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Volume #14  Issue #1
 
January 2007

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 : Electric Dreaming 2007
           Richard Wilkerson
         
 ++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
            Lucid Dreaming and the Afterlife
            Lucy Gillis

++ Column: The View – World Dreams Peace Bridge
           Saddam's Execution Sparks Conversation
           on the Peace Bridge
           Jean Campbell

++ Article: Guide for Dream Group Facilitation
            Earl Koteen

++ Dream:  “Law of Karma”
           Stan Kulikowski II 

++ Column: Free Association: Loosen Your Mind In 2007
           DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD

++ DREAM SECTION: From December Dreams
                    
 
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Welcome to the January 2007 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 seem 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. Please, no 
dreams interpreted here, just discussion of dreaming and 
dreamwork topics. 
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm

Please note the Jan 31st Deadline for early discount 
registration for the 2007 Sonoma IASD International 
Conference (June 28-July3). www.asdreams.org/2007

Dreaming and dreamwork in 2007, what does this mean? I keep 
thinking about a reporter a hundred years from now looking 
back through early Internet archives and finding this 
issue. What is the state of dreaming and dreamwork at this 
point in history? 
The term "dreamwork" now clearly means working with dreams, 
rather than just its original meaning of being worked on by 
dreams (Freud's dream-work). 
 The International Association for the Study of Dreams 
continues to support both hard science research and 
experimental dreamwork. IASD is also extending outreach 
more globally and has officers now representing different 
parts of the globe. Organizations that want affiliation 
with IASD can now join as an organization. There are a half 
dozen or so semi-major schools of dreamwork that are trying 
to raise their status to accredited institutions, and a 
couple of graduate schools now offer advanced certificates 
and education in dreams. The Jungians, the old guard of 
dreamwork as working with dreams, continue to hold their 
own in local chapters supporting psychotherapy in major 
cities, though they haven't gotten into mainstream 
educational institutions with much success in the USA.  
There are a few dream related magazines available and a 
professional, peer reviewed journal dedicated to dreams.
 
 More relevant to Electric Dreams readers and online 
dreaming, there is a wide variety of dreamwork now 
available online. Some early groups, like the DreamWheel 
dreamsharing online groups continue, and the DreamShare 
group is still in operation after nearly a decade, and that 
community continues its mutual support.
 But the largest quantity of online dream sharing occurs 
more spontaneously between individuals and groups that want 
to get together for a short time and exchange their dreams. 
Free e-discussion groups can be created spontaneously, as 
well as cheaper phone connections, both analog and digital, 
text messaging "quickie" dream groups and group cam 
meetings. 
This has created a kind of candy-story effect. The 
intensity of the few half-dozen or so dreamgroups in the 
'90s has been distributed over a wider variety of dream 
sharing venues, including dream videos, internet radio, 
cell phone groups and many other devices. The trend seems 
to be towards the integration of dream sharing into 
everyday life, even if the only thing that people do with 
their dreams is share them and then laugh or say, "isn't 
that interesting?"
 Early experimental dream sharing has become more 
sophisticated as well, as we have seen in the World Dreams 
Peace Bridge, where shared dreams become the community food 
for nurturing international projects and services to 
mankind. 
Conference and discussion venues have become more 
sophisticated as well. IASD has been providing an annual 
online conference on the latest and most fantastic ideas in 
dreaming through the PsiberDreaming Conference, as well as 
contests, art galleries and other activities. 
  Overall, 2007 looks like a very creative year for 
dreamsharing in cyberspace, and I hope as you find or 
create projects online you will share them with Electric 
Dreams readers. 

In this issue:

Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream 
news and events from around the world, online and offline. 
If you have dream news you want to get out, please send 
those to Harry for next month’s publication at ed-
news@alquinte.com

Lucid Dream Exchange editor contributes an article she 
wrote on the views of afterlife gained through lucid 
dreaming, and how you can continue to deepen and explore 
this mystery of all mysteries in your own lucid dreaming. 
Lucy Gillis draws upon both Western and Eastern traditions 
for help in solving this enigma in "Lucid Dreaming and the 
Afterlife." 

One of Electric Dreams earliest members, Earl Koteen, has 
been studying dreamwork and promoting dream groups for 
decades.  Earl returns this month with an outline for group 
leaders interested in developing solid techniques and 
successful groups in "Guide for Dream Group Facilitation."

Stan Kulikowski II is back this month with his unique style 
of dream journaling, the selection this month called “Law 
of Karma”  If you would like to submit dreams for 
publication, please use the dream entry form at

           


Free association was on of the earliest techniques for 
releasing the secret of dreams. DreamRePlay creator, David 
Jenkins, PhD explores the many sides of association and we 
can move past right and wrong thinking to a whole new world 
non-judgmental living.  Be sure to read "Loosen Your Mind 
In 2007."

Cutting of one's left hand, getting felt up, getting hit by 
the football, abandoned without food and water, getting 
puked on - is this the Emergency Room at General Hospital? 
No, it’s the Electric Dreams Dream Section for January 
2007! 
Get your own dream published on Electric Dreams by 
submitting at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm

Janet Garrett archives past issues so you can search out 
specific articles and authors 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

Cover by  Richard Wilkerson
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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/

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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 G L O B A L  D R E A M I N G  N E W S
 
January 2007

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Email all dream news to Harry Bosma at his special ed-
news@alquinte.com address.

Online:
- Dream Video Picks of the Month
- Dreams received for the Planetary Dream 2006
- Lotus Dream website

Physical world:
- IASD News: Radio Show
- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe

Books, movies, research:
- Ashtiany: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
- Szpakowska: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt
- Applications of Lucid Dreaming

Reminders:
- Pregnancy Dreams Study
- Various calenders
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace



* * * ONLINE * * *

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- Dream Video Picks of the Month
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Creating and sharing videos is now easier than ever before. 
What are dreamers putting online?

Three animated nightmares, a Very clever mix of animated 
dreams while dreamer narrates, with information between the 
sequences:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC7QBo2a4hQ

The Red Blanket scence from the Science of Sleep:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foo7kN0uNMI

The Dream Cube. A mysterious cube brings dreams to life:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=foo7kN0uNMI

Have you found other dream videos, or created your own, let 
us know.

Richard Wilkerson 


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- Dreams received for the Planetary Dream 2006
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Hello Dreamers!

The received dreams for the Planetary dream 06 have been 
put on the Oniros site: 15 participants.

See: www.oniros.fr/dreams06.html

Your corrections, commentaries, illustrations and 
interpretations are welcomed.

Thanks to the participants and a happy new year 2007 :-)

Best dreaming and waking states regards,

The webmaster
Roger Ripert 


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- Lotus Dream website
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Jacquie Lewis, Ph.D., a researcher and author on dreams in 
the Chicago area, now has a new news and information site 
about dreams and dreaming. Jacquie is also the E-News 
editor for the International Association for the Study of 
Dreams.

http://lotusdream.org/index.htm 



* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
 
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- IASD News: Radio Show
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IASD is excited to announce "Dream Time," an Internet radio 
program. This new show will focus on IASD's support of 
dream studies and dreamwork and will aired be on Modavox's 
VoiceAmericaT Health & Wellness Channel You can also listen 
through a link from the IASD, DreamScience.org. The show 
will be hosted by IASD Past President and Executive 
Officer, Bob Hoss. Beginning February 14, 2007 and 
broadcasting each Wednesday at 9am Pacific (Noon Eastern), 
the show will air with a rebroadcast 12 hours later.

www.health.voiceamerica.com
www.dreamscience.org

IASD member Layne Dalfen was interviewed in an article 
"Nightmare Turned into Dream Job," which appeared in the 
Montreal's Gazette on December 16, 2006. To read the 
article visit: http://tinyurl.com/y5slja

The publishers of The Dream Book: A Young Person's Guide to 
Understanding Dreams, by Patricia Garfield, Ph.D. Co-
founder and President (1998-9) of IASD, are printing a 
second edition. The book also previously won the 2002 
Parent's Guide to Children's Media Award.

