Harvesting Dreams

 “I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.”  

- Emily Bronte 

The time has come for me to harvest a lifetime of dreams. Dreams age like good wine, changing in complexity and depth as I age. They are the elixirs that have healed my inner self and the architects that have remodeled my outer life. I continue to come back to them again and again to marinate in their juices. I share these delicious morsels with you, hoping you will be inspired to turn to your dreams for sustenance.

This series of articles will explore the depth and breadth of intelligence that is available to us in dreams.

In dreams, we have access to vast intelligence and many levels of awareness. When the ego is asleep, dreams open a window to our Soul and to Universal consciousness.

∞ Dreams are like X-rays of what is happening in our bodies, emotions, relationships, and spirits.

∞ Dreams are our psychic internet, accessing information that is in the ether and providing practical solutions that are as yet only imagined and not fully materialized in the world.

∞ Dreams are precognitive, able to foretell major life events, births, and deaths.

∞ Dreams reveal the stories of our ancestors and inspire with wisdom from ancient masters.

∞ Dreams reveal the inherent ecological consciousness within each of us. Nature, animals, and landscapes speak through dreams and call us into deeper relationships.

∞ Dreams reveal the cultural zeitgeist. My dreams for many years have been prescient of current events specifically unfolding now in the United States and throughout the world.

This is not a how-to blog about deciphering your dreams. Nor is it about clinical work with dreams, except for one blog that addresses what clients have taught me about the intuitive and relational nature of dreams.

I am sharing what dreams have taught me and what they can teach you. I trust that in sharing how I work with my dreams using projection, association, automatic writing, collage, Tarotpy, and Embodied Imagination, you will learn different ways to engage with your dreams.

I am no more psychic than you. We all have profound wisdom and intuitive guidance within. Listening to my dreams opened up these channels so that I could hear nature’s call, see the bigger picture of what is happening in society and politics, and access the knowledge of the “ancient ones.” These channels are available to all of us by way of our dreams.

I feel compelled with some urgency to share these collective dreams. We are facing existential crises that characterize, as Richard Clarke said of 9-11, a “failure of imagination.” The rational mind cannot solve these collective challenges. I believe we can turn to our dreams for greater consciousness and imagination to help us navigate a world in upheaval and transformation.

In our culture that denies the power of our dreams, dreamers have become like the people of the forest in Fahrenheit 451: The plot of that novel is that in a world that burns books, people escape to the forest and exchange their personal identities for the books that they have memorized. Each person walks through the forest reciting their particular novel to preserve it until such time when society will again cherish books. Like the people in the forest in Fahrenheit 451, our identities are not separate from the dreams that inspire and shape our lives. I, personally, can no longer make small talk but live and breathe the narratives and images of these dreams. We, dreamers, preserve the dream realm until such time when society reawakens to its reality.

The truth is that we all dream, we are all dreamers. When we come to understand the profound intelligence and power of our dreams, we can transform our lives. As we grow to understand the collective and transcendent nature of dreams, we can transform the world.