Evolving a Dream Cherishing Culture

Since 1982 Vol. 27#1

ChildrenChildren DreamingDreaming A Dream Comes True ~~~ Nancy Richter Brzeski Dreamsharing with Your Children ~ Denyse Beaudet Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 1 Bones, Dreams and the Future ~ Russell Lockhart & Paco Mitchell The End... or the Beginning? ~ Jeff Lewis 2 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Dreaming Humanity’s Path An Avenue of Safety for the Children I am with others, driving a car through out to rescue us... but he has little room the city where trouble is brewing. and asks who of us he should take We drive to a house, on higher ground aboard. We answer, “The children!” than the rest of the city. A leader of referring to the few little ones we have with sorts lives there and as we approach the house, I experience a feeling of deja-vu. us. He attaches a cable to the children and flies off. When we are The children stay inside, we are to be given a feast with us as the of some sort and cable, surprisingly, when the ser- plays out of the vants come in to flying machine. serve us, we are Where the cable brought bowls of stretches between fresh raspberries our rescuer and (out of season). After we eat, we the children, it lies go outside; the on the ground and atmosphere is electrified with intense an avenue of safety opens up. feelings of the trouble about to begin. It leads up a hill, creating a pathway We are in fear for our lives, as we are through fruit trees that are both blos- completely surrounded by the city and soming and bearing ripe fruit. The trees its inhabitants. Suddenly, we look up are full of birds, squirrels and monkeys. to see a helicopter-like craft We climb nearly to the top of the hill coming down toward us. where I can see friends. It obeys no laws of physics and seems I feel great love and peace. to be coming from, or through, another (Next night) I awaken from a dream experienc- ing ecstatic joy. dimension. It lands and a man comes It seems we have reached the top of the hill! Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 3 Statement of Purpose

©2008 Evolving a Dream Cherishing Culture ~ Since 1982 Dream Network Our purpose is to raise individual and cultural appreciation ISSN #1054-6707 for the value of dreams by making available information that Spring 2008 Vol. 27 #1 will assist and empower you in taking responsibility for your 1025 South Kane Creek Blvd. personal/physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual well- PO Box 1026 being, with the help of dreams. Moab, UT 84532-1026 Our goals are to unite and serve individuals who respect Phone: 435/259-5936 dreams, to empower dreamers in demystifying dreamwork and to assist with the integration of dreamsharing into our everyday www.DreamNetwork.net lives and culture...in whatever ways of integrity are shown and [email protected] given us. We believe that dreams are agents for change and often reveal important new insights about the life of the dreamer on many levels: personal, cultural and global. Recalling a dream is a signal that we are ready to understand the information that has been presented. Helping you to learn to Founder understand the meaning of your dream—by journaling, study- ing, sharing your dreams with others one-on-one or in groups— William R. Stimson, Ph.D. is our primary mission and the purpose of membership in our Council of Advisors esoteric organization. Enacting or manifesting the dream's hint Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. can bring healing and personal empowerment. Russell A. Lockhart, Ph. D. We seek to provide a balance and to give all cultures/nations, Robert Moss, M. A. voices and schools of thought an opportunity to be heard. There Rosemary Watts will be times when a particular area of interest will be given Noreen Wessling greater emphasis than another because of that which is surfac- ing and given the limited space in the print and Online Journal. Editor/Publisher The emphasis will change over time to allow for a wide range of H. Roberta Ossana, M.A. ideas and opinions to be explored and expressed. We invite you Front Cover: Photo of Nancy Richter Bzerski’s to indicate areas of interest and questions you would like to see Dream Come True (see pg. 10) explored on our website and in future issues.

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Dreaming Humanity’s Path Upcoming Focus for SUMMER Vol. 27#2 3 An Avenue of Safety for the Children Dreaming Humanity’s Path 21 Protect the Children.... What is a Visionary Dream? 39 290 Days Share Your Visions, those Gifted to Inform Humankind Children Dreaming ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Paying Tirubute to Rita Dwyer 8 Carl G. Jung... on the Child’s Psyche & Jean Campbell 10 A Dream Comes True by Nancy Richter Brzeski Lifeline: 4 Weeks 12 Embracing the Dreamguider Within: after you receive Dreamsharing with Your Children this issue. by Denyse Beaudet, Ph.D. 14 Play Therapy and Dreams: A Child’s Healing *NOTE Regarding Submissions: by Lauren LeRose Davidson, M.A. Individuals from all cultures and 16 Waking Up the Psyche walks of life who desire to share are The Role of Art Therapy in encouraged to submit dream & myth- SED Children’s Dreams and Fantasies related manuscript, poetry and by Marlene King, M.A. artwork for consideration... even if it 18 Dreamwork with Children: It’s Childs’ Play falls outside the scope of the current by Arthur Strock focus or theme. We also invite your 21 The boy who flew alone by Annsayre Wiseman dreamsharing, transformational 26-27 Little Suzy Poetic Cartoonery by Jerry Shippee dream experiences and insights regarding effective dreamwork and The Art of Dreamsharing & Dream Education dreamplay techniques. 24 Lucid Dreaming: Given the overall synchronicity A Metaphor for Awakening the Spiritual Self that shapes the Dream Network, your by Gloria Nye submission is likely to ‘fit’ perfectly 28 Bones, Dreams and the Future in an upcoming issue. A Dialogue between Russell Lockhart & Paco Mitchell Your article may also be appro- 32 Animal Motifs in Dreams priate for one of our two regular by Frances Ring features, The Art of Dreamsharing 34 Dreams of War: A Call to Initiation (which includes a broad range of by James Lawrence (Flash) Harrington 36 The End? or the Beginning⇑ by Jeff Lewis articles on Dream Education), or The 41 70: A Birthday Dream by Elizabeth Howard Mythic Dimension (exploring the 42 Dream Reading by Charles De Beer relationship between dreams and 43 What’s In the Temple? by Tom Barrett mythology). 44 The Short Path by Robert C. Flanders And, of course, we always love to hear from you in our Letters column! Columns & More... Whether you were inspired or 6, 7 Editorial, Letters, Questions & Dreams 22 Dreaming Planet: infuriated by the latest issue, please Destiny and Dreams Part III ~ by Paco Mitchell let us hear from you! 31, 40 Book Review ~ by David Sparenberg; Visit our website for Submission DVD Review ~ by Bambi Corso Guidelines http://DreamNetwork.net

Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 5 I tell this story for two reasons: One, Editorial it is significant to the present issue, Editorial Policy focused on Children Dreaming and points out the critical importance of We invite you to submit let- children’s dreams, especially recur- ters, articles, poetry, reviews ring dreams. Inside, you will find that and artwork focused on dreams In my childhood dreams, I was we are making progress, culturally, and mythology designed to in- taken to a one story building, like a in this way. Secondly, to point a spire and educate our readers. school, and delivered to a ‘Big Man’ marshmallow-arrow toward our up- We accept articles from every- who instructed me thus: "Inside this coming, summer issue, which in part night dreamers and profession- building, behind one of the doors, is will focus on Visionary dreams, or als, ranging from the experi- your mother. I am going to set you dreams to which Carl Jung attached ential to the scholarly. spinning until you're airborne/off the the term ‘collective unconscious.’ ground, open the door and you must Those Big Dreams many have which Typical article length is choose the door/room where your are important to all of humanity. approx.1600-2000 words. mother is located. One chance only." My former mentor—in pointing out A photo and art work to en- hance your submission is re- I dreamt this scenario many times the value of rising above the personal quested. Artists wishing to have and each time I found the right door, analysis to see the message for com- their work considered for our first time... until the last time... munity— is an indicator that may in- covers, please contact the edi- when I couldn't find her. At the time, spire you to submit your own Big tor: Publisher @DreamNet- my father was in the army, WWII, Dreams. work.net. Electronic/email, and my mother had given birth to Most of us agree that dreamtime .pdf, .tif or .jpg files are pre- my younger brother. Need I say does not adhere to the rules of 24/ ferred for text, ads, artwork & more? 7, here and now. Dreams dreamt photos. Include SASE with PO years, even decades, ago can be and Years ago, I shared this recurring queries & submissions. dream with my Jungian mentor and often are as relevant today as they with his encouragement, I took a were at the time they were recalled. Dream Network reserves the day to find a private spot near a For this reason, I’ve elected to bring right to edit all material sub- lovely lake to contemplate and jour- forth two of the visionary dreams we mitted for publication; we re- nal, focusing on this dream series. published over a decade ago, when tain first North American serial When I found the spot, the we dedicated an entire year to what rights only. All copyright re- first thing I saw was an exquisite, Russell Lockhart coined Dreaming verts to the author/artist/poet newly sprouted red and gold mush- Humanity’s Path (DHP). after first publication, with the room. I went down, immediately, to DHP has become a tradition in this proviso that Dream Network is my knees, cupped the mushroom publication.The visionary dreams that referenced and contact infor- with one hand... and went on an un- are selected for publication are com- mation provided in secondary expected, spontaneous Journey. mitted to print, with the dreamer’s publication. We retain the right When I came back ‘in,’ I bent down permission to exclude their name; to republish materials submit- to kiss and thank the mushroom and likewise, we make no effort at inter- ted in future issues or subject- then heard a voice say, pretation. Rather, we allow Psyche specific booklets and/or mono- "You have found your Mother." to Speak, as these visions are sub- graphs. I reminded my treasured mentor of mitted by dreamers who felt they had We encourage you to list these dreams recently and in brief, to share their dream with a larger your dream-related research here’s what he had to say: community. Let us continue this tradition. requests and ask that you no- “Apply the dream to the world to- Enjoy Spring & this special issue! tify us of dream-related events, day and assume that all of human- ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ services or books which would ity is "the dreamer." The "Big Man" Taking care of business (My least be of interest to our readers. has us spinning. Our task is to find favored aspect of this work): We are perpetually ‘Explor- the "mother." And wouldn't you know Continually rising postal rates— ing the Mystery,’ and invite it, she's right under our feet!“ another in May— may mean less your Questions as well. Sweet. pages in upcoming issues. 6 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 breath of fresh air (spirit) in a world thing about these things. Letters, Questions gone corporately mad. Keep dream- So maybe you all can help me a bit, & Dreams ing the dream to the highest, what to do and what does this all Paul Levy, Portland, OR mean ? A Teamster Shares ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Please forgive me my English the Value of How Do We Helen Holmberg, Harjumaa, Estonia Dreams & Intuition Keep Doing It? [email protected] in the Blue Collar World Many thanks for sending the new is- ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ I work a day job as a plant manager sue. How do you keep topping your- Dream Network: For The for a steel company while still self like that? Just want you to know People writing the Dream and Intuition news- how much I appreciate all the work My first attraction to Dream Network letter and hosting an occasional intu- you put into not only gathering the Journal in the early 1990‚s was from ition workshop. What I find interest- content but how you present it—like Editor/Publisher Roberta Ossana’s in- ing, is that over time it has been a dream itself! vitation that common people from all made very clear to me through Russell Lockhart, Ph. D., Everett, WA cultures could offer their dreaming circumstance that my journey with How? With a LOT of help from YOU, experiences for publication in the jour- dream and intuition work follows a friends! (Ed.) nal. Dream Network also draws pro- path which straddles both the indus- ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ fessional authors and artists who trial and spiritual landscapes. Some Dreamer Requests present dreaming materials from cul- of my best book reviews for both Your Comments: Urgent tures around the world. Peace is in- books came from the blue collar side terwoven in each issue. Such is the of the equation. So, it has taken some I have seen in past 4 years the death quality that the publisher and her co- time to adjust my self-perception as of 4 people, shortly after I dream the workers reflect in every issue of a dreamer to encompass that role and dream, this person dies. Dream Network, a journal that truly to move forward from there. Although Last week I saw my aunt and she died has something for everyone who val- I supervise a crew of Teamsters, in Friday. ues dreams. I am provided with opportunities What makes me worried is that after Evelyn Duesbury, Platteville, WI through life's daily circumstances to I see the dream and the death comes, share basic dreamwork and aware- things are going up for me, usually ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ ness of intuition with them. And for something very pleasant happens. Appreciation My first dream like this was about 15 that, I will always be grateful. Great lay-out and a wonderful edi- years ago, when I saw the cruise ship So , this is where my dreams have torial in the Winter issue of Dream Estonia drown. Nobody believed me... led me. Not quite what I expected Network (Vol. 26 No. 4). The DNJ e.g., when I told this to my parents when embarking on this path, but keeps getting better. I'm sure I speak (of course I was only 16 then). Eight working with Spirit is like that; for many people when I thank you for hundred died there and I saw the through our dreams we are led to ar- all you've done and continue to do for agony and terror. eas in our lives where we most need the DNJ. My best wishes. Almost always the dreams I see have to make a difference. Steve Carter, Wichita, KS one common thing: I play the lead- Edward Bonapartian ing role. I either watch over some- To receive Mr. Bonapartian’s where high or I'm moving between monthly newsletter go to Our ‘Letters’ section is the place other people. for you to ask Questions about http://www.IntuitiveDreams.com Closest loss for me was my father. I dreams—yes, even your own Edward Bonapartian is the author of dreamed about him and one-and-one- dream—and to share your expe- Reflections on the Art of Balance half weeks later he died. He called me rience, inspirations, or critique. (Ed.) the night before, but I could not say You may also choose to initiate ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ anything. I always feel that it is not a controversy or debate! DN: “A Breath my place to tell them anything. I was Please send your letters to: of Fresh Air” calm and tried to calm him also. LETTERS % Dream Network I love giving out your magazine to But now I'm getting a bit worried PO Box 1026, Moab, UT 84532 about that, because it is becoming people who are connected with their [email protected] dreams. Dream Network is truly a more frequent and I do not know any- Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 7 JungJungJung... on The Child’s Psyche