The IASD website: www.asdreams.org 

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- New Mexico: Victoria Rabinowe
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January 16, 2007 THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (Martin Luther King)
January 23, 2007 IN THE BEGINNING: CREATION MYTH (New Year)
January 30, 2007 THE SHADOW (Groundhog Day)
February 6, 2007 THE TREE OF LIFE: AXIS MUNDI (Arbor Day / 
Tu B’shevat)

Visit the website: http://victoriadreams.com

Victoria Rabinowe
Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe
505 988-1086
victoria@victoriadreams.com



* * * BOOKS, MOVIES, RESEARCH * * *

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- Ashtiany: The Interpretation of Dreams in Islamic Lands
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Dreaming Across Boundaries: The Interpretation of Dreams in 
Islamic Lands
by Serpil Bagci, Olga M. Davidson, Yehoshua Frenkel, 
Rotraud E. Hansberger, Hagar Kahana-Smilansky, Jonathan G. 
Katz, Leah Kinberg, John C. Lamoreaux, Mohammad J. 
Mahallati, Eric Ormsby, Sholeh A. Quinn, Khalid Sindawi, 
Mohsen Ashtiany (Editor)

Descriptions of dreams abound in the literatures of the 
Near East and North Africa. The Prophet Muhammad endowed 
them with a theological dimension, saying that after him 
"true dreams" would be the only channel for prophecy. 
Dreams were often used to support conflicting theological 
and political arguments, and the local chronicles contain 
many accounts of royal dreams justifying the advent of new 
dynasties.

This volume explores the context of these theological 
speculations and political aspirations through the medium 
of dreams to present fascinating insights into the social 
history of the pre-modern Islamic world in all its cultural 
diversity. Wider cultural exchanges are discussed through 
concrete examples such as the Arabic version of the 
Aristotelian treatise De divinatione per somnum. Some of 
the current scholarly assumptions about dreams being merely 
stylized expressions of social conventions are challenged 
by personal reports that express individual personalities, 
self-awareness, and spiritual development.

This is the first volume of the Ilex Series on Themes and 
Traditions. The series explores cross-cultural constructs 
without losing sight of the rich texture of local 
variations of traditions or beliefs.

www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/ASHDRE.html


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- Szpakowska: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt
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Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in 
Ancient Egypt
by Kasia Szpakowska

Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in 
ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made 
clear. In this volume eminent international Egyptologists 
come together to explore such divination across a wide 
period.

Table of contents:

- The Social Context of Magic in the 3rd Millennium & 
Middle Kingdom (John Baines);
- The End is Near (Leonard Lesko);
- Corn Mummies: "Amulets of Life" (Maria Costanza 
Centrone);
- The Spitting Goddess and the Stoney Eye: Divinity and 
Flint in Pharaonic Egypt (Carolyn Graves-Brown);
- Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Egyptian Narrative 
Literature (Alan B Lloyd);
- Nocturnal Ciphers in the Ancient Near East: Egyptian 
Dream Exegesis from a Comparative Perspective (Scott 
Noegel);
- In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice (Daniel Ogden);
- Sinuhe's Dream (Richard B Parkinson);
- A black cat from right, and a scarab on your head: New 
sources for Ancient Egyptian Divination (Joachim Quack);
- The Dreams of the Twins of St. Petersburg (John Ray);
- 'and each staff transformed into a snake' The Serpent 
Wand in Egyptian Magic (Robert K Ritner);
- A Lost Dream Episode (Anthony J Spalinger);
- Introduction: Tomorrow is Yesterday (Kasia Szpakowska);
- Entangled or Connected: The power of knots and knotting 
in Ancient Egypt (Willemina Wendrich).

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/60945?/Location/O
xbow


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- Applications of Lucid Dreaming
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Daniel Erlacher requests your help with an online survey on 
applications of lucid dreaming. The survey comes in three 
languages: German, English, and Dutch. Look for the 
language links at the top of the page.

http://experiment.klartraum.de



* * * REMINDERS * * *


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- Pregnancy Dreams Study
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You can help dream research gain a better understanding of 
the amazing realm of dreams through participation in a 
short study on dreams during pregnancy!

The search is on for any woman who is pregnant, or man who 
is expecting a child and is willing to offer a written 
account of a dream that they have had during that time. The 
only participation required for the study is a signed 
consent form and the dream write up. All info will be 
entirely confidential, and the dreams will only be 
identified as from a man or a woman, age, and trimester. 
Both consent form and dream write up can be sent over email 
so the process is quick and easy. If you have any 
questions, or if you or somebody you know may be interested 
in participating please email.

Marena Koukis
dreaming@sonic.net


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- Various calenders
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Nicole Gratton (Canada):
http://www.nicole-gratton.com/calendrier_01.htm

Robert Moss (USA):
http://mossdreams.com/xcalendar.htm

Jeremy Taylor (California):
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html


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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on 
dreams and dreamwork. Now in retirement age Strephon gives 
his podcasts.

http://strephonsays.com


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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, 
is holding a monthly DaFuMu - a collective dream of good 
fortune - to support peace.

For more information go 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 .

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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucid Dreaming and the Afterlife
(c) Lucy Gillis 2006

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"If we cannot remain present during sleep, if we lose 
ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware 
when death comes?. . . Look to your experience in dreams to 
know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of 
sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake."   
Tenzin Yangal Rinpoche


What happens when we die? Where do we go? Do we go 
anywhere? What will it be like? If my body is dead, how 
will I be able to see or hear? Will I be able to see or 
hear?

It was questions like these that occupied the mind of an 
ancient physician, over 1500 years ago. He found his 
answers, not in his religion, not in the science of his 
time, but in a more intimate and immediate way. He received 
his answer in a dream - a lucid dream. In fact, this 
particular dream is the first written report of a lucid 
dream in recorded history. The dream was found within the 
letters of St. Augustine, a Christian philosopher and 
priest.
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In 415 A.D. St. Augustine wrote a letter to a priest by the 
name of Evodius, in which he described the dream 
experiences of Gennadius, a physician from Carthage. 
Gennadius, disturbed by doubts as to whether there was life 
after physical death, had two dreams. In the first he was 
visited by a youth "of remarkable appearance and commanding 
presence" who demanded that he follow him. Gennadius did so 
and was led to a city where he could hear singing "so 
exquisitely sweet" and unlike anything he had ever heard 
before. He asked his guide what the music was, and was 
told, "it is the hymn of the blessed and the holy." At this 
point Gennadius woke, believing the experience to be 
nothing more than just a dream.

However, the next night, as he dreamed again, his young 
guide of the previous night returned and asked Gennadius if 
he recognized him. Gennadius replied "Certainly!" Then the 
youth asked him where they had met, but Gennadius could not 
remember, though he did correctly recall and describe the 
event of their meeting and what had occurred.

The young guide then asked Gennadius if the events he just 
described took place in sleep or in wakefulness.  Gennadius 
replied, "In sleep," to which the youth responded with "You 
remember it well; it is true that you saw these things in 
sleep, but I would have you know that even now you are 
seeing in sleep." The youth continued, "Where is your body 
now?" Gennadius answered "in my bed." (Gennadius was then 
lucid; aware he was dreaming, while his body slept in his 
bed.)

