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++ Editor's Notes
++ Dream Airing: Notes, letters to the editor
Deleuze Dreams On- Mark Crosby & R. Wilkerson
++ Column: Dream Trek: To Honor the Humorous Dream
Linda Magallon
++ Column: Using Dreams with the Tarot
Jean Campbell
++ Article: SUNEYE, Lucidity & Enlightenment
Joe Russa
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Richard Catlett Wilkerson
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The liberation of dream sharing continues as dozens of new
dream projects come online and a multitude of new approaches
appear. As I continually mention here, one of the keys to getting
dreams back into our culture is breaking the notion that the
dream can't be shared with more than one person. It's too
personal, it's too intimate, it's too meaningless, it's too
fragmented, I've already shared that with my therapist, lover,
dream group. One way to open up our dreams to a wider audience
is to share then in a variety of venues. The other is to open up
our attitudes on what dreams are and what they are for. In this
issue of Electric Dreams, you will get a variety of approaches
and I recommend trying them all on for size.
Linda Magallon suggests we are way to serious about our dreams
and while this leads to some excellent therapy and life changes,
it may be repressing some of the delightful aspects of dreaming.
Be sure to read "To Honor the Humorous Dream" in the DREAM TREK
Column.
It may be that all this talk, talk, talk about dreams biases and
limits the way we relate to dream imagery. Jean Campbell begins a
series of articles exploring the tarot and dreamwork. How might
we use imagery to approach the dream in ways that are different
than our verbal approaches?
Perhaps a journey into lucid dreaming could loosen our notions of
what dreams are all about? Joe Russa has developed a technique
which he finds allows him to access both lucidity and out of body
experiences quite easily. Give it a try and tell me what YOU
think of the SUNEYE method.
Dreams are used in clinical practice for mental health, but are
they also connected with our physical health? I'm offering a
brief survey of the history of dreams and health this month and
am including some resources for further study.
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Conference in Santa Cruz next month and I hope you will all come
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:38:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Crosby <crosby_m@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Deleuze dreams on...
No sooner had I read Jacques Derrida's "I'll Have to Wander All
Alone", and was also amazed that I too "never felt the slightest
'objection' arise in me ... against any of his [Deleuze's]
discourse", than I read just before bed that "Existence and
judgment seem to be opposed on five points", one of which is
"sleep or intoxication versus the dream" ("To Have Done With
Judgment" (DwJ), _Essays Critical and Clinical_, translated by
Daniel W Smith & Michael Greco, 134). This kind of judgment seems
a little cut and dried...
I also see in "L'Abecedaire" (under D as in Desire) that (Charles
Stivale interpreting ;) Deleuze says "the philosophy of desire
[was] don't go get psychoanalyzed, stop interpreting, go
construct and experience/experiment with assemblages, search out
the assemblages that suit you", by which he means exploration of
'natural' states, styles of enunciation, and the play of
deterritorialization between them. Deleuze is interested in "the
unconscious as a machine/factory, not a theater". This seems
quite ambiguous: presumably we should play with dream images (as
our primary means of accessing the unconscious), which is quite
theatrical, rather than cast them into predefined symbols, which
is usually the goal of the factory assembly line..
I'm not talking about dream interpretation according to any
mythical archetypes or structuralist psychoanalytic symbolism;
but rather, paying attention and noticing scenes, characters and
situations that reoccur and might provide amusing asides on
current waking-life events. This, I think, is what Richard C
Wilkerson, in his online "Postmodern Dreaming" essay, calls
"post-representational presentation in which meaning is generated
in the freeplay of being, becoming and re-becoming".
Norbert Wiley's brand new "A Piercean Theory of the Movie
Spectator" (posted to Peirce-L on 990420 from a 990413 UC
Berkeley lecture) describes "the semiotic self" as "a bi-leveled
sign, with a second-order dialogical framework and a flow of
first-order signs within. The frame can play ones own stream of
consciousness or it can play one from without... On this view the
self would not be an entity or substance. It would be a 'field',
comprising dialogicality, temporality and signification... the
older paradigm of Lacanese Althusserian apparatus theory tends to
reduce the self upwardly into language and culture. And the newer
paradigm of cognitive science tends to reduce the self downwardly
to the biological and physical levels. The pragmatist self is
autonomous and unreduced but still dispersed into a field of
signification".
Deleuze's claim that "The world of judgment establishes itself as
in a dream. It is the dream that makes the lots turn (Ezekiel's
wheel) and makes the forms pass in procession" (DwJ 129), seems
(on first thought) to belong to an older paradigm.
Following Carlos Castaneda's 1993 _The Art of Dreaming_ (AoD),
normal dreams, which Deleuze dismisses, are "shifts of the
assemblage point" of ones reality. The "intoxicated dreamless
sleep" that Deleuze cites from Antonin Artaud's and DH Lawrence's
Mexican excursions, is what Castaneda would call a more radical
"movement of the assemblage point". It is here that dreaming
becomes serious...
Castaneda makes the attractive claim that "through discipline it
is possible to cultivate and perform, in the course of sleep and
ordinary dreams, a systematic displacement of the assemblage
point" (AoD 19). But he also warns that "the dreaming attention
is the key to every movement in the sorcerers' world... that
among the multitudes of items in our dreams, there exist real
energetic interferences, things that have been put in our dreams
extraneously, by an alien force. To be able to find them and
follow them is sorcery" (AoD 29). Castaneda also calls them
"inorganic beings". They could also be called "phantasms"...
Deleuze writes (recounting Lucretius) that "The second genre of
phantasms is constituted by simulacra which are particularly
subtle and agile ... capable of supplying the animus with visions
... all of the images which correspond to desire or, again and
especially, dream images. Not that desire is creative here;
rather, it renders the mind attentive and makes it choose the
most suitable phantasm from among all the subtle phantasms in
which we are immersed. The mind, moreover, isolated from the
external world and collected or repressed when the body lies
dormant, is open to these phantasms" ("Lucretius and the
Simulacrum", _Logic of Sense_ 276).
Castaneda also explains that while "Some items are of key
importance because they are associated with the spirit. Others
are entirely unimportant by reason of being associated with our
indulging personality" (AoD 85). Still, "The true goal of
dreaming is to perfect the energy body" (AoD 42); and "if we
choose to recondition our interpretation system, reality becomes
fluid, and the scope of what can be real is enhanced without
endangering the integrity of reality" (AoD 97).
But, the whole point of deliberate dreaming, encountering the
phantasms of recapitulation, is to gather energy and learn to
discriminate when we are "dealing with a real world ... 'If they
can't *see* the energy of an item, they are in an ordinary dream
and not in a real world'. 'What is a real world, don Juan?' 'A
world that generates energy; the opposite of a phantom world of
projections, where nothing generates energy, like most of our
dreams, where nothing has an energetic effect'" (AoD 164).
Becoming able to recognize the difference is the practice of
intent.
Dreaming is, "a journey that uses awareness as an element of the
environment ... physical elements are part of our interpretation
system, but energetic elements are not" (AoD 185). Castaneda and
Carol Tiggs, "dreaming together", are transported by inorganic
beings to an alien storage room, confronting their demons of
"caginess and distrust". Carol warns Carlos: "Anything we use
belonging to this world can only weaken us... The reentry into
our world is automatic if we don't let the fog set in" (AoD 195).
Don Juan describes the trick intended here: "This breaking and
entering amounts to stalking the stalkers. Using awareness as an
element of the environment bypasses the influence of the
inorganic beings, but it still uses their energy" (AoD 186).
At the end of his _Logic of Sense_ appendix on "Klossowski or
Bodies-Language", Deleuze explains how "The simulacrum becomes
phantasm, intensity becomes intentionality to the extent that it
takes as its object another intensity ... the passage from
intensity to intentionality, it is the passage from sign to
sense... The dissolved self opens up to a series of roles, since
it gives rise to an intensity which already comprehends
difference in itself ... this is the joyful message. For we are
so sure of living again (without resurrection) only because so
many beings and things think in us" (LoS 298).
