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E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s
Volume #12 Issue #8
August 2005
ISSN# 1089 4284
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes – Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News
Harry Bosma
++ Cover Artist Bio
Brian MacGregor
++ Letters to the Editor – More Psychosynthesis
++ Column: An Excerpt From the Lucid Dream Exchange
Editor, Lucy Gillis
“My Lucid Dream Geometric Healing Experience.”
Beverly D'Urso,
++ Article: Shadow Storm
Linda Lane Magallón
++ Column: The View From the Bridge
Making Connections
Kathy Turner
++ Dream: “Finding Coins”
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Article: Chicken Coop Thinking
Al Bouchard
++ DREAM SECTION: Dreams from July, 2005
Host Kat Peters-Midland
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D E A D L I N E :
August 21th deadline for September 2005 submissions
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Post Dreams and Comments on Dreams to:
http://www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
Send news, events, workshops, conferences& reviews to
Harry Bosma <ed-news@...>
Send Articles, news and other items to:
Richard Wilkerson: <rcwilk@...>
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the August 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
Be sure to note the only online conference for extreme dreaming is coming up in late September. The 2005 PsiberDreaming Conference information is up at http://www.asdreams.org/psi2005
Your editor is turning 50 on the 21st of August, and could use some cheering up. Send birthday cards (with a dream or dream phrase/fragment) to Richard Wilkerson,
This month in Electric Dreams:
Lucid Dream Exchange editor Lucy Gillis offer ED readers an excerpt from her Lucid Dream Exchange, this month an article on dream healing from Beverly D'Urso, “lucid dreamer extraordinaire, and this year's winner of the IASD Dream Telepathy contest.” Be sure to read “My Lucid Dream Geometric Healing Experience.”
Last month I asked for article from people using Psychosynthesis and dreamwork. I’m including a piece that didn’t get in the issue as a letter to the editor from Marilyn Barry.
Linda Lane Magallón is the author of Mutual Dreaming and has been a pioneer in the Field of Dreams for decades. In her contribution to ED this month, dreams, nature and the cosmos collide in the article “Shadow Storm.”
Kathy Turner steps in for Jean Campbell this month to update you on the latest projects of the World Dreams Peace Bridge. From women’s rights in Iraq to the Hiroshima bombing anniversary, you can find out what is happening on the Bridge and how to join.
Stan Kulikowski II has quite a unique style of recording his dreams. This month we are featuring the dream “Finding Coins.”
Al Bouchard explores the dreams of “ Eldermystic” who combines the wisdom of dream with clues from waking life to provide interpretations that will get us all our of our closed coups. Read more in “Chicken Coop Thinking”
Thanks to Janet Garrett , ED articles from past issues are 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 searches around the world for news on dreams and dreaming, which you can read about in 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@...
Marrying a priest, communicating with an angel, being sniffed and dragged by a tiger-lion, and watching a striped fish turning into a huge three-eyed fury creature…what else could it be? The Dream Section of Electric Dreams Magazine from Kat Peters-Midland.
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 Brian MacGregor
http://tinyurl.com/a3wqr
More on the cover and the artist below.
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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
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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Global Dreaming News
August 2005
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If you have news you'd like to share, simply email Harry Bosma
at his special ed-news@... address.
Online:
- August's Remote Viewing Challenge
- Cyber party for dreamers
- Updated website Anne Frey
- Psiber Dreaming Conference
Physical world:
- DreamTending, seeds of African wisdom
Books, movies, research:
- Dream Decoders tv show
Recurring events:
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
- IASD Online Auction
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Online
August's Remote Viewing Challenge
The next Remote Viewing Challenge is coming up! Everybody is welcome to give it a try, no special skills are needed, and it's free. Bring a little adventure in your life! I posted the details at the IASD Bulletin Board:
http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewforum.php?f=2
The next RV will be at either Wednesday August 3rd, or Thursday August 4, 2005, depending on where you live.
Harry
Cyber party for dreamers
I'd like you to invite you to my cyber party at Saturday, August 27th. I'm celebrating my return to full health after more than a decade of severe health problems. There will be a simple discussion board, and a chatbox, so you can chat and mingle with the other guests. There will also be a little experiment, a combination of a remote viewing and a shared dream.
For some background, in 1994 I came down with a seriously debilitating disease. I've spent most my time sleeping or resting in bed, and was able to leave the house only rarely. Doctors were never able to come up with an explanation. Being bedridden most of the time, I've always defined full recovery by the ability to travel to far destinations. I'm happy to report that I actually managed to do this last June.