The youth pressed on; "Do you know that the eyes in this 
body of yours are now bound and closed, and that with these 
eyes you are seeing nothing?" "I know it," answered 
Gennadius. The guide then asked, "What then are the eyes 
with which you see me?" To this, Gennadius could not 
respond, he did not know the answer. The young guide then 
provided him with answers he had been seeking in his waking 
life:

"As while you are asleep and lying on your bed these eyes 
of your body are now unemployed and doing nothing, and yet 
you have eyes with which you behold me, and enjoy this 
vision, so after your death, while your bodily eyes shall 
be wholly inactive, there shall be in you a life by which 
you shall live, and a faculty of perception by which you 
shall still perceive. 
Beware, therefore, after this of harboring doubts as to 
whether the life of man shall continue after death."

According to St. Augustine, "This believer says that by 
this means all doubts as to the matter were removed from 
him." Gennadius had awakened, satisfied with his answer, 
and didn't doubt the existence of life after death again.

Gennadius's "youth of remarkable countenance" or "dream 
guide" is not the only one to compare the dreamstate to the 
afterlife. For thousands of years, Tibetan Buddhists 
practicing "dream yoga" have been instructed in various 
degrees of (what Westerners refer to as) lucid dreaming as 
a means of increasing their awareness on the path to 
enlightenment. Dream Yoga was developed to help train the 
practitioner to achieve enlightenment during sleep so that 
at the time of death, he would be prepared for the death 
bardo's. In the Tibetan language, the word "bardo" refers 
to an interval between two events.  In the case of the 
death bardo's, the intervals are between death and rebirth.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, ("Bardo Thodol") describes 
three bardos that the deceased will encounter after death.  
In these realms of existence the deceased will meet with 
experiences that are the result of his own "inner 
manifestations"; just like dreaming, these manifestations 
are projections originating from his mind.

If he does not recognize them as projections, he can become 
trapped within them, believing them to be reality.  Unable 
to attain enlightenment from this stage, he will pass to 
the bardo of rebirth, to begin the cycle of life and death 
again.

However, if he can recognize the projections as being 
manifestations of his own mind, and can detach from them, 
then he has a better chance of achieving enlightenment, 
after which he will no longer need to be reborn. Here is 
where the practice of lucidity within dream yoga becomes 
important:

"The lucidity experience . . . assists in understanding the 
unreality of phenomena, which otherwise, during dream or 
the death experience, might be overwhelming."
Michael Katz, Editor, Dream Yoga and the Practice of 
Natural Light

With dream lucidity, the practitioner learns to recognize 
that all around him is a dream, an illusion. He then learns 
to detach emotionally from the dream, thereby reducing the 
likelihood of creating more illusory imagery.  
Though lucid dreaming is viewed as a necessary stage of 
development in dream yoga, to the Tibetan Buddhists, 
achieving lucidity in dreams is not the ultimate goal. It 
is merely a step along path to enlightenment, it is not 
enlightenment itself.

Besides the dream state being like the death bardos, dream 
yogis claim that the stages of consciousness experienced 
during the sleep cycle resemble the stages of consciousness 
experienced when dying. Since we sleep and dream every 
night, we have the opportunity to learn to consciously 
observe our sleep cycle and to become more familiar with 
these stages of consciousness. 
According to Rob Nairn, author of Living, Dreaming, Dying:

"We can have a trial run at death every single night when 
we go to sleep.  
We can begin training to fall asleep consciously and to 
dream lucidly.  The process of falling asleep parallels the 
process of dying, while dreams parallel the bardo of 
death."

Of course, you do not necessarily have to be a Buddhist-in-
training, or one awaiting divine intervention, to learn 
about the after-death condition in the dream state.

From 1964 until her death in 1986 author Jane Roberts 
channeled Seth, 
"an energy essence personality no longer focused in 
physical reality" or, one who was "as dead as it gets" (as 
he called himself). It was Seth who coined the now much-
used phrase "You create your own reality." Seth's main 
message is that consciousness creates reality and that 
individually we each create our own personal realities 
based upon our beliefs, thoughts, and emotions.

Seth spoke on numerous other topics as well, including 
extensive information on dreams and death. When asked what 
happens when we die he replied that there is no specific 
answer as to what happens immediately after death, because 
each individual is unique with his or her own personal 
beliefs and expectations, and as our beliefs shape our 
experience of everyday living reality, they will also serve 
to structure our experiences in the after death state as 
well.

Like the Tibetan Buddhists, and Gennadius's dream guide, 
Seth also maintains that the dreamstate is similar to the 
state of existence the deceased will encounter after death. 
He too, suggests that getting familiar with your own dreams 
can help prepare you for the immediate after-death 
condition.

"In sleep and dream states you are involved in the same 
dimension of existence in which you will have your after-
death experiences. . . . 
Therefore, the best way to become acquainted with after 
death reality before hand, so to speak, is to explore and 
understand the nature of your own dreaming self."
Seth

According to Seth, in the after-death state there is an 
almost infinite number of things you can do. You can visit 
with already deceased friends and relatives, go into the 
past, travel what seems to be great distances in an 
instant, review your former life, review past lives, plan 
your next life, move on to other dimensions of reality, and 
much more. He insists there are always guides to help you 
out. No one is alone, but if you strongly do not believe in 
an afterlife, or in helpful guidance awaiting you there, it 
may take some time before you become aware of your 
condition or aware of any helpers to assist you. But you 
will eventually become aware.

Texts on Tibetan Buddhism, dream yoga, and the Seth books 
go into much deeper explanations and descriptions of the 
after death state. This article merely hints at a portion 
of the greater tapestry, only to point out the common 
thread - lucid dreaming.

If you want to know what your after death condition may be 
like, look to your dreams. If you want to see in "quick 
time" how your beliefs and expectations create reality, 
examine your lucid dreams and watch as your thoughts and 
beliefs (both conscious and unconscious) manifest in 
imagery and circumstance all around you. When lucid, 
perform experiments, ask questions of your dreams, do all 
you can in order to become more consciously familiar with 
operating in non-physical realities. Don't wait for science 
or religion to hand you "answers." Explore, dive into your 
own dreaming consciousness and see what discoveries await 
you there.

Is there life after death?

I'll leave that question to you, the reader, with these 
words from St. 
Augustine:

"Nevertheless, while it is free to every one to believe or 
disbelieve these statements, every man has his own 
consciousness at hand as a teacher by whose help he may 
apply himself to this most profound question."



References:

Letter 159 (A.D. 415)
St. Augustine
www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102159.htm

Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light Chogyal 
Namkhai Norbu, Edited by Michael Katz Snow Lions 
Publications, Ithaca, New York, 1992, 2002

Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul Jane Roberts 
Prentice Hall Press, New York, 1972

Living, Dreaming, Dying:
Practical Wisdom from the Tibetan Book of the Dead Rob 
Nairn Shambala Publications, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004

The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York, 1998


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View From the Bridge
Saddam's Execution Sparks Conversation on the Peace Bridge
January 2007
Jean Campbell

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It has often been noted that the World Dreams Peace Bridge, 
comprised as it is of people from all around the globe, 
might be seen as a microcosm of the macrocosm, that how we 
deal with world crises on the Peace Bridge reflects into 
the larger world. At the end of December, faced with the 
execution of Iraq's former President, Saddam Hussein, Peace 
Bridge members talked about the meaning of this event. This 
article represents only a fraction of what was said. The 
end of the year also brought a few dreams, some featuring 
former Peace Bridge member May Tung, which might serve to 
light the way toward peace.

December 30, 2006

Ilkin-Turkey

I woke up with a very bad feeling at just before sunrise. 
Seems like now, we can forget every little hope of peace in 
the area. Every human, who ever he/she is even Saddam was 
under the protection of International Human Rights Laws. 
Now, we can say "goodbye" to them too. It makes me really 
sorry not being able to say "happy new year". No need to 
make any prediction to see it will not be a happy one at 
least for the people of this area. 

