Evolving a Dream Cherishing Culture Since 1982 Vol. 28#1

“Back to Basics” by Artist Orna Ben Shoshan ChaosChaos && ApocalypseApocalypse Is It the End of Time or the Beginning of NOW? ~ Daniel Shellabarger The World Will Not End in 2012 ~ Author Vol.Unknown 28#1/Dream Network 1 Dreams, Bones and the Future ~ Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell Dialogue 2 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 Dreaming Humanity’s Path The Rotating Drum Dream aka “The Mills of God”

I am in a very large public space the size of a domed football stadium, possibly larger. In spite of its great size, the space is encompassed by an even larger structure: an enormous rotating drum. The drum resembles a “ball-mill,” a crushing and grinding machine used to pulverize ores and other materials. In the case of this particular drum, the material to be pulverized is a white, earthen material. Not only will the drum reduce the material to a powder, but it will also perform a transformative operation, turning the white powder into something else and giving it a new shape in the process. I observe this scene from a second floor balcony. On the ground level, there are groups of people going about their business, which consists mostly in recreation and entertainment. One group is playing ping-pong. The “drum” is so large, and is turning so slowly, that most people are unaware of it. Reaching over the balcony, I crush a portion of white material in my hand and let it fall to the ground below. In this way I add material to the overall “mix” of what the drum is processing. Some of the lumps in my hand are resistant to crushing. I am concerned they might interfere with the process, but decide that the drum is large enough that the small lumps will be pulverized. I let them go. Apparently the drum has completed a preliminary phase, for it ejects a large mass of prepared material, flopping it onto the ground like a gigantic batch of bread dough. Immediately a second, smaller batch of gold or yellow material—similarly mixed— is added to the white. Both the white and the yellow earthy materials will be thoroughly intermixed before proceeding to the next stage. Whenever it is ready, the material will either be (1) formed into a new mold to receive and give shape to a completely different material (as in bronze-casting) or (2) given shape itself by an as-yet unseen form or container, the way an amorphous mass of bread dough is given shape by its baking pan. [End of dream.]

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4 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 Table of Contents Upcoming Focus Dreaming Humanity’s Path for SUMMER~Vol. 28 #2 3 The Rotating Drum aka “The Mills of God” Dreaming Humanity’s Path: Visionary Dreams 37 Play BallBallPlay What Visionary Dreams Have You Been Apocalypse:Apocalypse:Apocalypse: The Revealing of Hidden Truths Gifted that Desire to Be Shared with and Benefit the Larger Community? The Mythic Connection More Chaos.... 9 Is it the End of Time... or the Beginning of Now? Cross Cultural Perspectives on Apocalypse & Salvation Lifeline: 4 Weeks by Daniel Shellabarger after you receive 13 The World Will Not End in 2012 Author Unknown this issue. 20 Dream of the Excess Bone by David Sparenberg The Art of Dreamsharing & Dream Education About Our Cover & Feature Artist 17 Dreams: Chaotic or Ordered? Complexity Theory Applied to Dreaming Orna Ben Shoshan by Janice Baylis, Ph. D. Artist Orna Ben-Shoshan conceives the 21 Dreams, Bones and the Future ~ Part IV images she paints through channeling. All A continuing dialogue between of her paintings are completed in her mind Russell Lockhart & Paco Mitchell before she transfers them onto the canvas. 24 From Fragment to Fractal by John C. Woodcock, Ph.D. Her metaphysical work infuses deep 28 The Last Green Thing: Valuing Nature in Dreams spiritual experience with subtle humor. by Robert Waggoner Orna Ben-Shoshan has been an auto 32 The God-Self Under the Mask deduct artist for the past 30 years. Waking from Personal and Collective Mythic Sleep Her artwork was exhibited in numerous by Sandy Sela-Smith, Ph.D. locations in the USA, Europe and Israel. 39 One Great Dream of a Single Dreamer Her Major motivation as a visual artist by Paul Levy is to share her visions with others to expand their consciousness and inspire 41 Dreams and Experiences During Sleep new ways of thinking. by Dean McClanahan To see more of her artwork, please visit: Columns & More... http://www.ben-shoshan.com 6-7 Editorial, Letters, Dreams During 2008, Orna has embarked 16, 26-27 Poetry by Karen Ethelsdatter & David Sparenberg on a new and challenging project: 30 Dreams in the News: The Cost of Dreams Her artwork became the theme of a new & the Price of The ir Loss by Russell Lockhart, Ph. D. set of reading cards: 35 Wisdom in Dreams: Dreaming of Rebirth "King Solomon Cards" by Paco Mitchell a new and innovative divination tool which 38 “Tooth and Male” by Marlene King, M.A. combines her metaphysical art with an- 43 Book ReviewReviewBook by Bambi Corso cient Kabalistic symbols. To see more, 44 Surprise!Surprise!Surprise! by Ar thur Strock, Ph.D. please visit: http://www.k-s-cards.com

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 5 Editorial

~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ D aniel Shellabarger, generously of your extraordinary whose article leads this issue, is imagination and skill. A beloved friend once told me of a very instructive dream. a good and valued friend and has ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ been for more than a decade. His The History channel recently ran He is standing before a window article, “Is it the End of Time of an excellent week-long series in his home looking out. A the Beginning of Now?” is a focused on “Apocalypse & Arma- ferocious storm is in process revised version of an article that geddon.” The series covered and all was in chaos: people appeared in Dream Network everything from the book of frantically running about, roofs some years ago. He was in India Revelations in the bible, to of buildings and trees flying at the time he initially wrote the Nostradamus, Hopi and Mayan through the air along with all article and recalls its manifesta- prophecies. The prophecies were sorts of debris. Alarmed, he tion as a ‘stream of conscious- then juxtaposed, compared with opened his door to determine ness’. Daniel’s writing is among current terrifying natural if he could help. As he stood the best I’ve read to address the occurrences (Tsunami, Katrina, surveying the scene, a voice themes of this issue and these etc.) and contemporary scientific over his left shoulder said times: Chaos & Apocalypse. evidence of the terrible effects all simply: “Be Still.” What Daniel doesn’t share in the forms of life on this planet will ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ suffer as a result of global warm- article is that he made a con- PLEASE NOTE: In harmony with ing, pollution and resultant earth scious choice, some years ago, heeding the warnings, the cur- changes. The summary of each to abandon money. Totally. Note rent ‘economic downturn’ it segment in this series concluded his email address: zerocurrency seems perhaps the perfect time that it is humankind (ourselves) @gmail.com His purpose and life for Dream Network to join the who are creating and in fact, are both a spiritual quest and Green Revolution and jump on responsible for the existing political statement. His rationale the Change Train. In other words, conditions and made clear that for doing so is compelling; his we are seriously contemplating it is in our hands to pay atten- lifestyle, in many ways, enviable. going paperless... going exclu- tion to the warnings/prophecies He volunteers extensively and sively online. This is not yet a firm and do what needs to be done to travels, currently by bike and rail, decision, HOWEVER, if you are correct our course of action. all over this beautiful land we call a print publication subscriber, Much the same as a nightmare— America. PLEASE SEND YOUR EMAIL AD- in this case, a living nightmare— His choices have made his expe- DRESS, CHOOSE YOUR USER- is a God/Soul-given gift to be rience in the current economic NAME & PASSWORD AND SEND seriously attended and heeded. environment, virtually seamless. THIS INFORMATION VIA EMAIL Though originally a Coloradan, There are many hopeful signs to TO PUBLISHER@DREAM NET- home base for him is Moab and indicate that we are shifting, to WORK.NET AS SOON AS in this community he has become change course and avoid what is POSSIBLE. a legendary figure, an icon. otherwise an inevitable storm... The venue we are exploring will ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ just as there are many forces in many ways be more condu- working hidiously to prevent this cive to networking, will save valu- Our Cover (and featured) artist, turning point. able trees, time and money for Orna Ben Shoshan, found us all of us. from israel. Her title, “Back to Ba- Yours truly remains an optimist, sics,” is so in harmony with skills albeit threatened and tested fre- If you have strong feelings or many of us are learning—or quently by the latter forces. response to this potential re-learning—in these times. The World Will Not end in 2012! change, please write and share Thank you Orna, for sharing so (p.15) your opinion. ∞ 6 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 Letters, Questions & DreamsDreams& however, it is always hard to Blessings, open doors, new think about change and letting dimensions and facets be yours, today and in years to Dream Network: go of what one is used to... but indeed, inevitable. From a come. 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8 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 The Mythis Connection IsIs ItIt thethe EndEnd ofof Time...Time... or thetheor BeginningBeginning ofof Now?Now? Cross Cultural Perspectives on Apocalypse and Salvation

by Daniel Shellabarger

"For the Days of the Lord are coming...... And it shall come to pass afterward, saith God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Even on my servants and handmaidens I will pour out, in those days, my Spirit; and they shall prophesy." Words of the Lord himself revealed to the prophet Joël preserved in Joël 2.28-30 in the Old Testament; due to their crucial importance, repeated in the New Testament in Acts 2.16-18. PART ONEONEPART PPP rophecies of the End of the periodic Islamic call to prayer anence. It seems a hazy window Time, the Apocalypse, abound all echoing through the salty air. All of into the realm of death and death- over the world. And the clues give this is flavored with the fact that I lessness beyond... just out of reach. evidence that they arise from the grew up in an Evangelical Christian That ‘time’ is our personal prophet DreamTime. Three things have household and constantly heard of peering into the End of Time. the Second Coming of Christ and intrigued me all my life: dreaming, When I was an adolescent, I slept the Apocalypse. myth and the concept of time; they in late one Saturday morning. I had have led me on strange journeys, Ever since I was a child, the moment a long and elaborate dream about inward and outward. Recently, I was between waking and sleeping, our German shepherd. At the wandering in Asia and years ago, consciousness and subconscious- dream's conclusion, I saw her run did a stint with the Peace Corp. in ness, has tantalized me, lured me into the path of our load truck as it South America. into wanting to experience more of was backing out of the driveway. I While in Asia, I spent almost a that timeless state. This exceptional heard a sounding thud, then a yelp. month practicing Vipassna medita- moment is illusive, seemingly I awoke to hear commotion outside tion at a monastery in the north of ungraspable—sometimes a moment my bedroom window. Later that day Thailand. Immediately afterward, I of profound wisdom and tranquility, I asked my dad and brothers if went south to a predominantly sometimes a clandestine moment something had happened to our dog Muslim area. Here I read the Koran, of fear. It is a moment of strange that morning. "Yes, she got in the with its continual theme of the awareness—realization of my own way of the truck as we were backing Resurrection Day, as I listened to mortality and the world's imperm- out and was hit. Fortunately, she

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 9 wasn't seriously hurt," my dad said. ‘Our mistake down go another twenty-four hours without sleeping. Following that, I "Could it be that my entire dream through the centuries had to go yet another twenty-four about our German shepherd had has been to interpret hours of sleeplessness, making a occurred within that split second the Apocalypse as a day total of three days and three nights when she was hit by the truck?" I of without sleep! One of my wondered. Other previous dream on the calendar, a point assignments was to tabulate how experiences gave evidence to this in linear time, rather in linear time, rather many times I nodded off during theory. This was the beginning of a than the ever-present meditation. This they called "Arising hypothesis: time is relative to each Center beyond and Ceasing." Eventually it dawned individual's state of consciousness on me that this Arising and Ceasing and this mystery of time can be Time and Space.” was that very moment I had wanted explored in that moment between “It is the Eternal to capture! This was that moment sleeping and waking, subcon- between sleeping and waking: the sciousness and consciousness. Present, the Middle Path between future Middle Path, the Eternal Present! I was so exhausted it was Isn't all of Nature subject to endless and past.”past.”and cycles of lying dormant and unbearable. I was tempted to lie awakening? It is at the time of dying down and slumber it all away. I that plants go to seed. And the finally gave up on the lotus position realized, is also the point of the seed's sprouting is the moment of and crouched on the floor with my teachings of Jesus Christ, resurrection, of waking. Falling head on my knee. That way I could particularly in his Sermon on the asleep and dying: are they really rest a little more and hopefully not Mount: Keep your eye "single," any different from one another? fall entirely asleep. I was coming to focusing on now rather than When we die, so our conception of the point of giving up. "If I sleep, I worrying about yesterday or Time dies with us; and hence, so sleep. If I don't, I don't. I just don't tomorrow. In the Torah of Jesus' ends Time itself. This is what Logic care any more," I finally thought, faith, the unspeakable Name of and Intuition together lead me to with my head resting on my knee God—discovered by Moses at the understand. in resignation. Then, something I'd burning bush—is a play on the never experienced before unex- I have since noticed how lucid Hebrew word for "to be." It roughly pectedly happened. Indescribable dreaming occurs when my means "the Eternal Present." When peace fell over me. I noticed a consciousness straddles the line I shared this fact with my Vipassna fading person with his head on his between waking and sleeping; it meditation teachers, they were knee. I honestly didn't know who seems a consciousness that can delighted. From then on they often this person was, whether it was me simultaneously see into both reminded me to keep my focus on or the Buddha or someone else. I realms. I always wanted to the Eternal Present. My teachers lost all conception of "I" and "me." experiment further into this realm gave me day-to-day assignments of Then there was no-body. All senses by keeping myself awake for several walking and sitting meditation. I was and all thought ceased. All was nights. However, I lacked the clueless as to what they had in mind blank, empty. The closest de- stamina.... until I came to the for me the next day or in the "grand scription I can share is that all was Buddhist monastery. Gautama finale" of my meditation practice. I a pale blue light of emptiness. No Buddha discovered, some 500 years often complained how sleepy I was pain, no-thing, just utter peace and before Christ, that the cycles of becoming. Even so, they continued silence. This experience lasted Time and suffering could be to tell me to reduce the time I slept perhaps 20 minutes—I’m not sure. transcended through what he called each night. Toward the end of my I felt I could have stayed there "the Middle Path" or "the Eightfold instruction, they told me to go forever, but I also felt the urge to Path." Training the mind to follow twenty-four hours without sleeping, come back. When I did, I was this path is the point of Vipassna with a particular walking and sitting completely awake, rejuvenated, meditation. Buddhists also call it meditation assignment. After the refreshed, and blissfully at peace, focusing on the Present Moment, twenty-four hours, I thought my as if I'd had the best sleep in my not letting the mind stray to either ordeal was finished... but they life. Then I understood why the future or the past. This, I surprised me again, telling me to "Buddha" means "awakened one."

