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A Tribute to Stanley Krippner, Ph. D. Honoring Stan the Man ~ Rita Dwyer & Bob Van De Castle A Man Beyond the Seasons ~ Sandy Sela Smith, Vol. 26 #s Ph. !&2/Dream D. Network 1 ALSO... Precognitive For Sure! ~ Janice Baylis Wilda Tanner, Madame Blavatsky, Charles de Beer & Me ~~~ Noreen Wessling 2 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 DrumDrumDrum DanceDance && Dream:Dream: A Different Road to Peace

by Jean Campbell

A few days ago, someone sent On June 25 this year, the World of Dreams’ annual conference at me a recent AlterNet interview with Dreams Peace Bridge and the Rainbow Bridgewater State College in author/activist Barbara Ehrenreich, Medicine Blanket Council will be giving Massachusetts, Mary Whitefeather whose book Dancing in the Streets: us all an opportunity for dancing in Joyce of Boston had the following A History of Collective Joy is fast the streets: an opportunity to drum dream: becoming a best seller. In the and dream together. We are all (many people for miles) interview, Ehrenreich talks about the “Drum Dance and Dream for Peace” are standing outside, not sure widespread depression that has will be the opening ceremony for where, a place where I’ve never plagued citizens of the United States Peace and Leadership Day at the been. We are all holding hands in and many other countries in the past World Children’s Festival on the a prayer for PEACE. We are all forty or fifty years, and gives her National Mall at 4th Street in dressed very colorfully, wearing prescription for a cure. Washington, D.C. The drumming circle colors of the rainbow. There are “I concluded,” Ehrenreich tells her will begin at noon with a Native children everywhere as far as I can interviewer, ”that ecstatic rituals were American ceremony, led by the Clan see. There are many with drums. a cure for depression—you can see Mothers from the Four Directions. This There are four large pow-wow size that in many cultures. An example of event is free and open to all who can 24"-28" drums in a circle and within a culture that uses it as a cure is some come—especially the children. four corners, as though they represent the four directions. North Africans; if a woman were to Beyond that, with your assistance, As soon as I hear the drum beats take to her bed and become there will be a rolling wave of I wake up! EOD depressed, family would call in a zar drumbeats and dancing from the healer who would bring in musicians moment that Monday, June 25, begins For Mary, who regularly records her and healers to engage in days and (which is 24 hours earlier than dreams, this was just another dream nights of ecstatic dancing, and soon Washington in some parts of the until on February 14, 2007—nine the woman would get up and join. world). So if you have a drum, or months to the day after her dream— Some cultures would see this as a something to make into a drum, and she spoke with Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq, cure for melancholy. We do drugs a willingness toward creating joy, you director of the International Child Art instead, both antidepressants and are asked to join in wherever you are: Foundation (ICAF), and creator of the illegal drugs.” at home, at the office, in the streets, World Children’s Festival which brings “We have never lost the capacity for or at the National Mall, asking that— together children from all over the collective joy,” she continues. ”It’s for the children of the world—peace world. In their first conversation, Dr. part of our nature. But if you look at will no longer be just a dream. Ishaq asked Mary to create “the world’s largest-ever drumming circle.” how little we get to exercise it—if we “Drum Dance and Dream for Peace” Mary, remembering her dream, compare ourselves to the French in began with a dream. On May 14, readily agreed, asking that The World the 14th century, with Saint’s Days 2006, a month before she led the Dreams Peace Bridge cosponsor the and this huge calendar of festivities— Solstice Drumming Ceremony for the event. we just don’t do it much, if at all.” International Association for the Study (Continued on page 43) Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 3 Statement of Purpose

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Event Par Excellance Upcoming Focus 3 Drum, Dance and Dream by Jean Campbell for AUTUMN Vol. 26#3 A Tribute to Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. 10 A Psychologist in the Tradition Visionary Activism of William James and Gardner Murphy How have your dreams compelled by Montague Ullman, M.D. you to take action, 12 Observing the Remarkable Stanley Krippner personally or politically? by Ruth Richards, M.D., Ph. D. 14 Very poetic, but where’s the beef!? Lifeline: 4 Weeks by Allan Combs after you receive 15 Honoring Stan the Man by Rita Dwyer this issue. 16 More... Honoring Stan the Man by Robert Van De Castle 17 Stanley As I Know Him... *NOTE Regarding Submissions: by Justina Lasley Individuals from all cultures and 19 A Man Beyond the Seasons walks of life who desire to share are by Sandy Sela-Smith, Ph. D. encouraged to submit dream & myth- 22 A precognitive dream and meeting an related manuscript, poetry and Extraordinary Being artwork for consideration... even if it by Fariba Bogzaran falls outside the scope of the current Most Important Precognitive Dreams focus or theme. We also invite your 25 Wilda Tanner, Madame Blavatsky, dreamsharing, transformational Charles de Beer & Me dream experiences and insights by Noreen Wessling regarding effective dreamwork and 27 “The Oak Is Felled in the Acorn” dreamplay techniques. by Paco Mitchell Given the overall synchronicity 29 Precognitive For Sure that shapes the Dream Network, your by Janice Baylis, Ph. D. submission is likely to ‘fit’ perfectly 31 Precognitive Dreaming & Creativity in an upcoming issue. by Marie Otte Your article may also be appro- priate for one of our two regular 32 The Kiss & the Crystal Heart features, The Art of Dreamsharing by Elizabeth Howard (which includes a broad range of The Art of DreamSharing and Dream Education articles on Dream Education), or The 37 Bush: Planetary Pirate by Paul Levy Mythic Dimension (exploring the 39 Wounded Animals as Healers by Frances Ring relationship between dreams and 41 Emanuel Swedenborg & Dreamwork mythology). by Vaishali And, of course, we always love to Columns, etc.etc.Columns, hear from you in our Response 32 DreamTimes “To Do or Not To Do” column! Whether you were inspired by Marlene King or infuriated by the latest issue, 29 Audio CD Review by Bambi Corso would just like to clear up an area of 34 Dreams In The News: “CHEESE” confusion or correct an oversight, by Russell Lockhart, Ph. D. please let us hear from you! Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 5 ers to share their ‘Most Important Editorial Precognitive Dreams.’ Thank you, Editorial Policy Fariba, for your creative blending and to each of you who share your This is truly Stanley Krippner’s is- special dreams revealing yet-to-be- We invite you to submit sue! So many outstanding individu- experienced in day-reality informa- letters, articles, poetry, reviews als in the ‘Dream Movement’ came tion and events. and artwork focused on dreams forward to pay tribute to Stanley, it It is a precognitive dream and mythology designed to in- was impossible to exclude any of that set my own feet firmly on this spire and educate our readers. the articles submitted. It is my hope path, nearly 30 years ago. It was We accept articles from every- that you, Stanley, bask in the the first, Big dream that I recalled night dreamers and profession- deeply moving, sometimes down- as an adult and it was like attend- als, ranging from the experi- right hilarious and all ways well de- ing a full-blown, full-length movie. ential to the scholarly. served praise within and that those Upon awakening, I was over- Typical article length is of our readers not aware of him are whelmed with the event I had just approx.1600-2000 words. enriched through this introduction ‘seen’ and hadn’t a clue as to what A photo and art work to en- to his life-work via his colleagues, was happening to me, what the hance your submission is re- former students and friends. dream meant. It wasn’t until five quested. Artists wishing to have years later that the dream became You will learn that he definitely be- their work considered for our manifest in a community event to came aware of his ‘Purpose’ in this covers, please contact the edi- honor an anniversary (in Autumn lifetime at a very early age; that tor: Publisher @DreamNet- 1981) of the founding of the United he has and continues to fulfill the work.net. Electronic/email, Nations, a very successful event profound tasks to which he was set .pdf, .tif or .jpg files are pre- which I was stimulated to coordi- and destined. ferred for text, ads, artwork & nate. Doing so was not a conscious Though I bowed to him in the last photos. Include SASE with PO decision; I virtually had no choice! editorial, I do want to share one of queries & submissions. In summer, 1993, I was for- my first, meaningful experiences Dream Network reserves the tunate to attend a predominantly with Stan in my early days as stew- Native American event in Bella- right to edit all material sub- ard of DNJ. I was having difficulty Bella, Canada and was invited to mitted for publication; we re- with one of the Advisors, had a share this dream-event with the tain first North American serial dream about that person and con- Nations who gathered there. rights only. All copyright re- sulted with Stan. He wrote back: verts to the author/artist/poet This, my ‘First Dream’ is a continu- “Some of my best friends don’t like after first publication, with the ing prayer for Peace on Earth and one another.” I continue to learn proviso that Dream Network is unity among all nations and nation- from that beautifully succinct, wise referenced and contact infor- alities who reside on this beautiful response. I must also say that I mation provided in secondary planet. have learned much more about him publication. We retain the right than I knew before inviting this trib- The dream required that I take ac- to republish materials submit- ute and probably would have been tion in the community, which brings ted in future issues or subject- too shy to attempt to do justice to up the ‘Focus’ Question for our Au- specific booklets and/or mono- his accomplishments in this way. tumn issue: Visionary Activism: graphs. Among the author-artists How have your dreams compelled We encourage you to list extraordinairre sharing their friend- you to take action, personally or your dream-related research ship with Stanley is Fariba politically? Now is the time! requests and ask that you no- Bogzaran. Her article reveals that Please note: Because of the tify us of dream-related events, it was a very important precogni- ‘move’ we’ve made over the past services or books which would tive dream which initiated their re- several months, there will be only be of interest to our readers. lationship. Her article heads up a three issues published this year We are perpetually ‘Explor- section of moving precognitive (2007). We will advance your sub- ing the Mystery,’ and invite dream-stories in response to the scription by one issue to compen- your Questions as well. invitation in our last issue for read- sate you rightly. 6 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 continues to write book after book, Letters, Questions article after article. I imagine that New Dream Groups & Dreams many of the tributes written for Stan Spawning:Spawning:Spawning: will be, rightfully so, in praise of his Berkshire Dreams contributions to dreamwork and my- An inaugural Berkshire dream group To Begin: ‘A Tribute thology, shamanism, transpersonal met at the Lichtenstein Center for the to Stanley Krippner’ psychology, and parapsychology, Arts, Pittsfield, MA, Saturday, March among others. These contributions 10. Sixteen dreamers listened and I met Stanley at Saybrook in 1999. are immeasurable, indeed. But when responded to two dreams, and dis- Having read his bio before applying I think of Stanley, I am first reminded cussed how dreams affect their lives. there had a great influence on my of his boundless generosity of spirit Allen Flagg and Joe Goodwin orga- decision to attend Saybrook. Because and heart. As is true for many oth- nized the event, with the help of the courses he taught were usually ers, I’m certain, Stanley has made a Megan Whilden, Executive Director of full, I was thrilled to be given the op- profound and positive impact on my the Lichtenstein Center. She is also portunity to take his Personal Mythol- life and I am forever grateful and in Director of Cultural Development for ogy and Dreamwork course. his debt. Thank you, Stanley for all the City of Pittsfield. Strangely, he guided me without re- you have given to me and to the The group was given a brochure, “Ac- ally guiding me. I could feel that he world. tualizing Your Dreams,” with infor- believed in whatever I wanted to With much love, mation on remembering dreams, join- write, that what I wrote would be the ing a dream group, and sharing exact paper I needed to write at that Varida Kautner, The Netherlands dreams. A packet of eight pages of time. That’s one of the many things I ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ dreamwork was handed out, includ- love about Stanley, his ability to in- Our Dream Group: ing art and poetry that had been ob- spire by trusting in the competence Our Dream Group: tained in dreams. of his students. Setting a Several members expressed interest I think of Stanley as a man who says Longevity Record? “yes” to life, and this attitude trickles downward to the great fortune of his Thanks for your continued and won- derful work with the Dream Network. students. His exquisite sensitivity to Our ‘Letters’ section the feelings of others makes it so easy, Our dream group of many years, I’m even delightful, to receive his critical happy to say, is still in vigorous ex- is the place for you to comments because one knows, intu- istence. Perhaps we are setting a lon- ask Questions about itively, that there is no judgment of gevity record! It began long ago at a dreams—yes, even your the person, but only that he is com- weekend workshop on lucidity that mitted to helping his students do their Stephen LeBerge facilitated. own dream— very best work. He does not expect I believe the reason for our longevity and to share your them to write using his style, or the is the fact that we meet only once a experience, inspirations, style of anyone else. He, in fact, de- month. This does, of course, mean or critique. mands (in a good way!) that his stu- some loss of continuity. On the other dents convey their individual, authen- hand, it means that people do not You may also choose tic thoughts and feelings. He freely have to commit to a substantial to initiate a contro- shares personal life events—his life is weekly chunk of time. There is con- versy or debate! an open book—which naturally in- tact among some members in the in- duces others to be vulnerable. terim, of course. Also, at each ses- Of course, the depth and breadth of sion, we go around the circle for a ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Stanley’s intellectual knowledge and brief ‘catch-up’ report. Each person wisdom is extremely rare in an indi- takes about five minutes to inform us vidual and he can speak eloquently about any emotionally important ex- Please send yours to: on just about any subject one can periences of the past month. LETTERS % Dream Network think of. When I am having a difficult PO Box 1026 Edith Gilmore, Concord, MA time staying focused, which is often, Moab, UT 84532 [email protected] I am inspired by merely thinking ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ about Stanley, about the fact that he Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 7 in forming on-going dream groups, to white tiger kitty, perhaps two or three came an excellent huntress and com- continue their exploration of dream months old, peek out from under the panion. One day I came home early experiences car. My heart just raced itself against and saw her climbing up a neighbor’s Allen Flagg, New York, NY my throat and I remember I just could tree. When she saw me, she raced ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ not move from the spot. I guess I down the tree, crossed the street— must have looked like an idiot just without looking my way—and went Animals in Dreams standing there. Kitty came over and around the house and sat in the front Especially Cats purred while she rubbed her head yard. When I reached her she was all against my shoe. She did however smiles and huggies. She did not want do thank you for sharing so much I look hungry and thin. It was instan- me to think for one moment that she of your life in the article you wrote taneous how I recognized her. Her was derelict in her duties of caring for some while back. It was very inter- “miau” and the way she wiggled when the house. She made this a habit and esting and nice of you. she walked were unmistakable. It was every time she was busy looking in The magazine itself is getting better a kitty here in the physical world with on other patios and I came home, she every time and has helped me a lot me. I understood in a second why I would come around the opposite end to organize “in English” a lot of the had not dreamt with Kitty in the last of the yard and sit in front and only dream methodologies involved. I am few months; how could I since she then would she look at me. as always, working with my group in was now here in the physical world. Debbie was a great companion. She Caracas, Puerto Rico. It’s been 18 That evening I came back and brought would sit with me and watch T.V. She years now I’ve lived here. Sometimes her some food, which she was de- shared her food with every hungry I do wish I could find a school to be- lighted to eat. I kept bringing her food and grungy cat that called in for re- long to here in Puerto Rico but I guess every day and petting her, but I did lief. She gave her bed to a great buddy those connections somehow are not dare bring her home because of that lived down the street and must hardwired with what we have to do. my other two cats. A few weeks went have weighed at least 16 pounds. She I am looking forward to the next by and overcoming her shyness kitty was a merciless huntress of mice and magazines with articles on animals, allowed me to pet and carry her. would line them up next to the door speaking of which, I have a wonder- About two months later we had a hur- for me to see. ful story to share. ricane warning, I prepared the house She fattened up and became very I love cats. I own four of them or per- and readied myself to go sit it out in savvy in the ways of the house and haps I should say they own me, since my sister’s home. I was worried sick how to manipulate me. But we were I am convinced dogs are mascots and abut kitty and went out looking for happy and for some reason I did not think we are gods, but cats are our her. She was waiting for me at the think it strange that the kitty from my owners and believe they are the gods. foot of the stairs. I picked her up and dream world had found me in this Anyway, about seven years ago I brought her inside the house where I physical world. I explained this to my started dreaming with a gray and prepared a bed in the laundry room, family and some friends and needless white tiger/tabby that would accom- placed kitty litter, fresh water and to say, they all thought I was just pany me and my two cats every- plenty of food in a cat food dispenser. walking around in a confused daze, where. She would always walk close I had to leave and take the other two which I wasn’t. I have my dream jour- to me in dreams and play with me. with me in their carrying boxes, but I nals and drawings of kitty of years She had a very distinct “miau” and wanted her to be safe. before she came to me to prove that she was very loving. How I knew the Fortunately the hurricane kept going I was not imagining anything. kitty was a “she” is one of the won- past the island and I was home a day About three years ago I had to go on derful mysteries of dreamwork. Dur- later. I looked in on kitty and she was a three day trip and prepared every- ing two years the gray kitty appeared sound asleep and happy. She slept for thing for all the cats to be fed and many time in my dreams and I was at least three days and ate and drank safe. My sister would look in on them very always happy to see her. to her heart’s content and of course, and there was no problem... however, One day, towards the third year, I she was here to stay. the evening before I left Debbie came passed a parked car in the street and I named her Debbie (for the hurri- behind me and left at my feet a dead heard a very distinctive “miau” come cane that never came to be) and I turtle dove. I was very upset and told out from under the car. I froze in my was thrilled to see how well my other her it was no laughing matter to be steps and saw a very sweet gray and two cats got along with her. She be- left with a symbol of death the day