I don't even wonder anymore if sometime there will be any 
action to take Bush to international courts for his crimes 
against humanity.

Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq 

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Jody-United States

Dear Ilkin,

I woke up with bad feelings too and I heard the news late 
last night that Saddam was executed. I join you in the 
conviction that execution of a human being, no matter how 
bad he/she is and whatever the crimes, is another crime. 
Unlike you I still hope we can evolve as a species to a new 
common view of humanity and ethics that supports 
International Human Rights Laws and even deeper a common 
commitment to non-violence and compassion. We are not there 
as a whole world, we are not there in many nations, not 
only the US government. But we are there as many people, 
ourselves included, who agree in better principles and try 
to live them and change policies in these more humane and 
just directions.

I have a heavy heavy heart about the future in your part of 
the world too Ilkin. But it is not separate from our part 
of the world really: that’s why I, here in a pleasant 
neighborhood in another country wake up just as you do with 
heavy heart. You are right, it will not be a happy new year 
for most of your part of the world.

And, I want you to know that I had a similar thought about 
Bush: why is he not on trial for crimes against humanity? 
When or could he ever be on trial? I would like him to be 
brought to trial, he and his cohort and to be made 
accountable for all the deaths and suffering that has come 
from his wrong and falsity based decisions. But even he I 
would not want to see executed. 

I fear that the need to take revenge in order to right 
wrongs creeps into all of our hearts. I wish for something 
else: that we evolve together to a common humanity that 
sees this does not break the cycle of violence and 
suffering. Only facing reality directly, calling for 
justice tempered with forgiveness and most of all deep deep 
compassion for the confused, often evil doing acts of our 
species will lead to true transformation.

I want to share with you a quote from an activist Catholic 
Bishop, Oscar Romero, who was assassinated for his speaking 
out against injustice in his country. A friend sent me this 
quote last night and I have been meditating on it since:

"If you need hope, you're courting despair, and if you 
court despair you will stop working. So try to wean 
yourself from this need to have hope. Try to have faith 
instead, to do what you can, and stop worrying about 
whether or not you're effective....Worry about what is 
possible for you to do, which is always greater than you 
imagine." Oscar Romero

I don’t know if I agree about this view of hope or not. I 
do agree about not taking time to worry about being 
effective and I do agree that what is needed is to continue 
to act out of faith in what we know to be true and 
represents our core values. Ilkin, I see you and frankly 
myself and others we know, acting in this way. Your 
beautiful action of helping the several refugees from Iraq 
that you recently wrote about and urging us again to take 
action to do and give whatever we can for aid....these are 
actions that proceed from your core beliefs. There is no 
holding back, no wondering if the outcome will be hopeful 
or not. You just do it. So do I.

Dear friend, this is my New Year’s greeting to you: take 
comfort in knowing you are not alone as one who holds her 
truth and acts from it without attachment to success or 
happiness of outcome. This is the steel in our spines, this 
is the adamantine unbreakable diamond in the Self from 
which new worlds can be built.

My love to you and your family and your part of the world 
from mine.

Jody
 

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Ali-Iraq

Dear Friends...

I feel ashamed of what the pigs had committed early morning 
today...It is the first day of the holy Eid Al ADHA. the 
holy Pilgrims sacrifice to Allah and pray and Muslims all 
over the world celebrate these days....but that is not the 
case for the pigs of the green zone.....as they are just 
pigs and their master ordered them to do it now, 

I would like you to know that all Arab nations and almost 
most Islamic nations condemned the execution that was 
carried out today..

You probably know that many other cases against him is 
there in the tribunal and they want him dead before he 
testify any more information as that will embarrass the 
Black house administration...


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Jean-United States

Dear Ali and dear Ilkin,

I hardly know how to reply to the messages you have sent, 
or to the travesty of justice that took place last night.

I wondered, as I always do, what I could have done to 
change or prevent this situation. Having been associated 
for a while with the delivery of abuse and torture has 
sensitized me immeasurably to my belief in the power of 
human consciousness. I prayed, of course. I lit a candle. I 
meditated. And I was well aware that a martyr was being 
created.

But I continue to believe that nothing happens in the world 
that I cannot in some way affect or change, and that we are 
all in this thing together.

I want to mention that it hurts to hear my people called 
pigs. That was a bit of a surprise to me, since I have 
called them that myself. And Ilkin, even though this is a 
terrible, dark event, I still believe there is room for 
hope...and room for a blessed New Year and Eid.

Love to all,
Jean


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Ali-Iraq

Dear Ilkin...and all..

Iraqis used to get a bonus or a surprise gift at every holy 
occasion..for example a pardon or release some of the 
political prisoners...etc

Look the difference we experience now....

That happened in the past when governments were real people 
not pigs and when they are loyal to their country not to 
the evil power brought them...I my self and I believe many 
Iraqis and all Arab and Muslims get the message out of that 
execution..

But...I guess they did not calculated the response that 
will be most unexpected..
More hate and disrespect to the pigs at the Black house..

That is a proof that the policy makers do not take into 
consideration our holy days or our feelings and from now on 
I will not buy any American brand and will start a campaign 
to sanction American products as it is simply imported from 
an out law country and governed by jungle law....am I 
right?

American regime only export death and death squads.....and 
the problem is that those fucken liar at the black house 
claim that they try to implement democracy in our nations..
What a big lie...Iraq is a good example for their evil 
plans and products...death, sectarian divisions...no 
security rape..murders....a country governed by death 
squads and the pigs at the green zone support them with 
money and cover..

Thanks Mr. Bush for these Christmas and new year gifts. 
Please condemn his evil acts as I think he has gone too 
far. Now we pray to Allah to take revenge !


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Kathy-Australia

Dear Ali especially:

I am very very sorry for all the devastation to your 
country and very very sorry to hear of Saddam Hussein's 
execution. An execution is barbarous. I agree totally with 
the quote Olivia appended to her note I lit a candle last 
night, and prayed. Richard Dicker of the Human Rights Watch 
best summed up my sentiment:

"The test of a government's commitment to human rights is 
measured by the way it treats its worst offenders."

AND we all know that it is the US who orchestrated this 
pseudo trial and execution.
I wonder if Bush considers that others could see him as 
committing "crimes against humanity"? I wonder if Bush 
could consider that he could be executed - just if the 
power balance was different.

I wonder - I'm so sorry.

Kathy 


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Kotaro-Japan

Dear Ali,

As my Menieres disease getting better I can focus my 
viewpoint (the point where our eyes focus), I would like to 
write some.

First of all, it seems insulting pigs including other 
animals to use as the symbol of wicked people. Pigs never 
prepare to murder, to rape...in short, to begin the war and 
the occupation. Only the Human beings, like me and you, 
have the ability to. And only Human beings wishes revenge 
or have the courage to cut off the chain of this unceasing 
killing each other.

In the second place comes a question what Iraqi people are 
going to do for the peace in Iraq. If there are many 
activities, are they depend on the anger against the U.S.A. 
or western culture? I am not any kind of representative of 
Japanese. I am personally suspicious about the logic of 
super power country, U.S.A. toward other countries. 
Recently I want to shut my ears when I hear the words, 
Justice, Humanity, Glory, God, and so on. These words have 
been disgraced their proper meanings.

Thirdly, the internal incidents might be getting worse and 
worse. The puppetized government in your country does not 
have any wisdom or power to settle down the conflicts, it 
is clear. But other very important problems are not clear. 
How and when U.S. armies should retreat? What or who will 
have the wisdom to settle down internal murders, 
destructions?

