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Volume 3 Issue #8
27 September 1996
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C O N T E N T S
Editors Notes
Be an Electric Dreamer- Join today!
Slow Wave this Week
Association for the Study of Dreams- Link update
Question Airing Forum - Victoria Quinton
Article: Life Dreams Art - Alissa Goldring
Resource: Dream Bibliographies Online! -Richard Wilkerson
Article: The Forgotten Language, Part I - By Scott Hughes
Interview: John W. Herbert: DreamSharing in Cyberspace
+ Interview by Victoria Quinton
Resource: DreamLink Update: Linton & Becky Hutchinson
Article: Wanderer's Web Site - Eugene Marks
Article: Significant Dreams: The Two Millennium Silence
breaks in Cyberspace by Richard Wilkerson
G L O B A L D R E A M I N G NEWS - Peggy Coats
-WORLD CONGRESS 2000
-NEW DREAM RESOURCE CENTER OPENS
-IONE'S DREAM FESTIVAL, A CELEBRATION OF DREAMS IN
KINGSTON,NEW YORK
-KEN KELZER PRESENTS 1-DAY WORKSHOP ON THE CLINICAL USE OF
DREAMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
-CHARLES EUDY PRESENTS "A GUIDE TO YOUR DREAMS
-M.A. OFFERED WITH CONCENTRATION IN DREAMS
-DREAMING THE WEB OF LIFE GROUP BEGINNING
-THE NATURAL ARTISTRY OF DREAMS
-DREAM DISCOVERIES FOR WOMEN
-FALL WHOLE LIFE EXPO FEATURES DREAMS
-CONSCIOUSNESS, DREAMS and SELF
-DREAM SCENE MAGAZINE - SWAN SONG!
-SWARM II HALLOWEEN ON THE NET
D R E A M S ON THE W E B U P D A T E
-WHAT'S A REAL DREAM AND WHAT'S NOT?
-ELECTRIC DREAMS COVER ART
-DREAMBOY'S PROLIFIC STORIES
-STOP SLEEPING THROUGH YOUR DREAMS Author ONLINE
-GOLDRING'S SIGNIFICANT DREAMS
-THE DREAM TREE, A RESOURCE CENTER FOR DREAMERS
-JOHN HERBERT'S RESEARCH SITES
-DREAM BIBLIOGRAPHIES ONLINE
-DREAM RESOURCES - ONLINE LINKS, OFFLINE POINTERS
-Oneiros: FRENCH DREAM MAGAZINE AND ORGANIZATION
-THE HAYDEN INSTITUTE ONLINE
-JUNG INDEX MOVES
-THE WANDERER
-DREAM DEPT OPENS ON SELF-HELP AND PSYCHOLOGY MAGAZINE
-GRIMMS FAIRIE TALES
R E S E A R C H R E Q U E S T S
-DREAMS AND DEATH
-SIGNIFICANT DREAMS
-DREAMLINK RESEARCH SERVICE
-PAGAN RESEARCH PROJECT
D R E A M C A L E N D A R for OCTOBER & Fall 1996
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to Electric Dreams 3(8)!! The cyber-dreaming network
is beginning to take on a air of sophistication, but still
retains the wonder of new ideas and projects sprouting up
everywhere.
Many of our old friends are here this issue to update you
on their projects. Linton and Becky Hutchinson tell us about
there new programs at DreamLink. Peggy Coats brings us not
only updates of online dream resources, but how these are
expanding into offline resources at the Santa Cruz,
California DreamTree. Scott Hughes returns with a new series
on DreamBooks and books dreamt. John Herbert, who we credit
with being cyber-dreamworker pioneer #1 returns after
building his new plane to offer us the complete collection of
his cyberdream research & writings now online. Be sure to
read more about John in Victoria Quinton's interview. Jeremy
Taylor has a report on the World Dream Congress for the year
2000, be sure to see the site now being sponsored by the
European Association for the Study of Dream and Oneiros.
Chris Hicks continues to offer monthly e-mail dream groups
and these DreamWheels have now been expanded by Chris &
Linton to DreamLink. Be sure to drop by and leave your dreams
or contact Chris at <shadow45@netonecom.net>
I've been pretty busy myself and now have for you a several
treats, including a web page that has pointers to several
online dream bibliographies, including the ASD bibs and
journals, the Novato Center for Dreams online material, the
Henry Reed Collection and my own article and anthropology
bibliographies, to mention a few. But I don't want to give
all the goodies away just yet....
We have several new dream friends who have brought with
them new ideas, images and projects to the dreaming
cyberspace network. Deryck Anderson, graphics artist from
Perth, Australia is working on not only new art for the
Electric Dreams Web site, but also cover art for upcoming and
back issues of ED. Be sure to stop by the Electric Dreams Art
Gallery, behold Deryck's work, download a cover and hey,
maybe you want to send in a cover of your own? contact Jesse
Reklaw <reklaw@nonDairy.com> and you can contact Deryck for
graphics help at <dandy@iinet.net.au>
Gallery:
<http://www.nonDairy.com/ED/covers.html>
Super New this month - the ED staff is working on breaking
down the barriers and categories of reality which limit our
creativity. With a focus this month on Significant Dreams we
are experimenting with a new ED format. You still get
Electric Dreams via e-mail in ASCII, but you will notice
there are HTML inserts. This means there are images and
perhaps web sites that graphically mirror and elaborate the
dream or article! If you view the e-zine from our web site,
the pictures will be available.
As a special introduction to this format, Alissa Goldring,
a California Dream Artist, has offered us her stories and
pictures. Be sure to read Life, Art, & Dreams and visit the
site where she has illustrated these dreams.
It's that time of year again! Halloween is just around the
corner and Swarm II is ready to go. This year DreamBat will
be online all day long with the swarm, visiting old haunts
and flying over news ones. Be sure to read all about this and
other events in the Global Dreaming News, which now includes
a research section, news dream web sites, dream events in
your area and a calendar of these events!
Finally, some more treats! Be sure to check out my article on
the new resource site I put up, as well as the resources
being offered by Linton & Becky Hutchinson and the DreamTree
resource center of Peggy Coats. These include
bibliographies, links to other sites, radio shows,
organizations, education and more!
Where are the other dreams? Well, we don't quite have them
ready and so we will send them to you later as an attachment.
(I told you we were breaking the rules and catagories of
publishing and dream sharing ;). Watch for them soon!
NEXT MONTH: Electric Dreams will be focusing on CREATIVITY
AND DREAMING. Be sure to send in creative dreams as well as
dreams that led to creative acts. If possible, inlclude a
story with the dream.
Speaking of Creativity, next issue we continue our
experimental shifting of traditional boundaries using mixed
media with the Electric Dreams issue. Charles McPhee will
have a grand opening of his _Stop Sleeping through Your
Dreams_ site were you can dialogue *with* the author. I
will be mixing pictures, dreams and stories about Dream
Temples in Ancient Greece. If you have creative dreaming
aspects of your life, including web sites, pictures, or
classes, send them in!
- Richard
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Be an Electric Dreamer
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Electric Dreams continues to offer a wide variety of free
dreamsharing venues and this means we log a lot of online
time. It is fun and we do this because we love it! But
sometimes we can't keep up with all the networking tasks and
then the quality is diminished in our programs.
And not everyone has the time to be a staff member
(though if you *do* have the time and desire, drop me a
line!).
And so we would like to ask for ELECTRIC DREAMERS -
volunteers who can give just a few minutes every week or even
once a month. Here are some of the ED areas that Electric
Dreamers might help in:
- Co-Moderate a dream group.
- Post a few dreams to a few Newsgroups or Mail lists.
- Post an ad regularly to a Newsgroup you will "sponsor".
- Post an ad to a mail list you will "sponsor".
- Post an ad to a SIG at your commercial online carrier.
- Surf the net for new dream web sites.
- Surf Educational college sites for dream bibliographies
- Send in addresses of magazine departments that might like
to carry a story about dream sharing in cyberspace
- Send in local resources on dreams - groups, schools,
lectures, library resources, newsletters and new age papers.
- Check you Yellow Pages for schools and ask what programs or
classes on dreams and dreaming dreams are available.
- Many other projects available!
Because these tasks are a little tedious at times (though
usually fun) we are offering a FREE HOME PAGE for anyone who
participates!! Be and Electric Dreamer, sign up today...
contact Richard Wilkerson
rcwilk@aol.com
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Slow Wave
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This week in Slow Wave, Nancy is a vicar and keeps a journal,
but its a gossip journal and not a spiritual one - what will
the town folks think? Drop by and see at
<http://www.nonDairy.com/slow/wave.cgi>
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Association for the Study of Dreams UPDATE
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The ASD executive board will meet in October and Jayne
Gackenbach will be sending in a proposal to open the ASD Web
site up to links to other dream related sites. Is it a year
too late? Time will tell. For those of you who have just
joined us, Electric Dreams was highly instrumental in helping
ASD put their site up, giving it the graphical look that it
has and coding much of HTML pages. But a few members in ASD
felt the page should not link to any site that has dream
interpretation, fearing this would be an ASD endorsement. The
frustration in trying to show them that links were the way of
the Web and that *not* linkng to sites was simply missing the
point grew. We finally put on a cyber-show at the July 1996
conference in Berkeley to educate and inform ASD members
about the Internet and dreams, providing a 4 day event with
several online computers, panels with dreamworkers and
researchers in Cyberspace and workshops and clinics on
getting online.
Jayne and others of us have proposed going ahead now with
the links, including a disclaimer and seeing if there is some
way to make the ASD web a more participatory site.
I send a letter to the Editor of the ASD newsletter,
Alan Siegel, laying all this out and if you are interested in
reading the letter, I have it online at:
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/rcw_text/missing.htm
What - never heard of ASD? The Association for the Study of
Dreams is now in its 13th year and you can find out all about
it by dropping by the Web site:
http://www.outreach.org/gmcc/asd/
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Question Airing - Victoria Quinton
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Request from Ewa Sienkiewicz
Would you, please, send me any information (or somebody`s address) about
the dream ego and the conscious one. I mean especially the situation when
in a dream the dream ego is satisfied with something, but when the person
wakes up the conscious ego says:"Oh, my God, how could I be satisfied with
that?!". I am interested in any relations between these two egos.
email: senne@uoo.univ.szczecin.pl
Ciao! Ewa
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Subject: Dream Link
Sent: 9/4/96 1:10 AM
Received: 9/3/96 10:21 PM
From: Marie Catey, catey@garlic.com
To: Linton Hutchinson, hutchib@iag.net
This is Aaron Huffman. Could you please send me some E-mail
addresses from scientists about dreams.
(here is a request if any of you'll "dream scientists" want
to respond - Linton) This is all the information I received.