8 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 before my trip since we associate the on and she was still there for me. His kindness, wisdom, and friendship turtle dove with the passing of loved It’s been a few years now since have been a true blessing. ones. I was upset and Debbie just Debbie’s passing and I still miss her Deborah Hillman, Montpelier, VT looked at me with those big very wise terribly but when I calm down and Thanks for setting the record straight, Deborah green eyes of hers. understand the magic and magnifi- and please accept my spology. (Editor) I did however make further arrange- cent teachings and love that I was ments with my sister to care for them given with her physical presence it Sad Things, permanently should I not come back makes it all more bearable. I still Good Things Happening home. I took my trip , but when I dream about her and imagine she is came back my sister took me aside still in spirit, only now she wears a It’s sad, isn’t it, how many people before driving me home and told me magnificent medallion that allows me there are out there doing horrible that Debbie had passed away. She had to feel she has been rewarded for her things. My mail box is often filled with passed away in a fenced-in utility great job in teaching a human that attempts to get at my bank account room where they could see her but not all teachers are bipeds, some are information, etc. So sad that all those could not reach her because they did quadrupeds and have beautiful green people haven’t found a higher calling. not have the key. eyes, like to watch T.V and invite all We’re living in a sad world. When I got home I opened the room the grungies home to dinner. up and there she was, looking so Blessings. At least you’re doing something good, sound asleep and quiet. I can’t even Mildred Rosario, Puerto Rico bringing dreams and myth to people, begin to tell the grief that overcame ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ allowing a platform for so many indi- me and the horrid anger I felt against viduals to connect, providing a venue the premonition she herself had felt Errata Upon Errata for art, and ideas produced by ordi- and tried to communicate to me. It ’m glad that the journal is also pay- nary people. It’s a wonderful thing. took a while for me to understand that I ing tribute to Stanley Krippner. In his William (Bill) Stimson, Taiwan Debbie was a very special kitty and tireless effort to gain cross-cultural had said goodbye to me before my ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ knowledge of inner experience, he’s trip. I buried her and some part of shed tremendous light on the intri- Praise forforPraise me went right with her. cate dream world. Stan has a talent Harimandir Kalsa’s Art Days went by and I did not recover for mixing verve and meticulousness Animals in Dreams Issue well. My grief was something that I in his research, and I’m grateful for carried around like a bucket full of all the years I’ve been fortunate to rocks inside me. No one that tried Thank you so much for publishing know him. could convince me to accept her de- my article, “The Crow Who Turned Thank you for printing a copyright parture and I was literally heartbro- Into a Wolf.” The setup and photos notice regarding my recent article ken. I supposed when one is so sad are just wonderful! (Vol. 25, No. 4, p. 6, “Errata,” refer- it’s hard to put all the details together Interesting to me - Harimandir Kalsa, ring to “Twelve Contributions of and understand what a gift I had been the cover artist, lives in Melrose FL, Montague Ullman to the Field of given by a very special kitty. which is about 15 miles from Dreams,” which appeared in Vol. 25, A few days went by and I had to con- Gainesville FL where I live. I have No. 2). It is merely the seed of some- tact some friends of mine who were known Harimandir for probably 30 thing I might continue to develop, quietly waiting for the right moment years. We don’t know one another and so I appreciate holding on to the to let me know some wonderful news. very well, but that’s a long time. The copyright. The night before I called them, dur- Lion on the cover entitled “Steven’s My only “hard-won” (sweat and ing a channeling session and unbe- Dance” is the most beautiful piece of tears!) credential is Ph.D., which her work that I’ve ever seen and I’m knownst to me, their guides had re- served me well in my years as an writing to tell her so. quested I be told that Debbie had not anthropologist. Now that I seek to I’m honored to be included in such a passed on alone, that one of them had create a simple, contemplative life of special issue of Dream Network Jour- been there looking after her during art, I’d like to think that the M.A. you nal, also especially because you in- her passing and that she was very well cite in your note means “Mindful As- cluded the photos of your new home. taken care of. I was not to despair pirant.” In any event, a highlight of but to understand that life continues graduate school was meeting Monte. Elizabeth Howard, Gainseville, FL Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 9 In Tribute to Stanley Krippner

We’re Beating Our Drums For You, As You Do For Us!

10 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 A Psychologist in the Tradition of William James and Gardner Murphy by Montague Ullman, M.D..

B oth William James and Gardner Murphy reached the Stan was a veritable Pied Piper. His height of their profession as stewardship of the dream laboratory psychologists. Both had the prestige attracted many young, eager assist- and courage to confront the scientific ants. At one point, Charles (Chuck) community with what, in James’ time, Honorton—who had worked at J. B. was known as psychic phenomena Rhine’s laboratory in Durham, North and in Murphy’s time as parapsy- Carolina—became a full-time member chology. Murphy was also a remark- of Stan’s staff. Chuck originated one able teacher and spawned a whole of the most successful series of new generation of researchers. experiments in parapsychology, He has written about his observations Stanley Krippner has followed in namely, the “Ganzfeld” effect, in in a steady flow of papers and books, the tracks of both James and Murphy. which partial sensory deprivation in often co-authored or co-edited with In 1961, I made a critical decision the form of eliminating visual percep- others. These include essays on that led to my connection with Stan. tion resulted in striking statistical spiritual consciousness and the many I gave up my psychoanalytic practice results. books he has written on dreams and to accept a full-time position at the The end result of our nocturnal pursuit parapsychology. Maimonides Medical Center to of ESP appeared in the book Dream The most recent book he has co- develop a department of psychiatry Telepathy, written by Alan Vaughan edited is a masterful encyclopedic there. What was so tempting about in collaboration with Stan and myself, volume entitled Varieties of Anoma- the offer was that it held out the summarizing the work of the labora- lous Experience. It will serve as a possibility of setting up a sleep tory experiment. source book for a new generation of laboratory to study dream telepathy. The laboratory folded in 1973 when explorers concerned with the vast and The discovery in 1953 of the connect- our funding ran out. Stan left to join limitless range of human potential. ion of dreaming to Rapid Eye Move- the Saybrook Graduate School, where Stan and I have kept in touch over ment (REM) sleep offered the oppor- he found a most favorable environ- the years. A number of his doctoral tunity to capture dreams at the time ment for his many talents. At students have based their Ph. D. they occur. This was precisely what Saybrook, he was and is able to fulfill theses on dreams and the application was needed for a dream telepathy his passion for helping and teaching of group dreamwork, in some experiment. Murphy came through young psychologists and at the same instances targeting areas such as a with the money to fund the labora- time has the opportunity to pursue geriatric population and patients with tory. More importantly, he found his own special interests. These AIDS. Their admiration for Stan as a exactly the right person to direct it. encompass his studies in the field of teacher, as reported to me, knows He plucked Stan out from his position anomalous experiences that are no bounds. as director of the Child Study Center outside the ken of orthodox science. Teacher, exemplar, pathfinder and at Kent State University in Ohio. So, Saybrook is the natural home for the explorer of the still unknown, Stan in 1964, Stan found himself in full range of Stan’s talents. In pursuit continues his quest. Not very many Brooklyn with the task of organizing of his various projects, he roams the have accomplished so much on their a laboratory and developing a world as a lecturer and as the own or given so much of themselves research staff. Thus began the extended laboratory he needs for the to others as teacher, role-model and nocturnal approach to dream tele- vast range of his interests... a range explorer of phenomena that may pathy. It was an experiment that had that covers the field of anomalous ultimately expand the range of to be done under airtight conditions behavior from shamanism to hypno- scientific inquiry. that excluded all possible sensory sis, as well as his continued interest cues to the specific target. Stan was I am happy to have been there with in dreams and the paranormal. meticulous about this. No one has you, Stan, when you began this ever been able to challenge the In short, Stan pursues areas remarkable journey and we all hope methodology he worked out to closest to his heart, areas swept to be kept informed of your continuing eliminate sensory clues to the target. under the rug by orthodox science. adventures. ℘ Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 11 Now here’s a contrast—dream the- ater! Here is Stan in the moment, Observing as villain, hero, or another part that is needed. As part of our dream the Remarkable seminars at Saybrook Residential Conferences, we (students and fac- Stanley Krippner ulty) will act out and further explore key dreams, often under the direc- tion of Steve Pritzker, also on the Saybrook faculty, who, in an earlier life, was a prizewinning Hollywood by Ruth Richards, M.D., Ph.D. sitcom writer (Mary Tyler Moore and Saybrook Graduate School others). Now here is the remark- able Stan Krippner cast as villain, in black leather jacket, stooped and have the great good for- I dream seminars we offer. With Allan lurking around a street, heh-heh- tune to be on the faculty with Combs, Stanley also recently wrote heh, snickering to himself, ready to Stanley Krippner at Saybrook a chapter for a forthcoming book I pounce on a hapless victim. Then Graduate School, in San Francisco, edited, Everyday Creativity and New there is Stan as an discom- and have worked with Stan at Views of Human Nature, on the bobulated waiter, dealing with way Saybrook now for more than a de- structures of consciousness that too many commands, dropping cade. This has included taking part frame our entire individual and col- things, mixing them up, and so on. in periodic dream seminars for our lective experience (and dreams). Stan Krippner got the Saybrook Saybrook Residential Conferences, The chapter, “Consciousness and Academy Award, and more than other faculty activities, and a re- Creativity: Opening the Doors of once. More importantly, he can be markable monthly dream group, led Perception” shows once again just present, in the moment, in touch by Stanley, at the home of Ruth- “how far out there” Stanley is—in with the human condition, and able Inge Heinze, another of our faculty, fact, out there where we all should to seek and play with the joy of a in Berkeley. I would like to share a be. child. few anecdotes and verbal snapshots When I was just getting to know of Stanley—a few quick moments Now here’s Stan at one of Ruth- Stan, Mike Arons, founder of an- with an extraordinary person. Inge’s monthly dream groups, lead- other of the first programs in hu- ing dreamwork by the Ullman This is not, by the way, to overlook manistic psychology (Saybrook be- Method. Actually, we first chat and Stanley Krippner’s voluminous ing one), at West Georgia Univer- share, and eat treats provided by scholarship which has changed the sity, student of Maslow, and mutual Ruth-Inge in this relaxed home set- nature of consciousness studies and friend, told me that Stan was “Mr. ting. I must say, Stanley has a se- as part of this, our understandings Saybrook.” Why so? I asked Mike. rious sweet tooth. Finally, the of dreams. Two of many of his books “Because,” said Mike, wherever you dreamer presents, the group then I use regularly are Stanley’s (with are in humanistic psychology, you clarifies, and next interprets as “if David Feinstein) The Mythic Path, turn your head and Stan was there.” it were my dream,” followed by the for a course in Personal Mythology Now one finds Stan in a faculty dreamer’s response, and reflections and Dreamwork, a Saybrook course meeting, quiet, present, very atten- and further background from the which itself was originally designed tive, but saying little. Until sud- dreamer and discussion. Stan is by Stanley, and which truly changes denly! Then—when he makes a rare patient, sensitive, somber, en- students lives. Many students have pronouncement—everybody stops thused... helping bring forth the testified to this. and listens carefully. Organized, richest material and interpretations Another book is Extraordinary logical, facilitating, and deeply car- of dream imagery from those who Dreams and How to Work with ing—his comments are right on the share and participate in the inter- Them, authored by Stanley, Fariba nose. These interventions are typi- pretative process, be they possible Bogzaran, and Andre Percia de cally on “hot” topics, so I hope I’ll meanings personal, social, mythi- Carvalho, which is a primary refer- be excused not to give a fuller cal, transpersonal, ancient, current, ence for some of the Saybrook example. or multicultural across the widest 12 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 span of cultures and traditions perience: Examining the Scientific (Stan’s knowledge and experience Evidence, making the rounds (pub- are remarkable), while assisting the lished in year 2000). Stan typically dreamer in a true spirit of helping. does this “show and tell” in a low Stan is showing us once again that key way. However, the appearance we should all honor and learn from of this book from the most main- the wisdom of our dreams. (Again, stream respected academic pub- for confidentiality, I won’t give spe- lisher in psychology, The American cific examples, but they’re super. Psychological Association (APA Sorry.) Books) represented an incredible Now here is Stan meeting one-on- coup and movement toward the one with individual students at our changing of paradigms in our cul- Residential Conference. Does Stan ture. All the better that this hap- ever love the students and vice pened at the millennium. Among versa! This pair is eagerly engaged, the chapters: Lucid Dreaming, Out sitting in the lobby of the San Fran- of Body Experiences, and Psi Re- cisco Westin where our conference lated Experiences. is held. On this day, one sees a stu- Let me end on an act of heroism. dent hugging Stan, with tears in her People who have visibly and pub- eyes, as he looks embarrassed and licly protested the multiple and ter- happy. This particular student (I’m rible abductions and murders of picturing someone from last Janu- woman in Juarez, MX, have put ary) is telling him how the course themselves in potential danger. Stan in Personal Mythology and Dream- returned from a trip to Mexico, tell- work has changed her life. (The ing faculty about this situation and reader too might want to take a look the need to do something. He had at the book and course!) a Mexican newspaper with him, with Ah—now Stanley is dancing at the a headline story on this issue. Who disco. Party night at the Residential should we see there but Stanley Conference. Can’t stop this irre- Krippner, noted psychologist from pressible guy. the USA, making a public statement about these atrocities. Stan knows everyone, or so it seems. I’d admired dream re- Here, in observing Stanley Krippner, searcher Ernest Hartmann from afar is much we can admire and aspire for years, and suddenly here he is, to as well. A leader, a mover, yet in town, attending and lecturing at quiet and humble, while bowing to our January residential conference, no force, taking risks, saying the in his eagerness to see Stan. Or unspoken, opening minds. Being Herbert Guenther, noted Buddhist himself present in the moment, and translator and scholar, who in his bringing the rest of us closer. Hav- late 80s, rode alone on the San ing deep personal knowledge, and Francisco rapid transit system, at helping us all to know other realms, lunch hour, to meet Stan at a city other worlds, dream time, shamanic café. It was my privilege to be along journeying, structures of conscious- for that meeting. ness which for us, as an endangered species and world, could help save At faculty meetings, we sometimes us. It is my great privilege to know pass around new books we have Dr. Stanley Krippner. These are only published. How special, a few years a few examples of Stanley in ac- ago, to see Stan’s co-edited (with tion, but may they, along with ex- Etzel Cardena, and Steven Jay amples from others, help give a pic- Lynn) Varieties of Anomalous Ex- ture of this extraordinary man. ℘ Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 13 Very poetic,poetic,Very but where’s the beef ?! by Allan Combs, Saybrook Colleague