And so we come to the end of the line (of flight; of a sorcery
lineage): The Death Defier is one who has escaped the inorganic
beings' clutches, to be continually immanent as a beckoning woman
in the church, able to transcend time, "to move backward and
forward on the here-and-now energy of the universe" (AoD 249).
"You and I", she said, "are dreaming ourselves in another time.
In a time yet to come" (AoD 253); and, disappearing, she cried,
"We are dreaming ourselves. Dream your intent of me. Intend me
forward!" (AoD 254). Amidst "the fog of the dream" and "the
foreboding sensation that the incommensurable was just around the
corner", don Juan's voice breaks through: "this is dreaming. You
should know by now that its transactions are final" (AoD 260).
And Deleuze tells us that "Judgment prevents the emergence of any
new mode of existence... Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to
bring into existence and not to judge" (DwJ 135). That is, *to
dream* and transform the intensity into intent, rather than *to
have a dream* and simply say it indicates something..
- - Mark Crosby
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:42:06 -0700
From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcwilk@dreamgate.com>
Subject: Deleuze dreams on...
Hi Mark,
I really enjoyed your post. May I reprint this on Electric
Dreams?
Some notes
Mark Says : >>>>>>>>>>>>
I'm not talking about dream interpretation according to any
mythical archetypes or structuralist psychoanalytic symbolism;
but rather, paying attention and noticing scenes, characters and
situations that reoccur and might provide amusing asides on
current waking-life events. This, I think, is what Richard C
Wilkerson, in his online "Postmodern Dreaming" essay, calls
"post-representational presentation in which meaning is generated
in the freeplay of being, becoming and re-becoming".
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<,
Yes, however, I want to be a partial apologist for the
archetypalists....
I wanted to add that some Jungians, (C. G. Jung and James
Hillman) try to get at much of this you mentioned in their work,
though one might not recognize it in the watered down versions
for popular culture. Symbols for Jung were not reflections or
representations in the sense we are used to talking about them,
but dynamic engines of production, producing monstrosties that
our individual consciousness' flee from in most situations.
True, Jung was steeped in Hegelianism and saw symbols as binary
binding forces that held together opposites in an attempt to
synthesize more Self. But note,
1. The opposites that were bound together were productions,
desiring machines breaking into the flow of the standard-quo,
forces that human's see as in-reconcillable, totally not going
together ever and in terms of *representations* only interfaced
with our consciousness in strange and novel imagery, often found
in dreams where the ego is not as easily able to deny them.
2. Archetypes are not Stereotypes. One of the problems when Frye
translated Archetypal psychology to literary forms and Joseph
Campbell into Mythic literature was the loss of the core of the
archetype. Encounters with archetypes are always a defeat for
ego. At best, the ego, me, gets radically relativized and
minimalized in the grand scheme of forces. At worst, it becomes
possessed and identified with the archetype and inflated beyond
belief. (at least beyond the belief of others, the I,me,ego
blinds
does not recognize its own capture for some time).
Of course, Jung's "Self" archetype is problematic in that
it sits at the center of everything, centering everything,
binding everything to itself and projecting out its little
warrior, hero ego. James Hillman offers a corrective to this by
keeping the Archetypes but removing the Self from the center and
setting alongside the other archetypes. Its still does its
centering and balancing, but as a equal player with other
archetypes. Also, Hillman always using the word archetype as an
adjective. Archetypal encounters are not just stereotypical, but
tornado like events that create cracks and fissures and sometimes
total breakdowns in the flow.
Mark Says : >>>>>
but rather, paying attention and noticing scenes, characters and
situations that reoccur and might provide amusing asides on
current waking-life events.
>>>>>>>>>>
Yes, I would suggest taking this even further. I would suggest
that moving in and with dream imagery as you suggest will bring
these entitites into waking life, and perhaps begin to
deconstruct the boundry between waking and sleeping life where
one is real and the other merely a representation of the real.
Individuation might be seen as the actualization of the dream
figures rather than the ego.
Castaneda has a highly conscious-focused relationship with
dreaming. When he says "dreaming" I feel I must always translate
this to "Castaneda's sub-form of lucid dreaming with
neo-shamanistic goals". Characters slip in and out of lucidity,
but basically it is lucid dreaming with motive. The inorganics
correspond to what Jung refers to as the Animus/Anima archetype,
(though they parade around as more) which Jung felt was special
in that it was partially full of collective unconscious stuff
(things we have never experienced) as well as personal
unconscious (things we are but reject) and therefore serves as a
guide into the Other. I like Castaneda, but this material has so
much trickster in it that it can't really come out and play with
other systems.
Postmodern dreaming turns fractically rather than practically,
twisting out of having a dream and being had by a dream. When I
am awake I had the dream, when I am asleep the dream has me. When
I am liberated we have one another.
- Richard Wilkerson
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DREAM TREK
By Linda Lane Magalln
To Honor the Humorous Dream
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One day my friend and colleague Robert Waggoner read the
proceedings of a lucid dreaming panel in a scientific journal. He
told me, "I was intrigued by one panelist who said that he had
all of his mental functioning in lucid dreams, including
imagination and even dreaming." Later that night Robert had this
lucid dream:
"I'm in a room. It's bright and cheery. For some reason I feel
that it's a magician's shop or puppeteer's. There's a desk with a
lamp, a chair with cloth thrown about and items on the wall. I
realize that I'm lucid and this is a dream and I wonder if I can
imagine something that isn't obviously there. As I stand, I
imagine a balance beam bar right in front of me, though I can't
see it. Then I drape my upper body over the invisible bar until
my head is touching the floor and my legs are parallel to the
floor. And I grin and laugh. As I'm awakening, I mentally touch
up the dream with an extra scene of me seeing myself in an upside
down position."
When was the last time you had a humorous dream? Isn't that
upside-down from our usual way of dreaming? Ah, yes, anxiety and
nightmare gets our attention fast. Such dreams are perfect fodder
for interpretive and conflict-resolving dreamwork. But what do
you do when the dream doesn't have to be diagnosed or healed or
sliced and diced? How do we honor a dream of joy? Sometimes I
think that dreamworkers haven't a clue. They just don't know what
to do when a dream or dream story is humorous.
Another close friend and colleague, Bob Trowbridge, once came to
a meeting of the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group and related this
nonlucid dream:
"I'm sitting on the end of a double or queen size bed. A black
Scotty dog jumps up on the bed and bites and chews on my hand and
wrist. Then he jumps down again. I pat the bed and he jumps up
and starts all over again. A woman in the room tells me to watch
the dog because another black Scotty dog is passing by outside.
"It turns out that there's a long, wide hallway to our right that
opens to the sidewalk outside with no door. The other Scotty sees
or senses our dog and comes running into the room. The Scotty on
the bed jumps down and runs over to the other dog and they sniff
at each other's noses.
"The woman says to our dog, 'This is your brother Winston,
Gennedy.' Our dog looks at her and says, 'Winston Gennedy?' She
says, 'No. Your name's Gennedy. His name's Winston.'"
Bob then continued, "I told this dream to my friend Steve. I got
to the part where the woman goes, "This is your brother Winston,
Gennedy." Steve repeated (in a puzzled voice) "Winston Gennedy?"
We chuckled over the fact that Steve had heard the two names as
if they had been strung together, just like the dog did in the
dream. Immediately thereafter, the gung-ho dreamworkers jumped on
Bob with their dreamwork methods. They began to ask him questions
like "How old are you in the dream?" and "How do you feel in the
dream?" You know, doing dreamwork. And Bob replied, "No, no, no,
I just wanted to share this dream. I think it's funny."
So the serious workaholic mood changed and people started making
wisecracks. Like "What a hairy dream!" Or calling it a "shaggy
dog story." At this point, the hostess, who had been out of the
room, came back in. She heard all the chuckling and laughing and
asked, "What's up?" Bob began to tell the dream all over again.
He got to the part where the woman is saying "Winston, Gennedy"
and the hostess repeated, "Winston Gennedy?" The whole group
cracked up again.
Finally, from across the room, Kent Smith spoke up. He cleared
his throat and said, "Bob, if this were my dream, I'd forget it."
I was laughing so hard, I slid off my pillow.