“The child’s psyche, prior to the stage of to the parents—more than the joys of the ego-consciousness, is very far from being cradle or a bad upbringing. empty and devoid of content... That such “Primitive peoples often hold the belief that contents exist in the child who has not yet the soul of the child is the incarnation of an attained to ego-consciousness is a well- ancestral spirit, for which reason it is dan- attested fact. The most important evidence gerous to punish children lest the ancestral in this respect is the dreams of three- and spirit be provoked. This belief is only a more four-year-old children, among which there concrete formulation of the views I have are some so strikingly mythological and so outlined above. fraught with meaning that one would take them at once for the dreams of grown-ups, “The infinity of the child’s preconscious soul did one not know who the dreamer was. may disappear with it, or it may be pre- They are the last vestiges of a dwindling served. The remnants of the child-soul in the collective psyche which dreamingly reiter- adult are his best and worst qualities; at all ates the perennial contents of the human events, they are the spiritus rector of our soul. From this phase, there spring many weightiest deeds and of our individual desti- childish fears and dim, unchildlike premoni- nies, whether we are conscious of it or not. tions which, rediscovered in later phases of It is they which make kings or pawns of the life, form the basis of the belief in reincar- insignificant figures who move about on the nation. But from this sphere also spring checker-board of life, turning some poor those flashes of insight and lucidity which devil of a casual father into a ferocious ty- give rise to the proverb: Children and fools rant, or a silly goose of an unwilling mother speak the truth. into a goddess of fate. For behind every indi- vidual father there stands the primordial “Because of its universal distribution, the image of the Father, and behind the fleeting collective psyche—which is still so close to personal mother, the magical figure of the the small child—perceives not only the Magna Mater. These archetypes of the col- background of the parents, but, ranging lective psyche—whose power is magnified in further afield, the depths of good and evil immortal works of art and in the fiery tenets in the human soul. The unconscious psyche of religion—are the dominants that rule the of the child is truly limitless in extent and preconscious soul of the child and, when pro- of incalculable age. Behind the longing to be jected upon the human parents, lend them a a child again, or behind the anxiety dreams fascination which often assumes monstrous of children, there is—with all due respect proportions.” ∞

8 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Collected Works, Vol. 17, The Development of Personality, paragraphs 94-97 ChildrenChildren DreamingDreaming

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Nancy Richter Brzeski’s Dream Comes True! Dream Theater and Art Class ~ Teachers, Students ~ Dreamers, All Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 9 Students’ at the Falk School making dream inspired masks ~ in readiness for Dream Theater AA DreamDream ComesComes TrueTrue

by Nancy Richter Brzeski

IIIt started with a dream in 1986. I dreamt that I returned to my grade school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to teach Dream Theater and dream-inspired art, as I had done in our local schools here in California when our children and grandchildren were young. I said, “I know something good will come of it, because I loved that school so much.” I had three similar dreams over the following years.

Last October, I visited Falk School, one of the leading laboratory schools in the country, affiliated with the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh’s School of Education. I was greeted as a celebrity, being the oldest alum known to them in their 75th anniversary year. I graduated from 8th grade in 1938. I promised to return in the spring to teach them about dreams.

Last March, I spent three days there with my friends, Janet McCall, the Curator of last year’s IASD art show and Cynnie Pearson, IASD Board Member. It was great fun! The Language Arts teacher, Greg Wittig and the Art teacher, Dr. Pamela Krakowski, were very enthusiastic from the outset.

our daughter, Eva. Then the girls Thirteen 8th graders, mostly girls, energetically acted out three volunteered to do Dream theater, dreams. Afterward, Cynnie taught with no idea of what that entailed. them how to play the “If it were They divided themselves into my dream” game, which they several small groups, each group learned very quickly. She—who deciding which dreams to use. had recently done dreamwork Then they eagerly chose masks, with sixteen-year-olds in another wigs and other ‘props’ from those school—was amazed at their I had accumulated and be- maturity and insight. At the end queathed to Falk School. Some of Dream Theater Facilitators/Teachers Nancy Richter Brzeski, of the hour, Greg took a picture of the masks were made by me and Janet McCall and Cynnie Pearson all of us with our masks and wigs. 10 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Making masks, creating collage in preparation for their presentation.

The following day, the same volunteers met in Pamela’s art room where they made dream-inspired mixed media collages. They used all sorts of pictures and materials provided by Pam and myself. Janet showed them one of her beautiful handmade Dream Journals. On both days, she was accompanied by a 5th grade friend, Coleman, who was interested in dreams and made a fine collage in spite of a broken thumb. The volunteers obviously enjoyed the collage-making and afterward showed their finished works, with com- ments.

The next day I took the teachers and Falk’s dynamic school director, Dr. Wendell McConnaha, out to lunch. We drank white wine and agreed that the project was a great success.

My dream came true! ∞ Ms. Richter Brzeski has just been chosen "The Outstanding Falk Alumnae of 2007-08." The presentation will be made on April l7 in Pittsburgh, PA. You may contact her at 53 College Park, Davis, CA 95616-3643 Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 11 EmbracingEmbracingEmbracing the Dreamguider Within: ©2008 Denyse Beaudet, Ph.D. Dreamsharing with Your Children “Whenever the child is disturbed in sleep, wait about two minutes after the child stops being disturbed and then wake them up gently by asking, ‘What were you dreaming? What kind of a night did you have?’ ’ They very often tell their dream and then, within 5 minutes, can go back to sleep.” Kilton Stewart in an Interview with Frank Ford, WPEN radio, Philadelphia, PA, 1959

A Child’sChild’sA WWWe all want closer family lier—your child declares a dream. This First Dream Journal relations. Yet most parents consider is your opportunity to open the door to a Making a dream journal, parents can themselves “off duty” when their chil- child’s world of dreams and to embrace watch and enjoy their children change dren fall asleep. Not until a child expe- the dreamguider within you, in earnest. riences nightmares—some so severe that and grow in a whole new way. they disturb the whole family—do par- As the parent, you are one of the first Capturing dreams on paper serves ents snap to attention, asking them- people to whom your child will likely tell several crucial purposes. Recording a selves, psychologists, and anyone else a dream. When a dream knocks at the dream as a child communicates that who will listen, for advice about restor- door of your child’s consciousness for the you value both the dream and the ing their child’s tranquility. first time, welcome it! Over time, you and telling. Also, it gives you both a grow- your child will evolve your own ritual for ing archive of shared material. The What if parents did not abdicate stew- dream telling. For instance, every morn- first dreams are short and easy to ardship for those eight to twelve hours ing you might lie down on your child’s bed, record. But soon—fed with attention that their children spend sleeping, but or your own bed, as he or she their night- by both parent and child— the dream instead looked to understand and learn time experiences. You might “take dic- reports lengthen and become elabo- from their children’s active dreaming tation” while your child chats in the bath, rate. Start by writing the date of the minds? Dreamguiding leads parents to- or talks about dreams at your breakfast dream: day, month and year. Children ward greater insight into their children table. grow up quickly and the date of the and deeper connection with them through dream will soon take on its full sig- Your first task as a parent is to give your an often-overlooked territory: their nificance. dreams. attention, listen. As if clearing the land and hoeing in fertile soil, you prepare the Record the dream as your child re- The first step in dreamguiding is to make attitudes, practices and space for ports it. Sometimes keeping pace with dreams part of your household. All it dreams that will last a lifetime. Give your the child’s dream-telling is a chal- takes is one parent or one sibling fasci- little boy’s or girl’s nighttime experience lenge. At other times, the challenge nated enough with his or her own dreams your full emotional presence. Receptiv- is to stay with the thread of the to give sleep-time adventures a presence, ity will spark your child’s enthusiasm for dream, when the child strays and an identity within the family. dream telling. As a dreamguide, you wanders to other topics. Other pieces Before anything else, children are dream watch, appreciate, give a tip here, ask a of information a child gives out are tellers. Somewhere between your child’s question there, stand by and reap the worth recording for the light they shed third and fifth year—and sometimes ear- harvest of deeper family bonds. on a child’s dream and what it means

12 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 to the child. There is sometimes a as a dreamer carry over to the child’s child’s energy to rebound. With time preamble before your child launches waking life. and in later dreams the child may into the dream proper. Regardless of Before you do or say anything, there summon the necessary strength to the dream content, these remarks is work for you to do as a parent. You respond more powerfully and adroitly capture the feeling of a dream, some- must first notice your child’s “dream to a bad dream. Trust that your child times in a flash, and reveal immedi- strategies,” and become aware of “be- will find the resources at his or her ately how the dream sets with the nevolent allies” on your child’s dream own pace. Your confidence in your child. path. child is enormously important. For instance, these kinds of com- Dreams are a training field just as is Young children, although not yet ments: life. equipped to understand the meaning I had the most beautiful dream I of dreams, readily relate to and de- Children are seldom alone in their ever had. I want this dream again scribe their behavior within a dream. dream worlds. An ally may help your and again. What did your child do in the dream? child elude danger. Allies may be strangers, friends or family, and Oh, I had the saddest dream. The behavior points the way to the sometime a creature like the good I had a nightmare. child’s dream strategy. Perhaps the child throws stones at a feared croco- witch in four-year-old Nick’s dream: Next comes the dream. You can write dile, lays a trap for a witch, or nego- Mom was in this place and I was in directly in the journal, as the child’s tiates with a villain. there too. There were lots of witches report unfolds, or take the dictation and there were two girls that I saw in on a separate sheet of paper, in order Noting your child’s strategies focus the park. And then Mom disappears, to write faster, albeit messier, with- your understandings, because those and I was calling for her but she out interrupting the flow with ques- strategies represent your child’s will- wasn’t there. I was calling, and one tions. Slowing down the child, in or- ingness and ingenuity to respond to witch smiled at me, and said “hi” to der to catch up with the writing, can challenges. Five-year-old Oliver me and I said “hi” back. And then she also work. dreamt of witches and described his strategy in the following way: said, “I’ll give you some help,” and I Don’t worry about keeping an exhaus- was gonna say, “With your magic, can I was in a swimming pool and I tried tive dream inventory. The real goal is you please get my mommy back?” to nurture the child’s developing re- to squirt her, but my squirt gun sank. lationship with dreams and dream And then, I tried to shoot the witch When a child trusts in a dream ally skills that your child-dreamer will down with the pool hose. I was in a for help, the dream world often re- carry on later in life. Keeping a dream hot tub. It was scary there. sponds favorably. journal is also a way of nurturing the At first you may notice only the most Even when your child travels alone creative life within your family and spectacular strategies, when the child through part of his or her dream jour- your home. Once children tap into fights actively as Oliver did, for in- ney, the dream may have other re- their dream source, dreams flow stance. However, it pays to discern deeming features—for instance, a abundantly in a life-giving way. the more subtle strategies as well— small cottage with a dog and a family pretending to be dead to avoid being in the forest where your child was lost. Noting Your Child’s detected, cleaning the house to elimi- When all seems lost, assistance may Resourceful Strategies nate the witch’s poison, sending for come in the most unexpected way. and Benevolent Allies help after being bitten. Like allies, these redeeming features can bring about a turn of events. Look What about nightmares? It is hard to Giving attention to your child’s dream for redeeming features and benevo- believe that nightmares provoke de- strategies, you can begin to perceive lent allies in your child’s dreams. They velopment of your child’s skills and and appreciate your child’s resource- light your child’s path. fulness as a dreamer. powers, especially when they intro- Noting your child’s strategies, allies duce such turmoil. But they do! Cer- When your child is disempowered, and resourcefulness inculcates you tain dreaming skills can help a child hurt, or taken over by a dream crea- with a receptive spirit. That spirit is a reach the more positive and resolved ture, he or she may not have any vital part of dreamguiding. ∞ side of a nightmare. Your child can obvious strategy available, except to ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ cultivate these skills with your guid- wake up. This is fine. An incubation You may contact Dr. Beaudet at ance. And the skills a child develops period is sometimes needed for a [email protected].

Denyse Beaudet, Ph.D. is the author of Dreamguider: Opening the Door to a Child’s Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 13 World of Dreams and Encountering the Monster: Pathways in Children’s Dreams. Play Therapy and Dreams: A Child’s Healing

©2008 Lauren LeRose Davidson, M.A.

Ben was nine years old. dren who have experienced trauma. father assaulting his mother and He was a bright and verbal boy, with Play during a session is considered because of his young age and small much more insight than one would the child’s way of expressing him- stature, was a helpless bystander. expect for his young age. He had self and Ben was initially at a stand- It was then that I began to ask him witnessed domestic violence on still in his emotions. Each session about dreams more often. A few many occasions and was referred he began to talk more, until he was sessions passed, and his repetitive for therapy after being diagnosed finally comfortable sharing with me. play continued. He surprised me with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Because he was eventually quite one day when the little boy figurine (PTSD) and being removed from his verbal, I began to use the latter part came out of the bedroom and was family while their case was investi- of our sessions to sit and talk. near the parent figures. There was gated. During our initial sessions, no interaction, but the boy figure One afternoon, as we played Candy he was timid and preferred to play was present with the adults. Land, we discussed eating and rather than talk. I watched as he sleeping. He surprised me when he I dropped Daddy’s glasses slowly approached the toys. He stated, “I have bad dreams.” on the floor and they broke. pulled down a dollhouse and figu- I couldn’t clean up rines. Without speaking a word, he Mommy is running and there is a because my hands were jelly. placed the little boy in a room alone bear chasing her. I can see, but They smooshed and smashed and and began clashing the mother and I’m stuck. I’m in a highchair that I couldn’t move them right. I was father figures against one another. I’m too big for and I can’t move afraid for when he came home, “The man and woman are crashing my arms. I can’t see Mommy and I ran down the street. into each other over and over,” I anymore because the bear chased reflected aloud. No response. He her away. I hear her yell. Mommy and me are swimming at continued the crashing. He put them the beach. Big waves are coming. I was amazed at the similarity of down and reached for the little boy One wave takes Mommy away his dreams and his situation in his figure, but did not remove it from and I keep trying to swim to her, waking life. The bear, a big and pow- the single room. “The boy is all by but I’m stuck. I get up real close erful animal, was hurting his himself in the room,” I stated. No and touch her hand, but then mother. He desperately wanted to response. the wave pushes me away. help, but he was trapped by a This kind of repetitive play contin- highchair, an object resembling his Ben was moving closer. Interest- ued for our next three sessions, childhood. Similarly, according to ingly, he had chosen the word which is generally common in chil- his records, he had witnessed his “stuck” again. He was still struggling