pers and presentations—many of others. In a word, he brooks no non- which involved dreaming and the sense. brain—and sharing with him the re- sponsibilities of supervising many “A good start graduate student dissertations. In and then it gets muddled.” fact, one such dissertation concern- And he likes to keep it clear. ing an investigation of dreaming ar- It seems that just about everyone rived on my desk the day I sat down “This needs work. It mixes phi- who knows Stanley personally has a to write this article. I felt that some losophy, metaphysics, and story about how and where they first of the notes he had scratched for the science not very harmoniously.” met. Mine occurred in 1990 when I student’s benefit along the margins was helping to organize the first meet- were reflective his own unique char- Muddled thinking is no friend to Stan. ing of the Society for Chaos Theory acter. Here they are. in Psychology. A colleague told me to “How do these interact call Stanley Krippner at the Saybrook “None of these ideas with the research questions, Institute in San Francisco and he are operational!” or don’t they?” would help us find a site for the meet- Stan doesn’t waste a lot of time on Let’s get back to the questions we ing. I had never heard of Stanley pure speculation. He likes ideas to be can answer and leave off with specu- Krippner or of Saybrook, but with the tied down to the world of reality. In lating about angles dancing on the help of a telephone operator I man- this sense he is always the scientist. heads of pins. aged to get through. Stan was At the same time, and unlike so many friendly, but told me that he had just scientists and intellectuals who would “Not APA style.” returned form South America where rather deny the plain facts of an un- Stan is a veritable editing power- he had been working with shamans explainable event such as a precog- house. He can eat through a 150 page and had not quite recovered from the nitive dream or a miraculous cure, manuscript on a short plane trip, final ceremony, at which mind-alter- Stan believes in his senses and trusts marking every out-of-place comma ing substances had been used; he the senses of other honest people. But and period with alacrity. I have never requested that I call him the next day. he does not stop there. He wants to seen anything like it. When students Calling again the next day I found pursue an understanding that is sci- send him papers I tell them to brace Stan to be completely compos sui. To entific in the larger sense of being ra- themselves. And sure enough, in no my amazement he informed me that tional, systematic, and consistent with time at all back comes a barrage of he had talked to the president of a wider range of facts. He sees no con- grape-shot edits that hurl even the Saybrook and we were welcome to tradiction in studying the seemingly most inflated student (or faculty) use their facilities for our conference. magical activities of shamans and the scholar back to humble reality. But In fact, he was even to give an excel- miraculous manifestations of dreams just when you think he is going to lent opening address at the confer- in the context of real science. report you to the dean of bad gram- ence, and has continued to be an ad- mar you may find out that he has vocate and scholar of chaos theory “W h at “What isisis the definition?” been bragging on you to other stu- ever since. When Stan gives a public talk the first dents and colleagues! Never confuse During the ensuing years I have had thing he does is define his terms. He Stan’s sharp edges for an absence of the pleasure of Stan’s friendship, of likes to be clear on what he is talking warmth, support, and caring. He just working with him on professional pa- about, and he expects the same from wants it right! 14 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 Honoring Stan the ManManthe by Rita Dwyer Others have done a superb job of “This is well stated and clear.” describing Stanley Krippner and his Stan is never reluctant to complement reputation as an inveterate traveler a student, or colleague, on good work, and good-will ambassador, making and he doesn’t much care which they impactful connections throughout our world. Stan is truly “The Man” are. when it comes to pioneering and “This is not a standard term.” researching new frontiers of mind and space—a fearless cosmonaut. Stanley Krippner is not a standard term. He is a cranky, no-nonsense, At IASD’s first conference in San guy who almost everybody loves and Franciso in 1984, Stan spoke on Dreams and the Shamanic Tradition, would fight to spend time with. Pro- look around for a likely place. It was another interest of mine, the spiritual fessor Eugene Taylor calls him “Mr. a very hot and humid, typical DC and healing aspects of dreams. Saybrook.” People young and old see summer weather. I asked Stan if he Subsequently I have spent nearly 24 him at conferences, meet him in air- didn’t find it overwhelming. No years touching in with Stan at our problem. He said he had learned to ports, or hear him give lectures, and IASD conferences, but also by phone they want more. It is said that he has be agreeable to the environment and online. wherever he was. Hmmm. personally recruited half the students No matter how busy, Stan never He was carrying a seemingly heavy at Saybrook simply by being there. turned away a query that I sent him bag and when I wondered why he “This is rich!” from our Central Office in Virginia. didn’t leave it behind at the hotel, he He was always open and friendly, explained it was full of papers written Stan’s work on dreams and dream- though keeping to the business at by his students at Saybrook which ing is just one aspect of his amaz- hand with a professionalism that was he was reviewing and using any spare ingly multifaceted life. He is one of striking. As IASD’s President in 1993- minutes to work on them. Hmmm. 1994, he was an exemplary leader the most widely celebrated scholars As we walked up the street, we saw and guided us to proper decisions and of paranormal phenomena, has writ- a restaurant, Duke Zeibert’s, an actions. He continues to share his ten important works on dissociation establishment where the power wisdom at board meetings and and traumatic stress disorders, is a people of Washington used to meet. online. Coming back from his many leading investigator of shamanism, It surely was a convenient location, trips, he faces hundreds of e-mails has written extensively on health and but I doubted we could get in without which he answers, supporting every- healing, personal mythology, neuro- reservations. As we walked up the one from beginning students to elegant entry stairs, there at the top science, consciousness studies, and established colleagues and research- was the host himself, Duke Zeibert, recently on creativity. Stan, you are ers. Serious when need be, Stan can a man of great influence in DC. amazing. also be great fun—watch him at IASD “Stan!” Duke called out with great Dream Balls! Very poetic,poetic,Very surprise and delight, running forward but where’s the beef?! Despite his fame and well-deserved to embrace him in a warm hug! Stan awards, Stan is a humble hard had never mentioned that he knew Well, Stanley, I guess you know by worker. An example: Years ago Bob Duke, who led us to one of the best now that you are the beef! The real Van de Castle came to Washington tables in the house. We had a simple thing. We all love you and thank you DC for a meeting. On the day we’d lunch and enjoyed our time together, for being yourself. ℘ planned to lunch together, he called no fuss, no fanfare. I was reminded to say he’d bumped into Stan and of the advice given by an Old (Author’s afterthought: Since awkwardly could we three eat together? Fine! Testament prophet: Act justly, love morphed into The Society for Chaos Theory tenderly and walk humbly on in Psychology and the Life Sciences, I now I met them in the lobby of the hotel. one’s path. Thanks, Stan, for believe this recollection to be mostly a Having no place special lined up, we leading us so well. memory fabrication.) just decided to walk up the street and ℘ Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 15 “sender” had been concentrating upon More... in a distant part of the hospital. I always felt that Stan was carrying out HonoringHonoringHonoring his responsibilities in a very careful and comprehensive fashion, but did ‘Stan the Man’ so in a very warm and supportive ‘Stan the Man’ style during all of our laboratory by Robert Van De Castle interactions. ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~

“It almost seems that I first met Stan about 40 years ago Stan must occupy some when was serving as the Research Director for the dream telepathy peculiar bubble of time studies that were being carried out warp, because during any at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. Montague Ullman, a psychiatrist, and 24 hour period, he is he carried out their large scale accomplishing about 48 systematic study there for about 10 introducing me. He has always been years. They wrote a book enti- hours of traveling, so gracious in the ways that he tled Dream Telepathy and also interviewing, supervising described who I am that he made me published a large number of research feel far more important than I feel I articles in scientific journals students, writing, editing, am. Many young aspiring researchers describing their procedures and researchingresearchingresearching are mentored by Stan and he makes results that supported a telepathy a wonderful role model for them. hypothesis. and presenting It almost seems that Stan must Because of my successful results at conferences.” occupy some peculiar bubble of time previously as a telepathic dreamer warp, because during any 24 hour at the Institute of Dream Research ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ period, he is accomplishing about 48 in Miami with Calvin Hall, arrange- hours of traveling, interviewing, ments had been made for me to The friendship that I developed with supervising students, writing, editing, periodically participate as a subject Stan continues to grow over the many researching, presenting at confer- in their project. It took me 44 weeks subsequent years. I have always been ences etc. etc. Stan is internationally to complete eight nights of study amazed at his encyclopedic recall for recognized as an authority on dreams, there. Stan had what seemed to be the content of research studies, the parapsychology and altered states of a rather constantly changing cast of names of the researchers and to consciousness. His extraordinary research assistants who would attach provide riveting anecdotes about the range of knowledge has been ob- electrodes to my head to prepare me interesting variety of people whom he tained by engaging in continual self for my nightly dreaming sessions. has interacted with during his wide exploration, carrying out creative After every REM period, Stan would ranging travels. If I wish to obtain the research and conducting extensive awaken me to ask me what type of latest information about any current field work with indigenous people in dreaming experiences I had just studies or about the history of past far-flung locations. He has probably been having. He did this this five to studies, the person to whom I would accumulated more bonus flying miles seven times per night. He would then turn is Stan. He is like a human Google than that of all the DNJ readership interview me the following morning database for all sorts of mainstream combined! His numerous accom- to inquire about how many of the science as well as arcane knowledge. plishments have made him a living preceding dreams I could still recall myth in the “Wise Old Man” tradition. and would present me with a group If I were ever to be introduced for of eight colored pictures. My task was speaking at a panel or symposium, I Many follow behind him as he con- to select which one I thought had was always delighted when I learned fidently carries the lantern high and been the target picture that the that Stan would be the person leads us ahead on our journeys. ℘

16 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 Stanley...Stanley...Stanley... As I Know Him Reflections from a friend and colleague

by Justina Lasley

D r. Stanley Krippner is aaa regarding his arrival. Clearly it said time or desire to meet me! guiding light and inspiration SUNDAY! And I had Saturday dinner Dr. Rice insisted and I promised I for me and for hundreds of students guests. would call and did so... nervously. and professionals in the field of After controlling my panic and after Amazingly, Dr. Krippner welcomed my Psychology—in our waking life and in many unanswered calls to professors call. He mentioned that he was leaving our dreams. at the University, I finally found the next day for South America, yet Not surprisingly, Stan is usually someone to drive to Atlanta to get Dr. he encouraged me to come by surrounded by people he has taught, Krippner. He waited several hours, but Saybrook. To him it was important to mentored, and supported. He is true to his character and his unfailing make the connection. Connections… seldom found alone. patience, he didn’t seem to mind. hmmm… that is one thing that Stan One time in 1997, however, he was When I saw him the next day, he was does well for all of us. He connects alone at the Atlanta airport. As a not upset with this mistake regarding us to each other. graduate student, I was honored to his arrival date. He was just thankful As an advisor to so many, one must be asked to meet Dr. Krippner at the that he eventually had a ride and was wonder how he keeps up with all his airport and take him to the University pleased to be back at West Georgia e-mails? I can imagine (with terror) of West Georgia, more than an hour with old and new friends. And, of the number he receives daily. And he away. He was to be the key note course, we were happy to be with responds promptly and personally! I speaker for a symposium. him. Who has not been?! saw him at one chaotic APA Con- What a great opportunity for me— Many times I have found Stanley to vention taking advantage of a few alone with Dr. Krippner for almost two wait, wonder, and even enjoy the minutes break to search out a hours. situation—no matter how unfortunate computer to tend to his e-mails. I was a bit nervous—how could I the circumstances that unfold. Never Attentive… hmmmm…. That is what sustain an intelligent conversation complaining… that is Stan. Always Stan is to us. Attentive to our with him during our drive? I cleared looking at the bright side of life! individual needs. my calendar for his arrival day, My initial encounter with Dr. Krippner When I began writing my book on Sunday (or so I was told.) was during my first semester of dreams, he took a deep interest – I will never forget a phone message graduate school. The Chair of the encouraging me and offering bits of on Saturday afternoon that was psychology department, Dr. Rice, was wisdom about how I might proceed. something like: “This is Stanley a former Saybrook student and He does that for us--Offers wisdom. Krippner. I am at the Atlanta airport currently a close colleague of Stanley. To hear his comments, I did have to and wonder where I should meet I had a trip planned to San Francisco keep up with him (no easy task) as you.” Ohmigosh! It felt like I had just and Dr. Rice suggested that I look up he headed off to his next meeting at failed the President of the United Dr. Stanley Krippner. Of course, I knew the Association for the Study of States. How could this be? I nervously his name and reputation. What? Look Dreams annual conference, moving checked my calendar and information him up? As if Dr. Krippner would have quickly across the campus, talking to Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 17 Famous Quotes

"Man is a genius with Jonathan Young, Ph.D. Psychologist, Storyteller, Founding Curator when he is dreaming." Joseph Campbell Archives Akira Kurosawa. For brochure, call 805 687-7171 or browse www.folkstory.com Japanese filmmaker. Seminars throughout California Continuing Education Credit Available "The future belongs to several people at the same time. A similar interests in dreams, but those who believe in the comment here, a smile there, a anyone who is following their soul handshake, an autograph in one of path—and even those who are not. beauty of their dreams." his many books, and a quick photo Recently, I began dream work at the by one of his dream friends. He Open Center in NYC—and who was Eleanor Roosevelt doesn’t miss a beat. He is a gener- there for my first weekend?! You ous man, always sharing. guessed it! Stan led our group All of this is done with good nature Sunday after having led a dream "Existence would be and a gratitude for being asked. workshop for actors all day Saturday intolerable if we were Stanley teaches us the gift of —and I understand he partied Sat- gratitude and acceptance. urday night with NY area Saybrook never to dream." students. To get to the Open Center, I was flattered and amazed that a man Anatole France, of this depth not only read my book I suggested he take a cab rather than and commented, but wrote the the subway from his hotel—to save French novelist. foreword. How many books do you time and energy! When he arrived think he has to read and how many early Sunday morning he thanked me, "Why does the eye see a papers from his students and research since by taking the cab he had time from his colleagues, as well as for his morning jog on the streets of thing more clearly in lectures to prepare, aspects of dreams NY. Really, where does he get this to research, conferences to attend, energy? Energetic he is!! dreams than the imagina- key note speeches to deliver? Dancing with Stanley is not to be tion when awake?" Obviously, he understands and missed! At the annual Dream Ball of practices time management. the IASD conference, Stan stays on Leonardo da Vinci Commitments? the dance floor. I love to dance, but I (1452-1519), Italian artist, Yes, Stan is committed. admit that I have to rest every now scientist, architect, genius! When I began to create a dream and then. Not Stan—he’s out there certification program, I needed great moving to the beat—one of the last advisors, well versed in the world of to leave the party. He always wears a wise, strong, gentle, energetic, yet dreams. Stan offered to be there for costume while many others use the calm…. me, with me, and guide me. He was excuse that they didn’t have time to Stanley Krippner is a blessing. not an advisor in name only, but had get one together. “Excuses” are not A blessing to his students, his friends, a sincere interest in meeting the part of Stan’s life style. his colleagues, his country, and to the students and sharing in ways he People gather around him—students, world at large. could. Just what he “needs”, more colleagues, strangers (but not students! He is a dedicated teacher strangers for long). Everyone loves I am lucky to have him as a part of my life! I am sure that many of you in the truest sense of the phrase. Stanley. I believe everyday he feel the same way. Anyone who has He really cares about each person impacts many lives in major ways. had the privilege of meeting him he meets–not only those who have A remarkable man— knows that Stan is the Man! ℘ 18 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 A Man Beyond the Seasons By Sandy Sela-Smith, Ph.D.

