-round file in his My suggestion is that lucid dreams hand. I realize I could convince him if I (or, at least, some lucid dreams) are a really wanted to. special case of ‘nested’ dreams: Then I wake up into: dreams which are stacked one inside the other like Russian dolls, and in Lucid Dream #2 4/11/1996 This was brought home to me by which the dreamer becomes aware of I’m in bed, recounting the preceding a recent dream, on the morning of the the inner dream within the outer lucid dream to my wife. I suspect that I actual events which the dream de- dream. There may be no limit to the am still dreaming, and to test this I scribes. A friend named Patricia (not number of levels of nesting that can shout “HI” several times. She puts her Patti Garfield!) had e-mailed me the exist. I do not know how common hand on my arm and tells me to stop night before with information on this, 32 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 including a link to the International have certainly had and enjoyed spontaneous lucid dreams — for example, my two Space Station website, which I check- dreams about the Leonid meteor shower! But I don’t think it’s right to try to induce them. ed. I was planning to get up and watch The other two respect my views, even if they don’t agree with them. the light show, but this dream hap- My friend Patricia later informed me that I had the best view of the show! pened instead: This is a triple-nested dream which ends up discussing lucid dreaming, and accurately presenting my views about it. When I awoke from the outermost The Leonid Meteor Shower dream the clock actually said 6:40! 11/19/2002 Here is another dream which illustrates the possibility that, in cases where I awaken in bed and with some difficulty lucidity occurs without the dreamer being aware of nesting, perhaps the exit raise myself to check the digital clock. It from both levels to waking consciousness happened so swiftly that the dreamer reads 5:30. Just in time to catch the was not aware of it. Leonid meteor shower. I consider not Lucid Pop! 2/9/2001 getting up, staying in bed — dreams are My wife and I are visiting with her parents and some other family members in a so much more interesting! — but I rouse house in Tennessee. We’ve been away from home for nearly 2 weeks and it is getting myself and my wife and we get dressed in to be time that I want to go home. We are staying in the basement, which is unfin- warm clothing and go outside. She asks ished, sleeping on blankets on a cement floor. Our dirty laundry is piled against a me which direction we should look and I support column near the corner. We awaken and we’re in our usual bed, but in my say north. We go to the end of our old room in my parents’ house. We speculate that perhaps we’re dreaming. But driveway where there is a gap in the trees everything seems so real that I can’t think of a way to prove this. I get up and go out where we can look to the north. Immedi- into the hall. When I attempt to return to the bedroom, it is like swimming through ately we begin to see a spectacular light molasses, everything is in slow motion. I say, “Now I know that I’m dreaming!” and show! Golden meteors streak across the pop out of both levels of the dream! sky, every 10 seconds or so. We also see the Skylab satellite passing overhead, We might symbolize the situation I am describing like this: very low — only a few hundred feet; the light reflects off its white enamel solar panels. It is clearly about to crash, but fortunately it misses our house and the one next door. A young couple, who are servants, come out to join us. From their comments I come to the conclusion that I am dreaming. I awaken in bed and with more difficulty than before I raise myself to check the digital clock. It reads 5:35. Still in time to catch the Leonid meteor shower. I consider not getting up, staying in bed — my last dream was so In conclusion, one of the things which the Eastern dream teachings stress is vivid! — but I rouse myself and my wife that the goal is not to achieve the ability to dream lucidly, for the entire realm of and we get dressed in warm clothing and waking world experience is considered neither more, nor less real than the dream go outside. This time there are fewer state. Instead, they counsel us to undertake the more difficult discipline of lu- meteors than before, and they are less cid living. We might represent this state of lucid living in the following way: spectacular. A middle-aged English couple come out to join us. >From their comments I come to the conclusion that I am dreaming. I awaken in bed and with even more difficulty than before I raise myself to check the digital clock. It reads 6:40. Too late to catch the Leonid meteor shower — it is already light outside. I go to a renovated barn where an inventor has devised a mechanism for stimulating lucid dreams. I am reminded of Stephen LaBerge’s device. Patricia Garfield is also there, and we face the inventor, a young man, across a wooden table. I state my position on lucid dreams. I say that I ♦
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 33 thing for a person to do is to name times have to keep with it before you things in their life that are like the finally learn how. symbol in some way. For ex- Frequently Question: ample, climbing a mountain can How does a dream be like doing homework because journal work? Explain please? Asked they both take so much work. Response: A journal is a place where you write down your dreams. Question: How come people QUESTIONS It can be anything you want it to be - it have good dreams and night- can be a spiral notebook, a three-ring mares? About Dreams binder, a pad of paper, anything. Place Response: Dreams are about your journal by your bed, together your life. Just as people have both with a pen or pencil. When you wake O.n.l.i.n.e Dialogues good and bad parts in their life, up, take a few moments to remember so they have good dreams and your dream, and then write it down in nightmares. If you can figure out your journal. Leave a blank line above what part of your life the night- your dream so you can give your What follows are two exchanges that mare is about, you can do something dream a title. A title is important so took place via email between, first, Eric to change that part of your life. Doing that you can find your dream quickly. and Tom Goad and second, between Nicki that will probably change the night- You might even want to leave a blank & Roberta Ossana. These are among the mare. If you can fix the bad part in page or two in the front of your jour- most frequently asked questions about real life, you might be able to change nal where you write down just the dreams. those nightmares into good dreams. titles of the dreams, and the date you We hope you find the conversations Question: If two people had the had them. That way, finding a particu- of value and invite you to take advantage same dream, what does it mean? lar dream would be a lot easier. of the many Regional Contact Persons/ Write something down in your Response: I would like to say that Networkers in your own area (see page journal every morning, whether you it has a special meaning, like the dream 48) to ask your own questions! (Ed.) have remembered a dream or not. If will come true -- probably, though, the you haven't remembered a whole right answer is that the two people are Tom Goad dream, write what you remember. If both thinking about the same thing you haven't remembered anything at Responds to Questions during the day. That seems kind of a all, try writing down how you feel, or from Eric, a fourth-grader disappointing answer but, if you think what you were thinking when you about it, it also means that two people Dear Eric, woke up. Just writing something is can think about the same thing during sometimes enough to make you re- Hi, Eric. I'm Tom. I am 41 years old the day on purpose -- and that just member the whole dream. and live in Nashville, Tennessee. You might cause them to dream alike at and I are both interested in dreams. I night. Of course, your dream and my Because dreams are about your life, lead a dream group in Nashville, and dream are both going to be different - it's a good idea to keep a diary of what I also teach and give lectures about even if they have parts in common. For you did and thought about during the