Perhaps a budding dreamer ? -Linton
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Comment on Alissa Goldring's Dream Art & Life (see below for
article)
Oh, my God. What events, and what a dream to have to try and
make sense of what is impossible to make sense of... an
attempted suicide, and an actual suicide, no less, by someone
very young. I do not know the age of the friend who attempted
suicide, but young or old, the event and its effects are no
less profound. Rather than to interpret the dream, I would
prefer to say that the dream seems to be conveying both the
profundity of suicide and its finality, and also strives to
provide some explanation for what seems to be an act of
inhumanity (because impossible to grasp). At the very least,
a person who attempts suicide, or succeeds in that attempt,
is not him or herself in that totally unalterable moment in
time. May I suggest a penultimate book on the subject? George
Howe Colt's The Enigma of Suicide? It is entirely readable
and will help anyone who wants and needs to grasp suicide on
some level ...
I found the word "Minsking" intriguing, but put it aside,
until some time later, the word popped up again, rolling
around in my head, repeatedly. "Men skiing." Reflecting on
the phrase, "minsking," which was now registering on my mind
as "men skiing," I recalled the rare times when I was on the
top of a mountainous, and snowy, ski slope, then skiing down
it, and what the feeling was like. More like a "rushing
toward oblivion." I remember those times as being at once the
most exhilarating, liberating moments a human could
experience. What sport, I thought then, could equal it? I am
totally alone, my body is moving rapidly downward from one
point of the snowy mountain to another. Snow, snow and more
snow. Total abandonment to the cold, snowy landscape which
stretches infinitely before me. Until I fall. The other
association, too, of a cold, white blanket that covers over
the earth and all the life flowing beneath is much like the
total split off between consciousness and the unconscious,
when I remain in shock because of life events over protracted
periods of time.
The dreamer states, These creatures tell me that the process
which transformed them from natural humans is termed
"minsking" and was administered by the powers who control
this country. Because they are in this condition they are
unable to change themselves back into authentic humans.
That process of "Minsking," and now, to my mind, "(wo)men
skiing," if done repeatedly and to the exclusion of all else,
because my controlling, rational, egocentric mind disciplined
myself to do it, to remain cut off from the life force
beneath, would that not ultimately lead to a split off from
my own humanity, that rush toward oblivion?
Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot, where a voice in the second
movement asks a profound question ,
Shall these bones live?
Shall these bones live?
Is a long poem that remarkably demonstrates in its several
movements how a person in this condition changes him or
herself back into an authentic human after all. In fact, if
the poem is read aloud repeatedly over time (something I did
for several years until I had committed every word to
memory), the very reading (chanting) of it, at least for me,
seemed to have restorative powers.
Another long poem, Crow, by one of England's poet laureate,
Ted Hughes, contains the phrase,
Water wanted to live.
It came creeping (OR weeping) back.
(I don't recall for sure).
This poem, too, and others, could be read the context of the
difficult, but rewarding, process of consciousness becoming
alive and aware of itself after those events which impact on
a human with such force and sheer insanity that the will to
live is all but obliterated...The Dream of the Bones is an
astonishing dream. Thank you for having shared it.
Island
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Hello NV,
Having CFS myself I'm very interested in the kind of dreams
you have. I've been keeping dream journals long before my
disease. Before the disease my daily life had a big influence
on my dreams. Now that I don't have a life anymore, one of
the effects seems to be that in my dreams I meet more new
people in new places. There are more differences.
I disagree with you assumption that CPS patients all have
vivid dreams. I think that depend on how extreme the fatigue
is. I've been in a total blackness for more than six months
after giving in to my mono diagnosis. After two years I'm
still don't have the vividness as before my disease. But
perhaps the vividness will rise to much higher levels than
before the disease in time.
I'm also surprised by your remark that you can escape the
laws of ME at night. I find it hard to believe that your
disease doesn't reflect in your dreams. What about the anger,
the guilt or at least the resting discipline?
Could you tell me something more about the texts you
mentioned? I'm not aware of any CPS/ CFIDS/ ME related dream
research. I find even more general dream research into health
questions hard to find.
I'd surely like to chat some more.
Feel free to visit my Healing Dreams site about dreaming and
CPS. Amongst others I have a selection of my 'civil war'
CPS-dreams online.
Sincerely,
- Harry
http://www.noord.bart.nl/~har2312/english/Healing_Dreams.html
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Life Dreams Art - Alissa Goldring
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Editor's preface: This story is part of Electric Dreams
Significant Dreams Project and can be seen on the Web at
<URL:http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/goldring>
The pictures are also available via our web site mirror of
this issue at
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/home.html
-Richard
When I look at history I see that story telling and picture
making have fascinated, entertained and informed people all
over the world in all times, and contributed to making us the
human beings we are. Combining these fundamental processes of
story and image making, our dreams contribute vitally to our
development. In my dreams I can see vividly the stories I
tell myself about myself and also the positive story already
latent within me.
Dream of the Hidden Child
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I see a child hidden behind a mask, her tiny hands reaching
out form under heavy robes weighing her down as she feebly
seeks help.
The image reminded me of a Noh play where stylized
characters gesture in infinitesimally slow motion and a gong
echoes an eternity of timeless silence.
When I painted this dream, I understood that this was a
baby part of myself Long buried under layers of roles,
expectations and fears, feebly seeking help. The dream was a
cry to myself to shake off oppressive conditioning and be
free.
As you picture this dream in your mind's eye you may
sense that you too were once such a child whom you still
carry within yourself in ways unique to you. You might
imagine "if this were my dream"....
Another dream gave me further insight into what had been
going ton in me.
THE DREAM OF THE BONES
I see people whose bones are not actually bones, but some
composition in the shape of femurs, ribs, skull and so on.
The outer layer, though having the appearance of skin, is
actually synthetic and the space between bones and skin is
filled with a gray, mealy substance. Yet the total aspect
resembles a human form which can walk, speak, more, ve, eat
sleep and interact like a human being.
These creatures tell me that the process which
transformed them from natural humans is termed "minsking" and
was administered by the powers who control this country.
Because they are in this condition they are unable to change
themselves back into authentic humans.
That word "minsk" intrigues me. Is it a child's version
of"mince" - to chop into little pieces, to mash up?
Two incidents occurred shortly before this dream. First, I'd
been upset by my reaction to a friend when she stretched out
her wrist to show a scar from her attempted suicide, I could
not look. Filled with remorse and shame as I remembered
turning away when I wanted to give her comfort, I could not
understand what blocked me.
Second, a boy I knew, who would have been thirteen in two
days, returned from school, walked out of his house to the
large oak tree in the back yard -- and hung himself.
Returning tired after a day of teaching, his mother dumped
her books on the kitchen table, called his name, went looking
for him, and found him hanging there, dead. When I heard of
this I could not stop crying. That poor child, that poor
mother. How could no one have noticed his sorrow, his pin, I
wondered? Why didn't someone do something before it was too
late?
Not long after, a compassionate, wise woman said to me,
"You are really asking," Why didn't someone pay attention to
me when I was a child? Why didn't someone help me in my
misery?" My crying is like the ocean bursting a dike where
a child had been holding here finger in the hole to keep back
the waters.
My wise friend said to me, "You too killed yourself to
escape unbearable pain, but, unlike Pauli, you 'minsked'
yourself and created a stand-in, so that you could survive,
at least partially. You escaped into your imagination, Pauli
escaped into death.
"You hid behind your painting and writing and reading, but
never learned how to live and be yourself in the real world.
You hid you vulnerability behind a mask. thinks that would
not have bothered other people were too painful for your and
for Pauli, because of what your carried in your that other
people did not. Other people could not understand , did not
realize. They made fun of you and Pauli for being
'different', criticized you for being 'too sensitive'. He
could no bear that. you made yourself deaf to their taunts.
Your could not bear to see evidence of your friend's anguish,
reminder of your own desperation and your own from of
'suicide'."
Thus a dream helped me realize how, for years, I had
numbered myself and paraded an ersatz "minsked" stand-in.
increasingly I had not been able to meet my true needs in the
real world. My desperation, disappointment and terror
increased, along with denial, pretense and resistance.
In another dream and painting I pictured this dangerous
hidden influence in me.
THE DREAM OF THE EVIL SORCERER
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An evil sorcerer wounds my finger, which bleeds. He has
tow wild animals with sharp teeth that terrify me.
When I painted this, the dark fierce demons, dominated the
image, embodying those ferociously negative parts of myself
through which my ego held me helpless captive. I knew how
Pauli felt; I had been there. So much of my energy had gone
into powering those angry demons that little was left for me.
In time I would feel safe enough to discard the ersatz
stand-in and grow up as myself, not needing to "minsk" myself
into a clone of someone else's expectations of "good",
"Success", "the right way". Many dreams and paintings led me
to free my inner child and guide her into the real world.
Instead of being an escape, dreams and art became a door to
awareness, and to life.
THE LOCKER MONSTER DREAM showed me how I had come to think
of myself as a machine.
I'm looking at a wall of storage lockers with buttons to
open the doors. I press on. Slowly, with a grinding of gears,
out comes a complex, robot-like machine that cannot be
stopped. Anchored inside the locker, it now expands
relentlessly and draws me in. I am hypnotized, fascinated and
terrified. Its is huge, over my head; I can barely touch it
with my hands. Yet there is something I'm expected to do
along with it. This happens more than once. A man answers my
question: there was a mistake I was making that kept
activating this contrivance. "I DIDN'T KNOW!" I cry. "I never
meant to evoke them. I only wanted to open the doors."
The man shows me another way to open the doors that does
not trigger the mechanisms.
As I began to glimpse my ego machinations, along came a
dream that gave me an overview of myself:
DREAM OF PIG GIRL.
A plump, self-satisfied, stylishly dressed matron is taking a
retarded woman on her weekly outing from an institution.
Although taller than the do-good lady, and fat, this woman
wears a child's style dress, with short puffed sleeves and a
ruffle-edged Peter Pan Collar, a bow in her short hair, bobby
socks and Mary Jane one strap little girls shoes. Her skin,
like white lard, and her blunt nose and tiny eyes give her a
pig-like appearance. Particularly striking is the cunning
look of her very black eyes that seem to be the only part of
her that is alive inside this mound of flesh.
She allows herself to be guided inside this mound of
flesh.
She allows herself to be guided through this museum-hotel,
where a row of period rooms are on display. The two visitors
walk beside a heavy read velvet-covered rope which closes off
the rooms. they have passed the registration desk where a
drab, mousey looking woman clerk is busy with details, The
two look at the furniture, and have not yet reached wine
colored heavy velvet drapes which partially conceal a
beautiful , graceful woman waiting in the shadows.
This dream seems to me to embody four aspects of myself.
"Pig Girl" insulated herself within a numb body and played
dumb, appearing childish and underdeveloped while peering out
at the world with primitive cunning. She would not play their
game! They could not make her! She "cut off her nose to spite
her face".
Eventually I recognized the high price I'd paid for that
"independence" and another part of me tried a different
route: conform, do good, be a success".
Meanwhile a third plugged away at the nuts and bolts of
everyday life. All the while, my compassion, spontaneity,
creativity, authenticity, joy and grace were waiting...
In 1974 I was completing my dissertation on dreams as a
doctoral candidate with the Humanistic Psychology Institute
in San Francisco (Which later became Saybrook Institute.) I
taught Dreamplay privately and at the San Andreas health
Council in Palo Alto and was guest speaker on dreams in
various colleges. I had spent a rewarding summer in the Edgar
Cayce American University Dream Community. Yet I felt
unsatisfied with the psychological approach to dreams and was
searching for something more in my own life and in my
understanding of dreams. I began to meditate more regularly,
and found that in early morning meditations the meaning of a
dream unfurled itself to me.