10 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 PART TWOTWOPART The Koran similarly says we must keep vigilant, lest the After leaving the monastery, Apocalypse overtake us I remembered that three days unawares. and three nights signifies death and resurrection, or Our mistake down through transformation in many myth- the centuries has been to ologies of the world. For interpret the Apocalypse as a example, the Sumerian godd- day on the calendar, a point ess Inanna dies and is hung in linear time, rather than the on a pole in Hell for three days ever-present Center beyond and three nights before she Time and Space. We will all resurrects. Jonah spends be swallowed into this Center, three days and three nights sooner or later. It is the in the whale's belly. Jesus says Eternal Present, the Middle that the Son of Man must Path between future and past. spend three days and three The ancient prophets, nights in the heart of the whether they lived 1500, Earth. The moon is obscured 2000 or 2500 years ago, for three days and three always said the same thing: nights. the Apocalypse is "at hand," and it will come upon "this The heart of the earth, the generation." This concept has center of the world, the had overly-logical religious Middle Path: this concept is scholars confused for the factor that links the “Dream Rush” millennia! world's myths and gives us a clue by Orna Ben-Shoshan into the End of Time, the Apoca- Notice that in various world lypse. It is the Dream Time. mythologies—such as Aztec, Greek, Another variation on this theme is Curiously, in mythologies through- Hindu, Babylonian and Jewish—the the universal myth of the Great out the world, we find there is a prophecies each speak of time Deluge. In Native American divine incarnation who descends, divided into four periods, with a fifth mythologies, the Tree of Life at the dies, and resurrects at the Middle period (or end of the fourth) being Center of the Cross becomes the the time of Apocalypse. Each period of the World, at the Center of the ladder of Salvation by which people is represented by the astrological Cross of the junction of the four and animals ascend from the elements of the four seasons: Earth, directions. This Center is the flooded underworld to rebirth into Air, Water, and Fire. Each of these clashing of opposites and the union a New World. In many cultures, this cultures also agrees that the fifth of compliments into ultimate Tree of Life is hollowed out or (or end of the fourth) is the time of oneness. This union is often constructed into a boat that carries "mixture." In India, Israel, Greece, represented by the central axis of earthly creatures to Salvation. and Babylon, these ages were the Pyramid, with four corners represented as Gold, Silver, Bronze, converging into the fifth, which is In the Dhamapada—the sayings of Iron, and Mixture. In India, the apex. This union is also the Buddha—we read that Death Mesoamerica and North America, commonly represented by the Tree overtakes all creatures as a flood these ages are represented by the of Life, the Axis at the Center of the overtakes a sleeping village. colors or castes of the human race four realms of the world. The Buddha's teaching, the Middle Path, dispersed into the four realms of the Sumerian incarnation of the is called the Canoe that carries us earth, with the fifth being the End... goddess Inanna, the Norse Woden, to Salvation. Similarly, Jesus when all the colors or castes mix the Aztec Quetzalcoatl, and the compares the End of the World, the and the boundaries between North American Corn Maiden, to End of Time, to Noah's flood. Both hierarchies dissolve. This fifth age name a few; each descend, die, and Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha is one of contradicting chaos or resurrect at the Center of the World, say the same thing: we must keep unifying salvation, depending on the of the Cross. vigilant, lest the flood overtake us. perspective. Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 11 coming of the time of hope.... and In the Old Testament book of Daniel, this is why it can be deceptive. Good One of the these same mythic motifs are the times are often deceptive, because dreams of the Babylonian emperor Best-Selling we cling to them. Hence, in reality, Nebuchanezzar. And these are the the end of the fourth age—rather Dream Books motifs Jesus refers to in the New than its beginning—truly does of all time Testament. 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Carlos Barrios was born into a Spanish family on El studying with traditional elders for 25 years since the Altiplano, the highlands of Guatemala . His home was in age of 19, he has also became a Mayan Ajq'ij, a ceremo- Huehuetenango, also the dwelling place of the Maya Mam nial priest and spiritual guide, Eagle Clan. tribe. Years ago, along with his brother, Gerardo, Carlos initi- With other Maya and other indigenous tradition keepers, ated an investigation into the different Mayan calendars. the Mam carry part of the old ways on Turtle Island He studied with many teachers. He says his brother (North America ). Gerardo interviewed nearly 600 traditional Mayan elders to widen their scope of knowledge. They are keepers of time, authorities on remarkable cal- endars that are ancient, elegant and relevant. Mr Barrios “Anthropologists visit the temple sites,” Mr. Barrios says, is a historian, an anthropologist and investigator. After “and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 13 Maya, but they do not read the signs As the nine cycles unfolded, land and Some observers say this alignment correctly. It’s just their imagination... freedom were taken from the native with the heart of the galaxy in 2012 Other people write about prophecy in people. will open a channel for cosmic energy the name of the Maya. They say that Disease and disrespect dominated. to flow through the earth, cleansing the world will end in December 2012. it and all that dwells upon it, raising What began with the arrival of Cortez, The Mayan elders are angry with this. all to a higher level of vibration. lasted until August 16, 1987—a date The world will not end! It will be trans- many people recall as Harmonic Con- This process has already begun, Mr. formed. The indigenous peoples have vergence. Millions of people took Barrios suggested. the calendars and know how to accu- advantage of that date to make rately interpret them, not others. “Change is accelerating now, and it ceremony in sacred sites, praying for will continue to accelerate. “ If the The Mayan Calendars’ comprehension a smooth transition to a new era, the people of the earth can get to this of time, seasons and cycles has World of the Fifth Sun. 2012 date in good shape, without proven itself to be vast and sophisti- From that 1987 date until now, Mr. having destroyed too much of the cated. The Maya understand seven- Barrios says, we have been in a time Earth, Mr. Barrios said, we will rise to teen different calendars, some of when the right arm of the materialis- a new, higher level. But to get there them charting time accurately over a tic world is disappearing, slowly but we must transform enormously pow- span of more than ten million years. inexorably. We are at the cusp of the erful forces that seek to block the way. The calendar that has steadily drawn era when peace begins, and people global attention since 1987 is called A Picture of the Road Ahead live in harmony with Mother Earth. We A Picture of the Road Ahead the Tzolk’in or Cholq’ij. are no longer in the World of the From his understanding of the Mayan Devised ages ago and based on the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the tradition and the calendars, Mr. Bar- cycle of the Pleiades, it is still held as World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time rios offered a picture of where we are sacred. With the indigenous calen- in-between, the time of transition. at and what may lie on the road dars, native people have kept track ahead: The date specified in the cal- As we pass through transition there of important turning points in history. endar—Winter Solstice in the year is a colossal, global convergence of 2012—does not mark the end of the For example, the day keepers who environmental destruction, social world. Many outside people writing study the calendars identified an im- chaos, war and ongoing Earth about the Mayan calendar sensation- portant day in the year One Reed— changes. alize this date, but they do not know. Ce Acatal, as it was called by the Mexi- All this, Mr. Barrios says, was fore- The ones who know are the indig- cans. That was the day when an im- seen via the simple, spiral mathemat- enous elders who are entrusted with portant ancestor was prophesied to ics of the Mayan calendars. “It will keeping the tradition. return, “coming like a butterfly. “ In change,” Mr. Barrios observes. the western calendar, the One Reed “Everything will change.” He said “Humanity will continue,” he con- date correlates to Easter Sunday, April Mayan Day keepers view the DEC. 21, tends, “but in a different way. Mate- 21, 1519 the day that Hernando 2012 date as a rebirth, the start of rial structures will change. From this Cortez and his fleet of 11 Spanish gal- the World of the Fifth Sun. It will be we will have the opportunity to be leons arrived from the East at what is the start of a new era resulting from more human. “We are living in the today called Vera Cruz, Mexico . and signified by the solar meridian most important era of the Mayan cal- When the Spanish ships came toward crossing the galactic equator, and the endars and prophecies. All the proph- shore, native people were waiting and earth aligning itself with ecies of the world, all the traditions, watching to see how it would go. the center of the galaxy. are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this The billowing sails of the ships did At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for era is action. Many powerful souls indeed remind the scouts of butter- the first time in 26,000 years the Sun have reincarnated in this era, with a flies skimming the ocean surface. In rises to conjunct the intersection of lot of power. This is true on both sides: this manner was a new era initiated, the Milky Way and the plane of the the light and the dark. an era they had anticipated through ecliptic. This cosmic cross is consid- their calendars. The Maya termed the ered to be an embodiment of the Sa- High magic is at work on both sides. new era the Nine Bolomtikus, or nine cred Tree, The Tree of Life, a tree Things will change, but it is up to the Hells of fifty-two years each. remembered in all the world’s people how difficult or easy it is spiritual traditions. for the changes to come about. 14 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 The economy now is a fiction. The first five-year stretch of transition from August 1987 to August 1992 was the beginning of the destruction of the material world. We have progressed ten years deeper into the transition phase by now, and many of the so- called sources of financial stability are in fact hollow. The banks are weak. This is a delicate moment for them. They could crash globally if we don’t pay attention. If the banks crash, then we will be forced to rely on the land and our skills. The monetary systems will be in chaos and we must then rely on our direct relationship with the Earth for our food and shelter. The North and South Poles are both break- ing up. The level of the water in the oceans is going to rise. But at the same time land in the ocean, espe- “Small Tasks cially near Cuba , is also going to rise. by Orna Ben-Shoshan A Call for Fusion be unable to connect with the spiral Mr. Barrios said the emerging era of As he met with audiences in Santa Fifth World in 2012. the Fifth Sun will call attention to a Fe, Mr. Barrios told a story about the much-overlooked element. Whereas “On the light side, everyone thinks most recent Mayan New Year ceremo- the four traditional elements of earth, they are the most important, that nies in Guatemala . He said that one air, fire and water have dominated their own understandings, or their respected elder—who lives all year in various epochs in the past, there will group’s understandings, are the key. a solitary mountain cave—journeyed be a fifth element to reckon with in There’s a diversity of cultures and to Chichicastenango to speak with the the time of the Fifth Sun: ether. opinions, so there is competition, dif- people at the ceremony. The elder fusion and no single focus. As Mr. The dictionary defines ether as the delivered a simple, direct message: Barrios sees it, the dark side works rarefied element of the Heavens. He called for human beings to come to block fusion through denial and Ether is a medium. It permeates all together in support of life and light. materialism. It also works to destroy space and transmits waves of energy Right now each person and group is those who are working with the light in a wide range of frequencies, from going his or her own way. The elder to get the Earth to a higher level. They cell phones to human auras. like the energy of the old, declining of the mountains said there is hope if What is “ethereal” is related to the Fourth World, the materialism. They the people of the light can come to- regions beyond earth: the heavens. do not want it to change. They do not gether and unite in some way. Ether—the element of the Fifth Sun— want fusion. They want to stay at this Reflecting on this, Mr. Barrios ex- is celestial and lacking in material level, and are afraid of the next level. plained: “We live in a world of polar- substance, but is no less real than The dark power of the declining Fourth ity: day and night, man and woman, wood, stone or flesh. “Within the World cannot be destroyed or over- positive and negative. Light and dark- context of ether, there can be a fu- powered. It’s too strong and clear for ness need each other. They are a bal- sion of the polarities,” Mr. Barrios said. that, and that is the wrong strategy. ance. Just now the dark side ener- The dark can only be transformed “No more darkness or light in the gies are very strong and very clear when confronted with simplicity and people, but an uplifted fusion.” about what they want. They have their open-heartedness. This is what leads vision and their priorities clearly held, But right now the realm of darkness to fusion, a key concept for the World and also their hierarchy. They are is not interested in this. They are or- of the Fifth Sun.” working in many ways so that we will ganized to block it. They seek to un- Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 15 balance the Earth and its environment heart will tell you but it must have Where do dreams go? so we will be unprepared for the align- great roots. We live in a world of en- ment in 2012. We need to work to- ergy. An important task at this time Where do dreams go? gether for peace and balance with the is to learn to sense or see the energy Some of them step out of bed other side. We need to take care of of everyone and everything: people, beside you, the Earth that feeds and shelters us. plants, animals. This becomes in- creasingly important as we draw close breakfast with you We need to put our entire mind and heart into pursuing unity and fusion to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is & walk down the street now, to confront the other side and associated with the element ether— to the bus stop preserve life... to be Ready for this the realm where energy lives and & seem more real Moment in History. weaves. Go to the sacred places of the earth to pray for peace, and have than even the trees, Mr. Barrios told his audiences in Santa respect for the Earth which gives us more solid than the ground Fe that we are at a critical moment of our food, clothing and shelter. We you step on. world history. “We are disturbed,” he need to reactivate the energy of these said. “We can’t play anymore. Our sacred places. That is our work. There are dreams you pass by like planet can be renewed or ravaged. the freshness of bread from the bakery. Now is the time to awaken and take One simple but effective prayer tech- In the next block you don't smell them action. Everyone is needed. You are nique is to light a white or baby-blue not here for no reason. Everyone who colored candle. Think a moment in but you know they are still there. is here now has an important purpose. peace. Speak your intention to the Some dreams are like fireworks This is a hard, but a special time. We flame and send the light of it on to whose thunder reverberates in your brain have the opportunity for growth, but the leaders who have the power to we must be ready for this moment in make war or peace. till your feet feel unsteady on the ground history.” We Have Work to Do. & the bright showers of color in the sky According to Mr. Barrios this is a cru- come so close there is nowhere to run. Mr. Barrios offered a number of sug- gestions to help people walk in bal- cially important moment for human- Dreams lift you up in their arms ance through the years ahead. “The ity, and for earth. Each person is im- like a parent prophesied changes are going to hap- portant. If you have incarnated into this era, you have spiritual work to as you cling, trusting, pen,” he said “but our attitude and actions determine how harsh or mild do balancing the planet. He said the to their shoulder, they are. We need to act, to make elders have opened the doors so that or, changes, and to elect people to rep- other races can come to the Mayan they carry you by the nape of the neck resent us who understand and who world to receive the tradition. will take political action to respect the like a mother cat The Maya have long appreciated and earth. Meditation and spiritual prac- respected that there are other col- till you feel precarious as though tice are good, but also action. It’s very ors, other races, and other spiritual your eyes don't yet know how to open important to be clear about whom you systems. & you don't even know to wonder are and also about your relation to where you are being carried to. the Earth. Develop yourself accord- “They know,” he said, “that the des- ing to your own tradition and the call tiny of the Mayan world is related to Once in a long time of your heart. But remember to re- the destiny of the whole world. “The a dream hovers over the day spect differences and strive for unity. greatest wisdom is in simplicity,” Mr. Eat wisely. A lot of food is corrupt in Barrios advised before leaving Santa like a rainbow either subtle or gross ways. Pay at- Fe . “Love, respect, tolerance, shar- till the very air tention to what you are taking into ing, gratitude, forgiveness. It’s not shimmers like sun on the water. your body. Learn to preserve food and complex or elaborate. The real knowl- This kind of dream has a name. to conserve energy. Learn some good edge is free. It’s encoded in your DNA. Its name is happiness. breathing techniques, so you have the All you need is within you. Great mastery of your breath. Be clear. Fol- teachers have said that from the be- low a tradition with great roots. It is ginning. Find your heart, and you will Karen Ethelsdattar not important what tradition, your find your way. ∞

