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Volume #12 Issue #7

July 2005

ISSN# 1089 4284

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C O N T E N T S

++ Editor's Notes – Richard Wilkerson

++ Global Dreaming News
Editor on vacation

++ Cover Artist Bio
Hannah Maxwell

++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
Multiple Awareness in Simultaneous Dreaming
Editor, Lucy Gillis

++ Dream: "Lines Of Distribution"
Stan Kulikowski II

++ Column: The View From the Bridge
London, Auctions and DaFuMu
Jean Campbell

++ Article: The DreamTime: What is it Really?
Shamai Currim

++ Article: Awakening Within The Dream
Will Parfitt



++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from June, 2005
Host Kat Peters-Midland

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Editor's Notes

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Welcome to the July 2005 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to
dreams and dreamwork online.

If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists
where Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest
you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/

.. and another is the IASD bulletin board hosted by Ed Kellogg, Ph.D.
Please, no dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and
dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm

The ED staff extend prayers and concerns to our London readers and we
hope that you are all safe. There will be more about this in Jean
Campbell's The View, below.
Many of the us are still in recovery from the wonderful 2005 IASD
Annual Dream Conference that was in Berkeley earlier this month, and
so this editorial will be short. I just wanted to say it was a very
successful conference and people are now sending pictures in which
you can view at the conference site asdreams.org/2005

This month in Electric Dreams:

Have you ever had two dreams occurring at the same time? How about
three or four? Lucid Dream Exchange editor Lucy Gillis offer ED
readers a excerpt from her Lucid Dream Exchange, this month exploring
the extreme dreaming world of simultaneous dreaming. This excerpt is
both an exploration of the topic and a call for others who have
similar experiences. Be sure to read "Multiple Awareness in
Simultaneous Dreaming"

As you might expect, the on-top-of-world-events dream group, the
World Dreams Peace Bridge quickly responded to the 7-7 London
bombings. After securing that the WDPB members in London were ok,
they began a wider project to address the events. Jean Campbell will
give you an update in this month's The View.

Stan Kulikowski II returns with a new dream recorded in his unique
style,
called "Lines Of Distribution"

What is the difference between the dream state and the meditative
state? What is the process of consciously moving through the dream
loops, or many different levels of the dream state? Is there more of
an opening into the dreamtime state now that we, as a paradigm, are
moving towards consciousness? These and other questions are explored
by Shamai Currim in "The DreamTime: What is it Really? "

What is the role of the dream in psychosynthesis? How did Assiogoli
see the dream in transpersonal development? What connections and what
differences exist between the dream in Jungian analysis and in
Psychosynthesis? These are a few of the topics that
Will Parfitt takes up in "Awakening Within The Dream," an excerpt
from his book Psychosynthesis: The Elements and Beyond.

Fortunately for Electric Dreams readers, Janet Garrett puts the
articles from past issues online in an easy-to-access format. These
articles contain a wide range of information for dreamers and
dreamworkers. You can see her work progress and view hundreds of
article on dreams at: http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm

Harry Bosma is busy traveling around the world, but will be back next
month with the Global Dreaming News. If you have any dream news,
conferences, books, workshops, and especially any online meetings or
events, be sure to send that information to Harry by the 15th of each
month at ed-news@...

Visitation from the dead, a Leprechaun, a masked burglar, and a
phantom stapler…what else could it be? Another dreams section of the
Electric Dreams Magazine!!
Kat Peters-Midland has collected the finest from the month to read.

Be sure to read all of these dreams and more.
If you want to send in dreams, please enter them at
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
or join the dream flow at dreamflow@yahoogroups.com
(dreamflow-subscribe@yahoogroups.com)

Cover this month by Hannah Maxwell
More on the cover and the artist below.

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For those of you who are new to dreams and dreaming,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:


http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
http://www.dreamtree.com

Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/

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From Planet Dream,

-Richard Wilkerson


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Quick News for July:

-- Deadline for Online Dream Show July 30th, 05
http://www.asdreams.org/2005/idx_art.htm

-- Dream Institute offers CEU for Berkeley Therapists
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewtopic.php?t=160

-- IASD PsiberDreaming Conference 4 coming September 18, 05
http://www.asdreams.org/psi2005/index.htm

-- Call for Papers – IASD 2006 in Bridgewater, MA
http://www.asdreams.org/2006/index.htm



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Cover Artist, Hannah Maxwell

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Artist Statement / Bio: Hannah Maxwell

I studied fine art in college and after graduating 4 years ago I
moved to a rural part of Tennessee and work as a freelance artist and
art teacher. I have always had intense dreams and my artwork is
inspired by these dreams and visions.

This painting is called "Signs of Light", and it is about growth and
discovery. When I start a painting, I never know what the final
result will be. I try to let the imagery be my guide rather than
dictating what I think it should be. Often, like a dream, I don't
imediately understand the content as it is presenting itself, but as
I work on the piece, the messages become clearer. Often there are
multiple layers of meaning and I understand different things about
the work at different times. I love the idea of art as a means of
self -discovery. I think that artwork can be healing and
transformative for both the artist and the viewer. I do like to work
with some ambiguity, so the viewer can bring their own interpretation.

My website address is www.hannahmaxwell.com and I can be reached via
e-mail at hmaxwell1111@...
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange

By Lucy Gillis

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Multiple Awareness in Simultaneous Dreaming
(c) 2005 Lucy Gillis

"Have you ever had simultaneous dreams?"

Almost twenty years ago I had my first lucid dream. From that day on
I began to have many new and exciting dream experiences and was eager
to learn all I could about consciousness and dreaming. During this
time I was fortunate to have met, through the Lucidity Institute,
many other enthusiastic lucid dreamers. I was corresponding with
several of them at the time and was enjoying the advice and
suggestions I was receiving, not to mention the invaluable examples
of lucid dream reports that everyone was sharing with me.

In April of 1988, I had an unusual experience with dreaming
consciousness that I had not experienced before, nor had I ever heard
about:

April 24 1988

[I think I experienced two dreams simultaneously.] In one dream, JI,
someone else, and I go to some place like the Holiday Inn for a
Sunday Service. It is dark out. The "someone else" could be M or L.
We are all dressed up. JI has brought something to smoke. We begin to
smoke outside a doorway. JMK shows up, stands in the doorway, and
watches us. I try to not let him know about the smoking.

In the parallel dream I am in my apartment in Halifax. I am rushing
around doing things; small household chores. The apartment is dimly
lit. I go to the kitchen to replace a roll of toilet paper, which
goes on a holder (which is on the wall) above the garbage [this is
obviously not a reflection of the real life kitchen]. I see a "dot"
on the holder so I say to any invisible helpers that may be
around, "There, you hold it, that's your job."
Apparently, the dot indicates that it is their job. I turn my head as
I say this. In this moment, I also become aware that I am in my bed.
A strong "force" pulls my head back into place. It feels very
strongly, physically like someone is slapping my head, rapidly and
repeatedly, across what is sometimes called the crown chakra area,
and like my head is being forced into my neck. It feels so real.

