Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams To subscribe to Electric Dreams Send from the address you want to subscribe to electric-dreams-request@lists.best.com And put in the body of the e-mail only subscribe your-email To unsubscribe from Electric Dreams Send from the address you want to unsubscribe to electric-dreams-request@lists.best.com And put in the body of the e-mail only: unsubscribe your-email Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z E L E C T R I C D R E A M S Volume 6 Issue #6 JUNE 1999 ISSN# 1089 4284 Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web USA www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z Send Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: Bob Krumhansl Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: For back issues, editors addresses and other access & Staff see ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION at the end of this issue Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z C O N T E N T S ++ Editor's Notes ++ Dream Airing: Notes, letters to the editor Deleuze Dreams On- Mark Crosby & R. Wilkerson ++ Column: Dream Trek: To Honor the Humorous Dream Linda Magallon ++ Column: Using Dreams with the Tarot Jean Campbell ++ Article: SUNEYE, Lucidity & Enlightenment Joe Russa ++ Article :Dreams and Health: A Brief Historical Review Richard Catlett Wilkerson G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S - Peggy Coats NEWS >Myth and Dream Tour to Malta >Dream Music and Art for the New Millenium >Bay Area Dreamworkers Group Schedule >Creating a Dream for Youth on the World Wide Web >Home Study Dream Quest with Henry Reed >Dreams on the Internet (at the ASD) RESEARCH & REQUESTS >Sexual Dreams Survey WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES >Strephon Kaplan-Williams >SpiritQuest CALANDER XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX JUNE 14, FRI deadline for submission FOR Next Electric Dreams vol 6(7) The millennium year Continues - send in dreams XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Editor's Notes +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The liberation of dream sharing continues as dozens of new dream projects come online and a multitude of new approaches appear. As I continually mention here, one of the keys to getting dreams back into our culture is breaking the notion that the dream can't be shared with more than one person. It's too personal, it's too intimate, it's too meaningless, it's too fragmented, I've already shared that with my therapist, lover, dream group. One way to open up our dreams to a wider audience is to share then in a variety of venues. The other is to open up our attitudes on what dreams are and what they are for. In this issue of Electric Dreams, you will get a variety of approaches and I recommend trying them all on for size. Linda Magallon suggests we are way to serious about our dreams and while this leads to some excellent therapy and life changes, it may be repressing some of the delightful aspects of dreaming. Be sure to read "To Honor the Humorous Dream" in the DREAM TREK Column. It may be that all this talk, talk, talk about dreams biases and limits the way we relate to dream imagery. Jean Campbell begins a series of articles exploring the tarot and dreamwork. How might we use imagery to approach the dream in ways that are different than our verbal approaches? Perhaps a journey into lucid dreaming could loosen our notions of what dreams are all about? Joe Russa has developed a technique which he finds allows him to access both lucidity and out of body experiences quite easily. Give it a try and tell me what YOU think of the SUNEYE method. Dreams are used in clinical practice for mental health, but are they also connected with our physical health? I'm offering a brief survey of the history of dreams and health this month and am including some resources for further study. Peggy Coats will be opening the Computer Cafe at the 1999 ASD Conference in Santa Cruz next month and I hope you will all come to do a little California Dreaming. This is the most amazing dream conference you will ever see, a OVER 150 SEPARATE PRESENTATIONS including symposia, workshops, lectures, web events, dream-inspired art exhibits, multimedia events and poster sessions. Study with world famous authors, psychotherapists, artists, educators and renowned experts in the field of Dream Studies. Debate new findings of dream researchers from all over the world. Learn content analysis to conduct your own dream research. http://www.asdreams.org/asd-16/asd16_programidx.htm Peggy also has provided the Electric Dreams community with a new Global Dreaming News. Here you can learn more about the ASD conference as well as other events and programs that are occuring, perhaps in YOUR area! If you know of some dream events NOT in the Dreaming News, be sure to send that to her at pcoats@dreamtree.com Dreams & Comments: Well, we are still behind in getting them processed, sorry. But you can see them in their pristine form online at the dream-flow archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/dream-flow%40lists.best.com/ NEXT MONTH: Special Issue on Dream Cards, with dream Titan, Strephon Kaplan-Williams. If you can experiences with dream cards or would like to write about them or know of sites online, drop us a line rcwilk@dreamgate.com Note that the next issue of Electric Dreams will be out in just 2 weeks! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Dream Airing Notes, letters to the editor Send to rcwilk@dreamgate.com +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Many thanks to low bandwidth for listing electric dreams http://www.disobey.com/low/listings/electric_dreams.htm Be sure to stop by and check this site out, as well as the full collection of other e-zines which they generously archive! _________________________________\/_________________________ Many thanks to Self Growth Magazine for including us on their dream links page. http://www.selfgrowth.com/ _________________________________\/_________________________ Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:38:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Crosby Subject: Deleuze dreams on... No sooner had I read Jacques Derrida's "I'll Have to Wander All Alone", and was also amazed that I too "never felt the slightest 'objection' arise in me ... against any of his [Deleuze's] discourse", than I read just before bed that "Existence and judgment seem to be opposed on five points", one of which is "sleep or intoxication versus the dream" ("To Have Done With Judgment" (DwJ), _Essays Critical and Clinical_, translated by Daniel W Smith & Michael Greco, 134). This kind of judgment seems a little cut and dried... I also see in "L'Abecedaire" (under D as in Desire) that (Charles Stivale interpreting ;) Deleuze says "the philosophy of desire [was] don't go get psychoanalyzed, stop interpreting, go construct and experience/experiment with assemblages, search out the assemblages that suit you", by which he means exploration of 'natural' states, styles of enunciation, and the play of deterritorialization between them. Deleuze is interested in "the unconscious as a machine/factory, not a theater". This seems quite ambiguous: presumably we should play with dream images (as our primary means of accessing the unconscious), which is quite theatrical, rather than cast them into predefined symbols, which is usually the goal of the factory assembly line.. I'm not talking about dream interpretation according to any mythical archetypes or structuralist psychoanalytic symbolism; but rather, paying attention and noticing scenes, characters and situations that reoccur and might provide amusing asides on current waking-life events. This, I think, is what Richard C Wilkerson, in his online "Postmodern Dreaming" essay, calls "post-representational presentation in which meaning is generated in the freeplay of being, becoming and re-becoming". Norbert Wiley's brand new "A Piercean Theory of the Movie Spectator" (posted to Peirce-L on 990420 from a 990413 UC Berkeley lecture) describes "the semiotic self" as "a bi-leveled sign, with a second-order dialogical framework and a flow of first-order signs within. The frame can play ones own stream of consciousness or it can play one from without... On this view the self would not be an entity or substance. It would be a 'field', comprising dialogicality, temporality and signification... the older paradigm of Lacanese Althusserian apparatus theory tends to reduce the self upwardly into language and culture. And the newer paradigm of cognitive science tends to reduce the self downwardly to the biological and physical levels. The pragmatist self is autonomous and unreduced but still dispersed into a field of signification". Deleuze's claim that "The world of judgment establishes itself as in a dream. It is the dream that makes the lots turn (Ezekiel's wheel) and makes the forms pass in procession" (DwJ 129), seems (on first thought) to belong to an older paradigm. Following Carlos Castaneda's 1993 _The Art of Dreaming_ (AoD), normal dreams, which Deleuze dismisses, are "shifts of the assemblage point" of ones reality. The "intoxicated dreamless sleep" that Deleuze cites from Antonin Artaud's and DH Lawrence's Mexican excursions, is what Castaneda would call a more radical "movement of the assemblage point". It is here that dreaming becomes serious... Castaneda makes the attractive claim that "through discipline it is possible to cultivate and perform, in the course of sleep and ordinary dreams, a systematic displacement of the assemblage point" (AoD 19). But he also warns that "the dreaming attention is the key to every movement in the sorcerers' world... that among the multitudes of items in our dreams, there exist real energetic interferences, things that have been put in our dreams extraneously, by an alien force. To be able to find them and follow them is sorcery" (AoD 29). Castaneda also calls them "inorganic beings". They could also be called "phantasms"... Deleuze writes (recounting Lucretius) that "The second genre of phantasms is constituted by simulacra which are particularly subtle and agile ... capable of supplying the animus with visions ... all of the images which correspond to desire or, again and especially, dream images. Not that desire is creative here; rather, it renders the mind attentive and makes it choose the most suitable phantasm from among all the subtle phantasms in which we are immersed. The mind, moreover, isolated from the external world and collected or repressed when the body lies dormant, is open to these phantasms" ("Lucretius and the Simulacrum", _Logic of Sense_ 276). Castaneda also explains that while "Some items are of key importance because they are associated with the spirit. Others are entirely unimportant by reason of being associated with our indulging personality" (AoD 85). Still, "The true goal of dreaming is to perfect the energy body" (AoD 42); and "if we choose to recondition our interpretation system, reality becomes fluid, and the scope of what can be real is enhanced without endangering the integrity of reality" (AoD 97). But, the whole point of deliberate dreaming, encountering the phantasms of recapitulation, is to gather energy and learn to discriminate when we are "dealing with a real world ... 