There isn't much to see yet, but this is where you'll have to go at August 27th:
http://alquinte.com/en/
I hope to see you there!
Harry
Updated website Anne Frey
Anne Frey updated her website. Wisdom Of Dreams has favorite dream links and books, along with citations on some of the most recent publications in dream research. You'll find tips on how to improve your sleep and how to improve your dream recall. You'll find fun facts about famous nappers and the history of beds.
http://thewisdomofdreams.com
Psiber Dreaming Conference
This year's Psiber Dreaming Conference is planned for September 18 - October 2, 2005. Keep some time free in your schedule for this unique online event that generates lots of excitement! Keep an eye on the homepage of the PDC for more details to show up soon.
http://asdreams.org/psi2005/
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Physical world
DreamTending, seeds of African wisdom
In this three-day introductory seminar, Dr. Aizenstat will help the dreamer find relationship with the archetypal imagination—describing tribal, traditional, and emerging approaches to dream work that explore common dream themes, nightmares, archetypal images, and the recurring dream. Seminar topics include:
THE PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS: Dreamwork methods drawn from Western psychology as well as tribal wisdom assist us in hearing the voices of the dream in relation to personal history and experience.
THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS: Archetypal approaches to dreamtending found in the work of Joseph Campbell, C. G. Jung, James Hillman, and Marion Woodman as well as in the traditions of African culture aid us in reconnecting to the universal images rooted in the mythological imagination of the human psyche.
THE WORLD UNCONSCIOUS: Dr. Aizenstat will demonstrate emerging methods of DreamTending which animate the living ecology of the wider landscape, reconnecting us to the realm of imagination and nature.
ONGOING DREAM COUNCIL: Participants will meet daily in ongoing dream councils of 4-6 persons to apply material learned in the seminar. This provides an opportunity for each member to work with his or her own dreams.
http://www.pacifica.edu/dreamtending05.html
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Books, movies, research
Dream Decoders tv show
GROUNDBREAKING MINI-SERIES REVEALS THE HIDDEN MEANING OF DREAMS
I’m excited to share the following TV Bulletin with you. Each night, whether memorable or not, the average person has four to five dreams. But what do these dreams mean? And what do they tell us about ourselves? Discovery Health Channel unlocks the deepest secrets of the subconscious with the premiere of DREAM DECODERS. In this enlightening three-part series, three of the world’s top dream analysts who are our “Dream Decoders”—Dr. Marcia Emery, Dr. Alan Siegel and Dr. Veronica Tonay — help participants and viewers understand the messages of their dreams to foster greater emotional and psychological health.
DREAM DECODERS premieres with a sneak peek On Wednesday, August 17, at 10 PM (ET/PT). The three-part series will air in its entirety Tuesdays at 8 PM (ET/PT), beginning November 1.
DREAM DECODERS is filmed in front of a live-studio audience on a special “dream tank” set. Each episode evaluates the dreams of three or four people from different walks of life. With the help of host Steve Truitt, they share their most private, often recurring, dream or nightmare through verbal explanations and brief video re-creations. The Dream Decoders interview the dreamers about their personal experiences and current life challenges to uncover hidden clues in the depths of their psyches. The Decoders analyze these clues and offer their individual analysis to crack the dream code, giving the dreamers startling insight into their waking lives.
DREAM DECODERS promises to be one of the most controversial, entertaining, and enlightening hours of television that our waking minds could experience…leaving us with something stimulating to think, and dream about. If you have questions or comments about the show, please email Discovery Health Channel’s viewer relations department at viewer_relations@....
Marcia Emery, Ph.D.
Intuition: Counseling, Coaching, Speaking
Author of PowerHunch!, The Intuitive Healer and Intuition Workbook
1502 Tenth Street
Berkeley, CA. 94710
510/526-5510 FAX: 510/526-9555
http://www.powerhunch.com/
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Recurring events
Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a monthly DaFuMu (a collective dream of good fortune: http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm) to support peace.
In joining a DaFuMu each month we will be seeking the mandala of peace within the universal mind: learning what it is to be peaceful at a personal level, how to act in a peaceful manner within the world, and accessing and supporting the general mandala of peace available to all people. So, please join in on the 15th of each month. Before sleeping set your intention to dream towards the mandala of peace.
If you feel that your dream has touched upon a symbol that can be used within the mandala of peace we are creating, or on a particular relation of peace, please let us know. Just send your comment, picture or dream to http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm. To join the World Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail to worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .
IASD Online Auction
Each month new, fabulous items are up for bid online on the Auction Board on the IASD web site. To look at all of the bargains and place your bid on these items, go to http://dreamtalk.hypermart.net/bb2005/viewforum.php?f=7 or to http://www.iasdreams.org and follow the links from the home page.
Also – you can do your part in supporting the IASD by donating a book, CD, DVD, a piece of art, some delectable item of your choice! It’s easy to do – just contact Kat Peters-Midland (moderator) at IASDonlineauction@... or or go to http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/asdauction/auction.htm and follow the directions to submit your donation there!
In the next couple of months, you will find these fabulous items up for bid and so much more!
* Women’s Bodies, Women’s Dreams by Patricia Garfield, PhD.
* The Lucid Dreaming Kit PLUS the bonus Eight Hour CD by Bradley Thompson.
* $800 ($100 per quarter) off of the tuition for The Haden Institute Two-year Dream Leadership Training of any NEW STUDENT.
* The Thirteen Dreams Freud Never Had: The New Science by J. Allan Hobson, MD, signed by the author and dedicated to IASD.
* The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings of Dreams in Modern Western Culture. By Kelly Bulkeley, PhD.
Kat Peters-Midland
Director IASD Online Auction
LATE EDITION NEWS
1. Please note that the Call for Papers – IASD 2006 in Bridgewater, MA is now online
http://www.asdreams.org/2006/index.htm
2. Please note that the Dream Institute of Northern California is now posting their events on the IASD bulletin board and they offer a rich selection of dream events open to the public, but also providing needed Continuing Education units for local Bay Area therapists. http://tinyurl.com/9xv5l
The Dream Institute of Northern California
1672 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
1-510-845-1767
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Cover Artist, Brian MacGregor
"Orcastra of Dreams" 48'' x 36''
Copyright 2005.
www.brian-macgregor.com
http://tinyurl.com/a3wqr
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About the Artist
From www.brian-macgregor.com
“As I grew up my family and friends helped support me with a belief in my art and to help me a mass a large amount of supplies so that I could constantly keep creating. When I was very young I first started drawing very detailed realism, from every object around me and everywhere I went, only now and then diving into my unconscious minds ink well.”
"I don't draw cute dogs or paint Elvis on velvet or do any artwork I don't feel I could grow or be challenged from. The only way to be happy and truly successful is to do what you love to do and then WORK, WORK, WORK, and the more you do it the better you get and the more you can create your own market."
After some very hard times, Brian began having extreme insomnia and like Jonah, was in some dark waters for awhile before emerging with dream visions.
“I slept for two days and I had a dream for hours that took seven pages to write and I felt healed.”
Brian has been interested in dreams since childhood, but it was his new connection with dreams that made them the subject of his life’s work.
“I then started using my written dreams as a texture in my work. From there it moved into all of my art and then I started to collect not just my own but many other peoples dreams and from all ages, sexes, races, and classes of society. From this point I have moved into collecting dreams written in other languages instead of just English, on the notion that to truly depict the collective it must be global and universal and include all dreams. “
Now Brian’s dream art supports him, and he is exploring new ways to create and display his work. “Ever since I have graduated from college I continue to do gallery shows, display in other galleries, work on exciting new projects and work, work, work, paint, paint, paint, and dream, dream, dream.”
www.brian-macgregor.com
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Letters to the Editor
Marilyn Barry – More Psychosynthesis
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I have used Psychosynthesis techniques in dreamwork. It's simple: take a dream, re-enter the dream as an imagery exercise, dialogue with the characters in the dream as you would dialogue with subpersonalities. Example: I was working with a young woman suffering from Lupis who had a highly significant dream in which she was attacked by robbers. With her eyes closed, she re-entered the dream and dialogued with the robbers who told her that they were homeless and starving; that's why they tried to rob her in the dream. She created a kingdom in which the robbers were housed and fed.
She worked on this dream in several sessions and realized that the robbers went back to early childhood when she and her sister, who also had Lupis, were neglected by their parents. They had been robbed of their childhood. I don't know whether it's a coincidence that on her next visit to the hospital, they could not find the Lupis. She totally recovered.
Marilyn
www.innerwayonline.com
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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Beverly D'Urso, lucid dreamer extraordinaire, and this year's winner of the IASD Dream Telepathy contest, shares with us her remarkable lucid dream healing experience.
My Lucid Dream Geometric Healing Experience
By Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) D'Urso, Ph.D.