As ee cummings says "It takes great courage /to grow up/ and
turn out to be/ who you really are."
Who I believe I am has changed, and this is reflected in
my dreams, here's one I'm particularly fond of:
DREAM OF THE LITTLE BIRD
I am looking at a little fuzzy yellow bird I hold in the
palm of my hand. This is a most unusual bird: it can read and
speak. I ask it to show me. There are some smudges with
little marks on the wall: this is the bird's language.
Slowly, the way children sound out words when they learn to
read, the little bird says, " f r i e n d ".
A few days later I came across this poem by Thomas Blake:
""L looked for my soul, but my soul I could not see.
I looked for my God, but my God eluded me.
I looked for a friend, and then I found all three."
I said to myself," Let your mind be open to new
possibilities. Trust your experience. Trust yourself."
But my resistance was formidable; my ego did not
relinquish its power willingly. I could not be sure which
part of me put ideas into my mind. So the dialogue went on in
me, while dreams and waking experiences moved me along and I
mediated more deeply. Reclaiming my inner reality has been a
struggle, and an incredible blessing.
LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION DREAM
A big burly man chases a small terrified man across a
hillside. A graceful woman stands on the left beside a
stream. She calls to the men to rest and drink some water,
but they ignore her.
Across the hill is a small but into which the terrified
little man escapes.
Inside the single room of the hut a small, brown skinned
man sits at a wooden table, under a singer hanging light
built. He is the leader of a guerrilla group carrying on a
revolution. This leader greets the frightened man with
respect and love and listens to him carefully. The man walks
out totally changed. He is free and unafraid. The bully is
gone.
My mind gradually cleared through this inner revolution and
I came to identify with the leader within me, rather than the
bully or victim. IN ruling me, my ego split me into bully and
victim and drove me to look outside myself for everything,
for approval, love satisfaction -- to people, food, success,
wealth, possessions, status. A futile search that ensured
ego's power over me. Since I could never find lasting peace
in this way, my false ego system retained its hold. With my
"revolution", I ended its power over me. I found my own
source within myself of happiness and love and the purpose
and meaning of life.
"It's almost impossible to grow up." maya Angelou said in an
interview with David Frost "Most people just get older. They
find parking spaces, honer their credit cards, have the nerve
to get married and have children and call that 'growing up'.
"That's getting older'. Growing up is so painful. Growing
up is admitting that there are demons you cannot overcome.
yet wrestle with them, like the Prophet with the Angel,' I
will not let you go till you tell me something!"
Medicine cannot heal the body, says Andrew Weill; only the
body can heal itself. What medicine can do is to help clear
away what prevents the body from healing itself (an invasion
of bacteria or virus, for example,) and support the body in
its natural processes. I think that this is true for the
psyche as well. Dreams like "The Evil Sorcerer" have focussed
on obstacles to be cleared and composted, while other dreams
have nurtured my healing process. I see a new cast of
characters and scenarios in my dreams, reflecting a new inner
atmosphere, a nurturing heart connection that is the basis of
my spiritual growth.
THE DREAM OF THE PHILOSOPHER
A wise man, philosopher an scholar, has been teaching
some young boys. I want to be part of this heart warming
scene. I watch intently as he makes a seat for himself. I
wait for a chance when he is not busy to go over and
carefully make a seat for myself. I wait for a chance when he
is not busy to go over and carefully make a seat for myself
as I had seen him do, expecting him to speak to me. There is
a childish, earnest absorption in how I innocently imitate
him and totally trust this will produce what I want.
However, when the boys leave, the teacher is no longer
interested in discussion and ignores me. I feel disappointed,
surprised, dismayed and very sad. I ask him please to teach
me, to talk to me. He is tall, with a gray beard, a handsome
lean face and strong nose, his expression amused yet
serious. He asks me what I want to know and why I want to
talk and study with him.
I search within myself, feeling how earnestly and
sincerely I want to study with him, I reach for works and
ask, "what is life all about? What is the meaning of this
life? What are we here for? Where do we come from and go to,
before and after this world? How are we meant to live this
life? How can we learn how to live? How are we to know how to
be and what to do?"
On waking I felt sorrow and disappointment in not being
included. AS children do, I had imitated the teacher in how I
made my seat and spoke, trying to please him and win his
attention. I hoped he would see in how I acted what I yearned
for. When this did not bring what I longed for, I tried to
meet this philosopher on his terms, intellectually.
What I really wanted in the dream was to be part of the
warm connection I saw in the group as they studied together.
But I could not feel safe to say this. The teacher did not
answer me from his heart, did not care to see who I was,
could not empathize with me, and I sending this, could not
tell him how I really felt. Perhaps I even felt I was wrong.
I see in this dream a reflection of my experience with my
father, who had wanted a son when I was born, and the general
valuing of boys over girls. My true meeds were never met, in
the dream or in my childhood, And I took in intellectual
values and attitudes.
Now, as this and many other dreams indicate, I am shifting
from intellect to genuine feeling. I am able to value the
feminine in myself and to be in touch with, to express and to
respond to, my authentic needs.
THE GOOD HUMOR DREAM Of March 15, 1996 brings me up to date.
I am driving home from an important conference where I
learned a lot about myself and dreams and changed
significantly in my attitudes. Suddenly I realize that I am
not driving carefully, when I hear a car on my right, behind
me, making musical notes to catch my attention. it is a Good
Humor Truck play it's chimes. I realize I had not noticed it
and was almost crowding it off the road.
(What a delightful image for the was I tent to let
"serious" concerns crowd out my good humor!)
I slow down and let the truck get ahead of me, watching
carefully to be sure no children run into the road. It is a
sunny day. There is a sense of a low wall on the right with a
steep drop on the other side, and mountains on my left.
I feel relieved that I have caught myself and "come back
to my senses" and not had an accident. I drive calmly,
consciously. I want to bring this deep influence for good
home with me in how I act in life and how I feel about
myself, and in how I drive!
I see that the young woman driver of the Good Humor truck
has safely parked beside the road, and may children are
happily eating the ice cream. I am glad and drive on.
About Alissa
I was born in Manhattan, fell in love with nature on a North
Carolina farm, survived education in news York City,
photographed in Mexico fro seventeen years, and came to
California in 1971. I am a credentialed Art Therapist and
have taught Dreamplay at the San Andreas Health Council, the
Cabrillo College Stroke Center and Santa Cruz Aids Project.
After travelling far and wide, I now dream, paint and teach
in Aptos, on the edge of the Monterey Bay, where (through my
grandchildren) I vicariously enjoy surfing, scuba diving and
river rafting.
Dreams have guided me throughout my life and are often the
source of my art work. Through art and writing I explore my
inner world and bring its dream energy and wisdom into my
everyday life.
I have a "mix and match" approach to media, and use acrylics
in various ways, as well as transparent and opaque water
color, monotype, charcoal, brush and ink
and other drawing tools, fabric photograph and collage.
You can send comments to Alissa about her art or story at:
alissa@dreamgate.com
and be sure to see her online gallery at
www.dreamgate.com/dream/goldring/
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Dream Bibliographies Online!
Richard Wilkerson
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Have you ever wondered what kinds of books are on dreams and
anthropology? Or how about finding a good book on the
comparison of different ways of interpreting dreams? And
just where do you go if you want a book to help you deal with
children and nightmares?
DreamGate & Electric Dreams now have a place to find these
and more! Dream Bib's is a pointer site that you can go to
an quickly access thousands of *references* to dream books
and articles. Some collections include the Association for
the Study of Dreams Recommended Reading List, the Novato
Center for Dreams List for Children's Books, Dream Network's
article list , the Henry Reed Collected Bibliography, the
personal publications of researchers like Ernest Hartmann and
Bill Domhoff, my own collection that includes chapters in
books as well as articles and a special anthropology
bibliography - to name a few!
If you find or have a collection that you would like added,
simple send either the URL to me or the Bibliography itself.
rcwilk@aol.com
Enjoy! -Richard
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/bibs/
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The Forgotten Language
By Scott Hughes
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In my dreams I have visited many bookstores and
libraries. I have located several interesting books only to
wake up and discover they were never real in this world. What
a disappointment!
Ahh, but there were exceptions. In one dream, an author
named Frome was mentioned. I wasn't sure how to spell the
name, but I sounded it out. I had never heard of this author,
but I felt determined to put up a search for him.
At a local library, hidden in the psychology books, I
found books written by Erich Fromm. Who was this guy Erich
Fromm? Was he the author, the dream spoke of? His name
appeared so similar to the one I heard in my dream. I looked
through a book of his called _Escape from Freedom_ and found
references to a book called _The Forgotten Language._ I
discovered _The Forgotten Language_ on another shelf. This
latter book's subject matter was dreams. Strange coincidence
that a dream would lead me to a book on dreams.
Fromm was born in Frankfurt Germany in 1900. He became a
psychoanalyst who was a contemporary of Freud. He wrote over
ten books and lectured extensively in Europe and North
America during his lifetime. Many of his ideas were
controversial, and I don't agree with them all, but his
viewpoint has significance to students of dreams. In my next
article, I will explore Fromm's
book _The Forgotten Language._
Scott Hughes
http:// ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/scoty
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John W. Herbert: DreamSharing in Cyberspace- An Interview
by Victoria Quinton
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Editor's note: John's work spawned the original form of the DreamWheel Dream groups
we run at Electric Dreams and influenced other dream online dream work including the
new DreamWheel on DreamLink and the bulletin board dreamwork by Jayne Gackenbach in
her online dream class. For a sample of a group:
http://users.aol.com/john0417/dmgp/dg16.html
John's research is the first that I know of on dreamsharing in Cyberspace. The project was
done in 1991 through the Saybrook Institute and Stanley Krippner. Now he has made his
research public at his web site:
http://users.aol.com/john0417/HuSci/Greet.html
The paper, "Human Science Research Methods in Studying Dreamwork: Qualitative and
Quantitative Analysis of Face-to-Face and Computer Networks In Dream Work Groups"
examines the difference between online and offline dream groups. A must read for all online
dream researchers and dream sharing historians.
-Richard
Interview via a series of email, September, 1996
Victoria Quinton (VQ): What were your first expectations of Cyberspace when you first
entered it as a dream-sharing venue?
John Herbert (JH): I don't really know that I had any *specific* expectations. Let's go way
back in time.
I went back to school and am enrolled at Saybrook Institute in San Francisco, an accredited
institution "without walls." At our required residency periods, I started attending Stan
Krippner's daily breakfast dream meetings, and I took to the "if it were my dream" process
like a duck takes to water. I started by leading a few groups under Stan's supervision,
studied with Monte Ullman, and continued by conducting local dream groups on a regular
basis and working with county jail inmates. As I became more involved with dream groups
using this process, I became more impressed by the universality of the process - "it
worked."