'If they can't *see* the energy of an item, they are in an ordinary dream and not in a real world'. 'What is a real world, don Juan?' 'A world that generates energy; the opposite of a phantom world of projections, where nothing generates energy, like most of our dreams, where nothing has an energetic effect'" (AoD 164). Becoming able to recognize the difference is the practice of intent. Dreaming is, "a journey that uses awareness as an element of the environment ... physical elements are part of our interpretation system, but energetic elements are not" (AoD 185). Castaneda and Carol Tiggs, "dreaming together", are transported by inorganic beings to an alien storage room, confronting their demons of "caginess and distrust". Carol warns Carlos: "Anything we use belonging to this world can only weaken us... The reentry into our world is automatic if we don't let the fog set in" (AoD 195). Don Juan describes the trick intended here: "This breaking and entering amounts to stalking the stalkers. Using awareness as an element of the environment bypasses the influence of the inorganic beings, but it still uses their energy" (AoD 186). At the end of his _Logic of Sense_ appendix on "Klossowski or Bodies-Language", Deleuze explains how "The simulacrum becomes phantasm, intensity becomes intentionality to the extent that it takes as its object another intensity ... the passage from intensity to intentionality, it is the passage from sign to sense... The dissolved self opens up to a series of roles, since it gives rise to an intensity which already comprehends difference in itself ... this is the joyful message. For we are so sure of living again (without resurrection) only because so many beings and things think in us" (LoS 298). And so we come to the end of the line (of flight; of a sorcery lineage): The Death Defier is one who has escaped the inorganic beings' clutches, to be continually immanent as a beckoning woman in the church, able to transcend time, "to move backward and forward on the here-and-now energy of the universe" (AoD 249). "You and I", she said, "are dreaming ourselves in another time. In a time yet to come" (AoD 253); and, disappearing, she cried, "We are dreaming ourselves. Dream your intent of me. Intend me forward!" (AoD 254). Amidst "the fog of the dream" and "the foreboding sensation that the incommensurable was just around the corner", don Juan's voice breaks through: "this is dreaming. You should know by now that its transactions are final" (AoD 260). And Deleuze tells us that "Judgment prevents the emergence of any new mode of existence... Herein, perhaps, lies the secret: to bring into existence and not to judge" (DwJ 135). That is, *to dream* and transform the intensity into intent, rather than *to have a dream* and simply say it indicates something.. - - Mark Crosby ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ REPLY REPLY REPLY REPLY REPLY REPLY REPLY REPLY ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:42:06 -0700 From: "Wilkerson, Richard" Subject: Deleuze dreams on... Hi Mark, I really enjoyed your post. May I reprint this on Electric Dreams? Some notes Mark Says : >>>>>>>>>>>> I'm not talking about dream interpretation according to any mythical archetypes or structuralist psychoanalytic symbolism; but rather, paying attention and noticing scenes, characters and situations that reoccur and might provide amusing asides on current waking-life events. This, I think, is what Richard C Wilkerson, in his online "Postmodern Dreaming" essay, calls "post-representational presentation in which meaning is generated in the freeplay of being, becoming and re-becoming". <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<, Yes, however, I want to be a partial apologist for the archetypalists.... I wanted to add that some Jungians, (C. G. Jung and James Hillman) try to get at much of this you mentioned in their work, though one might not recognize it in the watered down versions for popular culture. Symbols for Jung were not reflections or representations in the sense we are used to talking about them, but dynamic engines of production, producing monstrosties that our individual consciousness' flee from in most situations. True, Jung was steeped in Hegelianism and saw symbols as binary binding forces that held together opposites in an attempt to synthesize more Self. But note, 1. The opposites that were bound together were productions, desiring machines breaking into the flow of the standard-quo, forces that human's see as in-reconcillable, totally not going together ever and in terms of *representations* only interfaced with our consciousness in strange and novel imagery, often found in dreams where the ego is not as easily able to deny them. 2. Archetypes are not Stereotypes. One of the problems when Frye translated Archetypal psychology to literary forms and Joseph Campbell into Mythic literature was the loss of the core of the archetype. Encounters with archetypes are always a defeat for ego. At best, the ego, me, gets radically relativized and minimalized in the grand scheme of forces. At worst, it becomes possessed and identified with the archetype and inflated beyond belief. (at least beyond the belief of others, the I,me,ego blinds does not recognize its own capture for some time). Of course, Jung's "Self" archetype is problematic in that it sits at the center of everything, centering everything, binding everything to itself and projecting out its little warrior, hero ego. James Hillman offers a corrective to this by keeping the Archetypes but removing the Self from the center and setting alongside the other archetypes. Its still does its centering and balancing, but as a equal player with other archetypes. Also, Hillman always using the word archetype as an adjective. Archetypal encounters are not just stereotypical, but tornado like events that create cracks and fissures and sometimes total breakdowns in the flow. Mark Says : >>>>> but rather, paying attention and noticing scenes, characters and situations that reoccur and might provide amusing asides on current waking-life events. >>>>>>>>>> Yes, I would suggest taking this even further. I would suggest that moving in and with dream imagery as you suggest will bring these entitites into waking life, and perhaps begin to deconstruct the boundry between waking and sleeping life where one is real and the other merely a representation of the real. Individuation might be seen as the actualization of the dream figures rather than the ego. Castaneda has a highly conscious-focused relationship with dreaming. When he says "dreaming" I feel I must always translate this to "Castaneda's sub-form of lucid dreaming with neo-shamanistic goals". Characters slip in and out of lucidity, but basically it is lucid dreaming with motive. The inorganics correspond to what Jung refers to as the Animus/Anima archetype, (though they parade around as more) which Jung felt was special in that it was partially full of collective unconscious stuff (things we have never experienced) as well as personal unconscious (things we are but reject) and therefore serves as a guide into the Other. I like Castaneda, but this material has so much trickster in it that it can't really come out and play with other systems. Postmodern dreaming turns fractically rather than practically, twisting out of having a dream and being had by a dream. When I am awake I had the dream, when I am asleep the dream has me. When I am liberated we have one another. - Richard Wilkerson =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= DREAM TREK By Linda Lane Magalln To Honor the Humorous Dream =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= One day my friend and colleague Robert Waggoner read the proceedings of a lucid dreaming panel in a scientific journal. He told me, "I was intrigued by one panelist who said that he had all of his mental functioning in lucid dreams, including imagination and even dreaming." Later that night Robert had this lucid dream: "I'm in a room. It's bright and cheery. For some reason I feel that it's a magician's shop or puppeteer's. There's a desk with a lamp, a chair with cloth thrown about and items on the wall. I realize that I'm lucid and this is a dream and I wonder if I can imagine something that isn't obviously there. As I stand, I imagine a balance beam bar right in front of me, though I can't see it. Then I drape my upper body over the invisible bar until my head is touching the floor and my legs are parallel to the floor. And I grin and laugh. As I'm awakening, I mentally touch up the dream with an extra scene of me seeing myself in an upside down position." When was the last time you had a humorous dream? Isn't that upside-down from our usual way of dreaming? Ah, yes, anxiety and nightmare gets our attention fast. Such dreams are perfect fodder for interpretive and conflict-resolving dreamwork. But what do you do when the dream doesn't have to be diagnosed or healed or sliced and diced? How do we honor a dream of joy? Sometimes I think that dreamworkers haven't a clue. They