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++ Editor's Notes
++ Dream Airing Column - Victoria Quinton
++ Display your Dreams and Articles Better on Electric Dreams! Webmaster - Matthew Parry
++ The 3rd Annual Halloween Swarm!!!
Linda Magallon
++ "Your Dream of Recovery": Interview with Shelly Marshall
Victoria Quinton
++ Interview with DrmDoc September 1997
Victoria Quinton
++ Nocturnal Postings: an Interview with Julia Koberlien
Interview via email with Richard Wilkerson
++ Precognitive, Telepathic and Clairvoyant Dream Survey
Helen Erickson
++ Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 8th House
++ Reflections on the Ninth House
Island
==== SPECIAL SECTION : DREAMS AND PRINCESS DIANA ===
++ Princess Diana's Death as a Ripple in the Collective Field of
Consciousness: Personal Ruminations in the Context of My Work With the Cree
Jayne Gackenbach
++Diana, the Living Myth: Diana/Artemis in Greek and Roman Mythology
Tracy Marks
++Hooray! It's the End of an Age
Linda Lane Magallon
++ Dreams, Death and Diana: Lessons in Personal and Collective Healing
Maureen Roberts, PhD
++ See DREAM section for Dreams of Diana
G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S - Peggy Coats
This Month's Features:
NEWS
- Sleepwalkers Coming 1 November
- "The Transcendent in Relationships and Dreams" -- Ann & Barry Ulanov
- Explore Your Dreams
- Video Review: The Language of Dreams
- New German Lucid Dreams Discussion List
- A Dream Practicum
- ALCHERINGA : LET US DREAM OUR FUTURE !
- Photography & Dreams -- Grete Stern Exhibition
- Ione's Dream Festival and Deep Listening Space
- Dreamwork for Psychotherapists
- Mutual Dreaming on T.V.
RESEARCH & REQUESTS
- Dream-Telling Among the Elderly -- Input Desired
- Dreams of Princess Diana Sought
- Staying Awake While Asleep
- Dolphin and Whale Dreams Needed
WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES
- Dream-Quest
- A Study Guide for C.G. Jung's Dream AnalysisTelling Among
- Shelley's Dream World
- Interactive Dreaming
- Dream Journalist
- Tiger's Nest: A dream enhancement approach with product and service offerings.
- CRC Theory
- Sleep, Dreams and Wakefulness
- Drm Doc's Page
- Shelly Marshal's Dreams and Recovery
DREAM CALENDAR for October-November 1997
== D R E A M S S E C T I O N == ED V4 N9 ==
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D R E A M S SECTION INDEX BY BOB K. (For ED V4N9)
Hi there! Welcome to ELECTRIC DREAMS - DREAMS SECTION for
Vol. 4 Number 9.
Highlights from this issue: The Princess Diana tragedy struck many a chord - unexpected
accidental death, privacy, tradition, and independence among them. They were reflected in many
dreams. These dreams overlapped many categories from forseeing something to processing
images internally after the events of the weeks took place. I have placed them in the
CELEBRITY category for simplicity sake, but many belong just as well under others. Even
Mother Theresa makes an appearance. Several lucid dreams were submitted with comments on
this topic. A query on a "Losing Teeth" type dream brought up some references to previous
answers on this topic. Two dreams focused on the Eye [a new category], or was that many eyes?
Another Tornado dream lurks ahead - watch out! Join the Unwilling Mercenary on a two part
adventure. A late addition to this issue is an extraordinary exchange on a dream called Enigma
which I have put into the RELATIONSHIPS section, and which touches on the meaning of
dreams and life. (Thanks Kes and Island for sharing this exchange.) Enjoy this episode of our
continuing explorations into Dreamland. Bob Krumhansl
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September has been dominated by the death of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa. I found that moving through the experience with the online community (and especially the online dream community) was a unique and meaningful way of processing this event. French cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard's theory of the new simulated society suggests that the whole event has been mediated for us by mass media and thus never really occurred. If it did, we would never know it, being so rapped up in simulated images of reality and pushed and programmed by signs that merely point to other signs, copies without originals. The theory is extreme, but began to make more sense when my wife mentioned how she couldn't really go through the grieving process because at every turn she was bombarded by media and new attention getting stories.
In the dream sharing realm, we accessed a domain quite different. Here the signs slow down into symbols. Images are traded, but not on market exchange value. Traditional boundaries shift, and photographer and photographed, Royal and commoner, personal and collective are assembled not on the tabloids but in the imaginal realm. The stimulation of simulation slows down and dwells poetically among the dreams.
This month we are including many of the dreams sent in about Diana and Mother Teresa and how dreamers saw these dreams. We also have a special section of articles on these events so that we can deepen and expand our understanding of the events.
Jayne Gackenbach explores the transpersonal aspects of Death through her connections to the Cree and challenges our concepts of time-space. Tracy Marks offers some comments on the mythic connections of Diana and an extensive link collection of the events surrounding her tragedy. Linda Magallon suggests some paths towards a new Aeon and vision that the events have made possible. Maureen Roberts uses a Jungian/mythic path to explore where these events might be taking us and how to move like shamans through the dream imagery.
There are a few interview this month, including 12 Step Dream Recovery with Shelly Marshall,
and interview with DrmDoc and an interview with the editor of a delightful new online publication
that often focuses on dream, Julia Koberlien's _ Nocturnal Postings_.
Helen Erickson has a survey she would like for you to fill out and return, please give her research a boost by replying to this work on Precognitive, Telepathic and Clairvoyant Dreams.
Madame Aionia & Island continue the dreams and astrology series, focusing this month on 9th
House dreaming.
Electric Dreams Webmaster - Matthew Parry, tells you how to display your dreams and articles better on electric dreams.
Peggy Coats brings a lot of dream news and events in the Global Dreaming News. Find out the
scoop on the new TV show about Lucid Dreaming, learn how to get video tapes of your favorite
dreamworkers, mark your calendars for special dream interviews on TV, learn about all the new
dream web sites and pick the programs in your area for dream education.
Interested in a focus group on your dream? Linley Joy is moderating just such a list. We call then
the DreamWheels and several people will ask you questions about your dream then talk about
what it might mean to them if they had the dream. You can submit a dream or just watch, or
comment as you wish. See below for more details or contact Linley Joy at maidai@webplus.co.uk
Heads up! The 3rd Annual Halloween Swarm is coming up! The idea of the swarm is to have fun
online visiting with one another, sharing dreams and dream ideas and updating the whole online
dream network. For more on this event, see Linda Magallon's column on the Swarm.
Hope your October is delightful and hope to see you all at the Swarm on Halloween. Next
month, we will focus on Nightmares, scarey dreams, monsters, goblins, witches and other dreams
that go bump in the night. Send those scarey dreams in for comment!
- Richard Wilkerson
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Webmaster - Matthew Parry
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Do you want everyone to see a prettier version of your Dreams, Articles etc? Well I've now worked out how to get the HTML version of ED to look much nicer. All you need to do is:
1. write your article on some user friendly HTML editor and put it on your web site somewhere. Let your imagination run wild!
2. Load the article into you web browser and save it as formatted text - i.e. The browser will save it as ascii text, but without any HTML tags.
3. Add the line
<hfile href="http://www.your.isp.com/your/nice/looking/article.html">
somehwere at the top. This tells the program that creates the HTML version of ED where you article is.
4. Send this off to Richard or Bob or whoever.
When my program generates the HTML version it will make the link point to your much better looking HTML page.
N.B. The ED archives at the website will still have a link to your page after the next version of ED comes out, so don't move or delete your article. We're working on this.
Matthew Parry - Webmaster <mettw@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au>
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Dream and cyber fun during the entire week of Halloween!
October 25th-October 31st:
* Halloween Costume Ball
(Sponsored by the *Fly-By-Night Club*)
Send dreams to CaseyFlyer@aol.com
Friday, October 31st, Halloween Night:
* AOL Chat Room, 6-8 Pacific Standard Time.
(Your host: Fly-By-Night Club's founder, LucidFlier)
Select "DreamSwarm."
* Visit Dream Sites and Network with the Online Dream Community.
* Experiment with new channels for dream sharing - IRC, ICQ, more!
* Say hello to old dream friends via email.
* Follow up reports in Global Dreaming News and Electric Dreams.
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Group Dreaming Project: Halloween Costume Ball
Boarding nightly at the Gate of Horn: the Magallon-Galleon dreamland cruise.
Route: 2nd star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
On-board activities: the Costume Ball
How to join the cruise:
Any night between October 25th and October 31st...
Decide what costume you will wear to the Ball before you go to sleep.
Picture yourself in costume, then climb into your own ship of dreams.
Set sail as you drift into sleep.
Sleep and dream yourself to the Ball. Pay especial attention to the characters in your dreams...the fellow revelers you will meet this night.
Wake and record your dreams.
Decide whether you want to be known to your dreaming partners by your waking name or whether you'd like to use a dream or cyber name.
Send your dreams to CaseyFlyer@aol.com (Linda Lane Magallon)
Deadline for dream reports: the sooner, the better, but November 2nd is the very latest.
Dreams will be re-distributed to all Halloween Costume Ball participants. Then you can check for
resonance between your dream and those of the rest of the group. Did anyone dream about your
costume? Did you dream of anyone else's? Or maybe you dreamt about the galleon or the journey
or having fun...
A summary report of the Halloween Costume Ball will be printed in the next issue of _Electric
Dreams_.
The Halloween Costume Ball is sponsored by the *Fly-By-Night Club*. Check out our web site for more ideas and information.
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm (Fly-By-Night Club)
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AOL Chat Room
Friday, October 31st
Meet in the "DreamSwarm" chat room at 6:00 PST (We'll be on-line until 8:00 PST or so...)
We'll discuss spooky, funny dream characters and psychic dreams.
Bring a dream as your "trick or treat" gift. Come in costume!
Your host, LucidFlier (Costume for Linda Lane Magallon)
Questions ahead of time? Contact CaseyFlyer@aol.com (She'll be transformed into LucidFlier
only for the duration of the chat).
Sponsored by the *Fly-By-Night Club*
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm
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DreamBat13 will be unfolding his dream wings and flying though cyberspace on Halloween.
We'll be visiting new dream web sites to do a little networking and visiting old dream sites to do some updates with friends. Dreambat will also be experimenting with alternative Net communication channels, dropping in on AOL with Linda, and experimenting with IRC, ICQ and Web Message boards & splat rooms. Dreambat will leave info on these swarm activities on Usenet, alt.dreams and also on
www.dreamgate.com/swarm/
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The Halloween Swarm is co-sponsored by the *Fly-By-Night Club*, *Electric Dreams*, and
*DreamGate*
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm (Fly-By-Night Club)
www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/ (Electric Dreams)
www.dreamgate.com (DreamGate)
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DreamWheel 23 Begins October 1
Linley Joy (Dream Group Moderator)
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Join today to participate in a relaxed exploration of dreams via email!