(c) 2005
On Monday, March 7, 2005, I went in for a routine, annual gynecological exam. During the exam, my doctor found that I had an "expanded uterus." He immediately did an ultrasound test and determined that I had: "both a large cyst and a mass that looked like it might be a tumor." He told me to return when I got my period to do another ultrasound test to see if my condition changed.
I decided that I would try to have a lucid dream about my condition. Often, I attempt "direct healing" in my lucid dreams. In this case, I might chant that I want the cyst and mass to disappear and zap my uterus with healing energy which usually comes from my fingertips. However, this time, I wanted to understand more about why the situation occurred after so many years of normal exams. I have had other uterine problems, but not for the last decade.
As a goal for my next lucid dream, I chose to ask some questions. I wanted to know precisely: "What message does this condition want me to know?" and "What can I do about it?" I also felt open to any healing that would occur naturally in my dreams. I practiced repeating these questions to myself during the day, when I first went to bed, and when I awoke in the middle of the night. However, I did not feel very well that week and did not even record my dreams for several nights. After recording all my dreams on Sunday morning March 13th, I finally had some lucid dreams on Monday morning March 14th.
MY DREAMS OF MARCH 14, 2005:
4:37 am
In my dream, I take group classes ranging from easy to advanced work.
5:00 am
In this dream, I hear music, and I discover that my recorder doesn't work.
5:50 am
The dream begins after I worked on some problems with a group of people. I walk to a school, but I get lost. I go past the ocean and down many streets until I get to an old park. Two women stand by a large wooden structure. One has blackish/gray, wiry hair and alternately becomes a man and then a woman.
I mention that I need to ask questions about my condition and realize that I am dreaming.
I ask them," What does my condition mean and what should I do about it?"
They do not give me clear answers, so I decide to ask the "Source" to show me answers on the wall structure in front of us. I ask the two people to look at the wall as well. I say out loud, "What does my condition want me to know and what should I do?"
I immediately see these projected images. The first one shows skeletons similar to the ones we had hanging on Halloween. I think they might represent death. Next, I see a traffic scene. An ambulance and fire truck appear. Finally, an airplane comes smashing down from the sky onto a freeway.
I ask the person next to me what she saw and she responds, "I saw the airplane crash in Chicago." I tell her that I grew up near Chicago and ask her what she thinks it means. She says she feels too tired and that I need to ask her later. I respond that I need to wake up and write all this down.
Next, all three of us then lay down and I begin to touch one of them, which I often do to demonstrate that I still feel lucid. I loosen my clothes as I think about what everything I experienced means. I stare at the woman/man's eyebrows and notice how the details look amazingly the same as they would in waking physical reality.
6:45 am
My nine-year-old son, Adrian, and I find ourselves at a camp-like place. We have dinner and he spills some food or drink on me. I have on a levi skirt and a burnt orange sweater, both of which I would not wear these days in waking physical reality. We look for a bathroom and can only find an odd one.
Standing outside, we notice these huge geometric figures in five different colors hovering and circling over us in the sky. They seem as large as ocean liners. A turquoise colored one comes closest to me. It has the shape of two candy dishes pressed together. They all seemed to shoot a kind of energy on me, which I experience as a healing. I become very relaxed and open to taking in this invisible energy. I would describe it best as a type of heat.
Adrian seems scared, but I tell him not to worry. I explain, "They came to heal me!" Afterwards, we go back to the strange bathroom, which apparently now works.
11:00 am
I find myself walking along the side of a freeway that also looks like the street of my childhood home. The ground feels soft, similar to the material people sometimes put under playground equipment. I look over the edge of the freeway and I see water.
I become lucid and see a man. I lift my skirt and flash him, which I often do as a way to demonstrate confidence that I know I am dreaming. I then call out my questions: "What is my condition trying to tell me and what should I do?" I get no answers, so I decide to find the witches from my childhood dreams, whom I now see as my creative force. I want to see if they can help me. Instead of calling them, I go looking for my childhood home where they often reside.
I notice my former elementary school ahead of me and walk towards it. As I get near, I see my friend, CH, waiting under a bridge. In waking physical reality, I often see her waiting by our children's school. I tell her that, "I am in the process of healing." I also ask her if she knows we are dreaming. She responds: "I didn't know, but I am busy."
I leave her and proceed through a door while riding a type of go-cart. I try to speed up so I can get to the house before I wake up. I recognize the appropriate field on my left and the corner stop sign on my right. I know that I will find the house on my right, just past the alley. However, I discover a small, rundown, white-painted, wood house instead of the brick house I expected. I head over to go inside just as I wake up.