Right on, Kent. Sometimes you do have to forget it. You have to
forget doing interpretation or making sense and look at things
from a fresh point of view. Like upside down and backwards,
hanging over a parallel bar. Or flatass on the floor.
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USING THE TAROT WITH DREAMS
Jean Campbell
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The fact is that even the thought of writing about using the
tarot makes me just a little queasy--not because I have anything
against the tarot, but because of the powerful information the
cards can unlock.
Not long after I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia years
ago, I went to a dinner party. After dinner, one of my friends
said causally, "Sure. Jean knows how to read the tarot. Maybe
she'll do some readings for us."
After an unsuccessful attempt to back out gracefully, to say
I was just a novice at card reading, I allowed myself to be
seated at the table with my old A.E. Waite deck and BAHM! Sure
enough, the first couple I read the cards for was in deep
trouble. He was having an affair; she didn't know it. Great. I
bumbled my way through the rest of the evening, trying not to say
what I really saw, and left as soon as possible.
The problem with the tarot is that people don't think it
will work.
And it doesn't, not really. We are the ones who do the
work. The tarot, like many other tools, is what is called a
method of divination. This is a fancy term for getting in touch
with information which we generally may not access.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
One of the first English scholars of the twentieth century
to study the Tarot was a man by the name of Alfred Edward Waite.
As you can see from the story above, I prefer to use the deck
Waite created over any of the innumerable other decks which have
been created, because Waite was a scholar of religious symbolism,
mysticism, and the Kabbalah. The deck he developed along with
Pamela Coleman Smith draws on their mutual understanding of
Judaeo-Christian symbolism, as well as the more ancient history
of these symbols. Because of this, even the most minute detail
of the Waite deck (sometimes referred to as The Rider/Waite
Tarot) is steeped in symbolism and can be counted on to trigger
images and ideas, even for those who know nothing of the tarot.
This is not to say that other tarot decks, of which there
are many, have no importance, but only that I prefer the Waite
deck because each card contains a picture (untrue in some of the
older tarots), and because the imagery contained in these
pictures is easy for me to access because of my own background.
There are several tarot decks of more recent origin than the
Waite deck which emphasize different symbols: the feminist tarot;
Robin Woods' more fantasy oriented deck, and the occult deck
developed by Alestair Crowley, to name a few.
Waite claims that the word tarot comes from the Egyptian, in
which language Tar equals way or road and Ro means king or royal.
For this reason, the tarot is sometimes called the Royal Road.
Whether or not this is an accurate statement about the
origin of the tarot, we know at the very least that the tarot
dates back to the late thirteen hundreds when the painter Charles
Gringoneer created some cards for Charles VI, the King of France.
It is rumored that the European Gypsies (known also as Gyps or
Egyptians) carried the mystical traditions of ancient Egypt in
these cards which, with the exception of the twenty two cards
called the Major Arcana, ultimately developed into today's
playing cards.
SOMETHING TO DO WITH DREAMS
For the purpose of divination, the tarot is generally laid
in what is called a spread. There are a number of these, used
for different purposes, the most common of which is known as the
Celtic Cross.
But for working with dreams, such a spread is not necessary.
What I would like to do over the next few months us discuss a
variety of ways that the tarot can be used to help us better
understand ourselves and our dreams.
For this month's exercise, let me suggest something I have
used to good effect in dream groups I've conducted. It is
something you could try alone, as well, or with a group of
friends interested in dreams. This method is very close to what
Sigmund Freud labeled free association and works well even for
people who have never seen a tarot card in their entire lives.
I suggest that the group form a circle on the floor, not for
any occult reasons, but simply because it is easier for everyone
to reach the cards.
Put the cards in the middle of the circle, and let everyone
shuffled them, spread them around like you did when you were kids
and used to play Go Fish.
Then each person draws a card, leaving it face down on the
floor.
One by one, going around the circle, let people turn over
their cards and explore them for personal meaning, looking on the
card as if it were a dream.
For the Jungians who read this article, let me say that I
have seen a great many people, some of whom are entirely
unfamiliar with the tarot, exclaim over the synchronicity of the
symbols. "Yes, that's the issue I've been dreaming about." "Oh,
look at that lion. It looks just like my cat who is sick."
Even for people who have some understanding of the
traditional meaning of the tarot's symbolism, it is useful to
approach this exercise with a new eye, to talk about the feelings
engendered by the card rather than to fall back on what someone
has said the card means. This could be likened to the
difference between interpreting our own dream symbols and using
Zolar's Dream Dictionary.
Looking at the individual card as a dream, with personal
significance, lends itself well to the Rev. Jeremy Taylor's well
known exercise, "If This Were My Dream." This exercise allows
others to comment about the dream (or card), but only from the
perspective of each of us owning our own personal perspectives or
perceptions. I once watched two friends, one of whom had drawn
The Star, and the other who had drawn The Fool, first remark,
independently, how they hated their own card and loved the other-
-and then touch deeply on the qualities they saw in one another.
This is only one way in which the tarot can be used to work
with dreams. There are many more to explore. Also, if you have
used a dream technique with the tarot which you would like to
share, why not post the message on the message board? Dreams are
the realm of imagery and symbols. What better way to pursue
their meaning than through a medium which is totally focused on
imagery?
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SUNEYE, Lucidity & Enlightenment
bu Joe Russa
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Hello,
My name is Joe Russa a.k.a. SUNEYE and am the creator and owner
of the SUNEYE website. I would like to take some time to explain
the SUNEYE website and how it could help you achieve out-of-body
experiences and lucid dreams.
I have been researching out-of-body experiences and lucid dreams
for twelve years. I tried many techniques to acheive OBEs and LDs
with varying results. I soon discover that the only way to be
able to induce OBEs and LDs is to understand what they are and
what factors make them occur.
After intensely studying these factors from different sources, I
soon discovered a method which is able to induce OBEs and LDs,
quickly and effortlessly. I called the method the SUNEYE Method
(my sig. name SUNEYE is a long story that is explained at the
site). The method is an offset from Stephen LaBerge's
sleep/wake/sleep discovery, the Third Eye Focus technique, and
repetitive present tense suggestions.
Putting these techniques together creates a powerful method for
inducing OBEs and LDs because each technique contains the factors
or ingredients necessary for induction. It is like creating a
food recipe. Salt alone is not a tasty treat, but mixed into a
recipe of different spices creates a gourmet meal.
The Stephen LaBerge's sleep/wake/sleep discovery was a big
breakthrough in sleep research. Mr. LaBerge discovered that the
easiest way for lucid dreams to occur is if your mind is alert
but your body is asleep. He went on explaining that if a subject
awakens around an hour before his/she regularly wakes up, stay
awake for that same amount of time, and then goes back to sleep,
lucid dreams was highly probable. I felt that the only drawback
to this method was that it was not useful for every situation.
Let's say that a subject regularly sleeps 4 hours and we use
LaBerge's method, the subject would have to wake up after 3 hours
of sleep. The body and mind of the subject would be too tired to
make a dream become lucid because not enough sleep was set. Let's
take it to the other extreme and the subject sleeps for 9 hours.
LaBerge's method will have the subject awaken after 8 hours of
sleep. Research shows that an average person will be fully
energized and refreshed after 8 hours of sleep. This will make
the subject's mind and body too energized for lucidity to take
place. Studying this made me realize that there is a certain
amount of hours a subject would need to sleep in order for the
body to remain tired, while making the mind become alert.
The power from the Third Eye Focus technique comes from the
ability to make a subject focus on a single thought. There are
other focus techniques. If you feel comfortable with a certain
focus technique, you could replace it with the Third Eye Focus
technique.
The reason I chose the Third Eye Focus technique is because of
its easyiness to control a stressful mind. When focusing on the
third eye, you easily loose awareness of your physical body. All
of your trespassing thoughts dissipates and single-minded
concentration on a thought increases. The third eye chakra is a
powerful focus of the subconscious making the Third Eye Focus
technique the easiest technique to make your mind accept your
most wanted desires.
You will feel a strange pull because you are exerting a whole new
range of muscles. If you persevere the headaches that could
occur, it will slowly diminish and focusing on a thought becomes
extremely easy.