If you are new to Electric Dreams, or the dream community online and would like to see a sample of a Dreamwheel in action, go to
www.dreamgate.com/asd-13/2lb12.htm and take a look or read the article on email dreamgroups
by Chris Hicks at www.dreamgate.com/dream/library
If you would like to participate, send a request to Linley Joy at
maidai@webplus.co.uk and say something like;
"Hi, please put me on the list for the next Dream Wheel Dream Group and send me instructions!"
The Electric Dreams Dream Wheel Dream Groups now have an automated mail list that makes joining and participating easy! By simply sending an email message to our automated system you are put on the list for the Dream Wheel. Once this is done all you need do is check your mail for Dream Wheel related messages!
And, when you are ready to directly participate by sending in questions for the dreamer or
comments all you do is send them to a single email address. Any messages sent to this address are
automatically *re-mailed* to everyone that has joined the Dream Wheel! Simple!
If you have any questions on how the Dream Wheel Dream Group operates or how to participate,
please feel free to email either Linley Joy at maidai@webplus.co.uk or Richard Wilkerson at
<rcwilk@aol.com>
Dream exploration is a fascinating process, almost always enriching, often surprising, but above
all, fun. As the Dream Moderator for Dream Wheel #23, I look forward to you joining in.
Contact:
Linley Joy (Dream Group Moderator)
maidai@webplus.co.uk
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Hello everyone
Anyone who would like to be an interviewee is welcome to
send me some email mermaid@alphalink.com.au
Have happy and enlightening dreams everybody..
Do you have questions, answers, comments, replies? This is your column to communicate with the rest of the Electric Dream Community, so just send those email in.
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Help with Lucid Dreaming:
for the past several weeks, i've been practicing recalling my dreams with relatively good success. i'm at 1-2 per night. but, i've had only one lucid dream. but, once i became lucid i ignored it while i was dreaming. i have a homemade mask to assist in alerting me when i'm dreaming but, i sweat quite a bit with it on. it's made of an ordinary sleeping mask, two LEDs, and a digital egg timer that i rewired to flash the bulbs after 95 minutes of sleep. pretty crude. i can't stand sleeping with it on account of the sweating. have you heard of anything similar occurring to others wearing such devices? any solutions?
thanks
D.T.
Well, Lars Spivock answered this question, but I can't find the answer - does anyone have a
copy of that? Rcwilk@aol.com
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Anyone have that Jung quote where he suggests learning as much theory as possible then
forgetting it all when actually in a clinical situation?
-richard
>Yes, he meant to use ones intuition when listening to anothers dreams.
>Theory is just a foundation.
Dear Richard:
I read this question 2 days ago and have gone nuts trying to find the exact quote. I've looked
through all the essays on dream interpretation, MDR, von Franz's books (hoping for a citation),
and found many similar remarks, but none quite fill the memory I have of the quote you're talking
about. It's so frustrating when you've read something , quote it frequently, and then can't find it.
The closest I came to was in Vol. 16, beginning with para 317 through para 318. This whole
essay contains wonderful advice for anyone working with client's dreams:
"...The doctor should regard every such dream as something new, as a source of information
about conditions whose nature is unknown to him, concerning which he has as much to learn as
the patient. It goes without saying that he should give up all his theoretical assumptions and
should in every single case be ready to construct a totally new theory of dreams."
" ...we should not pare down the meaning of the dream to fit some narrow doctrine. ...There is no
language that cannot be misused. As may easily be imagined, the misuse often turns the tables on
us; it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the doctor in the coils of his own
theory. Therefore I leave theory aside as much as possible when analysing dreams--not entirely,
of course, for we always need some theory to make things intelligible. It is on the basis of theory,
for instance, that I expect dreams to have a meaning. ...All other hypotheses, however, about the
function and the structure of dreams are merely rules of thumb and must be subjected to constant
modification. In dream analysis we must never forget, even for a moment, that we move on
treacherous ground where nothing is certain but uncertainty. "
I agree to the responses to Richard's post, and would just like to add that theory comes to my aid
best when I'm working with a very long dream. It really helps to look at the structure, determine
the type of dream, search for compensation, associations and amplifications, and etc. Then I try
to let go and just listen to the person's associations and answers to questions that arise around the
dream imagery. Something will nearly always fly out that hits the mark after going around and
around the dream. Von Franz says that we should use all 4 functions when interpreting dreams.
If you use only theory, you're using only the thinking and sensate functions, and leaving out the
feeling and intuitive functions. This is where you can see how our dominant typology will
influence how we approach dream interpretation.
Charon
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Just a note about the dream discussion and experimentation list at www.intuition.org
There have been some very interesting experiments lately on mutual dreaming.If you are interested in joining, you can sign up at the www.intuition.org web site. If you are not familiar with mutual dreaming, you may want to check out Linda Lane Magallon's new book Mutual Dreaming at
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm
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Interview with DrmDoc September 1997
By Victoria Quinton
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Recently, I updated my homepage (which is a never-ending project). I
created a dreamy links page
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mermaid/dream.htm and checked that all of the
links were current.
Then I did a net search on dreams and as a result, found DrmDoc Dream
Translation Page,
http://home1.gte.net/drmdoc/
DrmDoc.
DD: Hi Victoria,
I've heard the phrase electric dreams, perhaps in a song. I have also experienced electric shock in a dream.
Never, have I turned away an inquirer's questions. I'd be delighted. Also, I sincerely appreciate
your kind inclusion of my web page at your site.
VQ: Would you categorise yourself primarily as a lucid dreamer?
DD: I would categorize myself as a explorer of consciousness through dreams and dreaming.
VQ: About how long have you been online?
DD: Less than 6 months.
VQ: Had you worked much with dreams before that?
DD: I've made a personal study of dreams for nearly 20 years.
VQ: One more question I can think of is, do you work more with your own or
With other people's dreams?
DD: I work with mine and other people's dreams using my dreams as a kind of
Rosetta Stone. It seems to work extremely well.
Victoria 8*)
mermaid@alphalink.com.au
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mermaid
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"Your Dream of Recovery"
Interview with Shelly Marshall by Victoria Quinton
September 1997
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SM: Hello--I just read your section in the newsletter for Electric Dreams.
I wrote the book "Your Dream of Recovery"
(Dream Interpretation and the 12 steps).
I would like to be an interviewee to let people know that work
with the 12 steps and dreams.... there are a lot of us out there
but finding them is sometimes difficult.
Is this the sort of thing you had in mind?
You can read more about me at
http://www.erols.com/daybyday
and go to the section on my publications to see my book.
Thanks, Shelly
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Anyway, some further questions:
VQ: I see that the book is dedicated to an Elsie Sechrist.
Have you met her in person?
SM: Unfortunately, no, I wish I could, even in ,my dreams!!
VQ: When did you read her book "Dreams: Your Magic Mirror"?
SM: I read it in 1969, the first year I found recovery from drugs and
alcohol.
Her introduction to dreams was so clear and beautiful to my muddle mind
that I believe She helped save my soul. It was a combination of her system of dream work and
the 12 steps that laid the foundation for my life.
VQ In the dedication, you also mention your mother introducing you to the works of Edgar
Cayce.
SM: Ah my mother, if it weren't for her, I would be dead. She introduced me to dream Interpretation and Edgar Cayce about 2 months before I got sober and she brought me to the 12 step program which she herself uses.
VQ: 12 steps originates with "Alcoholics Anonymous" and recovery.
SM: Yes it does. As you read, I wrote about the history of this in Chapter One. I would be
glad to forward it to any interested readers.
VQ: Can you isolate a time or dream that melded dreams with the 12 STEPS for you?
SM: Well, dreams are about our spiritual growth and the twelve steps are too. Dreamwork is a tool to apply the 12 steps in a more meaningful way. I remember one dream in early recovery where I had red teased hair and
If I would just comb it down I would be more attractive.
After waking up, I could see it was talking about my temper (red hair-wild) and
If I'd calm (comb) down, I'd be more attractive.
This was dealing with my character defect, which is what the program is all about.
I was amazed at how my dreams were working my 12 steps with/ for me.
Another one was me hammering tresses, joining three white houses together.
This represented me building and joining, body, mind and spirit.
It also represents steps 1, 2, 3.
Step one is the body(admitting we have a disease).
Step two is mental, (we make a decision to believe a higher power can help us).
And the third is spiritual (we decide to let our higher power do it)
VQ: What would you most like to share with readers about your book?
SM: Well, I believe that my dream glossary is the best in the world. The book is a great guide to spiritual growth -- but the dream glossary is superb.
Naturally it is designed for a person to design their own--but it gives the foundation for a
complete personal glossary like no other. It gives universal meanings to words in a category,
suggests cultural interpretations, gives positive as well as negative connotations to be aware of,
and gives societal idioms that our subconscious is likely to draw on.
There are 12 categories including colors, numbers, behavior, health, plants-- etc. Again, if anyone were interested, I'd be glad to forward (by e-mail attachment in "Works") the introduction to this and "The Four Elements: Earth, Water, Air and Fire".
You'll have to buy the book for the rest!
VQ: Apart from checking your website, have you any suggestions about finding others who
work with the 12 step program?
SM: You can get to anywhere in recovery from my recommended sites. But going to an AA central office in your community and asking for what you want will help. Or, you can call the American Self-Help Clearinghouse at 201 625 7101 in the US or 613 728 1865 in Canada. In other countries, I would suggest AA again.
light and peace
Shelly from Soberspace
daybyday@erols.com
http://www.erols.com/
Victoria 8*)
mermaid@alphalink.com.au
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mermaid
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Nocturnal Postings:
an Interview with Julia Koberlien
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Nocturnal Postings is an electronic publication specializing in fiction. It focuses on, but does not necessarily limit itself to, the hours between dusk and dawn; this might include stories written at night, works inspired by dreams, things involving the night as a central element to the work, etc..
Richard Catlett Wilkerson (RCW): I noticed that Nocturnal Postings began this year as a forum
for amateur writers and artists. But how did you come up with the Nocturnal theme?
Julia Koberlien (JK): I personally get most of my best ideas in the middle of the night, and
that can be the most peaceful and uninterrupted time to write. I figured other writers had similar
experiences, too.
(RCW): What caught my attention was the ~dream~ focus for the August issue. What got you
interested in dreams and dreaming?