The other element, an interest in computers, had been developed in earlier years. In the
late 60's I had enrolled at San Francisco State Univ. in a Master's program in psychology. I
missed being able to get into SFSU for a particular term by just a few days, and found
myself looking for something to do in academia while waiting for the next term to begin. I
started working for Dr. Joe Kamiya at Langley Porter Institute and started "programming"
because he had no one else to do it.
I didn't have, at that time, a shred of an idea of how a computer worked or what
programming was. I got permission to use the computer in the middle of the night, so used
to do all my 'work" from about 11 PM till 4 AM in morning. I must have learned, because
I ended up working at Langley-Porter that summer as a programmer, writing code for
collecting and processing data from medical research projects. I went on to write my own
program for my Master's Thesis (A Study of EEG Changes During Zen Meditation). This
was the beginning of my interest in computers.
While at Saybrook, I had been witnessing the early growth of the commercial organizations
such as Compuserve, Delphi, Genie, AOL, Peacenet, or Prodigy, and also of the Internet. I
began to look at the expanded communication abilities of the electronic world, and was
convinced that this would be a viable means of communication, and would be of increasing
importance as time went on. Quite a few of the boards had postings about dreams, but
none were attempting to work with them in any serious manner. (Not quite true - there
were many "Let's try to meet in some specific location in our dreams tonight, or let's try to
dream about this specific plot tonight).
Realizing that face-to-face dream groups had geographical and time constraints, I began to
wonder if this group dream-work process could be conducted using an electronic medium.
As part of my studies at Saybrook, I proposed conducting an independent study to assess
this possibility. I therefore obtained permission to tape record one of our breakfast
meetings, which became the basis for comparing responses from the face-to-face (FTF)
meeting with those obtained from a group of participants gathered by posting a research
request on alt.dreams on the Internet. (This study is now available for viewing at
http://users.aol.com/John0417/HuSci/Greet.html)
Until that time, anytime I proposed doing group dreamwork using any method other than
in an FTF environment, I was constantly questioned about the loss of the necessary
"personal interaction" that was perceived to be a necessary requirement for sharing. The
outcome of my initial study, however, convinced me that it would be possible to conduct
good (and possibly superior) group dream work using computer mediated communication.
As a researcher, however, I believe that expectations of the researcher can sometimes
modify results obtained from a study. I tried to be as objective as possible, and I think that
my study could be replicated and essentially the same results obtained. What I am perhaps
trying to say is that my "expectations" were of a more philosophical nature - that using
computers for communication would be of increasing importance in the future combined
with a personal bias that the "if it were my dream" basis of sharing provided an exceedingly
powerful way for both the dreamer to understand his or her dream metaphor and for
participants to learn more about how the dream metaphors can reflect one's personal
issues.
VQ: Do you still feel that you have a place in Cyberspace, albeit different to 1991?
JH: Absolutely!
A touch more of history may help. Following my initial Internet study, I started looking at
the dreamworking possibilities on various commercial services, such as Genie, Delphi,
Compuserve, the Well, and AOL. As a Seniornet member (a subset of AOL), I started my
BBS activity and gradually developed protocols for working with both a bulletin board
format and also with an e-mail format.
All the dream groups that I have done have essentially had the format of the dreamer
presenting a dream, a segment for questions about content, the dreamer's answers (I have
mixed feelings about how to conduct these last two segments - it could be a study in itself,
because there are mixed blessings about allowing questions that ask the dreamer about his
or her life at this point of the process), the sharing phase, feedback from the dreamer
(dreamer's option) and continuing further discussions. I believe there is still a place for
these types of groups, probably most effectively conducted by e-mail. If you wish to see an
example of a full AOL dream group process, look in on
http://users.aol.com/john0417/dmgp/dg16.html
I am sure you know that there are somewhat similar groups ongoing right now, such as the
dream wheels, ed-core, etc.
For the last few months, however, I have also been a fairly regular member invited onstage
by Jeremy Taylor during his weekday "Dream Show" that is held in the Cafe Chat Room of
the HUB, which takes place on AOL 9 AM Eastern weekdays. There are about 3 of us
that are invited when we are available, but I have been a most regular and frequent guest.
For me, this is a totally different way of working with dreams. Instead of working with
one long complex dream, in a process that usually takes over a week, we are commenting
on perhaps 6 to 8 short dreams or even fragments of an image, during the hour (still using
the it were my dream approach). It had been a tremendous opportunity for me, and I have
learned a great deal. It has broadened my awareness of the need for different forms of
doing dreamwork.
The Internet provides us with a great way to communicate, using both e-mail and browser
access. As different methods of working with dreams are developed (I learned of several
new ways during the recent ASD conference in Berkeley), I am sure that more and more
individual and group dreamsharing will take place and there will be formats to suit many
different preferences.
I do not know what forms my eventual Internet participation will take, but with my two
basic underlying interests of dreamwork and computers, I can't even think of a future
without some ongoing activity in cyberspace - after all, it is a primary means of
communication, and honestly shared communication is the underlying mechanism that
makes group dream work possible.
VQ: Do you feel the same sense of community in personal meetings as in cyberspace
meetings?
JH: I would offer a qualified yes to your answer.
In FTF meetings, there must be a certain commonality of interest, otherwise the meeting
would not take place. This sense of bonding, however, springs from different sources. At
Saybrook, for example, the breakfast tables about bonded together because the participants
are not only interested in sharing their dreams but also because a very close student bond
exists, so those groups have, in my experience, a *very very* strong sense of community.
In working within the penal system, I did not find this sense of community in reference to
dreamwork. Yes, they were all in the clink at the same time, but they were all deeply
concerned with their own problems and I did not "feel" the same sense of community
among the inmates. Of course, one has to remember there is not much ability to "share"
when in jail.
I think there are always possible problems in conducting FTF dreamwork in a community.
One problem is that in a small town, often people know other people's business, and there
may be inherent hesitancy in self-exposure. Other group meetings are excellent, such as a
woman leading a group discussing women's issues, where the issues are of direct interest
to the group members individually and as a group.
When dream groups are advertised to a wider range of participants, however, and the
assembled are there to do the group dreamwork, there is a sense that the community is
there for that purpose, and the purpose is usually honored.
Remember, however, that what is very natural for you and me (working with computers),
is not always easy for many people and there may be a hesitancy in using this medium. I
found many technical problems cropping up in attempting to learn how to do responsible
dreamwork online, but I do feel there can be a strong sense of community.
Regards, John
JH: Victoria, how would *you* compare FTF to online dreamsharing?
VQ: Well, my experience of dream-sharing has been via the Internet, without the initial
grass roots "personal" meetings.
JH: Two questions I have are how did you develop you interest in working with dreams
and how did you first find your connections to the Electric Dreams community?
VQ: Well, I have had a "covert" interest in dreams since childhood, and always looked
forward to them, because of the way they seemed both to "integrate" waking life with
alternative outcomes and the way it seemed safer to try different things in dreams that I
didn't do in waking life - such as flying, talking to animals, befriending dragons, giants and
other characters, and being able to play with various of my dolls as animate peers in dreams.
As I grew up, I was drawn to books about dreams every so often and kept an
occasional diary, mainly of those dreams that cried out to be remembered.
In the early 1990's I read a few books by Jung and Jungians and did a weekend
workshop on "Jung and Your Inner Journey". I am still friendly with many of my "inner
characters", though, of course they have varied interests.
Admittedly, my "inner work" has been sporadic, though always in the "backyard of my
daily mind"and when, in late 1995, my husband introduced me to the Internet, one of the
first searches I did was on dreams.
That lead me to Dream Links:
http://www.iag.net/~hutchib/.dream/dreamlinks.html
where I explored and filled out a questionnaire, as a result of which I signed up to Richard
Wilkerson's Dream Class. He signed the participants on to Electric Dreams. I saw a request
for a volunteer Q&A editor, volunteered and became a staff member.
Victoria 8*)
mermaid@alphalink.com.au
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mermaid/
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DreamLink Update -Linton & Becky Hutchinson
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What's up at DreamLink?
DREAMCHICH
Be sure to check out DreamLinks new DreamChich BBS Board.
Lots of people have questions that need your ideas and
opinions. Leave a question and answer someones burning "I
HAVE AN ENQUIRING MIND. I NEED TO KNOW"
AUTO MAIL
Whenever anybody leaves a translation of your dream, you will
automatically be notified by E-mail that a transaction is
waiting for you in the JOURNAL section under your pen name!!!
http://www.iag.net/~hutchib/wheel/journal.html
DREAMWHEEL
DreamWheel- Electric Dreams and Dreamlink have joined hands
to sponsor a
Bulletin Board version of the popular e-mail groups. If you
don't have time to keep up with the e-mail group or your
dream wasn't picked- don't despair! Just post your dream in
the DreamWheel section and we will go through the process
just like the e-mail, with questions, replies and "if this
were my dream..." comments.
http://www.iag.net/~hutchib/wheel/current_wheel.html
FREE TEXT SEARCH
It's true - you now can surf the JOURNAL section and find all
the dreams that deal with a specific topic you define - Free
text search lets you find dreams by author, subject using
and/or search features. Go ahead and read all the dreams
dealing with LOTTO numbers!! But if you win, at least take
Beck and Linton out for dinner (in Paris thank you!)
BOOK RE (VIEWS)
Ok. We're you've asked for it so we're adding a Book Review
section to promote your Book, tape or related dream material
We've had over 48,000 interested dreamers on DreamLink just
this year so probably a FEW of them might be interested in
what you're up to !!
If you have a publication that you want viewed and housed at
DreamLink send us a copy to the following Snail Mail Address:
DreamLink
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E-Mail: hutchib@iag.net
Views is a new area in DreamLink where current Books and
Videos on dreams will be examined and stored for your future
reference. We plan to include a "Free Text Search" similar to
the one in the JOURNAL section of DreamLink so you can access
which books contain what information quickly.
The following is specific information that will be contained
for each viewing:
Editors
Bibliographic Data:
Publisher:
Imprint:
ISBN:
ISSN:
Book Type:
Book Data:
Trim Size:
List Price:
Country of Origin:
Speciality1:
Primary Audience:
Secondary Audience:
Reviewer1s Opinion:
Description:
Purpose:
Audience:
Features:
Assessment:
We'd love to add your contribution to the Dream Field and
will add appropriate links to either your own homepage or
E-mail address so interested dreamers can contact you
directly. A number of books and videos are currently in
process:
RESEARCH
The search feature for the Journal is now functional; thanks
for all of you that let me know it was not working correctly;
you now can search for any keyword in the monthly dream base
and look at dreams and responses that contain that key
word(s).
SURVEY
DreamLink has been offering Research space for dream related
surveys,
questionnaires and inquiries. Be sure to drop by and
participate. Here is the current list:
http://www.iag.net/~hutchib/.dream/survey.html
Sleep Terrors: Emotional/mental causes?
Sleep Terrors: Most effective therapy?
Nightmares : Do nightmares affect your waking state?
Dreams and Illness: Can Dreams predict illness?
Real or Fake : Can you tell a real from a fake dream?
TECHNIQUE A WEEK.