16 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 The Art of DreamSharing & Dream Education Dreams:Dreams: ChaoticChaotic oror Ordered?Ordered? Complexity Theory Applied to Dreaming

© Janice Baylis, Ph.D.

CCComplexity Theory Science to be incomprehensible data by underlying process, namely asso- tells us that simple deterministic helping to discern an underlying ciative thinking. systems can breed complexity. That’s pattern that reveals order.” said, why it is also known as Complexity With associative thinking, two Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. in Dream Theory. So much complexity, in fact, associated things have some linking Network Journal. that it looks like random chaos. The similarity. Differences don’t count simple deterministic system is lost, In the case of dreams, we see so and don’t detract. The linking features unperceived, in a mass of many dream images—random varia- of similarity must be sufficiently incomprehensible data. Complexity bles—that we don’t see the underlying similar to establish an association Theory scientists look below the process. Aristotle saw it. He said, such that one can be substituted for surface to find the ordered system. “The key to dream interpretation is the other. Writing in Midnight’s In 1986 the Royal Society defined resemblances.” Children, Salmon Rushdie noted, “As chaos in the context of science as, How complexity builds from a single people, we are obsessed with corres- “behavior or process using process is by branching—more than pondences. Similarities between this random variables occurring in a once. In Complexity Theory the first and that, between unconnected deterministic system.” splitting is called Bifurcating, which things make us clap our hands My research has provided ample simply means branching. In the delightedly when we find them out.” empirical evidence that the key to terminology I use in my dreamwork Let’s take, as an example, the famous dream interpretation is resembla- and my book Sex, Symbols and Elias Howe dream. Howe had been nces. The simple deterministic Dreams, the first branches of the trying to design a machine that would system active in dream image associative thinking process are called sew. In his waking mind the only selection is an associative thinking Symbol Substitution Systems. model for a sewing needle was a process. A dream image is More complexity, which looks more needle with a hole in the blunt end. substituted for something in the mind chaotic, is built when the Bifurcations/ It wasn’t working in his machine. He of the dreamer, something that is branches split again, cascading into dreamed that primitives captured him similar to, resembles, the dream several parts. In Complexity Theory and were prodding him along with image in some way. The linking these additional parts are called their spears. Just before he awoke he features of similarity must be Cascades. I’ve called these split-offs noticed each spear had a hole in the sufficiently similar to establish an from the Symbol Substitution Sys- pointed end. Awake, he immediately association such that one can tems, sub-sets. The Bifurcations/ realized that was what his machine substitute for the other. symbol systems and Cascades/sub- needed, a needle with a hole in the sets follow the same process as the pointed end. The Deterministic System within Strange Attractor, the Single Deter- which the random variables behave ministic System in Complexity Theory The needle and the spears had a has been called a “Strange Attractor.” terminology. In dreams this Determin- similarity of shape: long, narrow and Like a magnet it pulls in material with istic System is the associative thinking pointed. The differences of location, an affinity to the process. ”A Chaos process. The Bifurcations and Cas- function etc. did not count and did Attractor finds order in what appears cades are specialized types of the not detract.

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 17 Charting the comparison between Complexity Theory terminology and my dream terminology was very easy. And behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. And behold, seven lean ears blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold it was a dream.” Genesis 41: 1-7. So, in Biblical times, Joseph realized that a part—the cattle or the corn— could represent the whole... all of Egypt’s food production. The river would surely be the Nile River which also represents the whole country of Egypt. Joseph tells Pharaoh, “For that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established.” Genesis 41: 32 The doubling added emphasis, built more symmetry, that is, more associative similarity. Mixing happens when a single image has meaning in two sub-sets/ cascades, perhaps even from differ- ent symbol systems/bifurcations. This is a dream example for Mixing in Complexity Theory. It comes from one of my students. She had two teenage sons. Her dream: “I dreamed my son was assembling a new bike (vehicle, And so for the other Symbol Substitution Systems, how does this look in body) in his bedroom (sexual actual dreams? Adding to the appearance of chaos and making the underlying changes in puberty) I process even more difficult to perceive are several other features of chaos. unintentionally carried the Several special behaviors take place with the Bifurcations/symbol systems handlebars downstairs. His older and the Cascades/sub-sets. brother carried the handlebars back Symmetry Building happens when shared sub-sets/Cascades merge showing to him. Next we were waiting for more similarity. One sub-set of the Symbol System, Figures-of-speech is the an earthquake at home.” synecdoche. This is where a part stands for the whole. A nice set of wheels In the Words Symbol System and means a nice car; a part, the wheels, stands for the whole car. Here is a Sub-set Definitions, HANDLE as a dream example where a part to stand for the whole is shown twice, building verb is “manage, deal with, control”. the resemblance. The mother is unintentionally not “Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river. And behold, there giving her son help with handling, came up out of the river, seven well favored cattle and fat-fleshed; and controlling his new sexual feelings. In they fed in a meadow. And behold, seven other cattle came up after them the Qualities Symbol System and out of the river, ill favored and lean-fleshed; Sub-set Function, HANDLEBARS ...And the ill favored and lean cattle did eat up the fat cattle. again are for steering or controlling. And he [Pharaoh] dreamed again. The image of handlebars is mixing the meaning from two symbol systems. A boy’s bike functions to

18 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 move his body around in life, just as “I was watching Cher do a in relationship to other people. The his body functions to move his psyche presentation of her vamp role from handlebar dream alerted the mother around in life, hence the substitution. the Sonny and Cher Show. She was to help her son deal with and control As it turned out, the young son caused dressed provocatively and was his new sexual feelings. rolling her hips. Next thing I knew, a big shake-up (earthquake) in the This self-organization of images to I was making love to her. family when he was discovered deliver useful messages to dreamers I am not a lesbian!” sneaking out at night to meet the even extends to financial concerns. A teenage girl next door. In this dream Cher represents a married couple, preparing for retire- Sensitive dependence on initial flirtatious vamp. This is an example ment, planned to buy a lot in San conditions means that the result is from the People Symbol System but Diego County California and build a dependent on how things were at the the Character Trait Sub-set. The retirement home there. They gave a beginning of the process. Small dreamer would love to become realtor a price range and he showed beginning conditions can have large intimately involved with the role them some nice grassy lots. During effects further along in the process. [homonym to roll] of a flirtatious following week the wife had this The example Chaos Theorists usually vamp. Two different initial condi- dream. tions using the same image to give is, that if a butterfly flaps its “My husband and I represent different meanings to wings in China, it can affect the wind are buying a bird’s nest. two different dreamers. and weather in New York. It is soft and cozy looking. Deterministic chaos means that the I am especially impressed In dreams sensitive dependence random variables, in individual cases, by the lovely tree it is in.” on initial conditions means that the are so unpredictable that they appear same image can have different When she thought about the dream to be chaotic, while actually they are meanings to different dreamers. she realized that a lot with trees would selected within a deterministic, Here are two dreams to illustrate be much nicer and a better invest- underlying process. This accounts for sensitive dependence on initial ment. They asked to see lots with the gazillion different dream images conditions. trees. The wooded lot cost more than which often seem bizarre and chaotic. they had intended to pay, but they A shy woman had joined a discussion were much happier having the live oak group hoping to make new friends. Self-organization, in Complexity trees on the lot they purchased. After attending two meetings without Theory, means creating new conn- contributing, she had this dream. ections for evolution. “At the pinnacle The similarity between the complex of complicated dynamics are pro- dream associative processes and the “I am at a public swimming pool. cesses of biological evolution and structure of a tree make a useful The singer-actress Cher is sitting thought processes. In a person’s comparison. The Deterministic beside me. Cher dives in mind, information is not just System—associative thinking—is the and starts swimming around accumulated but is also generated— trunk of the dream-tree. The Bifur- with the other people.” created from connections that were cations—symbol substitution sys- not there before.” Packard in CHAOS Our discussion of her life situation and tems—are like big limbs. The Cas- her dream led to this interpretation. Making a New Science p. 261. cades, the sub-sets. are the tree Take the plunge, get into the swim of In dreams, this allows for the spon- branches. This tree infrastructure things, share and pool your thoughts taneous emergence of images con- can’t be seen because it is so covered with the other people. In this dream veying a message, organized to by the leaves—the random variables— Cher stood for the homonym share facilitate evolution of the individual again, those gazillion images seen in and represented the People Symbol dreamer, in relation to their daily life. dreams. But, all the while, linking via System’s Sub-set, Name as a regular The Elias Howe dream is an example similarities is the hidden process. word. of this. He generated a working needle Dreams do often appear chaotic or Another woman, not as shy as the first for his sewing machine. Pharoah’s bizarre; however, if you look and find dreamer, also dreamed of Cher. She dream organized to help him do his the appropriate associative links, you was a bit old-fashioned having the job, caring for the people of Egypt can glean wonderful messages from belief that women are to be sought relative to a coming period of famine. your dreams. Thanks to Complexity after and not to initiate a relationship. The two Cher dreams helped the Theory for showing the dynamics Her dream: dreamers facilitate personality growth behind the logic of dreaming. ∞ Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 19 Dream of the Excess Bone

What is it that you offer, tugging magnetically, pulling me down into a deep ecosophic dream?

I have something extraordinary to show you. It is a paradox—immense and small. Yet the gift will fit into the palm of your awaiting hand. What is this “something”—round, white and stained with age and earth-red emotion?

See into the valley of a flower. Press your ear in intimate listening to the memory of a chambered nautilus. Wrestle heroically with a wind blessed on a mountain summit. Baptize your heart even in the river of light. Feel as your soul is born from the honeycomb of love. Here

is a bone—called Excess Bone—an ensouled stone from the secret treasury of a shaman’s body. There is a hole through it, clear through this bone. You can look into that hole and see everything you need to see. There, with your beacon-eye, looking from layer to layer, dimension to dimension, from form to form, learning to be disciplined humbly, you will know what you need to know. Necessity, with a spirit’s breath, will accompany you as a friend, not as a phantom. As a power, not as terror.

Now this change, the metamorphosis of the great ordinary, begins right here, right now (like passing over) with this round, hollow ring of calcium, of allusions and affects, and of ancestral journeying dovetailed into the continents of this incandescent, incendiary and compassionate moment, as I place the Excess Bone in your care. You are responsible, accountable now, for what it means. And what it brings will be your identity and destiny, in this world of convolutions, inversions and conversions, and in many others. Life follows life.

Whenever it profoundly names you, calls—sweet mythic bone singing from your potent dream-—you will awaken, shaking in a mystery sweat and cry another name; the other from your hidden self, the interior . Then an animal (and why not an animal?): a deer or a

bear, a wolf or a lion, a hawk or a dolphin, an owl or a raven, a turtle or salmon, a dragon, a dragonfly, a butterfly

will step down out of intricate darkness and stand near beside you, wherever you go, whenever you linger in trance-dance or prayer; each time that you morph, when your blood is rain, when you are crucified—when you grow.

See seedling! Listen! In the village, the season of popping trees. When language is holy. When words kindle flames from the Zen of a circle. Reality turns; beauty unfolds. Yes! You are passion, the pas- sionate. The Great Mother feels you. Like a mustang on the plains of sage, above the shadows of the river’s gorge.

Apprentice—hold out your hand….