just don't know what to do when a dream or dream story is humorous. Another close friend and colleague, Bob Trowbridge, once came to a meeting of the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group and related this nonlucid dream: "I'm sitting on the end of a double or queen size bed. A black Scotty dog jumps up on the bed and bites and chews on my hand and wrist. Then he jumps down again. I pat the bed and he jumps up and starts all over again. A woman in the room tells me to watch the dog because another black Scotty dog is passing by outside. "It turns out that there's a long, wide hallway to our right that opens to the sidewalk outside with no door. The other Scotty sees or senses our dog and comes running into the room. The Scotty on the bed jumps down and runs over to the other dog and they sniff at each other's noses. "The woman says to our dog, 'This is your brother Winston, Gennedy.' Our dog looks at her and says, 'Winston Gennedy?' She says, 'No. Your name's Gennedy. His name's Winston.'" Bob then continued, "I told this dream to my friend Steve. I got to the part where the woman goes, "This is your brother Winston, Gennedy." Steve repeated (in a puzzled voice) "Winston Gennedy?" We chuckled over the fact that Steve had heard the two names as if they had been strung together, just like the dog did in the dream. Immediately thereafter, the gung-ho dreamworkers jumped on Bob with their dreamwork methods. They began to ask him questions like "How old are you in the dream?" and "How do you feel in the dream?" You know, doing dreamwork. And Bob replied, "No, no, no, I just wanted to share this dream. I think it's funny." So the serious workaholic mood changed and people started making wisecracks. Like "What a hairy dream!" Or calling it a "shaggy dog story." At this point, the hostess, who had been out of the room, came back in. She heard all the chuckling and laughing and asked, "What's up?" Bob began to tell the dream all over again. He got to the part where the woman is saying "Winston, Gennedy" and the hostess repeated, "Winston Gennedy?" The whole group cracked up again. Finally, from across the room, Kent Smith spoke up. He cleared his throat and said, "Bob, if this were my dream, I'd forget it." I was laughing so hard, I slid off my pillow. Right on, Kent. Sometimes you do have to forget it. You have to forget doing interpretation or making sense and look at things from a fresh point of view. Like upside down and backwards, hanging over a parallel bar. Or flatass on the floor. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ USING THE TAROT WITH DREAMS Jean Campbell +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The fact is that even the thought of writing about using the tarot makes me just a little queasy--not because I have anything against the tarot, but because of the powerful information the cards can unlock. Not long after I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia years ago, I went to a dinner party. After dinner, one of my friends said causally, "Sure. Jean knows how to read the tarot. Maybe she'll do some readings for us." After an unsuccessful attempt to back out gracefully, to say I was just a novice at card reading, I allowed myself to be seated at the table with my old A.E. Waite deck and BAHM! Sure enough, the first couple I read the cards for was in deep trouble. He was having an affair; she didn't know it. Great. I bumbled my way through the rest of the evening, trying not to say what I really saw, and left as soon as possible. The problem with the tarot is that people don't think it will work. And it doesn't, not really. We are the ones who do the work. The tarot, like many other tools, is what is called a method of divination. This is a fancy term for getting in touch with information which we generally may not access. BACKGROUND INFORMATION One of the first English scholars of the twentieth century to study the Tarot was a man by the name of Alfred Edward Waite. As you can see from the story above, I prefer to use the deck Waite created over any of the innumerable other decks which have been created, because Waite was a scholar of religious symbolism, mysticism, and the Kabbalah. The deck he developed along with Pamela Coleman Smith draws on their mutual understanding of Judaeo-Christian symbolism, as well as the more ancient history of these symbols. Because of this, even the most minute detail of the Waite deck (sometimes referred to as The Rider/Waite Tarot) is steeped in symbolism and can be counted on to trigger images and ideas, even for those who know nothing of the tarot. This is not to say that other tarot decks, of which there are many, have no importance, but only that I prefer the Waite deck because each card contains a picture (untrue in some of the older tarots), and because the imagery contained in these pictures is easy for me to access because of my own background. There are several tarot decks of more recent origin than the Waite deck which emphasize different symbols: the feminist tarot; Robin Woods' more fantasy oriented deck, and the occult deck developed by Alestair Crowley, to name a few. Waite claims that the word tarot comes from the Egyptian, in which language Tar equals way or road and Ro means king or royal. For this reason, the tarot is sometimes called the Royal Road. Whether or not this is an accurate statement about the origin of the tarot, we know at the very least that the tarot dates back to the late thirteen hundreds when the painter Charles Gringoneer created some cards for Charles VI, the King of France. It is rumored that the European Gypsies (known also as Gyps or Egyptians) carried the mystical traditions of ancient Egypt in these cards which, with the exception of the twenty two cards called the Major Arcana, ultimately developed into today's playing cards. SOMETHING TO DO WITH DREAMS For the purpose of divination, the tarot is generally laid in what is called a spread. There are a number of these, used for different purposes, the most common of which is known as the Celtic Cross. But for working with dreams, such a spread is not necessary. What I would like to do over the next few months us discuss a variety of ways that the tarot can be used to help us better understand ourselves and our dreams. For this month's exercise, let me suggest something I have used to good effect in dream groups I've conducted. It is something you could try alone, as well, or with a group of friends interested in dreams. This method is very close to what Sigmund Freud labeled free association and works well even for people who have never seen a tarot card in their entire lives. I suggest that the group form a circle on the floor, not for any occult reasons, but simply because it is easier for everyone to reach the cards. Put the cards in the middle of the circle, and let everyone shuffled them, spread them around like you did when you were kids and used to play Go Fish. Then each person draws a card, leaving it face down on the floor. One by one, going around the circle, let people turn over their cards and explore them for personal meaning, looking on the card as if it were a dream. For the Jungians who read this article, let me say that I have seen a great many people, some of whom are entirely unfamiliar with the tarot, exclaim over the synchronicity of the symbols. "Yes, that's the issue I've been dreaming about." "Oh, look at that lion. It looks just like my cat who is sick." Even for people who have some understanding of the traditional meaning of the tarot's symbolism, it is useful to approach this exercise with a new eye, to talk about the feelings engendered by the card rather than to fall back on what someone has said the card means. This could be likened to the difference between interpreting our own dream symbols and using Zolar's Dream Dictionary. Looking at the individual card as a dream, with personal significance, lends itself well to the Rev. Jeremy Taylor's well known exercise, "If This Were My Dream." This exercise allows others to comment about the dream (or card), but only from the perspective of each of us owning our own personal perspectives or perceptions. I once watched two friends, one of whom had drawn The Star, and the other who had drawn The Fool, first remark, independently, how they hated their own card and loved the other- -and then touch deeply on the qualities they saw in one another. This is only one way in which the tarot can be used to work with dreams. There are many more to explore. Also, if you have used a dream technique with the tarot which you would like to share, why not post the message on the message board? Dreams are the realm of imagery and symbols. What better way to pursue their meaning than through a medium which is totally focused on imagery? +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ SUNEYE, Lucidity & Enlightenment bu Joe Russa +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Hello, My name is Joe Russa a.k.a. SUNEYE and am the creator and owner of the SUNEYE website. I would like to take some time to explain the SUNEYE website and how it could help you achieve out-of-body experiences and lucid dreams. I have been researching out-of-body experiences and lucid dreams for twelve years. I tried many techniques to acheive OBEs and LDs with varying results. I soon discover that the only way to be able to induce OBEs and LDs is to understand what they are and what factors make them occur. After intensely studying these factors from different sources, I soon discovered a method which is able to induce OBEs and LDs, quickly and effortlessly. I called the method the SUNEYE Method (my sig. name SUNEYE is a long story that is explained at the site). The method is an offset from Stephen LaBerge's sleep/wake/sleep discovery, the Third Eye Focus technique, and repetitive present tense suggestions. Putting these techniques together creates a powerful method for inducing OBEs and LDs because each technique contains the factors or ingredients necessary for induction. It is like creating a food recipe. Salt alone is not a tasty treat, but mixed into a recipe of different spices creates a gourmet meal. The Stephen LaBerge's sleep/wake/sleep