The third eye is like a magnet. Once focused upon, all of your
mental suggestions becomes sucked in by your subconscious. It
feels like a direct doorway to your subconscious. The Yogis
deeply believe that once the third eye chakra is opened through
focusing, the powers of astral projection and dream control is
achieved. The Yogis do not focus on the third eye chakra to
achieve OBEs or LDs, though. They focus on that chakra to reach
enlightenment.
>From my personal experience and the experiences of the subjects
that have tried the Third Eye Focus technique in the SUNEYE
Method, claims, that they feel an increase of clarity in their
thoughts, as if their subconscious mind accepted every
suggestions they inputted. When they stopped using it, their OBEs
and LDs started to decrease.
The suggestions that are needed, and are used in the SUNEYE
Method, are suggestions that are short, specific, and in the
present tense. The subconscious mind is like a computer. It does
not like general questions. If you simply ask a computer for
help, the computer will not understand what you need help in and
will be ineffective in providing an answer. If you specifically
tell a computer what you need help on, the computer will give you
the answer you need.
During my research, I have found that general suggestions does
not provide positive results, if it provides a result at all.
When I specifically tell my mind what I want in a short, specific
sentence, the results are surprisingly accurate.
Even though the SUNEYE Method was successful in helping a lot of
people achieve an OBE or LD for their first time on their first
try, it is not always successful for everyone. Then again, no
technique or method works for every person. That is why I built
the SUNEYE site.
The SUNEYE site is basically a way in which I will be able to
publish my research. Unlike other organizations, that concentrate
on one way for inducing OBEs and LDs, I will be researching all
avenues to help more people. Some of the projects that I am
planning range from using herbs to recording hypnosis script as
induction mediums. I will not post something just to fill up
space at my site. I will post techniques or methods that have
worked for me, and which I believe, will work for the visitors to
my site. Once the techniques or methods are posted, the public
then gives me their results, whether positive or negative.
I am currently using different avenues to help people reach their
goal to achieve OBEs or LDs. At the site, I have the 'Testing
Room'. That is where I post the researched techniques and
methods, and future projects. I also send out reports to
different mailing lists and newsgroups. These reports contain my
latest findings and advice. I also created several OBE and LD
conferences and clubs at Yahoo and Excite. You could join and
discuss these topics. Each of them contain real-time chat
capabilities. I am planning in making these conferences and clubs
a powerful means for beginners to find helpful information by
having them discuss OBEs and LDs with experienced people.
If you are interested in learning more about the SUNEYE Method or
future research, feel free to visit the site at
http://fly.to/suneye or email me at suneye@earthlink.net if you
want to help me in my future projects and experimentations.
I wish everyone the best of luck and hope that I could be of
help.
Joe Russa (SUNEYE)
suneye@earthlink.net
http://fly.to/suneye
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Dreams and Health: A Brief Historical Review
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
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o The Ancient Greek Dream Network o The Psycho-Spiritual Dream
Revival o Predicting Illness: Prodromal Dreams o Dreams and
Health Practices o Conclusion o Recommended Readings o
Bibliography & Citations o The myth of the dream god Asklepios
o The Association for the Study of Dreams info
o Introduction
Dreams occur naturally about six times a night and have provided
insights into health and wholeness since the beginning of
recorded history. Early civilizations found that they had
abandoned something essential in the daily routines of city life
and dream sanctuaries afforded an opportunity to get back in
touch with a source of wholeness that provided comfort and
healing. Abandoned out of fear during the Middle Ages in the
West, dream sharing and dream interpretation were revived as
healing channels in early 20th Century psychotherapy. Eventually
these practices made their way out into the mainstream of culture
and flourished as popular techniques in self awareness and
spiritual growth. Though dreams don't predict the lottery numbers
you might want, they do seem to indicate psycho-spiritual trends
that give us clues to upcoming problems. Now there is evidence
that attention to dreams may reveal upcoming troubles with the
body as well as the mind and soul.
o The Ancient Greek Dream Network
The Dream Temples
The Asklepion dream healing centers are all over Greece and
were in full operation all over the Aegean sea and coast of Asia
Minor by around 400 B.C.E. (Before Current Era) , though
Asklepios was believed to have been an 11th Century BCE figure.
Even the Romans would later make trips for the healing cures.
Apparently anyone (except pregnant mothers) could go be treated.
The general procedure was to hang out and relax for awhile and
hopefully to have a dream where Asklepios, one of his family or
one of his animal familiars would touch you. The most famous
animal familiar was the snake, and it is still known today as the
healing symbol of doctors, the caduceus. (It is interesting to
note that the Caduceus is *one* snake entwined around a staff.
Two snakes is Hermes, the messenger of the god's staff. Even many
doctors make the mistake of confusing the two.)
The most famous of these Asklepion sanctuaries is Epidavros
(eh -Pee- Dahv' res) and anyone who visits the site will notice
it is strategically located for harmony and relaxation in a
comforting little bowl of a valley, as if it were specifically
designed as a spa or retreat. Even in the busy city of Athens,
the Asklepion sanctuary is significantly tucked away in a little
grove on the side of the Acropolis hill.
Other methods of cure were used, but it was the dream which
really indicated the core of healing. Most modern scholars feel
that its probably that the Greeks were becoming so civilized that
many were beginning to loose contact with the primitive animal
side and having neurotic illnesses. The appearance of the snake
or other animal indicated a re-connecting with that part of
oneself. Some Jungian scholars have made the case that the snake
is the symbol par excellence of the unconscious itself, being so
non-human, dangerous, unpredictable, yet necessary.
Asklepion centers weren't the only place in Ancient Greece that
dreams were institutionalized. To even get in to ask a question
to the famous Oracle at Delphi, one had to sleep on the temple
steps until having the proper dream. From this evolved the
contemporary technique of Dream Incubation, or problem solving
with dreams.
EXERCISE: a. Either go back through your dreams or begin to note
in your dreams when animals show up. If you were to become more
like that animal in everyday life, what would you do differently?
If you asked that animal what it wanted, what would it say? If
you had to make up an ancient dance that would characterize your
dream animal, what would the dance be? If you get a chance,
actually do this dance for a few minutes.
b. If you were to see contact with animals as healing, what
wounds do you feel would be addressed by what animals? Would
water animals have more to do with emotional wounds and birds
with mental wounds? What dangerous animals have appeared in
your dreams? What characteristics do they have that could be
useful to you?
o The Psycho-Spiritual Dream Revival
The dream sanctuaries of Askepios that once surrounded the
Mediterranean disappeared during the Dark Ages and dream sharing
practices suffered and were repressed by the Christian Church.
This may seem odd to some as dream sharing was a vital part of
the early visions and prophets. The Church Fathers felt that
dream interpretation was a pagan practice. One had to be a saint
to tell the difference between dreams from the devil and dreams
from God. And so, that didn't leave very many people to share
dreams. Dream interpretation disappeared from the mainstream
culture.
Many 19th Century Gentleman researchers explored dreams, but it
was Viennese Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud who revived them in his
1900 book The Interpretation of Dreams. His direct followers
were not as interested in dreams, but others were. Carl G. Jung
and his analytic psychologists developed the most elaborate dream
theories and practices. Jung's work deeply influenced the dream
movement that flowered in the 1960's and laid the groundwork for
bridging the gap between Eastern and Western medicine and
healing.
From Jung's point of view, (and many others) the Eastern healing
path was one of reducing all matter to spirit and then dealing
directly with spirit to obtain healing. While Jung saw that
Western medicine needed more of this viewpoint, he also felt that
there had to be a dance between the everyday mundane material
world and ideals and transcendence of the spirit to obtain a
state of wholeness. Dreams, he felt, attempted to move in a
direction that was opposite to the direction we move in the
daytime. By moving in this opposite or compensatory direction,
the dream was a natural balancing process, and thus a restorative
healing experience. We could assist in this process by
cooperating with dream and establishing a dialogue with the
unconscious.