All the while, I am also, AT THE SAME TIME experiencing the smoking
scene with JI and JMK. Several thoughts go rushing at super speed
through my mind like "Well, I did want stronger contact with my
spirituality, I guess I asked for too much, etc."
I also became frightened and said mentally "White Light! White
Light!" in an effort to wake up out of the dreams. I then woke fully,
in bed; the force and slapping ceased.

This was a strange and unique event and I wondered if others had
experienced anything like this. I turned to my network of lucid
dreamers and asked the question, "Have you ever had simultaneous
dreams?"

I soon realized that I needed to clarify what I meant by simultaneous
dreams. I recall receiving a letter from one dreamer who kindly
answered my question. But as I read through her letter, I became
disappointed. Yes, she said, she had simultaneous dreams all the
time, just like in waking reality where she could (for instance) wash
dishes, look out the window, hum a tune, and think about what to make
for dinner - all at the same time.

She misinterpreted what I had meant. I obviously had not explained
the question very well. Yes, I can hum, wash the dishes, think about
dinner, and look out a window all at the same time too. But doing
things simultaneously was not what I meant by simultaneous dreaming.

The next time I asked the question I tried to explain the question a
little better. I used phrases like "at the exact same time" or "two
places at once".

Some dreamers thought I referred to a dual awareness that is
sometimes felt between the sleeping body and the dreaming body; when
sensations in the physical body are felt in the dreamstate. I knew
what they meant, I had experienced what I believe was an out-of-body
experience in which I momentarily felt my dream hip move while I was
standing in a hallway, while at the same time I felt my physical hip
of my sleeping body in the bed move slightly. But I didn't mean two
places, as in being in bed and being in a dream at the same time.

Others thought I was talking about dreams within dreams, where you
wake up from one dream to find yourself in another. I had experienced
that too, (false awakenings would be a similar event) but that wasn't
what I meant either, those events happened one after the other, not
all at the same time.

What I meant was more like being in Alaska, out for a walk, while
also being in Calcutta, having lunch, AT THE SAME TIME, being aware
of being fully focused in both places at once. In other words, no
switching between awareness from one place then the other.

The few that I think grasped what I meant, said that no, they didn't
think they'd ever experienced anything like that. So I gave up, and
stopped asking the question.

However, by a happy "coincidence" (if you believe in "coincidences")
I eventually came across the idea of simultaneous dreaming in two
Seth books by Jane Roberts. In the first book, The "Unknown" Reality
Volume One, Jane Roberts' husband Robert Butts mentioned that he
believed he experienced two dreams at once. He too, became curious
about them and wondered if others had experienced them, but he had
better luck than I did in finding others who had had these "double"
or "triple" dreams as he called them. As I continued to read, I
discovered that he had later heard of nine people who had had two or
more dreams at once, and judging by the descriptions of a few, I knew
that he and I defined simultaneous dreaming in the same way.

I was delighted and relieved to discover that others were indeed
experiencing this too. I was now also curious to see what Seth had to
say on the subject. In The Nature of the Psyche, Seth explained:

"Many people are aware of double or triple dreams, when they seem to
have two or three simultaneous dreams. Usually upon the point of
awakening, such dreams suddenly telescope into one that is
predominant, with the others taking subordinate positions, though the
dreamer is certain that in the moment before, the dreams were equal
in intensity. Such dreams are representative of the great creativity
of consciousness, and hint at its ability to carry on more than one
line of experience at one time without losing track of itself....

"In double dreams and triple dreams consciousness shows its
transparent, simultaneous nature. Several lines of dream experience
can be encountered at the same time, each complete in itself, but
when the dreamer wakes to the fact, the experience cannot be
neurologically translated; so one dream usually predominates, with
the others more like ghost images."(1)

It wasn't until a year later, in April of 1989 that I experienced
another simultaneous awareness event, but this one was a little
different:

April 28 1989

[I can't remember my dreams specifically, but I remember seeing three
separate scenes and then coming into my body and waking. I feel I
must have come back to my body after experiencing three simultaneous
dreams at a more conscious level. I was three separate points of
consciousness, then I (all three "me's") merged into one and lowered
into my body:]

I can see three scenes beyond three doorways that hang in a black
void. The scenes/doorways seem to be receding into the distance, from
my "main" point of view. (I don't seem to have a body, I am a point
of consciousness.) Yet at the very same instant I am also three
bodiless points of consciousness, each feeling wholly and
completely "me", moving away from each of the three doorways. The
three me's merge into one at the "point" that was/is my main point of
view (I guess that means there were really four me's in total.) Then
the now "one me" point of consciousness lowers into my sleeping body
into my forehead area. I feel myself "filling out" my body as I open
my physical eyes, now fully wakened into physical reality.

This dream (or whatever it was) was not like previous dreams in which
I have seen a probable or, if you will, "parallel universe" version
of myself.
Although I recognize other Lucy's as probable me's, they are separate
consciousnesses - I am not aware of what they are thinking. But in
the experience above, I (the I that I know intimately as my ego self)
was aware of each of the me's as being the same ego-self, yet as
three separate
(bodiless) points of awareness.

Confused? Sorry, it's not easy to describe this sort of thing. I
don't think the English language has invented the appropriate words
yet. But I think Seth was able to at least introduce the idea when he
wrote in The Nature of the Psyche:

"There are too many varieties of such dreams to discuss here, but
they all involve consciousness dispersing, yet retaining its
identity, consciousness making loops with itself. Such dreams involve
other sequences than the ones with which you are familiar. They hint
at the true dimensions of consciousness that are usually unavailable
to you...."(2)

His description certainly fit. My consciousness was indeed dispersed,
and yet, I did maintain a sense of identity, and a sense of awareness
that I was not awake in usual terms. Although this experience, (and
the one previously
described) was not like a "typical" lucid dream, there was the
awareness that I was not in ordinary waking physical reality.

Over the years of keeping a dream journal I began to notice some
subtle things that were happening just on the edge of waking. For
instance, I once caught myself censoring a dream. At the point of
waking, while still more in the dreamstate than awake, I distinctly
heard myself say/think "Oh no. No. I don't want to remember that
dream," and as I heard that, I knew that I (I?
Or some part of me?) was arranging for me to forget the dream, so I
focused as hard as I could and did manage to retain details of the
dream. But I'll never know if I retained it all or if I did indeed
succeed in censoring out some possibly disturbing or frightening
imagery.

I've also noticed that very often as I'm waking I'll be able to hold,
just for the briefest second, more than one dream each with equal
intensity and clarity in my mind, as I awaken from both of them at
the same time. But as I become more awake, I can almost "feel" the
dream images "rearrange"
themselves in my mind until I end up recording one dream, but one
with a lot of "this happened, yet that happened too, " the
images "feeling" like they are somehow mixed up. Yet I'm convinced
that what I experienced were two (or
more) simultaneous dreams, but upon waking, the dreams - or more
accurately, the memories of the dreams - "telescoped into one" as
Seth put it, to accommodate my linear based physical reality thinking.

Now sometimes the reason may be more simple. Perhaps I had two dreams
in a row, very close in time to each other, and upon waking, I'm
getting them mixed up. Or maybe I had one dream earlier in the night
and I'm recalling events from it, but with respect to a more recent
dream, and am getting those mixed up. Or maybe I had nested dreams,
one occurring inside the other, but I don't recognize them as such.