Dearest Ali, do you think it might be much better if U.S. 
troops retreat immediately? If so, what will happen in the 
poor The government without the background? Is there any 
solution to build up the government by rigid election by 
all Iraqi people now? How and who will calm down the bloody 
incidents between sects?(I am not saying the both side of 
the sects are attacking each other.)

Honestly speaking, I have no vision of the next year of 
Iraqi people, and am only wishing the real peace will visit 
to the hearts of every people first, not only in Iraq but 
also other countries in the World including the human being 
in the Black house that you call so.

May eternal light will keep shinning in your heart,

Kotaro


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Ilkin-Turkey

Dear Ali; (better to change the topic because I am afraid 
this is what is going to happen)

I know I can only look with an outsider's eyes, I didn't 
lived what you and all your loved ones experienced in that 
hell. But please be calm and logical. There are so many 
questions behind this event which all will see in time. 
Today, I thought that there wasn't any leaders in Iraq's 
history who died with normal health reasons for the last 
century. I wonder if Taliban and other leaders of today are 
aware of this or what they think their future will be. I 
wrote many times; "freedom, democracy cant be imported or 
exported", I can add "cant be bought or sold" too. As it 
wouldn't differ very much I you/ me/ all would use/ buy any 
American products or not...Yes; "Bush is the enemy" but not 
only yours or mine etc but also "his own people".. It is 
not the "American workers/ people" who is the enemy but the 
regime. 

America didn't begin to export death squads today or only 
to Iraq but to all the world beginning from the Vietnam. 
Than I can ask; "Where were you all, all those time?". 
"Where were your minds when they support, fuel Saddam, 
Pinochet, Suharto and all others with all kinds of arms?". 
"Where were you thinking Saddam get the chemical weapons he 
used at Halepce; from you, me or US?". "Iraqis where were 
your minds when the invasion begun?". "Muslims where were 
your minds when you were serving US as the armies against 
than USSR around so famous Green Crescedent?". "What are 
you doing Iranians?".. I can ask so many questions...

If we didn't get any lessons from the history, put it aside 
and look today and future. Not only Iraq but all the area 
is turning to "fields of revenge". That is the most 
dangerous thing and what they want to put in our minds. It 
is hard to explain our friends from other areas why/ how 
this execution can have such an effect, why it is so 
belittling over the people. Many of them may not understand 
what the role "honor" plays in the lives and understanding, 
what "vendetta/ feud" can create in the lives of the Middle 
Eastern people. But it is sure the "regimes and their 
puppets" know it very well. There is not only religious 
divisions but also divisions in religions, there is not 
only countries, nations but also tribes, ethnicities and so 
many more I am not able to tell in this little mail...

No my friend; we shouldn't pray Allah for "revenge" but for 
mind, logic and knowledge & power to use them. To stand 
against any outsider and build our "own" freedoms and 
democracies. Prevent them to create "fields of revenges" 
they wanted on these lands. Real people of America also 
aware of this and not enemies. 

I still want to wish "happy new year" at least to the 
children, to the young ones not to live all these in their 
future...


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Jeremy-South Korea

What if we were faced with a clear hypothetical question? 
If this man (Sadaam, Bush or another) lived, another 
million people, children and women, mostly, would die, and 
if he died that million could live, would you still oppose 
the execution? 

What if a malaria mosquito was about to bite my child, and 
go on to bite all the members of my family and community, 
would I kill it? Of course.

One would think I would naturally follow the crowd on the 
Peace Train. But here my mind is not made up.


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Ali-Iraq

Dear Jodie and other friends..

I do appreciate your standpoint..I know well it is not the 
sum of contribution offered, however small, or may be just 
symbolic, but it is the will, the intentions and the 
sincere feelings that every one on the bridge share with 
us, and it is really heart to heart encounters.

However...I always think that it is my duty to convey 
whatever necessary to you all to make you imagine in a 
better way ,the magnitude of damage and the depth of human 
suffering .....
 


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And then the dreams

Valley-Dallas

I wanted to wish you a wonderful holiday and new year and 
let you in on the dreams I was gifted from May on 
Christmas. On a whim, I decided to fly to San Francisco to 
visit my brother for Christmas. The night before my 
departure I had this short, sweet dream:

May Tung appears in my dream and she has prepared a feast 
of Chinese Dim Sum in my honor. 

On Christmas Eve I arrived in San Fran and that night I 
dreamt of her again, but this time it was a very complex 
dream and difficult to put into words. I was being shown 
some kind of grid or configuration of shapes that were 
representing some form of predestination. Something that 
was set in time and space but had not yet happened in 
waking life. 

I don't know what the specifics were about this 
predestination, or if she was just showing me how it works 
but it felt a very enlightening experience. 

I felt her presence all the while there in her home town, 
and I was surprised she chose to visit me in my dreams to 
welcome me with such honor and open arms. Such a jewel she 
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Jody-Cincinnati

Here is the dream about which I’ve been musing deeply:

My Solstice dream from December 22, 2006:

I see three birds, three doves, very beautiful. They are 
very unique doves, each of these three doves is of black 
and white coloration and more strange, each dove has a 
small pouch at its breast in which it carries a baby bird. 
Like marsupial doves!

There is a network or grid-like curtain over the whole area 
where these birds are, a cage or aviary, and yet there is 
no visible sign of confinement. On the net there is a 
repeating motif or pattern, which is clear in the dream but 
I can’t quite remember on waking. Nearby stands a man named 
Ron M. who is the Director of Regional Planning for our 
county in Ohio. His presence cues me to think of a network 
wide planning effort. Then it occurs to me that these are 
the black and white doves of peace and the network and 
planning is for a unified peace planning effort, one that 
would carry on with the next generation, baby birds, which 
are carried outwardly, at the breast as the young develop, 
just near the heart, as an infant or a baby kangaroo might 
be carried in a front pack to look out on the world. End of 
Dream

On waking I reflect that the black and white seem like the 
union of opposites, good and evil, light and dark as one. 
And that peacemaking is just that: no exclusion of the 
dark, rather a union that creates a generative third new 
possibility. And, the three doves of peace might refer to 
three great spiritual traditions struggling with one 
another: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But in the dream 
they are together, not at odds, rather held in a common 
space with an overall network or pattern which defines 
their abode and contains them. To the planning part of the 
dream I connect a waking life experience and recent 
invitation from two Jewish women friends of mine who have 
been very involved in interfaith dialogue and have been 
approached by NCCJ (National Conference of Christians and 
Jews) which has now become an organization for interfaith 
dialogue called Bridges. (yes Bridges!) The invitation was 
to become involved in visioning a World Peace Conference in 
Cincinnati OH in 2007. Yes, we can dream of it! And my 
dream feels like direction to me to explore this 
possibility with these women and others of the three 
religious traditions mentioned and others who are quite 
serious about such an effort.

I share this with you at this end of the year as my gift 
and connection to all of us who are living BRIDGES of 
peace, peace which is a journey, a space that seems to be 
an impossible dream, and yet is vividly real to all of us 
and others we touch.

Carrying the baby bird of peace like at infant at the 
heart,

Jody


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Del-Sydney

Anyhow: I got myself involved in the planetary dreaming on 
Dec 22, and I would like to share the most prominent gift I 
received from it, which will hopefully bring some light for 
others too. Almost every detail escaped me, but this one 
thing stood out: I was shown/informed that each one of us 
is like the hexagon in a beehive, in the way we are all 
connected to make up the whole. This impacts me so much, 
because it is a beautiful picture of interconnectedness and 
how integral each of us are to the whole. I think this 
picture speaks volumes!

May the new year bring multitudes of new blessings for you 
all! And more emails from me, yahoo!

Joy-California


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A sequel to Jody's dream and Kathy's comments thereon?