Each week , DreamLink offers a new approach to dreams. This
week you can
learn about Edgar Cayce with an technique by Robin
Cooper-Stone
NOTE: If you use this technique Please let Robin know how
effective it was - include a copy of your dream and
translation and it might just end up in a forthcoming book by
Robin!
http://www.iag.net/~hutchib/.dream/tecaweek.html
YOUR PICTURE HERE ...
Who is this? It could be you !!! WE WANT YOUR PICTURE !!!
Send us a picture of yourself and we'll scan it in and add it
to our collection. Whenever someone adds a dream a new
Picture will appear and it might be you !!! Why are we doing
this? Dreams are fun, educational and help us in some way and
we want to return the favor..
What we are tying to accomplish is make the site self
sufficient and at the same time continue the community
service that you see in DreamLink. Beck and I believe that
dreams are important in our lives but feel that they pale in
comparison to children that are truly starving and homeless
around the world.
What we plan to do with monies collected is to maintain the
site and donate them to organizations that can provide food
and shelter for desperate children around the world. If you
know of organizations that you would like to see us add to
our list, contact us.
You can be part of this process of helping humankind (where
dreams are the last of their concerns) Our work with dreams
here in the present can provide a vehicle for providing
children with a dream for a better future.
So, SEND US YOUR PICTURE and include some loose change, a
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WHO
Who is the book of donations. People e-mail us and let us
know how they are helping or ask for the name of a charity to
donate to. We add your name to this page to honor you and the
work you're doing.
With friendly greetings,
Beck and Linton
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Linton Hutchinson, Ph.D. (407) 869-8111 ext
127
Regional Counseling Coordinator
Webster University Fax:(407)
869-8623
Altamonte Springs, Fl 32714
hutchib@iag.net
DreamLink
http://www.iag.net/~hutchib/.dream/
Play Therapy
http://www.iag.net/~hutchib/play/
The Mouse Detectives
http://www.iag.net/~hutbhib/gifted/
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EUGENE MARKS/WANDERER'S WEB SITE
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(http://members.aol.com/eumarks/homepage.html)
My web site actually consists of three parts. In the first,
I'm currently sharing The Birth of Wanderer, a chronicle of a
unique spiritual transformation that began in the late
sixties, when I was a left-brained intellectual and graduate
student at UCLA with a promising career ahead of me as a
psychotherapist and Jungian analyst. When it ended, several
years later, I was a body with a mind, beginning a new life
as a wandering vagabond, living by my wits and my inner
truth, in the high mountains of California and on the back
roads of America.
In the second part of my site, Wanderer Here and Now, I'm
sharing whatever the current world scene inspires me to
write. Recently I wrote about the passing of the old guard,
those old men with their old ways who have had power over the
rest of us for so many years now. I plan to write again soon
asking the question: Why not see the positive side to what I
call medicines but which are today called drugs? In the
sixties and early seventies, we thought that it was possible
to use at least some of these "drugs" (grass, acid,
mushrooms, and peyote) without abusing them. What has
changed?
In the third portion of my web site, my family and I are
presently setting up a dream sharing forum which should be
on-line by the end of October. My family and I have been
sharing our dreams together for many years now. Besides
leading to an increase in self-awareness and growth, we've
noticed that sharing our dreams brings us much closer
together as a family. Sharing our dreams, we're sharing our
most open and real selves, and being accepted at these levels
is quite liberating.
I have my PhD in Clinical Psychology from UCLA, have studied
the I Ching and its wisdom, Jungian and Gestalt Psychology
and dreams for over 30 years, and have been in private
practice as a spiritual consultant for more than 25 years.
I'm interested in studying consciousness in all its forms.
My main tools have been my dreams and my experiences with
LSD. Currently, I'm very interested in the transformation
that we're all going through together, especially the changes
that are occurring in our collective consciousness.
E.M. EuMarks@aol.com
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Significant Dreams:
The Two Millennium Silence breaks in Cyberspace
Richard Wilkerson
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Know all things to be like this.
A mirage, a cloud castle, a dream, an apparition, without
essence but with qualities that can be seen. ( the Buddha
- Samadhirajasutra)
If the Buddhist metaphor of life-as-dream is taken seriously,
life itself may be seen as a significant dream. Jung had a
significant dream about this after an illness. "I was on a
hiking trip. (I was walking along a little road through a
hilly landscape; the sun was shining and i Had a wide view in
all directions. the I came to a small wayside chapel. The
door was ajar, and I went in. To my surprise there was no
image of the Virgin on the altar, and no crucifix either, but
only a wonderful flower arrangement,. But then I saw that on
the floor in front of the altar, facing me, say a yogi- in
louts position, in deep meditation. When I looked at him more
closely, I realized hat he had my face. I started in profound
fright, and awoke with the thought:"Aha, so his is the one
who when he awakened, I would no longer be" (pg. 323
Memories, Dreams & Reflections.)
Besides touching the significance of life itself,
significant dreams may also reach into a parallel universe .
The DreamTime of the Australian Aborigines tells of the
universe coming into being as a dream of the Great Spirit.
For them and others, dreaming contacts not the maya illusion
but a parallel universe that feeds our own. Jacob's dream of
the ladder with angels ascending and descending speaks to the
opening from one world to another and how contact with this
realm may change our life.
Sometimes the significant dream is not so much a shocking
vision of reality in total, but an insight into a more
specific reality.
The structure of benzine had been alluding the scientist
Kekule until he had a dream which allowed him access to the
answer.
"During my stay in London I resided in Clapham Road....I
frequently, however, spent my evenings with my friend Hugo
Mueller....We talked of many things but most often of our
beloved chemistry. One fine summer evening I was returning by
the last bus, riding outside as usual, through the deserted
streets of the city....I fell into a reverie, and lo, the
atoms were gamboling before my eyes. Whenever, hitherto,
these diminutive beings had appeared to me, they had always
been in motion. Now, however, I saw how, frequently, two
smaller atoms united to form a pair: how a larger one
embraced the two smaller ones; how still larger ones kept
hold of three or even four of the smaller: whilst the whole
kept whirling in a giddy dance. I saw how the larger ones
formed a chain, dragging the smaller ones after them but only
at the ends of the chains....The cry of the conductor:
"Clapham Road," awakened me from my dreaming; but I spent a
part of the night in putting on paper at least sketches of
these dream forms. This was the origin of the "Structural
Theory.6 Of course I wasn't ready to publish at that
time--dreams need to be practically tested in the real
world--but I had the beginnings of my theory. "
[A dream of a dream
actually -From: FRIEDRICH AUGUST KEKUL
S.F., A SCIENTIST AND DREAMER
http://iip.ucsd.edu/step/projects95/chem.in.history/essays/ke
kule.html (September 19, 1996)]
http://www.teachersoft.com/Library/lit/stevensn/hyde/contents
.htm
These insights may also change one's life in a more subtle
way. Robert Louis Stevenson is famous for using his dreams
to come up with stories. He *had* to be creative since he was
only getting a few pennies per page of material at the
beginning of his career. What pushed him into the limelight?
It was a dream inspired story, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde"
"I had long been trying to write a story on this
subject...For two days I went about wracking my brains for a
plot of any sort; and on the second night I dreamed the scene
at the window, and a scene afterward split in two, in which
Hyde, pursued for some crime, took the powder and underwent
the change in the presence of his pursuers. All the rest was
made awake, and consciously. " A Chapter on Dreams" 1892
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein followed from a nightmare as did
many other books that have made significant impact on the
authors and readers.
For an online version of the book:
http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/franken/franken
.html
Another writer whose dreams played a significant role was
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Kubla Khan: Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced :
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Autumn of 1797
To rest of poems :
<http://www.lib.virginia.edu/etext/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_
Khan.html>
How we interpret the significant dreams may be as significant
as the dream itself. Here is a dream that Socrates had the
struggle with the interpretation that led him to be who he
was...
"Upon this Cebes said: I am very glad indeed, Socrates, that
you mentioned the name of Aesop. For that reminds me of a
question which has been asked by others, and was asked of me
only the day before yesterday by Evenus the poet, and as he
will be sure to ask again, you may as well tell me what I
should say to him, if you would like him to have an answer.
He wanted to know why you who never before wrote a line of
poetry, now that you are in prison are putting Aesop into
verse, and also composing that hymn in honor of Apollo.
Tell him, Cebes, (Socrates) replied, that I had no idea
of rivalling him or his poems; which is the truth, for I knew
that I could not do that. But I wanted to see whether I
could purge away a scruple which I felt about certain dreams.
In the course of my life I have often had intimations in
dreams "that I should make music." The same dream came to me
sometimes in one form, and sometimes in another, but always
saying the same or nearly the same words:
Make and cultivate music, said the dream. And hitherto I
had imagined that this was only intended to exhort and
encourage me in the study of philosophy, which has always
been the pursuit of my life, and is the noblest and best of
music. The dream was bidding me to do what I was already
doing, in the same way that the competitor in a race is
bidden by the spectators to run when he is already running.
But I was not certain of this, as the dream might have meant
music in the popular sense of the word, and being under
sentence of death, and the festival giving me a respite, I
thought that I should be safer if I satisfied the scruple,
and, in obedience to the dream, composed a few verses before
I departed. And first I made a hymn in honor of the god of
the festival, and then considering that a poet, if he is
really to be a poet or maker, should not only put words
together but make stories, and as I have no invention, I
took some fables of Aesop, which I had ready at hand and
knew, and turned them into verse. Tell Evenus this, and bid
him
be of good cheer; that I would have him come after me if he
be a wise man, and not tarry; and that to-day I am likely to
be going, for the Athenians say that I must." (Phaedo)
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Classics/Plato/phaedo.body.html
The oracle at Delphi decided the fate of the world for
centuries. The procedure included dreaming on the temple
steps and then having the dreams interpreted by Apollo's
priests. If the dream was deemed significant enough, one's
concerns were presented to the oracle who interpreted and
advised on them. Not only were individual fates decided upon,
but whole nations. What wars were to be fought, what lands
were to be colonized and how to spend the national budgets.
The dream and the oracle have been silent as mediators of
significant cultural experience for two thousand years in
Western Culture. Now we move into Cyberspace and the
collective space of dream sharing, significant dreams may
again return as dreams and their meaning are shared on a
global, instantaneous basis. News projects that include
taking in millions of dreams a day and giving a weather
forecast of what people are dreaming about are coming into
being. Will it be an opportunity to fold into the collective
mix a creative ingredient or just become part of the buzzing
averaging of statistical numbers that promote the collective
Borg mentality?
The first indications are in favor of the personal.
Cyberspace is seen more as a place were the individual is
valorized, and the weirder and more unique the better. Mass
marketing still drives the economy of Cyberspace, but Mass
mindedness is regarded with suspicion and continual comment
and review. The big search, it seems, is for one another and
ourselves in equal partnership. In our search for the unique
and marvelous, the dream will continue to be a vital source
and significant dreams a fountain for us all.