But maybe, just maybe, simultaneous dreaming is far more common and
natural than we might at first think. Maybe, as Seth implies above,
we often have many dreams at once, and maybe to do so is a more
natural state of dreaming consciousness and waking up simply puts us
in a more limited, linear time based reality where we tend to order
our focus of consciousness (and our
memories) in a sequential fashion.

Maybe.

It's been many years since I had these two experiences, and though I
believe I can "feel" traces of similar events as I wake, I have not
experienced any as intense as those two mentioned above. But
simultaneous awareness in dreaming (or in any other states of
consciousness) still intrigues me, and so far I have only my own
experiences and those mentioned in the Seth books to draw ideas from.
(I won't say "draw conclusions" from, because I know my ideas on the
topic are far from complete.) I still want to know if other people
are experiencing simultaneous dreams and what they think of them. So,
I'm going to ask the question again.

"Have you ever had simultaneous dreams?"

If so, I'd love to hear from you and I'm sure other LDE readers would
too.
Drop us a line at LDE and tell us all about your simultaneous dreams!


(1)Roberts, Jane, The "Unknown" Reality Volume One, Session 692,
Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1988,

(2)Roberts, Jane, The Nature of the Psyche, Session 794, Amber-Allen
Publishing, San Rafael, CA, 1995


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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

July 2005

London, Auctions and DaFuMu

Jean Campbell


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On the day of the London subway bombings, July 7, The World Dreams
Peace Bridge went into action like a well-oiled machine. By the time
I awoke in Virginia, Peace Bridge members in other time zones were
asking concerned questions about the safety of Bridge members in
England. I learned about the bombings online, before I had ever
looked at the newspaper or turned on the t.v.

Soon after I woke, Brenda reported that her daughter, at school in
London, was safe; and Kay sent links to the British media coverage.
By evening, we had agreed to light candles around the world, and
dream together for the safety of the people in London.


The next day, as it happened, Jeremy was traveling to London with his
daughter, Eloisa, and he could report that their travels by bus and
subway had been on time and uneventful, a paean of praise to the
British people.

This interconnectedness is one of the key elements of the Peace
Bridge, whether the connections are made while waking or sleeping.
Interestingly, they reflect a story that Olivia had sent from England
just the day before terrorists bombed the London subway:

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day,
while trying to
make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a
nearby bog. He
dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in
black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free
himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a
slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse
surroundings.
An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as
the father of
the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer
replied waving off the
offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the
family hovel.

"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education
my own son will
enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to
be a man we both
will be proud of." And that he did.

Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time,
graduated from
St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become
known
throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the
discoverer of
Penicillin.

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog
was
stricken with pneumonia.

What saved his life this time? Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?

Sir Winston Churchill.

DaFuMu for World Peace on July 15

Shortly before the bombings, the conversation in the Peace Bridge
discussion group had turned to the subject of PR and Spin. From
Australia, Kathy pointed out:

It is very very hard to fight PR lies - they are so seductive - they
speak to our deepest
desires (we want to be good, we want to help everyone, we are willing
to suffer to
bring about good). This is what seems to me make their lies and
manipulation so
powerful. So how to counter them? One way is to speak the TRUTH
BUT that
does not have as much power in such a situation.

The other way, perhaps the only way, is to become more aware of our
desires and
fears. BUT that is such a task! How can we help ourselves and
others move in
that direction?

We can do this for ourselves BUT how to open up this possibility more
widely????

Maybe we can think on this in our 15th dreaming DaFuMu this month.

Olivia responded:

Dear Kathy, Jean and All,

I will go with this (Kathy's suggestion). I also want to share a text
I came across about 14 years ago - it seems to answer some of your
questions, Kathy. At least to me...

Also, I can't quite agree about what you call our deepest desires - I
for one do not wish to suffer to bring about good, partly for
entirely selfish (!) reasons, but more because I often (but not
always) question the value of something brought about through
suffering. I mean, sacrifice may have its place, but suffering? It
may sound like semantics, it certainly has a lot to do with
awareness, or conscious attitude, what one calls it.

I think the biggest problem with PR lies, lies with the distortion of
fact, especially when these 'facts' fall into the category
of 'protected information'. A lot of the time, ordinary human beings
simply don't stand a chance to accurately discern what, if anything,
resembles the 'truth'. How does one get such information, the 'real'
facts (a lot of 'facts' I would classify as opinion) to the general
public, the voters of any one nation?

Anyway, the text...

On Integrity

"We are going to visit the arena of Profound Humanness
called "Integrity". Sometimes "integrity" is reduced to mean a kind
of moral uprightness and steadfastness, in the sense of saying, "He
has too much integrity to ever take a bribe".

"But profound integrity goes far beyond this. Sometimes, in order to
distinguish it from the more limited popular usage, it is
called "secondary integrity". This is the integrity which is not
constrained by limited moralities, however well-intentioned. The
integrity that is profound living is the singularity of thrust of a
life committed and ordering every dimension of the self towards that
commitment. Thus the self is in fact shaped by the self, and focused
towards that commitment. You can say that an audacious creation of
the self takes place in integrity, without which you are simply the
creation of various forces impacting you in your society.

"Thus the basis of integrity is a destinal resolve – a resolve that
chooses and sets your destiny and out of which your whole life is
ordered. The object of that resolve is the ultimate decision of each
person, and each person makes that choice, consciously or
unconsciously. To do so with awareness is the height of
responsibility. It is incarnate freedom. It is what real freedom
looks like. When man has thus exercised his freedom he realizes that
to be true to himself ever thereafter he has a unique position to
look at the values of his society. He is no longer bound by the
opinions and codes of his fellow-man, but re-evaluates them on the
basis of their impact on his destinal resolve.

"Thus the man of integrity is continuously engaged in societal
transvaluation, a moving across the values of society and
reinterpreting them in line with his life's thrust. It does not give
him the liberty of ignoring his society, but his obligation
transcends the conformity of living within the codes and mores of his
society. Thus the man of profound integrity always seems to not quite
fit with his fellow-men but his actions always are appropriate for
him, even to those who oppose him."

(Attributed to the Maliwada Human Development Training School)

After the bombings, Kathy replied:

One of the things that worries me about the London bombings is the
way it enables those who want to be at war to do so. English people,
by and large, disapproved of what Blair was doing, English people, by
and large, it seemed to me, could see through Blair's incredible
control of rhetoric. What has happened now?

Now we see this bombing spoken of as being the act of barbaric
terrorists (YES it was) but it is always placed side by side, most
evident in both Bush's and Blair's responses - no doubt produced by
their spin doctors, with the necessity to replace this barbaric world
with the world of freedom and safety that they are offering (NO -
surely the deaths of so many Iraqis from bombings, the deaths of so
many Iraqi children from cancer created by exposure to Depleted
Uranium, the killing of so many Iraqis who just happened to driving
in the presence of an armed vehicle, the deaths and destructions in
Falluja and elsewhere, the creation of a context where suicide
bombers can kill almost everyday, the total disruption to society in
terms of water, food, health, education, hope, planning, work - all
this is allowed to appear on the side as "good" a "necessity" - as
NOT terrorism - partly because it is the action of a State, mostly
because it is "our" action).