I dreamed my sister and I drew pencil drawings of our 
dreams both on one page, linked at their upper inner 
corners by curving shapes that almost touched. "It's a 
boat," she said. "It's the moon," I said - "but it's also a 
boat." Then I narrated in a voice so charged with dramatic 
energy it woke me:

"The full moon comes riding over the land and touches the 
sun. Guan Yin, Kundun and Siefai meet!"

The bit about the boat and the moon relate to something 
personal but could also relate to the larger story, the 
serial group dream here. I know Guan Yin is a Mandarin 
Chinese name for the Goddess of Compassion and Kundun is a 
title for the Dalai Lama translated as "Presence." I don't 
know what Siefai is - that's my attempt at a phonetic 
spelling - my first impression on waking was of a reference 
to something regarding Kaballah (Jewish mysticism) of which 
I've read very little but had occasion to think of 
yesterday - "sefer" the Hebrew for book; "sefirot" in the 
plural or "sefirah" singular, a term that is intentionally 
obscure according to the book I have here but relating to 
the emanations of God and the central symbolism of 
Kaballah. Any other clues, anyone?

As the full moon rises when the sun is setting, if it rides 
over the land to touch the sun, then East meets West -
imagine that!

Joy
  

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Guide for Dream Group Facilitation
Earl Koteen

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Editor: The following is an outline for group leaders 
interested in the process of dreamwork. This outline is a 
summary or many years of experience that Earl Koteen has 
had in a variety of settings.


Agenda

Check-in:  Name, mood +/o what’s most prominent, dream 
title; want/need/weed to share (Need expressed importance 
and urgency, want a preference to share, and “weed” is 
between the two.  We use recency and frequency of sharing 
as guides for tiebreaking.

Opening Centering Exercise:  Some mind, body, and sensory 
awareness/relaxation.  Can include a couple of deep 
breaths, body scan, attention to surrounding sounds and 
sensations, etc.

Identification and Sequencing of Sharers:  Review 
wants/needs/weeds, identify who will share (normally 2 on 
weeknights; 3 on weekends) and in what sequence

Sharing Dreams and Break:  Normally about 1 hours per dream 
and one 10 minute break.  After about 45-50 minutes into 
dream work, ask 1st question to the group (Any new 
perspectives on the dream?) and then 2nd question to the 
dreamer (Anything you wish us to look further at or 
anything you wish to do or say?)

Closing Centering Exercise:  Relax and return to body.  
Express gratitude for sharing of the dreams and for 
contributions by group members.

Facilitation

In addition to what’s mentioned above:

Set method for sharing the dream:  It’s dreamer’s choice, 
though the dreamer may and often does want input from the 
group on how s/he will share the dream.  If the dream is 
typed, sometimes the group wants to read it before the 
dream speaks it.  If the dream isn’t typed, then there are 
normally two readings.  Encourage the dreamer to read 
slowly, but w/o interruption the first time.  During the 
2nd reading, group members may interrupt at any time to ask 
the dreamer to pause or to repeat.

Ignore the Speaker!!!:  OK, I am exaggerating for emphasis.  
I don’t really mean to ignore whoever is speaking.  
However, just as the use of “if it were my dream” or “in my 
dream” seems counterintuitive at first, one of the biggest 
challenges of facilitation is recognizing that your primary 
responsibility is not to the speaker but to the group.  
Notice the speaker, but do not give the speaker rapt 
attention.  Instead, regularly scan the room to see whom 
else wishes to speak.  Surprising, the speaker will know 
you are attending to her/him even though you are not always 
looking directly at her/him.

“Air” Traffic Controller:  This is often the most important 
part of facilitation.  While one person is speaking, you 
can acknowledge a raised hand or other indication of a 
desire to speak by eye contact and a nod.  If you notice 
that more than one person wishes to speak, announce a 
sequence as soon as the current speaker stops.

Often when one speaker stops, more than one person starts 
to speak, even though not all of these individuals have 
previously indicated their desire to be put in the 
speakers’ queue.  Most of the time, the potential speakers 
quickly resolve sequence among themselves.  However, if 
they can’t easily resolve it among themselves, please 
interrupt if necessary to announce a sequence of speakers.  
To make your interruption more courteous, you can make 
statements like:  “X has had her hand up for a while now,” 
or “Y hasn’t had a chance yet to comment on this dream.”  
However, usually you will have no problem so long as you 
set a clear sequence.  When there are more than 2 people 
who wish to speak, it’s often easiest to just sequence them 
from right to left or vice versa depending on seating 
arrangement.

Another responsibility is enforcing the sequence.  Once 
you’ve said that Y will be the second speaker after X, 
tactfully interrupt Z if he tries to jump in.

A third responsibility, even when you haven’t announced a 
sequence, is to see that those who have been trying to 
speak get the opportunity.  Comments like, “X has been 
trying to make an observation,” usually do the trick.

Please exercise your best judgment in making your 
interventions.  These are guidelines and not rules and can 
generate strife if imposed too rigidly.  However, they 
generally make for a happier and better functioning group 
when reasonably imposed.  Dream group members tend to less 
impatience and are less likely to overtalk one another when 
they are assured that they will get their “turns” to speak.


Earl Koteen (koteen@sbcglobal.net), a long-time dream 
worker and workshop leader, is completing his studies at 
the Starr King School for the Ministry (Unitarian 
Universalist), Berkeley, California, where he hosts a dream 
group open to the public.

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Law of Karma 
Stan Kulikowski II 

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DATE  :  19 dec 2006  10:36
DREAM :  law of karma

=( yesterday was a monday.  i seemed to be a bit more 
productive than i have been in the last two weeks.  after 
swimming in the afternoon, i took mother to the bank to 
transfer some money into the checkbook for paying our 
bills.  then she suggested we stop for dinner somewhere and 
i took us to a new mexican restaurant that just opened. 
she did not like it once we got there, but i was glad to 
eat out. 
during the evening i entered about four months of lottery 
data into my programs files which took quit a while since 
the florida lottery has changed its web site so getting 
past game data is much harder now than it used to be.  i 
had lost the weekly data entry when the lightning strike 
last august burned out the network router and i had not 
recovered the data for my lottery analysis programs to 
process until now.  i got to bed around 00:30 and went to 
sleep without much difficulty.  )=

the teacher is passing among us, stopping to ask a question 
or two of some of us.  she stops to look at me but does not 
ask anything.  she likes to be called teacher but she does 
not really teach us.  she is more like a spiritual leader 
and sometimes, like now, an examiner.

eddie grout starts to sing a song to fill in the silence.  
he is sitting at the end of the long picnic table where we 
are all sitting. 
he sounds a lot like the well known country singer, hank 
snow, but with a slight eddie grout accent.  i am a little 
surprised how well he can sing.

without much thought, i pick up a straight clay pipe which 
is filled with grass and light it to take a short toke.  
the teacher freezes where she is and looks at me hard, but 
says nothing.  the grass in the pipe is not marijuana but 
actual lawn clippings so there is nothing illegal about me 
smoking it.  i get a small rush from the smoke but nothing 
that lingers very long.

the teacher is done now, but pauses to wait for the end of 
the last verse of eddie's song, then she leaves our tent 
for the next.

"you sing quite well."  i tell eddie.  he looks a little 
embarassed. 
"you sound a lot like hank snow.  didn't he live around 
here?"  eddie does not know so he shrugs.  "i think he 
lived in crestview or somewhere like that.  my father would 
have known where."

every one in our tent gets up now to go outside.


=( i awake here, probably around 10:05 but i do not open my 
eyes to look at the clock.  the dream just continues as if 
it is not done. )=


eddie and i meet a heavy middle age woman.  "have you read 
the book of lois yet?"  she asks us.  eddie says that he 
has, but i have not. 
"the teacher told me that i must lower the cost of myself."  
she tells us.