David Sparenberg March 2009

20 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 Dreams, Bones and the Future Part IVIVPart

A Continuing Dialogue Between

Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell

Paco Mitchell: At the end of our importance of animals thus gave future developments. But it is last dialogue, we imagined our- rise to ritual forms of worship, cults useful to remember that the only selves deep underground in the and cosmologies and the campfire revolution comparable to it in the caves at Lascaux, looking up at stories of an indispensable oral past history of humanity, that is, Paleolithic paintings of animals. We tradition. the discovery of agriculture, marveled at the paintings them- provoked upheav-als and Russell LockharL: Of course, that selves and wondered about the spiritual breakdowns whose state of mind, although lasting state of mind of the hunters/artists/ magnitude the modern mind thousands of years, finally gave way shamans who painted them. finds it well-nigh impossible to to another spirit... what I like to call conceive. An ancient world, the As I later mulled over your insights the cornucopian spirit—the advent world of nomadic hunters, with and intuitions, I thought about the of agriculture. The cornu of that its religions, its myths, its moral vast gulf separating humans today word is the goat’s horn, so here is conceptions, was ebbing away. from those early periods, especially the transition image of the animal Thousands and thousands of where animals are concerned. In no from earlier time, albeit only a piece years were to elapse before the phase of history during the past and not the whole dynamic image final lamentations of the old several thousand years were we we saw in the caves. The copia world died away, forever doomed ever so utterly dependent on refers to the abundant outflowing by the advent of agriculture.” animals as early humans were from the horn, the full measure of during Paleolithic times—before the grains, and flowers, and fruits— Eliade continues: advent of agriculture. (We could say literally the great harvest of the “One must suppose that the that the ratio of importance “above ground” earth. profound spiritual crisis aroused between animals and humans for by man’s decision to call a halt PM: I’m reminded of Eliade’s The Paleolithic nomads was practically and bind himself to the soil, must Forge and the Crucible, where he one-to-one. Agriculture introduced have taken many hundreds of draws a remarkable parallel be- a multiplier into the equation, since years to become completely tween the distant Paleolithic past one ox could plow many acres and integrated. It is impossible to and our current situation and future help produce millions of grains, thus imagine the upheaval of all outlook. I think it’s worth quoting supporting a larger human values caused by the change- at length: population.) The very life of the over from the nomadic to the nomadic tribes, however, depended “As for the crises of the modern sedentary life and to appreciate in high degree on the individual world, we must bear in mind that its psychological and spiritual animals they hunted, so they this world inaugurates a com- repercussions. The technical recognized in those animals the pletely new type of civilization. discoveries of the modern world, source of life. The central It is not possible to foresee its its conquest of Time and Space,

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 21 represent a revolution of similar dream helmets and, of course, After seeing this video one might proportions, the consequences of dreams themselves—how many well say the world is becoming ever which are still very far from actual places have humans found, more a nightmare. But, like Kristine having become part of us.” built, discovered and sought out in Robin, I'm basically an optimist, and their effort to stay connected to the so I look for ways to alter what RL: Eliade's reference to the primordial, living imagination? seems like an inevitable flood of conquest of time and space could Dreams may be the most direct increasingly disastrous conse- as well be thought of as the opening we have today if we wish quences of the dominance by the “triumph of light” over darkness, to enter the imaginal depths. They power and the rapaciousness of the epitomized by the electric light that are not the only means of access, two-hearted. has severed the human tether to to be sure, but they are the most the light and dark cycle those PM: One way to counteract the ubiquitous. Interestingly, we can Paleoliths lived by so intimately. But, destructive flood is to “listen” for still see in dreams—in their images, oh, the unintended consequences! Merlin's Cry, as it echoes the earlier their mythic patterns, their amazing National Geographic recently in a lamentations of the old stone-age associative nature, their implication cover story entitled “The End of shamans. In effect, the unconscious in synchronicities, their tendency to Night: Why We Need Darkness,” itself is crying out for recognition, reflect totalities—remnants of that speaks to our lost connection with not just the “shadow side” of Paleolithic experience which you the sky in urban centers and the modern life or the dark side of the called the “rhizomic integrity of cost of this “constant light,” not only individual personality, but the world, imagination and dream.” in energy terms, but in disturbing deepest reaches out of which What Thomas Berry called the our biological rhythms and por- modern consciousness itself slowly “shamanic personality,” then, is tending major consequences to our evolved. And, as you have said so available—in principle—to anyone, health and well-being. I was struck many times, this cry for recognition virtually given, with close enough by the inside front pages of this cannot be denied. attention to dreams, or to dream- issue in an advertisement showing like states. RL: You have noted that Berry is just those images from Lascaux calling for a kind of “rescue” by a right along with IBM's new slogan: RL: Your comments are rich loam hoped-for and wide-spread emer- Stop Talking, Start Doing. Yes, but indeed! I'm glad you refer to Eliade, gence of the shamanic personality. doing what? Well, my response, as as his fertile work seems largely I like to think of this as an increasing you well know, is something on the neglected now and deserves a fresh possibility of emergent access to the order of “Do the Dream.” reading. His vision of the modern shamanic potential in each person world spawning a “spiritual break- PM: There must be something stimulated by the present extrem- down” recalls the Hopi prophecy of about deep darkness itself that ities. We are not in want of gurus. the two paths that increasingly invites and impels the human The very idea of guru has become confront the world's people and the psyche to seek out, “to do,” if you ever more commodified, so that we choice that each person must make. will, transformative states. Partly now have a “guru industry.” We The Hopi called these the path of this results from the protection need not seek out true or false the two-hearted (the “fate of the “cave-consciousness” affords shamans either in far away places world be damned” attitude that against sensory distractions (e.g., or the nearest talk show, nor pervades nearly every dimension of John Lilly’s isolation tank). become apprentices for decades of our existence) and the path of the Therefore we often close our eyes one-hearted (whose heads are one training, or pay huge sums. I don't or “go blank” when we are trying to with their heart and whereby the deny the value of those honest concentrate on an image or a fate of the earth becomes a primary shamanic traditions. But the time thought. Caves, graves, catacombs, concern). I am seeing these pro- is now for each and every person tombs, ossuaries, cemeteries, phecies cited more and more but of the earth to seek the shamanic pyramids, sweat lodges, wilderness, nowhere more poignantly than in potential in themselves. And where deserts, forests, deep glades, singer and songwriter Kristine is that potential? As you say, basements, attics, closets, tunnels, Robin's on-line video called "“Are “dreams may be the most direct dark taverns and pubs, abandoned we creating the world of our opening we have today.” I agree. places, remote places, small places, dreams?” (http:www.kristinerobin.com/ Yet, look at any magazine or at the tents, mummy sleeping bags, worldofdreams/oneisthesun.html). ads on TV and—as I forewarned

22 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 years ago in these pages—you will talking about. Before I could write What I saw momentarily took my see ever increasing use of the word out the words of the poem I had to breath away. Here is Vitale's or idea of dream in these mech- find it because it was not fully in painting—a driftwood image with a anisms of commodification. An my memory. I knew the poem was enormous effort is being made to in Jerome Rothenberg's Shaking the associate dream and money. Not Pumpkin, but I couldn't find that that anyone will pay you for your book—not yet unpacked for shelving dream, but instilling in you the in my newly renovated office space. “triggers” of consumption so that But I did have Robert Bly's News of you will dream what you then will the Universe: Poems of Twofold feel impelled to buy—ah!—that is Consciousness and I knew it was in the dream of all advertising! In this there—and that is where I looked it way dreams too will become subject up in order to quote in our dialogue. to the commodification of desire. The next day I was at the library, person at one end and an animal at Still, the dream itself remains and decided to see if I could find the other. Now look at the piece of remarkably subversive to this Field's original work, where the drift wood I had that very morning process and for that reason my poem first appeared as he brought out of 7 years of storage— optimism remains high. I am attempted to distill the songs and a gift from someone then living in working on this in a book I'm calling stories he learned from Knut Alaska! Commidification of Desire. Rasmussen's explorations of the I have emphasized in these pages Inuit. They did not have the book, on several occasions that every but they did have two copies of his dream has to do—not with the Magic Words—his volume of poems past—but with the future. Let me inspired by the Inuit stories and add another layer of brashness to songs. However, there was no copy How, then, does such a congeries this assertion and say that every on the shelf. So where were the two of “ordinary” events become a dream is a portal to shamanic copies? As I had done a number of portal to rhizomic consciousness? It potential, every dream a portal to times on other occasions, I put in a begins first, I think, in the capacity the hidden caves of imaginal reality, request for the book to be found. of these events to “stop” the flow every dream a potential gateway to This they did and the next day I of intentional consciousness, as if a rhizomic consciousness. received notice that the book far off voice was calling. The “portal” awaited my return to the library. exists in that moment of stopping. But, as you say, not in dreams only. Still, unless these moments are Also in those “pregnant” moments Before I went to the library, I profoundly synchronistic or deeply where time itself seems to open up unpacked more books as well as disturbing, intentional conscious- what Lorca called, “something bringing in a number of pieces of ness recovers quickly from the else.” What I have in mind is not art and other things that had been awkward moment and like a wave only those momentous synchro- in storage for more than seven breaks over the portal and access nistic events which literally cannot years since I closed my office in to it washes away. be ignored, but those more 2001. When I went to the library, I frequent, almost everyday discovered to my surprise that the PM: Russ, I like what you said moments of experience passing reason I had not been able to find about the “frequent, almost every- through our consciousness like the book was that it had been day moments of experience passing minute sparks only momentarily shelved in the children's section. through our consciousness like perceived, if at all. These too are Stupid me! I should have looked at minute sparks.” That such moments portals. Let me give you a recent the card catalog more carefully. can become openings to the example related to our dialogue of Now, with the book in hand, I looked “shamanic imagination” means that what I mean. for the poem that gave the book its everyday experience can produce title and the one I quoted in the imaginal yields similar to dreams or In our last dialogue, I recalled the dialogue. The book was illustrated synchronicities, an exciting thought poem entitled “Magic Words'” by with what were called the “mystical indeed. This outlook places the Edward Field, as a perfect example paintings” of Stefano Vitale. creative imagination within reach of of some of the things we had been Continued on Page 45 Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 23 Such a tiny moment: two known words, fracture and fragment are joined in a creative act of the From Fragment imagination, to form a new word: fractal. This new word facilitated new meaning into the world. As Gleick to FractalFractalto reports, Mandelbrot spent twenty years extending his perception into an by John C. Woodcock Ph.D. aspect of reality (its “regular-irreg- ularity”) for which he yet had no word. He had to create it to convey his new Sensitive dependence on initial example of a known individual), we perception. Now the word and its conditions led to the momentous acknowledge that such individual meaning have been accepted. Those discovery in chaos theory that a contributions to collective meaning do of us who follow Mandelbrot’s pioneer- determinative system, i.e. a system happen. ing work can extend our perceptions governed by equations that produced into reality through the agency of the Within my lifetime, there is an theoretical predictability, could in fact word he brought forward. I still interesting little word which not only generate chaos, i.e. unpredictability. sometimes find pleasure in looking at demonstrates how meaning changes This unpredictability is strange the irregularity of a tree, trying to find in time but also shows how a single though, because within itself lie the fractal hidden in its complexity. individual can contribute decisively to hidden islands of order which can meaning, therefore extending our Aspects of reality not yet realized in emerge spontaneously. In other perceptions into reality. If you look the world emerge from such creative words, a system can degrade into up fragment in the AHD, you can go acts of the imagination. Our percep- chaos and a new order can emerge to the “root” bhreg, which is said to tions—informed by the concept of a from within that chaos. It all depends be the original sound-meaning from fractal—bring that aspect of the world on that little initial “error,” that detail which a host of cognates spring. The forward into material reality. And an that goes unnoticed, that slip or root carries an image of breaking and aspect of the future is realized. Nature unexpected intrusion into the ex- one of the cognates mentioned is becomes a fractal, available as such pected flow of events. fractal. To the uninformed reader this to immediate experience and thus, We often ignore that unexpected word, with its collective meaning of a real. These tiny moments in which detail in our dreams, preferring geometrical shape in which self- fragments of known reality are joined instead to assimilate the dream to similar patterns are found across together in a new way within the what we already know. But if you can scale, simply belongs with all its imagination of an individual is the follow the detail into chaos, into sibling words as if for all time. Yet its seed-bed in which an unknown future uncertainty, until an invisible weaving birth as a word can be traced to a is born and from which our entire takes place and a choice is made... specific time and to a specific culture can be altered irrevocably... the outcome could be an incarnation individual: as the new perception gained by the of a possible future? creative individual is accepted and One wintry afternoon in 1975, aware gains the status of reality. The dictionary is the source of of the parallel currents emerging in meanings that are collective. We don’t physics, preparing his first major work This is not a harmless process as we have to think about the meanings of for publication in book form, can see in the example of Edward words in the dictionary. We simply use Mandelbrot decided he needed a new Bernays. words in an ordinary unreflective way name for his shapes, his dimensions Ideas were swirling around the West and others who share the common and his geometry. His son was home during and after the First World War. meaning imagine they understand our from school, and Mandelbrot found Freud had discovered the unconscious speech. Over time, dictionaries—i.e. himself thumbing through the boy’s and conceived it as a vessel of hidden collective meanings—change or Latin dictionary. He came across the desires that threaten the stability of evolve. Etymology is the study of this Latin fractus, from the verb frangere, the ego that seeks to conform to its historical process and we understand to break. The resonance of the main environment. These desires are that collective meaning changes English cognates—fracture and dangerous, animal-like, requiring under the influence of contributions fraction—seemed appropriate. defenses. He later wrote Civilization made by individuals. Although it is Mandelbrot created the word… fractal. and its Discontents in which he rare to identify specific individuals (Gleick, Chaos, 98) portrays civilization as the only (Shakespeare being an outstanding 24 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 in a new concept: Public Relations. bulwark against the Visigoth-like desires of the unconscious. Since In both the examples I have chosen these desires should never be re- there is another element to observe. leased, civilized people are always in Both Mandelbrot and Bernays craved a state of necessary discontent. fame! Another idea sharpened into focus during the War which concerned the My purpose is not to judge these two deliberate manipulation of “the men for their “faults.” No one can masses” for purposes of war. Propa- control the events that flow from a ganda was taken up by governments discovery put forward into the world. to control public opinion in order to Ideas are taken up by others and further its own cause. These two twisted into different shapes as a ideas, fermenting independently in matter of course. Einstein for example the pool of available ideas simply wrote an equation which was used by needed a fertile imagination to unite others as the theoretical basis for in what we may some day describe “The Barrier” creating the atomic bomb. My point as an “unholy marriage.” This fertile is that for the first time in the history product called Atomic Popcorn. The imagination belonged to Edward of our species, we are participating subliminal message is: Bernays who was working for the in the formation of our future. We are All your unconscious fears and American Government as a press altering evolution through our anxieties can safely be extinguished agent during the war. His slogan: choices. More and more individuals in a bag of light fluffy candy whose “Make the World safe for Democracy,” show a willingness to encounter the explosion (pop!) cannot possibly hurt became a major player in the spontaneous weavings of psychic you. propaganda effort. He was also the images and then to make choices to nephew of Sigmund Freud. Public Relations at its finest! We can incarnate this or that image of After the war Bernays asked a simple witness the enormous cultural possible futures. The moral aspect of question: Is it possible to manipulate influence that Edward Bernays’ ideas our choices thus becomes paramount. the masses for purposes of peace? have today. There are many eloquent All this suggests very strongly to me The two ideas flowed together into critics who point out the excesses of that the creative impulse is no longer one and the field of Public Relations misinformation that shape public the domain of a few whom we often was born. Edward Bernays brought opinion today, but the phenomenon designate as genius. It is now the ideas together under this new seems unstoppable. Any criticism is available to the many. concept. His goal was “the conscious merely twisted into another aspect of and intelligent manipulation of the the propaganda. As early as 1933, Our culture is in no way prepared for organized habits and opinions of the Bernays caught wind of the possibility this great event and individuals are masses.” His methodology was to of his ideas being taken up in a way left “holding the bag.” They either are stimulate unconscious desires in that was less than wholesome. given a pathological label or cata- people and then extinguish those Goebbels, supreme architect of Nazi pulted into extravagant fame or desires in a commercial product. The propaganda had used Bernays’ book unimaginable wealth with no moral effect of this method is to make Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis preparation. people into consuming, docile for his destructive campaign against Our conception of the individual needs “happiness machines” while the “few” the Jews of Germany. Bernays was to expand to include becoming a in power pursue their own political and shocked. I wonder today if he would possible vessel for the creative economic ends. be proud or horrified at the level of impulse. sophistication attained by the Public I felt the full extent of his effects on Relations Industry and its role in With the complete breakdown of our culture when I was in New York shaping the Iraq War, for example. taboo structures which could evaluate in 2004. My wife and I were on the the danger of novelty, individuals street near Times Square when a Whatever we may think of Public must learn how to face their own young man invited us to the David Relations and its determinative force creative impulses with a moral Letterman Show. We decided to go in the world today, its possibility compass, alone and without reliance and witness this archbishop of the began in the imagination of one on outside sources. inconsequential. We were not individual who—like Mandelbrot— disappointed. In an advertising accepted the union of two disparate Reach Dr. Woodcock at segment, he paired the horrors of a ideas and chose to incarnate the union [email protected] Art by Orna Ben-Shoshan Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 25 A History of Protest In My Life ~ and 1 at 60