How many will be swayed by the spin of Blair and Bush?

How can we open up the view? How can the spin have less control
over how people think?

The SPIN partly works because we agree that YES these bombings in
London ARE an act of terror. How can we stop it FALLING immediately
into support for State terrorism?

What would happen if we just said YES they are an act of terror.
THEN deliberately left our MINDS OPEN rather than let them fall down
the path to acceptance of State terrorism?

What if we could OPEN a SPACE OF PEACE AFTER the acceptance that this
is an act of terrorism.

What would follow?

Though members of the Peace Bridge agree that admirable efforts have
been made in England to point out to everyone that the Muslim
minority is part of the community, and not responsible for acts of
terror, there is also an agreement that on July 15, we will dream
together in a DaFuMu Dream for World Peace (see
http://worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm ) and individually
attempt to address Kathy's question about dealing with PR and Spin.

We hope that you will join us.

Aid for Traumatized Iraqi Children Silent Auction Huge Success

Recently, when the World Dreams Peace Bridge took its work for the
children of Iraq to the conference of the International Association
for the Study of Dreams in Berkeley, we discovered that more people
had been DaFuMu dreaming with us each month than we had ever
suspected. Several people mentioned they have been joining the
DaFuMu, and one Chicago-area woman said that she and several members
of a group she is involved with join together on the DaFuMu Dreaming
for World Peace.

If you are one of these people, could you let us know? It would be
nice to hear that the practice of a monthly group dream for peace has
been growing. You don't need to join the discussion group, but a
post to the World Dreams site will work just fine (
www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org ).

In addition to this delightful information about the DaFuMu, the
Silent Auction/International Bazaar was an enormous success. Auction
items, the raffle of two Dream Baskets created by Kat Peters-Midland,
and the sale of Peace Train place mats brought in over $3,000. We
would like to thank and congratulate any of the participants in the
event who might be reading this article, either donors or bidders.

Many people commented on what a beautiful silent auction it was, with
items from literally all over the globe. And the "battle of the
pens" during the last minutes of the auction demonstrated just how
much people were enjoying themselves.

Dreaming the world into Peace may be possible, and it may even be fun.

Here is a definition of Peace created by Bridge member Ron Adams from
Colorado, one of the few definitions of Peace as compared with the
many definitions of Violence or Nonviolence:

"Peace is the cultural maturity to seek forgiveness and compromise
for all parties involved, rather than lash out in hurt and pain,
creating struggle, fighting and war (Peace opposites)."~Ron L. Adams
June 14, 2005 ©





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Dream: Lines Of Distribution

Stan Kulikowski II

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DATE : 1 may 2005 08:23
DREAM

=( yesterday was saturday. it rained a lot this morning but cleared
up by late afternoon. mother did not feel well, so we did not go out
to eat at barnhills buffet like we usually do. she just wanted a
bowl of tomato soup for dinner and i had leftover pizza from the end
of term class party of the night before. i did run out to
blockbuster to get three films to watch in the evening. my end of
term grading is almost done and it went easier this time since my
exams were all on monday and tuesday, giving me the whole week to
grade the final web page projects. i got to sleep around 01:20 after
reading a little while in a dull scifi fantasy book i have been
slowly reading. )=


the bell just rang and i have just come into this classroom a little
late, but not so much that the teacher complains about me being
tardy. i take my seat in the desk and put my books in the box area
underneath. she is going around the room, stopping every few
students to give each a question for the test. it is her practice to
give exam questions orally so every five or six students get a
different question. this is to prevent the spread of cheating.

when she gets to my area of the classroom she pauses for a moment to
think up a new question. "if you were the manager of a store in
cuba, what would you have to do to sell a new brand of some product?"

i open my notebook to write down this question, but i can not find a
clean sheet of paper. i turn and turn through many pages but they
all have notes on them or are printed handouts from various classes i
take. eventually i find some pages of scrap paper, but these are
mostly spirit masters and the deep purple ink has bled through so
that even the back side of the paper have only small areas where my
pencil can be seen. i pick the sheet that has the least bleed
through and start to write the question in the odd areas that remain
white. the result is very hard to read as a few words are here then
you have to track down the page to find another oddly shaped space
where i can write.

i give up on the first scrap and try another then another. i know
the answer to the question concerns the fact that cuba is a communist
country with a controlled economy so product lines of commodities
have to be state approved. the store manager will have to apply for
licenses to sell whatever few products are available and so too will
the producers and distributors of the goods. in our so-called laisse
faire countries, lines of production and distribution are relatively
free of state regulation, so the store manager is allowed to purchase
any product available. within the companies that produce and sell
goods, the lines of materials are strictly controlled, but the lines
of distribution between them are supposed to be open. cuba is a
model of closed distribution strictly regulated by central authority,
and is probably one of the more successful communist economies,
largely because of the small size of the island and the natural
isolation of its borders.

that is what i want to write for the answer on this test, but i can
not find space on the scrap papers to do it. i am worried that i
will fail this test.

the teacher comes around to give us another question, but i have not
even gotten the first question written, let alone my answer. "do you
have any paper i can write on?" i ask her. "i was expecting to get
a blue book like you gave out last time and did not bring any blank
paper with me."

she just shakes her head and i look around to see if i can get some
paper from some other student sitting nearby.

=( i wake around 05:50, needing to go take a piss. afterwards i get
right back to sleep. )=

it is christmas time and the mall is just closing. the music on the
loudspeakers is interrupted for a moment as a voice comes on to tell
us that mall employees are invited to an after hours santa claus
party in the main concourse when the doors are closed. i need to get
back to my store. i am supposed to dress up like one of santa's
elves for this party.

i duck back into my store only to discover that we still have a lot
of last minute customers. one is waiting at the cash register just
inside the door. "can i help you?" i ask her as i step behind the
counter.

"yes, can you wrap these for me?" the woman hands over pair of sheep
skin slippers, brown leather outside with the wooly side turned in.
i put each slipper in a separate brown paper sack then bag them both
in a plastic bag. "no, we do not have wrapping papers here, but the
mall concourse have wrapping stations every few stores if you hurry."

she pays me with a credit card and hurries out of the store. i want
to go to the back to get into my elf costume but another customer is
heading for the counter with an item in her hands. i wave to another
employee of the store nearby and try to get him to relieve me at the
cash register.

it occurs to me that inside the store we have very strict lines of
products that are selected and managed by the company. we do not
allow street vendors or local producers to sell their goods within
the mall like at a farmer's market. indeed, the economic laws of
supply and demand only work freely on a very small scale in which the
producers and consumers can interact directly. once third party
distribution intervenes between them, the likelihood of monopoly
price setting increases directly with distance. when the lines of
distribution get above two thousand kilometers, monopolistic
marketing becomes a certainty.

now i have to go put on my pointy elf shoes and silly fringe hat.