"ah, that is like the law of karma."  i say.  "the goal of 
life is to lose the self.  lowering your cost is part of 
that."  she seems to understand and goes on ahead.

i think that is good i was smoking just grass and not 
stronger stuff. 
sometimes i will smoke steel wool.  it is not narcotic, but 
microscopic fragments of the steel make up the smoke and 
they shred the linings of your lungs, so it is very harsh.  
usually i smoke it until blood starts to flow out of my 
nostrils and mouth then i have to quit for a while to heal 
up.  if anyone smokes too much steel, 
they can lacerate all their visceral organs.


=( i finally open my eyes.  10:20 on the clock beside my 
bed.  i go over the events in this dream to help keep them 
in mind before i turn on my computer to enter it into the 
dream journal.  i think there may have been more.  this 
content was a little more slippery than my normal dream 
memory which is never very good.  eddie grout was in my 
high school and i saw him at the 40th reunion more than a 
year ago. 
he was a rather shy but slightly  mischievious person, yet 
very well liked by everyone in the class which is a rather 
odd popularity.  i have always thought that the law of 
karma was that every action has a consequence, relating 
physical actions to moral consequences.  i suppose there 
can be more than one law of karma, but i do not actually 
recall any being stated as i have it here.  this process of 
waking up but having the dream continue on in conscious 
thought is something that has happened to me several times 
in the last few months, but i do not think i ever got one 
into the dream journals before.  indeed, i wonder if the 
last part is really a genuine dream or something my mind 
just wants to make up, but there seems to be kind of 
momentum or dream inertia that drives this.  it is not 
really like a lucid process where consciousness happens 
while still asleep because there does not seem to be same 
level of control here. 
indeed, it almost the reverse of lucidity, the subconscious 
needs to continue to deliver its content payload even 
though the dreamer comes awake before the dream is over.  
the part before the awake notice is just like normal 
dreams, and the part after may have a different 
mental status but i can not distinguish much to tell them 
apart.  if lucidity somehow is cheating in dreams because 
the conscious mind asserts control of the content, then 
this may be like the revenge of the subconscious which will 
just not quit and give up to consciousness until it is 
ready.  )=

-- 

                                       
stankuli@etherways.com
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innocent of history,
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unprejudiced but aware,
  ===   rather than that its only trial be performed at the 
mercy of its errors.

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Free Association: Loosen Your Mind In 2007
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A HOLIDAY GIFT 

Last week I asked readers to complete a survey to help me 
improve Dream of the Week. If you've already done so, many, 
many thanks to you. If not, there is still time. Please 
read on. 

Next month will be “Dream of the Week’s” first anniversary. 
I hope you have been enjoying, and benefiting from the 
columns. On my part, it has been rewarding to take one 
small aspect of dream work and commit myself to explaining 
it by Friday noon each week. I find that the exercise -- 
not to mention the deadline -- concentrates my thoughts 
about dream work remarkably well. 

The Perfect Present! 

I have a request for a holiday present from you (your 
choice – Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice or 
other.) I know it's not quite polite to tell people what 
you want, but in this case, perhaps you would make an 
exception: Your gift would be your straightforward feedback 
about “Dream of the Week” –easily accomplished just by 
completing a survey at the link below. 

I am trying to get a sense of what it is that you, the 
reader, most appreciate about Dream of the Week and what 
you wish was included. The survey takes about 10-15 minutes 
to complete. 

I would greatly appreciate your answers. Click here (or 
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And now for the dream topic of the week. 

FREE ASSOCIATION 

Free association is a kind of meditation that loosens up 
your mind, allowing it to wander. All you have to do is 
follow the wanderings. 

If I was to make one recommendation for what to do in your 
new year to aid you in your dream work, I'd suggest that 
you learn or practice free association until it comes 
naturally. It's also a great way to come up with new ideas 
-- a brain massage rather than a brain storm. 

Often, as you will see, the connections that come from 
associating to the dream are the key to making sense of the 
dream. 

Sigmund Freud invented Free Association as a technique. I 
don't use it exactly as a Freudian would but, I think it is 
an essential part of self knowledge. 

The Method 

Essentially the technique is to notice whatever is in your 
head at the moment. 

If I say the word BOOK, you might immediately think of 
READ, FIRESIDE, HARRY POTTER, VACATION IN MEXICO and so on. 
What you need to practice is noticing whatever came first 
to you. It's that simple. But!!! 

In ordinary social conversation, we very naturally censor 
ourselves. The first answer is quite often "wrong" or 
socially inappropriate. 

If I were to say, "Name a movie star who you find 
attractive," you might not wish everyone to know who first 
came to mind. Your mind would then go through a process of 
finding an answer that you wished to present. Many of us 
lose the habit of catching that first answer and come to 
believe in the more acceptable one. 

This process is happening all the time. Your mind searches 
for an answer that is socially appropriate and acceptable. 
BUT, and this is the key, a word or a concept, picture or 
sound popped up in your mind first. Free association is the 
practice of noticing that first one and following it. 

The Difference between Thinking and Associating 

We use the word “think” in two different ways. 

If I asked you how to get from your house to the 
supermarket, you would think through the steps to take and 
then explain the directions. In contrast, as you walk down 
the street on your way to the supermarket, you might think 
about someone you knew in high school. That's the thought 
popped into your mind. You did not actively generate the 
thought. Instead, so to speak, you received it. It's not a 
rational process. 

Free Association and Dreams 

A common technique with dreams is to consider what 
associations you have with the dream. 

I dreamed I saw a purple cloud. 

Ask yourself what do you associate to the purple cloud? 
Purple might remind you of a coat you wore. Or signify 
something royal. You might go off on your associations to 
the word "cloud." What is most useful is to notice what 
first comes to mind rather than what you logically "think" 
the purple cloud means. 


Nicole's Dream 
I dreamed I was in the supermarket. The tomatoes looked 
very ripe but I couldn't decide whether to buy them or not. 

When Nicole thought about tomatoes her mind went to the 
tomato plants her family used to grow when she was a 
teenager. The conversation steered off into the days when 
Nicole herself was a "hot tomato." We came back to the 
dream with Nicole considering whether she was ripe for 
another relationship. 

Practice 

If you are not already adept at free association, try 
practicing. Write down your daydreams. As you wander down 
the street, catch the thoughts that you are "receiving." As 
you wake up, notice the thoughts that are occupying your 
mind. Take your next dream and write down whatever comes to 
mind about each aspect of the dream. 

Special bonus: if you are stuck on a problem, write it down 
and then free associate. You'll wander way off target but 
likely come back to it with a fresh, creative approach that 
would be impossible if you focused on the problem. 

Warning: You should not be surprised if all kinds of 
unacceptable ideas come up: immoral, unethical, angry, or 
other. Stop if it's upsetting. 

Conclusion 

Dreams are irrational. That's what people either love or 
hate about them. You might be flying, your father may be 
wearing a skirt, you might discover that your house has a 
room you never noticed. The logic of dreams is much closer 
– and truer – to the meanderings of free association than 
it is to waking life rational thinking. 