ANALYSIS
In the first dream at 4:37 am, I found myself attending classes that seemed to become more and more advanced. This dream seems similar to the lucid dreams of Viola Petitt Neal, Ph.D. (see below), although I did not remember much about it. In the second dream, at 5:00 am, I heard music, also described by Dr. Neal as healing. Also, my "problem recorder" could represent my "problem uterus."
At 5:50 am, I had a very powerful lucid dream in which I asked the questions I had planned. I received some very detailed images. The images seem to
represent: (1) my fear of a serious condition, (2) a sudden attempt at healing, and (3) a destruction of the unwanted condition. I continue to interpret these images in many ways. Also in this dream, "flashing the man"
may relate to my position when my male doctor recently examined me.
I find the 6:45 am dream the most amazing of all. In this dream, I obviously experienced a very direct healing. Notice that the bathroom, which often represents the area of my bladder and uterus, seemed "odd" at the start of this dream. By the end of the dream, the "bathroom worked."
I shared all these dreams with Ed Kellogg after my doctor visit. He pointed out a very interesting connection between my "colored, geometric healing figures" and similar ones described in a book called: Through the Curtain by Viola Petitt Neal, Ph,D. and Shafica Karaguella, M.D. I had purchased the book some time ago, at Ed's recommendation, but I had not yet read it. To summarize the book: Dr. Neal has lucid dreams where she attends classes that teach her about topics such as the "healing effects of geometric figures and different colors."
At 2:45 pm that same day, I went back to see my doctor. He did another ultrasound test searching for the cyst and the mass, but they did not exist any more. He found my uterus "no longer expanded, but completely normal and healthy."
Since this day, I have felt more relaxed and find that I can clear my mind more easily than before, especially when I visualize the turquoise figure or see images in my life that represent it. I have begun making a model of this figure. The day after the dream, I received two dinner containers that seem almost perfect for my model.
I have also taken much better care of myself physically. I find it easier to exercise more and eat better. The message, which I requested in my dreams, seems to have told me to "do what I can to remain as healthy as possible."
Although these dreams had a powerful effect on me emotionally and physically, I cannot say for certain what part they played objectively in the remarkable disappearance of the cyst and mass that the second ultrasound revealed. Even so, I believe that they played a large part in my healing experience, and I feel very grateful that I had them.
As for my last dream of the night, I recently discovered, in a very unexpected way, that around the time of this dream my one-story, fifty-three-year-old childhood home had been torn apart to add a second story. Most of the second story outside walls consist of what looks like white-wood paneling instead of brick. However, the house currently looks as "pristine and revised" as my uterus!
For additional examples of lucid dream healing experiences see the paper of Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. at:
http://www.asdreams.org/documents/1999_kellogg_lucid-healing.htm
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Shadow Storm
(c) 1999 Linda Lane Magallón
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Our tent was water repellent, but not waterproof. Liquid hit the canvas with the intensity of an ice pick, boring bits of itself through the mesh. Inside, it was raining a fine mist visible by lantern light. Outside, lightning flashed intermittently, followed by drum rolls of thunder, echoing zig-zig against the cliffs of Zion.
Above the background of a roaring Virgin River another voice called to us. I opened the tent zipper to reveal the face of a forest ranger and more lip-read than heard her shouted warning. We and the other tenters on the river loop were camped on a flood plain which could overflow in storms as vigorous as the one we were now experiencing.
My son Victor and I moved our most precious belongings and ourselves to the car, leaving behind the tent and air mattresses on a lower slope. Once inside our car, the torrent only increased. Vic asked if the lightning posed a threat and I assured him that the tall trees and buildings would make more likely lightning rods.
Crack! As soon as I made the statement, a bolt of electricity exploded close by. We both jumped. For an instant, the entire world was white. Then, as the glare subsided, I found my 16 year old son's arms encircled round one of mine.
We relaxed into our seats. The seats could tilt, but none of the bends seemed to match those of my body. I shifted uncomfortably, trying to ignore muscle pains and the weight of bone against metal. I did not know that I finally slept.
I am in a place filled with women, some Black, some White. They are translucent, overlapping each other at the shoulder, with others visible behind and to the side I especially notice one young Black woman who seems at the end of this progression In order to see her, I have to ignore the White woman directly in front and refocus on the Black woman, instead. She has frizzy hair pulled to her left side in a ponytail; her bangs are frizzy, too. Is this (my consistent dream character Willie? I wonder. I begin telepathing, "Willie, Willie!" hoping one of the women will hear and recognize me.