=( awake again at 07:55. the themes of macroeconomics obviously
carry over in both of these dreams. i do not understand why i was
concerned about this last night. it is far from any commercial
holiday that requires buying or selling. the classroom i was in was
obviously high school with the bells and separate desk seating. it
has been a long time since i have actually been in a classroom like
that since all of my teaching for many years involves computers with
bolted down table rows or auditorium seating with raked floor rows
and folding desktops. i have never worked in retail sales, and maybe
go in a mall every couple months at best, mainly to buy DVDs or maybe
a book at waldens. the santa claus content works in well with my
thoughts about economics but i am puzzled as to why these economic
issues have any importance to my life. is there any deeper
significance to this kind of academic thought or is it pretty much
surface material like it seems here? )=


--

. although fate may defeat the efforts of virtue to avert
misfortune,
=== it cannot deprive us of the power to endure it with
equanimity.
| | -- plutarch, gaius gracchus 19
--- stankuli@...

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The Dreamtime: What is it Really?

Shamai Currim

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Preface: In this article Shamai Currim takes us on a journey through
some of the Dreamtime material currently available. While she is able
to pose some of the questions, and walk us through some of her
journey, she does not posit that she has any of the answers. That is
for you, the reader, to find.

Shamai Currim is a Therapist, Educator, and Educational Consultant
and Trainer .She holds a BA in Applied Social Science, an MS in
Education, and a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology. She is an Early
Childhood and Family Life Educator, a Massotherapist, Aromatherapist,
and Reflexologist. She has Certified Polarity Educator/Registered
Polarity Practitioner status with the American Polarity Therapy
Association and has advanced training in Cranio Sacral and Myofascial
work. As a Psychosynthesist, she works with Deep Trauma. She is
capable of working eclectically, has been trained to use the Energy
Psychologies (EMDR, EFT) and is a Colour/light and Sound Therapist.

Shamai has worked with children and families with special needs, has
been active in working with the AIDS and Prison communities, was the
Director of a Senior Citizen's Summer Residence and Children's Day
Camp for 17 years, believes in being active in reform and has sat on
the Steering Committee of the Association for the Advancement of
Psychosynthesis, the board of the International Organization of the
Helen Prize for Women, the board of the Association of Early
Childhood Educators, and as the Executive Director of Eduporta
International Education Agency. She was a chosen attendee at the
Leadership Training Course at the Canadian Jewish Congress and the
first recipient of the Ross-Seaman Memorial Leadership Award at
Concordia University.

Shamai is an accomplice with Oh Shinnah FastWolf , a Shishindi elder,
and is an initiate of Sant Mat/Surat Shabd Yoga and a disciple of the
current living master, Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj.


The Dreamtime: What is it really?

My first thought on entering into and researching material for
writing this paper on working with the Dreamtime was that I would be
reviewing material that spoke to the dream space. In my naiveté I
didn't include the dreaming wish, the other worlds, or the steps
beyond. While I have done much inner growth, have practiced mediation
for many years, and have worked over the years with Shamans, Elders,
Traditional Dreamers, Mystics and Saints, I had not been aware of the
multitude of information that had in the past, and now in the present
been revealed, with accuracy and with determination of spirit, to
provide the physical provings so necessary in today's concrete world.
I had moved well beyond the symbolic language, journals, and lucid
practices. I was eager to find, put into words, the experiences I
have been living.

Malcolm Godwin takes us into the world of lucid dreaming. He
suggests that we become active participants in the dream world,
encouraging us to find the true reality. Wolf, when referring to the
stages of self-awareness, tells us that the `observer' is actually
a more advanced stage of consciousness. Godwin goes on to say that we
should move beyond the assumption that the observer is outside of the
observed, but is, in actuality, an affecter of its observations. Of
course we know that lucid dreaming actually means taking
responsibility for ones own actions/life, choosing reflection over
reaction. When the restlessness of change brings with it greater
responsibility for choice of action/non action, the dreamer must
choose between devotion and devouration. Godwin suggests that the
role of sleep is biological as well as psychological, carrying the
significance of practicing our waking environment, and he reminds us
that "lucidity, or alert attentiveness is closest to the original
state of witnessing consciousness". (Godwin, P.77).

Dreams can be used as a tool to empower or disempower. Through
the act of visualization or the action of Gestalt, a therapist can
move the client from believed helplessness to a felt sense of
empowerment, from a loss of self to a strengthened sense of ego. The
dreamtime state can also be used to take power away from those that
are most vulnerable. Much of my work over the past few years has
dealt with the Dissociative state, another form of dreaming. Fred
Wolf's introduction of Libet's work and the importance of the
perception /time marker signal could be compared to the programming
procedures done on Satanic Ritual Abuse survivors. If the abuse is
done quickly, and at a very young age, and the stimulus does not
reach the brain's perceptive understanding, then, in fact, the abused
will feel like he is in a dreamlike state, unable to differentiate
physical fact from fiction (dissociation). "They separated their
bodies into parts in their minds" (Wolf, P.99) Since, as Wolf says,
the ability to consciously veto an action is not the same mechanism
as the ability to become aware of the intention to act, and, because
inhibitory mechanisms delimit the spread of activity in the cortex,
we can understand the use of psychoactive drug induced awareness
which depresses inhibition (the cults use of inhibitory and analgesic
drugs). He further goes on to speculate that, with electrical
activity, or sensory cortex manipulation, the same type of imagery
could be experienced by different people, giving possible proof of
collective consciousness. Since unification and consolidation form
the concept of an "I", largely through the activities of the dreaming
brain, the cult keeps the mind of its members in a fantasy reality
where they can direct and exploit the victim's inability to reason
within moral inhibitions. Wolf also refers to the work of Crick and
Mitchison, proposing that since brain neurons are excitory rather
than inhibitory, they have the capacity for associative memory. He
refers to using memory overload to create memory extinction, leaving
certain memories stronger and easier to access, the dream of a person
seeking mind control over another.

Wolf, when he refers to the aboriginal people, states that
the dream world is considered to be the real time, or real world,
while the physical world is considered to be the dreaming. He refers
to the objective component (the action) and the subjective component
(the awareness of the self in the observation).

He also talks about REM sleep giving us easier access to our waking
state, an aid for primitive cultures, and he refers to hypnagogic
dreaming, the space between awake and asleep, and the images which
can also occur when a person is left in a darkened room for extended
periods of time.

When Wolf talks about the essence of time, he suggests that the
chronological time line on which we put the events of our lives does
not apply to the dreaming. They are not historical-time based. "That
doesn't mean they are not real or that they didn't happen or for that
matter are not happening now" (Wolf, P.150). This reminds me of the
experiences of working with past lives, which don't always follow a
logical sequence, or may appear to have overlaps of time. He also
states that "Duration is not governed by the clock but by the
business at hand" (Wolf, P.151), which in past life language means
that it is not important whether the work is, in reality, connected
to another space and time. We need to just the work that is presented
to us, in the present moment, and is to be dealt with, in the present
moment.

I loved hearing the aboriginal story of creation, where each
part dreams the next, with the human being last. The basic driving
force of the universe is seen as the capacity to dream, to bring into
existence, to use the ability to go beyond that which is, to dream.
From here we awaken the consciousness that we are more than our
existence, and so, have a larger responsibility in the creation and
caretaking of life.