(JK): Mostly the large amount of submissions I've received in the past five months. At least
seventy-five percent deal with dreams and/or interpretations. It's obviously a hot topic.
(RCW): Do you have a special dream from childhood that you remember?
(JK): It's kind of hazy now, but it involved flying - with my mom and older brother - while being
chased and fired at in a deserted whitewashed town. Everything looked like it was made out of
chalk. Our only refuge was a Burger Chef restaurant. It was very frightening.
(RCW): I have been pushing online and there-abouts for dreams to be considered as valid
literature and dream commentary as valid literary criticism. Nocturnal Postings could really help
bridge this gap by drawing out dreamers to send in their dreams as literature. Often on Electric
Dreams we get so over-focused on what the dream could mean to a person and their life. Do
you plan to continue offering issues where the fictions could be dreams?
(JK): Definitely!
(RCW): Do you see dreams as fiction or truth?
(JK): I've had some awfully frightening dreams, so I would have to answer fiction. Truth would
make me paranoid! But seriously, I believe dreams are the fiction of our subconscious minds. I
am also inspired by medieval and later dream fiction, such as the Old English "Caedmon's Hymn"
and the "Dream of the Rood." Dreams have been treated as fiction for hundreds of years, and it's
hard to refute that.
(RCW): I noticed the August dream theme was Dreams and Relationships. Perhaps you could
send us at Edreams a short summary column each month or the themes for the next month so our
writerly folks can send in submissions?
(JK): Certainly. Presently, the upcoming themes for September and October are "Dreams in the
Modern World" and "Creatures in the Night," respectively. Other themes will be determined by
submissions I receive.
(RCW): We've recently lost a host of writers that were warm to dreams, Allen Ginsberg and
Burroughs especially. Any thoughts on their passing?
(JK): It is always sad when the world loses creative souls, but being an optomist, I choose to focus on the works these artists have left behind and the inspiration these works provide for the future.
(RCW): What plans do you have for the future of Nocturnal Postings?
(JK): I plan to continue to publish a new issue each month. Perhaps expand artwork, if I can find more art submissions. I have no plans to become a commercial site with advertising, so unfortunately Nocturnal Postings cannot affort to pay for works used. Perhaps, if one day I become independently wealthy...but that's just a dream!
You can visit Nocturnal Posting at
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/1159/
Or directly contact the editor
Julia Koberlein
mailto:nocturnalposts@geocities.com
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Precognitive, Telepathic and Clairvoyant Dream Survey
By Helen Erickson
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This questionnaire is designed to identify the range of experiences that people have of telepathic,
clairvoyant, and precognitive dreams. Please allow time to answer all the questions as accurately
as possible. Estimated time is 15-30 minutes. If you keep a record of your dreams refer to it. All
responses are confidential. This questionnaire is part of a doctoral dissertation which attempts to
advance the knowledge of psi in dreams. Please give as accurate an answer as possible. Please
note that more than one box can be checked in many cases.
Definitions
A precognitive dream is a dream where you become aware of some future event that cannot be
deduced from known data or the sensory awareness of the present.
A telepathic dream is a dream where you become aware of the thoughts, feelings, or activity of
another conscious being. This awareness is then later verified or confirmed in your waking life.
A clairvoyant dream is a dream where you become aware of information about an event or
physical object; in contrast to telepathy, the information is assumed to derive directly from an
external physical source and not from the mind of another person.
ESP or extrasensory perception is the acquisition of information about an external event, object,
or influence (mental or physical; past, present or future) in some way other than through any of
the known sensory channels.
This questionnaire is part of a doctoral dissertation which attempts to advance the knowledge of
telepathy and precognition in dreams. Participation is voluntary and you have the right to refuse
to answer any question. Your name or any identification is not requested or necessary. However,
you must be 21 years or older to participate. No names will be used in the summarizing of results
and interpretation of findings. All responses will be processed confidentially. There will be no
follow-up contact. The return of the signed consent form is necessary for participation.
If you have any concerns or are dissatisfied at any time with any part of the study, you may report
your concerns, anonymously, if you wish, to the Chair of the Human Research Review
Committee, California Institute of Integral Studies, 9 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109
(or by telephone 415-674-5500.) If you would like further information or a description of the
overall results of the study, you may request so with Helen Erickson, 1208 Virginia Way, La
Jolla, CA 92037; e-mail:HErick7847@aol.com.
This questionnaire is online at www.dreamgate.com/dream/research/survey1.htm
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Madame Aionia's Astrological Dreaming Series:
Dreaming Through the Houses: 8th House
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Have you ever wondered how dreams and astrology are connected?
There are many ways we can connect dreams to astrology, and many don't require that you know
all about your Natal Chart. In this column we will be exploring the symbolic rather than predictive
aspects of astrology. Symbolic astrology attempts to use the images of astrological to give
meaning to one's life and empower choices rather than predict paths. We do this by imaginal
overlay. In this process we impleach, (poetically interweave)dream, image, feeling, life and symbol
in a way to evoke a felt sense of the dream's imagery and its position in our life.
This year we are focusing each month on a different House.
The inner circle of the Natal or Birth Chart is divided into 12 distinct regions know as Houses.
They relate to everyday activates. One will be about physical appearances and temperament, while
another relates to possessions, for example. Planets and signs fall within these Houses and
influence the areas of focus. We will be watching for images of planets, signs and other celestial
events and hopefully begin to see the emergence of an astrological chart that dips into birth charts,
dreams, and our waking life.
Notes from the Net:
The 8th house is our desire nature which functions in the conscious mind area and the cause behind many of our daily actions. The 12th house of unconscious conditions is the filter of our dream states and the recording device of life experience. Our blood system is our memory system. Our dream state rallies around the ruler of the 12th and it's natal and transit place.
Blessings,Thomas Seers AMAFA
E-mail: tseers@voy.net
The Ninth House:
Sagittarius. Long distance & time communication and travel, the deeper mind, profound
subjects, philosophy, religion, publishing, foreigners, language, dreams.
In the first six Houses, the 9th House corresponds to the 3rd House & Gemini. If you recall, that
house is about communication and mind as well. In the Third house, it might be said, we collect
and communicate, while in the Ninth House we discover the meaning of all this gathered
information. Often these two together make up the fuller term "Mind".
Dream: "We are on a train on a long journey. I'm thirsty and I go into a private compartment and
a man there has the whole room filled. Its like Copernicus's room, with open books everywhere,
globes, telescopes, maps and other instruments for navigation. I notice the man is very involved
and he says he is tracing down the missing 8th harmonic of some Islamic scholar. I am amazed but
haven't any idea how to relate to his project. I feel a great rush of love for the man."
How appropriate that it is often called the "House of Dreams."
Here the inner most workings are interpreted and revealed. The information gathered by that
messenger and psychopomp Mercury in the Third House emerges as a new perspective in Jupiter
and the Ninth House.
Dream: "I am with a business tycoon and he invites me into his office. It's full of things like model
trains, compasses, books and other items. I want to talk business but he is interested in a larger
project and offers me a chance to take my art to a new level by taking on this project. It's never
quite clear what the project is, but I am very excited and feel it will be an amazing journey."
Jupiter is also associated with the Law, but the law has its spiritual as well as earthly order.
Spiritual laws, more on the order of archetypes and religious dogma, are a grasping of the nature
of the cosmos on a more intuitive level. The laws of living and being and consciousness belong to
the subtle realm of the Ninth house. The close, in your face, surface truths recede in the Ninth
house like the arrow of the Sagittarian archer, shooting through the surface to find its mark in a
broader, more basic experience, awareness and approach. Thus the connection with philosophy
and religion. Psychology and esotericism come together here in the binding search for meaning, or
in Jungian terms, the path of Individuation.
For those that hide from the journey of the Self, the Ninth House can be like a Shadow and
torment the person. Look for dreams of Lucifer, paths of constrictions, dream images where there
is overcompensation, disillusionment, pain, endless searching, loss of faith and fears of torture.
Dream: "I see a mirror in my bedroom I've never noticed before. I put my hand through and then
walk through the mirror. I enter a completely different kind of realm. Its a huge cavern filled with
red lights. I see a passage way that continues out of sight. I become frightened that it might be
Hell and try to get back to my room."
The Search for Meaning in the Ninth House may lead to peak experiences, a drive towards direct
encounter with the larger than life, including not only traditional visions and gnostic experiences,
but throwing oneself against fate, elements, problems and other more concrete adversaries. Watch
for those parts of the self and dream characters that are very agnostic as well, especially if it is
compulsive.
Dream: "There is an alarm that goes off on the floor where I'm working and we all have to
abandon the building. We go down the elevator together but when we get to the first floor,
everyone seems to be on their own. I notice on the floor several pieces of a puzzle, and feel that
if can find the rest of the puzzle, we can return to the building. There is a great deal of pressure to
hurry before the building collapses."
Like the archer, the person in the Ninth House needs a goal or mark to shoot for. Without this
direction, we are just pissing in the wind. The wise man and fool may find this a fine activity, but
the Ninth House seems to require a one-pointedness to avoid downward spirals. At least at first.
The problem seems to be that this goal must be one's own. Taking on someone else's goal will
not work for long as the Ninth House is not fulfilled by the individual taking on any authority but
his or her own. Like Saturn, the law must emanate from within. As straight as I am characterizing
this goal, the truth seems to be a more circuitous path, a wandering from one thing to another,
following long paths, extended journeys, broad mental training and deep readings. All of this
activity bubbles up from an underlying Jovian joy, a fountain that was not made, by the hands of
man.
M. Aionia
Next month: 10th House -Aspirations, ambitions, public standings and honor. Send in your dreams to
M. Aionia at aionia@dreamgate.com
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Reflections on the Ninth House
Island
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To my understanding there is no house larger than the ninth, for it is boundless, stretching farther
than the naked eye can see, one reason why "vision," "prognostication," are considered ninth
house activities, X-rays and telescopes ninth house objects, where mythology and story abound.
Imagine a house where activities take place in realms rather than rooms. When I find myself at
once transported without accompanying feelings, I dare say I've not quite made the trip. It
appears to me that the ninth house is so large and complex that us mere mortals struggle through
it. People with ninth house consciousness have more to say than we sometimes can or should
afford to hear, sometimes a double-edged sword. It is the house of the dreaming mind and of
dreams, the expanding consciousness, the prophet and philosopher, the visionary.