discovery was a big breakthrough in sleep research. Mr. LaBerge discovered that the easiest way for lucid dreams to occur is if your mind is alert but your body is asleep. He went on explaining that if a subject awakens around an hour before his/she regularly wakes up, stay awake for that same amount of time, and then goes back to sleep, lucid dreams was highly probable. I felt that the only drawback to this method was that it was not useful for every situation. Let's say that a subject regularly sleeps 4 hours and we use LaBerge's method, the subject would have to wake up after 3 hours of sleep. The body and mind of the subject would be too tired to make a dream become lucid because not enough sleep was set. Let's take it to the other extreme and the subject sleeps for 9 hours. LaBerge's method will have the subject awaken after 8 hours of sleep. Research shows that an average person will be fully energized and refreshed after 8 hours of sleep. This will make the subject's mind and body too energized for lucidity to take place. Studying this made me realize that there is a certain amount of hours a subject would need to sleep in order for the body to remain tired, while making the mind become alert. The power from the Third Eye Focus technique comes from the ability to make a subject focus on a single thought. There are other focus techniques. If you feel comfortable with a certain focus technique, you could replace it with the Third Eye Focus technique. The reason I chose the Third Eye Focus technique is because of its easyiness to control a stressful mind. When focusing on the third eye, you easily loose awareness of your physical body. All of your trespassing thoughts dissipates and single-minded concentration on a thought increases. The third eye chakra is a powerful focus of the subconscious making the Third Eye Focus technique the easiest technique to make your mind accept your most wanted desires. You will feel a strange pull because you are exerting a whole new range of muscles. If you persevere the headaches that could occur, it will slowly diminish and focusing on a thought becomes extremely easy. The third eye is like a magnet. Once focused upon, all of your mental suggestions becomes sucked in by your subconscious. It feels like a direct doorway to your subconscious. The Yogis deeply believe that once the third eye chakra is opened through focusing, the powers of astral projection and dream control is achieved. The Yogis do not focus on the third eye chakra to achieve OBEs or LDs, though. They focus on that chakra to reach enlightenment. >From my personal experience and the experiences of the subjects that have tried the Third Eye Focus technique in the SUNEYE Method, claims, that they feel an increase of clarity in their thoughts, as if their subconscious mind accepted every suggestions they inputted. When they stopped using it, their OBEs and LDs started to decrease. The suggestions that are needed, and are used in the SUNEYE Method, are suggestions that are short, specific, and in the present tense. The subconscious mind is like a computer. It does not like general questions. If you simply ask a computer for help, the computer will not understand what you need help in and will be ineffective in providing an answer. If you specifically tell a computer what you need help on, the computer will give you the answer you need. During my research, I have found that general suggestions does not provide positive results, if it provides a result at all. When I specifically tell my mind what I want in a short, specific sentence, the results are surprisingly accurate. Even though the SUNEYE Method was successful in helping a lot of people achieve an OBE or LD for their first time on their first try, it is not always successful for everyone. Then again, no technique or method works for every person. That is why I built the SUNEYE site. The SUNEYE site is basically a way in which I will be able to publish my research. Unlike other organizations, that concentrate on one way for inducing OBEs and LDs, I will be researching all avenues to help more people. Some of the projects that I am planning range from using herbs to recording hypnosis script as induction mediums. I will not post something just to fill up space at my site. I will post techniques or methods that have worked for me, and which I believe, will work for the visitors to my site. Once the techniques or methods are posted, the public then gives me their results, whether positive or negative. I am currently using different avenues to help people reach their goal to achieve OBEs or LDs. At the site, I have the 'Testing Room'. That is where I post the researched techniques and methods, and future projects. I also send out reports to different mailing lists and newsgroups. These reports contain my latest findings and advice. I also created several OBE and LD conferences and clubs at Yahoo and Excite. You could join and discuss these topics. Each of them contain real-time chat capabilities. I am planning in making these conferences and clubs a powerful means for beginners to find helpful information by having them discuss OBEs and LDs with experienced people. If you are interested in learning more about the SUNEYE Method or future research, feel free to visit the site at http://fly.to/suneye or email me at suneye@earthlink.net if you want to help me in my future projects and experimentations. I wish everyone the best of luck and hope that I could be of help. Joe Russa (SUNEYE) suneye@earthlink.net http://fly.to/suneye +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Dreams and Health: A Brief Historical Review Richard Catlett Wilkerson +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ o The Ancient Greek Dream Network o The Psycho-Spiritual Dream Revival o Predicting Illness: Prodromal Dreams o Dreams and Health Practices o Conclusion o Recommended Readings o Bibliography & Citations o The myth of the dream god Asklepios o The Association for the Study of Dreams info o Introduction Dreams occur naturally about six times a night and have provided insights into health and wholeness since the beginning of recorded history. Early civilizations found that they had abandoned something essential in the daily routines of city life and dream sanctuaries afforded an opportunity to get back in touch with a source of wholeness that provided comfort and healing. Abandoned out of fear during the Middle Ages in the West, dream sharing and dream interpretation were revived as healing channels in early 20th Century psychotherapy. Eventually these practices made their way out into the mainstream of culture and flourished as popular techniques in self awareness and spiritual growth. Though dreams don't predict the lottery numbers you might want, they do seem to indicate psycho-spiritual trends that give us clues to upcoming problems. Now there is evidence that attention to dreams may reveal upcoming troubles with the body as well as the mind and soul. o The Ancient Greek Dream Network The Dream Temples The Asklepion dream healing centers are all over Greece and were in full operation all over the Aegean sea and coast of Asia Minor by around 400 B.C.E. (Before Current Era) , though Asklepios was believed to have been an 11th Century BCE figure. Even the Romans would later make trips for the healing cures. Apparently anyone (except pregnant mothers) could go be treated. The general procedure was to hang out and relax for awhile and hopefully to have a dream where Asklepios, one of his family or one of his animal familiars would touch you. The most famous animal familiar was the snake, and it is still known today as the healing symbol of doctors, the caduceus. (It is interesting to note that the Caduceus is *one* snake entwined around a staff. Two snakes is Hermes, the messenger of the god's staff. Even many doctors make the mistake of confusing the two.) The most famous of these Asklepion sanctuaries is Epidavros (eh -Pee- Dahv' res) and anyone who visits the site will notice it is strategically located for harmony and relaxation in a comforting little bowl of a valley, as if it were specifically designed as a spa or retreat. Even in the busy city of Athens, the Asklepion sanctuary is significantly tucked away in a little grove on the side of the Acropolis hill. Other methods of cure were used, but it was the dream which really indicated the core of healing. Most modern scholars feel that its probably that the Greeks were becoming so civilized that many were beginning to loose contact with the primitive animal side and having neurotic illnesses. The appearance of the snake or other animal indicated a re-connecting with that part of oneself. Some Jungian scholars have made the case that the snake is the symbol par excellence of the unconscious itself, being so non-human, dangerous, unpredictable, yet necessary. Asklepion centers weren't the only place in Ancient Greece that dreams were institutionalized. To even get in to ask a question to the famous Oracle at Delphi, one had to sleep on the temple steps until having the proper dream. From this evolved the contemporary technique of Dream Incubation, or problem solving with dreams. EXERCISE: a. Either go back through your dreams or begin to note in your dreams when animals show up. If you were to become more like that animal in everyday life, what would you do differently? If you asked that animal what it wanted, what would it say? If you had to make up an ancient dance that would characterize your dream animal, what would the dance be? If you get a chance, actually do this dance for a few minutes. b. If you were to see contact with animals as healing, what wounds do you feel would be addressed by what animals? Would water animals have more to do with emotional wounds and birds with mental wounds? What dangerous animals have appeared in your dreams? What characteristics do they have that could be useful to you? o The Psycho-Spiritual Dream Revival The dream sanctuaries of Askepios that once surrounded the Mediterranean disappeared during the Dark Ages and dream sharing practices suffered and were repressed by the Christian Church. This may seem odd to some as dream sharing was a vital part