14 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 and only partially successful, but some sort of contact had been “After his made. In his waking life, there was a possibility of moving back in with emotional journey, his mom, though no final decision had been made. I had gotten word a fixed pattern that his father would not be allowed contact. was broken. During our 16th session, out came Ben began to share the dollhouse. The boy was alone. The man and woman crashed. Then, his thoughts something extraordinary happened. The woman doll joined the little boy. and dreams with me Ben gently placed the man doll on the table away from the house. The more readily boy and the woman began to talk to one another. and he ultimately “I wonder what the boy and woman began healing are talking about?” I questioned. “That’s his mommy,” Ben said, iden- his pain through tifying the female as “mommy” for the first time. “I love you!” Ben play and dreams.” made the woman figure say. “The mommy must love the boy very much!” I reflected. “Yeah!” Ben replied. fective against the current. Ulti- “I wonder what they’ll do next?” I mately, his sense of being “broken” asked. was “fixed” and he was free. “Maybe go to someplace far away,” In terms of the toys, his lonesome Ben said as he smiled. existence evolved into a more con- Mommy was in the kitchen and I tent and loved/loving experience. broke my Ninja Turtle bike. I am grateful for the opportunity to She used a box of lightning to fix have participated in Ben’s healing. it. Then I rode it around and I am also happy to say that Ben now around, really, really fast! leads a safe and happy life with the So, what was once broken is on its loving care of his mother. ∞ way to being healed; Ben felt free to “ride around and around!” After ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ his emotional journey, a fixed pat- tern was broken; he began to share Lauren LeRose Davidson is a Masters his thoughts and dreams with me level psychotherapist who is currently more readily and he ultimately be- pursuing her doctorate in clinical psy- gan healing his pain through play chology. and dreams. His dreams seemed to Please address correspondence to: illustrate beautifully the cognitive Lauren LeRose Davidson and emotional process that was tak- 3152 57th Ave Cir E ing place. Initially, he was helpless Bradenton Fl, 34203 and distraught. Later, he tried to (304)-543-6058 help, but was still small and inef Email: [email protected] Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 15 DreamTimes: Dream Exchange

Waking Up the Psyche The Role of Art Therapy in SED Children’s Dreams and Fantasies

©2008 by Marlene King, M.A. dreamtimesguide.com

TTT he grounds were well- of establishing trusting relationships population. I knew that I had to be manicured, the cottages remained a tangent theme through- conservative and observe what they quaint and evenly spread over out the time I spent in this venue. I did with the material as much as what several treed acres.. set up my art/therapy room with was produced. Art therapy is process- There were sandboxes and limited doors wide open inviting curious eyes oriented, not product-oriented, as is outdoor play equipment for recreation to view the wide variety of art mate- occupational therapy. Each child had and a huge gymnasium with barred rials which were in some cases noth- individual tolerances, defenses, and doors. There also was an outpatient ing any of the children had seen be- needed constant monitoring from clinic on the grounds that offered ser- fore. I practiced setting boundaries over-indulging (which led to esca- vices from referrals from social work- and rules with the scissors, glue, pa- lated emotions), overcoming feelings ers and community service agencies, per, paints I organized in the storage of “wasting” and running out of ma- parents, public schools or physicians. closet, and encouraged questions. I terials and encouragement to realize set up my tape recorder and played there would “be enough” to complete At first glance, it was an idyllic set- soothing music as a signal I was there whatever project was introduced. Art ting, but the veneer soon disappeared and working. To these children, it was materials loosen up the clients and when I stepped over the threshold of like a banquet of creative self-nurtur- provide “containment” in some form one of the white hospitable dwellings. ing supplies that I hoped would whet or another, and in some cases, is all- The children who lived in this envi- their appetites and start building a important in the process-oriented work. ronment were between the ages of bridge of trust for their treatment. 18 months to 12 years and were After several months of treatment housed as wards of the State because After the routines of hourly sessions work, one of my clients, a seven year their parents, family members or were set with staff for the roster of old African American boy who I will caretakers were deemed incapable of children in the cottage, I attempted call Kevin, still avoided doing the pre- providing for their most basic needs. to begin my treatment with prescribed scribed assessment directives which Most of the children, classified as assessments, but I readily learned underlined his need for being in con- Severly Emotionally Disturbed (SED), that the children often brought fan- trol of his world and establishing that had experienced and were dealing tasies and concerns and only occa- element in our relationship. Kevin’s with issues of chaotic family systems sionally dreams to the sessions and emotional development was 0-1 often involving substance abuse, dep- the transition to ‘talking’ about them years and it became evident during rivation of nurturance, witnessing vio- through art and play was a major part our sessions that when given choice lent crimes; all were coping with so- of their treatment program. As with of play/art media, he preferred wa- cialization skills, developmental de- all children’s dreams, they are usu- ter; kitchen/wet play became his best lays, organicity and trauma due to ally shorter in duration than those of area to express and communicate. adults because their recall is not fully emotional and physical abuse. “Psychotherapy offers... pro- developed. As one might imagine, trust was tected space in which he can re- something I would have to earn as There is a prescriptive method to us- turn symbolically to the waters of the resident art therapist. The issue ing art materials with this type of the maternal universe. Life begins 16 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 in water...[and] is a metaphor [for] worked with water and white and red Kilton Stewart those energies which are uncon- terra cotta clays and fashioned a set on Children’s Dreams scious and unformed.”1 of “lungs”; he made his red and made In a 1963 Interview, Marion Granger asked Unexpectedly, Kevin came to one of mine pink. He also created food items Kilton Stewart: his sessions with a dream. He told me such as pizza, cookies and pancakes. M. G.: “What should parents say he had a dream about being on the I made mention to him that all of the to their children about dreams?” roof at night as Batman and then he shapes were round and I wondered Kilton Stwart responded: “This, I think is a turned into a rooster. I suggested that about that. He had no response ex- very important subject and we, at last, do know what the parents should say. And he draw his dream and he chose col- cept a shrug of the shoulders, but they were classic mandala shapes and in- this is one of my great criticisms of both ored pencils and paper, which are very psychoanalysis and psychiatry: that down dicative of the beginnings of integra- safe and controllable media. As he through the years they’ve never told us drew, he verbalized that he was afraid tion around his fears and concerns. anything about how to educate the child’s and that if he could fly he could es- The lungs appeared to indicate the dream, or the child’s subconscious. The cape. We talked about why he thought “breath of life” that was returning to parent should say, right from the time the child can talk, ‘Now, you must do this and he would want to escape at night... this child and that he identified with me; his awareness of cultural differ- such in the daytime; because I’m legally and from what. This child never felt responsible for you. You have to do what ences was apparent by the depiction safe, always felt in danger, so it was I say. But in your dreams, I agree to do important to him that he identify with of two colors of skin. what you say. I agree to serve and obey a super-hero and a rooster, both of In a paper by Strausch and Leder- you in the dreamworld, if you will mind me which could fly from danger if they bogen they note that “The system- and cooperate with your brothers and sisters and do what I tell you to when needed to. Being on a rooftop gave atic study of children’s dreams remain you’re awake.’ him a good vantage point to view his rare... and that no studies exist that And whenever s/he has a dream in which world and empowered him to be vigi- compare... dreams and waking fan- s/he cannot outface the dream character, lant. I told him I thought it was inter- tasies of children....”2 Since I elicited the parent should say, ‘The dream esting that not only could he fly in his information via the process of using character is yours, it belongs to you, it’s in dream, but that both characters had art materials, directives and psycho- your dream universe! You go back to sleep a “voice” and could be heard and it therapeutic techniques, it often and outface that dream character. It can’t must make him feel safe and power- evoked suppositions, “what ifs” and hurt you. No dream character can hurt you. ful to get out of scary situations. waking fantasies and stories that re- And if you can’t win out over it by yourself, I or your mother or your teacher will come flected the inner life of the child more I learned through subsequent ses- into your dream and we will all help you sions that themes of danger pervaded frequently than dream material. overcome, conquer and master your his psyche and that his fantasies and Strausch and Lederbogen discovered dream characters. dreams played a big part of how he that, “...in fantasies, children took an “In societies where they interpret dreams dealt with the chaotic world from active role in both aggressive and this way, the children grow up very which he came. Thus, threaded with friendly interactions, but in dreams, cooperative and yet fiercely individualistic and they do not have to go through this the treatment goals, I took him where they tended to be victims of aggres- period of adolescence where they turn he was as he presented himself in the sion and recipients of friendliness... against authority.... and God help them sessions regarding his readiness, de- and that they portrayed themselves that they don’t turn too far and do velopment and trust levels. He loved in dreams the way they conceived of something too destructive. to “cook” and inevitably, his mode of themselves in everyday life. However, “Those societies say when a child has a treatment was better served in the in waking fantasies, they became good dream, s/he often floats. And the “wet room” where there was a sand what they wanted to be. That is, parents counsel: ‘You must float some- table and water/sink play area. dreams reflect present concerns and where. and arrive and see something interesting and useful. You must re- private self-appraisals and with fan- It was during this time that Kevin member it and bring it back to your society, tasies, they saw a more positive future.”3 began to amplify his concerns and because society helps you while you’re fantasies and often became or made One ten-year-old girl, whom I will call awake and you help society by re- images of “Best Boy” or “Super Hero.” Carol, started her sessions anxious membering what your dream characters tell you, so you can share it when you When he ‘became’ one of these char- and unable to focus on any task; her wake up’.” acters in this waking dream/fantasy, movements were expansive, scat- ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Interview on December 5, 1963 on KIBF/FM he would tell stories about guns, stair- tered and random. Initially, she would of the Celebrity Carousel Radio Show, ways and bad guys. As he talked, he (Continued on page 42) Jenkintown, PA Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 17 Dreaming the Light of Insight

Dreamwork with Children:

It’sIt’s Child’sChild’s Play!Play!

by Arthur Strock

A woman came rush- ten caught up in our society’s tially asked her how her dreams ing over to me at a recent need to move ahead quickly. I were going. She just looked at social gathering with her little had rushed right in even prior me with a blank stare and said girl in tow. She had heard that I to getting a proper introduction nothing. Whoops, just listening worked with dreams and quickly to this little person. And, if the is not enough! asked me what she should do truth be known, I’d also gotten So, I turned to my dreams for about her daughter’s recurring caught up with my own ego, help in providing me with a nightmares about losing a bal- wanting to maintain my repu- theme for this article, a theme loon. I soon found myself kneel- tation for being the local dream that would apply to working with ing by the little girl asking a expert. children and their dreams. The couple of questions about her As I further considered the situ- result was a dream in which... dreams and finding that it had ation, I happened to recall a been a red balloon. Well, next meditation insight given in I was a kid playing ball with thing I knew the friend I was preparation for a past dream some other kids. A childhood with joined in and was also talk- workshop. I realized at the time friend of mine tried to get the ing to the little girl, offering that I would need to listen ball from me just as I snatched some sound advice. The inter- closely to what the workshop it and ran. As I ran back to the action turned out to be a whirl- participants had to say. The re- group, I found that he’d gone wind of thinking and talking. The alization seemed to fit well in on ahead. So, I threw the ball situation also seemed to be a this case too. Children desper- to him. Then I found that I had synchronistic event in perfect ately need adults to listen to more than one ball, timing for use as an illustration them. so I threw him another. on working with children’s He then threw one to me. dreams. About a week later, I got another At first the dream seemed unre- The event stuck in my mind, chance to talk and this time, lis- lated to a theme for considering however, which wasn’t a good ten to the little girl. When I saw dream work with children. Then sign. I realized that I had got- her, I very quietly and confiden- 18 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Excerpted from came the realization that the the walls of a room is exploring Conscious, Unconscious, theme of the dream was play. feelings of being out of control. & Individuation Child’s play with dreams can be Children of all ages who dream Carl G. Jung: Collected Works 9i, talking, drawing, role play, any of seeing their secret unopened The Archetypes and the kind of activity that allows cre- birthday gifts are exploring feel- Collective Unconscious, paragraph 497 ative interaction around the ings of intuition. dream. If we get into the spirit As adults, if we are lucky, a child "The autonomy of the uncon- of play with children, we can’t may take a chance and share a scious therefore begins where go wrong. As it’s been said in dream with us. If we’re careful, many different contexts, play is emotions are generated. we get to play. How wonderful a child’s work. So, if we play a Emotions are instinctive, to know that if we get asked to child’s game of dreams, then involuntary reactions which play, we can be assured that the we’re “working” with children. child wants us to be on his or upset the rational order of Thinking of my recent one sided her team. Being on the same consciousness by their conversation with the little team means that we don’t need elemental outbursts. dreamer, I realized that I hadn’t to be the manager and develop Affects are not "made" or been invited to play. Children dream interpretations or teach willfully produced; they simply take charge of their play. In or- any lessons. As fellow team- happen. In a state of affect, a der to work with children, we mates we can avoid the compe- trait of character sometimes need to get into their world in tition of many other games and appears which is strange even which invitations are important, thoroughly enjoy a lasting and taking turns is on their terms, warm camaraderie. to the person concerned, or rule changes are abrupt, and hidden contents may erupt So, what’s this child’s play all there is plenty of give and take. involuntarily. The more violent about? It’s about helping chil- My dream was a reminder that dren to develop positive traits an affect the closer it comes a dream can become something like self-assurance, responsibil- to the pathological, to a like the ball in my dream. The ity, honesty, courage and ma- condition in which the ego-con- dream can be tossed around, turity just to name just a few. sciousness is thrust aside by hidden, kept away from the It’s about providing tools for liv- autonomous contents that other person, and then even ing and growing through dream- were unconscious before. thrown back to the other per- sharing. The added bonus is So long as the unconscious is son. For children, the dream, that if we have suffered as chil- like the ball, is the object of fo- dren, we get a chance to revisit in a dormant condition, it cus, not the players. some of our own emotions seems as if there were abso- The dreams do their own work through play. Dreamwork with lutely nothing in this hidden offering wonderful opportunities children may be child’s play, but region. Hence we are continu- for growth and self understand- it isn’t necessarily easy. We need ally surprised when something ing. The seven-year-old boy who to play on their terms. If we do, unknown suddenly appears dreams of his dog that recently they may want to keep us on "from nowhere." Afterwards, of died is exploring feelings of grief. their team. If we don’t, we ma course, the psychologist The ten year old girl who dreams y not be allowed to play. If that comes along and shows that of her own super hero as the happens, fortunately we can caped, flying “eye man” is ex- turn to our own dreams, do things had to happen as they ploring feelings of power. The some of our own dreamwork, did for this or that reason. But hyperactive 12 year old who and hopefully get another chance who could have said so before- dreams that he is bouncing off to get back into the game. ∞ hand?"