dreams. I read your questions in the example, if we both think of a red car day. If you want, you can keep it in Dream Network Journal , and they are during the day, you might dream of the same notebook you keep your jour- really good (and hard) questions. I eating a red apple and I might dream nal. That way it will always be right don't think anyone could answer all of riding in a car -- but a blue one in- there when you are trying to figure out of them 100% correctly, because in stead of a red one. what a dream means. Try this: At night, before you go to bed, open your some cases we simply don't know Why not try an experiment with dream journal to the next blank page. enough about the mind and how it people you know? It would be a lot of Put the date at the top of the page and works. In some cases, it might not be fun if it could work out. Be sure to write about your day. Leave the jour- possible to know. So, some of the an- write out your dream as completely as nal open and the pen ready for when swers would be just what a person you can so you can compare notes later you remember a dream. When the "believes" to be true, and not what on. You can also try doing it by your- time comes to write down the dream, they "know." Keeping that in mind, self, just to see if you can make your- you can do it right there, and it will though, here are my best "answers" to self dream about things on purpose. always be right next to your diary. Be your questions: Thinking about something on purpose sure to skip a line or two before you Eric: to cause a dream about it is called How do people know what start writing your dream, to leave dream "incubation" and it's a lot of fun dreams symbolize? room for the title. - but sometimes it takes a while to get Tom: A symbol is something that is the knack. It's not hard, but you some- Question: What is amplification? "like" something else. So, the first 34 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Please explain. member, though, that other people's Another reason, in my opinion, Response: Dreams are symbols, ideas are just to get you started think- that some dreams come true and oth- and symbols can mean a lot of things, ing about how your dream relates to ers don't is that the future pretty much depending on who you are and where your life and your feelings. The most depends on what you do here in the you live. Amplification is a way to important thing is what you, yourself present. Dreams can show you the re- "turn up the volume" on what the think the symbol means. After all, it's sults of your actions, but they don't symbols are trying to say to us. You your dream! make your choices for you. For ex- ample, you might dream you fell off can Amplify a symbol at three levels. Question: Can you describe what that mountain in your dreams. On the first level, the personal insight is? If so, describe what it is. level, you want to ask yourself what This might be your dream's way Response: comes to mind when you think about Insight means to under- of warning you that if you don't study the symbol. For example, if you dream stand the inner nature of something. like you should, you might flunk the of a special pair of red shoes, you For instance, when you are awake and test. If you choose to study hard, might ask yourself what the shoes re- thinking about your dreams, you though, that dream probably won't mind you of. Perhaps you own a pair might have an insight, or an under- come true. What you make of your just like them. Perhaps someone you standing, of what your dream means. life, and of your future, is pretty much admire, or even someone you dislike Usually this understanding pops into up to you. your mind suddenly, along with the wears shoes like that. Question: strong feeling that your understand- Do dream catchers re- The second level is the cultural ing is correct. Because it can come sud- ally work? If so, how? level. On this level, you would focus denly and without warning - and be- Response: Many people believe on the meaning the shoes might have cause it seems to explain something that dream catchers cause them to re- to other people around you. For ex- you didn't know before, having an in- member their dreams better. If you ample, if you dream of red shoes, it sight can be a great feeling! believe you can, you probably will, but might remind you, or someone you you can do it without the dream know, of the Ruby Slippers in "The Question: How did dreams be- catcher just as well. That's probably Wizard of OZ". As you work on your come your interest? better to do, since you might want to dream, you might realize that, like Response: I've always had really be sure to remember your dreams, and Dorothy in the movie, you have spe- great dreams, ever since I could re- you won't have a dream catcher cial talents that you aren't fully aware member. In high school and college, I handy. Some people believe that of. Or perhaps it will remind you of took a lot of classes in psychology and dream catchers cause them to remem- the movie "The Man With One Red through those classes, I became inter- ber only good dreams; but if you think Shoe" and how it feels to be the cen- ested in what my dreams and the about it, all dreams are good dreams - ter of unwanted attention. dreams of other people might mean. even nightmares, because nightmares Sometimes, the things you dream can show you problems in your life, Question: How come dreams about had special meaning for people which you can then work on solving. living long ago or far away. Amplifi- don't always come true? Why? Question: cation can also mean finding out what Response: That's a tough question, Do dreams help people? those people might have thought Eric. It's one of those questions I don't If yes, explain? about the things in your dream. For believe anyone can really answer. My Response: Response: Yes, dreams help people instance, there is a fairy tale called The personal answer is that dreams are in many ways. In fact, dreams help Red Shoes. If you read the fairy tale, symbols. us in so many ways we haven't figured you might get even more ideas about Remember when I said that sym- them all out yet. Some of the ways what those red shoes in your dream bols are things that are like something dreams help us are: giving us ideas on might mean. You might even discover else? Well, two things can be alike how to do things better, letting us that the priests of certain ancient re- without being the same thing. That's know what's really on our mind, ligions always wore red shoes. Try why we have to ask ourselves what the showing us what might happen if we looking up the things in your dream things in our dreams are like. If they do something, letting us try out stuff in an encyclopedia, a book about my- were exactly the same things, we in a dream first, before we think about thology, or a regular dictionary to see would automatically understand our doing it for real, answering questions what you can find out about them. dreams. For example, you might that we need answering, and many You might find extra information on dream you are climbing a mountain. more ways. If more people knew the Internet. In thinking about your dream, you about how helpful dreams are, more Sometimes knowing what other might find out that the dream is about people would be writing them in jour- people thought about the things in all the studying you have to do for a nals and thinking about them. your dreams can give you ideas about hard test at school, and not about a Pleasant Dreams! ♦ what they might mean to you. Just re- mountain at all. (Continued on page 38)
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 35 TEARS OF BLOOD