These ideas and practices mixed with group processes that were
being experimented with during the 1960's under the general title
of a human potential movement. An prime example of these early
dreamwork groups can be seen in the work of Frederick (Frtiz)
Perls. In these groups, each part of the dream was seen as a
part of the dreamer's psyche and given a voice. For example, the
cane that I'm using in my dream is allowed to speak. "Oh how I
like being seen as so supportive," I say as the cane. "But I
just hate the thought of being used and worn down. Oh, how I wish
I could get polished more often." Perls, like Jung, felt the
dialogue between the dream and the dreamer unleashed repressed
emotional, psychological & somatic patterns that could make us
sick, and allow us greater range of creative expression and
experience and relatedness to ourselves, others and the world.
By the 1980's it was clear that an enormous variety of dreamwork
had developed, both inside clinical therapy, outside in
grassroots support groups and in spiritual traditions. The
Association for the Study of Dreams was formed to begin an
exchange of research and ideas between these and many other
groups interested in dreams, including cognitive psychologists,
anthropologists, sleep researchers and a whole host of groups
influenced by dreams such artists, writers, and those interested
in personal growth and spiritual development. ASD still hosts
international conferences every year and they continue to bring
together researchers from a variety of fields
o Predicting Illness: Prodromal Dreams.
Dreams were used in the ancient dream sanctuaries to heal a
variety of illnesses, but sank into disuse in the Dark Ages.
Psychoanalysis revived the dream to address psychological and
emotional illnesses. Contemporary dreamwork furthers the work of
psychology, including the realm of the spiritual and human
potential. Can dreams be fully revived to the status of healing
the body of illness and wounds as in ancient Greece?
Research has confirmed that illnesses can sometimes be found in
dreams before the symptoms actually appear. However, the hard
science of dream prognosis is new. With the advent of MRI brain
scans, this research is beginning to show reproducible results.
Vasily Kasatkin, a psychiatrist at the Leningrad Neurosurgical
Institute, studied the content of dreams over a forty year
period. His finding corroborate the American content analysis
studies of Calvin Hall and go further. Calvin Hall found that the
recalled surface of dreams tend to reflect the general life
condition of the dreamer. When one is ill, there tend to be ill
dreams, nightmares, struggle and often violence. Kasatkin's
findings further found that these violent dreams often precede an
illness.
How to avoid running to the family physician every time we have
an uncomfortable dream becomes a problem for the dream watcher
who scans for illness. Kasatkin has some observations that may
help. The first is that these dreams are often longer than
regular distress dreams.
Patricia Garfield has been a pioneer in this field of prognostic
dreaming as well and collected the accounts of thousands of
dreamers in her research. Dr. Garfield suggests a simple measure
as a way to distinguish regular distress dreams from those we
might wish to further explore. If it really hurts, it may
indicate a problem. If it is just scary, it may be better taken
as symbolic or metaphorical.
Garfield suggest using the metaphor to locate the troubled area.
If you have objects or other people in a dream that are broken
or damaged, an analogy can be made. Thus a broken refrigerator my
have something to do with the stomach, or an acquaintance who you
think of as a headache may indicate trouble with your head. Note
that these metaphors are used in conjunction with real pain being
experienced in the dream, not simple the occurrence of a friend
or refrigerator in a dream.
Kasatkin observed that the part of the body in distress is often
portrayed literally, though not necessary happening to oneself.
In one case translated by Van de Castle, a doctor saw a patient
in a dream being mugged in the street. The patient's kidney was
lying detached from the body. It turned out that the doctor
himself had a seriously infected kidney.
The work of these two researchers has been reflected in many
other sample cases reported by other researchers, but has not
been fully studied in any kind of laboratory condition. New
studies are finding parts of these theories true.
Mark Solms investigates the world of brain disorders. For several
years he has investigated and compared dream reports with
neurological information. Lately, this has included MRI brain
scans. Though his conclusions offer little specific advice, they
do indicate that general types of dreaming anomalies occur in
tandem with specific problems with the brain and the area
warrants further research.
Health related dreams may be different in men and women. Robert
Smith studied about 100 patients at Michigan State Universty
College of Human Medicine and looked for "Death Scores" and
"Separation Scenes." Death scores had references to graveyards,
funerals, wills and physical body failures. Separation had to do
with social disruptions i relationship. For men who came in the
hospital, it was the death score dreams that indicated a
deterioration in health. But for women, it was separation dreams.
Just a caution. These studies were done with patients who were
all already identified as cardiac problem patients. Just having a
death dream or separation dream is no indication in itself of
problems. Jung noted, for example, that patients who did die
suddenly rarely had dreams about it, as if the dream maker wasn't
particularly concerned by such events.
Robert Haskell, a cognitive psychologist, offers a viewpoint on
dreams & health that may be helpful. He feels that dreams offer
us a "cognitive monitoring system". His research into dreams and
health include hundreds of studies in psychotherapy as well as
somatic medicine. He found that dreams do seem to reflect
internal somatic conditions, often predicting them and even more,
are a good way to explore how the patient is coping with these
conditions.
o Dream and Health Practices
There are many case histories of people using dreams to find
cures. One of the most historically famous being a dream of
Alexander the Great, who dreamt of a dragon with a plant in his
mouth. He send soldiers out to find the plant, which was located
where the dream indicated and it cured Alexander's sick friend,
Ptomemaus.
Locating healing cures in dreams is usually the providence of
Shamans, specially trained individuals who travel in various
states of ecstasy to find cures for their community. But modern
dreamers often find cures as well. Van de Castle relates a story
of a woman who had been on antibiotics after an operation and was
suffering from a chronic vaginal yeast infections. Failing
traditional treatment, she tried the advice of a friend and took
folic acid. She had a dream with two parts, one of moving bowls
of acid around her kitchen and another of her kitten gobbling up
brown yeast and strawberries. She stopped taking the folic acid
and tried the yeast tablets, which produced remarkable results
for her.
Patricia Garfield has also documented many dreams that have
healed people. In one case a woman had suffered for years with
severe migraine headaches. In a dream she was taking care of an
old woman. The dreamer wanted to leave to take care of her own
family, but decided to stay and help the old woman. The old woman
finally died. The old woman's husband and son came to visit the
dreamer and indicated they would help the woman with her
headaches as she had been so kind to the old woman. They laid
their hands on the dreamer and when she awoke, she stopped having
headaches. This was a condition that had lasted for nearly 40
years and was spontaneously relieved by a dream.
It is interesting to note that many of the spontaneous healing
dreams involve a person or animal that touches or interacts with
the dreamer's body in the dream, much like the ancient Asklepion
dream sanctuary practices. However, there is little evidence
outside of anecdotes that is available. What does seem clear is
that dreams can pick up clues from the body and do so often long
before the dreamer is consciously aware of them.
o Conclusion
While much research is still needed, it seems clear that
persistent and painful dreams about the body are worth exploring,
if not for their predictive value, then for the opportunity they
offer in exploring our own experience of our life condition.
Attention to dreams brings a wide variety of benefits, ranging
from insight and understanding to healing and wholeness. They are
a gift that naturally occurs every night and need only a little
attention to be one of our best friends in our journey of heath.
o Recommended Readings
Achterberg, Jeanne (1985). Imagery in Healing. New York, NY: New
Science Library.
Garfield, Partricia (1991). The Healing Power of Dreams. New
York: Simon & Schuster.
Jung, C. G. (1964). _Man and His Symbols_. New York, NY:
Doubleday.
Taylor, Jeremy (1992). _Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill:
Using Dreams to tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious._ New York,
NY: Warner Books, Inc.
Van De Castle, R. L. (1994). Our Dreaming Mind. New York:
Ballantine Books
o Bibliography & Citations
Dodd, E. R. (1951). The Greeks and the Irrational .Berkeley,
University of California Press.
Eliade, Micea (1982/1978 ). A History of Religious Ideas. Vol
I-III. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press.
Flannagin, Michael (1986). Private communication on Snakes from
his Thesis held at the California Institute for Integral
Studies.
Fontenrose, Joseph (1980/1959). Python, A study of Delphic Myth
and Its Origins. Berkeley, CA: Univ of California Press.
Graves, Robert (1955). _The Greek Myths_ Vol.s I & II. Baltimore,
MD: Penguin Books.