of the early visions and prophets. The Church Fathers felt that dream interpretation was a pagan practice. One had to be a saint to tell the difference between dreams from the devil and dreams from God. And so, that didn't leave very many people to share dreams. Dream interpretation disappeared from the mainstream culture. Many 19th Century Gentleman researchers explored dreams, but it was Viennese Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud who revived them in his 1900 book The Interpretation of Dreams. His direct followers were not as interested in dreams, but others were. Carl G. Jung and his analytic psychologists developed the most elaborate dream theories and practices. Jung's work deeply influenced the dream movement that flowered in the 1960's and laid the groundwork for bridging the gap between Eastern and Western medicine and healing. From Jung's point of view, (and many others) the Eastern healing path was one of reducing all matter to spirit and then dealing directly with spirit to obtain healing. While Jung saw that Western medicine needed more of this viewpoint, he also felt that there had to be a dance between the everyday mundane material world and ideals and transcendence of the spirit to obtain a state of wholeness. Dreams, he felt, attempted to move in a direction that was opposite to the direction we move in the daytime. By moving in this opposite or compensatory direction, the dream was a natural balancing process, and thus a restorative healing experience. We could assist in this process by cooperating with dream and establishing a dialogue with the unconscious. These ideas and practices mixed with group processes that were being experimented with during the 1960's under the general title of a human potential movement. An prime example of these early dreamwork groups can be seen in the work of Frederick (Frtiz) Perls. In these groups, each part of the dream was seen as a part of the dreamer's psyche and given a voice. For example, the cane that I'm using in my dream is allowed to speak. "Oh how I like being seen as so supportive," I say as the cane. "But I just hate the thought of being used and worn down. Oh, how I wish I could get polished more often." Perls, like Jung, felt the dialogue between the dream and the dreamer unleashed repressed emotional, psychological & somatic patterns that could make us sick, and allow us greater range of creative expression and experience and relatedness to ourselves, others and the world. By the 1980's it was clear that an enormous variety of dreamwork had developed, both inside clinical therapy, outside in grassroots support groups and in spiritual traditions. The Association for the Study of Dreams was formed to begin an exchange of research and ideas between these and many other groups interested in dreams, including cognitive psychologists, anthropologists, sleep researchers and a whole host of groups influenced by dreams such artists, writers, and those interested in personal growth and spiritual development. ASD still hosts international conferences every year and they continue to bring together researchers from a variety of fields o Predicting Illness: Prodromal Dreams. Dreams were used in the ancient dream sanctuaries to heal a variety of illnesses, but sank into disuse in the Dark Ages. Psychoanalysis revived the dream to address psychological and emotional illnesses. Contemporary dreamwork furthers the work of psychology, including the realm of the spiritual and human potential. Can dreams be fully revived to the status of healing the body of illness and wounds as in ancient Greece? Research has confirmed that illnesses can sometimes be found in dreams before the symptoms actually appear. However, the hard science of dream prognosis is new. With the advent of MRI brain scans, this research is beginning to show reproducible results. Vasily Kasatkin, a psychiatrist at the Leningrad Neurosurgical Institute, studied the content of dreams over a forty year period. His finding corroborate the American content analysis studies of Calvin Hall and go further. Calvin Hall found that the recalled surface of dreams tend to reflect the general life condition of the dreamer. When one is ill, there tend to be ill dreams, nightmares, struggle and often violence. Kasatkin's findings further found that these violent dreams often precede an illness. How to avoid running to the family physician every time we have an uncomfortable dream becomes a problem for the dream watcher who scans for illness. Kasatkin has some observations that may help. The first is that these dreams are often longer than regular distress dreams. Patricia Garfield has been a pioneer in this field of prognostic dreaming as well and collected the accounts of thousands of dreamers in her research. Dr. Garfield suggests a simple measure as a way to distinguish regular distress dreams from those we might wish to further explore. If it really hurts, it may indicate a problem. If it is just scary, it may be better taken as symbolic or metaphorical. Garfield suggest using the metaphor to locate the troubled area. If you have objects or other people in a dream that are broken or damaged, an analogy can be made. Thus a broken refrigerator my have something to do with the stomach, or an acquaintance who you think of as a headache may indicate trouble with your head. Note that these metaphors are used in conjunction with real pain being experienced in the dream, not simple the occurrence of a friend or refrigerator in a dream. Kasatkin observed that the part of the body in distress is often portrayed literally, though not necessary happening to oneself. In one case translated by Van de Castle, a doctor saw a patient in a dream being mugged in the street. The patient's kidney was lying detached from the body. It turned out that the doctor himself had a seriously infected kidney. The work of these two researchers has been reflected in many other sample cases reported by other researchers, but has not been fully studied in any kind of laboratory condition. New studies are finding parts of these theories true. Mark Solms investigates the world of brain disorders. For several years he has investigated and compared dream reports with neurological information. Lately, this has included MRI brain scans. Though his conclusions offer little specific advice, they do indicate that general types of dreaming anomalies occur in tandem with specific problems with the brain and the area warrants further research. Health related dreams may be different in men and women. Robert Smith studied about 100 patients at Michigan State Universty College of Human Medicine and looked for "Death Scores" and "Separation Scenes." Death scores had references to graveyards, funerals, wills and physical body failures. Separation had to do with social disruptions i relationship. For men who came in the hospital, it was the death score dreams that indicated a deterioration in health. But for women, it was separation dreams. Just a caution. These studies were done with patients who were all already identified as cardiac problem patients. Just having a death dream or separation dream is no indication in itself of problems. Jung noted, for example, that patients who did die suddenly rarely had dreams about it, as if the dream maker wasn't particularly concerned by such events. Robert Haskell, a cognitive psychologist, offers a viewpoint on dreams & health that may be helpful. He feels that dreams offer us a "cognitive monitoring system". His research into dreams and health include hundreds of studies in psychotherapy as well as somatic medicine. He found that dreams do seem to reflect internal somatic conditions, often predicting them and even more, are a good way to explore how the patient is coping with these conditions. o Dream and Health Practices There are many case histories of people using dreams to find cures. One of the most historically famous being a dream of Alexander the Great, who dreamt of a dragon with a plant in his mouth. He send soldiers out to find the plant, which was located where the dream indicated and it cured Alexander's sick friend, Ptomemaus. Locating healing cures in dreams is usually the providence of Shamans, specially trained individuals who travel in various states of ecstasy to find cures for their community. But modern dreamers often find cures as well. Van de Castle relates a story of a woman who had been on antibiotics after an operation and was suffering from a chronic vaginal yeast infections. Failing traditional treatment, she tried the advice of a friend and took folic acid. She had a dream with two parts, one of moving bowls of acid around her kitchen and another of her kitten gobbling up brown yeast and strawberries. She stopped taking the folic acid and tried the yeast tablets, which produced remarkable results for her. Patricia Garfield has also documented many dreams that have healed people. In one case a woman had suffered for years with severe migraine headaches. In a dream she was taking care of an old woman. The dreamer wanted to leave to take care of her own family, but decided to stay and help the old woman. The old woman finally died. The old woman's husband and son came to visit the dreamer and indicated they would help the woman with her headaches as she had been so kind to the old woman. They laid their hands on the dreamer and when she awoke, she stopped having headaches. This was a condition that had lasted for nearly 40 years and was spontaneously relieved by a dream. It is interesting to note that many of the spontaneous healing dreams involve a person or animal that touches or interacts with the dreamer's body in the dream, much like the ancient Asklepion dream sanctuary practices. However, there is little evidence outside of anecdotes that is available. What does seem clear is that dreams can pick up clues from the body and do so often long before the dreamer is consciously aware of them. o Conclusion While much research is still needed, it seems clear that persistent and painful dreams about the body are worth exploring, if not for their predictive value, then for the opportunity they offer in exploring our own experience of our life condition. Attention to dreams brings a wide variety of benefits, ranging from insight and understanding to healing and wholeness. They are a gift that naturally occurs every night and need only a little attention to be one of our best friends in our journey of heath. o Recommended Readings Achterberg, Jeanne (1985). Imagery in Healing. New York, NY: New Science Library. Garfield, Partricia (1991). The Healing Power of Dreams. New York: Simon & Schuster. Jung, C. G. (1964). _Man and His Symbols_. New York, NY: Doubleday. Taylor, Jeremy (1992). _Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious._ New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc. Van De Castle, R. L. (1994). Our Dreaming Mind. New York: Ballantine Books o Bibliography & Citations Dodd, E. R. (1951). The Greeks and the Irrational .Berkeley, University of California Press. Eliade, Micea (1982/1978 ). A History of Religious Ideas. Vol I-III. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press. Flannagin, Michael (1986). Private communication on Snakes from his Thesis held at the California Institute for Integral Studies. Fontenrose, Joseph (1980/1959). Python, A study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins. Berkeley, CA: Univ of California Press. Graves, Robert (1955). _The Greek Myths_ Vol.s I & II. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books. Garfield, Patricia (1997). The Dream Messenger : How Dreams of the Departed Bring Healing Gifts. New York: Simon & Schuster. Garfield, Partricia (1991). The Healing Power of Dreams. New York: Simon & Schuster. Garfield, Patricia (1974).Creative Dreaming : Plan and Control Your Dreams to Develop Creativity, Overcome Fears, Solve Problems, and Create a Better Self New York: Simon & Schuster. Hall, Calvin S. & Van De Castle, Robert L. (1966). The Content Analysis of Dreams. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts Hall, Calvin & Domhoff, Bill (1963). Aggression in dreams. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 9(4), 259-267 Haskell, Robert E. (1985a). Dreaming, cognition and physical illness. Part I, Journal of Medical Humanities and Bio-Ethics, 6, 46-56. --------. (1985b). Dreaming, cognition and physical illness. Part II, Journal of Medical Humanities and Bio-Ethics, 6, 109-122. Jung, C. G. (1964). _Man and His Symbols_. New York, NY: Doubleday. Kasatkin, V. N. (1967). Teoriya Snovidenii (Theory of Dreams). Lenningrad: Meditsina. Translations reported by Robert Van de Castle in Our Dreaming Mind. Kerenyi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks .Yugoslavia: Thames and Hudson. [see pg 142-145 for Asklepios] Kerenyi, Carl (1959). Asklepios: Archetypal Image of thePhysician's Existence. Ralph Manheim (Trans) New York . NY: Bollingen Foundation/Pantheon Books. Van De Castle, R. L. (1994). Our Dreaming Mind. New York: Ballantine Books. Smith, Robert (1986). Evaluating Dream Functions: Emphasizing the Study of Patients with Organic Disease. In Cognition and Dream research, ed. R. Haskell. Journal of Mind and Behavior 7(2-3), 397-410. Solms, Mark (1997). The Neuropsychology of Dreams: A Clinico- Anatomical Study. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Sanford, John A. (1968). _Dreams: God's Forgotten Language_. New York: Harper and Row. Taylor, Jeremy (1992). _Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious._ New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc. The Myth of Asklepios Apollo, god of healing, light, form and music (but also plagues, distance and other terrors) was having an affair with the nymph Coronis. But the nymph went off gallivanting with another guy. A bird told Apollo this (it was a white bird that Apollo blasted to being the crow bird after hearing about this - Ancient Greeks weren't very kind to their messengers.). Apollo tied her to a stake and burnt her alive. But upon hearing she was pregnant with his child, he ripped the child from her womb and put the child in the care of the Master healer, the centaur Chiron. Chiron lived in a cave half way up a mountain and had an incurable wound from an arrow shot in his foot by Heracles. Learning to deal with this incurable wound, Chiron became a very skilled healer (and hence the term, "wounded healer" as individuals who in trying to heal themselves learn a bundle of healing skills). The child, named Asklepios (Aesculepius in Latin) became a famous healer also and even raised Hippolytus from the dead at the request of Artemis, his lover. This act didn't go over well with the other Olympian gods and Asklepios was blasted by Zeus' lightning bolts. Later he was admitted among the gods for all his good works. (Graves, 1955) The Association for the Study of Dreams: The Association for the Study of Dreams is a non-profit, international, multidisciplinary organization dedicated to the pure and applied investigation of dreams and dreaming. Its purposes are to promote an awareness and appreciation of dreams in both professional and public arenas; to encourage research into the nature, function, and significance of dreaming; to advance the application of the study of dreams; and to provide a forum for the eclectic and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and information. ASD, P.O. Box 1600, Vienna, VA, 22183 Phone: (703)-242-0062 Fax:(703)-242-8888 http://www.asdreams.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S May-June 1999 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< If you have news you'd like to share, contact Peggy Coats, pcoats@dreamtree.com. Visit Global Dreaming News online at http://www.dreamtree.com/News/global.htm. This Month's Features: NEWS >Myth and Dream Tour to Malta >Dream Music and Art for the New Millenium >Bay Area Dreamworkers Group Schedule >Creating a Dream for Youth on the World Wide Web >Home Study Dream Quest with Henry Reed >Dreams on the Internet (at the ASD) RESEARCH & REQUESTS >Sexual Dreams Survey WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES >Strephon Kaplan-Williams >SpiritQuest DREAM CALENDAR for June 1999 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< N E W S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>> Once in a Thousand Years! Myth and Dream Millennium Tour to Malta Dec 28, 1999-Jan 8, 2000 Last Chance - Tour Almost Full! "On the Maltese Island of Gozo we find the oldest freestanding stone monuments on the face of the earth..." Celebrate New Year's 2000 with us on the magical, mystical island of Malta. It sits in the middle of the Mediterranean between North Africa and Sicily and as a consequence of its location has been inhabited by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Normans, Castialians, the Knights of St. John, the French and the British, all of whom have left their mark. On New Year's Eve we will have a gala dinner and participate with the Maltese as they celebrate the moment. If weather and moon allow, we might be able to be at one of the neolithic sites for part of the evening. We will certainly mark the moment with depth and intensity. During our stay on Malta we'll be at one hotel - no packing and repacking . Jeremy and Kathy will offer dreamwork every day, to those who want it and Jeremy will lecture on the mythic sites and how they relate to other famous sites throughout the world. What do the spirals on the Maltese monuments have in common with Newgrange in Ireland? How do Maltese trilithons compare to Stonehenge's? Why do we find snakes and pigs decorating the monuments in Malta and in Greece? Are the Maltese bulls and rams on the monuments linked to those in Egypt and Greece? And why do we find gigantic goddess statues in Malta and no where else? How do these places and images affect our own personal mythology? Sites We'll See .Hal Safliene The prehistoric Hypogeum where the famous "sleeping goddess of Malta" was found (subject to government's decision re tourist visits) .The Temples of Tarxien and Blue Grotto Cruise A beautiful four temple complex with the remains of the 8-9 foot tall Goddess then a lovely cruise to the famous Blue Grotto .Gozo - Calypso's Island of the Odyssey To see the oldest temples in Malta: the temples of Ggantija .Prehistoric Caves of Ghar Dalam and Tas Silg .Hagar Qim and Mjanjdra Temples Set on a beautiful sloping site overlooking the ocean - where the "venus of Malta" was found .Harbor cruise on New Year's Day .Marsaxlokk A lovely fishing village with colorfully painted boats- for shopping and relaxing .National Archaeological Museum in Valletta Where finds from all the sites have been preserved. .Hospital of the Knights of Malta and the Cathedral of St. John If we have time, we will visit these carefully preserved 16th C buildings, which give us insight into the dramatic history of the Knights who "saved Europe" from Turkish invasion in the 16th C. Our Hotel We'll have 9 nights at the lovely Kennedy Novus Hotel in Sliema, set right on the strand opposite the beach. You'll have plenty of time for site seeing, relaxing, dreamworking, journaling and making art. Cost $3500 per person, double occupancy, departure Los Angeles. Includes everything except some meals. Single supplement is $180. Optional Trip insurance is $248. Signing Up_ Trip is nearly full, so if you are interested, call to sign up now: 415.454.2793. Deposit of $600 required to sign up. Final payment will be August 30, 1999 >>>>> Concert and Art Exhibit of The Opposites "Music and Art for the New Millennium." Join Jana Hutcheson, on a spiritual journey while she exhibits art and performs selected pieces from her CD, The Opposites . Music sung and played by Jana, accompanied by Ted Davis on lead guitar. And Dianne Heitman, Trumpet and Keyboard. This work breaks ground into a whole new genre of musical experience that will hopefully grow and grow in years to come. Much of the music now focuses on issues of being an elder woman of the culture. It focuses on female spirituality and a concern for balance, union and healing on all levels. Themes are of the future and of the beginning of time. They draw from mythology, alchemy and spirituality from around the world. BLACK FOREST CAF, September 17th, Friday, 7 p.m. (And possible other Fridays in July and August) 220 Paloma Avenue, Pacifica, California 