We are each committed to death inevitable; all who now live, will die, will join the dead. Why? Why would anyone ever More believable than God be so cruel and hard and be so blind is death. Why hurry it, when it is to steal another's life? compassion's child, all bright Why would each not do with generous innocence, that gives all that there is possible to do, life to life? That weeps and save and better, bind, as I now weep, inexpressible, each hurting, passing life? over the providence of falling sparrows, over killing spots and murder sites, These tears I cry where earth is fall like involuntary rain. If only desecrated and love is scandalized. they were tears of blood, crying out Death for mercy! is already enough for each of us to face. Why then become The ignorance of a human being the common foe? Is there not, is anticipated only by human cruelty before we raise and violence only surpassed our threatening arms, our weapon-hands, by the callousness of indifference. pain enough, hunger enough, disease and agony and despair? Howl. These tears I shed fall like a weeping fog. If only These tears I shed, they were dew of blood, to startle would that they were tears of blood angels and end the shedding to stop the blood! of human blood. Every war is murder Oh senseless, senseless atrocities and every murder crime, that drives of hatred and life-negating crime! Howl. a nail into the crossroads of time, biasing the direction of tomorrow.. And a nail into the cross of conscience, condemning forgiveness. For God has commanded, without equivocation: You shall not murder. David Sparenberg
36 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Collage by Michael Shores SACRED PSYCHOLOGY
Anger is a mood, Love is a condtion and is eternal. an emotion . It accepts all things in transition, Experience it and let it go. yet contains the depth Like a wave of the ocean, transcending reason. it moves over the surface, breaks Love and depth are one; and dissolves against the shore. God and ocean coequal. The ocean does not say, Two choices "I am a wave." lead to joy and inner peace: The way of the ocean is expansive plenum The first is letting go, and not reduction. The ocean knows the second is abiding. that every ripple is in transition. Abide in love. Love is a condition. Then all things Love and the ocean are one. of heaven and earth Only a fool pass through you tries to hold back a wave, in their quest for blessing. identifies with ripples, This is the power ignores the stillness behind myriad forces. behind ephemeral motion. This the reality The fool does not know beyond the rippling the nature of nature play of illusion. or the core of creation. The ocean dissolves The one who says, the ego of the shipwrecked "I am anger," rather than saying, and the "I" of the drowning. "Anger passes through me," Among the merfolk, knows only the surface, there is no distinction is propelled by illusions. between themselves Such a person and the kingdom of love. is pushed and driven David Sparenberg by the waves of emotions, but ignores the profundity of the constant sea.
“Still Life with Alternate Reality” by Joy Gates Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 37 Questions, cont’d from pg. 35 Nicki’s ?s, Roberta Response amples of archetypal symbols. dreams occurred over a decade ago. Yes. There are 'types' of dreams that N: seem to be had by many people, world- When in history did people first Nicki: begin to study/look at the dreams? How do people interpret wide: Being naked in public, Being late RO: RO: We could go back, no doubt, to dreams? for an interview or test in school, Teeth Roberta: the beginning of human existence on Please understand, first, falling out, Flying, Being chased by a Earth. We all dream, every night. Most that the 'Field of Dreams' is very vast badman, bogeyman, bear or monster. and complex. There are no straightfor- These are common types of dreams.... cultures in the world: African, Native American, Australian, Chinese, Asian, ward or simple answers. Dreams in- BUT, even these dreams are unique etc., have cherished and followed the form, heal, oftentime reveal the future in that each dreamer has different set- guidance in their dreams for centuries. via prophetic dreams, warn, open the tings, characters and symbols in their For example, around 300-200 B.C. there gateway for visitations from those who dreams and each of these elements have departed.. ad infinitum. makes a difference insofar as fully un- were hundreds of 'Dream Temples' scattered throughout the countryside There are as many ways to unravel derstanding the meaning and purpose in Egypt and Greece. The Aesculapian the meaning of a dream as there are of a dream. Temples. People would make pilgrim- stars in the sky, actually. Numerous We need help in understanding ages and undergo great hardship to techniques and theories have been ad- symbolic language and metaphor be- vanced over time. cause we are almost exclusively edu- travel to these temples, then undergo purification in readiness for receiving Our belief is that only the dreamer cated in the linear, logical, left brain dream guidance for healing. can interpret their own dream.... BUT, mode in our schools in Western culture. It is only in Western culture that because the information imparted is so Dream or Symbol Dictionaries can be valuing our dreams has been sup- often of a deeply personal and emo- useful insofar as stimulating familiar- tional nature, the dream is best under- ity with symbols in dreams and their pressed. Fortunately, and again, credit to science, the field of psychology, stood when shared with a dream-shar- possible meanings. But (and this is a Freud, Jung and the many voices now ing partner or in a dream group. We big BUT) each of us has a very unique being heard, that the doors have been often can't see the forest for the trees. personal history and our 'dreammaker reopened and we can once again cher- Sharing the dream with someone within' is incredibly creative in present- who knows how to listen, how to ask ing dreams composed of individual- ish and benefit from our dreams. the right, good questions most often ized scenarios, uniquely designed for N: What role does/did Sigmund helps the dreamer to make associations us; designed specifically: our enlight- Freud play in dream research and in- to the images, symbols, metaphors, enment, healing and awareness. Al- terpretation? puns, etc., in the dream and can bring ways remember, all dreams come to us RO: Sigmund Freud opened the door about the "Aha! Now I understand!" to help us... even nightmares. from the dreamer. after many centuries of repression of On the other hand, many dreams RO: What do nightmares mean? this common, natural and helpful side are not meant to be interpreted or un- N: Nightmares mean 'Pay Attention of our nature. His book The Interpre- derstood immediately afterward. It To This!’ They really DO get our atten- tation of Dr eams, published in 1900, may reveal its meaning in layers, over tion and are often scary.... but, when was the door opener. In my opinion, time. Such is the case with prophetic understood, nightmares are most often that was his greatest contribution. Oth- dreams. Read the Old Testament in the angels in disguise. One doesn't easily erwise, I believe he did as much harm Bible. Revelations. Such is the case with forget a nightmare but unfortunately, as good, as he seems to have become deja' vu experiences, also. we often say to ourselves or our chil- 'stuck' in sexual and wish fulfillment dren: "Don't worry. It was only a theories and symbolism. RO: Are there some basic meanings for dream," and dismiss the experience. We His onetime disciple, Carl G. Jung, common types of dreams as simple must learn to pay attention, to seek out guides to interpreting dreams suggest far surpassed Freud's contribution and those who can help us understand and left us with an astonishing encyclope- there are? then take action. N: I'm not sure I understand the way dia of information: Jung’s Collected I know, for instance, of a woman Works. your question is posed. But I'll say..... whose nightmare of a ferocious bear yes and no. saved her life. We worked with her on N: Where does the term oneiromancy Yes. There are archetypal symbols the nightmare and the recommenda- come from? that have similar meanings, no matter tion was to pay the doctor a visit. She RO: From the Greek, meaning: 'Divi- who the dreamer or what their cul- learned she had lymphatic cancer. Tra- tural/geographical/personal back- nation by dream.' For deeper under- ditional doctors told her it was termi- standing of the origin/meaning of the ground: Water, for instance, symbolizes nal and there was little they could do. going beneath the surface, emotions, word, I suggest you consult a good ety- Subsequent dreams and dreamwork mological dictionary. the unconsciousness; Sun, Tree, Snake, revealed the 'cure.' She is very much ♦ Mother, Father, Circle are also ex- alive and productive today and these I hope this is of some help, Nicki.