Contact Arthur Strock via emial @ [email protected] Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 19 The boy whowhoThe flew alonealoneflew Ansayre Wiseman

The boy sitting next to me in the bulkhead of the 707 was nine years old and scared. His name was Tommy. He said he’d had a dream that the plane might crash and asked if he could hold my hand.

“Of course,” I said. “I’m going to visit my Dad he lives in Oregon.” “I’m also going to Oregon to see my son, it’s a nice state.” “Yes but I don’t like to fly there.“ Have you done it many times?” I asked. “Yes,” he said “but this is the first time alone without my Mom.”

I’m interested in dreams,” I said. “They tell us about our worries and fears and I think it is good to talk about worries and fears. It’s also good to remember that the Pilot probably has a family with kids and wants this flight to be safe so he can go home to his children.”

“I hadn’t thought of that,” he said. “I wrote a book about dreams with the help of kids like you, Tommy, They drew their nightmares so we could look at what they are afraid of. The dreamer is usually the victim, so we tried to think of a way to help that scared part of the dreamer that was in the picture. Can you draw yourself in the airplane?’ “OK”

So Tommy drew himself in the airplane and he was so little and scared that I asked him to make a bigger image of himself so he could hold it in his hand.

“Ask that scared part of you what would help him feel less afraid” “Well talking with you helps,” he said “OK, Ask him what he could do instead of worrying, what would make him/you feel happy?” “If my friend Molly was here, maybe we could sit on a cloud and look down at all the tiny people and cars.” “Can you draw that; you and Molly sitting on a cloud?” “Yes I can”

And that is how Tommy got to Oregon alone without his mother. ∞

20 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Dreaming Humanity’s Path Protect the Children During this Period of Trial & Crisis

I see myself taking the children to a safe place— some sort of community—during a period of crisis. I don’t know who these children are... but there are always many of them.

It’s as if there is going to be a time of trial and I know I have to keep the children safe so they’ll be able to take their places as leaders when the trial period is over.

Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 21 DestinyDestinyDestiny Dreaming Planet Reflections on Dreams in a Transitional Age and DreamsDreamsand PART THREE

by Paco Mitchell

As I reflect on destiny and just as much an object of his per- I find myself squarely at odds with dreams, I think about how often ception as he was of mine. In a much of what my culture holds to matters of importance turn on points word, he was aware of me. be “real” and “unreal.” I might have so small as to pass virtually unno- come to the same conclusion in any This was a bit of a shock, since I ticed. I recall, for example, the first case, without that dream, yet the had naïvely assumed that the time I experienced the truth of Jung’s fact remains that the dream — small dreams I was so assiduously record- profound insight that the psyche has as it was — inaugurated a new point ing, and the figures that populated an objective reality quite indepen- of view, like opening a window onto them, were always the objects of dent of the conscious personality. He the cosmos. And that dream still re- my perceptual awareness, but never calls this the “reality of the objec- verberates for me to this day. the reverse. Suddenly I had to ad- tive psyche.” mit that I was not the only witness How can we possibly discern the pat- I had been studying Jung and dreams in the dream: I too was being ob- terns of destiny in our dreams, if we for about a year, when one night I served. have not had some convincing ex- dreamed: I am looking across a cor- perience of the “reality of the ob- This insight, repeated on other oc- ridor at an unknown man who is jective psyche”? For without such a casions, came to inform my outlook peering around a corner, looking di- premise, and the experience on on dreams. I was forced to give new rectly back at me. End of dream. which it is based, we are like a dog respect, greater credence and au- Period. The dream was so truncated, chasing its tail. Recognizing no au- tonomy to the people and creatures, so minimal, that I was tempted not tonomous “Other” in ourselves, we situations and dilemmas, of the to bother writing it down. I had are left with only the ego to account mysterious world I entered every plenty of other images to record and for dreams, which are reduced to a night as I slept. Dreams — so ponder. And yet there was something by-product of consciousness, as in readily dismissed as ephemeral uncanny and fascinating about this Freud’s theory of dreams as a “rub- nonsense — were taking on sub- bizarre wisp of a dream, and it kept bish bin” of repression. We may as stance, acquiring a strange kind of pulling me back into its curious well just ask ourselves what our des- reality. “space.” What was it? Finally I real- tiny is, take the answer at face ized what the strange effect was: The Over the decades this experience value, and get on with it. Many are man really was looking at me. I was has so affected my world-view that content to live like this: the ego

22 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 leading the ego ad infinitum, ad nau- they are both well ahead of her seam. they stop, raise their heads, turn around and look directly at her. But to experience the Otherness of It is as if they are saying to her: the objective psyche — provided we “Well, are you going can stoop low enough to admit it — to follow us or not?” opens up possibilities for deepened insight. When we recognize the ego Seeking the course of destiny re- for the small island that it is, we may quires, as Jung put it, that we “fol- discover some of the profound hints low the deeper currents of libido” — that wash up on the beaches of our autonomous psychic forces that re- sleep every morning, in the note- veal themselves in dreams, much like stuffed bottles of dreams. the two snakes above. The dreamer happens to be a Doctor of Oriental “Other” is a deliberately neutral term. Medicine. Could the two snakes wait- But we could just as easily say “God,” ing for her have anything to do with “Fate,” the “Great Spirit,” “the God- the ancient symbol of the Caduceus, dess,” “Wisdom” or any number of the staff of Hermes, emblem of the terms for that which exceeds our un- healing professions? Possibly. The derstanding and stands for the cre- two intertwined snakes of the Cadu- ative principle of the universe and of ceus certainly resonate with the heal- life. But “Other” has the virtue of ing tradition of Kundalini, whose ser- modesty, humility and accuracy. With pent energy runs up and down the it we acknowledge our ignorance be- two spinal pathways, activating the fore this great mystery. chakras. But even if there is a corre- The autonomous psyche is an an- spondence between those traditions cient, universal experience. Only re- and her dream snakes, it is not as an ancient symbol but as living en- cently have we stripped the world of Fortunately, the various dream- ergies in her psyche and body that its soul and its spirits, consigning guides who appear from time to they tacitly speak to her. They invite what is left of the soul to the con- time — no matter how frightening her to follow their lead, calling her stricted chambers of our heads or or strange they may seem to us — perhaps even beyond her profession. bodies, where it undergoes its final form part of our larger nature. We reduction into mere brain chemistry If she can overcome the fear they may gather hints from other or — the new panacea — “DNA.” naturally evoke, and follow them, people, or try to imitate them, but in the final analysis we ourselves Yet the ancient truths still percolate then she may become a “healer” in contain the pattern and embody the as merrily as ever in the cauldron of the deepest possible sense: not just mystery of the greater Whole. the soul: the dreaming psyche. There as one who skillfully practices an an- cient tradition of medicine — she has we can still find what is so painfully And I believe that as we arrive at already accomplished that brilliantly and tragically lacking in our machine- this deeper self-knowledge, we — but as one who has attained the world today: a sense of inborn pur- thereby reflect back to the origi- far more difficult goal of becoming a pose and meaning — a destiny — nating cosmos a significant piece whole person. We should keep re- given with our nature and implicit in of its own essence. In the process minding ourselves that the words the realization of who we truly are, we not only validate our own exist- “heal,” “health” and “whole” all de- not who society tells us we should be. ence, we also validate the cosmos rive from the same etymological root. itself, and its fourteen-billion-year A friend of mine recently told me a quest for conscious life.∞ dream: One at a time, then, and aggregated over the years, dream images ulti- She is walking along a path mately show us who we are, who we through the woods. Two large have always been, and the paths we snakes overtake her on the same must follow if we are to approach the path, moving past her with a curi- transcendent mystery of the Self. ous, un-serpentine motion. When Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 23 The Art of DreamSharing & Dream Education my thoughts. It also taught me that I am the thinker and that I choose my LucidLucid Dreaming:Dreaming: thoughts. They don’t choose me. I had forgotten this teaching however, A MetaphorMetaphorA and twenty years later I had a terrifying “lucid” dream. The usual for Awakening the Spiritual Self definition for lucid dreams is that you realize you are dreaming while you By Gloria Nye, B.A., N.L.P. are dreaming. I don’t know what else to call this experience other than a hen I was a very small child, I remember my older sister asking my W lucid dream, however, I did not think father a question. “How do I know my dream world isn’t the real I was dreaming, it was real! Or world and this one is just a dream?” My father was a thoughtful man certainly felt real. I was fully and pondered seriously for a long moment before answering. “That is a very conscious with complete physical good question and if you keep asking yourself that, you will discover which beingness. world is real.” I was fascinated by this non answer. For more than fifty years I have been asking myself my sister’s question and it was lucid dreaming that I am standing in the middle of a gave me my answer. turbulent ocean. I am terrified and wonder how I got there and what I The quest for what is real is universal. I too have searched for my reality and am doing there. I immediately think purpose through questions like, “Why am I here? Why me? How do I find this is impossible and that I need to God, if there even is one?” I have learned that there are many ways to the stand on something. Instantly there soul and one of them is the way of the dream. Most religions relate—as part is a plank under my feet. I am of their origins—prophetic dreams as messages from God. The dream world teetering on it and my mind cries is similar to the spiritual world in that you can’t prove either exists. Dream out for something to hold onto! researchers can attach electrodes to your head and show that the visual Again, instantly there is a railing cortex is activated in a particular state of sleep which we call dreaming... but attached to the board which I cling what is a dream? What is a spiritual experience? The more you try to define to. There is no land in sight and I these, the more you lose their essence. That is why we have poetry, music, am still in great concern for my and art; to explain the unexplainable. physical safety. Where is the land? I Where do dreams and soul fit into our modern technological, super scientific, ask myself and immediately a sandy cyberspaced age? Ironically, the more material and scientific we become, the shore appears about 100 metres in more the pendulum seem to swing the other way. There is now a great yearning front of me. I gently drift into shore for the spirit, and a growing interest in dreams is more and more evident. and step onto the sand. Random chance is now called meaningful synchronicity. Both dreams and Then I awaken into this reality. It spirituality are coming back into fashion. As the interest in dreams heighten, wasn’t like waking up but more like people start to wonder about “real” or lucid dreams and what they mean. changing focus from one place to I had my first lucid dream as a young woman. In my dream... another. I was startled as I lay there wondering what had just happened. I am sitting in a meadow looking at a clump of wildflowers. They are swaying back and forth and I am swaying in time with them. I decide to try Over the next few years I read something. I think happy and loving thoughts and the flowers bloom and everything I could about lucid or grow in front of me. Then I think hateful and fearful thoughts and the waking dreams. At the same time— flowers droop and wilt before my eyes. I return to the positive thoughts coincidentally?—I was also realizing and the flowers bloom again. I sit there for some time playing and honoring my spiritual self and with this idea, amazed at the immediate response feeling more connected to the source of these living organisms to my thoughts. of my being. It is impossible to label I awaken, remembering this vivid dream which was so startlingly real. I some experiences. I only know that write in my Dream Journal and draw pictures of the flowers. As I am doing as I adventured to my “higher/inner this, I realize I was being shown that my thoughts influence my reality. I also self, God, soul, source, divine.... I was know that my thoughts are not me. I am the thinker of these thoughts and I also experiencing more “lucid” can choose which thoughts to think. I entitled this dream “Flower Thoughts” dreams. Both of these experiences and it helped me greatly in knowing that I can change my reality if I change were mystifying to me. How could I 24 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 exist in a strictly three dimensional intention and attention. There are "Once upon a time, I, Chuang- physical world and in the next many waking worlds and many tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, moment experience a transforming dreaming worlds. My older sister, who flittering hither and thither, spiritual “out of world” state? Also, had asked my father so many years to all intents and purposes how could I go to sleep at night and ago if dreams or waking life were real, wake up in another real world and in recently passed into the spirit world. a Butterfly. an eye blink be back in my bed again? It is through the gift of dreams that Suddenly I awoke! Now I do not Once I even consciously switched my sister and I can visit one another, know whether I was then a man back and forth between the waking and for me to know without any doubt dreaming I was a butterfly, or world and dreaming world, both as that she is alive and well. We laugh real as one another. I wondered if together knowing that the dream whether I am now a butterfly these dreaming experiences could be world is indeed as real as the waking dreaming I am a man." a metaphor for my waking life. As I world. I also know that my spiritual Chuang-tzu Chinese philosopher was learning to wake up in my world is as real, if not more so, as ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ dreams, was I learning to wake up in that of my physical world. Call it my "A Dream is a revelation. my waking life? I could well ask which imagination, or unscientific, or If a dream affords the dreamer waking life was the real one, physical whatever you want. All I know is that some light on himself, it is not the or spiritual. I am sure if I asked my the more I awaken in my dreams, the person with closed eyes who makes father he would have told me to keep more I awaken in my waking life to the discovery, but the person with asking and discover it for myself. the spiritual being I am. Indeed I did just that. open eyes, lucid enough to fit Now when people tell me to face thoughts together. Dreams— scin- It was from these lucid dream reality. I smile and ask, “Which one?” tillating mirage surrounded by experiences that I concluded we do I take turns facing them all as I shadows—are essentially POETRY." not live in one world. There are many continue with this great adventure of Michel Leiris (1901-90) realities, depending on our focus, living and dreams. ∞ French anthropologist, author Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 25

Dream Related

Little Suzy ©Jerry Shippee

26 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Poetic Cartoonery

Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 27 Bones,Bones,Bones, Dreams andandDreams the FutureFuturethe A DialogueDialogueA

Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell

In a recent issue of Dream Network riod of ancient and classical civiliza- Journal (Vol. 26 #3 and #4), tions, persisting even into modern Russell Lockhart, in his column times. It is only recently that techno- “Dreams in the News,” described a logical incursions have penetrated the dream that pictured him making a deepest reaches of the furthest out- “dreamgourd” and specially marked posts, threatening the last remnants stones to be used in casting I Ching of Neolithic culture. What especially hexagrams in relation to dreams. impressed me was the author’s insis- His fellow columnist in these pages, tence on the model of the self-sus- Paco Mitchell, responded to his taining Neolithic village as a viable article in an email and this has led alternative for human survival during to an on-going dialogue between the post- technozoic future—if there these two old friends. is to be any future for us. Their em- They felt their exchange phasis was on an appropriately eco- might be of interest to readers of logical scale of human presence Here the two halves of the Dream Network Journal within, and as members of, what they Dreamgourd are placed together call the “Earth Community.” But an- Paco Mitchell: I just re-read your ar- other aspect of appropriateness was ticle for the fifth or sixth time. A couple the bedrock recognition that humans of associations came to me, the re- participate in and depend on cosmic sult of recently having read a book forces to which we are all subject. As by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry one example of this recognition, they called, The Universe Story. The book cited the “throwing of bones” as char- tells the story of the universe, from acteristic of that original, primordial the original fireball (which they call and natural religious attitude. Once the “flaring forth”) to the present day. the bones leave the human hand, they Why should this book have stimulated become subject to the laws and pat- any associations to your I Ching gourd terns governing the universe, with all dream? Bear with me. They discuss the invisible interconnections of the slow development of the Lower chance and necessity pertaining and Upper Paleolithic culture, followed thereto. by the relatively rapid inventions of Russell Lockhart: I can certainly at- the Neolithic period. They pointed out Here, the Dreamgourd is open to reveal the Dreamstones with elemental trigrams and test to the numinous quality of the that Neolithic villages have provided the Dreambowl that holds the dream written dream, filled as it was with that qual- a pattern for human survival and de- out and rolled into a scroll. The dream I ity of something other, as well as velopment for many thousands of shared in DN Vol. 26 No. 3, pgs. 30, 31 will be originating in some other geography years, enduring throughout the pe- the focus in consulting the oracle. than my usual consciousness. And 28 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 having made the dreamgourd, and in in the dream you refer to, was now using it in my practice with gourd shaped; Second, that the dreams, I can say that its very exist- strange feelings in my fingers as I ence calls forth a palpable religious was making the dreamgourd were dimension. But what, more specifi- echoes of the feeling in the cave cally, was your association? dream when I touched the walls of the cave and could feel the markings dreamgourd PM: Simply, that your there that turned out to be an un- and the “new” oracular technique that known language. Both dreams had went with it—insofar as they were that amazing sense of “task” about both original, spontaneous products them to which there was no saying of the dreamworld, rather than prod- no. In that dream, the “fire” that ucts of your conscious recall, inten- came from my fingertips enabled me tion, or cryptomnesia—point back to to see. and simultaneously draw upon the PM: Swimme and Berry make the most ancient, primordial sources of Here, the hexagram has been cast and the human creativity. This is to suggest, fixed and changing lines determined. point that “the controlled use of fire according to my intuition, that the The final determination is recorded on the is the first extensive control of the creative activity of humans, from the Dreamscroll. This was the first casting. human over a powerful natural force earliest Paleolithic, through the with almost unlimited possibilities Neolithic, all the way to the present that would be associated with human and into the foreseeable future, development over the centuries. To- comes about in large measure as a gether with the shaping of wooden result of dreaming. Your dream with and stone implements, fire becomes its gourd, stones and oracular tech- the primordial humanly controlled nique, participates in that amazing, technology.” panoramic tradition, and even as it RL: I can tell you that the “awe” I points to the past, it also points to experienced in that dream when I the future. rubbed my fingertips together, “re- The Dreamstones lying in the Dreamgourd RL: Part of the numinous quality of membering” I could make fire that the dream for me was in the experi- way, must have been something like ence of this enduring stream of hu- those early experiences of humans man history, not so much as some- beginning to control fire. In many thing long ago and long forgotten and ways it is the origin of what we mean perhaps remembered only when ar- by technology. So much is hidden in chaeologists and anthropologists un- this word we no longer hear, but prob- earth bones, open hidden caves, and ably need to, because it gets to the expose artifacts of these early cul- roots of what these early experiences tures; but, as a living reality in the were and which we can once again depths of the psyche of a person alive have access to. That sense of techné today in this world. And I mean this A closeup of the Dreamscroll in its holder as “art,” as “weaving,” as “text” and not as an idea or concept, but as an in the earliest sense, as “becoming.” the dream and image] and later, when experience of that reality. Some One might say that when humans I read about the gourd dream, I im- dreams are able to “go there” and learned the art of fire, they became mediately associated it with the fire “bring to us” an awareness of this human. The sad thing is that we have dream and with the above reflections. “past” which, as you say, points to lost so much of the sense of this; They seemed to belong together. the future. What was your second as- what is hopeful though, is that these sociation? RL: I did not immediately associate “root” experiences are still available the two dreams. But when I worked to us, and most especially through The second association comes PM: on the etymology of the first dreaming. from your cave-fingertips-fire dream. hexagram I cast in using the PM: We can see that the intelligence I recently re-visited your web page, dreamgourd, I realized two things: behind Paleolithic and Neolithic [see http://www.ralockhart.com for The first was that the cave that I was Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 29 oracular practices was refined during will be as monumental for our fate as ily breached, like the wad of clay with the early centuries of Chinese civili- the discovery of fire was in the early which the Egyptians sealed their zation into the magnificent edifice of days of our becoming human. tombs to determine if the tomb had the I Ching. That intelligence, that been violated or not. I also note the PM: Well, this fits with something else “art.” still percolates in the modern Celtic tradition of the “silkie,” a crea- that Thomas Berry brings out in his psyche—in your dream—possibly ture part man, part seal, capable of book, Dreams of the Earth. He says showing us ways out of our current shuttling between the human world that in coming to terms with the plan- impasse—ghastly as it is. I know of cultural codes and the larger, ani- etary crisis we need to create a new mal-cosmic world of genetic codes that’s a lot to expect of a dreamgourd cultural coding which we can do only (via dreams or visions). I remember with stones in it, something so simple, by reaching far into the past, beyond your telling me a dream in which you so primitive, so... spooky. But it seems the old cultural codes which have encountered a seal which told you to me that further degrees of techni- brought us to the brink of devasta- “the answers,” but which upon wak- cal prowess are not really what we tion. We must, he says, make con- ing you could not remember. And then need, so much as a re-connection to tact with our genetic coding and, out the following night, in the dark, walk- something more basic in our being. of that, bring forth a new vision of ing along the beach, you tripped over how to live on the earth. In my opin- RL: Too often, I think, this yearning a washed up dead seal, and you sat ion, dreams such as yours, which re- gets pictured as a romantic “return down with it and tried to remember. to the past,” when I do not believe veal “the answers,” are trying to pull RL: Essentially everything I’ve done that is the impulse at all in something us back to Berry’s genetic coding, to like the dreamgourd. No, it is more the very source of those creative since that dream and that encounter like recovering something we have “spontaneities” as he calls them, with the seal has been trying to re- lost because we will need it to find which alone can bring us back into member what I was told and to bring our way into a sustainable future. I alignment with the evolutionary de- it forth. believe this happens one person at a velopment of the universe. PM: I think of silkies as symbolizing time, and that the telling of these RL: It seems to me a new angle on the daemon of what Berry calls the experiences to one another is the Eros what Jung was saying in his letter to “shamanic personality,” which he says that can “spark” a fire in the psyche Herbert Read: “We have simply got is exactly what we need if we are to from one to another. With the possi- to listen to what the psyche sponta- bridge the chasm between where we bility of everyone in the world being neously says to us. What the dream, are and where we need to be. In this connected via the Internet, such a which is not manufactured by us, says sense, I regard dreams such as yours “global village” of shared experience is just so.” The dream would be one as “shamanic.” of these lost things is becoming more way in which the “new code” would RL: That is easily taken the wrong and more possible. The terrible frag- come to us. And... note what else way, of course. I think the way I can Jung says here: “it is the great dream mentations and polarities loose in the agree with you is to say that we do world now are presaging a momen- which has always spoken through the not need to seek a shaman in some- tous enantiodromia, a reversal, that artist as mouthpiece. All his love and one else, but the shamanic potential I believe will form the basis of the new passion (his “values”) flow towards in each of us. paradigm of consciousness that the the coming guest to proclaim his ar- recovery of our lost soul (which is rival.” In this sense, the coming guest PM: Far from being an occasion for what dreams are) will make possible. would be the “new code” Berry is try- ego-inflation, the shamanic poten- All the old calendrical systems, includ- ing to get us to see the urgency of. tial—when lived—actually brings a ing the I Ching (which is also a calen- Imagine what might happen if dreams sense of responsibility. That’s how dar), as well as the science of cre- were welcomed in this spirit! Maybe you’ve responded to your dreams— not today, but someday, it will hap- ative epochs, all point to 2012, as a ever since I’ve known you, actually. time point of this “end” of what we pen. It’s not about flying off on a broom- now experience as human conscious- PM: Knowledge of the answers, in stick. When you say—“the shamanic ness. So, no Paco, I think you are other words, lies “sealed” within the potential in each of us”—you bring it right, that something like the dream- back down to earth. By the way, your gourd dream is the very “stuff” of human, the only barrier between us image of dreams being “rediscovered” re-connection, the fabric of it, the and that knowledge is the boundary on a wide scale, is intriguing. I hope weaving of it, the art of it, the tech- between consciousness and the nology of it. The eventual “discov- dream. As you know, in spite of our you’ll say more about that. ery”—or actually, rediscovery—of general resistance to dreams (our RL: Yes, that would be a good place dreams (which has only just begun) cultural coding), that boundary is eas- for us to begin in the next issue. ∞ 30 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Book Review by David Sparenberg

In Spielberg’s film Amistad, actor which the insubstantial dreams is- Anthony Hopkins, playing John sue. One pair of gates is made of Quincy Adams, makes a closing iron and one of ivory. Those of the speech before the Supreme Court, dreams which issue through the saying, among other things, that gates of sawn ivory, these are de- “we are who we have been.” For ceptive dreams, their message is those of us born into the con- never accomplished. But those that tinuum of Western Civilization, come into the open through the Homer is an ancestor and one of gates of the polished horn accom- the sages of culture who has con- plish the truth for any mortal who tributed to the self knowledge and sees them. I do not think that this direction of generations. strange dream that I had came to me through this gate. My son and David Sparenberg By way of introduction to any un- familiar with the tale, the Odys- I would be glad if it did so.” sey, is the perennial story of the (McCrorie) ”Dreams can be use- THE ODYSSEY human voyage into lives unknown less, my guest, and endlessly baf- and perilously experienced... sub- fling. Surely they don’t all end for by Homer, sequently undertaking the inevi- people as clear fact. Our dreams translated by Edward McCrorie table even more difficult and dan- move like shadows through either with an introduction gerous journey homeward, to the of two gates, one of them made of by Richard P. Martin, place of origin and far circling re- horn, the other of ivory. Those that Johns Hopkins University Press, turn. A journey involved in what pass through the well-sawn ivory paper, 418pp, $17. may not be wholly of the body, but gateway tend to be guileful, the which is universally intimate to the words they carry are empty. Those For several adult decades, with immortal soul. Moreover, Ody- however that pass through the time ever scurrying along, Hom- sseus—hero of the grand, roman- gateway of polished horn can bring ers Odyssey has been among my tic epic—is the quintessential sur- you truth, when a human can see favorite reads. Having little Greek vivor, the one who uses protean that. My frightening dream, I think, and scarcely more Latin, my intelligence and inner resourceful- was not from the polished horn. Homer has been limited to English ness to overcome each and every How welcome to me and my child versions. This is not much of a re- adversity. if it had been.” gret, as I have been fortunate to Within the epic of the adventure In this instance, however, with her live at a time when there are ex- of human wandering—of going conscious mind clouded by the cellent and accurate English Hom- forth and struggling to round the gloom of despair, what Penelope ers. Among my best loved are the circle—are two particular experi- thinks is incorrect. The dream she Odysseys of Richmond Lattimore ences of sheer amazement and related and here comments on did and Robert Fitzgerald, with Latti- potential interest for readers. First, indeed come from the gods, pass more winning the laurels. But now, for our purpose, the Odyssey con- through the gate of horn and will behind the interesting streamlined tains one of the earliest records of emerge as waking reality... soon. version by Stanley Lombardo, reflection on the origin and inter- there comes a new Homer ren- Earlier in Odysseus’ sojourn, in pretation of dreams, the so called dered into our native tongue by Book 11, the reader will have trav- Dream of the Geese from Book 19. Edward McCrorie. McCrorie’s eled with the hero in a proto- I will indulge my love by quoting Homer has yet to replace either shamanic journey to the under- both from Lattimore and McCrorie Lattimore or Fitzgerald with me, world, to find and speak with the the lines where Odysseus’ wife, but it is a good Odyssey, worthy departed blind seer, Teiresies; the Penelope, addresses her husband, of its predecessors, possessed of same Teiresies who will appear on disguised as a homeless beggar... an exceptional introduction and the boards in the immortal trag- back after twenty years of suffer- notes by Professor Richard Martin edies of Sophocles. And there is ing hardship. The Queen speaks: of Stanford University. While yet an experiential relationship, a link, to utterly capture my heart, this (Lattimore) ”My friend, dreams between these passages of en- version is appreciated as a wel- are things hard to interpret, hope- counter in the land of the dead and comed opportunity to meet a fa- less to puzzle out, and people find those relating to dreams. That link miliar friend and relive his arche- that not all of them end in any- is prophecy and prophecy in Homer typal story anew. thing. There are two gates through (Continued on page 40) Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 31 Animal Motifs in DreamsDreamsin

by Frances Ring

“To reconnect to the animal, we must become aware of the animals in the psyche, the animal psyche, the animal in things, the animal in art, in words, in poems, in dreams, the animal that lies between us and the other.” Russell Lockhart in Dream Network Journal, 1993, p. 36