J ust as Sir Thomas More we have an opportunity to decide stimulated my interest in mythol- struggled against the de- what world we are willing to embrace. ogy. Many of these myths, leg- mands of King Henry VIII, as We can embrace the unusual experi- ends, and folk tales involved depicted in the film, A Man for all Sea- ence and allow for the possibility of dreams. So I began to start my sons (Bolt, 1960), many humans are a much broader, more limitless world own dream diary. I continued this trapped by the unbending structures or reject the experience and continue on and off through junior high built around the ordered and predict- to live…and die…within our comfort- school, senior high school, and able seasons of their lives. The worlds, ing, yet often uncomfortable limita- college. Once I began graduate within which many of us live—espe- tions. school, I kept writing down my dreams continuously and now cially in the Western tradition—are Stanley Krippner is one of those rare have a collection of several thou- filled with what we accept as unalter- persons who—from a very early sand…. My grandparents' set of able rules and most of us not only live age—knew that there were worlds books contained many examples by those rules, but die by them as beyond this one and has spent his of extraordinary dreams -- those well. Stanley Krippner (2002) points life studying and teaching about about the future, about past lives, out that, “our culture consistently these worlds so that others could about visitations by angels or erects boundaries, constructs borders, learn to glimpse into the more limit- spirits, etc. So my interest in PSI and divides the world into neat (and less realities that he first observed and in dreams goes back to those sometimes overly meticulous) catego- when he was so very young. In an old books. What would I have ries that allow us to go about our busi- email correspondence, Stanley ex- done without them? But PSI and ness in a more or less orderly way” plained to me about his early inter- dreams later became a part of my (p. 34). And rarely in the tight con- est in these other worlds: structions of those bounded worlds do personal experience, and so there “As a child I spent a great deal we find people who understand that was never a “disconnect” be- of time reading. I lived on a farm there is something very real, perhaps tween what I read and what I ex- in Wisconsin. There were very even more real, that exists beyond perienced.” few people my age in the neigh- the rigid constructs of what we mis- When Stanley was about eight years borhood, and my sister was takenly identify as the real world. old, he dreamed one of those pivotal much younger than I was. Once and life-altering dreams that opened The accepted world filled with verifi- my parents taught me how to the door to what was to become his able and testable structures—the read (before attending school), life’s path, as well as his gift to the empirical world that is seen, touched, I devoured anything and every- world. He shared with me that dream. heard, tasted, and smelled—moves, thing around the house. Of spe- we assume, in predictable patterns cial interest was a set of books “I dreamed that I was outside that build the ordered seasons of our my grandparents had owned. our farm, looking up at the sky. lives, until some unusual experience They were kept in the attic. They Suddenly the sky opened up and challenges the structures. And, per- contained mythological tales I could see an entire cosmos be- haps, for the first time in our lives, from all over the world, and this yond what was ordinarily visible. Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 19 The second world was made up between sobs, told us that my unfolding of time where he watched of pastel colors, complex casual- cousin had just called. Uncle Max his world constructed by words and like forms, intricate, but harmo- had taken ill, was rushed to the numbers disintegrate in a cyclone, nious. The message to me was hospital, and died shortly after his and then visited Kublai Kan, experi- that there was more to life and arrival.” (Krippner, 1975, p.1, enced being in Versailles with Ben- the universe than is available to Krippner, 2002, p.2) jamin Franklin, and finally visited Tho- our ordinary ways of perceiving ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ mas Jefferson at Monticello. He then reality. In other words, there is found himself: In a 2002 article, an everyday, ordinary reality, “…at the White House gazing at a but, also, a non-ordinary reality Dancing with the bust of Abraham Lincoln; someone lurking just beyond. It requires whispered, “The President has been focus and discipline—or perhaps Trickster: Notes for a shot,” and Lincoln’s visage was re- grace or luck—to glimpse it. Transpersonal Autobiog- placed by that of John Kennedy. I Nonetheless, it is there, and we Transpersonal Autobiog- did not realize that this tragic vi- ignore it at our peril.“ raphyraphyraphy, Dr. Krippner ex- sion would be actualized less than In a 2002 article, Dancing with the two years later.” (Krippner, 2002, pp. 8-9) Trickster: Notes for a Transpersonal plains that “Unusual For those of us who have had the Autobiography, Dr. Krippner explains privilege to work or just “be” with that “unusual experiences are usually experiences are usually Stanley —students, colleagues, and omitted from autobiographies, and yet omitted from autobiogra- peers—it is no surprise that he was they are often among the most im- given a Native American name, portant of one’s life” (p.1), an idea he phies, and yet they are Wichasah Washte, which is Lakota reflected from the writings of White Sioux for “Good Man.” It is, also, no (1999). Not only are they omitted from often among the most surprise that his family name, autobiographies, but the fact that we important of one’s life.” Krippner, of German heritage, means still call these experiences “unusual” “crib-maker,” and that his Irish fore- suggest that we omit them from our ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ bears were named Porter, which trans- personal histories as well. Stanley tells lates as “doorkeeper.” Stanley of an experience he had when he was It is possible that many of us, some- Krippner has been the “good man” 14 years old. He had been an avid time during our childhoods, have had who has opened the door for so many reader from very early on in his life, experiences in waking life and in who first glimpsed through and then and in his words, he “desperately dreams that could have opened our entered the new, expanded worlds. wanted a set of encyclopedias,” but hearts and minds to swelling psyches He has spent his life providing a safe his family was unable to afford such and expanded minds. But we had no place—the crib— for those newly born a purchase. When his request was external support or internal frame- into the grander worlds that he first denied, he went to his room and be- work that could have contained such envisioned when he, himself, was only gan to cry but then realized that a experiences, so we dismissed them eight years old. And he has nurtured rich uncle would possibly be able to and relegated them to unconscious or so many by giving them the support help him. The thought of getting this subconscious places inside us and to walk in strength on their own paths help shifted the tears to his planning went about our world-building that did beyond the acceptable and limiting of possible appeals to his uncle. But not allow the experiences—ones that worlds of their past. the 14-year-old’s attention made an- our traditional constructs deemed un- other major shift. acceptable—to have a place. For those who did not have an attic filled with mind expanding books that “Suddenly, I bolted upright in my Stanley made a place for the unusual might have taught about mythology bed. My psyche swelled and my or exceptional experiences that be- and dreams, Stanley wrote the books, mind expanded in every direc- came a significant part of his life. He so that others shelves could be filled tion. I suddenly knew what I was dreamed of the death of his father a with information that would allow the not supposed to know: Uncle Max few days before his passing and the curious and the skeptic alike to choose could not be depended upon be- death of a dear friend the day that to look at unusual experiences from cause he was dead. At that mo- she actually died (Krippner, 2006). In a more expansive place. For those ment, the telephone rang. My other dreamtime and experiences in who did not have a “good man” in mother answered the phone and, “altered states,” he encountered the 20 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 their growing up years, he became now therapists, teachers, and work- ReferencesReferencesReferences the good man—born into a family of shop leaders, present all over the Bolt, R. (1960) A man for all seasons. good people—whose personal mythol- country, and world. http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/ ogy, he acknowledges, includes a “de- classes/core class/ ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ termination to bring…learning, love, hss2/library/man_for_all_seasons.html and light” into this world. He explained “He dreamed of the Krippner, S. (1975) Song of the siren: A that he has been a man who has done “He dreamed of the parapsychological odyssey. NY: Harper & his best: Row. death of his father a Krippner, S. (2002.). Dancing with the “…to imitate the Brazilian few days before his trickster: Notes for a transpersonal au- capoeiristas, connecting with my tobiography. www.stanleykrippner.com/ ‘animal alertness,’ happily danc- passing and the death papers/autobiogood.htm ing, though sometimes clumsily Krippner, S. (2006). Getting through the groping my way through life. All of a dear friend the day grief: After-death communication expe- the while, I wait for a window of riences and their effects on experients. opportunity to make a move on that she actually died. In L. Storm & M. A. Thalbourne (Eds.). behalf of intelligence, compas- In other dreamtime and The survival of human consciousness: sion, creativity, integrity, and the Essays on the possibility of life after death (Chapter 9). Jefferson, NC: other values I hold dear.” experiences in “altered McFarland. (Krippner, 2002, pp. 41-42) states,” he encoun- Sela-Smith, S. (2000). The Ullman Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D. and fellow method of dream analysis: Context and professor of psychology at Saybrook tered the unfolding of content. Dream Network Journal. 19 (1), Graduate School, summed up in her 36-40, 42. own words, what many colleagues time where he watched Ullman, M. (2006). Appreciating Dreams. have reflected over the years: Cosimo: www.cosimobooks.com. his world constructed White, R.A. (1999). How to write an EHE “Perhaps unbeknownst to him, autobiography (3rd Ed.). New Bern, NC. Stanley Krippner has been my by words and numbers Exceptional Human Experiences Network. mentor and role model for de- disintegrate The latest version of this piece appears cades in matters of scholarship, on the Exceptional Human Experiences Network’s website at http//www.ehe.org. teaching, and in embodying the in a cyclone... ” essence of human kindness. His ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ open mind and heart are most There is no question that Stanley laudable virtues for a scientist, Krippner is a man who has led his life and his creativity has no BioBio as unencumbered as possible by the BioBioBio bounds. It is a great privilege rigid rules and standard structures Dr. Sandy Sela-Smith, author, lecturer, to be his colleague and friend.” that regulate the seasons of many graduate school faculty member, and The most common response from his lives. This writer, along with so many psychotherapist, has a Ph.D. in psychol- former students, when asked about others acknowledge that we consider ogy and is a licensed mental health coun- selor in Florida (LMHC 6984) and Wash- his impact on their lives, was that Dr. it our good fortune that this Man Be- ington State (LH00010277). She is a Stanley Krippner has been their men- yond the Seasons, who recorded tor. Many expressed unending grati- part-time faculty member for two gradu- thousands of his dreams from the time ate schools of psychology, Saybrook tude that he gave them the tools to he was a child and has written over Graduate School and Research Center, work with their dreams by introduc- one thousand articles, books, and and the Institute of Transpersonal Psy- ing them to Dr. Montague Ullman’s book chapters on extraordinary ex- chology, both in the San Francisco Bay method of dream appreciation (Sela- periences, had the focus and disci- area. She is also a nationally certified Smith, 2000, Ullman, 1996). Many have pline, as well as the grace and luck to clinical hypnotherapist (ACHE 193341). used this method, as well as many bring understanding to the world be- She has presented papers nationally other processes they learned from yond the ordinary reality. He has and internationally, conducts workshops taking Stanley’s Personal Mythology gifted us with his discoveries to allow throughout the US, and consults with course at Saybrook, in working with us to build the internal framework to clients worldwide. She can be contacted at [email protected]. Sela-Smith’s their clients, as well as in presenting live our lives more expansively, web site: www.infiniteconnections.us. workshops that many of his students, as does he. ℘ Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 21 A Precognitive Dream & Meeting An Extra- Ordinary Human Being

by Fariba Bogzaran

It was summer of 1985 past precognitive dreams and their training group for number of years at when I met Stanley Krippner in the particular felt sense. Without hesita- the Family Mediation Center and hallway lounge of the University of tion, he confirmed my intuition and watched his approach with dreams; Charlottesville, Virginia at the second replied “O.K. Let’s see how we can in particular, Personal Mythology and conference of the Association for the work with this dream and do some- Ullman’s Dream Appreciation group study of Dreams (ASD). A few months thing about it!” I was so relieved with process. In the latter approach, ev- prior to the conference I had a very his reply. Others with whom I shared ery member takes the dream as if that disturbing precognitive dream that the dream only looked at the sym- is his/her own. When Stanley owned needed serious attention. I was in my bolic and psychological implications the dream, his creative mind would mid-twenties, a graduate student con- and did not even know how to ap- connect the metaphors and narrative ducting research on insomnia and proach the precognitive aspect. It of the dream into hyper-reality, filled took us over two hours, looking into them with psychological reflections apnea at the University of Stevens the details of the situation, to create and insights to the amazement of ev- Point, Wisconsin. a plan to prevent the dream from eryone in the group. Not repeating I called Stanley in California and asked happening. This solution was com- anyone else but acknowledging if I could meet with him at the con- plicated, but we drafted a plan and I everyone’s contribution, he always ference in Charlottesville to work on followed it step-by-step. Likewise, I had a fresh perspective to lend the my dream. He agreed immediately asked that my family also follow it dream. His mastery is also evident in and we set a time and a place. The step-by-step. As a result, my father’s the last part of the technique in dream was about my father and it was life was saved. Ullman’s approach, “Synthesis.” In a matter of life and death. I was fa- What most touched me about Stanley this ‘closure’ part of Ullman’s sug- miliar with Stanley’s research from my in that very first meeting was his qual- gested process, we watched Stanley’s training in parapsychology. I thought ity of presence. He listened, had brilliant mind at work. A master syn- he would be the best person to help empathy and absolute compassion. thesizer and a true composer, he me work with this kind of dream. But Although he is always busy, in that would weave together everyone’s in- I had no idea that this simple request moment he gave me/my dream all of put and interpretation of the dream, of having him work with my dream his attention. His openness, brilliance, together with the life of the dreamer. was to be the beginning of a life-long his humanity and wisdom shined Then he would give an entirely new collegial and personal friendship. through his humility. At the end of our and holistic narrative with reflection With his openness and gentle man- meeting, I knew I was in the pres- and great insight that would not only help the dreamer but everyone in the ner, he asked me to tell him the ence of an extraordinary human group. A complex networking of meta- dream. I was emotional while I re- being. phors, ideas, psychological observa- cited the short dream. He asked “How With his encouragement, a few tions, personal narrative woven into do you know this is a precognitive months later I moved to San Fran- dream?” I gave him examples of my cisco. I attended his monthly dream (Continued on page 24) 22 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 I had a sort of dream-trance the other day, in which I saw my favourite trees step out and promenade up, down and around, very curiously —

with a whisper from one, leaning down as he pass’d me, “We do all this on the present occasion, exceptionally, just for you.”

Thoughts Under an Oak ~ Walt Whitman, 1875

Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 23 Stanley Krippner (Cont’d from pg. 22) an elegant synthesis creating a spa- cans, Africans now Middle Easterners spirit. He has opened doors for many tial and imaginal realm for whomever has given him a much larger perspec- young scholars internationally. His was present. Everyone was transfixed tive, openness and compassion to- total commitment, dedication and at his exceptional skill in dreamwork. wards the common places in human- service for transformation of con- When Stanley is working with dreams ity as well as an appreciation for cul- sciousness is absolutely admirable. It he is a shamanic practitioner. His tural diversity. He indeed has become was the inspiration of having a men- model of working with dreams as a an extraordinary multidimen- tor like Stanley who works so consis- form of service was a great influence sional being. tently and diligently that gave me the on my process of working with One of our meaningful collaborative courage and strength—against all dreams. efforts was bringing this diversity as odds—to create the dream studies Stanley is known for accomplishing so program co-chairs for the IASD con- program at John F.Kennedy U. much in one lifetime. One day in ference in 1991, which was hosted by Stanley has a keen sense of percep- 1986, I asked him “But how do you another dear colleague Robert van de tion and I always trust his insights. manage to do so many things?” He Castle. Ironically the conference was Although he is internationally known could not explain but he encouraged held on the same campus where we as a serious scholar, author and me to come to his office and watch first met—in Charlottesville! We dedi- teacher, he also has a very eccentric how he worked. So I did. I went to cate the conference to diversity and and creative side. He is a lover of his office a few times, I sat behind a interdisciplinary studies and I was theater, music and the arts. He loves desk making illustrations for his new impressed with the number of re- to dance and always without fail book Dreamworking and graphics for searchers who have become close shows up at the IASD Dream Ball cos- some of his articles for parapsychol- friends of his from such diverse tumed up as a dream character. His ogy handbooks while watching him groups. We invited keynote speakers insights to my artworks and perfor- work. In a middle size office there from Native American, Afro-American, mances have been invaluable, origi- were several desks each with differ- Spanish and a North American cul- nal and profound. I am always curi- ent projects, quite orderly; he at- tures. This was the first time such di- ous about his comments. Having tended notes to each piece of paper verse keynote speakers were intro- known and worked with Stanley for at hand, each mail he opened, he re- duced into the program and ever since almost twenty-five years now, I know plied to immediately. There was no then diversity has become an integral he evolves with modern life and at such thing as taking care of it later. and important part of IASD. Our mes- the same time has the wisdom of the That is the reason he still responds to sage in that conference was that ancient world. He is one of those spe- inquiries immediately. He works as if dreams belong to every culture, ev- cial beings on earth who is mortal yet he had six hands and several brains! ery religion. In other words, dreams immortal. His stories, influences, con- He deals with different topics, differ- belong to the people of the world. tributions to humanity will be passed ent types of inquiries and his mind Our collaboration with the book Ex- on for many generations, making him had to keep switching from one to traordinary Dreams (SUNY, 2002) eternal. another. But he always concentrated brought us ever so closer. This was Stanley, I am ever so grateful to you at the task at hand. He was extremely another diverse collaboration with his for being my mentor, colleague and focused and attentive. A ‘multi- colleague André Percia de Carvalho, friend. You have been a pillar of tasker’ par excellance! a Brazillian psychologist. Challenging strength in every community you have That was my learning ground. as it was to bring three voices from been involved. I feel privileged to I really don’t know anyone who has different cultures, the results were know you and I am looking forward accomplished as much as he has in rich and rewarding. In that process, to many years of stimulating collabo- so many areas. I learned how important it is for ration and creation with you. ℘ As someone from another culture and Stanley to see that others be prop- who at times has suffered from dis- erly acknowledged, sometimes at the ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ crimination—even in my own field— expense of not acknowledging him- I’ve found Stanley to be a genuine self. He does not seek competition but ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Note: I want to thank Roberta Ossana for lover of cultural diversity. He em- true collaboration and contribution. inviting me to write this personal essay braces people from many other na- What makes Stanley stand out as an about Stan Krippner. tionalities. His work and on-going extraordinary human being is his non- egoic, non-judgmental, ever encour- research with South Americans, Rus- Contact Ms. Bogzaran via email at aging and generous attitude and sian, East Europeans, Native Ameri- [email protected] 24 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 Precognitive Dreams

Wilda Tanner ~ Madame Blavatsky ~ Charles deBeer & Me Connections Over Time Via An Important Precognitive Dream