Remember, also, Cassandra's fate and that of John the Baptist or the prejudices felt against the
still much maligned "gypsies." On this darker note, it is a house where justice, or judgment, is
passed in a court of law; a foreign land or culture where we are beset with difficulties and feel
estranged; where we may experience the constraints of law, dogma and orthodoxy espoused by
fanatics; where our debaucheries and other excesses may result in karmic consequences; where
what we publish, broadcast, advertise or propogandize boomerangs on either the bombast or the
individual or society swept away; our counsel and advice to others falling short of intent or
drastically overreaching its mark.
Yet here more than anywhere else, I feel shaped by raw feeling, for who cannot weep unabashedly
at the feet of an awesome God(dess) of My or Your Understanding, to find oneself, filled with
awe, reborn. It is where I go to touch my soul, and I can walk through the hallways of orthodox
religion, ritual, profound study, meditation, formal learning, or dreams, and many others besides,
to do so. I can fly or sail to foreign realms, immerse myself in diverse cultures. When I allow
myself to experience the room or realm, I find my day-to-day reality upturned, my consciousness
expanded, as I reclaim or own the inheritance already mine.
I am surprised when I recall some of the very special feelings the ninth house inspires: adoration, a
spirit of adventure, reverence, wanderlust, wonder, awe, an exhilarating rush, liberality, love of
truth and freedom, prayerful feelings, magnanimity, inspiration, desire to philosophize, confidence
and faith, enthusiasm, zeal, buoyancy, authenticity, mystery, rapture, righteousness, a sense of
destiny. When I experience those feelings, especially consistently over time, I cannot help but be
transformed/reborn anew.
Now it is very curious to me when I stumble across a person with a ninth house developing or
developed consciousness because I really want to read or listen intently to what they have to say,
while exercising my developing powers of discernment, also ninth house. Fortunately we have to
look no further than the commentary provided by a dreamer in this issue whose allusions to
dreams seem to suggest a seamless interweaving between dream and day-to-day reality. His
commentary, entitled The Immortal, The Living and the Dead, made mention of God 23 times;
Muslim, 5; Jesus or Christ, 10; spirit, 5; religious or religion, 6; prophet, 3; Mohamed, 2; Buddha,
2; hexagram, 3; foreign, 3; Tibetan Yogi, 1; Catholic, 1 as some examples. Once immersed in his
commentary, I felt a bit of the void filled through my lack of either ninth house dreams or feelings
in recent times.
Following are some quotes obtained online which, I hope, may help to clarify ninth house themes
and dreams.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among
those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as
effects. Herman Melville
The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soap boxes
and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. It's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins
the whole racket. Anita Loos
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Ruth Benedict
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by
imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived.
Howard Pyle
Fanatacism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
FAIRY TALE, n: a horror story to prepare children for the newspapers. ZEAL, n: A certain
nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. Ambrose Bierce
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser
"And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways", Yossarian continued "There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?"
Joseph Heller, Catch22
Years ago fairy tales all began with "Once upon a time...", now we know they all begin with, "If I am elected..."
Carolyn Warner
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least in Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Nigel gave the lamp a cautious buff and small smoking red letters appeared in the air. "Hi," Nigel read aloud, "Do not put down the lamp because your custom is important to us. Please leave a wish after the tone and, very shortly, it will be our command. In the meantime, have a nice eternity."
Terry Pratchett, Sorcery
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 529
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death....Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and
comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Bertrand Russell
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Ambrose Bierce
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
Laws are only words words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are
interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes
that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes
that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool. John J.
Miller, And Hope to Die (in Jokertown Shuffle Wild Cards IX)
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine
Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make believe.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves?...Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Isaac Asimov, The New Hugo Winners
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
If the quotes above confuse and muddle sensing/apprehending ninth house dreams, then read
anything by Walt Whitman...or dream archetypal? grandiose? lofty? dreams...
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DREAMS AND PRINCESS DIANA
A SPECIAL SECTION
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The tragic death of Princess Diana set into motion an international swirl of public and private
concern, mass media events, talks, conversations, personal reflections and yes, dreams. Those
who follow their dreams parallel the processes the general public follow. We struggle with both
private and public suffering. Institutions and public processes are brought into question, and our
connection with our personal beliefs, images and values emerge. We sort through which of our
feelings are mediated by public media events, and which are private concerns for who Diana was
to us. Where is she the real person, where the Princess, and where is she a symbol for our own
inner life?
I was discussing this event with the dream content analysis researcher, William Domhoff. We
were talking about how world events are not usually part of our dream life. Work, for example, is
rarely dreamt about. Bill said that his colleague , the famous dream researcher Calvin Hall was
teaching a class and collecting dreams in the 1940's. After the atomic bombs were dropped in
Japan, he noted that not one of his students had dreams about this event. "Given that we dream so
rarely about world events," said Domhoff, "underscores just how deeply Diana was a part of our
*personal* concerns." In terms of her fairy tale like rise to nobility, yet her continual struggle
with 'common' problems of bulemia, sexuality and other needs, she publically acted out our
fantasies and struggles.
On the other hand, Diana also held & symbolized the larger than personal, the values we aspire to
be like. This not only included her being selected and noticed by the prince, but also in her heroic
efforts to help others less fortunate. The fact that her death evoked such a large international
response, became itself an larger-than-life event and has caused the re-examination of many social
practices, including the monarchy, the media, and our own roles in her accident. When Mother
Teresa then died as well, the two events were often read together, as if a general assumption of
great women was taking place.
In the Dream Section of Electric Dreams 4-9 you will be able to see a sample of these dreams
and their special and unique ways of coping with these events.
An now, what do we make of all this, what changes in our behavior and potentials are now
available? In our articles section we deepen the imagery of this event and offer a few perspectives
by which to help investigate our own dreams and feeling of September, 1997, a month when the
whole world cried.
Richard
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Princess Diana's Death as a Ripple in the Collective Field of
Consciousness: Personal Ruminations in the Context of My Work With the Cree.
Jayne Gackenbach
Athabasca University
jgackenb@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
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I asked my class at Maskwachees Cultural College where were they when they heard about
the death of Princess Diana? All recalled their exact physical locations as did I, sort of. Although
my waking consciousness heard the news of the Princess's death as I was driving in my car about
midnight central standard time when it came over the radio, something deeper in me "heard" it
hours earlier.
About 6 PM I was experiencing extreme agitation/anxiety. Being a type A personality one
might point out, "well, that's not anything new", but this was different in its intensity and sense of
being driven to do something, but what? As is often the case when we experience unknown
intense emotions at the time I tried to label it in terms of my current circumstances. At 7 PM I
went into a movie and upon leaving the theatre a couple of hours later I recall thinking to myself,
"Ah, this is much better" regarding my previous agitation which was simply gone and replaced by
a sense of tranquillity. The scientist in me argued, that's the effect of the movie, but "Austin
Powers" leading to tranquillity!
I dropped any attempts to internally account for this sequence of feelings until after I heard
about Diana's death several hours later. As I lay in bed mulling over what I had heard in the hour
or so of late night news I had tuned into regarding her death I realized that my experience earlier
in the evening coincided exactly with the time between her accident and her death. Then I
remembered a similar experience I had around the death of a Native American woman in 1992,
CrowWoman. I wrote about this experience in my book "The Traditional Death of CrowWoman":
We all expected every day that week to be her last. Every moment of every day the family
waited. But the moments passed, the hours passed, the days passed. I stayed away feeling that it
was not my place to go to the hospital. This was the time for the family only. Friday night I picked
up her grandson intending to keep him for the weekend. Although he was a bit hyper he seemed
OK. Saturday morning as he and my son played while my daughter slept in, I got really restless. I
thought, "Oh, this is ridiculous, she's still alive! I'm just gonna go read her that book [Tibetan
Book of the Dead]. Maybe she needs to hear it." As much as I find this book intellectually
interesting, I am not a practicing Tibetan Buddhist. Therefore I didn't seriously think she had to
have the book read to her. But I had been surprised that she was still alive when I had returned
from India a week earlier, after attending a conference on sleeping, dreaming and dying with the
Dalai Lama, and she had asked me to read it to her. But when I went to do it the next night
(Monday) she had taken a turn for the worse and it was a death watch. Then the following
Saturday morning I had this strong impulse to go to the hospital. I hadn't gone all week. I
hurriedly dressed, grabbed the book and drove to the hospital. Upon entering I checked the
cafeteria and found her sister and the Old Man's wife, having a smoke. I joined them. Within 15
minutes of my arrival CrowWoman died.
I very much felt I had no control over any of these events and that I was a pawn in something that
was unfolding. I ended up not only taking her grandson into my heart but also writing a book
about her remarkable death. Almost exactly five years later as I laid in bed mulling over my sense
of shock at the death of Diana I realized that the feelings of earlier in the evening were the exact
same ones I had experienced that Saturday morning when CrowWoman died and called me to be
in the light of her death.
In this case much of the western world has experienced the light of Princess Diana's death.
That week, along with the rest of the world, I followed the unfolding story. I cried softly from
time to time during the week and my heart just ached for her boys. I thought to myself as the grief
spread and its breadth and depth became increasingly apparent that this was a spiritual event
unfolding. I mentioned this idea to CrowWoman's daughter who agreed but the scientist in me
needed confirmation, a further sign. I knew that something else had to happen but despite wild
internal speculations did not image what it would be. When the sign arrived, the death of Mother
Theresa, there was no longer any doubt in my mind about the spiritual nature of this moment in
time. With the death of Mother Theresa so close in time to the death of Princess Diana and during
the time of such deep grieving for many in the western world it seemed that the death of Mother
Theresa somehow joined our two worlds, east and west, in grief for our beloved women. Both
mothers in a personal as well as a transpersonal sense.
Then one of my middle aged students from Blue Quills First Nations College came up to me
shyly after class earlier today cradling the "National Enquirer", "Star" and "People Magazine" in
her arms. She told me that she was saving these for her children so they would have a record of
these powerful events. She too felt that a spiritual event was unfolding, perhaps she hesitantly
suggested "the end of the monarchy". At this time of a call to self government for Native peoples
in central Alberta the idea of the end of the monarchy is shocking. In their stories of their history
with the crown the central Alberta Cree often speak about Queen Victoria as somehow
understanding their plight. I was born on Queen Victoria's birthday.
Layers upon layers of "coincidences" from the deeply personal to the clearly transpersonal
are emerging for as all as we mull over and continue to grieve these dual deaths and the ripple
they have caused in our collective consciousness.
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jgackenb@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
Internet Educational Consultant Information:
http://www.sawka.com/agent/Gackenbachj
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Diana, the Living Myth
Diana/Artemis in Greek and Roman Mythology
copyright 1997 by Tracy Marks
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Princess Diana has already become a living archetype, reaching deeply into the
personal and collective unconscious of people all over the world, inspiring them. Yet few may be
aware that she also personified the myth of the Roman goddess Diana (the Greek Artemis), who
was not only true to her own free spirit, but also committed to humanitarian values.