Garfield, Patricia (1997). The Dream Messenger : How Dreams of
the Departed Bring Healing Gifts. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Garfield, Partricia (1991). The Healing Power of Dreams. New
York: Simon & Schuster.
Garfield, Patricia (1974).Creative Dreaming : Plan and Control
Your Dreams to Develop Creativity, Overcome Fears, Solve
Problems, and Create a Better Self New York: Simon & Schuster.
Hall, Calvin S. & Van De Castle, Robert L. (1966). The Content
Analysis of Dreams. New York:
Appleton-Century-Crofts
Hall, Calvin & Domhoff, Bill (1963). Aggression in dreams.
International Journal of Social
Psychiatry, 9(4), 259-267
Haskell, Robert E. (1985a). Dreaming, cognition and physical
illness. Part I, Journal of Medical Humanities and Bio-Ethics, 6,
46-56.
--------. (1985b). Dreaming, cognition and physical illness. Part
II, Journal of Medical
Humanities and Bio-Ethics, 6, 109-122.
Jung, C. G. (1964). _Man and His Symbols_. New York,
NY: Doubleday.
Kasatkin, V. N. (1967). Teoriya Snovidenii (Theory of Dreams).
Lenningrad: Meditsina. Translations reported by Robert Van de
Castle in Our Dreaming Mind.
Kerenyi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks .Yugoslavia: Thames
and Hudson.
[see pg 142-145 for Asklepios]
Kerenyi, Carl (1959). Asklepios: Archetypal Image of
thePhysician's Existence. Ralph Manheim (Trans) New York . NY:
Bollingen Foundation/Pantheon Books.
Van De Castle, R. L. (1994). Our Dreaming Mind. New York:
Ballantine Books.
Smith, Robert (1986). Evaluating Dream Functions: Emphasizing the
Study of Patients with Organic Disease. In Cognition and Dream
research, ed. R. Haskell. Journal of Mind and Behavior 7(2-3),
397-410.
Solms, Mark (1997). The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico-
Anatomical Study. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Sanford, John A. (1968). _Dreams: God's Forgotten Language_. New
York: Harper and Row.
Taylor, Jeremy (1992). _Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill:
Using Dreams to tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious._ New York,
NY: Warner Books, Inc.
The Myth of Asklepios
Apollo, god of healing, light, form and music (but also
plagues, distance and other terrors) was having an affair with
the nymph Coronis. But the nymph went off gallivanting with
another guy. A bird told Apollo this (it was a white bird that
Apollo blasted to being the crow bird after hearing about this -
Ancient Greeks weren't very kind to their messengers.). Apollo
tied her to a stake and burnt her alive. But upon hearing she
was pregnant with his child, he ripped the child from her womb
and put the child in the care of the Master healer, the centaur
Chiron. Chiron lived in a cave half way up a mountain and had an
incurable wound from an arrow shot in his foot by Heracles.
Learning to deal with this incurable wound, Chiron became a very
skilled healer (and hence the term, "wounded healer" as
individuals who in trying to heal themselves learn a bundle of
healing skills). The child, named Asklepios (Aesculepius in
Latin) became a famous healer also and even raised Hippolytus
from the dead at the request of Artemis, his lover. This act
didn't go over well with the other Olympian gods and Asklepios
was blasted by Zeus' lightning bolts. Later he was admitted
among the gods for all his good works. (Graves, 1955)
The Association for the Study of Dreams:
The Association for the Study of Dreams is a non-profit,
international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the
pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. Its
purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams
in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research
into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to
advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a
forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas
and information.
ASD, P.O. Box 1600, Vienna, VA, 22183
Phone: (703)-242-0062 Fax:(703)-242-8888
http://www.asdreams.org
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This Month's Features:
NEWS
>Myth and Dream Tour to Malta
>Dream Music and Art for the New Millenium
>Bay Area Dreamworkers Group Schedule
>Creating a Dream for Youth on the World Wide Web
>Home Study Dream Quest with Henry Reed
>Dreams on the Internet (at the ASD)
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>Sexual Dreams Survey
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>>>>> Once in a Thousand Years!
Myth and Dream Millennium Tour to Malta
Dec 28, 1999-Jan 8, 2000
Last Chance - Tour Almost Full!
"On the Maltese Island of Gozo we find the oldest freestanding
stone monuments on the face of the earth..."
Celebrate New Year's 2000 with us on the magical, mystical island
of Malta. It sits in the middle of the Mediterranean between
North Africa and Sicily and as a consequence of its location has
been inhabited by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines,
Arabs, Normans, Castialians, the Knights of St. John, the French
and the British, all of whom have left their mark.
On New Year's Eve we will have a gala dinner and participate with
the Maltese as they celebrate the moment. If weather and moon
allow, we might be able to be at one of the neolithic sites for
part of the evening. We will certainly mark the moment with depth
and intensity.
During our stay on Malta we'll be at one hotel - no packing and
repacking .
Jeremy and Kathy will offer dreamwork every day, to those who
want it and Jeremy will lecture on the mythic sites and how they
relate to other famous sites throughout the world. What do the
spirals on the Maltese monuments have in common with Newgrange in
Ireland? How do Maltese trilithons compare to Stonehenge's? Why
do we find snakes and pigs decorating the monuments in Malta and
in Greece? Are the Maltese bulls and rams on the monuments linked
to those in Egypt and Greece? And why do we find gigantic goddess
statues in Malta and no where else? How do these places and
images affect our own personal mythology?
Sites We'll See
.Hal Safliene
The prehistoric Hypogeum where the famous "sleeping goddess of
Malta" was found (subject to government's decision re tourist
visits)
.The Temples of Tarxien and Blue Grotto Cruise
A beautiful four temple complex with the remains of the 8-9 foot
tall Goddess then a lovely cruise to the famous Blue Grotto
.Gozo - Calypso's Island of the Odyssey
To see the oldest temples in Malta: the temples of Ggantija
.Prehistoric Caves of Ghar Dalam and Tas Silg
.Hagar Qim and Mjanjdra Temples
Set on a beautiful sloping site overlooking the ocean - where the
"venus of Malta" was found
.Harbor cruise on New Year's Day
.Marsaxlokk
A lovely fishing village with colorfully painted boats- for
shopping and relaxing
.National Archaeological Museum in Valletta
Where finds from all the sites have been preserved.
.Hospital of the Knights of Malta and the Cathedral of St. John
If we have time, we will visit these carefully preserved 16th C
buildings, which give us insight into the dramatic history of the
Knights who "saved Europe" from Turkish invasion in the 16th C.
Our Hotel
We'll have 9 nights at the lovely Kennedy Novus Hotel in Sliema,
set right on the strand opposite the beach. You'll have plenty of
time for site seeing, relaxing, dreamworking, journaling and
making art.
Cost
$3500 per person, double occupancy, departure Los Angeles.
Includes everything except some meals. Single supplement is $180.
Optional Trip insurance is $248.
Signing Up_
Trip is nearly full, so if you are interested, call to sign up
now: 415.454.2793. Deposit of $600 required to sign up. Final
payment will be August 30, 1999
>>>>> Concert and Art Exhibit of The Opposites
"Music and Art for the New Millennium."
Join Jana Hutcheson, on a spiritual journey while she exhibits
art and performs selected pieces from her CD, The Opposites .
Music sung and played by Jana, accompanied by Ted Davis on lead
guitar. And Dianne Heitman, Trumpet and Keyboard. This work
breaks ground into a whole new genre of musical experience that
will hopefully grow and grow in years to come. Much of the music
now focuses on issues of being an elder woman of the culture. It
focuses on female spirituality and a concern for balance, union
and healing
on all levels. Themes are of the future and of the beginning of
time. They draw from mythology, alchemy and spirituality from
around the world. BLACK FOREST CAF, September 17th, Friday, 7
p.m. (And possible other Fridays in July and August)
220 Paloma Avenue, Pacifica, California 650-355-2730
www.jps.net/opposite
>>>>>Bay Area Dreamworkers Group Meeting Schedule (BADG)
ASD Presentation Meeting
Sunday, June 6 1999 (Please note that this is a new meeting
date)2-7 p.m. Potluck. Shirlee Martin hosts (415) 564-2627
In addition to our regular networking, there will be time for
those making presentations at the ASD conference to share what
they are going to do and receive feedback from the group. This
format has been effectively used in the past.