by Noreen Wessling

wo significant happenings T This photograph is in shades of gray important, so I email him. He prompted me, with fervor, and black and the movement comes graciously emails me back from South to write this article. from series of slightly different Africa, encouraging me to include the First, reading Dream Network pictures shown rapidly one after the following letter to him in my article (Vol. 25 No. 4) with its invitation to send other. The words ‘tintype’ or ‘lino- for Dream Network. Hopefully, dear in an article on “Your Most Important type’ come to mind. As I watch with reader, you will see how this all ties Precognitive Dream.” I knew this had fascinated rapt attention, Madame together in my ‘Precognitive Puzzler.’ to be my dream of Madame Blavatsky. Blavatsky becomes Isis of Egypt Next, I am instantly reminded of an who now does a series of MUDRA Letter to Charles de Beer article by Charles de Beer in the movements, mostly with her arms Dear Charles, previous Dream Network (Volume 25 and fingers which ‘hold’ in specific Thank you very much for your No. 4). I had already underlined with positions for a few seconds each. fascinating article in a recent Dream yellow markers many points of “The finger symbols are especially Network, entitled “Reading” Dreams. interest for me. Specifically his relevant,” she tells me, “and the As I carefully read it, I became more mention of Madame Blavatsky. connection here goes back to and more riveted by your explor- ancient India and Egypt.” Madame That's all I needed! I HAD to write ations. You are a true 'dream sleuth' B. gives me this ‘rare footage,’ as this article. after my own heart. she puts it, for my birthday gift … Birthday Incubation: since I asked. Telling My Story November 1, 2000 End of dream You might enjoy this story. A few “I would like a very special wonderful Seven Years Later years ago I had a profound dream dream for my birthday tomorrow … about Madame Blavatsky. I wanted Now, SEVEN years later, I am much and remember it! Thank you.” very much to discuss it with Wilda impressed by a recent article written Tanner. She is my dear friend who Dream: (original title) by Charles de Beer in Vol. 25 No. 4 of wrote Your Mystical, Magical, “Gift from Madame Blavatsky” Dream Network, titled “Reading” Marvelous World of Dreams which There appears before me a very Dreams. My intrigue piques as I notice continues to sell well. Wilda and I had early moving photograph of H.P. Blavatsky is mentioned in his our dream group together for many Madame Blavatsky article. years. The Juicy Dreamers, we called as a young woman. The connection with Charles feels ourselves. Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 25 technique used in her healing work consisted of placing my fingers in various Mudra-like positions, each of which reflected emotional and physical areas with which I needed to work. I feel she helped me greatly. Powerful and enigmatic, this dream nonetheless remains mostly a mystery to me on the conscious level, yet my sense is that my super- conscious is still reeling from it’s gifts. Just when I least expect it, I muse over Charles’s article a few more Wilda Died!Died!Wilda times. I am struck, as if by a I laughed! “Just like you Wilda,” I thunderbolt, by this section. However, right at the time I wanted smiled. The caption under the photo “The Secret Doctrine was the book to explore my Blavatsky dream with read, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, containing the message the dreamer Wilda, Wilda died! 1831 - 1891. had to get and ponder; possibly A few days later I was in her home This photo is accompanied by an meaning that an intellectual approach and her son asked me to take any of article about her, titled "The Russian to life’s mysteries has to be replaced Wilda's vast collection of books if I Sphinx." You can imagine how I by surrendering as an act of faith to wanted. As I wandered around her devoured this article. As I did, my whatever guides our destiny.” bookshelves, feeling her loving original dream of her took on many presence, I had this internal Full CircleCircleFull more layers of meaning. conversation with her which went like I feel I have come full circle in the Most of all Charles, thank you for your this ... seven years since receiving this numerous contributions to Dream splendid dream. Now I surrender to How Wilda Guided Me Network over the years. I always however this precious dream gift enjoy reading your words of wisdom. to Madame Blavatsky wants to continue to guide me. (end of email to Charles) "Wilda, daggone it! Why did you have Writing this article for Dream Network to die right now when I need to go Exploring the Original has brought light into the shadowy over this great Blavatsky dream with Birthday Dream-Gift places of this dream, prodded by you?” delightful assistance from Wilda and Seven years ago when the original You'll love this part Charles! At that Charles... and undoubtedly from birthday dream came, I avidly read moment, I looked up at the high book Madame Blavatsky herself, in all her Madame B.’s story in Wilda’s big red shelf of Wilda's that I hadn't noticed glory! ℘ book; researched everything I could before, where the BIG books were find in the library; tried to plow placed. I noticed that one book was through, not too successfully, Madame pulled out further than the rest, B’s Secret Doctrine. I bought books almost ready to fall out. So, of course, on Mudra’s and experimented with I pulled it down to discover The different hand positions, yet nothing Noreen is owner of 7 Arts Studio in Milford Phoenix by Manly P. Hall. OH, where she offers ongoing classes in Tai seemed to really click for me at that Chi, Dream Groups, Drum Circles and a As I opened the hefty book, the very time. variety of Workshops, including Touch first page to greet me shows a huge However, in retrospect, I believe the Drawing. portrait of Madame B. staring right Mudra aspect may have been pre- Noreen is also a contributing author for into my eyes. This shook me pro- cognitive, because last year, 2006, I Dream Network and a member of the foundly even as I knew that Wilda, in worked with a holistic healer for Council of Advisors. her inimitable way, had set this up so almost a year, only to find out as Sheinvites you to visit her website: I could no longer gripe that she didn’t sessions progressed that the major www.creativespirit.net/noreens7artsstudio help me with this dream. Email: [email protected] 26 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 “The“The OakOak isis FFeeelledlledlled inin thethe Acorn”Acorn”

by Paco Mitchell

To those who take dreams dream seemed to give was the seriously, the idea that dreams can psychological work the dream impli- reveal aspects of the future should not citly called for, the “task” of the seem too outrageous or bizarre. dream. It would take several years Just as the body of an infant carries for the pre-cognitive image that was the seed-potential of the mature embedded in the dream all along, to adult, and the body of the mature reveal itself at last. adult carries the seed- potential of Here is the dream as told to me: advanced age, so dreams portray the I find myself in a dark, developing tendencies of the psyche. underground tunnel-like space. The As Dylan Thomas put it so poetically only source of light comes from a (in The Ballad of the Long-Legged world of dreams, we are always over sort of kiosk or ticket booth. A Bait): “The oak is felled in the acorn, our heads. female attendant is inside the and the hawk in the egg kills the One chastening aspect of dreams is booth. I approach her and ask for wren.” the way they disturb our whole my “medical records.” She says to Jung himself took great pains to point modern notion of “time” as an me: “I can’t give you a diagnosis. out the “teleological” aspect of dreams irreversible, linear string of events. All I can tell you is that it says you — how they often point to future Though we still commonly think in have unforgiving tissues and must potentials and goals. As a result, a these terms, linear time has been out see Dr. Greenfield.” great many dreams, perhaps even a of date for quite a while. Especially (End of dream) majority, anticipate future trends. when we consider the phenomena of Since at the time the woman was, Many dreams suggest heightened the unconscious, and dreams in and had always been, in perfect variations on this theme: premonitory, particular, we are frequently driven to health, she assumed that “Dr. pre-cognitive, prophetic. Unfortunate- reconsider linear time. How often do Greenfield” was a metaphor for green ly, there is often a careless use we encounter dreams that seem to fields—open, sunlit, grassy mead- attached to these terms, since we bundle past, present and future in ows—in other words, some kind of usually don’t bother to draw fine stunning, layered and complex attitudinal counter-balance to the distinctions between, say, dreams images? And yet amazingly, at the darker realm of “ unforgiving tissues.” which carry a sense of foreboding and same time, they tell a single, simple are followed by some unfortunate story. The latter image brought up the occurrence, and a dream featuring complex moral terrain of forgiveness One such dream came to a middle- specific details which “come true.” and, particularly, its lack, with all the aged woman who, when she exam- corollary passions that attend its In the end, of course, these intell- ined the dream, found that the images absence: rancor, anger, grudges, ectual distinctions fall short of the within it pointed to existing attitudes resentment, and so forth. Naturally phenomena they presume to cate- that extended far into her past. Past this was fertile ground for long gorize, which ultimately lie beyond the and present, then, were coiled ruminations and associations: a failed ken of the intellect. We should never together in the dream, but where was marriage, disappointing friendships forget that when we enter the watery the future? The only indication the and the like. Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 27 The medical context of a request for Her work with Dr. Greenfield Furthermore, I would say that great “records,” the hint of a “ diagnosis,” proceeded over those five years, wisdom was revealed through the the involvement of “tissues” and the during which time he became a dream, as it bodied forth all that referral to an unknown “doctor,” all supportive ally. Now he is about to knowledge in exquisite, intelligible seemed at the time to suggest that, retire, hopefully to his own green images which told her everything she whatever the “unforgiving” issue was, fields. So far the dreamer has needed to know. it went deep, possibly even to somatic surmounted the challenges she faced, It’s easy to dismiss all this, of course, levels, and healing was called for. including the “ unforgiving tissues,” as “just a coincidence.” This is our and continues in good health. The There was plenty of work to do with cynical reflex, the way we dismiss dream presented her with a bitter what was apparent in the dream. In inconvenient truths and baffling truth, a task and a challenge, but it that sense the dream pointed toward connections that overwhelm the frail also offered her a way through the the future, teleologically, as if to say: scaffolding of our logic. Where the coming difficulties, and a path to the “This is what you have to work on rational-materialistic bias still holds other side. from here on out.” sway, we shrink before the healthy Four years later she was diagnosed In retrospect, the pre-cognitive aspect recognition that dreams and “reality” with breast cancer. When she con- of the dream was only revealed after are meaningfully inter-connected in sulted her primary physician to she had received the cancer diagnosis one mysterious whole. discuss her treatment options, he and needed a good oncologist. There But the person who pays attention showed her a list of oncologists. One was no question that, with the dream and experiences the felt impact of name stood out from all the others in the background, she would be those connections—and who makes on the list: Dr. Greenfield. Without consulting “Dr. Greenfield.” changes in her life because of them— mentioning why she focussed on that My experience with dreams inclines may well be leading the way toward particular name, she asked the doctor me to say that the dream “knew” all a wiser future than the one to which if there really was a Dr. Greenfield. this, that it incorporated—in some the world of the machine is currently The answer, of course, was “yes.” mysterious way—knowledge of her leading us. ℘ That was five years ago. past, present, and future. Email Paco at [email protected] 28 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 Using Dreams and Dreaming Volumes I and II – The Edgar Cayce Readings, I tabulated 918 dreams that Cayce interpreted in his trance state. These dreams were submitted by forty-five dreamers. Twenty-three of these had only one dream submitted. On the other hand, four-hundred seventy-five – fifty-one percent — were from one PrecognitionPrecognitionPrecognition dreamer. “Mr. 900”. Eighty-five were Cayce’s own dreams. This tabulation work is my own assessment but I feel For Sure!Sure!For it has validity and is worth presenting. Cayce’s comments in the readings by Janice Baylis with the dreams were used to classify the dreams into categories. In many cases, Cayce indicated that the dreams were precognitive. In order for me to classify the dream as precognitive the reading had to Sometimes if the given human in include such remarks as: “How did you know?” I gasped. need isn’t sensitive enough to receive Mabel explained, “I dreamed it last “for dreams are that of which the the information it may come through night. But, I didn’t tell you it was a subconscious is made, for any to another human who is receptive. dream because I was afraid you’d conditions ever becoming reality In October 1959 such an event took think it was silly to pay attention to a is first dreamed.” (Reading 136- place in my life. Here is that story. dream.” 7) or “Each day I was driving thirty miles “as the entity experiences [in the “Thank God you did.” I stammered. to the elementary school where I dream] it is coming!” (Reading “WOW!” said eight-year-old Brad from taught third grade. I took my three 136-54) or the back seat. young sons with me. Mable, the first “This as we find, is of the super- grade teacher, had surgery and I was In October 2004 Los Angeles tele- conscious forces, presenting… in picking her up in Pacoima so she vision news reported a similar airplane an emblematical form, that may wouldn’t have to drive her whole crash at the same little airfield. I be the warning for the entity.” thirty-six mile commute. thought probably the crash in 1959 (Reading 137-22). had also made the news. An internet “On Thursday, October 22nd my Of the 918 dreams, 22% were search revealed that the then local phone rang at 5 am. It was Mabel. cited as being precognitive. The newspaper “The Van Nuys Green “I don’t feel right taking up space in reason I was drawn to figure the Sheet” was on microfiche at California the strip mall parking lot all day. Will percentage of precognitive dreams in State University Northridge. I went you pick me up around the corner? the Cayce dream readings is because there and found the report including I’ll leave my car on the residential so many of my own dreams have this photograph street.” proven to be precognitive. Coming up This experience that kept Mable, my “Okay,” I agreed, “I’ll meet you at now is my favorite personal pre- three sons and I out from under the seven o’clock as usual.” cognitive dream. The precognitive crashed airplane launched me on a “As Mabel was getting into my car detail is amazing. life-long, self- directed and academic around the corner from our usual At the time of this dream I was study of dreams. Also, I became more meeting spot, we heard a loud working as a Reading Specialist at sensitive to higher consciousness. CRASH! As we rounded the corner we Fremont Elementary in Santa Ana Dreams, like water, take the size and saw a small, private airplane upside California. In March our school was shape of the container, the dreamer. down in the place where we had been designated as “disadvantaged”. A I’ve always maintained my focus on meeting. I stopped the car and stared committee was formed to plan how the practical side of dreaming. at Mabel.” to use the extra Aid to Education 26 26 Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 29 Funds. One part of the plan called for So. I had a class of Mentally Gifted flooding of Fremont School last a half-day teacher to conduct a Minors slated for me. Field trips are a December?” Three quarters of the Mentally Gifted Minors, MGM, pro- vital part of any MGM program. That’s students had been sent back to the gram. When I heard about the plan, I as far as I got but it was far enough old dilapidated campus for several approached the principal asking for for me. In June the matter hadn’t weeks. Those of us who stayed in this this position next fall. He said that been settled but the principal assured new building were frequently naus- since I was the first to ask, I was well me that if it was approved I had the eated from the stench of wet carpet qualified and if the program became position. I figured there would be time padding. Here they were working on a reality I could have the job in to plan the actual program come a news reporting project similar to September. August. “Weekly Reader” news. That night in March I had this dream, In August I received a call from the One problem was that I didn’t know principal. Yes, the program had been how to operate a video camera and I was teaching a small class of approved. However, the black woman neither did the school librarian. She students, 15 or so. My oldest son who had been a student teacher in suggested that I check with Charlie, was one of the students. Another Ms. E’s homeroom last spring also the night custodian. She said he’d student was a black girl currently in wanted the position. Her husband had been investigating the video camera one of my reading groups from Ms. been in an accident and teaching half- on his midnight lunch breaks. Good E’s homeroom. day would be much easier for them. ole’ Charlie to back me up! He agreed We were working on “Weekly He left it up to me. I said she could to stay after his shift in the morning Readers”, the student newspaper. have the assignment, teaching just and actively work with the older I’d had the children put them in reading isn’t too bad. Still I wondered children on the interview program. folders of clear plastic which we about that dream. They interviewed the nurse, teachers, teachers call magic slates. This way When school opened in September office staff and even the super- one group can mark answers with the Reading Department – that was intendent of schools. Charlie was crayons and then rub the slate clean me—and the English as a Second terrific. He was in the dream under for the next group. Language (ESL) Department were the guise of the large green trash The little black girl had taken hers having a serious difference of opinion barrel. This is one of those object out and marked on the paper. I about which reading series to use to equals associated person went to her and had her erase that teach beginning reading to our many substitutions. mark and put the newspaper back ESL students. I was instrumental in The younger first and second graders in the magic slate. settling the issue in favor of the series worked on a different program. We Then I was preparing to take the preferred by the district Reading studied whales. In February, for our class on a field trip. There was one Department. This was an important field trip, we took a whale watching of the school’s large green trash issue and I took that as the reason I boat out of Newport Harbor to observe barrels in the classroom. The boys didn’t get the MGM class. the whales migrating from Alaska to and girls were putting their lunch Meanwhile the woman who had taken Mexico. Seems there was something bags into a fishnet suspended inside the MGM class turned up pregnant. fishy about how dream-mind had the trash barrel to take on the trip. She left the position by November. I noted so much precognitive detail. All I knew there was a man standing had the MGM class! Her mark on it this is a matter of record. I told the behind me. He was going on the trip was erased. It was indeed slated for me. dream to the librarian and other with us to help handle the kids. I reading teacher in March. That was Now I was faced with planning a really didn’t see who it was. long before I had any idea what kind special program to challenge these When I recorded the dream, I under- gifted students from disadvantaged of programs I would teach – IF I got stood this much of the meaning right homes. Some of the extra money had the MGM assignment. This dream away. The son in the dream had been been used to purchase a video certainly speaks to the higher levels given an IQ test and parts of his score camera—a novelty in 1974. I decided of consciousness lurking in the human were very high, in the gifted range. the MGM kids could make an interview mind. ℘ He also had birth neurological damage news program to be housed in the ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ and was low in spatial relations which school library for teacher classroom Note: One reason I wanted that half-day made learning hard. He would be use. We had had a BIG EVENT in our assignment was so I could have time to classified as a disadvantaged gifted school the previous year which would write SLEEP ON IT! The Practical Side of student. The black girl from Ms. E’s make for interesting interview quest- Dreaming. class I took to represent a minor(ity). ions. “How do you feel now about the Contact Ms. Baylis @[email protected] 30 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 the creative juices flowing. She likeness of Marilyn Monroe on the suggested taking a favorite painting purse was even more verification to and writing a story prompted by the pay attention to these events. subject matter. This thought appealed My intuition told me to develop a story to me so I went to the library and about the Monroe portrait. The writing check out a huge anthology on famous just flowed. Within a few days I paintings for inspiration. When I completed the work. I named it opened the book, I felt a dé jà vu Picture Perfect and the short story was about the dreams I had two weeks published a few months later. earlier. It took some time to piece together After looking at hundreds of paintings, the chain of events but it was well I felt drawn toward five of them. I had worth it. Some skeptics have said that ideas for all of them but I couldn’t this was an uncanny coincidence or figure out which one to start writing selective perception on my part. a story about. One was Andy Warhol’s Fortunately, I paid attention to my Marilyn Diptych. The diptych format dreams and had them guide me to comes from the Byzantine icons of accomplish my creative goal. ℘ Christian saints. On a weekly basis I met with a ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Precognitive Dreaming another group of people. We would read a chapter in a book on spiritual Early Inspiration and Creativity development, discuss the contents, by Marie Otte by Marie Otte and then talk about our nightly dreams. While meeting with this group, I noticed that a small stack of back in the dream Precognitive dreams work in a repeating as a theme books had been removed from an end variety of ways for dreamers. They ascending stairs table in the leader’s house. They had have informed people about things with pillars in pairs been there for several weeks and that occurred the next day. Some- covered up a diptych of Mary and times they have been a mystery with high ceilings, spacious walls Jesus on the table that was now in a silver lining that later unfolded and perfect light falls plain sight. This caught my attention. benefited the dreamer. This link this expansive art gallery The next week, I returned to the seems intriguingly bleary between the dream and the event has leader’s house for our meeting. Her taken days, months and even years teen-age daughter walked into the many paintings discharge to comprehend. house, set her keys and purse on the faintly For two weeks, I had dreams about table in front of the diptych. The while one portrait is art galleries and museums. The walls handbag had a picture of Marilyn glowing saintly were covered with framed paintings preparing me for the Monroe printed on the front. I was and photographed pictures of indi- future stunned but aware of what was going vidual portraits. Small groups of what I need to secure on. people walked around and admired I hadn’t understood why I had dreams the art. These dreams didn’t seem emotions are added on about paintings until this event to have a deep message or meaning by this feminine icon occurred. They were precognitive for me. When I woke up in the she makes flowing words about the inspirational writing idea mandatory morning, I felt a calmness from that I received when I met with the as we complete my short experiencing the nightly artistic tours. writing group. Finding the Marilyn story I belonged to a writers group that met Diptych picture in the book got me on a monthly basis. We brought in a close to coming up with an idea to ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ variety of individual manuscripts, start my writing. The keys on the table read the material, and critiqued each opened up the door to a synchronicity. other. A week after I had these Marie Otte is a writer and has been This manifested in the icons of Mary dreams, the person in charge of the doing dream work for ten years. Email: and Jesus on the table. Seeing the group gave us a writing idea to get [email protected] Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 31 The KissKissThe and the Crystal Heart A Dream That Really Happened