The goddess Diana was a huntress, but she was also nurturer of children and feminine values, and
protector of the weak and vulnerable.
Earl Spencer, Diana's brother, stated at her funeral: "It is a point to remember that of all the
ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this: a girl given the name of the anicent goddess of
hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age."
Let us explore further the myth of the goddess Diana, and reflect upon its psychological meaning, and its relevance to Princess Diana.
Diana was goddess of the Moon, the heavenly light that illuminates the darkness. Sometimes, she
was portrayed as a torchbearer, whose torch or candle lit the way for others. Regal and dignified,
she held the reins of her life, and drove her own chariot through uncharted territory.
Diana ruled the wilderness, the untamed frontiers of nature. Today we might wonder: Did her realms also include inner terrains and the uncharted emotional wilderness?
Images of Diana in Greek and Roman myth often portray her accompanied by animals,
(particularly young stags) or surrounded by women who appealed to her for help in childbearing.
Diana was a protector of children, and responded to the vulnerable and suffering. She
defended the powerless from unjust treatment by the patriarchy, and took decisive action in their
behalf.
Diana's role as nurturer and protectress of all began early in life. She began helping her mother
Leto as soon as she was born, by delivering her own twin brother Apollo. Her mother needed
more nurturing from her own daughter than she was able to give in return. All too frequently,
the young Diana felt abandoned by Leto, and compelled to come to her mother's aid.
This independent, and yet compassionate goddess was readily available to others, but also
vulnerable, and not known to have had particularly satisfying relationships with men, except for
her brother Apollo.
But even her relationship with her brother was not always smooth. Her one great romantic
love was the handsome and revered giant, Orion, whom her brother did not like. One day Apollo
tricked her by betting her that she could not hit a distant object with her arrows.
Thriving on challenges, Artemis aimed, only to discover that her confidence, competence and
intuitive aim beheaded her lover. Forever after, she grieved that she had so unintentionally
incapacitated her lover, and proceeded to make him a star in the sky since he no longer could be
the star that brightened her time on earth.
For graphics and more on Diana Mythology go to:
Diana and Diana/Artemis
at http://www.geocities.com/~webwinds/diana/diamyth1.htm
(that's a 1 as in ONE)
For links, pictures articles and more
Diana A Tribute is http://www.geocities.com/~webwinds/diana/diana.htm
Thanks to
Tracy Marks
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Hooray! It's the End of an Age
Linda Lane Magallon
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The strongest image of the Age of Pisces is the wounded man hanging from a cross. His partner
fish, swimming in circles in the Sea of Unconscious. is the wounded woman. Whether she be
Mother Gaia or Princess Diana, this is indeed the Queen of Hearts, or, in the Waite Tarot deck,
the Queen of Cups, the suit of water, emotion and feeling.
It's curious that Diana is not a water-Pisces, though. She's a water-Cancer, like the water-Cancer
USA, that ended monarchy in favor of democracy. (Not incidentally, the American Revolution
occurred just at the time of the discovery of the revolutionary planet Uranus, the ruler of the Age
of Aquarius. And Uranus was discovered...by a British brother and sister pair.) I agree with
Maureen Roberts that Queen Elizabeth is a perfect earth-Capricorn foil for water-Cancer Diana.
And this brings up an interesting point: the opposite sign in the Zodiac can be a partner...or a
shadow.
So what's opposite of Pisces, the dichotomous fish? Virgo the Virgin. Earth-Virgo. As in the old
Earth Mother Goddess reinvented as Mary, Mother of God. Or Mother Theresa (who was also
born under Virgo, a double whammy). Or even, the namebearer of the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth.
Or maybe, more to the point, Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary, the patron saint of philanthropy. Not
the wounded woman, the woman of the wounded. And guess where both Diana and Mother
Theresa's lives ended? Under the sign of Virgo.
Death on and off the cross has been suffered for 2000 years. We've been crying, in and out of our
dreams, for two centuries, now. Do you begin to see why I see this particular global ending as a
Very Good Sign? The herald of the end of an Age.
But first, we must get it right: the grieving, the sadness under the suffering Moon. And so we do
what is perfect for the receptive Age of Pisces. We react to the event with heart-full dreams,
awash in the emotional tide of the Sea of Unconscious.
How very unlike the revolutionary, humanitarian Age of Aquarius, when, instead of living under
the hand and sea surface of watery-earthen Fate, we will favor the hand lifting the water jar high
with airy-fiery Free Will. Yes! Finally, doing Aquarian dreamwork to get out of the repeating
nightmare-hellish rut of Not-So-Good Friday and going all the way to Easter Ascension!
This is when, instead of grieving, we will rejoice. When, instead of reacting, we will become
proactive. When we will incubate and induce, dreaming up our own reality...building the blueprint
for the launch of strong new lucid Aquarian/Leonine women to act as our global blueprints of the
awake-and-dreaming female for the truly sunny New Age.
I can hardly wait. And I'm a water-Scorpio.
CaseyFlyer@aol.com
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Dreams, Death and Diana:
Lessons in Personal and Collective Healing
Maureen Roberts
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Like many others, I have been drawn deeply and with powerful emotion into the tragedy of
Diana's death. On the night I heard about it (Sunday), I felt an overwhelming desire to be of some
help to her. The same night, I was devastated after falling asleep - I ended up spending the entire
night with Diana in a long and complex dream ritual. I cannot do justice in words to the powerful
feelings and images in this dream; they were complex, reassuring, and distressing, yet overall,
something very positive was, I feel, achieved.
Throughout this long dreaming, I was very close to Diana and was helping wash blood off of her
(into a large bath); I remember watching it swirl clockwise around and down the plug-hole while
at the same time we were talking in detail about the irreversibility of what had happened, and the
reality of the here and now; she found it hard to accept that she could not yet leave the place
where we were, or that she was in fact dead; she was not overly distressed, more like puzzled,
tired, and regretful but the main focus of the dream was on her healing (of soul and body) and on
my offer (not in words, but simply as something that happened) to take on myself her
woundedness. There was no particular point at which this happened, but suddenly I began to feel
physically badly hurt, weak, and aching, as if I were recovering from a recent and devastatingly
major operation. I looked down the front of my body, which was badly bruised from the upper
chest area, and a huge, healing scar was running down my body. The scar was like a long clean
scalpel cut - a thin line that was already closed up. I felt a kind of joy and wonderment at this,
partly, I think, because (in a relieved fashion) I'd taken on the woundedness in a kind of recovery
mode, without having endured the preliminary shock and horror of its cause. I recall that this
process - helping Diana wash herself free of blood, talking through what was now real, and feeling
wounded - was enacted over and again in different ways several times, until there was an
acceptance by her of death, after which I was free to leave her in peace.
I can't describe the kind of closeness this all involved; it wasn't what you'd call friendship, or
sisterliness, or motherliness; it was (for want of better words) an indefinable sense of oneness,
sorrow, patience, and compassion. For the next couple of days, I felt continual grief and profound
emotion, and could not concentrate on any work, but I also felt glad and immensely gratified (on
her behalf) that I'd been able to help out. Quite frankly, I'm still somewhat awed and stunned by
this dream - just as I was for weeks after I'd visited the Sun and helped heal Him. I'll also add that
the place in which I spent time with her seemed like a sort of neutral ground; it was quiet and
supremely functional - there were baths, pathways, and towels there, sort of like an ancient Greek
garden, but with no sense of heaven; just a low-key, peaceful place for getting done what had to
be done immediately there and then. It wasn't like any other place I've encountered in shamanic
journeying, but featured lots of off-white stoneware and buildings, and other folk wandering
about, absorbed in other business. The dream was also more feeling-dominated than visual, but
the sense of personal reality was overwhelming and deeply moving."
Homage to and meditations on Diana as myth . . .
One of the phrases that has become attached to Diana is "Queen of Hearts"; it seems that folk
prefer to see her now as a Queen, a mature version of the Princess who has turned her suffering
into compassion for humanity. In my Arthurian Tarot pack, the Queen of Hearts is the Grail
Queen, who is described as follows (this sounds exactly like Diana):
"She is intuitive and sympathetic, her compassionate nature embraces all; she imparts the gifts of
love to all who encounter her; her depth of emotion marks her as the upholder of the Grail."
The image is of her standing before a rough-hewn doorway in a cliff wall, behind which can be
seen the ocean. In her hands she holds a bowl out of which five streams of red wine, the colour of
blood, are flowing. It would seem, on reflection, that the old Arthurian myth of the Grail King,
who is wounded because of the illness of the land, is being superseded by a Grail Queen myth,
personified as Diana. For whereas the Grail King retreats to his Castle in his wounded state, the
Grail Queen does not, but instead transforms her pain into the healing of others.
As I noted to jung-psyc, reflecting on my dream of Sunday, I am moved by two key images: the
blood spiraling clockwise into the bath, and my own woundedness. The first image resonates with
the alchemical bath of transformation and with a Medieval alchemy picture I have of Christ sitting
in the round bath of life, flanked on either side by the alchemical King and Queen, and the Sun and
Moon, and pierced through the side with a spear. --- From the wound, blood pours into the bath,
while from the upper right corner, from a wine press, wine flows into the bath. I am reminded
here of Jung's comments late in life about death, when he suggested that it was a mysterium
coniunctionis, a marriage, or union through which the soul finally regains its lost wholeness. The
alchemical union of red and white (King and Queen) and the circulatio appear in the dream in the
guise of the spiraling blood in the white bath. As for the myth that is emerging, my feeling is that
it's too early to fully appreciate that yet, but this tragedy has touched many on the level which
only an archetypal drama can, and a myth of simultaneous wounding and healing will assuredly
emerge. Perhaps it is not King Arthur who will return, but more that the Grail Queen will heal the
wounded land. But for that to happen, we must still answer the question, "Whom does the Grail
serve"?"
"I guess the point is that we must all answer this question in our own way, and from our hearts
rather than from our heads, since the Grail suite (e.g. in the Arthurian deck) is the one most
attuned to the heart's pain and wisdom. As Yeats said, "No symbol tells all its meaning to any
generation," hence the meaning of the Grail is inexhaustible; but in each age, its message is one
of wounding and healing, and union with the divine. The Grail has before now served the
Wounded King - and now it serves the wounded Queen of Hearts, inasmuch as she is also each of
us."