I did not do enough, although it was in my heart. I wanted to enjoy the warmth of life more than to put out the fires of war. I protested but I did not sacrifice. I marched while the innocent and guilty alike were burned by death from the sky. Maybe if that child in Vietnam had not died of napalm, the children of Iraq would not now be dying in my name? Being an American, I chose the ease of what we call freedom. I said, “No,” but I did not make myself heard in the power of compassionate denouncement. I said “Yes,” but not always to otherness and not with the strength and reverence of beatitude. When I die war will not have left the lovely Earth and should I come back in the perfume of a flower, likely the petals will be stained with freshly fallen blood. What child’s cheek may yet come to paint with pain the soft white of the lily? What lust may yet harvest the agony of thorns, while crushing the ecstasy of roses? I did not do enough, although I had set out to make a monument of War No More.

26 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 There is my failure. The teeming world of tears that so easily tips into fear and madness does not need these words alone. Rather, a communion where none are absent. Where there can be anger as an emotional bubble but not enemies and not crimes of hate. It is said that freedom is not free; but it is death that is made wholesale. The axiom is propaganda. Peace requires the greater vulnerability. I have done some: having spoken when others remained silent; having stepped up on occasion, while others withdrew. But I have not done enough. I know this, so do you. That yet another generation must plant the seeds of healing I have dreamed of and they, labor for the season I have not known. Yet have I read, in visions of prophecy, that a tree will in twilight later grow at the center of the circle of life; the weapons of fratricide be beaten down, the vineyards filled with the royalty of angels. Robins singing and butterflies, not boy-men crying for their mothers’ mercy. Rather, to dance in that round in footprints of a loving God! To stand in prayer blessed beneath that earthly bough. When?

David Sparenberg ~ 3 Feb. 2009

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 27 Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, I relate an interesting The Last Green Thing dream in which a tall, regally dressed man stopped me and asked me a Valuing Nature in Dreams simple question, “What book do you Robert Waggoner ©2009 hold in your hand?” Unsure, I brought the book in front of me and read the title, “Dreams: God’s “When you harm Nature, Like many discussions with econo- Forgotten Language by John A. you harm yourself.” mists at that time, I found that a Sanford.” Then suddenly, it dawned on me that I had this book on my I first heard those words nearly properly functioning ecosystem book shelf but had never read it. I twenty years ago, in a dream. They seemed a “given.” We did not have became lucidly aware... ecstatic. have haunted me ever since. In that to be concerned about it; the natural equation’s utter simplicity, it seems world had been built into the equa- Upon waking, I pondered the idea to me, a deep ecological truth about tion as an economic assumption. that the unconscious portion of my relationships emerges. Yet in this dream, my friend provides larger self had knowingly and purposefully called this book to my In the dream, I stand on a steep an answer with a new and startling attention as important. But why? In sloping river bank of exposed dirt economic equation devoid of assum- the book’s final chapter, “The God and mud. A friend and I watch ptions and givens. When you harm Nature, you harm yourself. Suddenly Within,” I find one of the possible helplessly as a lone figure proceeds answers in Sanford’s conclusion: to cut down the last standing tree the fundamental economic principle on the desolate river bank. As I of the environment seemed clear: “We are not only conscious; we are observe the final bit of green life When you deplete nature, you also unconscious. Unconscious lean sharply and tumble to the deplete yourself. When you hamper psychic reality is as real and barren ground, an unspeakable nature, you hamper yourself. When substantial as is our conscious life. It expresses its reality in a sadness rises within me. At that you threaten the proper functioning hundred ways, one of which is moment, my friend says solemnly, of nature, you directly threaten the dream. The center of our “When you harm Nature, yourself. Subtracting from nature, conscious life is the ego, the you harm yourself.” subtracts from you. Enhancing nature, enhances you. Economically center of our total psyche is the On one level, it was ironic to hear and quite practically, my dreamt self, which seeks to express these words from my friend, since in equation made explicit what econo- through our consciousness the waking life, he graduated from the mic equations do not: our individual totality of our nature.“ University of Chicago with an MBA and collective well being is intrin- By attending to our dreams, we have and firmly believed in the “Chicago sically connected to Nature’s micro one means to attend to “the totality School” of economic thought, which and macro well-being. of our nature.” Without the connect- held that the free market would ion to dreams, we can easily forget provide for everyone’s needs by Somewhere in history, modern man and ignore our broader nature and properly valuing all items, according began ignoring that direct connection become trapped in an ego-centric to the laws of supply and demand. with physical nature. Similarly, the and finite world. But having canoed with my friend as rarefied world of economic thought a Boy Scout, backpacked with him and philosophy dismissed it too. Yet With Sanford’s perspective, the across wilderness mountain passes the deeper, archaic, unconscious part wider circle of interrelationships in Colorado and New Mexico, and of my self, accessible in dreams, still becomes apparent. Not only, “When sipped cold water from alpine carried the knowledge of this ancient we harm Nature, [do] we harm streams, I knew there was another economic equation. A subconscious ourself,” but when we ignore and side of him that valued the beauty portion of me knew what had been deny the unconscious, we lessen and great harmony of nature. tragically learned on Easter Island ourselves. We lose touch with our and elsewhere: “When you harm inner nature. It is our inner nature As an adult, I tried to discover what Nature, you harm yourself.” that reminds us of our ancient economic value he and the Chicago connections to Nature, others and School’s free market system placed In dreaming, we possess a connect- the larger self—the broad circle of being. on nature. What was the value of a ion to this older and wiser portion of The gift of dreaming is the gift of healthy environment? What was the our being, which can remind us of that connection. Through honoring value of a well functioning ecosys- ancient truths and guide us to that connection, we can find a way. tem? How did this economic app- creative realizations and actions—if roach calculate global sustainability? we do not ignore it. In the final When you love Nature, chapter of my recently released book, you love yourself. ∞ 28 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 You may contact Robert via email at [email protected] “““Tune Agriculture””” by Orna Ben-Shoshan

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 29 DREAMS IN THE NEWS The Cost of Dreams and thetheand Price of Their Loss II

by Russell A. Lockhart, Ph.D.

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OOOver the past few years in Why should dreams be a focus? After troubles. Rather than creating a more this column and in these pages, I all, how much of the population pays sanguine atmosphere, the increasing attention to dreams anyway? Besides, intensity of coupling dream with have described an escalating isn’t the focus on not our nightly money points to something rather process of commodification aimed dreams, but rather on what might be different. Now we hear the American at dreams, a relentless process of more properly called wishes, Dream itself is in danger of being associating “dream” with “money,” aspirations, or conscious desires? pulled down by the ravages of a orchestrated by an assemblage of Leviathan gone mad with greed and Yes and no. Since space is short, let forces including advertising, power, and we are being asked to hock me simply assert: our nightly dreams entertainment, media, politics, our future and our children’s future are one of our last remaining true medicine and Wall Street. There is to save the beast. realms of freedom and dreams no single word that describes this themselves are subversive of power, Well, not being asked, is more powerful, multi-armed Leviathan, whether that power be a repressive accurate: It is being done without our but its presence and its persistence and controlling ego or a repressive permission at all. And we are cannot be doubted. A sharp-eyed and controlling culture. complacently swallowing the idea that reader alerted me to a recent As the world economy spirals into a these actions will save the American version of this seductive force black hole, the Leviathan of Dream in all the various forms and promoted by Honda. commodification is itself having guises we have come to embrace.

30 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 If you are in a position to hear many and social patterns of the masses. dreams, you will know that dreams It is they who pull the wires which are howling with protest, but we will control the public mind.” never hear these dreams on the It is Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s double national or international stage. They nephew, who married Freud’s dream will play no part in what plays out in theories with the cultural engine of the world over the next difficult years. consumption. Nonetheless, dreams remain a realm John Frame—whose Battle of Symbols of freedom, a source for informing us is must reading on these themes— how to live in the coming time... and reminds us it was Bernays who for this reason, our dreams remain a “persuaded the women’s rights threat, still, to the power of the marchers in New York City to hold up Leviathan. Lucky Strike cigarettes as symbolic Edward Bernays began his career as Torches of Freedom.” This process has a press agent on Broadway in 1917. become a mimetic virus infecting the It was Bernays who would become the culture at all levels. central figure in what we can now The aim of the Leviathan is to fuse think of as the birth of the Leviathan with what we dream, thus gaining described above. Fundamental to the control over our deepest motivations. manner of operating, and a clear In this way, we buy what it wants us stroke of Bernays’ genius, was his to buy, whether that be consumer depth of understanding of the “Janus goods or a bill of goods, in the form nature” of the marketing economy— of news, political decisions, investing the double-face of everything— platitudes. That is the purpose for beginning with the slogan, “To make which Bernays laid the groundwork— the world safe for democracy.” If that the extraordinary power of the now was the face sold to the masses, then many-armed Leviathan. the face “behind the scenes” could be Walt Disney’s vision of controlling the pretty much anything else—and it was. masses through entertainment (and It was Bernays who wrote: its modern, many-splendored thing, “If we understand the mechanism the Internet) has become a complete and motives of the group mind, it reality. Yet, the world thus created is now possible to control and seems to be unraveling before our regiment the masses according to eyes: the monetary accumulations of our will without their knowing it.” recent years have begun to This was written in 1928, and it hemorrhage, but so far the remains the operating principle of hemorrhages have proved to be far the Leviathan today. In 1947, he more powerful than all efforts to spelled it out as clear as could be: staunch them. “Those who manipulate this In this sense, the monumental unseen mechanism of society financial losses the world has suffered constitute an invisible govern- in recent times may have a silver ment which is the true ruling lining in the sense that the extremity power of our country... In almost this will ultimately yield may be the every act of our daily lives, birthing ground of “something else.” whether in the sphere of politics All too often, however, this something or business, in our social conduct else has been worse than what has or our ethical thinking, we are spawned it. It is a dangerous time. dominated by the relatively small number of persons... who All the more reason to listen understand the mental processes to our dreams. ∞

Russell would love to hear your ‘Dreams in the News.’ Email him at [email protected] Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 31 The God-Self Under THE MASK Waking from the Personal and Collective Mythic Sleep

By Sandy Sela-Smith, Ph.D.

