Dreaming Our Way to the Heart of the World

[Nick]

explora,

Thanks for the article and the website links. The concept of dreamworkers is something I know little about. However, after reading the article, I felt I learned something. Thanks.

[explora]

Hey Nick..

Glad it was of some help...
You may also like to check out my own site:
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/

Have alook at the 'Earth Dreamers' forum, espec.. Dream Teams.. Groups  of about 8 dreamers collaborating in active dreaming adventures, As this is what the place is all about..

Bye now from Another NICK

[Nick]

explora,

That's a great website you put together! Keep us posted on dreamwork.

Very best,

[lucid dancer]

Explora, I've been looking for a site like that for the longest time. I've been to Robert's site and was dissapointed that he doesn't have a forum. A group of dreamers is intriguing. I'm considering going to his workshops, but none of them are in my area. I guess what I would really like is to be a member of a group somewhere in my state. I haven't looked around too much in your site. What are the goals of the groups? Are you going by the books, or are you creating new stuff?

[explora]

Hiya again,

Glad you both like the site.. Actually 'Earth Dreamers' changed its name to 'Sea Life' as a result of a strange series of synchronicities resulting from our research and dreaming adventures on the topic of 'Dreaming Our Way to 2012'..

Our work, is very open to ideas, I wouldn't really say we go by the books. For example, this month we're doing a research project into 'dreams and healing' and those participating will try and learn what they can about it. In my experience, I visited a Reiki Master, on the planes of dreaming, who demonstrated an energetic healing on my sister.. Pretty cool stuff.

Another project, I was led to in dreams, was the journeys to the redwoods. It appears, we could do something for forest preservation..
The focus of our work is both for the individual and the earth itself.

If you'd like to be a member of a group in your state, we provide a 'Dreaming Culture' area, in which members can just put up your name and home city, and hopefully meet others wishing to get invovled in the same thing..

Hope I've explained it a little. The forum is probably worth checking out in more detaill..

Thanks Explora

- of course I will try and keep this forum posted on our work..

[explora]

I thought I might post this hear because of it's potential for healing. I hope it's not in the wrong place.

This wonderful article, comes from Robert Moss. Check out his website:
http://www.mossdreams.com/

DREAMING OUR WAY TO THE HEART OF THE WORLD

By Robert Moss

If we could fold time, travel forward a century or two, and then look backward, I believe we would find abundant confirmation that the rise of the dreamwork movement is one of the most important developments of the modern era.

In my brighter vision of what is to come, our society will be guided by dream helpers who are dreaming with and for the Earth itself. Their constant work is to help those around them to use dreams for guidance and healing, as a direct line to the God/Goddess we can talk to. Dream helpers play a central role in healthcare, now it is recognized that dreams diagnose problems before they manifest and that dream imagery and conscious interactive dreaming offer vital tools for healing. Dreamworkers help the dying to prepare for the afterlife journey by following the path of the soul in dreams, and in this way they learn to go through the swing-door of death with confidence and grace. In the workplace, the day begins with dream leaders helping colleagues to share their dreams and to grow community visions. In our schools, our children become storytellers, communicators and creators by sharing and giving creative expression to dreams – and get credits for doing this.

In this happy future, dream guides are valued because they midwife creativity and healing but above all because it is understood that they help us to connect with soul, and that this is vital to our survival as an evolving species in balance with our environment. Dream travelers are respected because it is now common knowledge that they have direct access to the flux of consciousness that particle physicists found to lie at the heart of matter – more specifically, to the "hidden" six or seven dimensions of the multiverse identified by superstring theory – even before the end of the 20th century.

In my darker vision of what is to come, I see dream travelers and dreamworkers helping to rebuild our world after a catastrophe. In spontaneous dreams and visions over many years, I have found myself traveling into a possible future in which an order of priestess-scientists are trying to repair the havoc caused by the ignorance and violence of men of power who did not listen to dreams. The dream priestesses of the future have perfected the arts of community dreaming and group dream travel, and have been able to access immense sources of energy and knowledge at the heart of subatomic space. Dreaming, they reach out to educate and inspire those who will help humanity to find its way.

In a recent dream, I found myself voyaging into the world of the Kogi, a dreaming people who live on a sacred mountain in Colombia and succeeded in isolating themselves from the outside world until the 1980s. I made my dream journey to the Kogi at the invitation of a friend who had spent many months with them and had brought me a personal message from one of their shaman-priests. I met a being who showed himself first as a giant bird, then as a man in a conical hat. I saw vivid scenes of his people on the mountain they regard as the heart of the world. Then he opened a vision gate for me, inside the dream. To my surprise, I found myself looking at seemingly ordinary, middle-class Americans going about their daily business. I was catapulted into the mind of one of them – and I was horrified. Here was a decent family man, trying to do his best, in utter ignorance of what is happening to the forests and the seas, of the psychic forces that breed hatred and violence, and of the nature of the soul. In that moment, I understood the immense cost of our Western ignorance, from the point of view of an indigenous dreaming people. And I knew that the return of the dreaming ways is the antidote.

Dreamworkers may follow many different approaches to dreams, but by my observation they agree on the following:

1. Dreams are important!

2. The only "expert" on a dream is the dreamer.

3. Dreams connect us to sources of guidance that are wiser than the everyday mind.

4. Dreamers should help each other, wherever possible, to open a safe and sacred space where dreams can be shared and the dreamer can be offered non-intrusive feedback and guided to take appropriate action to honor the dream.

5. Dreaming is for the community as well as the individual.

We need many more dream helpers from all walks of life, contributing a panoply of rich and varied perspectives, personalities and life experiences, to bring the gifts of dreaming to people where they live. And we need an everyday process that enables us to open a safe space to share dreams, receive helpful and non-intrusive feedback and be gently goaded towards appropriate action to honor our dreams – a process that is quick and simple enough to be used just about anywhere, anytime, and flexible enough to accommodate multiple perspectives on dreams. My Lightning Dreamwork ™

method offers us this process, and is now being taught in classes and used by dream circles all over the map.

As we learn to share and celebrate our dreams, we find that dreaming brings us, and our communities, back to the place of the heart. When I was teaching in California, I found myself in a dream that made this very clear:

Mountain Lion Pulls Me Up to the Place of the Heart

I am climbing a steep cliff, carrying a small white box. The cliff is hard to scale, but someone at the top lowers a beaded strap to me. When I grasp it, I am startled to see that the other end is held by a mountain lion. The mountain lion pulls me up, immensely higher than I had expected, until I am on a lofty peak with a commanding view over the coastline and nearby towns and forests. Now the lion directs me to open the box, and I take out a beating red heart. When I place it on a boulder at the summit, the heart beats steadily and powerfully. I know that the heartbeat is reaching people across a great distance. I feel the heartbeat shepherding them towards healing rhythms in their lives, and recalling them to the wisdom of the heart.

I shared this dream with a circle I was leading. We did more than discuss it. We agreed to travel inside it, in a conscious group journey assisted by shamanic drumming. We climbed the mountain to receive healing and guidance in the realm of the animal guardians and the place of the heart. The heart center is where we find courage, and reconnect with what truly matters. Our role, as dream helpers, is to encourage each other to go there, and move beyond our conflict and confusion to the heart of the world.

Excerpt from an article by Robert Moss in Dream Network magazine, vol 22, no 1, 2003. Visit Dream Network online at www.dreamnetwork.net


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