38 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Interview with Jonathon Young, cont’d from p. 11 the necklace to Joseph Campbell ASD strikes me as an instruction about how to view your work. Wise mentors of- ten remind us to hold our work and influence with care. We serve ideas that are larger than we are. It is an honor to be in a position to advocate the study of dreams and the value of keeping a rich inner life. Such work is an act of true service. It is, in a way, always given away. I am sure you do your noteworthy efforts as labors of love. Whether you do it for the muses, the goddesses, the ancestors, or for Joseph Campbell, it is a gift to others.␣ DNJ:␣ Thank you! You’ve opened di- mensions of the dream I hadn’t con- sidered in quite those terms. Yes, this work is a work of love... and service, which I do gratefully. I will share that - when making the presentation mentioned - I wore a necklace much like the one he gave me in the dream and inside the belt I wore was pasted a photo of him. I felt he was Allen Seigel with me and it helped tremendously.␣ Are there any comments you’d like to make in conclusion? JY: Only that there is so much wait- ing for those who are faithful to their inner journeys. I encourage people to add to their contemplative practices. If they ponder the dreams, possibly ex- pand this into journal-keeping. If they meditate, perhaps add reflective walks. If inspiring self-help books have been rewarding, consider reading poetry. There is so much these days to choose from. The gifts for those who look within are many. The abundance spills over into practical life. We are bound to be better people in the world, if we have rich inner lives. The highest value in ancient Greece was to know thyself. It is still a worthy goal. ♦
Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 39 The Art of Dreamsharing Excellent advice! Wrestle with the ego, eliminate the struc- tured personal belief system and apply what is learned in The Phenomenon dreaming awareness to conscious waking awareness. of Voice Dreams In 1988 advice was given concerning accessing other by Dean McClanahan realities. “When you are watching TV Channel 5 and you de- sire to view what is on TV Channel 10, you simply turn the A large database dealing with the 'voice' in dreams switch. You do the same when you wish to experience other does not exist. C. G. Jung was aware of the importance of realities, you turn the switch; you transfer the focus of your this phenomenon. He considered the 'voice' as expressing awareness to the other realities.” Take control of the ego. Dis- a truth or condition that could not be doubted. My per- mantle the belief system. sonal experiences, for the most part, tend to support his During 1989 the following came forth. “When you can- statement. not gain the understanding of your dream experiences they are Voice dreams manifest in different ways; they may or from a higher level of awareness that you do not, or cannot per- may not contain visual imagery. Many of these experiences ceive at the moment.” Periodic review of dreams is neces- are teaching dreams given in the form of a brief statement sary. It is helpful to review dreams in a theme series in or comment. These are accepted as attempts to lead me into chronological order. Dream experiences not understood a greater awareness of the true reality in which we exist. may become known after a period of time has passed and When I first began to experience the voice in dreams, I was awareness has expanded. not consciously aware of this and recorded my dreams in a A 1990 dream has been helpful. “Start a column in your manner that did not mention the voice. As time passed, dream log for ‘Dreams accepted as experiences.’ You can com- awareness of a voice speaking was determined to be a natu- pare the dream experiences accepted against those you have in- ral and normal function when dreaming. I’d like to share terpreted. You should be able to see the difference between the some of the voice dreams experienced: two. To become aware of this expands your conscious waking In 1971 a voice said, “Write exactly how you feel when you and dreaming awareness.” awaken from sleep and try to remember a dream. This will help In 1991 a warning was issued. “Once you move forward you to heighten your dreaming awareness.” Do this; you may into the change of consciousness you cannot go back. Do not be surprised at how helpful this can be. take this warning lightly.” During 1976 instruction was given in how to bring about During 1992, advice was given regarding my attempts an out-of-body experience (OBE). “Lie down and relax. Open to explore dreaming reality. “You cannot explore the greater the eyelids just enough to allow a light gray to be seen. Visualize reality using narrow, rigid and limited belief structures. This two map pins in the form of an X rising up into the air. Follow can be likened to using simple arithmetic in an attempt to un- them with your mind's eye until you realize you are out of the derstand quantum mechanics; it does not work. The same ap- body. This is easy once you become accustomed to how this works.” plies to contemporary psychology. Terms such as conscious, un- This technique has been used with limited success. conscious, subconscious are artificial creations, nothing more In 1978 the following information was given. “Under- than belief structures. The Dream State is not a state. It is a standing comes from the inner self or inner life. Attempting to focus of, a perception of, awareness. Dreaming awareness is the understand from your conscious waking awareness is difficult gateway to the greater reality. You must prove this for yourself; and takes a long span of conscious waking time. You must learn no one can prove this for you.” to set aside your conscious waking ego so this inner self can This 1995 comment was interesting. “The only thing sta- present you with your greater understanding.” A teaching tistical analysis of dreams proves is that it is easy to divert your dream pointing toward the reality within dreaming awareness. attention from where it should be. What are the dreams reveal- The following was given during 1980. “Before you can ing to you, teaching you?” I am no longer interested in the accept the new, you must let go of the old. Expanding your states statistical analysis of dreams for the above reason. of consciousness and awareness is a slow growth process. It is A 1997 comment was brief. “Have no beliefs, and you have here a little, there a little, step by step, precept upon precept. To no boundaries.” Psychological and religious concepts are suddenly experience the total revelation of other realities would basically nothing more than created belief structures. be overwhelming; it would drive you into madness. Start now to These are boundaries that impose limits upon our aware- make your discovery of these other realities that are being re- ness of what constitutes true reality. vealed to you. You must experience this for yourself; no one can During 1988 helpful advice came forth. “When one makes experience this for you.” This information is universal. the breakthrough into the greater reality, the desire is to go into The following occurred in 1983. “Dreams that reveal psy- that reality, to leave the lesser reality with its mundane prob- chic/spiritual abilities may be regarded as wishful thinking or an lems and emotional upheavals behind.” This helped me to opportunity to expand your states of consciousness and aware- understand why I occasionally become depressed. Some ness. It is how you react to what is shown you that matters.” of my dream experiences evoke such a high that when I