- Richard Wilkerson
rcwilk@aol.com
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
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-WORLD CONGRESS 2000
-NEW DREAM RESOURCE CENTER OPENS
-IONE'S DREAM FESTIVAL, A CELEBRATION OF DREAMS IN
KINGSTON,NEW YORK
-KEN KELZER PRESENTS 1-DAY WORKSHOP ON THE CLINICAL USE OF
DREAMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
-CHARLES EUDY PRESENTS "A GUIDE TO YOUR DREAMS
-M.A. OFFERED WITH CONCENTRATION IN DREAMS
-DREAMING THE WEB OF LIFE GROUP BEGINNING
-THE NATURAL ARTISTRY OF DREAMS
-DREAM DISCOVERIES FOR WOMEN
-FALL WHOLE LIFE EXPO FEATURES DREAMS
-CONSCIOUSNESS, DREAMS and SELF
-DREAM SCENE MAGAZINE - SWAN SONG!
-SWARM II HALLOWEEN ON THE NET
D R E A M S ON THE W E B U P D A T E
-WHAT'S A REAL DREAM AND WHAT'S NOT?
-ELECTRIC DREAMS COVER ART
-DREAMBOY'S PROLIFIC STORIES
-STOP SLEEPING THROUGH YOUR DREAMS Author ONLINE
-GOLDRING'S SIGNIFICANT DREAMS
-THE DREAM TREE, A RESOURCE CENTER FOR DREAMERS
-JOHN HERBERT'S RESEARCH SITES
-DREAM BIBLIOGRAPHIES ONLINE
-DREAM RESOURCES - ONLINE LINKS, OFFLINE POINTERS
-Oneiros: FRENCH DREAM MAGAZINE AND ORGANIZATION
-THE HAYDEN INSTITUTE ONLINE
-JUNG INDEX MOVES
-THE WANDERER
-DREAM DEPT OPENS ON SELF-HELP AND PSYCHOLOGY MAGAZINE
-GRIMMS FAIRIE TALES
R E S E A R C H R E Q U E S T S
DREAMS AND DEATH
SIGNIFICANT DREAMS
DREAMLINK RESEARCH SERVICE
PAGAN RESEARCH PROJECT
D R E A M C A L E N D A R for OCTOBER & Fall 1996
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On Saturday, July 13th, 1996, the final day of the
Annual Association for the Study of Dreams (ASD) Conference
XIII, 35 to 40 people from all over the Northern and Southern
hemispheres gathered at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley,
California, to begin a discussion of the proposed "World
Congress" of national, regional, and language associations
for the study of dreams, projected for sometime in the year
2000.
The meeting was facilitated by the Reverend Jeremy
Taylor, a co-founder and recent past president of ASD.
Observers representing several other organizations interested
in the study of dreams, including the European Association
for the Study of Dreams (EASD), the Association for Research
and Enlightenment (ARE), and the International Association
for Analytical ("Jungian") Psychology (IAAP), attended the
meeting.
There was unanimous support for the World Congress at
the meeting. Discussion was wide-ranging and explored many of
the complex issues involved in creating such an event.
Concerns were also expressed, focussed in four areas: (1) the
costs of attending such an assembly, (and the inevitable
exclusion of some individuals and groups because of
prohibitive expense), (2) the site for such a meeting, (and
the specific process by which a decision on a site
would/could be reached), (3) the desire to ensure that the
program of such a meeting would/will be as inclusive as
possible, and take particular care to include native and
indigenous peoples as both presenters and participants, and,
(4) the desire to coordinate any such assembly with the
scheduled events planned by ASD, EASD, IAAP, and the other
national, regional, and language associations for the study
of dreams that are coming into existence, such as the new
Dutch ASD that has been formed during the last year. The
group assembled in Berkeley offered enthusiastic
congratulations to our Dutch friends and colleagues on the
occasion of taking this important organizational step.
Giselle Schreg, an official representative of EASD
reported on the plans of EASD, and the French journal of
dream study and exploration, "ONIROS", to sponsor a "Year of
the Dream" in Australia in the year 2000; among other things,
they seek global participation in a collective dream
incubation project. The ASD Newsletter will be carrying more
detailed information about this project in future issues.
Several possible sites for the World Congress were
proposed and discussed including universities and major
cities in the US, Canada, Europe, Central and South America,
India, South Africa, and Australia.
As the discussion unfolded, there was increasing
enthusiasm generated for the idea of multiple conferences to
be held at the same time all over the world, linked through
simultaneous electronic satellite communications. This idea
such intense interest the group turned their collective
energy to it almost exclusively. Specific ideas for
conferences in different parts of the world, all linked
through computers, electronic imaging, and simultaneous
translation, flowed from the group.
The meeting closed with people volunteering to serve on
an international Committee of Correspondence to carry the
planning further, and with a unanimous resolution expressing
"the sense of the meeting" to continue the formal dialogue,
communication, and cooperation necessary to ensure the
success of World Congress - 2000, directed to the governing
bodies of ASD, EASD, and other interested organizations.
Anyone interested in participating in the Committee should
communicate their ideas to: Jeremy Taylor
10 Pleasant Lane
San Rafael, CA 94901-5049
U.S.A.
Phone: (415) 454-2793
Fax: (415) 455-0276
e-mail: ktaylor597@aol.com
The Online site provided by Oneiros & EASD is:
http://www.mnet.fr/freecyb/ONIROS/ALCHERINGA.HTM
========== NEW DREAM RESOURCE CENTER OPENS =========
A new regional resource center for dreamers has just opened
its doors in California -- The Dream Tree, located in Santa
Cruz, and serving the greater Monterey Bay, is a growing
place designed to assist local dreamers in exploring their
dreams and in connecting with others within a shared dream
community. It's primary goals are to create opportunities for
others to enrich their lives through awareness and
understanding of dreams; to act as a center for dream-related
materials, events, activities and sharing, and to access and
participate in a global dreaming community, while maintaining
a comprehensive regional focus - the Monterey Bay.
The Dream Tree provides a variety of resources, including
bibliographies on dreams and dreamwork; assistance with
research questions and projects; referrals to dreamworkers
and dream groups; a calendar of dream events and activities;
a library of books, journals and magazines; a newsletter
packed with the latest dream-related occurrences, including
book reviews, exhibits, classes, workshops, conferences and
research; a comfortable space to host small workshops, groups
or classes, and access to the electronic dream universe on
the Internet (including an extensive database of
dream-related web sites).
Interested in supporting the Dream Tree? Your donations of
dream art, poetry, books, cartoons, magazines, photographs,
or other dream materials are welcome and needed. You can
also subscribe to the newsletter and calendar (published 8
times annually) for $8.00 per year, or, if you are especially
generous, by just donating financially.
For more information, contact The Dream Tree by email at
<pcoats@cruzio.com>, or access the web site at:
http://members.cruzio.com/~pcoats/INDEX.HTM
================IONE'S DREAM FESTIVAL, A CELEBRATION OF
DREAMS IN KINGSTON,NEW YORK ====================
A Two Day Dream Festival in Kingston will celebrate dreams
and dreamers from Kingston and surrounding areas of the
Hudson Valley. The Festival will begin on Saturday, October
26 with a participatory DREAM DIALOGUE at 3PM featuring
Dream Specialists Naomi Schecter, Barbara Cernak, IONE and
R.I.P. Hayman. That evening at 11PM DREAMSOUND; EVENT FOR
SLEEPINGAUDIENCE, by noted composer R.I.P. HAYMAN will
begin. It will last until morning. Reservations are
necessary. This event is limited to 40 dreamers.
A benefit for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation , this is the
first event to take place in the organization's new building
DEEPLISTENING SPACE at 73 Broadway in the Rondout. Sunday,
October 27 beginning at 1 PM there will bean exhibit of art
work and marathon dream related readings and performance s
continuing until 6PM. Suggested Contributions: DIALOGUE : $
5 DREAMSOUND: $10 ( More if you can ) DREAMMARATHON: $5. For
more Information and Reservations Contact: The Pauline
Oliveros Foundation at 914-338-5984EMS: Deeplisten@aol.com.
CALLING ALL DREAMERS: Area residents will be encouraged to
enjoy their dreams during the month of October and to submit
a dream to one of several Dream Depots at designated
locations in Kingston and neighboring cities. Dream Sifters
will cull the dreams and some will be presented during the
marathon event. All are eligible for a Dream Contest. Judges
will dream up prizes in several categories, to be presented
at a later date. Dreamers who wish to participate on a
planning or performance level should call IONE at
914-339-5776 or 914-338-5986 /914-338-5986fax- E-mail
dreamers throughout the world are invited to send their
dreams to : IODREAMS @aol.com.
PARTICIPANTS: A preliminary list of participants in the
Dream Festival includes: Annea Lockwood, Burrill Crohn, Peter
Blum, Julie Lyon Rose, Julie Hedricks, Iabas, Joakim Larty,
Bill Hellerman, Leaf Miller, Mikhael Horowitz, LisaStarger,
Marilyn Stablein, George Quasha, Gioia Timpanelli, Chie
Hasegawa,Naomi Schecter, Nego Gato, Carol Chappell, Janice
King, Janine Vega. A partial list of Dream Depots includes
: Deep Listening Space, The Alternative BookStore, UPAC,
Coffey Gallery, The Loft, Donskoj Gallery, The Butterfly
Bookstore at the Pathwork Center.
Author and Dream Facilitator IONE has created such Dream
Festivals for the Center for Live Letters and New York
Shakespeare Public Theater in Manhattan and foresees more
such events locally as well as in Venice, Paris, San
Francisco and Amsterdam. Composer and world traveler R.I.P.
Hayman has worked with leading medical and psychiatric
researchers to develop DREAMSOUND. The event has been
presented in many venues including the Kitchen and the New
Music America Festival.
======= KEN KELZER PRESENTS 1-DAY WORKSHOP ON THE CLINICAL
USE OF DREAMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY=========
Kenneth Kelzer, known for his critically acclaimed book _The
Sun and the Shadow: My Experiment with Lucid Dreaming_, will
present a one-day workshop on Saturday, 26 October, designed
especially for therapists and counselors who seek greater
clarity and professional confidence in working with their
clients' dreams. Topics covered will include motivating
clients to present their dreams; the basic principles of
dreamwork in therapy; dreams and transference; types of
dreams; interpreting dream dynamics as well as dream symbols;
meanings derived from the structure of dreams; utilizing
clients' dream symbols in interventions; dreams of trauma and
childhood abuse; anxiety dreams and nightmares; lucid
dreaming; transpersonal dreams and the crucial role of
contexts in dreamwork. Participants will be encouraged to
present their clients' dreams as a practicum for
interpretation and intervention. Kelzer will also present his
recently developed, unique method of experiential
psychotherapy with dreams, a synthesis trance induction,
visualization, affirmations, guided imager, and Gestalt
therapy processes.
The workshop will be held at Sonoma State University from 9
am to 5:30 pm. The cost is $60 for .8 CEU. For more
information, call Ken Kelzer at 415)897.2300. To register,
call 707) 664.2394.
==== CHARLES EUDY PRESENTS "A GUIDE TO YOUR DREAMS" ===
Dr. Charles Eudy developed his 3-Step Method to Read Dreams
in 1984 to help him deal with chronically high blood
pressure, but it also enriched his life. He has since offered
workshops (four two-hour sessions each) several times a year
in the Santa Clara valley area (California, USA). His next
series of workshops will be occurring at the following dates
and locations:
Nov. 7, 14, 21 & Dec. 5, 7-9 P.M. Quinlan Community Center,
10185 N.Stelling Road, Cupertino. Fee: $22 + $3 materials.
Register with Cupertino Parks and Recreation, (408) 777-3120.