Elizabeth L. Howard, M.A., © 2007

The dream of “the kiss” came to me on Novem- The person to whom I gave the crystal heart was some- ber 13, 1979. I was living in a big house on Cowpen one I liked a lot and my own heart “went out to him” in Lake near Hawthorne, Florida, the area that I consider the loss of his little girl. It was a tragedy; we lived in a to be my spiritual home. I had some money after my close, small community where we felt each other’s sor- mother died and I had left the Bell Ridge community to rows and joys. Even so, we were not lovers or even move from a tiny cottage into a roomy lake house where close friends, so a hug may have been exchanged but I had two fireplaces, a big screen porch and a tiny, not a kiss. bright room facing the lake. It was there I kept my When I got up in the morning after having this dream, most sacred and beautiful objects. I completed my M.A. I considered that I might not go to town and give Dan thesis in that house, received my M.A. from Goddard the crystal. It was an emotional time for me personally, College and my certification in Gestalt Therapy from as well, and I was taking a risk to go “heart to heart” Vincent O’Connell. This is when I began to live my with another person whom I didn’t know too well. Of dreams. course, I did go to town. I went to the health food store The dream of “the kiss” is important in a number of and I gave Dan the little heart and I said, “To help heal ways. It was my first precognitive dream that mani- your heart.. ” He kissed me. fested so quickly. There was no mistaking that this The dream is still important to me today. It always makes dream really happened. I had an idea to take an ac- me smile, because it reminds me to risk an open heart, tion, I dreamed it, I was able to think and to decide the to give a gift when I can and especially because I went action... and in order for the dream to happen, another to bed last night thinking I couldn’t write this article, person had to take an action that I couldn’t control. and when I woke up this morning, I knew I could! So I have a little heart-shaped crystal prism. I decide I here it is, with love to you from Elizabeth. ℘ will give it to Dan D., whose little girl has died. Elizabeth Howard has her M.A. in Gestalt Therapy. She lives in This will help to heal his heart. I take the little heart Gainesville, Florida, where she practices as a Holistic Counse- to the health food store where Dan works. lor with a specialty in Dreamwork and Animal Communication. I give it to him and he kisses me. She can be contacted by email at [email protected].

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To Do or Not To Do

©2007 by Marlene King, M.A.

Making decisions is a part of indecision about the moral and right locate a copy and repeat the process all our lives—almost minute by spiritual decision played into her with the actual book in hand. minute—but the big life decisions process as reflected in the symbolism If there are still blocks when doing concern us more and often show up of the dream. I pointed out that the the re-entry exercise, one might in our dreams. If they do, it can be dream books could contain spiritual incubate a dream where you ask for a golden opportunity to use dreams wisdom as to what to do, as well as clear images that will give you an “ah- to make the decision-making process provide comforting words and con- ha” experience that cements the easier. cepts needed to heal after a decision course of action you need to take. was made. Recently, a woman wrote saying she In Working With Dreams, Ullman/ was remembering the essence of her My suggestions for this dreamer Zimmerman state: “Dream con- dreams when she awakened and included dream re-entry. I instructed sciousness offers a different and most had to do with finding her car. her to find a quiet place and get in larger perspective on our lives than touch with the feelings and images “I just remember going to places I is available to us while we are awake. she had when she awakened. After thought it [the car] would be and it Since the images derive from a point she was experiencing the feelings, she was never there.” ~ M.L. outside the waking system, the view was to put herself into the dream they encompass of that system is a When I asked her what was going on scenario seeing herself finding her car, more inclusive one.” in her life where she felt she couldn’t delighting in the relief and joy of the Dreams are the shepherds of our find a way to be transported, she said experience and getting in and driving sleep and care for us in ways and she was conflicted about selling her away to a specific destination, dimensions we have yet to discover. house and moving or not. Clearly, arriving without problems or detours. her dreams about being unable to Take time to allow them to help you Similarly, I suggested she re-enter the find a way to “move” had to do with make decisions about any questions second dream, quieting her mind and her indecision about a major life that are clouded by doubt. going back into the dream scene. I change. It is comforting to find solutions to suggested she attempt to see the perplexing problems through your Later she had another dream: titles of the books she was being own dream processes. It is also offered and select one to which she “I was with [my minister]. She had amazing how much wisdom we store was drawn to on first instinct, open it some [spiritual] books and she was in our psyches to help us out when at random and find a message. Then going to give me one. I couldn’t we are willing to be open to accessing I suggested she thank her benefactor decide which one.” ~M. L. and trusting it. ℘ for the gift and that whatever she She also shared that she was having found written or communicated by a difficult time about deciding ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ feeling or impression, to embrace it whether or not to have her beloved and recall it upon bringing her pet companion dog put down or not consciousness back to the present. If you have a dream you would like to since the it was struggling with a life I further suggested if the book title have explored in this column, please threatening illness. Once again, her was one that actually existed, to contact Ms. King at [email protected] Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 33 Your Fundamental Power. not only our self esteem but also our Audio CD Review lives. As co-creators of our own The timing was perfect, I have been by Bambi Corso reality, our entire life revolves around curious about self esteem in a whole the choices we make, and those different way because I knew my choices are based on our sense of self simple understanding of it was not Self Esteem: esteem. It’s like a big circle, each near complete, yet I found it difficult Your Fundamental Power determining the outcome of the other. By Caroline Myss to learn more than what I have read Self esteem is about valuing who we Audio CD, Sounds True or listened to over the years. Now, truly are, and in doing so, it requires 4 CDs, Running time: 5 hours two months later, I have listened to paying attention to the subtlest of these CD’s at least four times, feelings, the softest of sounds, the elf esteem because within them, is the most S is an interesting slightest visions and of course, the comprehensive discussion about self subject. We all know what it is, at least imagery in dreams. No thing can go esteem that I have ever heard. we think we do, and we all know unnoticed by us if we want change to whether we feel a good sense of it In her series, Self Esteem, Caroline occur in our daily life. within ourselves or not. It is common Myss walks us through a true and in- “How would your life change if your to hear people comment about the depth description of what self esteem self esteem improved?” Myss asks. I work they have done on themselves really is, and redefines it as an actual can guarantee you, listening to this regarding their self esteem and what “core power”, going so far as to say tape series will allow you a new set of it takes for each of us to maintain it. that “self esteem is the fundamental eyes (and ears) when you ponder that However, of all the things I have read power of life.” Caroline says, “I believe question. This series is far more than and understand about self esteem, I the absence of self esteem, a low self just self esteem, it is about life choices have never heard it discussed in such esteem, is a spiritual crisis, it’s not on a moment-by-moment basis, why a thorough, in-depth and easy to just a psychological one”, and goes we make those choices, and how to understand manner as in Caroline on to discuss how our decisions, and work with them when they show up Myss’s audio CD series, Self Esteem, the reasons for our decisions, affect in our lives. ℘ 34 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 DREAMSDREAMS ININ THETHE NEWSNEWS

CheeseCheeseCheese by Russell A. Lockhart, Ph.D.

When sleep pervades your dane. The picture show the brain double aspect of cheese enters into brain the neurotransmitters creates under these conditions of many expressions. Cheesecake associated with clear think- sleep we know and remember as refers not only to the delectable ing and attention diminish dreams. Everything in our daylight desert, but to a delectable female, while the neuro-transmitter asso- world is subject to “re-vision” in this while “big cheese” is slang for an ciated with random or fanciful nighttime world. important person said with an edge images increases. Your prefrontal The chemical soup compounded in of sarcasm. Saying “cheese” cortex, which underlies rational the brain during sleep I imagine produces a nice smile as every decisions and the memory pro- could be affected by the chemistry photographer knows. However, cesses that support them, shuts of what we eat or drink before bed “cheesy” refers to poor quality or down while the lower brain areas time. Too much pizza, for example, most anything that is tasteless. To associated with affect are charged might produce conditions that are be “cheesed” is to be put into a bad with energy. In this way, we might referred to in the old myth that temper, and “cheese it” means to say the brain loses its logical mind cheese produces nightmares. cut it out, knock it off, or stop it. but seems to delight in making new However, dreaming of cheese is As you can see, cheese, one of the associations that are routinely thought to be related to gain or oldest of English words (originally original, bizarre, or totally mun- profit—at least in folk tradition. This cese), suffers a bit of a bad rap. Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 35 I was ruminating on this because a Board, charged with increasing friend brought to my attention a consumption of British cheese in the news article with the title, “Sweet UK, was ecstatic with the results of Dreams Are Made of Cheese.” It this study. Perhaps of more general seems that no less than the British interest, however, were some of the Cheese Board decided to do some- startling findings of the study thing about this alarming state of relating to the different types of affairs. cheese and their effect on sleep and by all means get some Red According to the article, the in- dreams. Pay attention now because Leicester in your larder at once. Not depth “Cheese and Dream” study this opens up a whole new way to only does this cheese produce 83% is a first. Two-hundred volunteers approach bed time. high quality sleep, it’s great for (100 male, 100 female) took part Male or female, if you want good visiting times past for both males in a week-long study, each con- or very good sleep without dreams, and females. suming a 20 gram piece of cheese take up Cheshire. It should be OK, ladies. If you are looking for 30 minutes before going to sleep. noted that long before Lewis Carroll something bizarre, odd, and really In the morning, each participant popularized the grin of the disa- out of the ordinary and yet sleep recorded the quality of sleep and ppearing Cheshire cat in Alice’s really well, then keep some Stilton wrote out any dreams they re- Adventures in Wonderland, Che- handy at your bedside. How much membered. The participants were shire cheese was molded in form better can it get than dinner party divided into six groups, with each of a cat—a grinning cat at that. guests being traded for camels, or group receiving a different type of If you cotton to associating with soldiers fighting each other with British cheese: Stilton, Cheddar, celebrities in your sleep, then kittens instead of guns? Guys, Red Leicester, Brie, Lancashire, and Cheddar is for you. One Cheddar- you’ll have vivid and odd dreams Cheshire. inspired dream of a young woman too, but you won’t match the The overall results showed that showed Johnny Depp supervising women-folk. 72% of the participants rated their the construction of a human Now I think that old Eugene Field sleep quality as good or better and pyramid. (of “Wynken, Blynken and Nod” 67% remembered at least some If you want help at work, or perhaps fame) was a man ahead of his time. dreams. Interestingly, no one even changing careers, then take If you are ever in Chicago, go to reported any nightmares. up bedtime with Lancashire. A full the Lincoln Park Zoo, and look for Dr. Judith Bryans, a Nutrition two-thirds of Lancashire eaters the statue of the “Dream Lady.” Scientist at the British Dairy dreamed of work. However, only This is Field’s memorial. But what Council, and Dr. Neil Stanley, 30% of these dreams were about I am thinking of is one of his little Director of Sleep Research at the real work situations, so they may light rhymes that he was famous University of Surrey, both con- point to new lines of work. One lady for: cluded that eating cheese before dreamt of herself as Prime Minister. But I, when I undress me, bedtime may promote a good Now there’s ambition for you! Each night, upon my knees, night’s sleep. A good reason If you are a guy, you might want to Will ask the Lord to bless me, perhaps is that cheese contains a avoid Brie. Brie seems to cause the With apple pie and cheese. quantity of tryptophan, an enzyme male psyche to produce odd, Of course this first study has only that has sedating and stress- bizarre or very obscure dreams. scratched the surface. Keep in mind reducing effects. Tryptophan uptake Like having a drunken conversation there are over 700 varieties of is actually enhanced by ingestion with a dog. Women Brie-eaters British cheese, not to mention the with carbohydrates, thus cheese however, had pleasant dreams, myriad varieties of cheeses from pizza or cheesecake, might very such as lying about on a warm other countries—a whole life time well be a promoter of good quality beach. of cheese. So, experiment away. If sleep and dreams. Now if you are nostalgic for your you’ve a mind to, send me the Imagine that! childhood, or your old school results at [email protected] and In any event, the British Cheese chums, or your home town, then I’ll keep a tally. ℘

36 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 The Art of DreamSharing & Education

gotten dreamed up to play out, in full- morally insane. Pirates are truly bodied form, the archetypal, mythical sociopathic, as they have no con- role of pirate, which is a figure that science. They have become possess- exists deep within the collective ed by the power-drive of the shadow, unconscious of humanity. which compels them to transgress and violate individuals’ (or nations’) Instead of pirates of the Caribbean, boundaries. Pirates are driven to however, Bush and Co. are pirates of dominate and enslave others, as they what Buckminster Fuller called act out the shadow of which they “spaceship earth.” In his book themselves are possessed. Pirates are Operating Manual for Spaceship symbolic of a virulent element in the Earth, Fuller pointed out how piracy human psyche which has become has been one of the chief underlying addicted to power and taken over by factors shaping western history, and greed and lust for blood and booty. thus determining the way our world Pirates are malignant narcissists, as power structure has developed and they only care about their own still operates. masturbatory fantasies - they see the Bush: Planetary Pirate For example, in a truly ground- world as something they are entitled ©2007 by Paul Levy breaking expose that is easy to to loot and symbolically rape. They overlook because there are so many believe they can get away with W e live in a world where the other administration scandals com- murder—literally. Like a genuine deeper, underlying mythic patterns peting for our attention, investigative sociopath, pirates lack the facility to that have endlessly reiterated them- reporter Seymour Hersh in his latest empathically see through their selves throughout human history are article titled “The Redirection,” has victim’s eyes. Like a true predator, incarnating and revealing themselves uncovered that the Bush regime is these privateers relate to others as through world events for all who have covertly funneling funds earmarked objects from whom they can try to eyes to see. As if in a timeless fairy for Iraq’s reconstruction into fo- satisfy their never-ending hedonistic tale, our species has gotten drafted menting sectarian violence and desire for pleasure. When pirates into playing out roles in a vast, multi- igniting civil wars in the region. Their seize power, they do what is best for dimensional process which is re- underlying intention is to create themselves, with no regard for vealing itself as it acts itself out enough chaos so that they can anyone else – those who don’t through us. Seeing the mythical, reconfigure the Middle East and support their dark vision get meta- archetypal roles that are being thereby achieve their geo-political phorically “thrown overboard.” unconsciously enacted in the world aim of seizing the oil and natural gas theater initiates a process of deep reserves in the region. This is truly a Pirates symbolize the pathological transformation, both within ourselves diabolical act of modern-day global figure of the predator who gets fed and the world at large. piracy writ large on the world stage and even energized by doing violence to others. Pirates are an incarnation In this mythical drama we find that is utterly perverse. of the role of perpetrator or abuser, ourselves in, our planet has been Pirates (and I am referring not to the as they are the initiators of agg- pirated and co-opted by the figure of romanticized Hollywood version, but ression based on their own insatiable George Bush and his gang of robber to those who commit criminal acts of blood-lust. Pirates are symbolic of the barons, who have taken control of the theft and violence against others, murderous insanity of the separate most powerful war machine the world a.k.a., piracy) are symbolic of a self, as in their marauding violence has ever known and are using it to macho, testosterone-driven patho- they are completely and utterly accomplish their own self-serving logical figure in the human psyche asleep to our interconnectedness. agenda. They are in the process of that, just like a bully, abuses power taking us hostage in our own country over others because they can. They Pirates are embodiments of the and are using our homeland to pillage and murder simply because pathological aspect of our species that plunder and terrorize the rest of the others can’t stop them— which is is susceptible to joining into lawless planet. In this cosmic drama we are morally indefensible. Pirates are not gangs so as to prey on and steal from all sharing, George Bush and Co. have merely criminally insane, they are those who are weaker. Because of the

Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 37 fact that these gangsters always nation – and “captivated” the minds blame, that we are all responsible. configure themselves into groups, of millions of our populace—brain- Yes, on one level, we are all co- they are like organized crime syn- washing people by playing on their creating and dreaming up this uni- dicates. Pirates operate outside the fear. We must recognize our complicity verse together, which is to say we are restricting laws of conventional in allowing these depraved warlords all complicit in different ways in what bureaucracy, as they live by a to rule over us, otherwise we are is playing out and there is no one to different set of rules than everyone unwittingly serving and supporting blame. But to be fully identified with else. They are true outlaws, as they them as if they are our masters. Their this absolute point of view is to live outside the law. power over us depends upon our marginalize that from another very If it sounds like I am describing being disconnected from each other real point of view, relatively speaking, George Bush and Co., it is because as well as from ourselves. We play there are people who are perpetrating Bush and his henchmen are uncon- right into their hands if we believe violence and abuse onto others. It is sciously possessed by, and therefore ourselves to be so disempowered. the most compassionate thing to do embodying and pathologically acting Their worst nightmare would be for at these moments of abuse to not out on the world stage the mythical, us to connect with our intrinsic pretend the violence is something archetypal role of pirate. Pirates are creative power as well as each other. other than what it is. symbolic of the archetypal quality of Having seized control of our country, One of the unconscious, shadow sides “evil”, one of whose inner meanings, they have emptied the coffers of our of the well-intentioned spiritual, etymologically speaking, is to “trans- national treasury, and enlisted our progressive and liberal movements is gress boundaries”. Bush and Co. have nation into serving their barbaric to be hesitant to cast blame when it become instruments for darker ends. We need to recognize the extent is the very skillful and enlightened powers to incarnate themselves into of the Bush regime’s utter criminality. response which is called for. Those our world. The figure of pirate is an In a universal court of law, those who are perpetrating violence have a archetypal, mythic image that re- committing piracy are considered to name and an address. This doesn’t presents and symbolizes a darker, be “hostis humani generic,” a Latin mean we don’t love them, have sick, sadistic and self-destructive part term which translates as “enemies of compassion for them and forgive of ourselves. humanity.” In essence, pirates like them. It does mean, however, that we It is like we are on a ship that Bush Bush have declared war against stop them from perpetrating further and Cheney have hijacked (the word humanity, who they hold in contempt. abuse if we are able and hold them “plane hijacker” in French is “pirate accountable for their actions. People From the dreaming point of view, de l’air”; we can thus call Bush and who are compulsively enacting whose logic is not linear but synchro- Co. “pirate de la planete”—planet violence in the world will not stop nistic, it is not a coincidence that Bush hijacker). They literally hijacked— voluntarily, they are literally crying out is a member of “ Skull and Bones,” stole—both the 2000 and the 2004 for and dreaming up other people who which is the very symbol of piracy. elections. When these planetary are courageous enough to set a Nor is it an accident that pirates are pirates—and those that support boundary and stop their out of control “carousers,” which Bush was for the them—took over our country. It was and ultimately self-destructive be- majority of his life and still is, just in as if they perpetrated a political coup, havior. disguised form. It is like Bush is on a hijacking our ship of state, and in so It is important for us to realize that weekend bender that has lasted over doing many people fell under their Bush and Cheney are only the front- six years, and the world is his crime spell such that they barely noticed. men for the organized crime syndicate scene. In a form of mass mind-control, part of pirates which they serve and of their coup was to take over the If it sounds like I am “blaming” Bush represent. Bush and Cheney are mainstream media in such a way so and his administration, I say “yes”, I merely actors in a grand play. It is as to put out propaganda aimed at am blaming them. I am blaming them important to get in focus the roles convincing people that no hostile for immoral, criminal acts which they they are playing. We can pick our takeover had even taken place. Bush are guilty of perpetrating on humanity own metaphors (criminals, mad, and Co. are modern-day corporate and for which they deserve to be ignorant, fascists, possessed by pirates in possession of the most blamed. It is a huge mistake to be demons, etc), whichever one works cutting edge mind-control technology one-sidedly identified with the for you is fine. The point is for us to the world has ever known. expansive, overly spiritual new-age get into focus and “see” the evil that Bush and Co. have “captured” our point of view that there’s no one to (Continued on page 46) 38 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 WoundedWounded AnimalsAnimals asas HealersHealers A Jungian Approach Chapter Five from her Thesis by ©Frances Ring “In injured animal dreams, there is always the possibility of being released from some sort of captivity if the animal can be healed. To talk about the dream ... is not enough; ininjured animal dreams, the animal truly must be healed.” (Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes,199l, cassette tape)

To approach dreams within the emergence of the soul-life (connection with) the underworld, a Jungian perspective is a way of through a healing relationship with sometimes simultaneously” (Ibid). integration, synthesis and trans- the animal psyche, which then brings “The underworld,” according to James formation. It helps us to recognize healing to the heart, mind and spirit. Hillman, “is not an absence, but a universal symbols and the figures that So, in injured animal dreams, the hidden presence... even an invisible reside in the shadow, to connect with essential task for the dreamer is to fullness.” (Hillman in Larsen, 1990, p. the imaginal language of the soul, and extend love to the wounded or 123) It is the darker, unknown regions to enhance spiritual development. forgotten instinctual side of her of the psyche—that deep, primordial The motif of wounded animals in nature. and instinctual realm with its creative dreams will be treated with these Some of the questions that are raised depths—into which the dreamer theoretical concepts in mind. by wounded animals in women’s above is invited on nightly journeys The Injured Animal Psyche dreams are: “What is the condition of self-discovery. It is a realm where of viability of our inner wildlife we encounter our cast-off shadow and Dr. Estes, a Jungian analyst, observes nature?” “What aspect of our animal other archetypal images. It is in this that the animal psyche, the criatura— instinctual nature—such as piercing realm, too, that we discover not only as represented in dreams—is indeed insight, intuition, endurance, fear- rejected and wounded parts of beautiful and majestic. However, she lessness and strength—are in need ourselves, but transformative powers also notes that she has seen more of conscious recognition, devel- and potentialities as well. The injured animal dreams in the past ten opment or healing?” But these are wounded figures in our dreams have years than she had seen in the also dreams that speak at the most “an exceptionally moving power.” previous ten years. (Estes, 1991, fundamental, energetic level to the They are images that move the soul cassette tape) Furthermore, she says, deep, soul-life and potential for in several ways: “we feel vulnerable, “It is hard not to notice that the healing. in danger; our very physical sub- increase in injured animal dreams stance and sanity appear to be coincides with the devastations to the Awakening threatened; we want to prevent, wilderness, both within as well as to the Underworld rectify and heal.” (op. cit., p. 124) When outside, of people.” (Estes, 1992, p. Within the Jungian perspective, the images are ugly or shocking, the 276) animals as archetypal images lead us psyche is provoked to profound self- In Estes’ view, “Injured animal into and out of the underworld, the confrontation. dreams mean that something is abyss of the unconscious, a feat that But in the confrontation we are seriously imbalanced, wounded and is symbolized in Greek mythology by awakened. “Our self-concept is lacking.” (Estes, 1991, cassette tape) the three-headed dog, Cerberus, who challenged because we are reminded They are dreams that speak of injury stands at the gates of Hades. that ‘this too’ is among one’s inner to the deep spirit and knowing in Moreover, animals are viewed cross- contents”. Our perspective is enlarged women. Estes points to the fairy tale culturally as having the abilities to with the recognition that “the big of “Beauty and the Beast” as a typical transcend both worlds. By analogy, picture includes ‘this too’.“ (Larsen, story of an injured animal. The beast in wounded animal dreams, it seems 1990, pp. 122-124) What seems to be is symbolic of that part of the psyche that, “What is injured is something called for is an attitude of healing, a that is sick, wounded, or dis- within the psyche that is able to be in spiritual awareness that takes the enchanted. (ibid) The story is about the mundane world and also in dream and its implications symbol- Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 39 ically and yet seriously. Thus, the might be torn in two and I wonder dreamer that maintaining such a injured animal images in our dreams if I can get her to the vet in time to psychological stance had resulted in can be viewed symbolically as the have her sewn up. her recent feelings of depression and animal guides and leads us into the the gut-level feeling of losing some- shadowy underworld and initiates the The dreamer was initially appalled by thing precious: her “vital essence and spiritual journey toward retrieving, this starkly vivid dream; but she also sense of myself as a powerful person.” sensed that it had critical messages healing and integrating the wounded She surmised that these powerful, part of the soul. As potential healers, about the instinctual and emotional aspects of her nature that were in dire conflicting inner forces and hidden these images hold the transformative feelings—submerged beneath her secrets of our inner, wildlife nature. need of her understanding and some remedial action. In seeing meta- conscious awareness, along with her Healing Primitive Instincts phorically through the eyes of the unhealed “oozing, emotional wounds” shark image, she realized that the that reflect back to her original family The first dream introduces the theme dream might have to do with some life—were also distracting her from of this article: understanding some hidden and repressed feelings— having a more conscious relationship wounded animal imagery which—in specifically those of “very old anger with her true feelings in regard to her arousing passion and sorrow—also or primitive aggression”—which the present circumstances. This insight contains transformational energies for shark symbolized to her. She also led her to the understanding that she soul growth. In considering the sensed that there was definitely some must sacrifice her loyalty to her wounded animal images, it is appro- transformative potential hidden within previously defined sense of who she priate to remember this poignant the animal symbols and that the thought she was to a more em- observation offered by Jungian James dream was “a gift in disguise, bringing powering view of her very real Hillman: “Our complexes are not only something important to my attention, emotional realities. Finally, she came the wounds that hurt and mouths that even though it felt awful at the time.” to experience the shark as “a powerful tell our myths, but also eyes that see messenger in disguise,” for she felt In working with this dream in the what the normal and healthy parts that “he had given up his life” to her dream group—by association with and cannot envision.” (Hillman in Larsen, need for compassionate self-aware- amplification of the animals’ qualities, 1990, p. 121) Both the injured and ness and acceptance of her own and in relating them to herself and healthy animals in our dreams shark-like qualities. her present life context—the dream characteristically possess such far- animals themselves assisted her with This injured animal dream illustrates seeing eyes. accessing previously unknown in- but one of the transformative chall- The following dream of a thirty-seven formation surrounding her current enges of meeting images of both the year old woman, shared in a dream ambivalence toward aggression, dark, hidden instinctual side and the group meeting, reveals the roles that power and vulnerability. Moreover, “wounded side” of our inner nature. both an aggressive, wild animal and she felt that the dream was telling These particular animal images—the a wounded animal played in awak- her that she was ready to integrate primitive and aggressive, wild animal ening her to the necessity of re- these shadowy aspects into her and the more evolved, domestic claiming basic, instinctual aspects of waking life, since the action took place animal—are archetypal aspects in the shadow. on “the beach” (the symbolic shores their oppositional qualities; yet, they both bring healing potential. They JawsJawsJaws between the unconscious and the conscious), “in front of my house” remind us that we must have mercy I am walking along the beach in (visible to the self). and compassion for both the wild and front of my house, vulnerable parts of our inner wildlife In addition, the dreamer realized that when suddenly in front of me nature in order for healing to comm- she was expending a lot of energy in lunges a giant ‘Jaws’-type shark ence. In this instance, the necessity repressing hidden feelings of hostility out of the shallow water for healing action to begin was in general. Then she came to the at the shoreline. experienced through the dream-ego’s realization that it was her deeply He lunges up and across my path, urgency to get the injured dog “to the ingrained fear of expressing them that falling down on the beach. vet in time to have her sewn back was attacking her in a “Jaws”-like I turn and see my beloved dog lying together”. fashion, wounding her deeply from on the sand. I don’t feel that she is within. It was this inner condition that In sum, we must come to terms with dead. But she is unconscious, lying was causing her to feel “split in two,” and learn to love the forgotten, ugly on her side. There is a pool of remaining loyal (“as my dog”) to an “beast” within, whatever its form or whitish-brown, frothy liquid oozing unconscious sense of victimhood that condition. We must confront and from a puncture wound in her side. was rooted in her childhood exper- embrace our disowned, primitive I assume that the shark must have iences. It then occurred to the aggressive instincts, which contain gotten her. I’m afraid that she (Continued on page 44) 40 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 EmanuelEmanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg andand DreamworkDreamwork