Off to my right, I hear a female voice refer to me. "Time for her to wake up," she says. I turn my head and gaze directly at her. Because the scene is lit by an eerie dark/white light, I can see only that she has mid-length fluffy blonde hair. She is addressing a young blonde man seated to her right.
It was time for me to wake up. The rain had abated and my body was a single large cramp. Next to me, on my right, my dark-haired son was dozing. In the glaze of hypnopompia, I felt that he and I were the dark counterparts of the light-haired young man and woman from my dream.
I pulled on my jacket for a walk to the restroom. On the return, the rain had stopped completely. Clouds parted, revealing the moon in its fullest stage. I should have known, I thought with a surge of irony. Only such a weird night as this would have a full moon. The eerie interplay of light and shadow was the same as had occurred in my dream.
It seemed the further I retreated from civilization and its dichotomies of day and night, the fuzzier became the arbitrary line between dark and light. Only later did I learn that the moon would partially eclipse the sun that day. Once again, my own dreams had reflected the shadow of a global event on the personal level.
The churning river was yet below its bank and my back muscles pleaded with me for respite from strain. I live in a safe universe, I affirmed and headed for the car. Vic and I gathered our sleeping bags and returned to the tent. We slept there peacefully until morning.
(This article first appeared in The Dream Tree News, 3/5 (1999).
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THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Making Connections
Kathy Turner
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In the last few weeks members of the World Dreams Peace Bridge have been reaching out in all directions to support peace.
Ilkin, from Turkey, alerted us to problems in relation to women's rights in the new constitution being drafted for Iraq: as far as I know the new constitution will say "Women have equal rights as far as they are not against religious laws (sheriat)...". Nobody, not NGOs nor any reporters seem to be concerned with this, while it is very important. This law will take away all women rights, which they had even during Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. Sheriat is religious laws which can be interpreted very strictly. It turned Afghanistan into a hell during Taliban. Because of Sheriat women still can't go out or drive alone, or vote, have to wear head covering, can be divorced only when their husbands say "you are divorced" three times, and are treated as second class citizens. Ilkin has reached out to women all over the world, seeking support, for the women of Iraq.
Jeremy (from South Korea) and his daughter Ellie, on their way to a Peace Conference in Europe, visited Kay/Olivia in England for a “perfect day” – ending up being caught up in the immediate aftermath of the attempted bombings of the transport system.
Kotaro, from Japan, is visiting Hiroshima, to mark the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb onto that city. He is carrying our wishes for peace and our acknowledgment of the horror of the bombing and the wonderful resilience of the people.
Victoria and Nick, from Australia, are also planning peace activities to mark the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. They will be directing Peace Train workshops, and there will be a Peace Train display at the Town Hall. Victoria has sent us a great plan from an Australian peace group, to draw Hiroshima Shadows around the city. Would you like to organize something like this in your city? Just visit this website, grab some chalk, and on the evening of the 5th August (the day before the anniversary of the bombing) leave your mark on your city.
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/hiroshimaday.htm
You can even mark this anniversary more quietly by lighting candles and remembering. Be part of the candles around the world: http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/hiroshimaday.htm
OR you can ring out your remembrance. Ask a local church to ring its bells at the time the bombs were dropped: http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/hiroshimaday.htm
While we were planning to remember the past as a way to greater peace, we were also now caught up in the urgent needs of the people of Niger (the second poorest country on earth), who are facing starvation and death as a result of drought and locust plagues.
From Australia, I sent out an urgent appeal for funds to feed the starving children in Niger. The idea for a simple way of raising the money needed (as a result of an aid shortfall of over $10,000,000) came from a dream. It was a simple dream, but what struck me about it was the way it showed my dreaming mind selecting images, not in a linear pattern but in a multidirectional pattern: "I find a sandstone carved book and set it on a little reddish brown rock ledge in a rock pool by the sea. I take a tiny stone out of the rock face and find a grotto. Inside there are a few cone shells in yellows and browns, further back (it is much larger now than I'd thought) I see many of those lovely brownish red long cone shells. I wonder at the little girl collecting so many and wonder too if there is something else that I will find in the grotto once I work out how to enter it.
The pattern of imagery followed a sound pattern (sandstone, sea, shells); a colour pattern (the purple red of sandstone, the brownish red of the sea rock, the brownish red of the cone shells) and a meaning pattern: sandstone, sea, shells. The multi-directionality of dreaming mind’s pattern reminded me of a neuron."