"I feel this dream was collective as well as personal; we have all felt wounded in our Eros side
(the heart region) by Diana's death, so the wound I received was both mediatory (myself as
Wounded Healer) and representative of what we're all feeling. (I am a practicing shaman and in
the dream was, from this perspective, being called upon, as shamans often are, to help a suffering
and bewildered soul come to terms with death). Certainly we need to keep talking about this
shattering event if we are to avoid letting it subside, unresolved, back into the unconscious. If we
do the latter, someone else may be fated to live the same destiny as Diana, until we understand
that we all can and must become "com-passionate" wounded healers. The myth must now be
made the conscious responsibility of each of us toward a suffering world."
"I think one of the key statements in Earl Spencer's address was that there's no need for us to
canonize Diana, because she stands tall enough as a human being. If we make a saint of her, then
we are admitting our inability to embody what she did: simple compassion for suffering humanity.
Elizabeth, because she symbolizes the opposing cold detachment of patriarchy and the inflexibility
of the senex archetype, is not someone we can readily share our frail humanity and deepest
feelings with, whereas Diana felt like a friend and mutually fragile human to us all. (Interestingly,
the patriarchy of the Royals is dominated by the Capricornian senex archetype; its opposite pole,
the Puer, is characterized by its childlike vulnerability and idealism. The opposite to
Capricorn/Saturn/senex is also Cancer, sign of the Mother. Needless to say - oh, how the myths
multiply! - Diana was a Cancer Sun, hence extremely maternal). Like Diana, the Queen, too, is
playing an inescapable archetypal role (the stern senex), but what our age needs now is its
opposite, the Eros of Puer vulnerablity, and the horizontal axis of soul and 'Soul-making'."
"I think Diana started out as a fairytale Princess - the frail Maiden who idealistically captures the
Prince. But once this innocence and ideal was shattered, she became a tragically mythic figure and
mature woman. Her triumph is that she turned her vulnerability, as victim, into strength and
compassion, as heroine. (Marilyn M, for whom Elton's song was originally written, never got past
this victim/anima projection/tragic Venus stage). Diana, on the other hand, rescued herself from
her pain and transcended it through serving humanity; so can we."
"Shamans are often called upon to lead or escort the dead, or to help them cross over to the
afterlife. This is a great responsibility and privilege, and it can cost dearly. A few nights after the
Grail Queen dream, I had a quite wonderful dream of Diana in which she was taking on a new
role - teaching dancing. It was as if she'd at last found the chance to do what she'd always wanted
to and she was trying out some new steps and showing them to me. We were in a kind of
low-key holiday resort, something like a place in New Zealand, along with some other folk, and it
was she who was offering to teach me."
Maureen Roberts, PhD
(Jungian Therapist & Shaman)
nathair@camtech.net.au
Editor's Note:. It is interesting that Actaeon is one of the Diana cycle myths. Here is a guy who
went off the path, experienced something special and was torn to shreds by his own dogs,
unrecognized by his own friends. I keep thinking about how Diana the princess saw or was so
special, went off the Royal path, was no longer recognized (as a commoner, nor as
unapproachable royalty) by her "dogs" or common companions and eventually torn to shreds by
them. - Richard
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This Month's Features:
NEWS
- Sleepwalkers Coming 1 November
- "The Transcendent in Relationships and Dreams" -- Ann & Barry Ulanov
- Explore Your Dreams
- Video Review: The Language of Dreams
- New German Lucid Dreams Discussion List
- A Dream Practicum
- ALCHERINGA : LET US DREAM OUR FUTURE !
- Photography & Dreams -- Grete Stern Exhibition
- Ione's Dream Festival and Deep Listening Space
- Dreamwork for Psychotherapists
- Mutual Dreaming on T.V.
RESEARCH & REQUESTS
- Dream-Telling Among the Elderly -- Input Desired
- Dreams of Princess Diana Sought
- Staying Awake While Asleep
- Dolphin and Whale Dreams Needed
WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES
- Dream-Quest
- A Study Guide for C.G. Jung's Dream AnalysisTelling Among
- Shelley's Dream World
- Interactive Dreaming
- Dream Journalist
- Tiger's Nest: A dream enhancement approach with product and service offerings.
- CRC Theory
- Sleep, Dreams and Wakefulness
- Drm Doc's Page
- Shelly Marshal's Dreams and Recovery
DREAM CALENDAR for October-November 1997
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<<<< Sleepwalkers Coming 1 November >>>>
Sleepwalkers, a new television program based on dreams, will premier Saturday 1 November on NBC at 9:00 pm. The plot revolves an exiled Stanford professor (Bruce Greenwood) and some of his former students from the Morpheus Institute, a dream-research firm investigating the connection between the unconscious and waking worlds. Lucid dream author and researcher Stephen LaBerge was the consultant on the series. Sleepwalkers takes a decidedly more inward approach to thrill-seeking than some of its weekend competition, like X-Files. Dr. Nathan Bradford (Greenwood) is a neurophysiologist who has developed technology that allows people to engage in lucid dreaming--while taking researchers along for the ride. Bradford also uses his technology to stay in touch with his comatose wife, but, surprisingly, this doesn't come off as a maudlin plot device. Sleepwalkers is a promising drama worth staying home on a Saturday night for. The cast is uniformly good, especially Greenwood in the restrained role of a doctor compelled to investigate the healing possibilities of dreams because of his wife. Cast includes Bruce Greenwood, Naomi Watts, Jeffrey D. Sams, Abraham Benrubi, and Kathrin Nicholson. For reviews, or more information on the series, check out these sites: http://www.mrshowbiz.com/reviews/tvreviews/index.html
http://www.mrshowbiz.com/reviews/tvreviews/falltv/sleepwalkers.html http://www.nbc.com/thrillogy/sleepwalkers/index.html
http://www.nbc.com/entertainment/shows/sleepwalkers/
http://greenwood.simplenet.com/sleepwks.htm
<<<< The Transcendent in Relationships and Dreams" -- Ann & Barry Ulanov >>>> The Haden Institute will sponsor a Friday evening workshop by two outstanding New York Jungian analysts and professors, October 3 at Queens College (McEwen Bldg.) 1900 Selwyn Avenue, Charlotte, NC. The cost is $35 and the time is 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM. To register please send the appropriate fee and registration form to: The Haden Institute 1819 Lyndhurst Ave. Charlotte, NC 28203-5103 P:704/333- 6058 F:704/333-605. Or, for more information e-mail Bob Haden at bob@hadeninstitute.com and visit their web site at: http://www.hadeninstitute.com
<<<< Explore Your Dreams >>>>
In this class series, join Barry Winkler on an inner adventure into the realm of your dreams. Learn how to remember, record and connect with the meaning of your dreams for spiritual guidance, emotional healing and creativity. Jungian, transpersonal and shamanic dream techniques as well as creative expression will be used as avenues of dream exploration. Participants will be asked to keep a journal of their dreams and will have an opportunity to work on their dreams in class. A workbook will be provided to each participant. Barry Winkler, Ph.d., MFCC, is a transpersonal psychotherapist who specializes in dreamwork. Since 1986 he has worked with individuals, conducted dream groups and taught dreamwork classes. This course will be held at East-West Bookshop, 324 Castro Street, Mountain Vie , CA , Wednesdays, October 1 through November 5, 12:00-1:30 -pm. The cost is $120. For more information on this event, call 650-306-8188.
<<<< Video Review: The Language of Dreams >>>>
Presented by TMW Media Group
From images to archetypes, The Language of Dreams brings Jung's psychology to life, in a compelling exploration of the dynamic relationship between our dreaming and waking lives. Through an intriguing blend of educational instruction, dream sharing, and deft interpretation, The Language of Dreams enables one to gain a deeper awareness of the transformative potential inherent in Jung's unique approach to dreamwork.
The Language of Dreams is a series of fifteen video tapes which explore dreams and their messages. Hosted by Elizabeth Strahan, a Jungian analyst, it features conversations with other authors and analysts. The videos are presented in a teaching format-the host introduces the topic, discusses it conceptually, and then illustrates it through dream sharing or dialogue with an invited guest. Inherent in the entire series are three underlying methodologies: dream inviting, dream catching, and dream weaving (the process of weaving waking and sleeping realities together to arrive at a deeper fabric of meaning).
The tapes are grouped into three courses as follows:
The Short Course
consisting of two videos, "Understanding Your Dreams" and "Relating to Your Dreams," gives you a simple dreamwork method as embellished by actual work within a dream group setting. The method is easy to remember and use, and is powerful in its ability to connect to the dream in a productive way at all levels of personal, cultural, and archetypal experience. The presentation consists primarily in observing the dreamwork process in action. The remainder of the tapes build upon this basic method, focusing on dream content and its meaning to the dreamer.
The Basic Course
consisting of six videos, takes a look at men and women in dreams from opposite and same sex perspectives, and introduces the concepts of Masculine/ Feminine principles, and the Shadow. Rich with references to mythological motifs and archetypal symbols, this course examines dream territory common to us all, shedding light not only on our dreams, but on our waking relationship to ourselves and others.
The Complete Course
encompassing the basic course and including an additional nine tapes, is divided into two primary subject areas-symbols in dreams and the nature of relationships. The first subject focuses on common dream symbols and their archetypal meanings; for example, birds, insects, snakes, vehicles of transportation (cars, trains, bicycles, etc.), and, of particular significance to women, clothing/adornment and cycles of life (including birth, menstruation, pregnancy, and old age). The relationship tapes broaden the material covered in the earlier segments on masculine/feminine principles to delve into the nature of the Anima and Animus, personality types, and an exciting discussion on the alchemy of relationships which draws parallels between alchemy and the process of individualization through relationship.
Included with the courses are bibliographies, suggested reading material, and a study guide which not only provides concise summaries of the key points explored, but also a variety of exercises complementing and enhancing the material covered.
Whether you're a student of Jung, a practicing analyst, or simply a dreamer interested in Jung's psychology, The Language of Dreams contains a wealth of vital information, provocative discussion, and food for thought. To find out more about the series, contact TMW Media Group, 2321 Abbot Kinney Blvd., Venice, CA 90291. Phone 310-577-8581 or 800-262-8862 or FAX 310-574-0886 or visit the Dreamweavers Web site at http://www.dreamweavers.org.
<<<< New German Lucid Dreams Discussion List >>>>
A new discussion mailing list in the German language about lucid dreaming is now up and running. Even though some mails include texts in English, it is important that only people who speak German subscribe to avoid chaos. The list is called the luCiDiTy-list: luCDT-l@kyb.faveve.uni-stuttgart.de. Subscription is accomplished by sending an email to majordomo@kyb.faveve.uni-stuttgart.de with the words 'subscribe lucdt-l' in the body of the mail.