Summer Picnic
August 21, 1999 , 1-6 p.m. potluck Alvarado Park, San Pablo
Join us for a picnic and dreamsharing.
Directions: From 80 East take Solano exit. Left on Amador. Right
on McBryde. Park entrance on left
after Marin Ave.
For info: (707) 824-9121
BIRDS, CREATURES WITH WINGS WORKSHOP
Sunday September 12, 1999, 2-5pm. Berkeley. RSVP (510) 649-1971.
Bring snacks to share. Birds and other creatures with wings have
been portrayed cross-culturally as messengers to other worlds and
the worlds of dreams and visions. Ellie Fidler M.F.A. leads this
dream and art workshop using slides, myths and folktales to help
you creatively express a dream. Space limited. $5
studio/material fee.
BADG and The Dream Tree, an Internet Partnership
Saturday, October 23, 1999, 2-6 p.m. Potluck
Peggy Coats, publisher of the Dream Tree News, shares her
knowledge of using the Internet as a resource for dreamers. She
will show off the new BADG web-site, discuss Dream Tree as an
online resource center, and introduce us to the exciting new ways
in which computers and the internet can facilitate dream research
and dream sharing.Call 650.568.3206 for more information.
BADG Holiday Party Extravaganza
Saturday, December 4, 1999
6-midnite Potluck
Jill and Bob Gregory host this gala event. Get the season off to
a great start as we enter the final countdown to the end of the
century. Guests welcome. RSVP to (415) 897-7955.
>>>>> Creating A Dream For Youth on the World Wide Web
DreamThread, Inc. is an internet based, multimedia company
located in Taos, New Mexico. It hosts an online dream
interpretation and dream gathering site on the World Wide Web at
http://www.dreamthread.com which boost traffic at close to 6,000
hits a day. Among it's current projects is an online children's
interactive game on the topic of dreams and a young dreamers
online community. The mission of Young Dreamers , is to provide
interactive, entertaining and educational experiences that are
non-violent to children ages 8 through 17 on the topic of dreams
and creativity on the World Wide Web. It's mission will be
realized through 1. the production of an online multimedia
interactive game called DreamStar Quest , inspired by children's
actual dreams, which teaches children to understand the
metaphoric language of dreams through a fun and educational
interactive journey; 2. the development of a global online
children's dream community site on the World Wide Web where
children can learn about the nature and elements of dreams and
post their own dreams creatively onto an exciting and safe online
environment.
DreamThread believes that a child's creative and self-realizing
potential can emerge from dreams whose elements express the many
worlds and dimensions of their inner psychology and mythology.
We live in a dreaming world, one that is creative and which
connects us all through threads of consciousness. When children
learn to value their dreams they can experience the magic,
mystery, and creative potentials of the mind and the soul.
Currently, half of the requests for dream insights from
DreamThread's online interpretation service come from teenagers.
The crisis of adolescence is marked by a time when attitudes and
feelings about the expression of sexuality, identity, and
personal power emerge. Their dreams give clues to the
confusions, conflicts and feelings they experience in their
personal lives, and may be reluctant to talk about openly. They
seek advice, guidance and understanding from their dreams from
our Dream Team. By receiving feedback and insights to their
dreams, these teens learn to value them and to communicate what
is most on their minds.
Dream Thread is sensitive to the dilemmas of adolescents and
children and their wish to understand themselves better. We
point them back to their own dream's content for the solutions to
their problems. We encourage them to share their dreams with
their parents, friends, and other adults. This teaches them to
realize the wisdom and guidance that their own dreams can offer
them and to pursue their exploration openly. We hope in this we
that we can offer a dream thread of wisdom and hope for the
future of our youth.
DreamThread will begin production of a prototype of the DreamStar
Quest in late May. We have brought together an incredible
dedicated multimedia team who are creating the content, design,
and interactivity for the game. The team includes Ariadne Green,
dream educator, who has developed and written the content of the
game based on a child's dream and Assaf Resnick, producer whose
impressive resume includes the production of educational CD Roms
with George Lucas Educational Foundation. Resnick is moving to
Taos, New Mexico from San Francisco in order to produce the
project and to direct the creative design team in May.
DreamThread is supported by its sponsors, partners, and investors
who are investing their time and money in the future of our
youth. DreamThread is seeking new partners, investors, grants
and volunteers to support the production of Young Dreamers and
DreamStar Quest, online game, and to share in it's rewards. If
you want to "Create a Dream With Us" contact DreamThread, Inc at
(505) 758-9356 or (505) 751-1119, email: ariadne@dreamthread.com
or write: DreamThread, Inc. Box 5842 NDCBU Taos, NM 87571
>>>>> You May Profit From a Home Study Dream Quest With Henry
Reed As Your Personal Mentor
Dear Friend:
The Mentored Dream Quest I'm offering is an excellent tool for
those who wish to make a constructive change in their life, or
wish to deal with current changes in a graceful, inspired way.
It's also a great way to build a creative connection with dreams
by learning to interpret them and apply the insights.
The Dream Quest is the result of more than 25 years of work
coaching extraordinary consciousness in the daily lives of those
who have wanted a relationship with the Creative Spirit. Our
dreams are the doorway through which we connect to a higher
source of wisdom. Unlock that door and receive the hidden
treasure of your own intuitive heart. To help you to experience
the magic, I will personally mentor you in your Dream Quest.
Innovate, renew a sense of spiritual connection, resolve a
problem, or simply learn how to work better with your dreams.
Open the door to eternity through your own subconscious mind and
I will personally coach you through the experience.
Your Mentored Dream Quest is centered in the Dream Solutions /
Dream Realizations Workbook. I began work on this extraordinary
tool in an historic project for the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Those
who participated had remarkable stories to tell of how they were
enabled to make constructive use of their dreams to transform
their lives. Both Venture Inward magazine and Dream Network
Journal published articles about the workbook experience written
by satisfied users. It's now evolved to be more innovative, more
creative and more transformative in its current sixth edition.
Using the Dream Solutions Workbook becomes an even more powerful
experience when I personally mentor you. Personal mentoring has
provided immeasurable help to those working with this program.
Through my personal attention, on a weekly basis, you are coached
by a good listener, an encourager, a licensed and professional
counselor, a mentor and a friend.
The Mentored Dream Quest asks you to devote one night a week to
dream work. You'll spend 3-4 hours of preparation before bed time
that night dialoguing with your higher self regarding your
dreams, your aspirations, your quest. I will teach you to use
inspirational writing to discover truths reflected in your
dreams. During the rest of the week you will apply the awesome
insights you receive in your dream work. This 'daily contract'
with your higher self is an essential part of the process and
gives it extra power. With my mentoring and counseling I will
help you to keep it simple and practical.
Then the magic happens. Your dreams seem to be watching you as
you make your best effort. Your dreams respond to your sincerity.
Through the soul wisdom of your higher self, new visions, new
creative approaches begin to materialize. You'll experience Dream
Solutions and Dream Realizations.
I will pray for you throughout your Mentored Dream Quest. I have
developed the ability to inspire dreams, as well as stimulate
healing at a distance. I focus those talents to create Mandalas.
The handheld watercolor painting that I will make for you will
spring from an intuitive process matching healing energies and
personal style. This Dream Mandala is your energetic talisman,
which you can place in view beside your bed, and it will enhance
the dream process for you. It is your personal Dream Mandala. You
will also receive the Dream Interpretation Workout Video, which
is unique in the world of dream work. It is an interactive
experience. The video helps to make dream interpretation much
easier, more fun and more effective. You'll us it to warm up for
for the actual dream quest, and then afterwards, you'll keep
using it as an effective guide to interpreting your dreams.
In a nutshell, if you are looking for a reliable and constructive
method of using intuitive guidance from dreams, the Mentored
Dream Quest is a dream come true.
If you need more information, call me to learn how a Mentored
Dream Quest would work for you. Begin your transformation today.