In speaking to the quantum wave theory of transactional
interpretation, one sees the stream/counter stream that is dependant
on the observer for interpretation. In this reinforcement of self and
other "they then cancel each other out in the space outside these
events and before the initial or offering event and after the final
or echoing event" (Wolf, P.163). While this refers to the
understanding that there must be two before there can be one (the
reality of consciousness), it also reverberates to the loss of
boundaries when doing balance/counterbalance exercises. In my
experience this form of movement, which goes from the physical to the
transpersonal, helps to eliminate physical barriers, aiding the
healer to see beyond and within the structure of the physical form.
This would help to explain the experiences of the Intuitive Healer or
the abilities of the psychic persona.
Whether dreams are replays of daily events, chances for
expansion, soul travel, experiences from other dimensions, re-tells,
pre-tells, post-tells, or psychic prophecy or intuition, dreams can
be worked with, encouraged, cajoled, and understood symbolically or
perceptually. We can be observers, active participants, or find
ourselves somewhere in between, and we can even `dream storm' in
order to find an answer. We can be catalyst, pacifist, or
reactionary. We can set intention through prayer and bring potential
forward.

We can be believer, or nonbeliever, and still find ourselves falling
into the dream state.

We can believe that the dreaming is our reality, or that our reality
falls somewhere between the dreaming and the waking, or that the only
true reality lives only in the physical. The dreaming may be our
potential, our unconscious, or even guidance from our superconscious.
It may be from our state of Id or Ego, I or not I, and can be seen as
guidance, repression, or denial from our multi-faceted self. Dreams
can be objective or subjective, observed or experienced, group
oriented or soliloquy, orderly or in disarray, full of possibilities
or actualities, correlated or separated, pre, post or present
process, communal or self oriented, telepathic, conceptive,
existential, gestalt, precognitive, paranormal, prophetic, or species
connected, controlling or controlled, related or unrelated, and may
have nothing to do with any of this. Dream theory is still rather
speculative and is best understood through experience. We have proof
of some theories, perceptions of others, direct experience with
others. I like Wolf's idea that ego is constructing causality while
Id is synchronizing events and meaning that deal with feeling and
intuition, that the future is directing and correcting our actions
and always leading us forward, and that the need to see the beyond is
a result of early childhood trauma.

Now, if we add in the work of Wilder Penfield, we move into the
speculation that certain areas of the brain hold memory, and produce
a dreamlike state when electrically stimulated. The question arises,
then, whether the memory state is produced by stimulation, or whether
the memory produces the stimulation, through the induced fear.

The question that Wolf brings forward, and then answers, is the one
that states that children that have been abused, who have the
capacity for dissociation or alternate reality experiences, who have
the physical ability to suppress the self and effect the change, may
be the majority of reported cases of NDE and UFO experiences. He
appears to state that this is a physical phenomenon, capable of being
induced. Perhaps this gives us another reason for the efficacy of the
EMDR work that is being accomplished in therapeutic settings today.
It is important for me to note here, as well, that the meditative
practice of Surat Shabd Yoga can produce the same experience as NDEs,
and that not all practitioners have been abused as children.

Wolf refers to the five levels in the dream. I believe it takes
us five levels just to be able to come to a level of conscious
awareness. From here, it is said, we travel the five dream loops and
the 24 levels of dreaming (Tardiff, 2003) and, with more self-
consciousness, we can work with and from the worlds beyond. The
Kalacakra system refers to thirty-one realms. The Yogacara didn't
work with anything except the inner world. The Cuna Indians descended
vertically through eight levels of Kalus and ascended progressively
higher through eight aerial levels. My sense is that this opening to
other depends on how easily we are able to move out of illusion and
beyond the self. I have enjoyed watching my dreamtime move from black
and white, two dimensionality, to full colour, multi dimensionality,
ethnicity, and otherworldly. I also wish to mention here that age is
of no consequence. I have met children who are natural dreamers, able
to work and travel in the dreamtime at will. With support they do not
lose this ability, but rather, are capable of bringing this forward
into their everyday lives. The dreaming and awake states become one.

The questions I came into this paper with were: what is the
difference between the dream state and the meditative state? What is
the process of consciously moving through the dream loops, or many
different levels of the dream state? Is there more of an opening into
the dreamtime state now that we, as a paradigm, are moving towards
consciousness? Or will that mean that we will no longer have use for/
need of the dream state? I come out of this writing with questions
around Quantum Mechanics and the model of waves/particles. I am
intrigued by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and its fixed law
of imperfection. It amazes me to see the copious amount of dream
work that goes on in our society. When I think of the dream state, I
think of a state of being/becoming. Our scientifically oriented
society seems to have the need to create the provings. If one would
move with Wolf's holographic ideal of real and virtual images, one
could concede that in order to reach a higher level of dreaming, one
would need more clear light, and yet it is this light that creates
the alternative action of the electrons. Perhaps when one becomes
fully conscious then there will no longer be a need to retain the
dream state. I would, to the contrary, like to propose that, when we
have reached a full state of consciousness, we would no longer have a
need for the body. We will become, reawaken, return to the dream. As
Wolf said "Matter Dreams".

What I especially liked, when the material began to come
together, is the fact that in all the work, in all the studies, in
all the different facets of the sciences, the reality of all of this
research really comes down to the one question we all continuously
ask ourselves "where do we come from?" For it is in this search for
the knowing of self/Self that we begin the journey, lucid or asleep.
It is within these travels, this life journey, that that we find our
true reason for being/becoming, matter enfolding and unfolding,
present in the finding and returning to the nature of our true
authentic selves.



References:
Godwin, Malcolm (1994), The Lucid Dreamer: A Waking Guide for the
Traveler Between Worlds, NY, Labrinthe

Tardiff, Lisa (2003), Rattling the Bones, unpublished

Van de Castle, Robert (1994), Our Dreaming Mind: A Sweeping
Exploration of the Role that Dreams Have Played in Politics, Art,
Religion, and Psychology, From Ancient Civilizations to the Present
Day, NY, Ballantine

Varela, J.(1997), Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of
Consciousness with The Dalai Lama, Boston, Wisdom

Wolf, Fred Alan (1994), The Dreaming Universe: A Mind Expanding
Journey into the Realm Where Psyche and Physics Meet, NY, Simon &
Schuster



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Awakening Within The Dream

Will Parfitt

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(extracted from Chapter 18 of Psychosynthesis:
The Elements and Beyond
(PS Avalon, U.K., 2003 ISBN 0-9544764-0-9)
Reprinted by permission of the author.

Whilst Psychosynthesis practitioners may work with dreams in the more
usual ways, including dream recall and interpretation, they also may
include the cultural relevance of the dreaming, the investigation of
lucid dreaming, and dreaming as a spiritual practice. As well as
exploring the dreams we have whilst asleep, Psychosynthesis also
focuses on how to awaken ourselves within `the dream of everyday
life'. Rather than awakening from a dream, we can learn to awaken
within the dream so we are awake to the beauty and meaning within our
lives. To wake up from a dream suggests a movement from `being asleep
and dreaming' to `being awake.' To awaken within suggests something
quite different, where we can be fully ourselves, here and now,
whether we are physically awake or asleep.