The image of the neuron’s multi-directions stayed with me for a whole week. When I heard of the disaster in Niger, I wondered how to help. The solution was there: in the pattern of the way my dreaming mind makes connections.
I thought: we can easily reach $10,000,000 if one person were to donate a small amount of $10.00, then ask 5 other people to do the same (donate just $10.00 and each to ask another five people to donate) and then each of those were to do the same. If we did this we would reach $10,000,000 really quickly. We would all be connected like neurons lighting up all over the world, each giving a small amount, but using the power of our connections to create an enormous amount of money and preventing a large disaster from happening.
If you’d like to join in this simple pattern of connection and easily prevent children from starving, then please join in. Go to: http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/niger.htm
You will find a copy an email you could use to contact people and also more information.
Baomei gently and mindfully has lit a candle at my window EVERY EVENING for the past four weeks, for “our Iraqi friends and children, for Jeremy, Ellie... and all of us. For the world."
On the World Dreams Peace Bridge we quietly use the power of connection, in waking or dreaming life, to support peace. Our activity is just like Kahlil Gibran’s image: “ A root is a flower that disdains fame” (forwarded by Jean from Art Funkhouser, Switzerland).
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World Dreams Peace Bridge
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
There can never be too many people dreaming of peace.
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Dream: Finding Coins
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE : 20 jul 2005 07:13
=( yesterday was tuesday. i did not get much done during the day. i think i am still recovering from the journey to bainbridge island with my mother. we got home early sunday. the evening was a total waste with the white house commandeering reruns in primetime for just more disappointing political yap so i ran some of my DVDs until about 23:30 when i got to bed. it was not too difficult to get to sleep.
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my father and i are standing on the top of a grassy hill overlooking the air force base. the long concrete runways and rows of landing lights stretch out before us in geometric patterns. occasional aircraft come in for landings or depart in takeoffs. my father is retired from his career with the military, but he still enjoys watching the various airplanes go about their activities.
there is one aircraft flying that is of particular interest. it is a new experimental plane that is just on its test flights. i can only see it in shadow silhouette as it makes slow turns over the airbase.
this time of day, late afternoon, was chosen so the public would not get very good view of the new machine. it is striking in its appearance. its left wing is very truncated and short compared to its right wing which is extended and long, terminating with a heavy wing tank. its sleek fuselage bends down in the front just where the pilot sits. the airplane is large enough to be a bomber with a crew of several inside. i keep seeing glimpses of this machine and i wonder what its designation is.
another odd airplane comes flying just over us coming in for a landing. it is very short with stubby wings, no tail at all that i can see, and its front has a blunt panel that looks like the short wings but it is opposed to the airflow rather than slipping between like the wings.
then i hear a pip pip pipping noise as something small comes along the landing trajectory but it is coming up short of the runway.
indeed, this thing looks like a barrel and it bounces to a stop in the tall weeds just beside our viewing position. once on the ground, some mechanical legs orient itself so it points into the airbase. my father goes over to inspect the device.
"this is a signaling drone." he tells me, standing directly in front of the barrel between it and the airbase below. i wonder that this will interfere with its signal below. "come stand over here." he says to me. "the wavelengths of its signal will pass right through your body." he chuckles thinking about the data it must be passing through him, but i wonder if it is healthy to have energy beamed through your tissues. i do not join him.
"what about this shirt?" he asks me. i can see that he is wearing a long sleeve brown khaki uniform shirt that he had given me. the material is thick, old and starting to fray, but it is still a serviceable garment that looks good on him. "you had it just wadded up in the bottom of your knapsack."
so? what does it matter where i keep it? it is still a good shirt that i like to wear but not too often. "i see that you are wearing some of your old insignia on it." on the collars there are rather large brass chevrons of a staff sergeant. i wonder why he chose those as he was a master sergeant when he left the service many years ago.
i go over to the large white van that my father has driven here today. it has big glass windows so you can see inside, the kind that food vendors take to fairs and festivals to sell sausages to the public. my father never sells anything from it, but he likes to drive it as an extravagance to his friends houses. i have taken it for my own use with various organizations, but he usually complains about us sticking up posters inside to advertise whatever condiments we are selling. so i do not try to borrow it more than absolutely necessary.
i see a soldier come walking up the gravel lane to my father and the barrel signaling device. "you know that is putting out an optical signal." he says to my dad. "they can see through your clothes so i hope you do not mind being seen naked by the crew down there." my father shrugs his shoulders. he obviously does not mind.