Just call me toll free at 1-800-398-1370. For $250 (Master Card,
VISA accepted), Your Mentored Dream Quest Includes
Dream Solutions/Dream Realization Work Book
Dream Interpretation Work Out video
Five 30 minute telephone counseling sessions (including the
telephone cost)
A personalized, hand painted Dream Mandala
My prayer support during your Dream Quest
Call me now; toll free at 1-800-398-1370 so we may begin our
quest together today.
Henry Reed, Ph.D., has a reputation for the creative integration
of dream art and science to produce healing and visionary
possibilities for dreamers. For example, while he was Assistant
Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, 1970-1974, the
Journal of Humanistic Psychology published an article 'Learning
to Remember Dreams' about his unusual classroom experiments
helping students improve their dream recall. During a research
sabbatical at the C.G. Jung Sleep and Dream Laboratory in Zurich,
Switzerland, Dr. Reed revitalized an ancient method for receiving
visionary inspiration in dreams. In 1976 the Journal of
Humanistic Psychology published the results of that research in
an article entitled 'Dream Incubation: The Reconstruction of a
Ritual in Contemporary Form.'
The Virginia Beach Center for the Arts for several years
sponsored his programs involving the community in the use of
dreams for enhanced creativity. In 1982 he was the featured
artist for a show of his dream-inspired watercolor paintings. The
mandala on the cover was included in that show. You can now view
his dream art on his web site at www.starbuck.net/henryreed/gallery
Among dream experts he is best known for the creation in 1976 of
Sundance: The Community Dream Journal, which provided a
revolutionary forum for the public sharing of dreams and
dreamwork methods. Most recently he was the credited consultant
for the Discovery Channel's three-part special, The Power of
Dreams.
His published books include Getting Help from Your Dreams, Dream
Solutions/Dream Realizations, Awakening your Psychic Powers,
Mysteries of the Mind , Channeling Your Higher Self, Discover
Your Intuitive Heart, and Exercise Your Intuitive Heart. In his
book on dreams, Night and Day, Jack Maguire says of him "By
common agreement, the father of the modern dreamwork movement is
Henry Reed."
>>>>> Dreams on the Internet
The Association for the Study of Dreams is offering a panel
discussion on this in Santa Cruz this July at the ASD conference.
This will be an update on the 95 Berkeley panel "Dreamwork in
Cyberspace." and include many of the
original panel members.
CONCEPT
Dreams on the Internet will compare and contrast online and
offline dream-related activities and practices, highlighting
issues such as confidentiality, self-responsibility, partnership
paradigms, and censorship involved in dreamworking, research,
networking, or communications on the Internet.
The program will begin with panelist introductions, and brief
introduction to the psychology of the internet. Following this,
several "forums", each exploring a particular area of online and
offline dream practice, will be presented. Each panelist
associated with a particular forum will give a short, summary
presentation outlining his/her perspectives on their area of work
or expertise. This will be following by an informal discussion on
the part of all panelists on the forum topic, in an attempt to
explore contrasts between online vs. offline practice, clinical
vs. non-clinical settings, problems and benefits of the subject
approach, and global vs. regional focuses.
Program content and structure is as follows:
A. Panelist Introductions - Peggy Coats
B. Psychology of the Internet-Jayne Gackenbach. Introductory
comments will focus on three realms of interest to dreamers using
the Internet: disinhibition, excess and virtual reality.
C. Forum 1: Dream Sharing
1. John Herbert will discuss various online formats for
dreamworking, including bulletin boards, email, real-time
auditoriums and chat rooms (both public and private). Of
particular emphasis will be issues surrounding group protocol,
facilitation, and suitability for various
groups or individuals, controlling disruptions and dealing with
confidentiality and access.
2. Jeremy Taylor's presentation will focus upon: (1) An
examination of the general ethics and principles of off-line
dream exploration and their translation into the on-line setting;
(2) An examination of the question of
formal training for on-line dreamwork facilitation - what are the
basics that such training should include? - How might such
training be delivered? - What are the criteria for evaluating on-
line dream work & dream work facilitation? (3) An examination of
the expanding potentials for on-line dream exploration,
particularly as they apply to international/global dreamwork and
the evolution of the growing planetary dream work movement."
D. Forum 2: Dream Research and Experimentation
Linda Lane Magallon will discuss: a) advantages and disadvantages
of cyberspace as compared with face-to-face and snail mail
research; b)regular research, involving the solicitation of
sample dreams and distribution of questionnaires; use of news
groups and bulletin boards,
e-mail distribution lists, e-zines and chat rooms; c) proactive
dreaming,with the accent on flying, lucid, telepathic and mutual
dreams; d) use of web site, mailing lists and distribution list
announcements of annual "open
house" group dreaming project. e) The FBNC Task Force and private
experiments and projects; f) developing two-way trust:
confidentiality of subjects, asking permission, distribution list
manners, disclosure of researcher biography and researcher
intentions, validity of information gathered.
E. Forum 3: Dream Communications, Education and Commercialization
1. Linda Lane Magallon: From the point of view of a dream
educator, Linda will discuss a) Initial communications: news
group posts, mailing lists and group chat rooms; b) deeper one-
on-one interactions: single chat rooms and
e-mail; c) specific educational tools: web site, newsletter
articles and column, on-line course; d) FAQs versus information
that requires a context and e) Freebies versus charging a fee.
2. Richard Wilkerson will explore a) dreaming and the Internet as
sharing many of the same metaphors and issues; b) communication:
Self-regulation and global definition vs. self-stimulation and
simulations of reality.
notes on venues and cyber-ecologies; c) education: multi-targeted
information and instruction; new patterns of dream awareness;
getting individuals to cooperate in collective projects; d)
commerce: Dream commodification and the collapse of class
boundaries; advertising and
marketing mistakes, suggestions and challenges and e) projects
for the next year
F. Audience Question and Answer Period
For more on the Conference, stop by
http://www.asdreams.org/asd-16/
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>>>>> Sexual Dreams Survey
If you would like to participate in a survey on this most
neglected aspect of dreaming, see www.gdelaney.com or the
appendix of Sensual Dreaming: How to Interpret the Erotic Content
of Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney,Ph.D. People are very curious
about a non-Freudian treatment of this topic, but quite shy about
talking and writing about their own experiences! Help!
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Do you know of interesting new websites you'd like to share with
others? Or do you have updates to existing pages? Help spread
the word by using the Electric Dreams DREAM-LINK page
www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm. This is really a
public projects board and requires that everyone keep up his or
her own link URLs and information. Make a point to send changes
to the links page to us.
>>>>> Strephon Kaplan-Williams
http://www.dreamwork2000.com/
International Dream Expert coming to California soon!
Conduction workshops/seminars/dreamsessions/therapy for
individuals/couples. If you don't have access to the Internet and
would like a schedule or book catalog call
(510) 530-2599/1-800-734-3565
>>>>> SpiritQuest
http://pages.ivillage.com/wh/dreamcoach
At SpiritQuest, the goal is to help humanity to learn and grow in
the Universal Spirit. They offer Dream Coaching services,
techniques on how to contact your Angel Guardians and Spirit
Guides, simple techniques on past life regression and astral
travel along with tons of knowledge on these and other subjects
to help one grow spiritually. They also offer a fantastic Travel
page on budget cruises and mini retreats for two, the opportunity
to really take a SpiritQuest.
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June 4-6 in Spokane, WA
Weekend Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. 509.535.1868 or visit the
website at www.jeremytaylor.com.
June 6 in San Francisco, CA
BADG ASD Presentation Meeting. 2-7 p.m. Potluck. Shirlee Martin
hosts (415) 564-2627.
June 13, in Sebastopol, CA
"Dream Art". Drawing inspiration from your dreams, draw and paint
with a variety of art materials to honor your dreams and empower
your life with their wisdom. Call to register or for further
information call 707 874-9462, Email:
sstmandala@telis.org.
June 22, in San Francisco, CA
Dream Interviewing Workshop with Gayle Delaney & Loma Flowers.
Bring a dream and 5 photocopies. Call 415-587-3424 for more
information.
June 25-27 in Danville, CA
Weekend Workshop at San Damiano Retreat Center 925.837.9141 or
visit the website at www.jeremytaylor.com.
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