650-355-2730 www.jps.net/opposite >>>>>Bay Area Dreamworkers Group Meeting Schedule (BADG) ASD Presentation Meeting Sunday, June 6 1999 (Please note that this is a new meeting date)2-7 p.m. Potluck. Shirlee Martin hosts (415) 564-2627 In addition to our regular networking, there will be time for those making presentations at the ASD conference to share what they are going to do and receive feedback from the group. This format has been effectively used in the past. Summer Picnic August 21, 1999 , 1-6 p.m. potluck Alvarado Park, San Pablo Join us for a picnic and dreamsharing. Directions: From 80 East take Solano exit. Left on Amador. Right on McBryde. Park entrance on left after Marin Ave. For info: (707) 824-9121 BIRDS, CREATURES WITH WINGS WORKSHOP Sunday September 12, 1999, 2-5pm. Berkeley. RSVP (510) 649-1971. Bring snacks to share. Birds and other creatures with wings have been portrayed cross-culturally as messengers to other worlds and the worlds of dreams and visions. Ellie Fidler M.F.A. leads this dream and art workshop using slides, myths and folktales to help you creatively express a dream. Space limited. $5 studio/material fee. BADG and The Dream Tree, an Internet Partnership Saturday, October 23, 1999, 2-6 p.m. Potluck Peggy Coats, publisher of the Dream Tree News, shares her knowledge of using the Internet as a resource for dreamers. She will show off the new BADG web-site, discuss Dream Tree as an online resource center, and introduce us to the exciting new ways in which computers and the internet can facilitate dream research and dream sharing.Call 650.568.3206 for more information. BADG Holiday Party Extravaganza Saturday, December 4, 1999 6-midnite Potluck Jill and Bob Gregory host this gala event. Get the season off to a great start as we enter the final countdown to the end of the century. Guests welcome. RSVP to (415) 897-7955. >>>>> Creating A Dream For Youth on the World Wide Web DreamThread, Inc. is an internet based, multimedia company located in Taos, New Mexico. It hosts an online dream interpretation and dream gathering site on the World Wide Web at http://www.dreamthread.com which boost traffic at close to 6,000 hits a day. Among it's current projects is an online children's interactive game on the topic of dreams and a young dreamers online community. The mission of Young Dreamers , is to provide interactive, entertaining and educational experiences that are non-violent to children ages 8 through 17 on the topic of dreams and creativity on the World Wide Web. It's mission will be realized through 1. the production of an online multimedia interactive game called DreamStar Quest , inspired by children's actual dreams, which teaches children to understand the metaphoric language of dreams through a fun and educational interactive journey; 2. the development of a global online children's dream community site on the World Wide Web where children can learn about the nature and elements of dreams and post their own dreams creatively onto an exciting and safe online environment. DreamThread believes that a child's creative and self-realizing potential can emerge from dreams whose elements express the many worlds and dimensions of their inner psychology and mythology. We live in a dreaming world, one that is creative and which connects us all through threads of consciousness. When children learn to value their dreams they can experience the magic, mystery, and creative potentials of the mind and the soul. Currently, half of the requests for dream insights from DreamThread's online interpretation service come from teenagers. The crisis of adolescence is marked by a time when attitudes and feelings about the expression of sexuality, identity, and personal power emerge. Their dreams give clues to the confusions, conflicts and feelings they experience in their personal lives, and may be reluctant to talk about openly. They seek advice, guidance and understanding from their dreams from our Dream Team. By receiving feedback and insights to their dreams, these teens learn to value them and to communicate what is most on their minds. Dream Thread is sensitive to the dilemmas of adolescents and children and their wish to understand themselves better. We point them back to their own dream's content for the solutions to their problems. We encourage them to share their dreams with their parents, friends, and other adults. This teaches them to realize the wisdom and guidance that their own dreams can offer them and to pursue their exploration openly. We hope in this we that we can offer a dream thread of wisdom and hope for the future of our youth. DreamThread will begin production of a prototype of the DreamStar Quest in late May. We have brought together an incredible dedicated multimedia team who are creating the content, design, and interactivity for the game. The team includes Ariadne Green, dream educator, who has developed and written the content of the game based on a child's dream and Assaf Resnick, producer whose impressive resume includes the production of educational CD Roms with George Lucas Educational Foundation. Resnick is moving to Taos, New Mexico from San Francisco in order to produce the project and to direct the creative design team in May. DreamThread is supported by its sponsors, partners, and investors who are investing their time and money in the future of our youth. DreamThread is seeking new partners, investors, grants and volunteers to support the production of Young Dreamers and DreamStar Quest, online game, and to share in it's rewards. If you want to "Create a Dream With Us" contact DreamThread, Inc at (505) 758-9356 or (505) 751-1119, email: ariadne@dreamthread.com or write: DreamThread, Inc. Box 5842 NDCBU Taos, NM 87571 >>>>> You May Profit From a Home Study Dream Quest With Henry Reed As Your Personal Mentor Dear Friend: The Mentored Dream Quest I'm offering is an excellent tool for those who wish to make a constructive change in their life, or wish to deal with current changes in a graceful, inspired way. It's also a great way to build a creative connection with dreams by learning to interpret them and apply the insights. The Dream Quest is the result of more than 25 years of work coaching extraordinary consciousness in the daily lives of those who have wanted a relationship with the Creative Spirit. Our dreams are the doorway through which we connect to a higher source of wisdom. Unlock that door and receive the hidden treasure of your own intuitive heart. To help you to experience the magic, I will personally mentor you in your Dream Quest. Innovate, renew a sense of spiritual connection, resolve a problem, or simply learn how to work better with your dreams. Open the door to eternity through your own subconscious mind and I will personally coach you through the experience. Your Mentored Dream Quest is centered in the Dream Solutions / Dream Realizations Workbook. I began work on this extraordinary tool in an historic project for the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Those who participated had remarkable stories to tell of how they were enabled to make constructive use of their dreams to transform their lives. Both Venture Inward magazine and Dream Network Journal published articles about the workbook experience written by satisfied users. It's now evolved to be more innovative, more creative and more transformative in its current sixth edition. Using the Dream Solutions Workbook becomes an even more powerful experience when I personally mentor you. Personal mentoring has provided immeasurable help to those working with this program. Through my personal attention, on a weekly basis, you are coached by a good listener, an encourager, a licensed and professional counselor, a mentor and a friend. The Mentored Dream Quest asks you to devote one night a week to dream work. You'll spend 3-4 hours of preparation before bed time that night dialoguing with your higher self regarding your dreams, your aspirations, your quest. I will teach you to use inspirational writing to discover truths reflected in your dreams. During the rest of the week you will apply the awesome insights you receive in your dream work. This 'daily contract' with your higher self is an essential part of the process and gives it extra power. With my mentoring and counseling I will help you to keep it simple and practical. Then the magic happens. Your dreams seem to be watching you as you make your best effort. Your dreams respond to your sincerity. Through the soul wisdom of your higher self, new visions, new creative approaches begin to materialize. You'll experience Dream Solutions and Dream Realizations. I will pray for you throughout your Mentored Dream Quest. I have developed the ability to inspire dreams, as well as stimulate healing at a distance. I focus those talents to create Mandalas. The handheld watercolor painting that I will make for you will spring from an intuitive process matching healing energies and personal style. This Dream Mandala is your energetic talisman, which you can place in view beside your bed, and it will enhance the dream process for you. It is your personal Dream Mandala. You will also receive the Dream Interpretation Workout Video, which is unique in the world of dream work. It is an interactive experience. The video helps to make dream interpretation much easier, more fun and more effective. You'll us it to warm up for for the actual dream quest, and then afterwards, you'll keep using it as an effective guide to interpreting your dreams. In a nutshell, if you are looking for a reliable and constructive method of using intuitive guidance from dreams, the Mentored Dream Quest is a dream come true. If you need more information, call me to learn how a Mentored Dream Quest would work for you. Begin your transformation today. Just call me toll free at 1-800-398-1370. For $250 (Master Card, VISA accepted), Your Mentored Dream Quest Includes Dream Solutions/Dream Realization Work Book Dream Interpretation Work Out video Five 30 minute telephone counseling sessions (including the telephone cost) A personalized, hand painted Dream Mandala My prayer support during your Dream Quest Call me now; toll free at 1-800-398-1370 so