40 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 come back to earth (figuratively speaking) I tend to be- come slightly depressed. My desire is to return to where I came from. Advice during 1999 was helpful. “Stress the importance of requesting (incubating) dream experiences requiring no in- terpretation as a means of becoming aware of the reality exist- ing within dreaming awareness.” This is important; stress that you desire to experience a dream that does not re- quire interpretation. This will help you to become aware that dreaming is a reality within itself; one that is not controlled by the conscious waking ego's need to pro- tect its authority by forcing interpretations upon all dream experiences. Some voice dreams are astounding. Words cannot ad- equately describe these profound experiences. During a depressed period in my life, I attended various churches for six months, hoping to find one that would help me get my life back in focus. One evening, I made a deci- sion to join this particular church; I retired about 10:00 PM. At about 1:00 AM, I became aware that I was sur- rounded by a brilliant white light. I was paralyzed, could not move. A voice spoke: “I shall lead and guide you in the way I would have you go.” The light faded away and I be- came aware that I was awake. This experience totally overwhelmed my senses; I had no idea this was possible. Several years passed before I could discuss this with anyone. In 1980 I was told the following: “If humans knew God, they would not need their religions. Religions are sets of be- liefs, rules and regulations to govern conduct. Once you search major challenge to the often accepted beliefs that all ob- for and find God, you do not need these restrictions. If you jects, persons, places and things in dreams are aspects or love God with all your heart, mind, and soul, why would you parts of the dreamer and that all dreams require interpre- need beliefs, rules, and regulations to govern your conduct? If tation based upon belief in the language of symbolism. you cannot give up your favorite church and their rules and Voice dreams pose a problem for they must be accepted regulations, you do not love God with all your heart, mind as literal, as fact. This is difficult for the conscious waking and soul.” A powerful statement. ego to accept, for this presents a threat to its authority. We On occasion, those who appear in my dreams speak are not the ego, but we all have an ego that we must learn to me. I met T.M., a man who had passed away five years to control. To allow the ego to control us is to limit our ex- before, walking down a hallway towards me. He re- perience and awareness of what constitutes reality. marked, “Hello! I have not seen you in awhile, how are you?” The purpose of the ego is to keep us safe as we go about The utter surprise of this meeting gave me the realiza- experiencing conscious waking physical reality. Logic and tion this was an experience in another dimension of reason are tools the ego employs to protect its authority. awareness, not a dream requiring interpretation. The ego protects itself by altering or simply rejecting dream September, 2001. I am in dream school; the instructor experiences that pose a threat. This is why the ego insists is a woman. We are discussing dreams. She questions upon an interpretation of every dream experience. This pre- me, “Where is the present, the now?” vents us from expanding our conscious waking and dream- I reply: “The present is now, and the now is here. ing awareness by blocking our view of the greater reality Tomorrow, the now is not here; the present is there. in which we exist. So, what was here is now there. The dimensions of dreaming awareness have not been What was present may not be here now. determined; what is possible or impossible is not known. The past, present and future exist in the here and now.” For this reason we must learn to set aside or relax the ego. Is this a Zen koan or does the past, present and future I believe we must not use logic and reason when attempt- exist in the here and now? ing to explore and unravel the mystery of nonphysical dreaming reality. Our dream experiences are capable of giv- This is a sampling of the voice dreams that appear ing us the information we need to expand our conscious among my 10,000 dreams recorded during the past 31 waking and dreaming awareness. Will your ego allow you years. There can be no doubt that ‘voice dreams’ are a to accept this? ♦ Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 41 Book Reviews by Victoria A. Vlach & April Chase Don Juan and the Power The Master Of Lucid Dreams of Medicine Dreaming: rape which planted the seed of AIDS By Olga Kharitidi, M.D. A Nagual Woman’s twelve years previously. It’s easy to Hampton Roads Publishing, 2001 Journey of Healing forget that such experiences exist when www.hrpub.com Author: Merilyn Tunneshende looking for visions and prophecies and ISBN 1-57174-329-4 Bear & Company: 2002 ‘medicine dreaming.’ In this bookIn this book, Dr. Kharitidi www.InnerTraditions.com How does one face the loss of a explores what keeps so many people ISBN: 1-879181-93-2 (pbk.) loved one, the trauma of rape, the loss from overcoming traumatic experi- It’s easy to forget, in all the of one’s health, the potential loss of ences. In her job as a psychiatrist with stories of dreams, metaphysics, other one’s life? Tunneshende tells her story. a state hospital in Siberia, she began realms, and alternate realities... that It is a story filled with dreams, syn- feeling dissatisfied and stressed be- real lives, with real heartbreak, trauma, chronicities, visions, rituals, and hints cause she wanted so desperately to and crisis’, are not only the backdrop of what is to come in the next few years help her patients, but felt that she was for transformational experiences, they on this planet. Perhaps she has some- not reaching many of them. Despite are also the ground upon which such thing, some connection we ‘ordinary the best efforts of the medical and psy- experiences are seeded and grown. mortals’ don’t have? She is, after all, chological communities, some re- On the first read-through, I was one of don Juan’s students and fully mained mired in feelings of guilt, de- most fascinated by the metaphysics of initiated in these other realms. And spair and rage, even committing sui- it all: the Tzolkin Calendar (which yet, Merilyn Tunneshende is not sepa- cide. Then, Dr. Kharitidi met a group ends—or rather, begins—in 2012), the rate from the personal heartbreak, of people studying the healing tech- stories of being in and working with trauma, and crises of us ‘ordinary mor- niques practiced by native healers in the energy body, the dreaming and tals.’ The death of her fiance, the rape, Samarkand and, through their influ- synchronicities which brought Tunne- and AIDS are literal and — at the same ence, traveled to Samarkand herself. shende, don Juan, and Chon (her other time — metaphoric. She dies not once There, she meets the ‘master of mentor) together, the rituals they par- but several times, within her visions, lucid dreams,’ a mysterious young ticipated in to access the other each death bringing her closer to heal- man known as Michael, who teaches realms, the coming earth changes and ing, closer to reclaiming her own her the secrets of healing deep emo- transformation of human conscious- power, closer to fully waking up. tional wounds. There are ‘spirits’ of ness. The death of her fiance seemed Transformation comes after the facts of trauma, he explained. These entities almost like a plot device to shock her initiation, after the rape, after and dur- or forces in our psyches hold our dis- from one world into another. I missed ing AIDS. tress and pain in place, feeding on it, at least half of the book the first time The death of her fiance and the and can be defeated by lucid dream- through. trauma of rape caused her doubt the ing techniques. In this case, the author It wasn’t until the second reading reality of her original experiences with is referring to dreaming while awake; that I began to understand that this don Juan and Chon, to push them into a shamanic trance state. isn’t a story of Don Juan and visions, deep forgotten memory. AIDS com- Although the book is entertain- dreams, and metaphysics. Oh, Don pelled her to return. Her teachers were ing and easy to read, written in a Juan is in there, all right, and both he there, waiting for her. chatty, conversational style, I was dis- and Chon are integral to the book, but 2012 is only a few years away. If appointed that it was more an account this is Merilyn’s story, ‘ A Nagual the Tzolkin calendar was created with of one person’s experience than a Woman’s Journey of Healing .’ It was 2012 as the starting point (and cycling how-to manual that would explain the only on the second reading that I be- backwards), we don’t have much time techniques to be used by others seek- gan to catch a glimpse of the real per- left. How do we face loss, trauma, ing to master them. There is very little son and the waking-life framing and death? What is our personal destiny, specific technical information in- supporting this book. It wasn’t until and how is it tied to the destiny of this cluded, and limited references to the the second reading that I felt the same planet and human consciousness? dream state itself. However, Dr. shock as Tunneshende when the doc- Transformation is not all pretty stories Kharitidi’s experiences are interesting tor speaking to her says, “You’ve got of dreams and visions. Real waking and the book contains much common- AIDS.” The sexual encounter I had life experiences are part of the process sense information for those seeking thought was yet another experience in of transformation, and it is essential emotional healing, as well as fascinat- non-ordinary reality turned out to be, that we wake up. ing historical information on the in fact, a nightmare-esque waking-life What will wake us up? ♦ shamanic tradition in Uzbekistan. ♦
42 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1 Dreamwork: A Viable Profession, Cont’d from pg. 31 petency and proficiency, a written Dreamwork is a profession whose Cody Sisson is a certified Dream Prac- Learning Agreement between the par- time is now. Those of us already in- titioner, Spiritual Counselor, and an In- ticipant and the institute is collabor- volved have a responsibility to uphold terfaith Minister, practicing in western atively negotiated. This agreement the discipline and ethics of all dream- Massachusetts. He also is the founder and must include the minimum require- workers by implementing the highest director of The New England Dreamwork ments in specific areas consistent with of standards for ourselves and in the Institute, providing a multi-level certifi- the targeted goal. For one example, a training of others, and assuring that cate-training program in Transformative Dreamwork Intern must be competent the work we do is reputable and above Dreamwork. in the basic vocabulary of dreamwork, reproach. We have uncovered the Cody has a private practice of indi- while a Dreamwork Practitioner must foundation of an ancient gift and cre- vidual dream and spiritual counseling, has be able to elucidate the theory behind ated a twenty-first century ‘profession’ formed numerous dream groups, and con- such terms. now in its infancy. With that comes the tinues to facilitate many ongoing dream At the core of our program is our responsibility to make certain that our groups in New England. He also forms and commitment to the sacredness of the collective dream for the future of this facilitates dream groups on the internet, dream and the safety of the dreamer. work is a divine beacon, an impeccable via a voice interactive program called, We have adopted the Ethical Criteria light of trust that shines on the path- PalTalk. This has enabled him to bring the for Dreamworkers and the Ethical Cri- way of our journey to unlock the wis- experience of the dream group process to ♦ teria for Dreamwork Training from the dom of the dream. people from a wide geographic area. ASD. All participants in the New En- You may contact Cody in any of the fol- gland Dreamwork Institute are re- lowing ways: quired to agree (in writing) to adopt Cody Sisson, Director and abide by these ethical criteria. The New England Dreamwork Institute These criteria address the ethical issues 330 Old Wendell Road of dreamwork and the training of Northfield, MA 01360 dreamworkers that is imperative to the Email: [email protected] high standard and authenticity of this Telephone: 413-498-5950 sacred practice. Web: http://www.dragon-heart.com Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 43 Dreaming Insights Into Relationships: Between You and Your Higher Self
©2003 by Janice Baylis, Ph.D.