Nov. 13, 20, Dec. 4 & 11, 7-9 P.M. Willows Center, 2175
Lincoln Avenue, San Jose. Fee $45 (materials included). To
register, call Metropolitan Adult Education Program, (408)
947-2327.
======== M.A. OFFERED WITH CONCENTRATION IN DREAMS ===
The Department of Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy
University is pleased to announce a concentration in Dream
Studies for their M.A. Program in Consciousness Studies.
Students interested in the study of dreams may choose a
variety of courses. For more information, contact Fariba
Bogzaran, Assistant Professor, Department of Consciousness
Studies at 5100 254.0105.
======= DREAMING THE WEB OF LIFE GROUP BEGINNING =====
A non-ordinary dream group, involving deep exploration of
dreams using drumming, guided imagery and movement is
beginning. Call Amanda Lynn Nielsenat 510) 944.0926, for more
information.
======= THE NATURAL ARTISTRY OF DREAMS ===============
Ready to try some new, right-brain methods for working with
your dreams? Wish to get in touch with the more creative side
of yourself in your dreams and waking life? Jill Mellick has
written a new book, The Natural Artistry of Dreams, which may
be right up your alley! Using a variety of non-linear,
non-analytical techniques for dreamwork, such as collage,
movement, sound, and other creative venues, Mellick offers
exciting alternatives for connecting with the messages of
your dreams. Published by Conari Press, the book is
available in paperback for $14.95. Jill will be appearing
October 18 at the East West Bookshop in Mountain View,
California (see calendar for more information).
======== DREAM DISCOVERIES FOR WOMEN ==============
Jeanne Adleman will be presenting the 18th annual Women's
Dreamwork Retreat October 11-13 at Rainbow Ranch, Calistoga,
California. This event helps women enjoy and understand their
dreams while enjoying each other's company and sharing in
activities. Ms. Addleman is an experienced group leader and
has developed unique methods for linking the individual and
the group. For brochure or more information, contact Jeanne
at 4150 585.0666.
======== FALL WHOLE LIFE EXPO FEATURES DREAMS =======
The 5th annual Whole Life Expo will be happening in San
Francisco, California October 18-20, 1996 at the Fashion
Center, 8th and Townsend. The expo focuses on natural
health, spirituality and personal growth and includes
exhibits, lectures, workshops, panels, bodywork pavilion,
visionary art gallery, bookstore and natural foods dining. In
addition to dreamwork, some other topics being explored
include: vibrational healing, soul work, death/dying, quantum
physics, ayurveda, meditation, healing music, global change,
herbalism and iridology. For information, contact the San
Francisco Whole Life Expo, 1040 B Street, suite 310, San
Rafael, CA 94901. 415)7212484 or visit at:
http://www.wholelifeexpos.com.
===== CONSCIOUSNESS, DREAMS and SELF ================
Dr.J.B. Arden has written a new book dealing with dreams and
consciousness from the biological, philosophical and
psychophysiological perspectives. Arden is the chief
psychologist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vallejo
and a faculty member at the California School of Professional
Psychology in Berkeley. Available for $28.50 by Psychosocial
Press, ISBN1-887841-01-6.
=========== DREAM SCENE MAGAZINE - SWAN SONG! =======
Collecting and printing hundreds of dreams and graphics since
1993, DreamScene Magazine has come to its end. But don't
Despair! You can get the 5 issues at $4.00/issue. Contact the
editor, Dan HolznerDream Scene Magazine, 3902 Folsom
Street,San Francisco, CA 94100-6138
======== SWARM II HALLOWEEN ON THE NET ===============
Last year the place to be on the Net for Dreamers was a no-
place, and every-place, a shifting, sliding party that
travelled between web, IRC, chat rooms and Newsgroups. We
held to no boundaries, but kept in touch with one another,
swirling around an unknown center.
This year Swarm II takes place, again a whole day event
beginning *your* time on the morning of October 31st and
going until we get home.
Even less planned than last year, the Swarm will keep in
touch via a updated traveling newsletter that will be posted
on alt.dreams and various other sites around the net. We will
be online all day talking and walking dreams. We'll visit all
the newest web sites and catch up on old sites. Webmasters -
have your sites ready and your pumpkins glowing, we will be
trick or treating! Dreamers, have your dream treats ready,
be they dream texts, dream inspired pictures, urls, comments
or whatever.
Start planning now and if you want us to visit your site or
e-mail, or receive "The Swarm II" newsletter, send the
following note to
dreambat13@aol.com
"Hey DreamBat - here's my e-mail/URL/IRC channel/chatroom
address/whatever/ - please put me on the "Swarm II"
newsletter - and don't forget to take me off on after
Halloween is over!"
Dreambat may not be able to respond to your request until the
week before Halloween,(He only comes out of the cave once a
year and it takes a while to shake off the hibernation blues)
so be patient and get your treats ready!
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====== WHAT'S A REAL DREAM AND WHAT'S NOT? ===========
David Black, at Seton Hall University, has set up a Web-based
program designed to explore the question of whether people
can distinguish between a real dream told to them, and a fake
one. Participants can contribute their own dreams (the
program requests three real and one fake), and/or try to
"spot the fake" in dreams already contributed. Have a look at
The Dream Narrative Experiment - it's at
http://orpheus.shu.edu/dream.
======= DREAM INSPIRED ART ==========================
DreamGate is pleased to present a new site on Dream Inspired
Art, which features numerous links to art and dream art pages
on the web, including Jesse Reklaw's Slow Wave and Concave
Up, the Fly-by-Night Communal Magic Show, LABOR Gallery by
Johannes Hedinger, the Whale Dream Gallery by Sarah Strachen,
selections from the ASD's juried show at the 13th conference
in Berkeley, and much, much more! Check it out at:
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/goldring/artlink.htm
====== ELECTRIC DREAMS COVER ART ======================
Need a cover for you Electric Dreams issue? How about
submitting one of your own for backissues that went out
without a cover? Oh, the possiblities of Cyber-text/art!
http://www.nonDairy.com/ED/covers.html
http://www.nonDairy.com/ED/cov02.html
Covers needed: Volume 1 (1994)Issue 1-20
Volume 2 (1995)Issue 2-11, 13-15.
============ DREAMBOY'S PROLIFIC STORIES ==========
Chris Romano has put together volumes of dreams with cartoon
illustrationsand other miscellanea at:
http://www.etext.org/Zines/UnitCircle/dreamboy/
========== STOP SLEEPING THROUGH YOUR DREAMS ========
Those of you who enjoyed McPhee's recent book on conscious
dreaming, "Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams" now have the
opportunity to enjoy a web page as well, including links to
many lucid dreaming sites on the net:
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/mcphee
========== GOLDRING'S SIGNIFICANT DREAMS ============
A beautifully illustrated site in which Alissa Goldring
shares her significant dreams, some of the art inspired by
them, and her own life experiences. Alissa is a credentialed
art therapist living and working in Aptos, California. Her
site can be found at:
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/goldring/
== THE DREAM TREE, A RESOURCE CENTER FOR DREAMERS ====
See the article in this issue of Global Dreaming News for
more information on this new dream resource center, and check
out the site at:
http://members.cruzio.com/~pcoats/INDEX.HTM
========= JOHN HERBERT'S RESEARCH SITES ==========
Human Science Research Methods in Studying Dreamwork:
Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Face-to-Face and
Computer Networks Dream WorkGroups -- John Herbert's seminal
research paper on the first study comparing Cyberspace Dream
Groups to Offline Face-to-Face Groups.
http://users.aol.com/John0417/HuSci/Greet.html
Dreamwork online. A sample session of Online dreamwork from
John Herbert, including the invitation, the question and
replies, the comments and closing remarks.
http://users.aol.com/john0417/dmgp/dg16.html
========== DREAM BIBLIOGRAPHIES ONLINE =============
Have you ever wondered what kinds of research, books and
articles are available on dream? Maybe you want some
suggestions on a good book for teaching children dreams or an
article that compares dream theories and techniques. Perhaps
you were curious about what is going on in dreams in other
cultures? These and more are now available at the DreamGate
- Electric Dreams DREAM BIB site. Pointers to many of lists
online and some major collections never before available,
like the Dream Anthropology Bibliography.
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/bibs/
Do *you* have a dream bibliography you would like online?
contact me, Richard Wilkerson, rcwilk@dreamgate.com
====== REAM RESOURCES - ONLINE LINKS, OFFLINE POINTERS =====
A joint project between DreamGate, Electric Dreams, the
DreamTree, and the Novato Center for Dreams.
The online links are annotated summaries of dream web sites,
Usenet newsgroups and mail lists related to dreams and
dreaming. Includes Dream Sharing, Magazines and Journals,
Information, Education and Organizations, Religion,
Spirituality & Healing, Lucid Dreaming, Dream Science &
Research, Dream Art, Jung , Books & Articles , and more.
The Offline resources include Regional Dream Centers,
Networks ,Groups, Organizations & Institutions that include
Dreams in their regular programs, Radio Shows, phone
networks, hotlines and Publications by ASD, Dream Network and
more.
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/
== Oneiros: FRENCH DREAM MAGAZINE AND ORGANIZATION ====
The French Publication and Organization Oneiros is now
online:
http://www.mnet.fr/freecyb/ONIROS/
==== THE HAYDEN INSTITUTE ONLINE ================
Two Year Dream Group Leader Training with faculty that
include Leah Berne, Mary Hunter Daly, Bob Haden, Keith
Parker, Jeremy Taylor, Ann Ulanov, Berne Ulanov.
FOR: Parishioners, lay readers, and clergy who wish to lead
church dream groups. Therapists who wish to enhance their
therapeutic skills. Community small group leaders who wish to
learn dream group skills.
http://www.hadeninstitute.com/
E-mail bob hayden at:
bob@hadeninstitute.com
================= JUNG INDEX MOVES ==================
Just a note to let everyone know that the Jung Index has
moved to:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1581/jung.html
matthew clapp kevelaer@ix.netcom.com
================== THE WANDERER ===================
Eugene Marks provides us with a personal journey mixed with
dreams, lysergics, education and soul searching. Join him in
the Wanderer!
http://members.aol.com/eumarks/homepage.html
== DREAM DEPT OPENS ON SELF-HELP AND PSYCHOLOGY MAGAZINE ==
The online sensation, Self-Help and Psychology Magazine, now
has a Dream Department coordinated by the editor of Electric
Dreams and Director of DreamGate, Richard Wilkerson. The
goal of the department is to bring to the SH&P magazine
readers the best possible information and resources available
on dreams and dreaming.