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Cutting of one's left hand, getting felt up, getting hit by 
the football, abandoned without food and water, getting 
puked on - is this the Emergency Room at General Hospital? 
No, it’s the Electric Dreams Dream Section for January 
2007! 



dream_title: Hand Cutting

dream_date: 12/1/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: I had a dream that I was cutting wood with a 
chainsaw, but my left hand was broken and I had a cast on.  
While cutting wood, I cut through my cast and cut my left 
hand off.  There was no pain or harsh reaction, but I 
calmly walked into the house and inserted my severed hand 
into an ice bucket.  When I pulled it out later, I found I 
had only cut the tips off my fingers, and I was fine with 
that and carried on as normal, but my cast had been cut off 
and only a small portion was left.


dream_title: me and my boy friend and my best guy friend

dream_date: 12-3-06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: well yesterday me and my boy-friend were 
hanging out and then we started kissing and everything and 
he then started rubbing my crotch and then after he left i 
feel asleep and i had a dream me and my best guy friend c, 
it was his birthday and his mom and i and him were in c's 
car but he had his mom drive he was in the front i was in 
the back  and c held my hand and then started rubbing my 
crotch and after him doing that for like 4 minutes i pulled 
his hand away. so im my cream i cheated my bf and i in real 
live feel bad and i wanted to know if this was a sign of 
something



dream_title: 

dream_date: 12/04/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: i was at school and with half of the people i 
hate where like my best-friends and my real best friend was 
there to soo we where walking down the hall and i stopped 
at this really hot guy "L" and we hugged and he kissed me 
and then he said bye baby i aid i love you and blew a kiss 
then we walked out side and sat down and watched people 
play football then the ball hit me and i had to be escorted 
off the field but the one escorting me off the field was a 
guy named "J" who i have a crush on in real life soo he sat 
me down and we chatted then he left and right about the 
time he left the whole school blew up luckily me and my 
friends where out side but the person who was dead was "J"

dream_date: December 6th, 2006

dreamer_name: KT

dream_text: okay, so i was with a bunch of kids from my 
high school and we had all gone to kansas city for the 
weekend. we went swimming and were having a great time. 
Then me and this guy named S (whom i in real life used to 
have a "thing" with) were together again!! we were at a gas 
station just me and him, when we went inside,  the lady 
told us to leave. we asked her why of course... and she 
said it was coming. we had no clue what she was talking 
about so we walked back out to the car to get in and leave. 
as we were getting in the car, an earth quake started and 
every single thing around us had fallen to the middle of 
the earth. me and s were the only people left in the entire 
world. just me and him standing together on top of the 
world. it was like a tall piece of land standing alone. we 
were left there with no food or water or anything. i woke 
up and was so confused! what could something like this 
mean? 


dream_title: ex

dream_date: 12/7/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: last night i had a dream about the person who i 
really loved. but we broke up when i was 15 and now im 21. 
i never seen the chick that he cheated on me with but she 
was all up in the dream. lt was like we were doing thing 
behind her back. so could this mean that were gong to hook 
up or is it that i miss him or something b/c its been a 
long time since i though of him and seen him. 



dream_title: Tunnel walk

dream_date: 11/2006

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: In the beginning of the dream, I met a man who 
was nice to me, and he were supposed to look after me. Then 
I was in another place and was kidnapped by a large, strong 
man. He dragged me into an old train tunnel. As we walked 
deeper into the tunnel I used my mobile-phone as a walkie-
talkie, and contacted the police several times. Suddenly we 
walked about 30 meters outside, and then the tunnel 
continued. After a little while we had to climb up a small 
stone wall. Up there I told him that if he puked on me, I 
will puke on him back. Then he puked on me, and I tried to 
puke on him, but I couldn't. About 5 seconds later I pushed 
the kidnapper into a box, and closed the box. In front of 
me there was a big gate with bright light on the other side 
of if. I opened the big metal-gate and rushed inside. At 
this point I knew that the cops  were just a few moments 
away. Inside the gate the man in the start of the dream 
stood and looked at me. "I got you now", he said, and he 
was the evil boss, the kidnapper was just working for him. 
Then the dream stopped.

dream_comments: Sorry for the bad language, I'm a 
Norvegian.



dream_title: mates?

dream_date: 7/12/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: i cant remember it all but the main part of the 
dream was spent with my mate and me sat around talking 
generally hanging out the normal things and then holding 
hands? she wont let my hand go and keeps wanting to hold my 
hand even when im trying to pull away? then we walked back 
to my house holding hands and we walked into my kitchen and 
my uncle was fixing something and saw us holding hands and 
i went to let go but she wouldn't let go again....?? sat 
down on sofa listening to music and hugged.  
and then thats where i woke up!!



dream_title: Multiple Me's

dream_date: December 6, 2006
dreamer_name: H2O

dream_text: There are 3 of me in my dream. Two of me are 
arguing over doing the right thing and wanting to do it 
knowing it's wrong. The third 'me' is watching. Nothing 
gets resolved, but the first 2 me's argue with each other 
over getting their own way. Then I wake up.




dream_title: Airplane Crash

dream_date: ?/11/06

dreamer_name: Twylight

dream_text: It was in colour, I always dream in colour.  An 
airplane crashed, it was flying too low near power lines. 
It was during the day, clear blue sky on a deserted road or 
runway.  It was a red plane, not a jumbo a smaller one.  I 
was in a car and as I drove past the wreckage I could see 
the dead people on it.  One main person was the back 
passenger, a man.  He had a moustache and his face was 
swollen and his eyes were like they were popping from his 
head, they were blue, his face was blue.  His head was 
through the window.  There was smoke/cloud and an awful 
smell.  Rescue services wearing yellow, were trying to find 
any survivors.  I woke up feeling such sadness and sick 
from the images.




dream_title: In a row boat with my sister

dream_date: 11/16/06

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: My sister and I are in a row boat, and it 
started to sink so my sister grab on to the green grass 
with her right hand (because she cannot swim) and I was 
sinking with the boat, she yell to me swim you know how and 
I said I can't, so she grab my hair so i would not sink, 
but I was going under, and she held on for dear life. The 
End      


dream_title: 

dream_date: dec,10 2006

dreamer_name: confused

dream_text: hi my im not at liberty to disclose my name at 
this present moment. but i have very confusing dreams . 
some repeatedly over the course of several years. my most 
resent dream although not a repetitious one at present. 
tied in remotely to my present excursions .   
 
it started out as me making my way out of the house one 
late night early morning, sneaking past my grandmothers 
sleeping soul (her actually sleeping) to rendezvous with a 
recent love interest .i live in a pretty rough neighborhood 
but at this time no one is active. so im relatively safe 
but cautious. how ever when i reach the busy street that 
goes by the name puritan that divides me from my love the 
usually deserted street was bustling with civilian activity 
. and me knowing that teens in my area were under a strict 
curfew began to sneak across puritan hoping that the police 
would not catch site of me or men up to no good would not 
slow their vehicles down to pick me up. but before i made 
my way across the road i did some thing very peculiar , i 
stripped down to my underwear and made my way ducking and 
dodging behind shadowed corners  


dream_title: oprah is trippin again

dream_date: 11/29/06

dreamer_name: esoteric

dream_text:           I dreamt it was a sunny day and we 
(me and somebody else)was on a busy street when i heard 
"oprah" on a radio (or maybe just out of the blue cause i 
don't remember a radio being on at the time of the 
dream)and she said (anyone who come on her show talking 
about money or being sexist in anyway would be kicked off 
the show)but at the time of those words i visualized the 
stage setting and i saw people on the stage as if the 
camera was moving from left to right as if i seen the show 
on a television screen and i saw "two little girls" in my 
vision, they were twins on stage but "they had on blue 
dresses " and "sandy blonde hair". one of the girls had a 
shocking facial expression on her face as a result of 
"oprah's" comments. all of a sudden i was in "my room at 
home" and i saw (two spiders/crabs)like insects crawling on 
the walls of the room. 



dream_title: Lots of people

dream_date: 11 december 2006

dreamer_name: anonymous

dream_text: I was upstairs in my top room of my house and 
there were loads of people there. There was a cover and a 
boy under it. I don't know who he was but he reminded me of 
a "N". Then we got and under the covers and had sex. Then I 
went out of the covers and people from school went under 
the covers with him



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