<<<< Photography & Dreams -- Grete Stern Exhibition >>>>
Work of the now 93 year old German Grete Stern, will be exhibited in the Dutch town of Sittard (south) in location 'Het Domein', from 6 September - 2 November. Grete Stern was educated at the legendary Bauhaus-institute in Dessau. In 1936 she went to Buenos Aires, still her present dwellling place. Several years she illustrated dream interpretations for the ladies magazine IDILIO. An example of such a photomontage is depicted in the announcement of the exhibition in the newspaper 'De Volkskrant', date 4/9.
<<<< A Dream Practicum >>>>
The New England Society of Jungian Analysts is pleased to announce its Public Program for Fall 1997. All events are open to the general public and will be held at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston. Lectures: $15 Seminars and Workshops: $75 - $175. One of the programs, a Dream Practicum, is a seminar by Jacqueline M. Schectman, LICSW, 6 Wednesdays, Oct. 8 - Nov. 12, 7:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. Dreams present their messages with great clarity and amazing economy; all that is in question is our ability to understand, to feel into dream imagery. In this practicum participants will work with their own material as they learn to move within dreamscapes, the better to see and hear the language of the night. Recommended reading: Robert Bosnak's _A Little Course on Dreams._ Class will be limited to 15 participants. For more information about registration or other Institute programs, please contact: C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, 283 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Tel: (617) 267-5984 E-mail: cgjungbos1@aol.com
<<<< ALCHERINGA : Let Us Dream Our Future >>>>
The night of the winter solstice, 20th to the 21st of December 1997, is the time for joining a global dreaming event, Planetary Dream 97. The Planetary Dream 97 is part of the project Alcheringa : a series of five planetary dreams which will lead us in the aboriginal Australian land in the year 2000. The cyberspace, link between the real world and the dream world, will serve as main support for the exchanges which will go with the project. Meetings on Internet, via the IRC program (Internet Relay Chat) will take place from the 4th of September on the channel <oniros> (network FR.Undernet.org or other Undernet server), each Thursday evening, starting at 9 PM (GMT +1). A special didjeridou rave (techno music) focused on the planetary dream will be organized in Paris (and in other european towns like Amsterdam, Prague, etc) in the days preceding the planetary dream.
Instructions to the dreamers
In order to succeed the induction of the Planetary Dream 97, it is advised for the participants to
follow the classical rules for dream incubation voluntary induction of specific dream contents) :
1. During the day and before going to sleep, become impregnated with the call for the planetary dream and its theme : the gathering. Think of the way you will participate in this meeting... What will you bring ? Which present will you give to the other dreamers ?
2. Just before you fall asleep and in state of relaxation : * Immerse yourself in the image (in the process of creation), visual support to the induction. * induce the dream through a formulation such as : This night, I shall participate in the planetary gathering.
3. When you wake up, record your dream as accurately as possible, whatever the contents is.
4. Send your dream as soon as possible, before the 31st of december 1997 : * either by email : oniros@club-internet.fr * or by postal mail : Oniros, BP 30, 93451 Ile Saint-Denis, France.
Composition of the planetary dream -- All the dreams sent by email or postal mail will be registered on the NET as soon as they are received to make up a specific electronic journal, the Dream Time, dated 20th to 21st of December 1997, available for consultation by all the participants at the following URL addresses :
Oniros : http://perso.club-internet.fr/oniros/index.htm EASD : http://perso.club-internet.fr/oniros/EASD/
To be sure of the outcome of the Planetary dream, the incubated dream has to be named, dated, with time indication, and sent with your email or postal address. If you cannot send an email, you can go to a cybercafé in order to send your dream, see the dreams of the others and surf on the dream sites.
<<<< Photography & Dreams -- Grete Stern Exhibition >>>> Work of the now 93 year old German Grete Stern, will be exhibited in the Dutch town of Sittard (south) in location 'Het Domein', from 6 September - 2 November. Grete Stern was educated at the legendary Bauhaus-institute in Dessau. In 1936 she went to Buenos Aires, still her present dwellling place. Several years she illustrated dream interpretations for the ladies magazine IDILIO. Of the 140 ORIGINAL fotomontages G. made between 1949 - '52, only one is left. The other were thrown away by the editors of Idilio, (and would have been worth more than 10.000 guilders/5000 dollar nowadays). The other exposed dream illustrations (30 in the catalogue) are reproductions from the Idilio volumes. At the time of production their value was not recognized. Only 15 years ago, after a large photo-manifestation in Houston (USA), artistic appreciating started, culminating in 1995 in an exhibition in Valencia, Spain, where the montages formed the heart of an exposition of the IVA Centre Julio González. Mrs. Stern was born in Wuppertal in 1904. She changed her major in musical training to graphical art, after which an exhibition of American photographer Edward Weston evoked her interest in photography. In Dessau she got lessons from W. Peterhans. In 1929 she started the photo- & graphical designing studio 'ringl & pit' with her friend Ellen Auerbach in Berlin. Growing antisemitism destroyed the promising future of the studio. In 1933 they fled to London, where she married the Argentinian fellow-student Horacio Coppola. She made portraits of exile-artists, as B. Brecht and Helene Weigel. In 1936 she headed for Argentina, until the sixties, when her photo's were rediscovered. Their studio in Buenos Aires was not succesful. Compared with her (artist)portraits, architecture & anthropological recordings, of which she may be called an expert, the work for Idilio looks almost frivolous. For a column, in which every week a dream of readers was explained, she was asked to make illustrations. The dream interpretor was an Italian- Argentinian psychologist, Gino Germani, (pseudonym 'Richard Rest'). She used the freedom to express her ideas, to give her own personal comment to the dream, often laying accents differently than (differing from, deviating from) the therapeutic explanation by Germani. Being a woman, always having gone her own way, she had a modern view of (or: upon) the position of women in a macho society like (or: as) the Argentinian. For her it was a challenge to make an illustration in which all readers could recognize them (their ?) selves: being locked up in a little cage, or bottle, chased by wild animals, bearing a heavy load, hanging above an abyss, balancing on a roof, simple comments but to the point. Other photo's are less explicit and leave room for personal interpretation. Sometimes they make one think of old Hitchcock movies, where in the past photomontages mostly were used for political photocollages, Stern's photo's are surely interesting sociological products. For more information on obtaining a catalog of the artist's works, contact chris <a.christiaensen@pobox.ruu.nl>
<<<< Ione's Dream Festival and Deep Listening Space>>>> 73 Broadway (Historic Rondout), Kingston,NY October 24,25,26,1997
Mayor Gallo has declared October 24,25,26 Dream Festival week- end with a special proclamation. Dreamers will be able to deposit one or more of their dreams in Dream Boxes created by local artists and children and placed at stores, galleries and other public places to be announced and discovered between October 15 and the culmination of the Festival. The Festival culminates in three days of Dream Events at Deep Listening Space.Two concerts will take place:
Friday October 24, at 8PM:Miracles, Fantasies and a Lullaby by Thomas Bickley a concert that dreams across time with recorders and electronics.
Saturday evening, October 25 at 8PM: Riverdream Through Us , a result of composer Lowrey listening to and making recordings at seven sites along on and in the Delaware River during a River Sounding that took place in 1994. In a related second piece, Spirit Dreams features the participation of Ione reading a text comprising stories of individual masks evoking the non-human realm and the sounding of their dreams set in a context of ceremonial participation by all present.
On Saturday afternoon, October 25 beginning at 12:30PM noted Dream Facilitator, Naomi Schechter, Ph.D., will discuss dreams and dreaming with audience members. At 1:30 PM Pauline Oliveros will read from her book Initiation Dreams with musical accompaniment by Jason Finkelman. At 2:30PM Stephen Larsen, Ph.D. and Robin Larsen, Ph.D., authors of Joseph Campbell's authorized autobiography and authorities on myth, psychology and the visionary process will give a talk and demonstration . At 4-6PM a Reception for the Founders of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc. will take place, launching a special group art exhibit containing paintings and sculpture on dream themes by 15 artists.
On Sunday, October 26, from 12PM- 6PM marathon dream performances and readings and happenings will take place featuring artists throughout the area and from many points throughout the country and the world.
Internet participation will take place locally and internationally via Ione's Web Site: http//www.deeplistening.org/ione
<<<< Dreamwork for Psychotherapists >>>>
A two-day workshop will be held in Melrose, Florida. November 7 and 15, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. 12 ceu's for licensed psychologists, social workers, and mental health counselors. In a relaxing setting, Gail Ellison, PhD, and Diane Farris, PhD, will teach ways to work with dreams, including perspectives and techniques drawn from Jungian, Gestalt, Freudian, existential-phenomenological, and transpersonal schools of thought. Course will include both theory and practice. Fee includes vegetarian lunches. For further information:Gail K. Ellison, PhD 352-475-2220 or Diane Farris, PhD 352-375-7996, or ellison@afn.org
<<<< Mutual Dreaming on T.V. >>>>
Host Jeffrey Mishlove interviews metaphysical guests on the weekly television show, "Thinking Allowed". Of special interest to dreamers are two programs that will be uplinked by satellite to PBS stations around the U.S.A. on the following dates. Check your station listings for broadcast times in your local area. In the San Francisco Bay Area, channel 60 broadcasts the show on Sunday at 12 noon. A list of other stations can be found on the web site: http://www.thinking-allowed.com.
#418 OCTOBER 25
MUTUAL DREAMING
PART 1: SHARED DREAMS
LINDA LANE MAGALLON
Linda Lane Magallon, author of Mutual Dreaming, is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Dreams. Here she suggests that people can learn how to create mutual dreams. In "meshing" dreams, people experience the same dream environments. In "shared" dreams, they can actually experience each other in the dreams. Often when groups form for this purpose, their initial dreams will be negative in nature. However, such groups soon learn how to clean up the dream environment to experience more creative dream states.
#419 NOVEMBER 1
MUTUAL DREAMING
PART 2: THE "FLY BY NIGHT" CLUB
LINDA LANE MAGALLON
Here Linda Lane Magallon points out that mutual dreaming need not be based upon the psychotherapeutic model. Instead, there can be a sense of celebration, exploration and creativity. Often when groups come together to learn mutual dreaming, they develop mutual dreams of flying together. Some spiritual traditions suggest that dream groups can build dream cities together -- in a fashion analogous to the worldwide web.