T h e The CriaturaCriaturaCriatura,,, Jung often speaks of the Our Inner Wildlife “When we lose touch with devotion of animals and of how the instinctive psyche (i.e. much nearer they live to their true According to Dr. Estes, there is a wild our natural capacities, abili- nature than we do. He also observes and natural creature who dwells ties and deep sense of self), that if we are to follow the way of within every woman. This criatura, we live in a semi-destroyed nature, we would quite naturally come then, is that essential part of our in- state and images and pow- to our law of being. (Jung cited in nermost selves that is able “to live a ers that are natural to the Hannah, 1992, p. 57). As noted ear- natural life from a place of integrity, feminine psyche are not al- lier, animal figures in dreams are say- vitality and healthy boundaries.” lowed full development. ing something about our natural, in- (Estes, 1992, p. 8) The criatura for When a woman is cut away stinctual selves; they are speaking to Estes is the Wild Woman archetype. from her basic source, she the condition of our libido or psychic It is that fundamental and universal is sanitized and her instincts energy. They are addressing the state pattern of instinctual energy and in- and natural life cycles are our inner wildlife nature. tuitive knowingness that allows lost, subsumed by the cul- women to remember who they are ture or by the intellect or the Furthermore, as noted by Dr. Signell, and what they are about. Moreover, ego—one’s own or those be- animal images in our dreams are im- says Estes, it is “a force that women longing to others.”(op. cit., p. 10) ages of the natural potentials within cannot live without.” (ibid.) I believe and of our “original wholeness.” They that it is this same force, deep within Within the context of Estes’ Wild often represent some aspect of our the psyche, which spontaneously im- Woman archetype, I am proposing feeling life that we may have lost con- prints itself within our animal dream that the Wild Woman often sends her tact with, as well as the intuitive abili- images. It is this same animal/hu- animal familiars, allies and guides ties and wisdom that we have lost in man/divine soul force within the femi- along to us in our dreams to repre- becoming too conscious. To the de- nine psyche that animates our inner sent her spirit, her soul and her an- gree that the roots of human mythol- wildlife nature. cient, natural beingness. It is my con- ogy extend deep into the paleolithic tention that befriending our animal Dr. Estes goes on to present a pro- past, one special role of animals dream figures, be they beast or our vocative portrait of the wounding con- seems to be to embody specific as- own familiar, companion animals, sequences of losing that connective- pects of the human soul—literally, serves to reconnect us with our pre- ness and abandoning our inner wild- symbolically and spiritually (Larsen, viously neglected or threatened in- life nature. She observes that, 1990, p. 150). ner, wildlife nature. They empower us 32 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 to access the healing energies, emo- healing power and potential. The at- tions and vitality of our wild woman/ tention we give to our animal images natural heritage. The animal images and the relationship we develop with Lucid Waking in our dreams help us to remember them can only serve to enhance and Using Dreamwork Principles ourselves and point a way to our deepen our conscious connection with to Transform Your Waking Life wholeness. our inner wildlife nature as a whole. by Zoé Newman Animal Motifs As Jungian Barbara Hannah observes, “As a general rule there is... some- Lucid Waking's innovative exercises... In the Jungian tradition, “dreams may thing relaxing or reassuring in dream- creative new possibilities. present and even be structured by ing about an animal, though of course specific motifs from the mythological this depends upon the context; but Lucid Waking applies dreamwork storehouse of (human)kind.” (Whit- one often gets the feeling of a return approaches to the waking dream mont and Perera, 1989, p. 79) to nature and of being reunited to of our life to help you find insight, As universal themes, these are the something very healing.” (Hannah, transform conflict, and explore archetypal images which are expres- 1992, p. 55) new possibilities. sive of basic and “symbolic ordering patterns of transpersonal creative To reclaim this sense of connection “One of the most exciting things powers” which have been expressed to nature and to our own instinctual I’ve read about dreamwork ever.” nature, as well as to reunite with and celebrated down through the —Tallulah Lyons, author of Dream Prayers ages in ritual, art and folklore (ibid). deep, healing forces, we can turn to $24.95, 249pp. spiral bound Thus, animal motifs constellate the animal images and motifs in our around the basic, energetic pattern dreams. Indeed, “Animals are our old- Order on the web: of the animal archetype. Each motif est teachers, as well as ‘relatives’. “ worlddreamspeacebridge.org/books/books2.htm is viewed as expressing a different (Larsen, 1990, p. 150) or email [email protected] facet of the one archetype. As Frances Vaughan notes, “The fact that dreams reflect events in the ex- Estes, C. P. (1992). Women Who Run Accordingly, it is not sufficient to think ternal world should not obscure the with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of of the animal image in our dreams as fact that they also constantly moni- the Wild Woman Archetype. representative of the entire instinc- tor the inner life of the psyche and New York: Ballantine. tual nature. Rather, each animal give us insight into the state of our... Whitmont, E. C. (1982). Return of the God- speaks to a specific aspect, with re- health.” (Vaughan, 1985, p. 160) gard to the characterization or qual- dess. New York: Crossroad. ity that defines the essence of the I believe that the animal motifs in our Whitmont, E. C. & Perera, S. B. (1989). animal. dreams reflect back to us the condi- Dreams, a Portal to the Source. tion of our inner wildlife. In their par- New York: Routeledge. If we are not to miss an important ticular imaged form, quality and af- Hannah, B. (1981). Encounters with the message, we must consider the par- fect, they provide symbolic and en- Soul. Boston: Sigo press. ticular quality, kind of affect or instinc- ergetic links between our conscious Hannah, B. (1992). The cat, dog and horse tual energy that is attempting to and unconscious selves. Quoting lectures and the beyond. reach consciousness in the form, Lockhart, they reveal the “animals Wilmette, IL: Chiron. characteristics and behaviors of a coming, animals watching, animals Larsen, S. (1990). The Mythic Imagination. particular dream animal in both its speaking, animals wanting to lead us, New York: Bantam. positive and negative aspects. For animals undergoing all manner of Vaughan, F. (1982). The transpersonal per- example, if a cunning fox shows up transformation” within the human spective: a personal overview. Journal of in our dreams, it will say something psyche. (Lockhart in Dream Network transpersonal psychology, 14 (1), reprint. qualitatively different than a fleet Journal. 1993, p. 36) ∞ Vaughan, F. (1985). The Inward Arc. horse, a roaring lion, a laughing dol- References: Boston: Shambhala. phin or a captured mouse about the Vaughan, F. & Walsh, R. (1986). Interview Lockhart, R. (1993). In Dream Network condition of our inner wildlife. In ad- (by E. Campbell). Cassette recording; Journal, V12 #1, pg. 36. dition, each animal image and differ- teaching module. Menlo Park, CA: Insti- Estes, C. P. (speaker). (1991). In the house ing animal motifs or themes bring tute of Transpersonal of the riddle mother. Boulder: Sounds their own unique essences of vitality, Psychology, External Program. True. Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 33 DreamsDreams ofof War:War: TheThe UnconsciousUnconscious CallCall toto InitiationInitiation

by James Lawrence (Flash) Harrington

At the time of this dream, I was a gung-ho “Doc” and the Navy wants strategy on how to hold the enemy; hospital corpsman in the United me to instruct the troops in the this refusal is taken as an act of States Naval Reserve being readied current strategy of how to “hold the total insubordination. Even though I for mobilization in the Persian Gulf enemy.” This is not actual Navy know of no life outside the uniform, conflict. What follows is an actual strategy but a dream phrase de- I refuse to participate in the Navy. I dream I had on July 9, 1990. I was scribing a core military practice. have taken an oath before God to given this dream for a purpose, and Deep inside I know that if I teach or serve the Navy but I cannot betray it has changed my life. It has offered support the Navy’s strategy on God in order to fulfill me spiritual and moral courage in holding the enemy, I will betray the the oath of service. speaking out for the necessity of very core of my spiritual being. So, finding alternatives to war. It has at the start of the dream I am I am depressed for weeks as I wait served as an initiation into social plunged into a crisis between my for the court martial and as I action against war in the Gulf and identity and my spiritual self. contemplate what has led me to into manhood. This dream tells me My mind asks why I can‘t follow this point, I realize the value of that even passive support for the this order and the answer comes models in our lives. I see in the war would mean betraying the in a vision of a mirage of military a rich array of models for image of God within myself and all personalities who make up the people to follow. I wonder what other beings. My hope in presenting chain of command, from petty model it is I am now following. this dream openly is that others will officers to Pentagon leaders to In the certainty of dream knowing, not fail to bring the depths of their elected officials. They all wear I know the answer to lie in a very spiritual lives to bear on the crisis outward clothes of warriorship but sick dog. This is a faithful spiritual that we now face. Politics without none have the inner qualities or guide dog of my past that is now so spiritual integrity will lead us down warriorship to allow them to hold sick that a sneeze alone may kill the path of unnecessary and the enemy properly. They are all him. This dog has been in my immoral wars. children with awesome outward dreams in the past ever since, as a power but no inner wisdom. None boy, I nearly drowned and nearly In the dream I know of no life are worthy to be followed. died in a river. The dog and I have outside the uniform I wear. I’m a I refuse to present the Navy a deep psychic connection.

34 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Touch Drawing™ by Deborah Koff Chapin pretending I didn’t see her. She spiritual kingship killed the Kennedys Military doctors and nurses are cannot stop me but she stops Ali. and King in mid-career, it was desperately trying to save the She points to me and tells Ali, “He catastrophic for men of that gener- dog. They know full well it is only is a teacher for this world and has ation.” It is now catas-trophic for my because the dog lives that they to stay.” They make generation as well. have power over me and the dog arrangements. My connection to The King embodies the spiritual and remains alive not because of their Ali is such that it is as if I am political aspects of leadership and his efforts but because I won’t let the making the arrangements. presence in society serves as a model dog go. But seeing him for younger men, helping them in such a desperate state This is the first time in the dream actualize their inner King potential. breaks my heart and I give the that I realize I have a life beyond Without this public model, the dog permission to die. the uniform I am forsaking. younger men wander in confusion as parts of them pale and sicken. It is At once I am plummeted into a Traveling back across the country, the classical problem of Hamlet, a depth of depression previously I look into the psyches of people. prince whose father has been mur- unknown. I know that I will soon Each person is wearing a huge dered. Loss of his father, the rightful follow the dog into death. sombrero with a video monitor on King, throws Hamlet into psychic the front. When the hats are Ten minutes before the court turmoil and plunges the kingdom into flapped up, I can see the ideals of martial, I decide to get a haircut. I war. This tells us the absence of the Star Trek playing across each want to end things in a proper king is an old and recurring problem. person’s mind. Then, at a speed manner. I leave the base looking that astounds me, the hats flap Without the king in public life, the for a haircut and realize what I really down and the monitors show spiritual component needed to guide want is initiation. I cross the country bombers and war films political action is overlooked, balance looking for a barbershop from reminiscent of the Vietnam era. A is lost and a kind of moral blindness Hawaii to Disneyland. Places that voice within tells me the ideals of results, meaning that a society can look like barbershops end up turning Star Trek are everlasting and are turn easily to violence as a way of out to be candyshops. Little time is the ideals I need to support and solving problems. left before the court martial, when not those of war. I suddenly “know” the place to get Without the King, the moral present a haircut is in Cambridge, Massa- is disrupted and a moral future is I wake to my roommate throwing chusetts, in an old Victorian house made doubtful because of the shadow me some keys and telling me to get in the middle of the great uni- cast on the development of younger to work. I say “This is my work,” versities there. I know of this house men. The dream’s message for me is and get up. Soon after, I realize I and know of some scissors in the that it is time to return the inner King am still asleep and decide to get up bathroom there. to his rightful place of authority in our “for real.” The dream is over. I begin to cut my own hair and lives and in this land. ∞ The dream had spoken a great truth have almost finished when I ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ notice over my left shoulder and I knew I must follow it. I needed to take a stand against the military where the dog has always been, a *(One month after the dream, Iraq and speak for the need to find strong fierce presence named Ali, invaded Kuwait.) a Muslim. His fierceness is alternatives to war. The dream surpassed only by his love and offers me moral courage in standing loyalty to God. I smile and he against a nation’s destructive war smiles. I know he is psychosis.* the sick dog reborn a man. In Iron John, Robert Bly writes, The woman of the house has “Men of the generation now 45 noticed me and I feel awkward, projected their undeveloped inner since I am a stranger here. I pull King on Jack Kennedy—who spoke up my pants (which have been openly of Camelot—Martin Luther down while I was cutting my hair) King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. When This article is reprinted with permission and decide to leave the house forces in America opposed to from Men’s Council Journal, Issue 8 .

Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 35 The End?End?The .... or the Beginning⇑