of the not so unique parts we play. IIIn the summer of 2007, For those of us who have been We put on the costumes and don just a few weeks before I began to schooled in Shakespeare or in the masks that fit the part we play write my own book, I read an article Jungian, humanistic, transactional, and we live from the roles instead by Paul Levy in the Dream Network or transpersonal psychology, or of from our true selves. In As You Journal that introduced his book even Freudian analysis, it is clear Like It, Shakespeare described the titled The Madness of George W. that much of who we think we are, 7 stages of a man’s life from infant Bush. I was impressed with the in fact, is comprised of roles we play to old man, during which there were beginning of Paul’s article, which in a world that is but a stage. Each expected actions played out. Jung held a profoundly significant truth of us has our own unique dramas saw us acting out of personality that few seem to fully understand. and traumas that weave in and out types and subtypes, in the He stated, “We live in a stages of our lives, all with world where the deeper, recognizable actions and underlying mythic patt- reactions to the world erns that have endlessly around us, with the ulti- reiterated themselves mate objective of becoming throughout human his- individuated beings em- tory are incarnating and bracing our whole Self. revealing themselves through world events for We can see our roles played all who have eyes to see.” out in relationships in This is a truth reflected in terms of the Karpman his book that remains a Triangle, where we take on valuable contribution, the part of rescuer, victim, despite the fact that Bush or persecutor and each is no longer in power. If position holds a set of we are not thoughtful, the behaviors that attempt to mythic patterns Levy control the other as a way addresses will find their of creating whatever feels way back into our coll- missing in life. Sometimes, ective experience. I have we play from one position come to understand that and, later, switch to an- not only do these mythic other when our primary patterns reveal them- role doesn’t seem to be selves in world events, as working. Or, we can look Levy pointed out, but they at the American Psycho- are continuously reveal- logical Associations, DSM ing themselves in our IVR and see the behaviors personal lives, as well. that are characteristic of “Vanishing Delusions” 32 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 by Orna Ben-Shoshan dysfunctional roles people play, The Meaning of Three: THE MASK with predictable dialogue, scripts, The Meaning of Three: THE MASK and outcomes. And, if we are By Sandy Sela-Smith, Ph.D. willing to be completely honest, This was a difficult book to write and could be difficult or, at times, over- most of us can find ourselves in whelming to read. It contains what I have come to believe is three-part at least some of the categories of truth. First: all of us were wounded sometime in our lives. Second: all of us pathology on any given day. protected ourselves from the wound by putting on a mask, but what once protected us is now destructive. Third: all of us can heal the original wound, From this perspective of lives as well as the secondary wound caused by holding onto the mask, when we made of roles and scripts acted out have the courage to remove the mask and reconnect with our true essence. on the stages of our lives, it is easy This book offers a pathway to find this courage to heal. to see how many of us experience waking dreams or nightmares that To order: www.infiniteconnections.us keep coming back to us again and Or call the publisher at 1-800-728-8467 again, that contain seemingly a never-ending replay of suffering, while we sleep, that reflect what we what do these ideas mean in your emptiness, and disconnection. won’t let ourselves see in waking everyday lived life? Some of us find a way to escape life—are the experiences our true the nightmares of waking life with self draws to us to help our disconn- From the perspective expressed diligence, and focus on goals of ected self wake from our personal herein, everything in your life, great accomplishment, but even in and collective mythic sleep. whether waking or dreaming (and success, find emptiness or mean- some would say there is no inglessness in the end. What we try Each of us—with all the truths and difference between our waking and to escape in our waking lives can lies, the light and darkness, the dreaming selves), creates reflect- disturb us in our dreams, making consciousness and unconscious- ions to help you see what you sleep something we avoid or cannot ness, and the unfathomable capac- believe, to help you recognize that find, and we fill our waking lives with ity for both good and evil—contains you are the creator of your life distractions to avoid looking at what a unique spark of the God, a truth experiences that, too often, repeat is not working, even if the dis- that most of us have long ago themselves over and over again in traction is to only look at what is disowned, forgotten in some distant different forms until we recognize working. Far too many of us feel as past incarnation, and we shutter to that we have created them and have if the light has gone out of our eyes consider the possibility of this as the a choice to continue or to stop these so very early in our lives and few truth. Despite our experience of creations. seem to make it to the golden years, separation and the roles we play to A painful event in your childhood with that beautiful light still distract ourselves from the pain of might have caused you to believe emanating from deep within. Many this experience, we may well be in loss and your entire life has been quake with unexpressed anger evolving toward a shift in our peppered with struggles related to throughout their lives, only to have understanding of ourselves that will loss as a theme: loss of love, loss that anger reflected in body dys- allow us to awaken and remember of connection, loss of financial function in the late years or they who we truly are, to release the security, loss of respect, and on and quietly slip away trying desperately individual and collective stage, the on. Or, you might live a life to not remember the failure of the scripts, and the roles we have been attempting to hold on to everything, roles they played in life. playing and the masks we have worn our whole life, if not for while underneath, what fuels the All of this—the mythic patterns lifetimes, and live from our holding on is that belief in loss. You played out on the global level, the authentic and unique God and might believe in sacrifice, which is scripted patterns played out in our Goddess selves. reflected back to us in multi- individual lives, the relationships we generational sacrifice, whether as enter with such hope that lead to This idea of waking from the dream war hero, as martyr, as defender of disappointment, the unsuccessful is not new, and certainly, the ideas the weak or downtrodden. You attempts at finding freedom from I have expressed have been written sacrifice yourself and experience the the unpleasant patterns, and the before I penned these words on sacrifice of others. You might dreams and nightmares we have virtual paper. But, you might ask, believe in powerlessness and spend Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 33 conscious of our beliefs by being willing to examine the dreams and the life experiences we draw to us, whether the dream comes to us in our sleep or in our daily life. When we look at what we are individually and collectively creating, we can recognize the masks that we wear and discover who we truly are under the mask. And as the amazing sparks of God that we are, finally, we can be free to choose the lives we want to create.

From the fall of 2007 to the winter of 2008, I wrote a book about my own journey to examine what I created in my life to discover what beliefs prevented me from knowing blame, guilt, shame, or punishment, your whole life suffering at the who I truly am. As this work was we can discover the myths we have hands of others, or find yourself coming to a close, I became aware held, the beliefs to which we have fighting for power, a fight that you that what I had written was not just attached that draw to us those never quite win. But if you do win for my own journey, but also, was conditions upon which we build—or it, you are never safe in the winning, written to offer a perspective that tear down—our lives. because of the fear that whatever might assist others in discovering you might be able to grasp will be The Western world holds such who they truly are. This book, The snatched away from you if you are a limited understanding of who we Meaning of Three: The Mask, not hyper vigilant. Deep within there are. Its commitment to individual- reveals so many of the mythic is still a belief in powerlessness. ism negates the reality that much patterns played out in one individual You might believe in power and find of who we experience ourselves as life and explores ways of becoming that you possess it, but some early being, is a collection of individual free of those patterns. Once we event caused you to believe you and cultural mythic patterns and remove the mask to discover and cannot possess love. As powerful as roles created generations ago, and, embrace who we truly are, the you become, you are unable to perhaps, lifetimes ago. While we are patterns and roles melt away, and maintain love in your life. Or, you living our beliefs as individuals with what remains is the essence of who might believe in love, but not that the masks that we wear for the roles we are, who we have always been, you can have both love and power, we play, we are, also, living the finally uncovered and free to live as so your life is surrounded by those beliefs of our parents and grand- the unique being that we are, you love in a disempowered state, parents, and the collective beliefs eternally in union with the Great never realizing that you created of our cultures and our species. But, Mystery…the Creator of all that what you believed. even this more expanded view of is…including us. ∞ ourselves as the current embodi- ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ This idea that we create our own ment of a collective past, is not who lives and experiences is not easy to we truly are. This identity, this embrace. It can feel like an unjust image we hold that we call us, is judgment, especially when circum- simply a reflection of the beliefs or Dr. Sandy Sela-Smith is an author and stances that impact us seem to be workshop leader, part time professor at what Levy referred to as the mythic completely of someone else’s Saybrook Graduate School and the patterns that cover the unique being making. But once understood, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. that we are, a being that most of She is, also, a mental health counselor awareness we gain can provide the us have never known exists. in Washington State (WA LH doorway to the life we came to live. 00010277);) and Florida, (FL MH 6984) When we learn to embrace our We are living in a time when we and a Licensed Professional Counselor responsibility without attaching have the opportunity to become in Colorado (# 5184).

34 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 Wisdom in Dreams PART FOUR

DreamingDreaming PlanetPlanet ReflectionsReflections onon DreamsDreams inin aa TransitionalTransitional AgeAge

by Paco Mitchell, M. A. DreamingDreaming ofof RebirthRebirth

T T here is a Latin saying I’ve always enjoyed: Canis panem Re-BathRe-BathRe-Bath somniat, piscator pisces. A dog dreams of bread, a fisherman, fish. The first dream depicted a woman in The idea is that one’s dreams follow the lines of one’s waking a bathtub and carried the caption: Re- pursuits. Thus we imagine cats in their dreams searching for mice birth = re-bath. and warm places, or dogs chasing after cats and sticks. And because of my long years’ experience as a bronze caster I still occasionally Short and sweet. The image of the dream of kilns and molds, crucibles and furnaces. woman in the bathtub seemed like a visual portrayal of the formula’s But dreams will not be limited by clever Latin riffs, or any other solution: “re-bath.” At the same time, attempt we make to encompass them. On the contrary, they paradoxically, it was as if the “real encompass us, sub-sume us, just as our breath is subsumed by the image” of the dream was the formula atmosphere through which we move, which nevertheless forms part itself and the picture of the woman in of our most intimate substance. the tub was the explanatory caption— a fox-and-hound relationship between In taking up the question of re-birth in dreams, then, I am aware the verbal and visual elements... that the subject vastly exceeds the scope of this short article. Yet like a fugue. because re-birth dreams have occasionally visited me, thereby But for me the crucial point, the axis forcing me to think about the question, I therefore feel justified in on which the dream turned, lay in the making at least a few observations. little prefix “re”—again. All the thoughts and associations that have Two dreams in particular dealt directly with the theme of re-birth. accrued to this dream gather around Spaced a couple of years apart, they took the form of verbal that simple part of speech. It suggests equations, as if I was dreaming an algebra of the soul. The dreams to me that the cleansing, re-ordering resonate closely with one another, the way paired strings vibrate process—the bath—is repeatable and sympathetically on a musical instrument. I’ll recount them separately, therefore can happen at any moment: but hopefully some of their resonant tonalities will be audible. an ever-present potential. When Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 35 Dylan Thomas referred to “the moon of blood spilled as a result of the last story or telling, a new outpouring of that is always rising,” he simul- “dispensation,” it might well give one the Creative Word. It will amount to taneously evoked “the sun born over pause to raise a banner in the name a new way of imagining the world and and over.” of yet another one. But I didn’t ask our relation to it, requiring the for the dream, it came to me. gathering of untold numbers of This is good news. After all, if we were Therefore I must raise the banner. perceptions, ideas, intuitions and only allotted one re-birth per lifetime, insights, imaginative visions, creative we would all most likely end up in a What I would call the “old,” or the renderings and understandings. pitiful heap. Periodic renewal is current, dispensation can be summed necessary for physical and psych- up in the New Testament words of The “new Logos” will manifest the ological health and vitality, just as the John 1:1: “In the beginning was the operations of the Creative Word as body continuously sloughs off dead Word, and the Word was with God, whispered and heard in the silence of cells as it creates new ones. One could and the Word was God.” millions of individual souls. Jung said probably say that we all live in a that the Great Dream “consists of This enigmatic statement derives from constant state of actual and potential many small dreams, and many acts classical Greek philosophy and has re-birth, if only we knew it. of humility and submission to their provided the grist for many con- hints.” Russell Lockhart evokes the The woman in the dream was an tending mills. It holds that the Aquarian image of the Water-Bearer, unknown figure. As such, she qualifies principle of the Logos—divine mind or in which many individuals pour the as an image of the soul—in Jungian reason, the creative word, the “Word waters of their experience into the terms an “anima figure.” But the of God”—is to be regarded as the common pool. And Edinger referred impersonal character of the dream fountain from which human life has to the “Christification of the Many” and tempts me to elevate her beyond the proceeded “from the beginning.” It is the “Coming of the Self” to all. level of my personal anima. She a First Principle upon which all else is seemed more like a general principle based. Christian theologians were Thus the new Logos will manifest itself or overarching presence, along the quick to seize on this concept and in as many ways as there are indi- lines of the Anima Mundi of centuries apply it to the Christ and, by exten- vidual souls to witness its advent and past. The fact that she was depicted sion, to Jesus. And so we have had a lend their efforts to its articulation and not as a marble statue or elegant tradition which saw Jesus as the Christ expression. engraving—the naked-yet-modest and Christ as the Living Word of God. This, of course, is a great task of goddess standing atop the globe—but So far so good. untold duration, suffered by all but simply as a woman in a bathtub, consciously borne by relatively few. suggests to me that the grandeur of The problem is that this formulation, How much more important, then, will the Anima Mundi is to be found, not handed down from antiquity, has been those individual efforts and sacrifices just in philosophy, but in our everyday overtaken by events and ideas of the be in the years to come? For there is lives: the transpersonal and trans- past few centuries. The result is that no guarantee that the re-birth implicit cendent vision glimmering right few people today really understand, in my dream will come to pass in this before our eyes. or even care, what it means. time of crisis and trial.

The ramifications of this dream extend At this point I am reminded of Edward It may ultimately prove to be my folly, well beyond these brief observations, Edinger’s profound statement: “The but I nevertheless continue to locate but this, at least, is a start. Jewish dispensation was based on law. my hope for renewal in the births and A New Logos The Christian dispensation was based re-births that are gestating in our on faith. The new dispensation is dreams. ∞ The second dream was more com- based on experience.” plex: “Re-birth = re-interpretation in If Edinger was correct—as I believe the light of a new Logos.” he was—and, if my dream is relevant This far-reaching statement is enough to our contemporary dilemma—as I to set the teeth of philosophers and believe it is—then we can say that any theologians on edge for centuries. In significant re-birth of a personal or a effect it calls for a new religious cultural nature will be based on the dispensation. Considering the amount experience of a new Logos, a new

36 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 Dreaming Humanity’s Path

Play Ball!Ball!Play

I had the most unusual dream last night!