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<<<< Dream-Telling Among the Elderly -- Input Desired >>>> Dr. Marcel Bahro from the Geronto-Psychiatry Department of the University Psychiatric Services, Bern, and I have just been awarded a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to study the effects of dream-telling among the elderly (i.e., those over 65). We wish to investigate whether or not there are any changes in subjective sleep quality (depth, duration), subjective dream tone (positive, negative), dream recall and sense of well-being if our subjects (60 volunteers from the community divided into 2 control groups and a study group of 20) are given a regular (once a week) opportunity (via telephone) to tell any dreams they may have had over a six month period. The study commences Nov. 1, 1997. Anyone having ideas about other things we could look at or problems we should anticipate are most cordially invited to send them along. Contact Dr. A. T. Funkhouser, Bern, Switzerland, email art_funkhouser@compuserve.com
<<<< Dreams of Princess Diana Sought >>>>
I am working on a small research project on the dreams people have had about Princess Diana
since her death. Will be looking at how this profound event shows up in our dream worlds.
Email me with dreams and thoughts. Thank you. Audrey Malan , dbrown@wavecom.net
<<<< Staying Awake While Asleep>>>>
What I am trying to locate is a group (if it exists) that is interested in exploring staying awake while asleep. That is to say the whole ball of wax---going to sleep, taking it on down, watching the various stages, having some control, exploring the deeper areas, etc. It appears that I have been able to do this from time to time, depending on circustances in my life. The first few minutes are not so difficult. Also, going to sleep while standing up and walking around seems to be possible. If anyone out there has similar experiences or interests, let me know: "Bruce F. Wayland" <bwayland@sccoast.net>
<<<< Dolphin and Whale Dreams Needed >>>>
For a book on the psychological and cultural significance of dolphins and whales, Trisha Lamb Feuerstein is seeking written or taped accounts of dolphin and whale dreams. For details, please write or call her at e-mail: dolphintlf@aol.com, or s-mail: Integral Publishing, P.O. Box 1030, Lower Lake, CA 95457, (707) 928-5751.
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<<<< Dream-Quest >>>>
http://www.dream-quest.com
DreamQuest is dedicated to the study of dreams.This web site offers an opportunity to learn and experience a new and unique tool to help visitors explore and discover the meaning of their dreams, DreamQuest cards. The cards are comprised of 70 Universal Themes. Each card has 5-7 probing questions specifically designed to elicit personal dream interpretation. The website is also a place where dreamers can share their dream experiences with us and each other.
<<<< A Study Guide for C.G. Jung's Dream Analysis>>>>
compiled by J. Gary Sparks 8.28.97, submitted by Matthew Clapp <http://www.uga.edu/~counseling/jung/sparks/dream_analysis.html> This study guide is the outcome of several classes at the intermediate level using the Dream Analysis book as text. The volume is an excellent way for persons who have learned the basics of Jung to extend their study a bit further. Jung's seminar was given in English and transcribed; the style is thus conversational; class participants have felt it was very readable and extremely practical. In the book Jung shows us how he worked with thirty dreams of one man over the course of about a year of analysis. The pragmatic thrust of the material makes it valuable for learning how the sometimes difficult Jungian concepts are actually applied. I hope the study guide which follows may add to your enjoyment of Jungian psychology. J. Gary Sparks holds a Diploma in Analytic Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and has maintained an analytic practice in Indianapolis since 1983. His interests include teaching Jung's primary works at all levels to small groups, Minoan iconography, the relation of dreams to social issues.
<<<< Dead Links >>>>
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The Dream Archive - A collection of dreams by amateur writers/dreamers in unexpurgated forms. Accompanying images may be just as disturbing.
http://www.tbyte.com/people/joe/dreams/welcome.htm
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Angie's Dream Chat - a Friendly bulletin board style of posting dreams and comments on dreams. http://www.sonic.net/~williams/wwwboard/dreamboard.html
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DreamWeb: A site focusing on lucid dreaming, dream science and more. Anyone know what happened to this site?
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3815/
<<<< Shelley's Dream World>>>>
http://home.earthlink.net/~johnsonsaga/dream1.html
This site gives practical information on improving dream recall as well as information on
how-to's on keeping a dream journal.
<<<< Interactive Dreaming>>>>
http://www.dreamcd.com
This site is dedicated to helping people discover greater happiness, health, growth, self-discovery, inner balance and spiritual fulfillment, through Dreams and Dreamwork. A highly entertaining and informative Multimedia CD, Interactive Dreaming, is also available through the site, to give you ongoing direct experiences of the power and meaning of your dreams. Includes a dream journal database and extensive re-usable audio-guided interactive dreamwork session.
<<<< Dream Journalist >>>>
www.nauticom.net/www/netcadet
"Dream Journalist, A Web Site for People Who Write Down their Dreams" will debut later this month. A variety of exciting materials will be showcased, including those from a meeting of long term journal keepers at this year's ASD conference. For more information, contact Cynthia Pearson <netcadet@nauticom.net>
<<<< Tiger's Nest: A dream enhancement approach with product and service offerings. >>>> http://www.frii.com/~tigrnest
Advice on treating dreams as enhancing one's spiritual growth, advertisements for books and products, dream interpretation message board "for fun only" as well as focus on women's spirituality, schedule of appearances, personal backgrounds. "..designed to support all of us in expanding our awareness and increasing our capacity for understanding the divine mystery. In business since 1985, we chose the name of Tiger's Nest to reflect our desire to be a center of the spirit and a home of the compassionate heart." For more information, visit the site, or contact Alex and Gayle Lukeman at tigrnest@frii.com
<<<< CRC Theory>>>>
http://hk.linkage.net/~mcoop/CRC.html
Michael Coop presents speculations on his general CRC theory (Comprehension, Rationalisation & Conclusion, the mechanisms by which people recognise and respond to their surroundings) using dreams and dreaming for illustration and example.
<<<< Sleep, Dreams and Wakefulness >>>>
http://ura1195-6.univ-lyon1.fr/home.html
Very nice bi-lingual (French-English) site on Sleep and Dreams research. Selections by Michel
Jouvet and other researchers. Topics include psychological and philosophical aspects, genetical
and phylogenical aspects, sleep-waking cycle, dreams, clinical aspects in adult, comas,children
and newborn, books on sleep, Links to other neuroscience & sleep sites. Bibliographies, updates,
more.
<<<< Drm Doc's Page >>>>
http://home1.gte.net/drmdoc/
Ken Howells website offers some nice essays on dreaming, dreamwork, dream recall, dream types and dream translation
<<<< Shelly Marshal's Dreams and Recovery >>>>
http://www.erols.com/daybyday
Shelly Marshall, author of "Your Dream of Recovery" presents a website for recovering alcohol and/or drug abusers, which emphasises spirituality and dream therapy.
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Oct 1-29 in Santa Cruz, CA
Dream Group for Artists and Writers, facilitated by Gina Pearlin, Wednesdays, 7-9 pm. Call Gina at 427- 2957 for more information.
Oct 3 in Charlotte, NC
"The Transcendent in Relationships and Dreams" , a workshop with Ann & Barry Ulanov. For more information, contact The Haden Institute 1819 Lyndhurst Ave. Charlotte, NC 28203-5103 or e-mail Bob Haden at bob@hadeninstitute.com
Oct 3-4 in Concord, MA
"Preception, Dreaming & Reality", a workshop with Sparrow Hart at The Dreamwheel, 9:30am-5:00pm. For more information, contact The Dreamwheel, 191 Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742-3423. Telephone 508-369-2634. Email Dreamwheel@compuserve.com
Oct 3-5 in Kelowna, BC, Canada
Dream Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Brenda Jackson at 250-717-3978 for more information.
Oct 8 & 22 in Pittsburgh, PA
The Dream Workshop here in Pittsburgh will be meeting
at 7 p.m. on the following Wednesdays: October 8 & 22, November 12 & 26 , and December 10 at 4836 Ellsworth Avenue (Friends Meeting House), Pittsburgh 15213 fax (412) 241-1451; or e-mail netcadet@nauticom.net
Oct 8-Nov 12 in Boston, MA
A Dream Practicum , 6 Wednesdays, Oct. 8 - Nov. 12, 7:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. For more information about registration or other Institute programs, please contact: C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, 283 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02115. Tel: (617) 267-5984 E-mail: cgjungbos1@aol.com
Oct 10-12 in Aspen, CO
Dream Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Barbie Seidel at 970-925-3421 for more information.
Oct. 15 - 19 in Camp Gualala, CA.
"Night Passages of the Soul: Exploring our Dreams" is one of many exciting workshops at this women's week long retreat, Womanspirit. For more information on Womanspirit phone SRCRS at (707) 546-4543. For information about this specific workshop, contact: Hochima Denise Treppa, MFCC (707) 664-6607.
Oct 17-19 in Arlington, VA
Dream Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Cathy Shepherd at 770-434-3999 for more information.
Oct 19in Oakland, CA
"How to Practice Surrender and Aspiration in Dreamwork Using Intuition" with Nora Archambeau. For more information contact Nora at 510-335-7099.
Oct 21-Nov 25 in San Francisco, CA
Dream Group with Jeremy Taylor at Unitarian Church. Contact Joan Phelan at 415-863-8414 for more information.
Nov 1 in San Francisco, Ca
BADG (Bay Area Dreamworkers Group) Dream Costume Party, 6-10 pm. For more information call 415- 897-7955.
Nov 1 in San Francisco and Marin, CA
Groups and Workshops for Sharing Dreams and Learning New Approaches for Interpretation9:30 am - 2:00 pm
for group information and workshop topics, please call Debbie Watson MFCC 415-441-2926
Nov 1 in Walnut Creek, CA
All Day Workshop with Jeremy Taylor, 9am-4:30pm. Contact Jan Schaub at 510-938-5454 for more information.
Nov 4- Dec 9 in Concord, MA
"Opening Sacred Ground: Experiential Dreamwork for Helping Professionals", six Tuesdays from 8:30am-12:30 pm. For more information, contact The Dreamwheel, 191 Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742-3423. Telephone 508-369-2634. Email Dreamwheel@compuserve.com
Nov 6- Dec 18 in Marin, CA
Dream Group, Thursdays 7-9:30 pm with Jeremy Taylor. Call Kathy to sign up, 415-454-2793.
Nov 7 & 15 in Melrose, FLA
"Dreamwork for Psychotherapists", 9am -3pm. For further information, contact Gail K. Ellison, PhD 352- 475-2220 or Diane Farris, PhD 352-375-7996, or ellison@afn.org
Nov 7-9 in Birmingham, AL
Dream Workshop with Jeremy Taylor. Contact Marion Johnson-Wesley at 334-382-8050 for more information.
Nov 8-Jan 4, 1998 in Mountain View, CA