Recognizing the Calls from our Ancestors: Shouts and Whispers
Family legacy, like dreams themselves, can move forward and backwards in time. Welcome all dreamers and seekers to the new year! How do your ancestors get your attention – through shouts or through whispers? Over half of Americans (53%) report connection with their ancestors who have departed according to the Pew Research Center, most of […]
Bortscht, Dreams, and Healing History
“Here’s to the ones that we’ve lost, here’s to the ones that we’ve got, and the (dreams) bring back all the memories…” Maroon 5 Welcome to June, Last week I had my first flashback. Up till now I had been privileged to understand the nature of flashbacks, (whether waking ones or nightmares), only from the […]
More Ancestor Dreaming: From Whence They Come?
“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping…” Paul Simon Hello dreamers, Recently there has been a lot of ancestor activity filling my in-box. In any given week, I get two or three or more emails about a new […]
Dreams of Grief, Dreams of Healing
“And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” Kahlil Gibran Welcome dreamers, So, my mom died recently. It has been a sad period of time, up and down, days of being “fine” interspersed with days with tears. The whole […]
What Are Dreams (Actually), and Where Do They Come From?
(travelblog.org: vulcan osorno at dawn) Hello fellow dreamers, At the end of the movie, when Dorothy returns from her sojourn in Oz, her aunt and uncle and their 3 farmhands are there to greet her at her bedside. On waking, she is told by her Auntie Em and the kindly doctor (who looks remarkably like […]
Visits From the Other Side: When Our Beloveds Visit Us In Dreams
by: Carla Golembe Life is a dream walking, death is a going home. (Chinese proverb) Welcome Dreamers, First, I have to tell you about the painting. My friend Carla is an artist; when her beloved cat Zippy died, she promised him that she would paint him. Here he is, visiting her in her dreamtime, as […]
A Minyan of Trees: Encountering the Dream in the Woods
(trey radcliff image) “The clearest way into a Universe is through a forest wilderness” John Muir Welcome dreamers, There are dreams, and there are dreams. We can traverse the thresholds between worlds by paying attention to synchronicities in our lives (see blog of 7/28/12 for more on synchronicities); or this liminal space can also show up […]