I am hanging out with Barack Obama. He is a football star and the game is a dead-heap, tie-score. He is the star football kicker.

The ball is at the other end of the field, at the oppositions goal post and the game is tied. This kick has to make it to the other side of the field and make the goal with one big amazing kick to win the game for his team (us).

He kicks the football and it makes it right over the goal post. We won!

The crowd goes wild—it was a long-shot, but he did it!!!

I woke up from that dream to find myself in another dream...... hanging out with Barack and his buddies. I tell him of my dream and we both cry together... real, genuine tears. I’ve never cried in a dream before, but they are real tears and emotions.

Then, Barack’s wife Michelle takes me to a place of prosperity and all of these new homes and businesses are being built: new cars, new sources of energy.... people of all races, orientations, creeds and religious faiths are working together, prosperous and happy.

I’ve never dreamt about a President before, nor have I ever cried an emotional tear in a dream... ever! Barack looked just like himself in every detail, even his voice was right

on. I really hope this is one of my true visionary dreams. (March 2, 2009)

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 37 DreamTimes: Dream Exchange

“Tooth and Male”

©2009 by Marlene King, M.A. [email protected]

I I don’t know anyone who The elements in this dream seemed Further, the dream paralysis could looks forward to going to the “off” as I read it - like they were the have been a real event since we liter- dentist. Most of us have genuine backdrop for the dreamer’s strong ally are paralyzed when we dream in fears around the experience, even feelings surrounding isolation, impo- order to not act out our dream sce- with high tech equipment and newer tency, threat, sexual suggestiveness/ narios. In this case, it reflected her treatment methods to ensure pain- gender blurring, fear and inappropri- inability to move out of a potentially free experiences. Not surprisingly, ate behavior of unclear purpose. That dangerous situation, especially when is, the means did not match the task— tooth-related dreams are reported it occurred as the chair turned into a nor did the practitioner. For example, frequently and the following one has bed and the dentist touched her leg a cloth was used to suggest a softer overtones that extend beyond the suggestively. The dreamer realized option to accomplish the task at hand normal fear factor. about the only hope she had of es- vs. the usual poking and prodding caping potential violation was the I am in an office complex to see with a pick on a “sensitive” tooth (i.e., presence of the “orderly” who kept a dentist about a tooth that was contrasting a “masculine” approach “order” by being the watchdog on the feeling sensitive in dream. I vs. gentler feminine one). man/dentist in the periphery. Perhaps found myself in a room with this In terms of the universal symbols, the dreamer views the “government” odd man whose face kept teeth in dreams are one of the (outside agent vs. relying on strength morphing. He wore a blue shirt/ biggies generally connoting anger, of Self) as the one who keeps her tie/jacket and watched me, aggressiveness and show of power. safe. But ironically, even the orderly pretended to do stuff, but never In this case, the dreamer clearly reminded her of former President touched or looked in my mouth portrayed the uneasy FEELINGS she Clinton, whose libido and womaniz- until some orderly (who looked had in the dream and should be ing has been widely publicized and aware how those feelings paralyze like Bill Clinton) appeared in the who comes across in dreams as some- her in real life situations (suppresses hall. There was no dental equip- what voyeuristic. ment/apparatus except there was anger). She also created dream When dreams highlight physical prob- a drawer behind my chair on components that didn’t fit together: lems or concerns, it is always wise to which I reclined (not a dentist’s office setting/dental practice, or- monitor if they occur more than once. chair) that turned into a bed- - - derly/President, cloth/dental tool, business attire/dental scrubs —all of If they do, make sure to have them complete with headboard. which are red flags put forth psy- checked by an appropriate practitio- I became paralyzed and hated chically to grab attention. Also noted ner because dreams often reflect real being ‘examined’ and thought he were things that turned into other issues that need attention—in our touched my leg. When the things, e.g. the dentist’s face/ mental, spiritual and/or physical orderly appeared again, the blurred identity, the chair/bed which realms. dentist reached into the drawer are transformational symbols. These where he had dozens of cloths The dreamer said, “...maybe the best juxtapositions of opposite pairings that were his “instruments.” way to view this icky material is to and morphing are dream tricks He attempted to examine my trust that something got cleared, like created by the subconscious to tooth with one of the cloths. a psychic-zit.” command the attention of the ~CJS, Grants Pass, OR dreamer. That, and a whole lot more. ∞ 38 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 One Great Dream of a Single DreamerDreamer:

We AreAre OneOneWe

©2009 By Paul Levy

we’ve been imagining we are is only TTThe BuddhaBuddha, which literally Waking up to our identity with the an un-reflected upon and assumed means “the awakened one,” said: deeper, dreaming Self, we snap out model of who we are and is not who of the self-perpetuating, egoic “My form appeared like a we really are, but is itself being delusion that we exist in a way in dream to sentient beings who dreamed by a deeper part of which we simply, in reality, do not. are like a dream. I taught them ourselves. The question then becomes: how do dreamlike teaching to attain we best serve who we have now There is a deeper Self which is dreamlike enlightenment.” discovered ourselves to be? How dreaming us. Like emanations of a does the deeper, dreaming Self When we begin to awaken to the meditating Buddha, we are the which is dreaming us want us to dreamlike nature of reality, we dream of something deeper, what I dream itself into incarnation? How realize we are all characters in each call the “deeper, dreaming Self,” does the dream itself want to unfold other’s dream. Like reflections in a which is who we really are. There’s through us? mirror, we are all interconnected only one deeper, dreaming Self and aspects of each other’s being. To it is dreaming the whole universe. People who are imagining that if recognize the dreamlike nature of We are its dream. The deeper, they became lucid in the dream they our situation is to recognize that we dreaming Self expresses itself would become a billionaire, or lose don’t exist as isolated entities through and is not separate from twenty pounds, or something of that separate from the universe, but the forms of the dream; we are nature are still caught in the dream rather, as relational beings who only simultaneously the dreamed and of ego which imagines itself its own exist relative to each other. We are the dreamer. In the words of the master. They are still attached to, all related, parts of a greater family, late mythologist Joseph Campbell, animating and monopolizing, a the living multifaceted expression “one great dream of a single deluded identity of being the of a singular divine being. When we dreamer in which all the dream commander-in-chief, the one in begin to awaken to the dreamlike characters dream, too.” The deeper, charge, which is the ultimate power nature of the universe we realize dreaming Self is having a dream, and trip. Trying to manipulate the dream that the “dream ego,” which is who we are it! is a compensation for and expressi-

Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 39 on of the fear of the separate self. own way and become an instrument much vaster than our own limited In attempting to control the dream, serving the whole. The energetic version of ourselves. Recognizing one is still acting out of an assumed expression of this realization is the dreamlike nature is the very act reference point where one imagines compassion, the hallmark of which empowers us to become in- oneself to be an objectively existing lucidity. The whole universe, which sync lucid dreamers who can entity whose situation is seemingly we are a part of and not apart from, change the world. To quote an binding and problematic and whose heals itself in the process. indigenous elder, one who is fluent agency is apparently separate from in the dreamtime, “There’s a dream Awakening in and embracing the the whole. dreaming us, and we must get back dream, instead of trying to to that dream, and the vision, the Both the dreams of our ego and the strategize and control the dream, power, and the energies at the dream of the deeper, dreaming Self, we can get in phase with each other, disposal of man’s dreaming self will when invested with our attention, I imagine, and co-operatively offer help us to win the battle.” ∞ can materialize in, as and through ourselves in service to the highest ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ our lives. The difference is that intent of the deeper, dreaming Self, Paul Levy is an artist and a spiritually- when we dream up our egoic whatever that may be. Our informed political activist. A pioneer in the fantasy into reality, it doesn’t awakening is always a mutual and field of spiritual emergence, he is a healer in ultimately alleviate our suffering, reciprocally shared co-awakening private practice, assisting others who are also awakening to the dream-like nature of but rather, reinforces it. When we due to our infinite interconnect- reality. He is the author of The Madness of are the vessel for the dream of the edness. Moved by something George Bush, which is available on his website deeper, dreaming Self to incarnate, greater than our imagined self, we www.awakeninthedream.com.You can contact Paul at [email protected]; he however, we have gotten out of our become an instrument of something looks forward to your reflections.

40 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 DreamsDreams &&

Revealing Experiences

DuringDuring SleepSleep

By Dean McClanahan

NNot all experiences during NNN Linear time exists in our conscious Patricia: Can you tell me what type sleep are dreams requiring inter- waking state; it does not exist in of dream I had last Friday night? pretation... many are experiences dreaming awareness and the other requiring only acceptance. Dreaming realities. This is more readily Golden One: (GO) That was not a is a focus of awareness, a gateway observed during dreams, for the dream, that was an astral into multidimensional reality. One past, present and future may appear experience, but you perceived it to must heighten their awareness and associated in the same dream. In be a dream. That is why many of expand their consciousness if they the other realities there is “psi time;” your dreams are not remembered; are to learn when to accept an this is a focus of awareness. The you do not perceive them to be experience as reality not requiring past, present and future exists all experiences, only a dream to wake interpretation, or a dream that at once in the now. This is why we up to. If you had become aware in requires dealing with symbolism. have access to those that have your dream (lucidity) you could have passed on in dreaming awareness. gone beyond the astral plane into We all have belief systems and our Death is only a loss of physical the spiritual plane and met your belief systems may prevent us from awareness. We must relax the spiritual teacher. When you awaken seeing the truth that lies beyond waking ego, or the ego will take in a dream your awareness changes; what we accept as our beliefs. It is control of our waking life; it will be you may mentally request to have better to have no beliefs than to most difficult to learn of the greater more of these experiences. have false beliefs. Belief is not truth; realities in which we exist and to To insist upon an interpretation can if we cannot prove what we believe which we have access. oftentime destroy the intrinsic value to be the truth, then it is better to of the experience. discard belief. Belief can lock us into The understanding of the following a narrow and rigid concept of reality. dreams and experiences were given DM: I was at a wedding rehearsal; We must become aware of this if we through various entities that mani- I saw two women, one was walking are to grow in awareness of the vastness fested through a trance medium I down the street, another driving a of reality. Truth must be experienced! worked with for more than 10 years. car; both were going to this wedding Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 41 rehearsal. No one else was present. words. This is in regards to your Adell: Your flower dream is that I felt this had to do with experiences in relationships. blossom that is within you, which is transformation; am I correct? Joy: I am feeding cows and small multicolored, varied in many ways. Sontar: These are two aspects of goats with vitamins. What does this Many aspects of the harmonics you that shall be joining with you, dream mean? involved in ones spiritual con- sciousness; growth has blossomed. and shall benefit you. This is shown Adell: Nourishing ones self; chewing That of the VCR tape is that which in the symbolism of the wedding that within ones consciousness. You you withhold in that of the akashic rehearsal. feel like that of a cow being stagnant records of ones’ lives that have been DM: I dreamed I was walking down in ones’ position so you will sit and lived; ones’ experiences of every the street towards a hotel; people chew upon that which you have thought, deed and word that has were on both sides of the street. I experienced. Feeding vitamins to the been said, written or thought. tried to avoid them by walking goats is stubbornness and hard diagonally across the street. I saw headedness Bob: The school was being closed down and would be for a couple of a derelict man stumble and fall; he Stella: I am looking into a toilet and years. There were people guarding slipped and fell into the water in the blood is dripping into it; spreading the school. A couple of friends and I gutter. I pulled him out of the gutter into a circle. Can you help me on sneaked into the school and were and gave him artificial respiration this? until he revived. I take this to mean trying to save it. We cleaned it up Adell: One is wasting away in that I am helping myself; correct? and actually succeed in reopening of the oxygen in ones’ blood and is it. What does that mean? Sontar: You are helping that part not receiving that in the bodily GO: You had closed down your of you that has stumbled. The functions properly; especially with learning for a period of time and you symbolism of the water is that of that of the kidneys. It is a word of came back to save what you had emotions that you perceive. You are caution; it is recommended that a learned and gained. reviving your self; the people on physical check up be sought. both sides of the street represent DM: I had a profound dream. During Stella: I dreamt of this person who the negative and positive aspects of the time I was having this dream I killed himself; he has visited me the self. knew I was being told something several times in dreams. At the end that was very startling to me, but I DM: I dreamed I was in Germany. I of this dream we are sitting across couldn’t remember what it was. Was went into the back door of this the table from one another. He is a I not supposed to consciously restaurant where I met a young girl manager of a printing company remember this? To forget? who was psychic and she was telling called Lake Printing. What does this me things about myself. I rubbed mean? Adell: Why of course; you would her third eye and she began to fall analyze it until there was nothing left. Adell: This is an actual experience; into a trance. I knew she could he has been communicating with Lisa: I have recurring dreams of develop into a great medium. you. He is being helped in many class reunions, and high school I brought her out of this trance. ways by the light-beings (Spiritual- people I was with, and people with What is this dream showing me? Beings). Being a manager of a whom I worked. What is the Adell: It is not showing you printing company he has great meaning of this? anything; that was a parallel life access to communications to help Vetandananda: You had a reunion experience. one succeed. He is working with you with yourself, that of your past Joy: I dreamed I had a diamond on the other side; you must pay experiences; the previous lives you ring, necklace and a fountain pen heed to your dreams (Experiences) have lived. This represents you are set. Can you tell me what this closely. becoming more attuned to the being means? Bob: I have two short dreams. that you are. Adell: The diamond ring and I remember seeing a multicolored Patricia: A friend of mine had a necklace is what one adorns one self flower blooming in front of me; dream about me. She called me the with; it is quite physical. You are the other was I rented VCR tapes next day and told me that she had aware of much more than the and a game to take home; I put one dreamed that I had died in a fiery physical. The fountain pen set is that tape on. car crash. What does this dream of communications, of thoughts and represent?

