Dreams of Place: From the Landscape of the Dream to the Landscape of the Spirit
“Dreams transport us each and every night into that strange and radiant world inside ourselves wherein, for better or worse, we come face to face with powers greater than ourselves.” (James Hagan, “Diamonds of the Night: The Search for Spirit in Your Dreams”) Welcome dreamers, Dreamworker Robert Moss tells us “ A dream is […]
The People In Our Dreams, And What They Want to Tell Us
treehouse at moonlight by poetico (In our dreams) “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” Robert Moss Welcome Dreamers, In the last post we talked about visits from the other side; when our loved ones cross the […]
The Creative Art of Engaging With Our Dreams
“May morning be astir with the harvest of night…” (John O’Donohue) Welcome dreamers, A few weeks ago we spoke (read?) about using the resource of our dreams to enhance our creative process. In this post, I’d like to expand on some of the ideas from last time, and provide some “how-to’s” to work with several […]
Dreams and Creativity
“There is much to be learned at both sides of the threshold.” (Christine MeEwen) Welcome dreamers, Creativity. First of all, we need to have enough of our own juice in supply to be able to create something else. If our well is dry, we can’t get water from it. It took me several vacation […]
Creative Dreaming
“Dreams are todays’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” Edgar Cayce Welcome dreamers, Some of our most creative work comes to us in the still of the night and the depths of our dreams; that quiet place at 3:00 a.m. when the rest of the world seems to be asleep and we can feel the quality of […]
Dreaming In Color
“I dream my paintings, and then I paint my dreams.” Vincent Van Gogh Welcome dreamers, I had been thinking about the importance of color in dreams for a while. However, when every dream that I recalled for the last two weeks had a significant spot of color, I knew that was a sign- fingers to […]
Dreaming The World Into Being
“Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.” -Vaclev Havel Welcome dreamers, We are getting close to the night we will plan to dream together to […]
Things That Go Bump In the Night
“I don’t use drugs: my dreams are frightening enough”. M. C. Esher Nightmares. We’ve all had some version of them, from a single mild disturbance to all out panic and repetitive horror shows. This next series of blogs will begin to address the “full catastrophe” of this ubiqitous phenomenon. (to quote one of my favorite […]
What’s In A Name? A “Dream by Any Other Name…”
“Sweet dreams are made of these…” Welcome to the dog days of summer, Summer time- this one’s just for fun. I started thinking about how many different ways we use the word “dream” in our language. This little word can have so many different meanings—so versatile! It seems that we are fascinated with this […]
The World of Waking Dreams
“Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream” Greetings fellow dreamers! This has been a summer of inner and outer travel. Since my last post in June, I have journeyed on the physical plane (actually by plane) to Berkeley, CA. to present a workshop at the International Dream conference (IASD), then two weeks later […]