by Vaishal

In addition to being fascinating and first working hang glider, using the Swedenborg’s accomplishments did fun, dreamwork can be a great way same aerodynamic techniques that not stop there. He had a second to engage in the classic “know thyself” are used in airplanes today. The hang career the last twenty-six years of his quest. However the value in glider model presently resides in the life as a gifted mystic. Since he was a dreamwork does not stop there. Smithsonian. He ground his own glass small child, he was able to control his Dreams can be a profound way to and made his own microscope and breath and enter into a trance-like grow and evolve Spiritually as well. telescope. Swedenborg wrote over state of concentrated focus. When he Throughout history, and even before one hundred and fifty scientific papers was in his late fifties, he said he was recorded history, dreams have been on a variety of subjects. The Swedish given permission to break through regarded as a portal into the Spiritual government even sought his into the Spiritual Realm and discourse Realm. What most dreamworkers do assistance to devise a way to move with higher and lower order Spiritual not know is the amazing documented their navy over a mountain range to Beings. He related that he was given dreamwork of the great Swedish give them a strategic advantage. Not this ability, because he was to write scientist/mystic Emanuel Swedenborg a problem! He did it using pulley about how the Spiritual World (1688-1772). systems. Swedenborg accomplished operates, so that we could Swedenborg started out his career as all this without the benefit of understand: a scientist, mastering every known computers, Google, or eBay! He was - why we, as Spiritual creatures, science in his lifetime. He figured out even a member of Sweden’s need to have a human experience; the function of the cerebellum, Parliament and it is said he traveled - what happens to us when we die; pituitary gland and endocrine system. extensively, yet rarely missed a - how what we do in a physical He discovered the relationship meeting. A Stanford University study body affects our life in the Spiritual between respiration and the nervous to determine whom the top ten most dimension. brilliant people who ever drew breath system. He dedicated four volumes Write he did, completing thirty-five were, bestowed the “We’re Number of work to the human brain that volumes of work on the nature of One” ranking on Emanuel included the most accurate drawings Spirituality and the Spiritual World. for his era. He was a metallurgist, and Swedenborg and two others—a three- Long before Freud coined the words developed advanced mining safety way tie for first. And the most amazing “conscious” and “unconscious,” techniques used for well over a part of this is that most people do not Swedenborg was recording his hundred years. He constructed the even know who he is! Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 41 dreams in what would become one of rigid, most people would think they investigations, for which all of us, who the largest collections of dream were losing their mind or grip on have come after Swedenborg, are journals ever amassed. In addition to reality if the “Divine Vision” visited eternally grateful and wiser. recording his Journal of Dreams for them during normal business hours. What has most impressed me about twenty-six years, he also wrote a five- Swedenborg says that while he was Swedenborg’s wisdom about dreams volume Spiritual Diary. Swedenborg exploring the Spiritual Realm, he is that they are all about love! Dreams examined the nature of dream reality learned about dreams and dreaming ask us to examine honestly and and its relationship to mind and from the other side. He says that he fearlessly what we are doing with our Spirituality, one hundred years before was able to learn from direct love - our attention. Oftentimes Carl Jung. Jung, by the way, was experience what dreams are and how dreams are protecting and healing us greatly influenced by Swedenborg. they are communicated. Swedenborg with the quality of their Divine Swedenborg had some very writes that he was learning directly wholeness-making love. It’s no interesting things to say about dreams from the Angels who introduced the wonder so many of us are compelled and dreaming. He says that when we dreams to the dreamer. He closely to know about our dreams and to dream, we are doing more than observed this process of dream explore dream time ceaselessly. We merely rehashing the days’ events. introduction from Angel to dreaming are driven by our love to know and Swedenborg states that if you wanted human. He also says he was given understand more about the infinite to pick up the phone and hear what the opportunity to learn by assuming nature of Divine Love and Wisdom the Divine has to say about your life, the role of the Angel, and being the and, quite frankly, I cannot imagine you will pay attention to your dreams. agent who actually introduced a a better use of our time while here Dreaming is when higher order beings pleasant dream to another. Through visiting the planet Earth. So, in (Angels, spirit guides, etc.) come and this hands-on participation in these response to that, may I say that I speak to us in a symbol language, that experiences, he gained know that flights of Angels will sing is constantly commenting on the comprehensive and very exclusive thee to thy rest. Remember, for the quality of our love. Dreaming is a time knowledge. His groundbreaking ultimate in “ wake-up calls,” there is when we reconnect with the Divine; dreamwork and research is absolutely always the canon of Divinely guided we all need this alignment, which is remarkable and transcends any wisdom left to us by the remarkable why our minds start to unravel if we understanding or theory about the Emanuel Swedenborg. are deprived of REM time origin, nature, function or purpose of Sweet dreams! ℘ reconnection. dreams ever gathered either before Swedenborg says the Pharaoh’s or after Swedenborg’s lifetime. dreams that Joseph interpreted, the As a matter of fact, Swedenborg says dreams of King Nebuchadnezzer, and that his initiation into his life as a those of Biblical prophets are not mystic started with his dreams in brought by Angels to an individual, dream time. Swedenborg’s journal but rather “flow” directly from a higher shows that he started having a series level of Heaven to the sleeping of dreams that were sometimes very ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ person. In fact all dreams that are disturbing in nature. These dreams prophetic in nature are communicated offered him a commentary on his ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ this way - directly from Prime Source intellectual and scientific affections. to the receiver. (It’s a Divine Hotline, Swedenborg said he realized ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ not to be confused with The Psychic eventually that all the scientific work Hotline.) Swedenborg compared he had been doing was a huge burden, dreaming to “Divine Visions” saying similar to carting a load of heavy rocks that dreams of this type are “Divine around with him everywhere he went. In You Are What You Love Vaishali Visions” experienced during a sleeping When Swedenborg began his life as a delves into dreams and Spiritual state of mind, rather than a waking mystic, working on mapping out the growth in her humorous, thought- state of mind. I can only imagine that Spiritual World and explaining its provoking style. Visit her website at most people would be more open to method and nature of operation, he www.purplev.com and receiving the content of a “Divine completely gave up his life as a www.youarewhatyoulove.com Vision” in a dreaming state, because scientist. He devoted the remainder Contact Vaishali at our perception of waking reality is so of his life to his Spiritual [email protected] 42 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 Drum & Dream (Cont’d from pg. 3) Peace” event, as you can see, has Because the very nature of The World For Jeremy Seligson of South Korea, been growing and growing from the Dreams Peace Bridge is communal, the Peace Train Workshop he plans to heart of the dream. You may have had sharing dreams as well as other offer with the assistance of his a dream about this celebration information from around the world, it thirteen-year-old daughter Eloisa, this yourself, which you are welcome to was not long before we discovered day will be the culmination of a dream. share on the “Drum Dance and Dream that Mary’s dream was far from the In March 2003, on the eve of the U.S. for Peace” event discussion board at only dream Bridge members had Invasion of Iraq, Jeremy dreamed of w www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/ dreamed about “Drum Dance and riding a Peace Train across the United drumming . Dream for Peace.” For example, Valley States to Washington. Reed of Dallas recorded the following On the “Drum Dance and Dream for dream two years ago: Peace” online pages there is also a full page flyer to download and distribute, press releases and much more Dancing around information on the event. We hope you The Circle of the World will help us to spread the word. And I was in a big circle of people from we hope that you will share the news many countries around the world. I about what you are doing with others was doing many dances around the by logging into the Event Discussion circle. The dances were for different Board. things, different purposes. One was “Drum Dance and Dream for Peace” for peace in Israel and Palestine. is an opportunity for all of us to reclaim Hadi (Valley’s partner) said he the joy of dancing together. As Mary didn’t understand my approach but Whitefeather Joyce points out: “The once he saw what I was doing he drum is a vehicle of ascension to the agreed and supported me. I was higher dimensions of illumination, meeting them where they are and Jeremy Seligson dreamed of a which can be experienced in the then moving the energy Peace Train traveling across the resonating, pulsating vibration of the around the circle. U. S. to Washington. drum. The sacred vibrations of our In the next dance I was performing drums will revitalize and activate for the circle. I could hear people harmony throughout the sacred saying they couldn’t tell if my dance The train stopped in front of the space, the earth, the world. In our was be danced for me, or if it was Capitol Building, at almost exactly the drumming meditation we can ask for someone. The dance was a spot where his workshop will be Spirit or pray that our love, drumming healing dance, and a sacred offering offered. The World Dreams Peace and Peace shall hold the energy for and it was being danced for me and Bridge has honored Jeremy’s dream continued respect for the sacredness for others at the same time. in the four years that have followed of our lives on this earth. Drumming by the creation of a waking world can help us to connect with our higher On June 25 at the World Children’s Peace Train of art work from children selves, our guardian angels, our spirit Festival, members of The World around the world. During the past four guides, our power animals, and Dreams Peace Bridge will offer a years, Peace Train art has been expand our consciousness and dream- variety of workshops as part of the created in South Korea, Turkey, ing journeys. Drumming can help us day’s schedule of performances, Australia, the United States, Jamaica, to bring back insight and help to workshops, and celebration, all free Germany, Denmark, South Africa, nourish and heal our inner self. It can and open to the public. Valley Reed Israel and other countries. Children be our gateway to an extraordinary will be offering a “Peace Movement” and adults have been asked, “If you adventure. We can receive spiritual Workshop, teaching nonviolence could put peace on a train and send it revelations directly. It can restore our through improvisational dance. Mary to people in other parts of the world, positive energy. Feel the pulse of your Whitefeather will offer a Drum Making what would it look like?” The resultant heart, feel the heartbeat of mother Workshop, just prior to “Drum Dance Peace Train cars have been displayed earth, and feel the sacredness of your and Dream for Peace”, and Jean around the world. being while drumming for Peace.” ℘ Campbell will offer a “Becoming a ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ Dream Scout” workshop. This “Drum Dance and Dream for Contact Jean at [email protected] Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 43 (Wounded AnimalsAnimals, Cont’d from pg. 40) hidden power and energy that can be has pulled free. It has a hole in it. warnings on the symbolic level are to accessed for conscious, life-affirming Above the leg is a viscous, very be taken seriously. Since the dream- purposes. We must awaken to and dark reddish-brown fluid that ego responded to the hawk image in fully accept the rejected pain and bubbles out in a huge blob and a passionate, concerned and deter- vulnerability of our earlier woundings, starts running down the bird’s leg. mined manner, it seems that she is which speak to the precious fragility I am anxious to find the professor also being asked to respond on a of our soul-self. Then, with a deeper and give him a piece of my mind, conscious level to the wounded, awareness of those parts of ourselves but I am also intent upon rescuing hawk-like aspects of her own animal which are hidden yet “close to home” the hawk and maybe psyche in an equally compassionate (close to our soul nature) in the find the authorities in and determined manner. shadowy underworld of our inner this neighborhood through which In much Native American lore, the wildlife nature, we can consciously I am running in a panic. hawk is not only a messenger, but its begin to transform those powerful, The dreamer connected the hawk to feathers contain healing powers. The soul forces into healed, feminine her outer work with injured birds at wounded hawk image can indeed be forms of self-acceptance, self- the center. She felt the dream was viewed as a messenger, bringing the empowerment and compassion in our essentially a reflection of her deep, dreamer’s attention to some critically- outer lives. These particular kinds of emotional involvement with speaking needed healing tasks. One of the animal images in our dreams speak out in public against cruelty toward dreamer’s tasks—suggested by metaphorically to the ancient, but animals. At the egoic level, then, the analogy to her work with injured birds necessary, deepening processes in dream mirrors this young woman’s in the outer world—seems to be that the underworld that nurtures healthy conscious, attitudinal orientation of “rehabilitating” her hawk-like, but soul growth. based upon her values and beliefs. injured instinctual aspects and Rescuing Captured Instincts But on a deeper level it is also releasing or “reintroducing” into mirroring a situation of distress conscious awareness her natural The following dream by a twenty-five somewhere in the psyche, in her powers and resources for sharp year old woman speaks to a different instinctual nature. observation and heightened per- experience of wounding through Within the Jungian perspective, some ception. captured instincts. This dream also additional questions might be asked, I believe that this particular dream portrays the life-draining conse- such as: “What is amiss here?” “What holds symbolic cues and messages for quences and warns that injured, soul-energy is bleeding away?” “What many of us. We must be able to rely instinctual forces can not only lead of the deeper nature is captured, upon sound instincts and healthy, to an inner sense of frustration and nailed down and wounded?” “What natural abilities to see clearly our panic, but also interfere with our must be done to rescue a particular choices; for example, to take a stand abilities to confront what is troubling aspect of the inner wildlife nature?” against or to fly away from familial us in the outer world. At the time of “What is needed to feel masterful?” and cultural attitudes or situations the dream, the dreamer was working Since the hawk, in myths and fairy that are injurious to ourselves and for a wildlife center that takes in tales, generally symbolizes far- other beings. injured birds of prey and aims to seeing, grasping and retaining ideas, But if our discerning and choice- reintroduce the rehabilitated raptors as well as intuition and the powers of making capabilities are wounded or back into the wild. flight, the dream might be com- held down, we are in danger of losing The Wounded Hawk menting on the dreamer’s need to call a healthy sense of personal power. forth some or all of these qualities at We are also in danger of losing our I am at a night meeting in a rustic this time in her life. But when these vital fluidity and essence. room in a cabin, or single-room flat vital, hawk-like aspects of the in a building... somewhere in a In consciously responding to our instinctual nature are injured or suburb. People are discussing their wounded dream animals’ messages blocked, then the captive sense of work and giving presentations. A and calls to healing awareness, we feeling “nailed down,” (as imaged in German professor—a blond, begin the transformational passage the dream) would interfere with the bespeckled man—has a hawk nailed of recovery. As we learn to release dreamer’s ability to move forward in to a board by its feet. He is very the captive energies of our inner her life (“try to find my car”) on the proud as he passes it around. I wildlife nature, we reclaim the self- basis of clear perceptions and intuitive somehow escape with it and try to esteem and courage that empower us knowingness. find my car. Later, I try to look for to take a stand, hold our instinctual the man so I can tell him off for his Sometimes the unconscious exagg- footing, retain our own values and cruelty. As I carry the bird around erates and highlights a macabre aspire to a higher perspective of on the board, I notice that one leg symbol to get our attention; such hawk-like, piercing vision and dis-

44 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 cernment in the face of personally distressing challenges. "You said, The hawk image in this dream—first captured and wounded, then res- 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' cued—flies up from the dreamer’s unconscious, bringing to conscious 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, awareness a message of its life- threatening condition. But the image and what' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? of the hawk also brings the natural, instinctual medicine for healing; for Revolution only needs good dreamers that which was once wounded be- comes revivified by deeper, instinctual who remember their dreams.' " forces. In order to become mobile and Camino Real. Tennessee Williams masterful in the world, we must begin reclaiming the hidden treasure of our own inner authority, based upon the The image of the fighting polar bears viewed as “deliberate, rather than instinctual knowing of what is harmful was particularly important to the impulsive,” and carries an “introverted and what is helpful to our soul nature. dreamer in this context. She realized kind of power and confidence” (Signell, Bearing the Fierce Nature that the polar bears were a symbol 1990, p. 253). It is an animal that is of her “cold, white anger which feels grounded and centered in its massive, The next dream reflects a fifty-year- frozen and savage,” after years of gentle strength and measured self- old dreamer’s mid-life tasks of pushing it out of awareness to avoid restraint. reclaiming her projected shadow confrontations. She saw that the In this dream, the wounded polar bear aspects and redefining herself based dream was telling her that repressed, seems to suggest that a woman’s upon her own experiences as a “biting anger” often erupts anyway, unrecognized anger can become woman. At the same time, she was in hostile and hurting ways... “out- frozen within, inflicting inner wounds learning to process some raw, side” and within. Now, she had to to the psyche and draining away the negative emotions that would surface “stand up and face it” in herself. It soul-life which is symbolically carried periodically in her marriage. The occurred to her that she has a in the blood of women. So, the main theme is again one of recognizing tendency to see her own unacceptable task suggested by the “fighting, aggressive energies and transforming or antagonistic emotions in others, wound-inflicting” polar bears is for the them into sources for empowerment. but had difficulty accepting them in dreamer to bear, withstand (two The Polar Bears herself. Most importantly, she saw the bears, standing) and befriend her two fighting bears as representing a anger, approaching it within herself I am in A’s apartment with some fierce battle that was going on inside with kindness and patience as she other women for a workshop that A. her, wounding her badly. would any wild, hurt creature. When is giving. I look out the window and unresolved, inner conflicts and see two polar bears just outside the The bear is one of the oldest of the disowned, strong emotions are apartment. Both bears are standing animals sacred to earlier cultures. The repressed or “frozen”, they tend to up on their hind legs, facing each female bear, as a lunar symbol, has block access to our free- flowing, other, in a fighting posture. been associated with the Great creative resources and natural powers When one of them turns to Mother and is a powerful archetypal for change, personal growth and leave, I see that the back of its and mythological symbol. In myths assertive action. neck is scalloped with dark red, and folklore, the bear image repre- bloody marks where it was bitten sents maturity, introspection and The polar bear images eventually by the other polar bear. Since it is wisdom, but is also renown for its revealed a strong message for the the one that was wounded in the ferocious power when wounded. dreamer: to consciously cultivate fight, it is the one that leaves. The bear, then, is a potent dream emotional flexibility and endurance (to bear up). For this dreamer and According to Jungian analyst Dr. symbol for women, representing the for many women working through Karen Signell, “Times of transition and instinctual side of The Mother arche- similar conflicts around anger, the turmoil can be opportunities for type in both her positive and negative bear carries the healing medicine insight and growth in inner and outer aspects. In her negative aspect, the power of the ability to forebear: life. Dreams during these times can bear represents the overbearing, “to have patience, to bear up against, show us what is happening in the entangling maternal instinct, as well to channel strong emotions.” Further, psyche and illuminate inner conflicts.” as the potential for provoked agg- according to Dr. Estes, “To forebear (Signell, 1990, pp. 189-190) ression. In her positive aspect, she is Vol. 26 #s !&2/Dream Network 45 is to practice generosity, thereby This paradoxical possibility is a allowing the great compassionate question we might address to the nature to participate in matters that Greek god Proteus, the divinity of the have previously caused emotion, mythic imagination and soul image, ranging all the way from minor who dwells in the depths of the sea irritation to rage.” Developing the while mimicking its changeability. ability to forebear, she adds, (Hillman in Thompson, 1991, p. 17) “strengthens integrity of action and Perhaps the surfacing of our wound- soul.” (Estes, 1992, p. 371) ed animal dreams seems to naturally call forth the shape-shifting presence In the psyche, the bear also repre- of Proteus who often provokes us into sents “the ability to regulate one’s life, seeing beyond appearances. He especially one’s feeling life” (op. cit. teaches us that we must “overcome p. 358). So, through embracing our symbolic squimishness and not look dream bear medicine we can become away.” (Larsen, 1990, p. 127) When we more attuned to our inner nature with look metaphorically through the eyes its powerful, rhythmic soul-life and to of our injured animal images, like the our innermost needs for creative and Planetary Pirate (Cont’d from pg. 38) first dreamer in this article, we see healthy, emotional outlets. Moreover, how our woundings indeed might be Bush and Cheney are actually doing; the she-bear’s hibernating character- blessings in disguise. this is the last thing they want. istic is “a profound metaphor in our Sometimes clearly seeing what is lives for cyclical return and increase Accordingly, then, injured animal happening is the very act which coming from something that seemed images also can be viewed as spirit spontaneously activates and mobilizes deadened or frozen beneath the guardians of the wounded-healer effective action. Bush and Co. have a ground of awareness.” (op. cit., p. 357) archetype. (Halifax, 1982) As com- distinct advantage if we don’t recog- At the same time, healing panions of the wounded-healer motif, nize their predator-like nature. We bear medicine supports our learning they too are healers who show us can’t possibly be able to meet their from the depths of the female where we are personally wounded, challenge unless we clearly discern experience to nurture ourselves and what needs to be changed and what what we are up against. The more of grow in healing self-acceptance, actions we need to take toward us that see the danger confronting us warmth and wise, she-bear maturity. rediscovering our natural, instinctual the better, as we can then creatively Most importantly, the dream bear heritage. In this sense, they do bless join forces in a way which actively image teaches that we can learn to us with the valuable insights, intuitive empowers us to successfully meet the bear our instinctual, fierce nature with knowingness and the grace of crisis we are facing. healing patience and generosity. compassion that expands and deep- ℘ ens our relationship with the rich, ConclusionConclusionConclusion paradoxical nature of the soul. ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ As we move through the seasons of It is only woman-wise, then, to hear integrating our disowned feelings, our dream animal’s cries for help, Paul Levy is an artist and a qualities and strengths, we find that listen to their voices, experience their an ongoing task is redefining our pain... and do what we must to spiritually-informed political relationship with our inner selves— release our captured energies and activist. A pioneer in the field of emotionally, cognitively and spirit- animal soul-life. Moreover, in the spiritual awakening, he is a healer ually. We learn that we must recog- Jungian perspective, it becomes a in private practice, assisting nize and embrace our shadowy, moral obligation to follow the others who are also awakening to “beastly” aspects of aggression, shadowy pathways of the wounded the dream-like nature of reality. He anger, grief and fears, along with our animal healers in our dreams toward is the author of The Madness of inner light, passion and beauty, healing, integration and wholeness. George Bush: A Reflection of Our reclaiming all of ourselves. We must The injured animal soul, the criatura Collective Psychosis, which is within, must truly be healed for the recognize what is wounded and lick available at his website http:// Self to emerge. ℘ our wounds clean with healing www.awakeninthedream.com. awareness and compassionate self- Please feel free to pass this article acceptance. ~ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ∞ ~ ~ along to a friend if you feel so In French, blesser is “to wound.” inspired. You can contact Paul at I wonder then, is being wounded Contact Ms. Ring at [email protected]/ He equivalent in some way to “being [email protected] looks forward to your reflections. blessed?” (Larsen, 1990, p. 127) 46 Dream Network/Vol. 26 #’s 1&2 Dream Networkers/Regional Contact Persons We are honored to be able to assist in making quality dream-related information and resources available to you via this publication and the willingness of these knowledgeable individuals. 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