We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~Carl Jung Ok, I admit it, I’m a bit obsessed with “dream alchemy”. It’s one of my primary passions within the realm of dream work. My D-Spot gets seriously activated when I experience a nightmare (in life or in dreams) that is tragic being turned into magic, drama turned into phenomena, victim into victorious, and even guacamole into something holy. Because of this fascination, here’s one... Read more
What would chocolate be without bitter cacao and sugar? What would music be without notes and silences between? What would a rainbow be without rain and sun? I see now that there can be no love without loss, no joy without sorrow; no peaks without valleys. ~Aurora Winter Nightmares happen to everyone. Even the best people on the planet have them. In fact, I’m sure Mother Theresa had plenty of them! Here are two thoughts to alter your paradigm about... Read more
There is an unseen life that dreams us. It knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize and we need have no fear of change. ~John O’Donohue A wise person once said, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” This is as true in life as it is in dreams. It is human nature to seek to avoid someone or something you consider unpleasant, threatening, or out of your league…even if it is... Read more
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you. ~Paramahansa Yogananda Take a dream, any dream, and get out a sketchpad. Now draw or paint your dream. If your gift in life isn’t in the visual arts (like Yours Truly) don’t be concerned. Draw stick figures, think like a caveman and think of your drawing/painting as a... Read more
This ladder: a spire Sketchy interpretation, Jacob Reaching toward infinity, the stars, the sun. If you make it up, and back, You’re golden. ~Joan Gelfand Our earliest dreamers and poets were shamans. Today as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal. They understand that the right words open pathways between the worlds and draw closer the gods and goddesses who wish to live... Read more
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden Consider the fact that every nighttime dream requires action in the waking world. Your action might simply be to share your dream with your loved ones about investing in a new technology that has just gone public. Your dream might be prompting you to call a friend to talk them... Read more
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world. ~John Muir In a Harvard study published in 2010, researchers determined one of the many functions of dreams (ordinary dreams) is to problem-solve. And who among us does not have some problem to solve on a daily basis? Ok, maybe you don’t like the word “problem”. Perhaps you prefer to say challenge, opportunity, blessing in disguise, or AFGO (Another F*#kin%... Read more
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. ~Emily Bronte How many times in your life have you heard how simple it is to create the life of your dreams (i.e. strike it rich, lose unwanted pounds, attract your dream lover, build your empire, heal all sickness, and, in short, have it... Read more
All the good things in life have come from the world of visions and dreams. Someone entered the finer realms of life for a moment and brought back a treasure. The practical mind turned it to use and the world was richer and better than it was before. ~Christian D. Larson Are our dreams—those wild, fantastic, uncensored jumble of images that bombard our sleep–just a retweet of our day’s events, or are they more? Can we open our mind to... Read more
In a real sense all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the inter-related structure of reality. ~Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.... Read more
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