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Extraterrestrials
or Interdimensionals?
Not often recognized in the huge corpus of literature on alien
encounters is that every night of the year, dreamers encounter
Otherworld beings who would certainly rate as “aliens” (by the
standards of ufology) if dreams were recognized as real experiences.
These dream visitors sometimes leave physical tokens of these
encounters. It seems that because
our society has denied the reality of the dreamworld, the dreamworld
is breaking through into our reality....
Since we so often insist that what is “invisible”—that is, cannot be
seen with ordinary eyes — is unreal, we are getting more and more
bleedthroughs from hyperreality. [June 2010]

DREAMING INTO THE WORLD
OF JOAN OF ARC AND HER PRINCE
Dreams guide us to the necessary past, the history it is
useful and timely to know. Sometimes dream clues help us to get to
the understory, the deeper logic of events that may be
missing from the texts. A few years ago, my dreams opened an
adventure in medieval France, and a window into understanding the
practice of the voyantes of ancient Gaul, who were often tree
seers and to whom Joan of Arc may have belonged, at least in her
natural mode of visioning. I often dream in French, the
language of my ancestors just a thousand years ago, and often find
myself in France in my dreams. In 2001, I woke from my dreams with
just a single word as a keepsake – the French word chantepleure.
The word literally means “sings and cries”. From the dictionary, I
learned that it is an old name for a kind of sieve or filter or
watering can. I had no idea why this term had come through to me in
a dream, until three years later...when I was caught up in a
powerful vision in which I seemed to enter the perspective of a
medieval French nobleman as he embarked upon his after-death
experiences... [May 2010]
THE
SEVEN OPEN SECRETS OF IMAGINATION
The greatest crisis in our lives is a crisis of imagination. We get
stuck and set ourselves up for failure because we buy into a limited
or self-defeating version of reality, and refuse to see our
situation differently. The answer lies within us, in the power
of imagination. We are ruled by images; they are the “facts of the
mind” (as the poet Coleridge called them) that turn us on and turn
us off and program our bodies for wellness or disease. To live
richer and more creative lives, we want to learn to choose
the images to which we give energy and belief. We can do this by
learning and harnessing the seven open secrets of imagination...[May
2010]
BECOMING
A FREQUENT FLIER
Your departure lounge for dream travel is open to you anytime you
are ready for adventure. Do you want to go on a dream vacation or
engage in a steamy romance with an astral lover? Would you like to
communicate with a spiritual guide or experiment with your ability
to make intentional journeys beyond the body? Or scout ahead through
time to prepare for the job interview next week? Or get your own
close-up view of the surface of Mars? This is the right place to
begin. [April 2010]
A
FRIEND IN THE HOUSE OF TIME
The souls of enlightened men return to be
schoolmasters of the living, who influence them unseen.
W. B. YEATS, ‘SWEDENBORG, MEDIUMS AND THE DESOLATE PLACES’
“What better guide to the Otherworld than a poet?”
The question was put to me as I embarked on writing ‘The Dreamers
Book of the Dead’ by a dead poet. I did not know, up to that
moment, that a modern poet and his efforts to envision and create a
Western Book of the Dead were going to figure as the central panel
in the triptych my book was to become. [March 2010]
NINE
POWERS OF DREAMING
Have you ever said,
“it’s only a dream”? While we often dismiss dreams, or fail to make
room for them in the hurry of our daily lives, dreams can be a
fabulous source of guidance, healing and juice for any day. Dreams
offer us nine tremendous gifts. Check this
list and see how these have worked in the
lives of some very interesting people.... [March
2010]
DREAMLAND: A Possible Future
by Robert Moss
We
are publishing a selection of documents received through oneiric
channels from a future society known colloquially as Dreamland.
The first appears to be an account by a sixth-grader on the
daily practice of dream-sharing in her family. Other documents
describe the practice of medicine, education and government in a
society where dreaming is central to healing and higher
knowledge, and where dream seers scan possible futures and
advise on all community decisions. For the sake of balance, we
append the critical report of a future investigator on the
content and provenance of these papers. It is not possible to
date these documents with precision, but internal evidence
suggests that the establishment of Dreamland as a "Switzerland
of the Mind", whose independence and neutrality were guaranteed
by the world powers, followed an Earth catastrophe known as the
Singularity some time after 2400 in our calendar.