we may begin our quest together today. Henry Reed, Ph.D., has a reputation for the creative integration of dream art and science to produce healing and visionary possibilities for dreamers. For example, while he was Assistant Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, 1970-1974, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology published an article 'Learning to Remember Dreams' about his unusual classroom experiments helping students improve their dream recall. During a research sabbatical at the C.G. Jung Sleep and Dream Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, Dr. Reed revitalized an ancient method for receiving visionary inspiration in dreams. In 1976 the Journal of Humanistic Psychology published the results of that research in an article entitled 'Dream Incubation: The Reconstruction of a Ritual in Contemporary Form.' The Virginia Beach Center for the Arts for several years sponsored his programs involving the community in the use of dreams for enhanced creativity. In 1982 he was the featured artist for a show of his dream-inspired watercolor paintings. The mandala on the cover was included in that show. You can now view his dream art on his web site at www.starbuck.net/henryreed/gallery Among dream experts he is best known for the creation in 1976 of Sundance: The Community Dream Journal, which provided a revolutionary forum for the public sharing of dreams and dreamwork methods. Most recently he was the credited consultant for the Discovery Channel's three-part special, The Power of Dreams. His published books include Getting Help from Your Dreams, Dream Solutions/Dream Realizations, Awakening your Psychic Powers, Mysteries of the Mind , Channeling Your Higher Self, Discover Your Intuitive Heart, and Exercise Your Intuitive Heart. In his book on dreams, Night and Day, Jack Maguire says of him "By common agreement, the father of the modern dreamwork movement is Henry Reed." >>>>> Dreams on the Internet The Association for the Study of Dreams is offering a panel discussion on this in Santa Cruz this July at the ASD conference. This will be an update on the 95 Berkeley panel "Dreamwork in Cyberspace." and include many of the original panel members. CONCEPT Dreams on the Internet will compare and contrast online and offline dream-related activities and practices, highlighting issues such as confidentiality, self-responsibility, partnership paradigms, and censorship involved in dreamworking, research, networking, or communications on the Internet. The program will begin with panelist introductions, and brief introduction to the psychology of the internet. Following this, several "forums", each exploring a particular area of online and offline dream practice, will be presented. Each panelist associated with a particular forum will give a short, summary presentation outlining his/her perspectives on their area of work or expertise. This will be following by an informal discussion on the part of all panelists on the forum topic, in an attempt to explore contrasts between online vs. offline practice, clinical vs. non-clinical settings, problems and benefits of the subject approach, and global vs. regional focuses. Program content and structure is as follows: A. Panelist Introductions - Peggy Coats B. Psychology of the Internet-Jayne Gackenbach. Introductory comments will focus on three realms of interest to dreamers using the Internet: disinhibition, excess and virtual reality. C. Forum 1: Dream Sharing 1. John Herbert will discuss various online formats for dreamworking, including bulletin boards, email, real-time auditoriums and chat rooms (both public and private). Of particular emphasis will be issues surrounding group protocol, facilitation, and suitability for various groups or individuals, controlling disruptions and dealing with confidentiality and access. 2. Jeremy Taylor's presentation will focus upon: (1) An examination of the general ethics and principles of off-line dream exploration and their translation into the on-line setting; (2) An examination of the question of formal training for on-line dreamwork facilitation - what are the basics that such training should include? - How might such training be delivered? - What are the criteria for evaluating on- line dream work & dream work facilitation? (3) An examination of the expanding potentials for on-line dream exploration, particularly as they apply to international/global dreamwork and the evolution of the growing planetary dream work movement." D. Forum 2: Dream Research and Experimentation Linda Lane Magallon will discuss: a) advantages and disadvantages of cyberspace as compared with face-to-face and snail mail research; b)regular research, involving the solicitation of sample dreams and distribution of questionnaires; use of news groups and bulletin boards, e-mail distribution lists, e-zines and chat rooms; c) proactive dreaming,with the accent on flying, lucid, telepathic and mutual dreams; d) use of web site, mailing lists and distribution list announcements of annual "open house" group dreaming project. e) The FBNC Task Force and private experiments and projects; f) developing two-way trust: confidentiality of subjects, asking permission, distribution list manners, disclosure of researcher biography and researcher intentions, validity of information gathered. E. Forum 3: Dream Communications, Education and Commercialization 1. Linda Lane Magallon: From the point of view of a dream educator, Linda will discuss a) Initial communications: news group posts, mailing lists and group chat rooms; b) deeper one- on-one interactions: single chat rooms and e-mail; c) specific educational tools: web site, newsletter articles and column, on-line course; d) FAQs versus information that requires a context and e) Freebies versus charging a fee. 2. Richard Wilkerson will explore a) dreaming and the Internet as sharing many of the same metaphors and issues; b) communication: Self-regulation and global definition vs. self-stimulation and simulations of reality. notes on venues and cyber-ecologies; c) education: multi-targeted information and instruction; new patterns of dream awareness; getting individuals to cooperate in collective projects; d) commerce: Dream commodification and the collapse of class boundaries; advertising and marketing mistakes, suggestions and challenges and e) projects for the next year F. Audience Question and Answer Period For more on the Conference, stop by http://www.asdreams.org/asd-16/ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< R E S E A R C H & R E Q U E S T S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>> Sexual Dreams Survey If you would like to participate in a survey on this most neglected aspect of dreaming, see www.gdelaney.com or the appendix of Sensual Dreaming: How to Interpret the Erotic Content of Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney,Ph.D. People are very curious about a non-Freudian treatment of this topic, but quite shy about talking and writing about their own experiences! Help! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< W E B S I T E & O N L I N E U P D A T E S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< Do you know of interesting new websites you'd like to share with others? Or do you have updates to existing pages? Help spread the word by using the Electric Dreams DREAM-LINK page www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm. This is really a public projects board and requires that everyone keep up his or her own link URLs and information. Make a point to send changes to the links page to us. >>>>> Strephon Kaplan-Williams http://www.dreamwork2000.com/ International Dream Expert coming to California soon! Conduction workshops/seminars/dreamsessions/therapy for individuals/couples. If you don't have access to the Internet and would like a schedule or book catalog call (510) 530-2599/1-800-734-3565 >>>>> SpiritQuest http://pages.ivillage.com/wh/dreamcoach At SpiritQuest, the goal is to help humanity to learn and grow in the Universal Spirit. They offer Dream Coaching services, techniques on how to contact your Angel Guardians and Spirit Guides, simple techniques on past life regression and astral travel along with tons of knowledge on these and other subjects to help one grow spiritually. They also offer a fantastic Travel page on budget cruises and mini retreats for two, the opportunity to really take a SpiritQuest. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R June 1999 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< June 4-6 in Spokane, WA Weekend Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. 509.535.1868 or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor.com. June 6 in San Francisco, CA BADG ASD Presentation Meeting. 2-7 p.m. Potluck. Shirlee Martin hosts (415) 564-2627. June 13, in Sebastopol, CA "Dream Art". Drawing inspiration from your dreams, draw and paint with a variety of art materials to honor your dreams and empower your life with their wisdom. Call to register or for further information call 707 874-9462, Email: sstmandala@telis.org. June 22, in San Francisco, CA Dream Interviewing Workshop with Gayle Delaney & Loma Flowers. Bring a dream and 5 photocopies. Call 415-587-3424 for more information. June 25-27 in Danville, CA Weekend Workshop at San Damiano Retreat Center 925.837.9141 or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor.com. Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z Subscriptions: The Electric Dreams E-zine (issn 1089 4284)is *free* and distributed via email about once a month. You can have Electric Dreams delivered right to your email box by sending an e-mail To subscribe to Electric Dreams Send from the address you want to subscribe to electric-dreams-request@lists.best.com And put in the body of the e-mail only: subscribe your-email ZIPPED AND ILLUSTRATED ED Get this issue with graphics by subscribing to edreams-web-request@lists.best.com Put in body of email only: subscribe your-email ================= SUBMITTING DREAMS and Comments about Dreams: EASY! Electric Dreams will publish your dreams and comments about dreams you have seen in previous issues. 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