42 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 Book Review by Bambi Corso Vetandananda: Be cautious of your Adell: That is a light-being that Dreamguider: Opening the Door driving, especially in the fast lane protects and guides those upon the to Your Child’s Dreams for you have been doing such in that earth plane in that area. Each one By Denyse Beaudet, PhD of your physical body; that is why has a designated area to guard over Hampton Roads Publishing Company you are burned out in your physical as well as those of the physical Taken from the Introduction, “For Western- condition. You had a death of beings they watch and guide. That ers, a door to children’s dreams first blew consciousness; now a new birth of is what you saw with your spiritual open in the 1930’s with observations of consciousness shall come. eye. the Malaysian Senoi. It has taken decades, Mickey: I have a friend John who Patricia: My friend had a dream however, for our families to step through that door.” Being the first of its kind, has been having a recurring horrible that consisted of her wearing a large Dreamguider is the key to that door. dream regarding the black powers; necklace. Sea shells were on one he wakes up frightened. He side, the other side was brass and Written by Denyse Beaudet, a Jungian requested me to ask you about this. stone. developmental psychologist who has been helping parents understand their children’s Vetandananda: That is from a past GO: That of sea shells is intuition, dreams for more than 25 years, this book life; that is a false guilt that is to be sensitivity. That of brass and stone is essential for any family that wants to released. Many of these aspects are is that which seems nice and cultivate and encourage their children to released in the dream state. polished; shiny and new, but that develop a relationship with their dreams in a fun and creative way. Lisa: My son has been having of stone is that which cannot be recurring dreams about going in the moved. This is what she has adorned In order to work with our children’s dreams wrong direction. He has not figured self with in that of the emotions of in a way that supports them, our job is out if its career wise, spiritual, or the heart; the scale is unbalanced. not to interpret them, but rather to “enjoy them, entertain them, draw them out, the physical move he made? Joy: Last night I dreamed that I was relate to them, embellish them, and, getting ready to go out with my girl Vetandananda: His physical move sometimes, put them to work in the service is not aligned with his vibrations; friend. As I was walking down the of developing not insights, but outsights.” that is the reason for the recurring street a lady steals my purse; I go This book shows us how to do just that. dreams. He had a previous life with chasing her underground. A school Filled with real-life experiences, examples that of children, he was a music is down there. There is a man that and anecdotes, Dreamguider provides a teacher. is intimidating me with a switch necessary tool for working with your child’s blade knife. We get into a struggle dreams, cultivating in them a deep interest Lisa: Is music what he should be and I stab him several times, then I in a lifelong practice of working with dreams getting back too? wake up. Is this an aspect of myself through their formative years into adulthood. Vetandananda: Indeed it is. that I am not accepting? With chapters such as “A Child’s First Lisa: I would like to know about my GO: Indeed; one is too open, too Dream Journal,” “Preparing Children for the Night,” and “A Child’s First Ally When dream of snakes, what does that reasoning and too realistic. Facing Bad Dreams and Nightmares,” mean? Many of us use an affirmation to Dreamguider increases a child’s comfort Vetandananda: It is a renewal of increase our dream recall. However, with nighttime and their dreams. It also ones’ being. The kundalini forces we would benefit more if we include has an entire chapter dedicated to “Dream about you are being renewed an the word EXPERIENCES in our Gifts for Parenting” which assists parents restructured. They had been awak- affirmations. We have programmed in gaining insight into their children’s’ ened before, but went dormant. our unconscious to help ourselves thoughts, feelings, personality and Soon, you will take up exercises that remember dreams... but not for the imagination while strengthening communi- cation between parents and their children. will help awaken the kundalini; this experiences of other realities. will be quite striking for your spiritual Example Affirmation: I will Whether or not we have children of our own, growth. remember my dreams and my we can all be Dreamguiders. As such, we experiences of other realities upon can encourage children’s creativity, help Lisa: I had a dream about a them be more in tune with their surround- awakening. frightened woman running through ings and develop a closer bond with them. a field while carrying a child. A bright Becoming aware of dreams and This allows us to focus on a very important white angel with rainbows on her working with them is a step along the and often misunderstood opportunity to wings appeared above her. What path but it is not the whole journey. ∞ understand our children’s development, so does this mean? that we may in turn support them in their ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ own becoming. ∞ You may contact Mr. McClanahan via email: dreamer65804@ sbcglobal.net Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 43 D r e a m i n g the L i g h t of I n s i g h t

S U R P R I S e! Nevertheless, we still hope for stones were unsuccessful. The Edgar delightful surprises. Think of the Cayce readings provided suggestions by Arthur Strock, Ph. D. anticipation that comes with cracking as to what I could do on my own. As open that fortune cookie at the end a result, I massaged turpentine into KKKids love surprises. of a Chinese meal. In a way, the the painful area. I guessed that somehow the turpentine would sink Tell a youngster that she’s in for a surprise has been tempered with the into the tissue and help to dissolve surprise, and watch a smile appear. knowledge that a fortune cookie the stone or stones. Dreams quickly Surprises are associated with virtually comes with a guarantee that came to my rescue. One dream birthday, Hanukkah, Christmas, and one’s fortune will be good. In a similar unexpected presents. If the surprise way, it can be fun to put a couple of showed a hand saw that was very gift or even the box it’s in fails to be a coins into the boardwalk machine that cutting. While awake there was the delight, the process of receiving the has a figure of a gypsy fortune teller realization that the turpentine was present, may be the gift. But, what’s on top. We get to watch the colorful possibly cutting and dangerous to the the best surprise? Maybe a surprise blinking lights and then pull out our tissue. I learned later that turpentine puppy? very own fortune card. Many of us go may be helpful in such situations, but to psychics for revelations about the certainly not the hardware store grade Dreams present surprises. Just ask future, knowing that—like the fortune that I had used. In the same dream, any group of second graders about cookies and amusement park for- there was a pit from which I needed surprises in dreams. They will tell you tunes—psychics are inclined to give to pull out a bottle. I managed to pull about dreams that revealed special us good news. Years ago, a psychic out the bottle that turned out to gifts, before they were even opened. described a person who would be contain castor oil. Sure enough, using Surprise gifts can become some of our coming into my life whose first or last external castor oil pack treatments on most cherished possess-ions. Men name began with the letter “M”. Yearly the side and abdomen allowed the growing up in the 40’s and 50’s may visits to the psychic brought several stone to pass with almost no pain. still remember the surprise and reminders that M was on her way and Revelations are not the happy endings wonder of opening or playing with a that the result would be a marriage Lionel train. Women may still re- themselves, but point the way to new of the heart for life. A woman in a beginnings. The surprise turns out not member with affection a favorite doll dream came and gave me uncon- or Barbie. to be a single event, but simply an ditional love. Shortly after, M arrived. unexpected part of our ongoing Most of us like to give surprises to M was to become the love of my life process of living. Unlike information people. Secret Santa programs in the who I expected would be with me from fortune cookies and boardwalk workplace capitalize on the value of forever. fortune telling machines, we have no surprise. It is certainly exciting to be Surprise. A wonderfully happy three guarantees that what has been a secret Santa in a situation where and a half year relationship changed, revealed to us in dreams will propel the Santa is never revealed. It can with the realization that the rela- us in the direction we think we want be even more exciting when the gift tionship would not be permanent. to go. Paradoxically, the best sur- recipients talk about the secret Santa, Dreams came to reveal that the prises—instead of resulting in fairy and even ask you, who it might be. relationship as she and I knew it was tale endings—open the way to work, As we get older, it may be more coming to an end. The hoped for hardship and possibly short term difficult to experience the happy promise of a fairytale marriage disappointments. Some of our most exhilaration associated with a real evaporated. important personal revelations can be surprise. In fact, the prospect of It has been said that every significant related to health and relationship surprises often elicits a negative life event will have some sort of dream situations in which we may be reaction. Who hasn’t heard some preview. One dream in which a nurse required to give ourselves the same version of the statement, “Surprise, in a doctor’s office told me that if I acceptance and loving care that we our deadline has been moved up a should get a kidney stone, the best would give to that new puppy. With a week”. Even the surprise 40th or 50th form of treatment for me would be little bit of luck, we’ll be able to stay birthday party can be filled with subtle ultrasound. Then just a month later, I on the path that leads through the and sometimes not so subtle jokes awoke with the telltale piercing pain healing work to experience the smile about the surprises to come. Those in my side of a kidney stone. At the of more new surprises. If we allow surprises are said to include declining time, with no health insurance, I ourselves repeated personal reve- health and deteriorating relationships. needed to avoid expensive inpatient lations, we may just be able to return Unfortunately, all too easily we can hospital treatment. Calls to urologists to the immediate childlike acceptance turn society’s expectations into self asking if they provided outpatient of the puppy and other surprises as fulfilling prophecies. ultrasound treatment for kidney potential sources of long term joy. ∞ 44 Dream Network/Vol. 28#1 You may contact Dr. Strock via emial @ [email protected] Lockhart & Mitchell DialogueDialogue, (Cont’d from pg. 23) anyone. You also caution, however, Your notion of “openings” that can of the tree that appeared in my that our habitual modern attitude— lead to a deeper awareness, dream of the four large, iridescent what you call “intentional con- reminds me of the old engraving of spheres we discussed earlier. The sciousness”—predisposes us to rush the philosopher peering through a litany of their names—almost an past the sparks, quickly backfilling “crack in the world.” To me, the incantation—emphasizes the fourth the breaches in our attention that philosopher seems drawn toward element by capping the sequence might otherwise lead to our the opening, not by accident, but of traditional elements with a deepening. by deliberate search. It is as if he surprising name, but also by Owen Barfield, in The Rediscovery left “village consciousness” behind, mysteriously aligning it with the of Meaning, has much to say about and was actually looking for the image of a tree. And what again this. He refers to what is nowadays minute sparks that would lead him were the names? Gold, Silver, called “lucid dreaming," about which to a vision of the rhizome, sym- Zephyr and... Harmonium. The much has been made recently: a bolized by the Medieval mind as a tree, of course, as one of the oldest person dreams, and at the same Divine Realm of gears, orbits and symbols, stands right in our midst, time is aware of dreaming. Barfield spheres. I also note that he is a living reminder of your sparks. finds in this phenomenon a useful crawling on his hands and knees. In your book Psyche Speaks, you pattern with which to differentiate said: “It was the poet, Paul Valéry, between “intentional conscious- who observed the subtle irony that ness” and what you and I are we understand ourselves thanks variously calling the shamanic only to our speed past words.” imagination, the eternal present, Perhaps Valéry would agree that the creative imagination or the our speed past words is also a rhizome. Barfield locates lucid speed past those everyday dreaming within the unusual cate- moments, the “minute sparks,” you gory of “extraordinary conscious- refer to here. It seems clear ness” which, he declares, is not only enough, then, that a deeper subjective, but also includes what understanding of both ourselves we now think of as “objective” This suggests a willingness to fore- and the world would come about if phenomena. In fact, for Barfield, go the ego’s normal drive toward we could periodically “recuse” extraordinary consciousness— domination, even if only for a ourselves, so to speak, from the though associated with poetic vision moment, in order to follow the lock-step frenetics of modern time, and lucid dreams—is every bit as hints that most often appear at and open ourselves to Barfield’s real as “rocks, stones and trees.” the boundaries of our conscious extraordinary consciousness or He equates this state of mind with awareness. Eliade’s eternal present, both of what he calls original participation, Your insight, as I understand it, which are implicit in your rhizome. the archaic mode of imaginative invites the cultivation of a certain interaction between man and nature attitude: humility in the face of the RL: While looking for something that “people took for granted as unknown, a willingness to follow else recently, I came across Eliade's happening. That is why they were hints that others might disparage, journal from 1957-1969, called No able to perceive mythical beings in and courage of a kind we are not Souvenirs. I mention it because I trees and animals.” accustomed to honor. These might had forgotten Eliade's fiction, and most particularly, his book, The Using lucid dreaming as a model, well be qualities of the Hopi “one- Forbidden Forest. He says of this then, Barfield conceives of imag- heartedness” that you mentioned, book, "I still believe one day that inative vision in general as “extra- so desperately needed in the face The Forbidden Forest and other ordinary consciousness—not just of the alternative “two-hearted” books will be discovered." I don't the dream stage, but the whole refusal to heed the cry of the think that day has arrived. The last gamut of it—present with ordinary suffering Earth. time it was checked out in my local consciousness.” This subtly pro- Notice, finally, that the artist of the library was 1981! I was quite taken found statement amounts to a engraving placed a magnificent tree by the importance Eliade attached to resounding affirmation of your idea at the virtual center of the image. his writing of fiction. He says, "For me of the “minute sparks in ordinary I cannot but help recall the image the writing of fiction—sketches, experience.” Vol. 28#1/Dream Network 45 novelas, novels—was more than a to two moderns walking the paths at violon d'Ingres: it was my only means Oxford University): "That is why they of preserving my mental health, of were able to perceive mythical beings avoiding a neurosis." I think what in trees and animals." Eliade is alluding to here is specifically The imagination of these men, along the importance of the imagination as with T. S. Elliot, Charles Williams, and we have been talking about it. Of others, collectively known as "The course today we are drowning in Visit our Website Inklings," catches hold of us even medications for our ills. As far as I today and reminds us that it is the know, no one is prescribing a dose of imagination—alive as sparks in every- DreamNetwork.net imagination, fiction as Rx, for what day consciousness, sparks that break troubles us. 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