The Dreams & Dreaming Department offers resources to dream
concerned individuals and a weekly educational Question and
Answer column. Stop in, drop off you questions, pick up
answers and read the articles on dreams.
http://cybertowers.com/selfhelp/articles/dreams/
=================== GRIMMS FAIRIE TALES ===============
Though I couldn't find my favorite "the Slippers that Danced
Themselves to Pieces" there are dozens of others, including
the little mermaid, cinderella, bluebeard, beauty and the
beast, jack in the beanstalk, puss and boots, the golden
goose and many, many more.
gopher://ftp.std.com:70/00/obi/book/Fairy.Tales/Grimm/
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============ DREAMS AND DEATH =======================
Geri Grubbs, Ph.D., is seeking participants for her thesis on
dreams and death - those who have suffered a tragic loss by
death of a child or intimate spouse/lover and were recording
their dreams at the time. The loss should have occurred at
least 2 years ago and the recorded dream period should be at
least 6 months following the death. Her plan is to work
closely with the participants in analyzing their dreams,
which will involve gathering the dreams together, writing
them with specific associations to major images and meeting
with her for several sessions, if need be. Geri isan
advanced candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich,
Switzerland and is presently working as a
psychotherapist/student analyst in the South San Francisco
Bay area of California. If you think you may be interested in
being a participant, please call Geri at 408) 867.9019, or
email to
<103134,336@compuserv.com>
============= SIGNIFICANT DREAMS ===================
Marc Ian Barasch, author of The Healing Path and Remarkable
Recovery, is researching a book on "healing dreams"
---visionary/big dreams that are so vivid and affecting as to
be life-changing. These could include dreams that actually
affect physical health; childhood dreams that influence one's
life-course; precognitive or clairvoyant dreams(particularly
if these were acted upon); past-life dreams; vivid dreams of
the departed, etc. His interest is how "numinous" dreams are
integrated into ordinary waking life as spurs to change,
growth, and action, in both individuals, famlies, and society
as a whole. Individuals or clinicians willing to share
dream-experiences are invited to contact him at 1750 30th
St., Suite 543, Boulder, CO 80301. Tel: (303) 473-0445. Fax:
(303) 440-5054. Email: marcbar1@aol.com
=============== DREAMLINK RESEARCH SERVICE =============
DreamLink has been offering Research space for dream related
surveys, questionnaires and inquiries. Be sure to drop by and
participate. Here is the current list:
http://www.iag.net:80/~hutchib/.dream/survey.html
Sleep Terrors: Emotional/mental causes?
Sleep Terrors: Most effective therapy?
Nightmares : Do nightmares affect your waking state?
Dreams and Illness: Can Dreams predict illness?
Real or Fake : Can you tell a real from a fake dream?
contact Linton Hutchinson, Ph.D. hutchib@iag.net
============ PAGAN RESEARCH PROJECT =============
I am a graduate student in the sociology department at the University of
Virginia and am currently working on research concerning dream content.
The sociology of dreams studies the dream content of groups of people
and compares and contrasts it with the dream content of other groups.
The sociology of dreams does not interpret, analyze, or remark upon
dream content. It only records it.
I am now in the process of conducting research. This entails the
collection of "most recent dream reports."
I have posted this message in hopes that Pagans and Neo-Pagans who use
this newsgroup will respond to the "most recent dream report" form
below.
Your anonymity will be protected during the course of this research. I
am not interested in individual dreams per se, but the block of dreams
by Pagans and Neo-Pagans on a whole. Because I will only be studying the
manifest, apparent qualities of Pagan and Neo-Pagan dreams, you can be
assured that your identity will not be in jeopardy. Dreams are a
personal experience. I intend to preserve that quality.
Thank you for your time in helping me with my research. If you are a
Pagan or Neo-Pagan and decide to return the form below, continue reading
for complete instructions. It won't take too much of your time and your
input will be a valuable asset to the future of this research. Thanks
again.
*Instructions*
Before filling out the form below, please make sure that you e-mail all
responses to:
rls3z@virginia.edu
You needn't post them on the alt.pagan newsgroup.
All right, here are the instructions:
MOST RECENT DREAMS
Age:_____
Gender:________
Date Today:_______
How long have you participated in Pagan or Neo-Pagan religion?_________
Do you belong to a Pagan or Neo-Pagan group?____________
How long have you been a member?_____________
Do you play an active role in the leadership of the group?________
If so, what is your role?_____________
I would like you to write down the last three dreams you remember
having, whether it was last night, last month, or last year. But first
please tell me the date these dreams occurred:__________________. If you
can't recall thre dreams, one or two will suffice. However, three dreams
from each person is the best response.
Please describe the dreams exactly and fully as you remember them. Your
report should contain, whenever possible: a description of the setting
of the dreams, whether it was familiar to you or not; a description of
the people, their ages, sex, and relationship to you; and any animals
that appeared in the dreams. If possible, describe your feelings during
the dreams and whether they were pleasant or unpleasant. Be sure to tell
exactly what happened during the dreams to you and the other characters.
Thanks once again for your time.
Rick Smith
rls3z@virginia.edu
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Oct 1 USA: Santa Cruz, California
========== WOMAN QUEST and DESERT QUEST
Preview for five month course, beginning November 12.
Contact School of the Living Springs, 408) 425.7127
Oct 7-28 Online: CompuServe Dream Studio, 10:00 EST in the
New Age Forum
Oct 7 Charles McPhee "Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams".
Oct.14 Fantasies and Dreams with Scott Hughes, author of
"Inner Light".
Oct.21 Spiritual Parenting and Children's Dreams with
R. Cathan Chase
Oct.28 Dreams and the Trickster with Jonathan Young,
founding curator of
the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library, Professor of
Mythological Studies
at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Oct 5 USA: San Rafael, CA
========== TARA TREASUREFIELD -- DREAMS AND THE DHARMA: SENOI
INDIAN TECHNIQUE OF DREAM CONTROL IN A BUDDHIST CONTEXT.
707-966-4834
Oct 8 USA: Santa Cruz, California
========== DREAM GROUP FOR THOSE IN TRANSITION
Space limited, Call Gina Pearlin, 408) 427.2957
Oct 12 USA: Chicago Cultural Center
============= Jesse Reklaw, illustrator of Slow Wave and
Concave Up will be at the Underground Press
Conference-Independent Comics Exposition
10AM-5PM at the Chicago Cultural Center. Come have your dream
sketched or lurk near his table, sending psychic messages.
<http://www.nonDairy.com/slow/wave.cgi>
Oct 11 USA: Concord, Massachusetts
========== EXPLORING DREAMS THROUGH PSYCHODRAMA
The Dreamwheel, 191 Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742
508) 369.2634
Oct 11-13 USA: Calistoga, California
========== DREAM DISCOVERIES WOMEN'S RETREAT
Jeanne Adleman, 415) 585.0666
Oct 15- Nov 5 USA: Sacramento, California
============= Dreams - Level 1: The Language of the Night.
Stepani Doran, host of Talk 650 KST Dream Weaver Show, author
of Chariot of Dreams gives a class each tuesday for 4 weeks.
7-9:30 Fair Oaks Blvd & Howe Ave $59-$64
916-929-9200 E-mail LeExchange@aol.com
http://www.sacweb.com/learning
Oct 17 USA: Concord, Massachusetts
========== INTRODUCTION TO DREAMWORK COURSE BEGINS
The Dreamwheel, 191 Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742
508) 369.2634
Oct 18 USA: Mountain View, California
========== J. MELLICK: THE NATURAL ARTISTRY OF DREAMS
East West Bookshop, 415)988-9800, <eastwestmv@aol.com>
Oct 18-20 USA: San Francisco, California
========== WHOLE LIFE EXPO
Contact 415) 721.2484 or visit http://www.wholelifeexpos.com
Oct 19-20 USA: San Francisco, California
========== MICHAEL HARNER, WAY OF THE SHAMAN
California Institute of Integral Studies, 415) 753.6100, ext.
241 or 236
Oct 19-20 USA: Santa Cruz, California
========== SHAMANIC DREAM SEMINAR/VISION QUEST
Dance of the Deer Foundation, Center for Shamanic Studies,
P.O. Box 699,
Soquel, CA 95073. 408) 475-9560
Oct 26-27, USA: Kingston, New York
========== 2-DAY DREAM FESTIVAL
Contact: The Pauline Oliveros Foundation at 914-338-5984 or
e-mail
<Deeplisten@aol.com>
Oct 26-27, USA Oakland, California
=========== New Aspects of the Dreambody: Symptoms and
Relationships. Arnold and Amy Mindell. Sat 7:-9:30 and Sun
10am-4:30. Health Education center, Samuel Merritt College, ,
400 Hawthorne Ave. Sponsered by JFK University: 510/254-0105
Oct 26 USA: Sonoma State University
=========== KEN KELZER WORKSHOP
Call Sonoma State at 707) 664.2394 or
Ken Kelzer 415) 897.2300
Oct 20-31, On-line Internet Dream Course
========== UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF YOUR DREAMS
http://www.outreach.org/dreams
email <jgackenb@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Nov 1 , On-line Email Dream Classes
======= The History of DreamSharing & DreamSharing in
Cyberspace. 13th offering of the online class by
Richard Wilkerson <rcwilk@dreamgate.com>
Nov 2 USA: San Mateo, California
=========== DAY OF THE DEAD CEREMONY & DREAM CIRCLE
Call Terry Ebinger, A Circle of Dreams, 415) 347.6605
Nov 2 USA: Berkeley, California
=========== BADG(Bay Area Dreamers Group) HALLOWEEN
COSTUME BALL. Call Jim or Marcia for reservations at
510-526-5510.
Nov 7,14,21 USA: Cupertino, California
=========== A GUIDE TO YOUR DREAMS, Charles N. Eudy
Cupertino Parks and Recreation, (408) 777-3120.
Nov 13,20,
& Dec 4,11 USA: San Jose, California
=========== A GUIDE TO YOUR DREAMS, Charles N. Eudy
Metropolitan Adult Education Program, (408) 947-2327.
Peggy Coats
The Dream Tree -- A Resource Center for Dreamers
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SUBMITTING DREAMS and Comments about Dreams: EASY!
Electric Dreams will publish your dreams and comments
about dreams you have seen in previous issues. If you can, be
clear what name you want or don't want. Most people use a pen
name. Please include a title for your dream. Email to: Bob
Krumhansl <bobk829887@aol.com>.
SUBMITTING ARTICLES, projects and letters-to-the-editor.
Electric Dreams is responsive and experimental. If you
have articles or suggestions on dreams, dreaming or
dreamers - including book reviews, movie suggestions or
conferences and meetings, we will publish them. I'm
especially interested in creative interpretive approaches
to dreams, including verbal, dramatization, and mixed
media approaches. Send to:
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SENDING IN QUESTIONS, Replies and Concerns about dreams and
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dreams, but we will submit you questions to our network and
other Internet networks. Also, you are free to post special
interest requests. Send those to Victoria Quinton
<mermaid@daemon.apana.org.au>
JOINING DREAM GROUPS sponsered by Electric Dreams. If you are
interested in joining a group to discuss your dream with
peers, contact Chris Hicks <shadow45@netonecom.net>
Attach your own web page to Electric Dreams. Do you have an
idea for a dream page, but no web site? Send that page to
Matthew Parry. If you need help with creating the web page,
contact Matthew for about classes.
<mettw@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au>
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