Assagioli's attitude to dreams is found in Psychosynthesis: `...
although dreams do give access to the unconscious of the subject ...
[they] often only give access to one part of it - only one part of
the unconscious is able or cares to express itself through dreams.'
After stating that there are many types of dreams, differing in
quality and meaning, Assagioli continues: ` in our practice [we]
point out dream interpretation is only one of the techniques and not
the chief one.' Jung, who worked extensively with dream
interpretation, wrote: `I share all your prejudices against dream
interpretation as the quintessence of uncertainty and arbitrariness.
On the other hand, I know that if we meditate on a dream sufficiently
long and thoroughly, if we carry it round and turn it over and over,
something almost always comes of it.' Assagioli seems to be
suggesting something just like this, and not just interpretation but
also other dream practices. He only gives one direct clue in his
books, however, to what he is referring.

Assagioli asserts that there are two major limitations to dream
analysis. One is the potential for passive dependence on the
uncontrolled appearance of dreams. Clearly Jung would not have agreed
with this as he relished `the uncontrolled appearance' of dreams.
This is a good example of the different emphasis between the two men,
which Assagioli would have ascribed to their differing `rays'.
Assagioli emphasized the importance of the will more than Jung, who,
following the more `feminine' track, worked more with what emerges
spontaneously.

The other limitation to dream analysis, according to Assagioli, is
the impossibility of fully understanding `the forgotten language' of
dreams. Jung agreed: `... it is obvious we lack the sense and
ingenuity to read the enigmatic message from the nocturnal realm of
the psyche.' Jung proposes, as a way forward a systematic study of
dreams, to which, of course, he devoted much of his life. Assagioli,
on the other hand, proposes `symbol projection' as a better
alternative. By this, Assagioli means the visualization of specific
items to induce fuller imagery. It involves being aware or awake
whilst at the same time being in `dream state', that is a state where
the unconscious can speak to us in its language. Thus the proposal to
practitioners, at the outset of most Psychosynthesis meditation and
visualization techniques, that they relax and centres themselves, and
follow their breath into a still, undisturbed space.

Jung wrote: `In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in
waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of
consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or
other unconscious complexes.' Of course, as Jung was well aware, we
live our lives under these influences, continuously in a socializing
and restricting trance produced by such complexes and repressed
material. Jung's methods of working included his own version of
symbol projection, which he termed active imagination. More than
Assagioli, Jung used a wide variety of other techniques, including
dance and movement, to explore the edges of the unconscious,
the `borderlands' of consciousness. Jung clearly placed greater
importance on dream interpretation than did Assagioli, who through
working with imagery had found what he felt was a more readily useful
method.

William James, who was greatly admired by Assagioli, wrote: `Our
normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness,
while all about it parted by the filmiest of screens there lie
potential forms of consciousness entirely different... Apply the
requisite stimulus and at a touch they are there in all their
completeness.' Perhaps Psychosynthesis offers us our best chance for
finding and applying this `requisite stimulus'. Assagioli certainly
felt that, and may well have known the famous quote from
Thoreau: `Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.' This
conveys something similar to the difference between freedom from
something, which moves us away, somewhere else, and freedom to, which
moves us towards doing what is right for us in any specific moment.
Freedom, one of Assagioli's beloved `qualities', brings
responsibility, and the need to use the will, to not shy away from
making choices. Thus the relevance of will as the compliment to
imagination, both of which are the key components to personal and
spiritual development in the Western mystery traditions. The correct
use of will and imagination wakens the higher centers in the human
system that bring responsibilities of a deeper nature.
......

Whilst Psychosynthesis borrows dream work methods as appropriate, it
also has some of its own particular approaches that can be applied to
dream work. For instance, a Gestalt therapist may ask a dreamer to
play, enact or describe themselves as the different items in a dream,
not only play the obvious central character. The dreamer might, for
instance, be asked to speak as an animal that appears in their
imagery. `I am a dog; I have shaggy fur and am always running round
on the spot. My life is ruled by my obsession with food...' Simply
talking as a dream character often reveals interesting and useful
insights into the workings of that dreamer's psyche. A
Psychosynthesis practitioner will use the same approach, but take it
a step further by exploring which part of the psyche was following
these instructions and playing a part. This might be accomplished
through a timely asking of suitable questions: who is it that is
playing this animal? How do you know? Who experiences all this? This
is intended to accomplish an awakening, however brief, of the `I'
experience, central to the work of Psychosynthesis.

We may use amplification techniques for working with a dream.
Amplification involves working with a small image or sense from a
dream to bring out its richness and depth. This can include items
that are beyond the personal realms, or just of the middle
unconscious. For the personal level of symbology and to explore the
immediate realms of the middle unconscious, a practitioner may use
free association around dream images and check what thoughts and
feelings this brings us, both for the client and for him- or her-
self, being aware of possible projective and reactive
identifications. Working with social and cultural imagery is more
complex for it involves finding items that are common as signs or
signals to us all - a red light meaning `stop', for instance. This
involves delving deeper into the lower unconscious where such signals
are lodged, which will then inevitably involve analysis of any other
more shadowy unconscious material that is evoked. It is important
however to allow for something being only what it obviously is: a
book in a dream, for instance, might simply be something to read (and
not, for example, a mysterious edible missile that wants to devour
the dreamer!)

The archetypal level of imagery transcends the individual psyche but
is experienced in each individual in a variety of idiosyncratic ways.
However idiosyncratic an individual may be, there are common
archetypal figures that tend to appear, including the fool, the wise
person, the mother, and the lover. Assagioli loved to include what he
termed `the wise old man' archetype (that modern Psychosynthesis
practitioners have renamed `the wise old person'.) Archetypal imagery
also includes events such as birth, marriage and death.

Archetypal figures have to be distinguished from subpersonalities
that may have similar characteristics. Indeed, Psychosynthesis
stresses that at their heart subpersonalities have the same
archetypal qualities. But when these archetypal figures appear in
dreams they bring us messages from the higher unconscious. These
messages can include important insights, precognition, telepathy,
prophecy, and forward-relating imagery. Jung felt that time-wise we
live somewhere `behind' all our dreams. Subpersonalities are more
obviously figures who are caught up in the past, either the more
recent past (where the dream may be playing out and perhaps re-
configuring recent events,) or the more distant past of repressed
psychic material and complexes. In Psychosynthesis it is important to
work with both directions. The depth work is to enable a
subpersonality to descend into its true inner quality and express it.
The height work is to learn to co-operate with archetypes to help
clarify issues for subpersonalities.

To amplify images on an archetypal level we have to be familiar with
myths, folklore and fairy tales to provide a base for understanding
such imagery. Assagioli discovered that whilst it is important to
have a wide spectrum of such knowledge, to focus on a few central
mythical events, such as found in Dante, for instance, allows close
investigation of all archetypes. He realized that any and all
archetypes can be recognized in each and every story. He was also
aware of the usefulness of the Tree of Life, as we discussed in an
earlier chapter, and utilized his `hidden' knowledge of the deeper
model behind the simplified egg diagram to help understand the
different levels of dreams.