(December 2009)
Dream
Mirrors of the Self
By
Robert Moss
One of
the most important gifts of our dreams is that they put us in touch
with more aspects of ourselves than we have recognized in what
Yeats called our “daily trivial minds.” Among these aspects is the
famous Shadow, composed of parts of our selves we have repressed or
denied (and tend to project on to others in regular life, till we
awaken). But we encounter much more than the Shadow. We encounter a
whole family of aspects of ourselves, and as we recognize them and
bring them together we become much more than we were.
(November 2009)
EYE
IMAGINE: A Personal
Experience of Imaginal
Self-healing
by Wanda Easter
Burch
Six months ago I went in for a routine eye exam for a new pair of
contact lenses, an every two year ritual under my health insurance
plan. During the exam, my doctor noticed
what he thought was a “floater” in my left eye....(October
2009)
Dreaming
with my neighbors
by Wanda Easter Burch
Keep a Journal. That is the first rule of good precognitive dreaming
recall – and then go back again and again for that feel-good
confirmation that we do dream the future; and the future can range
from the next few moments after a dream to days, weeks, months, and
years. Recognizing that dreams often find solid ground in waking,
right down to the most minute detail, I
immediately shared one such “yes, this could happen” dream with my
neighbor... The dream dated to more than
two years ago – the spring of 2007....(August
2009)
THE BISHOP OF DREAMS: Synesius of Cyrene
One of the wisest books ever written on dreams, coincidence and
imagination was composed in the fifth century by Synesius of Cyrene, a
bishop of the Catholic Church. Synesius was a most unusual bishop. In his life and work we find — alas,
only briefly — a confluence between the best of the ancient practice
of philosophy and the new religion of the Roman empire.
(July 2009)
TIME
FOR THE SHARK GOD
The Shark God
is a
Pacific travelogue; the book’s title refers to an encounter with an
island saltwater shaman who works with the shark spirit. Because the
shark does not get cancer, the idea of the shark can help
people who are challenged by the disease. I have found, many times
over the years, that the shark can be a powerful imaginal
ally in these waters. If you can picture the shark swimming through
your body devouring the cells of your disease, you can do yourself
some real good. The more strongly you can see and feel and believe
that the shark is with you and inside you, the more good you can do.
Call the shark inside you, and you may
find that what has come is more than a picture. If your need – and
your courage – are great enough, you may even find you have called a
shark god. (June 2009)
DREAMING
FOR SOUL RECOVERY
For
ancient and indigenous shamans, the chief cause of many of our
complaints – fatigue, low energy, excessive vulnerability to illness
and allergies – is soul loss. The understanding is that in any human
life, we may lose part of our vital energy and identity through pain
or grief, shame or abuse or wrenching life choices. The cure is to
try to find that missing piece and bring it back and put it where it
belongs. (March 2009)
DR.
FREUD'S DREAM DIAGNOSIS
The most famous of all the dreams Freud analyzed was one of his own,
the Irma Dream. In The Interpretation of Dreams he gives a
lengthy account of this 1895 dream and his work with it. In the
dream, he inspects the mouth of a patient called Irma and discusses
her condition with several doctors. His
work with this dream, by Freud’s own account, led him to invent
psychoanalysis. (March 2009)
(Excerpted
from The Secret History of Dreaming by Robert
Moss)
DREAMING
OIL
He lived with his large
and imposing wife Violet in a blue and white house overlooking the Arabian
Gulf, with a verandah on the upper level to catch the sea breezes. Under the
fierce desert sun, he went shooting in gaiters and country tweeds, and may
have looked, in his florid bulk, the model of the type of colonial
Englishman who does not go native. But Colonel Harold Dickson was
very far from a stereotype. Born in what is now Syria, he was Bedouin as
well as British – in the eyes of that desert people – from the time he
suckled at the breast of a Bedouin wet nurse. As he rose high in the ranks
of the colonial civil service, becoming British Political Agent in Kuwait
from 1929 to 1936, he hunted with the Bedouin, and counseled with them over
innumerable cups of cardamom-flavored coffee, and dreamed like them.
(January 2009)
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