by Jeff Lewis

From Parnassus to the bottom When I get down to the house to fin- believe possible, in fact it is a basis of of Lake Superior (1/22/2008) ish my work on this dream, however, my dreamwork. It is also very hard I feel little evidence my work has to handle because difficult to see or I have very troubling dreams this helped. Yes, I will make it through the extract from the completely personal night. As I describe them in the morn- day, but painfully, driven largely by level language of the dreams. But, if ing in my journal, I experience a great the fear sourced somewhere in these a person is to do Orphic power and deal of fear. Though the dreams are dreams. In fact, I feel so much fear governing work on a global scale then very scary in and of themselves, I can this day, I do something I almost the ability to feel, recognize and make no specific personal connections never do: spend nearly the whole day handle such extra-personal feelings to them to explain the fear. Halfway on the dreams trying to get a handle is absolutely necessary. on the fear. through my description, I take a break Here are the core dreams, depicting for a run up the Marsh Road and back I describe the dream in as much de- this panic from my second descrip- with the dogs, then up to the top of tail as possible twice over the course tion of it: the hill behind my house, “Parnassus” of the day. The second time, I begin In the first dream I am in a house in my illuminated dream landscape, to make some progress. The entire struck twice by B-52 bombers. The so I can dream about/study that great time, I am engaged in this project, house is one I grew up in back in mythical site knowingly. the radio is on with constant updates northern Illinois. The B-52s fly in on the stock market. The market is At the top of Parnassus I take off my incredibly low, almost like the plane very jittery after world markets plum- coat and shirt, sit for a moment in that hit the Pentagon on 9/11. The meted yesterday, the Martin Luther the -30 degree air attempting to re- first flies a few feet over my head to King holiday in the U.S. Predictions cover the beauty of the day and my crash, presumably, in the woods of a recession here caused in some sense of the future, which these behind me. The second comes in considerable measure by the housing dreams seem to have stolen this even lower and seems to take the and mortgage crisis have spooked morning. While sitting I go in vision entire top of the house, roof, walls markets globally, and everyone is to the bottom of Lake Superior to a and rooms with it. It is so low I afraid what the U.S. market will do base power point, my old museum full have to duck to avoid being hit. All today: fall drastically to catastrophi- of childhood treasures I found at the that is left of the house after the cally is the general consensus. bottom of this greatest of lakes in the second bomber is the first floor— 25-years-ago dream. I believe that By mid-afternoon, it begins to dawn the walls, second floor dream symbolized what was an in- on me that the fear I am feeling may and roof are all gone. tentional flooding of human con- well be connected to the near panic Then I am with mom and dad sciousness designed to drive us up in the markets and that it may be that somewhere in the Upper Peninsula into “peace,” thus depriving us of the aspect of the feelings depicted in the of Michigan along the south shore of true sources of our power... dreams. This ability to “feel” some- Lake Superior. The location beyond now lost at the bottom of the lake thing extra-personal like this eco- this is not specific. Though it is not where the gods could claim it. nomic panic is certainly something I clear precisely where we are, my 36 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 parents are trying to get to White- how the black hole or something fish Bay at the far eastern end of that has taken its place, changed it. the lake near the Soo Locks outlet We cross a grassy clearing atop a into Lake Huron. (This area of the bare bluff (bluff has at least two lake along with the small town possible meanings here) to a fairly Paradise features in a mystery I steep slope down to a house right have been reading by Stephen on the shore of lake Superior. Hamilton, otherwise I do not know Leaving my parents up above I why it is significant.) scramble down the bank to the Both mom and dad are really old, house I understand is a Department Canal Park, shipping canal entrance of Natural Resources research (my parents are, in fact, both to the Duluth harbor looking east station. I walk around the house, deceased) semi-senile and clinging up the Lake Superior to me or me to them. Dad has a which is unoccupied, to the shore of catheter I see as urinary but feel his the lake. The level of the lake here or “foot” of our being, we have little heart is hooked up to me, is way up, many feet up the shore need for “gods” or “higher conscious- (meaning he, the old “god.” is from the “normal lake level.” There ness.” drawing his strength from me. I am are instruments here extending The sacrifice of Psyche, of human soul not clear, exactly, on this is, down into the water to check the to the vast reservoir of Lake Superior as I say, how I feel it.) lake level, temperature of the might explain the fear I experience water, etc., that run automatically, We are in some vehicle driving east. at the prospect of traveling up this apparently, and the results are I do not know what vehicle; I never channel to the site of the “black hole” recorded in the house behind me. see it clearly. We are somewhere where it occurred. Except it’s not a I am aware here of one striking along the south shore of Lake black hole when we get there. It is a inconsistency. While the level of the Superior, perhaps the Porcupine house registering a change in Lake lake here is rising, in actual fact the Mountain area, but if so it does not Superior, that it is rising, not falling. water level in Lake Superior as well look like that region. We drive down “Rising” has several possible mean- as all the other Great Lakes is down this horrible, narrowing road to the ings here including that of a rising, a and falling. I am very puzzled by northeast. The road is rutted dirt rebellion. If I understand the impli- this inconsistency and it seems, if with a gutter or trench along the cations of this, it is a sign of great anything, this is what it was right side, full of a red liquid, love, enormous potential. Someone my parents were so insistent apparently blood. Above the trench has gone to the bottom of the lake that I see here. on that side are tangles of thorns and ended the sacrifice and is raising like those from Christ’s “crown” in The End of the World it into conscious awareness. The sac- the depiction of him crucified in the rifice of Psyche is being refused. Not About as rough a day as possible. I Isenheim altarpiece by Mathias only is it being refused, it is being spend most of it simply trying to sur- Grunewald. The road or channel is ended. It is being refused because it vive. This dream feels like a forced wound-like, body cavity-like. is evil and conscious awareness of this journey down this awful channel to We drive down this channel despite is being brought to the surface of our the site of a sacrifice. It feels like the the fact I can see no way through collective awareness. myth of Psyche, perhaps, in which her up ahead. We, my senile mother parents and community sacrifice her It means our capitalist economies and and father, drive down this awful to a monster in order to ensure their our capitalist religions can no longer channel, which, no doubt, is what I economic success. Psyche, meaning be based upon the sacrifice of the am feeling today. I don’t see it—the soul, according to the myth, is so human psyche. It means the end of channel—as leading anywhere— beautiful no one will marry her. In fact, the old world, presumably our attach- certainly not to Whitefish Bay down she is so beautiful she is a threat to ment to our senile parents or deities. the lake and the dinky town of the worship of the gods. And truly, Most importantly, the raising of the Paradise (real location) where the the human psyche or soul, if it is the world-ending awareness of the sacri- mystery novel I am reading is set. ground of human being, not the prop- fice at the base of these institutions Or, perhaps it is? They, my parents, erty of the Heaven, is experiencing is being accomplished without a cata- pretty much insist we continue this that sort of threat. If we possess a strophic, world-wide, apocalyptic “fall” way. We break through into an soul of power and beauty as the base into recession, depression or new engine room. What I see is some- Dark Age. 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The Housing Crisis Which brings me to a second level of At the core of the current economic association to the site that better ex- trouble is the housing and mortgage plains this aspect of the situation. crisis. The several houses in these The research station site reminds me dreams and others I have since had of the powerhouse, electric generat- relate to that aspect of the situation. We live in top-down houses, not bot- ing station between Garden and Fall tom-up houses. We live in a top- Lakes on the border of the Boundary down, not a bottom-up economy. In Waters Canoe Area in northeastern truth all wealth, not only economic, Minnesota. Water there (or conscious- but spiritual, comes from the bottom ness) flows from Garden Lake down up, not the top down. All our churches through this power station generat- and spiritual systems are houses built ing electrical energy into Fall Lake; from the top down, not the human these are the real names of this sig- psyche up. This reversal was accom- nificant site. This is a perfect meta- plished by the replacing of phor for the sort of energy generated Nebuchanezar’s “lost dream” by an by the fall of human consciousness upside-down Matrix replacement, a Palisade Head, about 75 miles up the mythical reversal leaving us with feet from the Garden of Eden by the Fall, north shore of lake Superior expulsion from the Garden for the gods. of clay, not psyche. Because of this, most now believe all great dreams In this case, the situation has been In the morning the U.S. market drops come from god, not the human reversed. The power to stabilize the about 300 points, but then rallies and psyche or soul down at the bottom of economy is being generated by the finishes the day about 150 points the dump. I believe this is the source rise of awareness of this sacrifice to down—nothing like the 500 point of our current economic instability the surface of human consciousness. plunge that was both predicted and and, of course, it is the source of our This suggests that our economic and feared. The stock market is a vehicle, religious or spiritual poverty... of our spiritual economies are in transition now a world-wide vehicle that can, to begging for favors from gods, those to a new power-base, an entirely new some large extent, be driven by fear, obscenely rich, fat capitalists. awareness of who and what we are by what we describe as “panic sell- The Beginning that has been at the bottom of con- ing.” sciousness: the frigid, sterile bottom This era is over. This world is kaput. I By mid-afternoon, I decide this is the of Lake Superior, for eons, at least have driven through the end of it. Via vehicle I am in with my parents that I the power work I am engaged in on a since the Biblical Flood. cannot clearly see— the vehicle of the world-wide scale, I can see this topsy- The Fear-Driven Vehicle old, top-down economic market, turvy situation will be, is, being reversed. driven by panic and fear supporting Psyche is rising from the bottom and All day, while I work on this dream, the “old gods.” It seems it is through will, I believe, end these fear-driven driven in some considerable measure stock market crises, as well as the by fear, I am listening with half an ear the end of the old world that we must capitalist model human and world to the news about the stock market. drive in order to catch a glimpse of the new world that is already rising, risen. upon which they depend. ∞ 38 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 Dreaming Humanity’s Path 290 DAYS It was Fall Equinox and I was headed for lower ground when looking up, I saw a great gull circling above. Leading me down the face of the mountain, I was drawn like a magnet to the sea. Being about the second hour of the day, I could hear the surf pounding gently against the rocks as I stood by the water’s edge with my feet planted firmly in the sand. Clutched tightly in the gull’s beak I saw a long rope with both its ends dangling in space. A full moon rose in the Eastern sky above the ocean and I watched in fascination as an angel took up one end of the rope and looped it around the moon like a noose. With the other end of the rope still grasped snugly in her bill, the gull soared across the horizon and flew straight into the sun with the moon towing behind her. I watched as the sun was swallowed up by the moon.And the earth was plummeted into total darkness seven minutes. The stars and planets appeared aligned in a bizarre configuration. Up from out of the waves came millions of giant salamanders. One by one they crawled until the beach was covered in slime. Looking up, I again saw the sea gull fly across the horizon tugging the moon behind her. As the veil of darkness lifted and daylight returned to the earth, I saw the giant amphibians that were caught by the mighty undertow and dragged back out to sea. Time was virtually swept away as the days, months and years were shortened. There were no more seasons and Dusk and Dawn could not be found. Those grand monuments and tow- ering pillars of stone that the ancient astrologers built came crashing to the ground, one great column upon another. I saw those who stood by with their sundials fall backward on their heels and flee. Those that navigate the high seas with compasses and chart their destiny by the stars were blown off course and vanished along with their ships. All about the face of the ocean, deep magnetic storms raged and many more were lost at sea and perished. The rotation of the earth was quickened. The windmills and water wheels of the world were hurled into orbit like spinning tops. The tides roared furiously as the lunar cycles grew more frequent and the gravitational pull of the moon increased in strength. I saw those mammoths of the deep that were driven ashore by the hundreds and crushed themselves to death. Falling flat on my face in the sand, I prayed to God that in His mercy He might spare His servant from harm and I heard the angel answer and say, “Fear not, for one cycle has passed and a new one is begun! From here on in each year shall consist of two hundred and ninety days. Each month twenty-four days, and each day twenty-one hours. Night and day shall be equally divided in that there will be ten and a half hours of darkness and ten and a half hours of daylight.” When I had picked myself up—I peered into heaven as would one looking through a seven-dimensional kaleidoscope—and lo and behold, above the wind and weathering there appeared a dazzling phenomena in space: A blazing disk of fire spiraling toward the earth like an enormous dial. And I saw seven spectacular points of light like the colors of the rainbow shooting forth from out of the wheel like flaming arrows. Upon each of these mysterious crowns were written in glory the seven virtues of faith which come down freely from God to a troubled world . Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 39 DVD ReviewReviewDVD Odyssey ~ Book Review Shared within this DVD is Stephen’s (cont’d from page 31) passionate and artistic approach to and thereafter is uncanny, mys- working with dreams which has in- terious and rooted in alterity. spired dreamers worldwide to engage with dream images in a deeper, more (McCrorie) ”The ghost of Teir- holistic way. This approach empha- esies came then, a prophet of sizes dream images as not only voices Thebes, holding a staff of gold. He knew me and questioned, Son of of the personal psyche, but of the Laertes, nourished of Zeus, wily world psyche itself as dreaming. He Odysseus, wretched man: why do shares how listening deeply to our you go from the Sun God’s bright- own dream images allows the images ness to look at the dead.” to speak on behalf of themselves bringing about their own wisdom. In Then shortly, within the same addition to Stephen’s interviews and Book, we encounter a moving ex- ample of the birth of humanism Dream Tending live presentations, this documentary and the emergence into con- with Stephen Aizenstat also contains powerful interviews with sciousness of the vulnerabilities of By Stephen Aizenstat some of the most noted experts in the human condition, when Ody- DVD, 2006 Bison Films the field of dreamwork who speak to sseus listens to the shade of his Running time: 53 minutes the power of dreams and of their ex- departed mother explaining the Reviewer: Bambi Corso perience with Stephen’s work. In- terms of her death. Available at www.dreamtending.com cluded are Robert Johnson, Marion (McCrorie) ”I too died and met Woodman, James Hillman and Michael my doom in the same way, not Dr. Stephen Aizenstat is a trained clini- Meade. cal psychologist and co-founder of from the sharp-eyed Archer there Beautifully filmed and deeply felt, this Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa in our great hall, aiming her gentle DVD shares techniques in the tools of arrows in order to kill me. No long Barbara, California. He currently dream recall and journaling, as well sickness came on... the kind that teaches courses in Dream Tending at as how to utilizing the skills of Dream will often take the soul from the PGI as well as around the country. His Tending with the images themselves, body, wasting and loathsome. In- work is grounded in the works of Carl plus much, much more. We learn how stead, I longed for you, my shin- Jung, Sigmund Freud, James Hillman ing Odysseus, your counsel and to tend to the images as if they are and Marion Woodman. Stephen also kindness. That longing stole me alive, as living entities coming to us enhances his extensive knowledge of from sweet life.” on their own behalf, informing us and dreamwork by weaving together an- bringing about their own intelligence. Upon which follows the son’s cient beliefs of indigenous cultures as Tending to dream images, instead of heart wrenching response, given well as mythology, archetypes and interpreting them, reminds us that we here in the Lattimore translation: depth psychology to develop this ex- are part of a collective energy, one ”So she spoke, but I—pondering tremely unique and insightful way of which—when paid attention to—re- in my heart—yet wished to take working with dreams. Aizenstat says: veals new ways of engaging with our the soul of my dead mother in my “Dream Tending is a method of selves and our world. arms. Three times I started to- working with dreams that is en- ward her, and my heart was ur- Having studied with Stephen and hav- gaging and accessible. This way of gent to hold her, and three times ing the honor of knowing him through she fluttered out of my hands like honoring dreams encourages us to his classes and seminars, this DVD a shadow or a dream.” (1) ∞ listen deeply to the voices of the truly shares the essence of Dream dream images themselves as they ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Tending in a rare and extraordinary come forward to offer their insights ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ way. and perspectives on our lives and ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ on the world. When we tend a I encourage you to experience his in- ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ dream, images come “awake”, novative and unique approach for 1. The Odyssey of Homer translated by imagination is animated, and we yourself. I know you will be deeply Richmond Lattimore, Harper Perennial, a participate in life more fully rooted moved and inspired by his voice, his division of Harper Collins. in the wisdom of dream.” passion and his love of dreams. ∞ 40 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 70: A Birthday Dream meaning of the dream for me. This ing a lot of work. dream is about compassion and the Next, I put down a Tarot reading, the world: I dream:... By Elizabeth Howard, M.A. © 2008 Ryder-Waite deck. The card for my “I see five severed cow heads. environment is The World, the one Each has been torn from the body with the head of a person and then a On February 1, 2008 I became of the cow. They are as gory as the bird, a lion and a cow (or bull, it has 70 years of age. I don’t know when I head of John the Baptist on the plate.” horns) in each corner. This is a com- have ever looked forward to the next My first association is to the mind- plex major arcana card and of course decade with such a feeling of positive body split. Immediately I feel that I there can be many interpretations. For anticipation. My moods are swinging, am no longer intellectual enough. I me, it is this: My important life work with a lot more time than usual on go to the library and check out a book now continues to be with the libera- the positive side. I seem to have a on Schopenhauer. Then I begin to tion of the non-human animals, and new ability to remind myself that think about my body, aging a bit but this card tells me that I’m on the right when I get depressed, I can swing still serving me very well. I step up path, the path of freedom and libera- back to the “feel good” mode. It’s my yoga practice and work on my tion for all beings. about time! breathing a bit. I’ll be working on this dream for a A friend said,“Well, now you can do while. I offer my thanks to all dream- Then I speak to the first cow head, exactly as you want to do.” The thing ers and to the blessed animals who who tells me that I must notice, “We about that is, that’s what I’ve already come into my dreams so often to sup- are severed at the throat. You know been doing for quite a while, so it’s port and guide me. ∞ that is the fifth chakra, for compas- actually time now for me to reap some ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ sion and of course there are five of positive benefits. us. This is what we had to do to get Elizabeth Howard, M.A. lives in Gainesville My “birthday dream” is a big dream, you to see that you really must speak Fl, where she offers dreamwork and other significant to me in many ways. I’m with compassion all of the time, not esoteric teachings. You can contact her still working on this dream, but here just some of the time.” That gets my at [email protected] it is, with some of the work and the attention as being difficult and requir- or phone 352-337-2723 Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 41 Waking Up the Psyche: Cont’d from pg. 17 my life and had no way of getting rid distance herself from me by work- Dream Reading of her without being a complete bitch ing on the floor vs. the table, but by Charles De Beer and truthful of how I really felt about after breaking the barrier of finish- her. The dream is exactly like real ing her assessment work—during a LeeAnn’s dream: life in terms of colors, places, etc. session well into her treatment—I I woke up in an awful sweat, feel- offered her a free choice art project. I met my friend Ingar (who died ing awful and the dream and the way She told me she was going to make about 10 years ago in a car acci- it made me feel stayed with me all day. something about a secret. She made dent) at her Dad's apartment Lee-Ann Stonehouse a mask with tin foil on one half and because she had flown up from a black paint on the other; only the Durban (where she moved to when Charles De Beer’s reflective metallic side had a large we were both in high school) to Dream Reading: eye drawn with markers. She hinted visit. We were having a good time that the secret was that she had until an extremely good friend of Dear Lee-Ann, been sexually inappropriate with her mine (not anymore—we are no three-year old cousin. Again, the eye longer friends, probably for about 6 In pondering your dream I am re- represented her vigilance perhaps in years now) came around and minded of Psalm 118, at the exact suggested we go out to clubs. I center of the bible in which it states: being found out, or perhaps having to keep safe from her own experi- really didn’t want to but thought Verse 8: It is better to trust the Lord ences of abuse. Children often “feel maybe it was time I went out a bit than to put confidence in men. special” when they have a secret and and so off we went. Our trip took It is better to take refuge in Him the “... main problems of sexual us through the seedy parts of than in the mightiest king. Johannesburg for some reason and abuse is loss of ability to distinguish This I think is the message the dream I felt myself more and more reluc- between good and bad feelings. It tant to go out, then my ex-best is conveying to you. is an invasion of every type of bound- friend said she needed to go into The friend, long dead, who guides the ary.”4 Carol used the art as a ve- this one house but I suddenly knew dreamer stands for the “higher self” hicle to be able to tell about the act, she was going to use drugs and I (the God within), the spirit with the secret and jumble of confusing became quite upset and angry. whom she seems to have lost con- feelings; she was able to tap through When she came out she was very tact. Whereas the “friend”—“no the art her internal world via the laid back but I was furious. longer a friend”—stands for the realm of fantasy and what ifs. At some point I told her that I did dreamer’s lower mind, that which not want to be her friend and that In this population, the power of fan- keeps her from making spiritual she must bugger off, which she did. tasy and waking dreams strength- progress, by keeping her busy with I went with Ingar back to her Dad’s ened their sense of self and ability worldly matters, physical matters, flat (which was situated at our local to communicate. Revealing, never earthly matters. little shopping mall). When we got mind recalling dreams, usually hap- there Ingar said she had to go back A spade, a square tool, is used to pened spontaneously and art and art home and I was very sad because move earth. Square stands for physi- therapy were natural tools to engage we did not spend enough time cal, Circle for Spiritual. and articulate the inner psyche and together. I started walking home The lower mind would drag the make inroads to healing. ∞ when the ex-friend came driving by dreamer through unhealthy areas, 1. Sandplay, Ruth Ammann, 1991, pp.- in a car similar to those driven in while the real goal of life, spiritual 85-86 the US by gangsters (as depicted on perfection, is lost sight of, due to 2. A Study of Waking Fantasies of Boys TV at any rate) and she was shout- physical desires, (drugs). Contact and Girls 9 to 15, Strausch and ing at me, insulting, and scaring the Lederbogen, 1999. seems to have been lost with the bedingus out of me. I walked faster 3. Ibid. Higher Self, saddening the dreamer. and prayed for her to leave me 4. Working with Children in Art Therapy, alone. Then she got out of the car With no support from the Higher Self, eds. C. Case and T. Dalley. Working with and wanted to hit me with a spade. the dreamer would be plagued by the cases of child sexual abuse, p. 107, The whole dream was filled with a lower mind. Sager, Carol, 1990. ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ feeling of impending doom and an The dream seems to be a warning to Contact Marlene by email at inability to make the sun shine. I des- the dreamer to direct her life towards [email protected]. Visit her website @ perately did not want my ex-friend in spiritual goals. ∞ www.dreamtimesguide.com 42 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 What's In The Temple? In the quiet spaces of my mind a thought lies still, but ready to spring. It begs me to open the door so it can walk about. The poets speak in obscure terms pointing madly at the unsayable. The sages say nothing, but walk ahead patting their thigh calling for us to follow. The monk sits pen in hand poised to explain the cloud of unknowing. The seeker seeks, just around the corner from the truth. If she stands still it will catch up with her. Pause with us here a while. Put your ear to the wall of your heart. Listen for the whisper of knowing there. Love will touch you if you are very still. If I say the word God, people run away. They've been frightened--sat on 'till the spirit cried "uncle." Now they play hide and seek with somebody they can't name. They know he's out there looking for them, and they want to be found, But there is all this stuff in the way. I can't talk about God and make any sense, And I can't not talk about God and make any sense. So we talk about the weather, and we are talking about God. I miss the old temples where you could hang out with God. Still, we have pet pounds where you can feel love draped in warm fur, And sense the whole tragedy of life and death. You see there the consequences of carelessness, And you feel there the yapping urgency of life that wants to be lived. The only things lacking are the frankincense and myrrh. We don't build many temples anymore. Maybe we learned that the sacred can't be contained. Or maybe it can't be sustained inside a building. Buildings crumble. It's the spirit that lives on. If you had a temple in the secret spaces of your heart, What would you worship there? What would you bring to sacrifice? What would be behind the curtain in the holy of holies? Go there now. Tom Barrett

Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 43 The Short Path by Robert C. Flanders

Strange sound—almost like a cardiogram, as if my inner being were ize our utter dependence on their young woman’s voice calling, “Ja- holding a sign before my face, advis- mercy and develop the proper rever- mey,” very slowly. The notes were ing me to give more attention to my ence. When Dr. Boyle does enter the drawn out as if passing through a heart. cell and asks what my problem is, my voice sounds to me like a child’s, hollow instrument as long as an Al- “The doctor will see you now,” said pleading, “Forgive me, Doctor, and pine horn. There’s no telling whether the nurse. I suppose she’s a nurse— deliver me of the karma I truly de- it originated behind one of the doors she’s dressed all in white—but stand- serve for what I have done and for down that corridor, or somewhere well ing in the door frame guarding the what I have failed to do.” beyond the blinds and the hedges on knob she’s reminiscent of a temple some distant mountain peak outside. virgin charged to be very cautious of But my neck hair bristles when he Unsettling. Sometimes you hear whom she allows beyond the veil. Her stares through his bizarre devices into moans like that at the dentist’s office summons to the doctor stirs that other my eye. My regular optometrist is a while waiting to get your teeth worked voice to plead again, “Jam-ey,” but the woman and as much as I welcome on—not calling a name, or any other nurse shows no response. the proximity of her face to mine dur- ing an exam, my flesh quickens for a real word—just an anonymous voice She ushers me into a room and closes fight when a man comes nose to nose expressing recognition of some re- the door behind me. This is no brothel with me. A woman’s aura is healing mote unpleasantness beyond the and she will remain a virgin—she’s and nurturing, but there’s no natural cloud of the doctor’s gasses. But I was gone and I’m left alone to contem- reason to be close enough to another at the ophthalmologist’s clinic. Must plate how these several apparatuses man to smell him. be my mind playing tricks on me, too will be applied to my eye. The cell is desperately interpreting the sparse lit dimly, as if by torchlight. I’ve sur- Mostly to bring myself round to a more information available to my senses in rendered myself into the hands of the civil attitude, I ask him about the this sterile, alien environment. It’s just inquisitors of science now for sure. watercolor of quite a refined woman a machine and my ears only think it’s There’s the doctor’s diploma—Emory on the wall beside his diploma. speaking to me. University’s ordination of James Boyle “My wife,” he answered, “My mother as a Doctor of Ophthalmology. Well, Just being in this waiting room shows made this portrait as a wedding gift if I must do this—and I must, if I’m readiness to admit a weakness to a of how she might mature once we had to continue to drive—at least he’s said stranger, readiness to confess to a time together for a family.” He to be among the best. I made the mere mortal that I have sinned and summed the matter up, “My wife died appointment despite the recommen- to show him the manifestation of that before I could finish medical school. ” dation that he’s on the cutting edge sin in my flesh. But I can’t deny the There was a finality to his tone, like a of new technologies. distortion in my right eye—an astig- mathematician who’s given the com- matism, I guess it’s called. A line that I wonder if doctors are trained to give plete equation—there was nothing to my left is smooth and horizontal us these moments to study their more to the subject. has a couple of spikes in it to my right implements before making their en- Again I heard the strange tone and eye. It looks strikingly like an electro- trance so that we have time to real- asked Dr. Boyle, “What is that? It 44 Dream Network/Vol. 27#1 sounds like someone calling a name.” trusting my eye. His senses did seem As I was looking in that direction, I immune when he motioned me into glanced over his diploma again and his operating theater. The room could Visit our Website laughed a little awkwardly, “Like your have been in the bell tower of a me- name, maybe, if your friends call you dieval cathedral; the walls squeezed DreamNetwork.net ‘Jamey.’” one’s attention into the only direction still open—straight up toward the ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ His answer belied Dr. Boyle’s proxim- spire and beyond. 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Vol. 27#1/Dream Network 45 Famous Stories garding him like the cherubim guard- ity imperfect by seeking spiritual ex- ing the gates of Eden from which I’d perience like a narcotic? ONE BRIGHT MORNNG, long ago just been expelled. I was drawn irre- The light began to break into colors in Greece, perhaps after ponder- sistibly toward the doctor’s now un- again... and firmer organic forms. I ing the meaning of a particularly supervised equipment, not unlike one could see people, children in desper- vivid dream, the brilliant polymath who’s become an addict with his first ate circumstances they might over- experience of opium. It could not have Aristotle gave voice to a scientific come or avoid entirely if only I were been the doctor’s personality I’d challenge that has echoed down there living among them. How dare I sensed because the life had been in the ages: “We must inquire what presume to think the world below the light and whatever humanity the dreams are, and from what cause would be fulfilled if I escaped to dwell physician had was beyond it. No— up here in the heavens, alone. sleepers sometimes dream, and Deity can use anyone, however un- sometimes not; or whether the enlightened, as an instrument to There was something in Dr. Boyle’s truth is that sleepers always reach us. comment. Yes, I seem better fitted to absorb what flows into my ears in dream but do not always remem- So I began piddling with the switches the river of time than to have every- ber; and if this occurs, what its ex- on his laser, remembering as best I thing presented all at once before my planation is.” could the procedure he’d followed. A eyes. I chose to descend, to leave the flickering developed at the end of the tower for the doctor, in hope that one In the shade of sun-drenched olive probe. But before I could direct it to- day he will hear his wife’s call. On the trees at the Lyceum in Athens, ward my left eye and open it, too, to way out of the hall I saw the nurse where he and his brilliant band of the clarity I’d known, the spark about to enter another door. I gave jumped from the tip onto the cabinet thinkers used to meet, the father her a smile to show that I wouldn’t at my side. It expanded in a mist, of natural sciences urged them to be at all opposed should she invite taking the shape of a woman of trans- “obtain a scientific nature of me in, and follow this very mortal man lucent white. The same woman as in into the cell to muss up our karma dreaming and the manner in which the portrait so far below, though together. It should only take a few it originates”. drained of color. Dr. Boyle’s unnamed generations for us to tidy up. ∞ wife. I heard her calling from beyond Since those seminal times, 23 cen- ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ hope, “Ja-mey.” Robert C. Flanders is a retired Emergency Medi- turies have come and gone but, de- In this tiny tower room, she was right cal Services lieutenant, who in middle-age spite the best efforts of many of at hand but was evidently quite un- earned a degree in philosophy. the world’s greatest minds, no sat- Should the style appeal to you, you may find aware of me. Her call was tearing my my published novelle interesting - The Beauti- isfactory explanation was found. heart. It only grew worse. More sparks ful Fountain, 95% of that work is a dream, The answer to the question of what from the laser formed into pale sil- comparing and contrasting the culture & dreams are for, and their evolution- houettes of children. Her children, or mytholgogy of the Cherokee and of the old children that could have been hers. I Bavarian town of Nuremberg. You may con- ary cause, remained tantalisingly could feel the vapor of which she was tact Mr. Flanders at [email protected] out of reach — a baffling mystery. formed against my cheek, but she wasn’t quite real—she was the ghost In the 20th century, one of the pio- of a life who’d dissipated too soon, neers of modern scientific dream and the children spirits of those research, Dr David Foulkes, re- who’ve never yet been. She had loved minded our own scientific commu- a great man, but what she’d needed nity of why the central issue raised was simply to live with a good man. by Aristotle was still so important. Now the groan was mine, for my voice “Dreaming,” he wrote, “needs once could not carry to comfort her, nor again to be recognised as a prob- touch her children. The shapes were lost, merging into a single luminous lem so central to the study of the ball. But now there were dark frac- mind that its resolution can help tures in what I’d seen as the univer- to reveal the fundamental struc- sal light. Was it I who’d rendered De- tures of human thought.”

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