“In this age there is not sufficient credence given dreams, for the best development of the human family requires greater knowledge of the unconscious soul or spirit world. This can be gained in dreams.” “Seeing bright sunlight disperse through ocean waves Edgar Cayce Reading: 3744-A-41. I dreamed these words: God is in all that we are seeing A lot of ground has been covered since the first of In Him we move and have our being. these relationship dream columns in September 1998. The We have our day and our night most important relationship of all is an intra personal one But never move from out His sight. — your relationship to Higher-Self and your Maker. He is our This dream function has long been noted. “The prin- Internal star.” Janice Baylis ciple and highest function is performed when the senses are at rest and pause in their action, for then the faculty From one of my dream-study students, this dream. receives to some extent, divine inspiration in a measure as “I’m in the laundry room of my apartment building. it is predisposed for this influence.” This is from The Guide A handsome man enters. He falls in love with me instantly. I for the Perplexed by Mose Maimonides (1135-1204). feel very, very loved. He tells me he lives on the uppermost floor. (He’s “The Man Upstairs”). He shows me a diamond in a Chapter Ten of Sex, Symbols and Dreams covers six tarnished buttercup-shaped setting. He takes out the diamond, stages or steps along the journey to becoming predisposed. cleans away the tarnish and replaces the stone in the pure gold Included are dream examples for each. ring. (Forgiveness of mistakes/sins.) He places the ring on my 1. Turning from external distractions to “inner space.” left hand — we are engaged to be married (they are engaged/ involved.) He is very rich. He leaves but we are engaged and 2. Observing and recognizing one’s illusions are going to meet again in his upstairs apartment. and projections. I feel bathed in love.” 3. Strengthening one’s perceptions. Many of these dream experiences begin when the 4. Transmuting self-centeredness to dreamer becomes lucid. universal brotherhood. “...What appears to be a meteorite drops out of the 5. Birthing a universalized love consciousness. eastern sky. I become lucid. ...As it hits the earth, there is a 6 Feelings of union with Divinity and flash of bright light... Two lights approach me from the area of oneness-with-all-that-is. the impact... I wait until the lights are directly overhead... and meditate. Now, let’s view a few dreams from stage six. This is “Immediately a tremendous energy wells up known variously as “Higher States of Consciousness” within my body. I try to surrender to it. As I do, the light (HSC), “transcendence,” “enlightenment,” and “mystic begins to fill my vision. A tremendous sense of warmth experience.” and love continues for a good while.” “Was walking with another fellow and a girl. Suddenly we saw Lucid Dreaming Dawning of the Clear Light. p.51. a pink and green spark winding in circles. ‘The Holy Spirit’ we Sparrow (1974) cried. It came upon us and circled around, crackling as it went. Light and energy are common elements universally We were highly elated and began to go onward. This was a associated with these dreams of communion between the very real experience.” individual and the Divine. But, remember, dreams, like P. 86, Dreams the Language of the Unconscious water, take the shape and level of the container, the dreamer. by Hugh Lynn Cayce, et al. “We need not when a-bed lie awake to talk to God; He can visit us while we sleep and cause us to hear His Someone once asked Edgar Cayce’s son, Hugh Lynn voice.” Mercy to Christiana in Pilgrims Progress. Cayce, if he had ever used a lucid dream to contact the Di- vine. Hugh Lynn answered, “Yes. And it was so ecstatic I This seems a fitting place to end this series of columns would crawl across the United States on my hands and about relationship dreams. It has been a fun and fruitful knees to have it again.” Asilomar, California Conference. four years. Sweet dreams always and all ways. ♦
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Artemidorus of Daldis was a Greek continue to be useful to modern dream or air or unsubstantial mere talk or idle living in the year mid-second century interpretation methods. The following words.” Given these perspectives on A.D. who believed dreams were pre- dream accounts submitted can be the words used by the dreamer to de- dictions of the future and investigated looked at using Artemidorus’ criteria: scribe her dream, are her dreams of the them in his book, Oneirocritica: The future for the dreamer or universal Interpretation of Dr eams. He must “I have had a series of dreams dreams for the future of humankind? have drawn from Assurbanipal’s recently which are disturbing to I suggest they are both. The el- dream book. Clay tablets found at me about nuclear war winds evated emotional response the dream- Nineveh, part of the library of the floating all around. I am travel- er has had from these dreams signals Assyrian king Assurbanipal (669 and ing in the dreams and there are her personal experiences to the condi- 626 BC) tell of the importance of eerie colors in the skies and then tions of war which was the backdrop dreams in the life of kings and com- a nuclear wind starts blowing of her early life, and her fear of their moners. The Assurbanipal dream which I cannot see, but know it manifestations in the future. The fact book is itself only a link in a chain of there, and it is worrisome.” that she is ‘traveling’ in the dreams tradition, as the library possibly held W. G. Portland, OR may indicate that she is moving as the records starting about 5000 B.C. If this ‘wind’ (mentally) between her home- is correct, the Oneirocritica links the If we consider the personal back- land and adopted country. She ob- remote past with present-day theories ground this dreamer brings to the serves eerie colors in the skies (or her 1 of dream interpretation. Artemidorus dream, as Artemidorus would, we can intellect, symbolized by air) which it was interested in why dreams came to discern how much life experience in- has become ‘colored’ by unprec- people, and devoted his life to inter- fluences its meaning. First, she was edented current world events. Simi- viewing people, traveling throughout born in another country in the midst larly, television is a medium that brings Asia Minor interpreting their dreams. of World War II and migrated to this via airwaves colorful images into our He never completely resolved if country with her family during the living rooms almost as they happen, dreams were gifts from a supreme de- post-war era. She maintains strong ties as dreams can do. Perhaps there is a ity or not, but he was only interested with her native country and grew up parallel. in dreams that predicted the future as in the evolving nuclear age. A person And how would these types of ‘predictive allegories.’ For the God— of upper middle class status with her dreams be interpreted two thousand or whatever it is that causes a person own family, she is a highly creative in- years ago? Symbols for weapons of to dream—presents to the dreamer’s dividual who enjoys art and commu- war could not have been nuclear mind (which is by its very nature, pro- nication media. phetic) dreams that correspond to fu- winds. Would a Roman soldier in In examining the dream(s) in rela- ture events.2 Artemidorus’ time dream of armies tion to its predictive qualities, the dic- entering cities and butchering its in- A pioneer of modern dream theory, tionary defines, ‘nuclear’ as follows: habitants with gleaming swords flash- Artemidorus laid the groundwork for “utilizing atomic energy, the atom ing and slicing through the air? Carl taking into consideration the cultural/ bomb or atomic power.” ‘Nuclear’ is Jung, this century’s esteemed dream social, intellectual and emotional sta- a word popularized in the last sixty master, writes: tus of the dreamer. He theorized that years (which corresponds to the the metaphors were not fixed, needed dreamer’s age) relative to weaponry “In wartime, for instance, to be considered within the structure and oddly, the cluster of the family one finds increased interest in of the dream and modified to fit the unit, as well. By looking at the word, the works of Homer, Shakes- conditions in which the dreamer found wind, we learn that it is “a natural hori- peare or Tolstoi and we read him/herself. Artemidorus’ concepts zontal movement of air; can be breath with new understanding what Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 #1/Dream Network 45 “I am Your Grandfather”/Lockhart, cont’d from page 14 in one of Ike’s books how Kim got its My hands gripped tightly onto the gives war its enduring arche- name. It was in 1917, when a post office door and I held on. I was beginning to typal meaning. They evoke a was first established in this area. The black out. Everything was spinning.␣ I response in us that is much first Post Master was to be Olin Dexter looked across at the station and it more profound than it could Simpson, one of Kim's founding finally came into focus. “Could it be be from someone who has landowners. There were two choices possible?” I asked myself out loud. never known the intense emo- for the town’s name to be decided by Finally, I let go of the door and my tional experience of war.”3 popular vote: “Simpson” and “Kim.” rubbery legs began the short trek to the If dreamers dream dreams of the It seems that Mrs. Simpson had read gas station. Time and distance stretch- future, it is the insight of Artemi- Rudyard Kipling’s famous novel and ed out in those moments. It took dorus—whose main preoccupation was quite taken with it.␣ So, Kim it was. forever. Inside the gas station, there was to present dreams as omens of Through the fog of my exhaustion, were several young people sitting the future—[who] speculated upon I regained the excitement of meeting around talking and drinking Coke. I many other aspects of dreaming [and] the owners of this store who would went in. “Is Shaughn Davis here?” I classified them into two types: The have knowledge of the history of Tobe asked. One of the young men sitting Insomnium type related to the feelings and perhaps knowledge of the Davis on a desk raised his hand, as if a and concerns evoked by everyday family. Inside, I was the only customer. teacher had called on him and said, life: The lover occupies himself with After shouting out a loud “Hello,” to “Yeah, I'm Shaughn.” “I understand his sweetheart, the fearful man sees no effect, I wondered what to do. the Davis family has been around here what he fears, the hungry man eats, Finally, I heard a door slam in the back a long time. Is that true?” “Yep.” the thirsty one drinks; in dreams of and shortly a rather stout, weathered, People in Kim seemed given to short the Somnium type, he saw a presen- but bright-eyed older woman appear- answers! tation of a wider awareness of the ed. For an instant she seemed startled Then, after swallowing hard and dreamer’s life, perhaps forecasting by my presence. Then, putting both looking squarely at Shaughn, I put the their future, divining outcomes of hands flat down on the counter, she crucial question to him: “Shaughn, are actions.4 smiled cheerfully and said, “What'cha you familiar with the name Frank like?” I asked for coffee and as she set Davis whose mother was Lula Davis.” Could our dreamer have had these about to fill my order, I asked her if Without skipping a beat, he said dreams and waking concerns about she was the owner. “Yes’r,” she crow- right back to me, “Yep, that’d be Uncle them if she were someone else living ed, adding “and a brand new owner Frank and old Grandma Lula.” in an earlier time? Could they be to boot!” “What’s become of the The tears that began to fill my eyes about past events or only dreams of previous owners?” I asked. She looked were no embarrassment to me. Trying the future? Without doubt, only she down at her shoes, lowered her voice to find my voice, which seemed very could have authored the dreams of and said, “Died.” far away, I finally squeaked out nuclear winds and eerie-colored skies With rapidly sinking spirits, I told through my cold, “Well, Frank was my given her historical and current sta- her I had hoped to speak with them grandfather.” I pulled out my knife tus within the context of the world, about their knowledge of the history with Frank’s tag attached and handed so for these reasons, both can apply. of the area, particularly the area it to Shaughn, who had bolted off the The past is the present and the around Tobe. I asked if she knew desk. He looked genuinely surprised. present the past in the world of anyone else in the area that would All the others gathered around for a dreams. ♦ know something about Tobe. “Nope.” look. Shaughn examined the tag, With that, my heart seemed to drop turning it over and over and gave it 1 Crisp, Tony, The New Dream Dictionary. into my shoes and I fell into a silent back to me saying, “Never heard Uncle 2 Delaney, Gayle, All About Dreams, pp. sadness, sipping the sour coffee, falling Frank having any kids. Best call my 40-41. further into disappointment and dad ‘bout this.” 3 Jung, Carl, Man and His Symbols, p.99. defeat. Finally, I heaved myself out of Shaughn went to the phone and 4 Crisp, Tony, The New Dream Dictionary. the chair and lumbered toward the called his father, telling him there was ≈ ≈ ≈ ∞ ≈ ∞ ≈ ≈ ≈ door. “Thanks,” I called out, hardly a man here claiming to be Uncle able to speak the word.␣ She came back Frank’s grandson who had Frank’s out of the kitchen and as I was stepping Navy tag. I could tell his father was ≈ ≈ ≈ ∞ ≈ ∞ ≈ ≈ ≈ out the door, she said,␣ “You might go skeptical. A long period went by where talk to Shaughn. He might know Shaughn was just listening. Finally, Dream Times is an interactive column something. His family’s been ‘round after saying goodbye, he said that his available for you, our readers. Submit here a long time. Just saw him over father was calling his mother and dream questions or topics to Marlene there at the station.” would call back in a few minutes. King, M.A., P.O. Box 477, Murphy, OR “What’s his name,” I asked? I grabbed myself a Coke. Shaughn 97533 or e-mail: [email protected] “Shaughn Davis," she said. introduced me to his brother and the
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52 Dream Network/Vol. 21 No. 4 & 22 No. 1out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.” Carl G. Jung