back behind us, away from the end of the landing strip, is a gas station with a convenience store. i decide that i will go over to get a snack to eat, but as i come out of the tall grass onto the pavement, i see a coin in the dirt. i pick it up. it is a quarter covered in dirt.
then i see another quarter and a nickel nearby. then a half dollar and several more quarters. as i pick up the coins i try to keep a tally of how much money there is, but i keep finding more and more coins faster than i can add them up. this must be my lucky day as the value keeps adding up.
soon i have exhausted the supply of coins here. i notice a young man at the door of the convenience store looking my way. i try to appear like nothing out of the ordinary as i put the last of the coins into my pockets.
when i get to the gas pumps, i see another fatter coin in the dirt just by the concrete foundation of the pumps. this is a foreign coin, probably brass but it is very heavy with the picture of some spanish looking king on one side. when i brush some dirt away on the ground nearby i find a triangular coin with more foreign writing on it. this three sided coin seems to be made of solid gold.
"what have you got there?" someone asks me. i glance up to see a pretty young japanese woman talking to me. i slip the triangle coin into my pocket before she can get a good look at it.
but now i see three other oval shaped coins. when i pick them up, i see that these are silver. beside them in another smaller triangular coin but this one has the points rounded. "that coin is a maltese realie." the woman says to me. i wonder how much it is worth, but i do not ask.
she comes around behind me as i am finding still more exotic coins in the dirt. she lays her chin over my shoulder in a manner that is too friendly, but this contact feels good so i do not push her away. she just watches as i pick more coins out of the dirt, once in a while she will name a coin that must be particularly rare.
when i do stand up, she backs off a little. perhaps i should offer to share some of the coins with her, but for some reason i do not.
it seems like good fortune has favored me today and it would be bad karma to deny it by giving some of it away. i no longer want to go in the convenience store with my pockets full of lost coins.
as i start back towards my father's van, i put my hands in my pockets and discover that most of the coins, especially the large ones, are gone. i figure that the woman was picking my pockets when she was leaning against me being overly friendly. well, i guess i deserve that for not sharing my good fortune with her. there are only a few quarters still in my pockets.
a man slightly older than the others i have seen comes over to walk beside me. "you should have seen your face. you were greedy." he says to me, and makes some pig noise snorting through his nose.
"i guess you planted those coins there?" i ask him. some things are too good to be true, but i can not see any advantage to him and his confederates for this elaborate exercise.
"we do whatever is necessary to break the will of people. often the greatest pain is gotten only after the greatest pleasure is taken away." i am feeling somewhat threatened as he walks a little closer.
my father is not where i left him, and worse, the white van has been stripped. its tires are gone and the hood in front is up, its engine missing. the interior has been gutted, leaving only an empty shell.
these people must be part of an organized gang of thieves working this area. i hope they do not hurt my dad.
i am sizing up if i can defend myself from this guy when another man comes up. he is considerably more heavy than me, just the muscle needed here. when he takes hold of my shoulders, i shift my weight backwards trying to get under his center of gravity. there is a steep cliff on the hillside behind me and perhaps i can hurl him over the edge. probably i will be dragged along with him, but that seems better than fighting with two of them here.
=( awake at 07:00ish. my bedside clock has not been reset since the hurricane outage ran its battery flat and i do not have another nine volt replacement yet. on the return trip, i did find two pennies.
the first, face down, was just before a late flight that caused us to miss a connection and so we had to layover twelve hours. the second, face up, was before our last flight home, where we found that the hurricane did not do much lasting damage. i always accept any found coin, even though it has been explained to me that face down are unlucky. this trip to seattle was just about family duties, and so it is not odd that my dad would show up in a dream since he was on our minds often during the visit to my sisters house. my father, who died in 1994, did work at wright patterson air force base in ohio.
this scene was similar to the runways there, but without the hillside or gas station. he never owned a white van like this one with its misplaced utility. this dream starts off with details of wondrous technology but shifts into anxiety, greed and entrapment. the turning point seems to be the contention about the old khaki uniform shirt, which i do really have, but it was not given to me by my father. i do not know what moral i should extract from this experience, but it does feel heavy in significance like a fable. the female pickpocket is interesting to me as my relations with women have generally proven to be as brief and misguided. perhaps i am still expecting good fortune to come my way and this is a warning not to get my hopes up. )=
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CHICKEN COOP THINKING
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