Psychosynthesis also suggests dream and imagery work as spiritual
practice. For instance, if we are going to awaken ourselves to the
fact that in our everyday life we are also living within a dream,
central to `dream work' in the Psychosynthesis sense, we have to find
ways to `check out reality' and see if we are dreaming or not. The
famous `pinch me to see if I am dreaming' is not so silly: if you
check yourself out that way, if the pinch doesn't hurt, you know you
are in a dream. This opens up the possibility of becoming lucid -
that is, awakening within a dream. In our so-called `waking' life we
can perform many such `reality checks' throughout the day, thus
reminding ourselves that we are in a dream: thus, we may awaken
within `this dream' too. This is the famous `waking state' in many of
the mystery schools of both the East and West. Such reality checks
include asking: `Am I dreaming?' and `Who is dreaming?' then to do
something to check if it is so or not. If you try to fly for
instance, you know whether you are awake in this dream or not! Whilst
requiring great will and imagination, a simple and effective practice
is constantly trying to recall and remind ourselves that whatever we
are doing, we are in a dream. This echoes the words of Chuang-Tzu,
the Taoist: `Only when they are awake do they begin to know they
dreamed. Then comes the great awakening, when we find out that life
itself is a great dream.'

Will Parfitt, the director of PS Avalon, trained in Psychosynthesis
and has more than thirty years experience of working with personal
and spiritual development. He is a registered psychotherapist and
leads training courses in England and Europe. Will is author of
several books including 'The Complete Guide to the Kabbalah'
and 'Psychosynthesis: The Elements and Beyond'.
His website at www.willparfitt.com includes details of all his books,
courses, artwork, plus articles and journals free to download.

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The Dream Section is edited by Kat Peters-Midland

Visitation from the dead, a Leprechaun, a masked burglar, and a
phantom stapler…what else could it be? Another dreams section of the
Electric Dreams Magazine!!

Dream title: alon
Dream date: 05/13/05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream : I am in the ocean all alone and I am on a little floaty toy.
Everything just passes by me - boats, sharks, etc. No matter how
close I get to an island I can't reach them. I am in the ocean and
can't reach anything no matter how close I get to it and no one even
notices me
Dream comments: : I have this dream a lot.

Dream title: husband
Dream date: 6/21/05
Dreamer name: AK
Dream: I had a fight with my husband and I left house and started
leaving with one of my friends.
Dream comments: We fight daily and before going to sleep I was
thinking of leaving him

Dream title:
Dream date:
Dreamer name: lozer
Dream: I am on a bus in the seat with someone I had a crush on but I
never think of this person anymore. He was actually sweet to me and
he was just a friend. We started holding hands and that's all I can
remember.
Dream comments: I thought it was odd in a way.

Dream title: Leprechaun Dream
Dream date: June 19, 2005
Dreamer name: LL
Dream: I saw a Leprechaun up in the window floating in the air and
then he flew over to the door. I was trying to close the door on him
but I couldn't. My boyfriend was in the bed with me and he caught
him and was holding him by his two hands. I was telling by
boyfriend not to let him go.
Dream comments: none

Dream title: dream of relative that passed away 25 years ago
Dream date: April 2005
Dreamer name: Sun
Dream: I dreamt of my Uncle "mom's brother" who passed away 25 years
ago. We have all aged since then but he still seemed the same in my
dream - no grey hair, no wrinkles. I was in a meeting in a school
with a Principal of the school and saw my uncle across the room . I
am not able to talk to him right away but after the meeting I tried
to talk to him but he had already left the place. I got his phone
number, call him, and talk to him over the phone. I introduced myself
and mention that I was not able to talk to him at school. He said
that he was happy with everything except with what his 2nd son is
doing right now.
Dream comments: One month after my dream my mom passed away. I have
this feeling that my uncle came in my dream to give me a sign that my
mom had few more days left but at the time I did not realize it.
Later when I talked to my aunt my mom's sister about my dream, she
mentioned that my uncle's second son, trashed all his old clothing
and some old pictures from the house, saying that was old stuff and
did not want to keep them in the house anymore. Could he be trying to
tell me some thing in my dream?

Dream title: No one heard
Dream date: 6/6/05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream: I was on vacation with my new husband but I cold not make
out his face. My ex-husband and his new wife were there along with my
cousin and her husband. The location was unknown; however we all
were having a great time together. When we returned home, everyone
went to different locations in the house. I was in the kitchen and a
masked burglar came in and started attacking me. I screamed and
fought back, but no one heard me screaming for help nor did they hear
me fighting this masked man.
Dream comments: In the middle of the fight my home phone rang and I
was awakened so I was unable to complete the dream.

Dream title: Subconsciously Confused
Dream date: June 18, 2005
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream: I was at a local grocery store when all of a sudden I started
to black out and fall into slow motion. All of a sudden a rescue team
dressed in blue race car suits started to help me up, check my pulse
and everything. I came out of my black out and I was fine. So I got
in my car and blacked out and fell on the ground again. Once getting
up from my black out again and going to my car, I found I had left
my car on. Two of my friends, who were in their car next to mine,
started to make fun of me and tease me. So, I got in my car started
to drive off and I got into an accident. It wasn't bad so I kept
driving. I blacked out and ended up at a party. I felt drugged
throughout the whole thing. When I woke up at the party, I started
to freak out. I ran outside and called my mom and told her how I
felt. I asked what was happening, and then she and the guy I have
been dating for 21/2 years (but currently having troubles with) got
into a accident. I cried harder and asked if he was ok and she said
no.
Dream comments: I woke up in tears totally confused on the situation

Dream title: Anyone For Shrimp
Dream date: 06/17/2005
Dreamer name: SH
Dream: I was on a ship....maybe or perhaps in a building. Two men
walked up to me. One was sort of hostile because I really wasn't
speaking to him and the other gentleman was polite. Both at the same
time reached out to me to give me a few pieces of really huge shrimp
and a business card. The gentleman who was sort of hostile kept
repeating (in a very low tone) that I was not attractive. The other
gentleman got upset with him and kept repeating I was attractive then
pushed him and kicked him. He kept asking why he was being
disrespectful....
Dream comments: I guess I'm really confused as to why I was given a
few pieces of shrimp along with a business card?

Dream title: pregnant at work?
Dream date: 6/ 4/05
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream: I work at a bank and instead of giving random drug tests they
gave random pregnancy tests. I went and found a cop that I had dated
years ago and cussed at him and told him it was his entire fault.
Dream comments: what does this mean?

Dream title: The phantom stapler
Dream date: 6/12/05
Dreamer name: MM
Dream: Someone is double-stapling papers together under my bed. When
I awake and confront them, I see an inverted "v" (peace sign). When
they show me the sign, I immediately stop asking them to cease. The
weird thing is they have no faces.
Dream comments: recent bouts with insomnia.

Dream title: corn fields
Dream date: 06/02
Dreamer name: Gem
Dream: I was in a cornfield around a fire with 3 of my best friends.
I asked "what's going on?"
And my friend said "we're about to be initiated into a coven!" So we
all started chanting something weird, and then I saw this huge blue
ball (glowing)! Then something swept over me like a surge of power.
Then I woke up.
Dream comments: It was sooooooo freaky - almost as if I were
actually doing it!


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