{"id":18,"date":"2014-06-01T22:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T22:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thresholdguidance.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2017-07-04T17:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T17:34:02","slug":"dreamwork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.thresholdguidance.com\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Dreamwork"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201dLast night I dreamt I was a butterfly, or perhaps I am a butterfly that dreamt I was a man\u201d. <\/em>Chuang Tzu<\/p>\n

\"DreamButterfly\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Dreams part of ancient wisdom traditions as a source of wisdom, healing, and communication with the beyond.<\/p>\n

Sherry<\/strong>\u00a0has studied with Jeremy Taylor in his method of \u201cProjective Group Dream Work\u201d. \u00a0She has participated and led dream groups for over 15 years, and has a deep respect for the dreamer’s capacity to access personal insight through this work. \u00a0She enjoys the magic, humor, and deep wisdom she often finds in working with dreams.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/big><\/big><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

The Cloths of Heaven<\/big><\/big><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Had I the heaven’s embroidered cloths,
\nEnwrought with golden and silver light,
\nThe blue and the dim and the dark cloths
\nOf night and light and the half-light;
\nI would spread the cloths under your feet:
\nBut I, being poor, have only my dreams;
\nI have spread my dreams under your feet;
\nTread softly because you tread on my dreams.<\/big><\/span><\/big><\/em><\/p>\n

W. B. Yeats<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Old and New Testament have many examples of people receiving divine guidance in dreams. Is this experience available to us today? Is it happening and we are simply unaware? Dreams can be a highly accessible source of spiritual information and guidance, and also can be fascinating to explore.<\/p>\n

Indigenous cultures hold a deep respect for the dream world and the dream time. \u00a0In the Western scientific model we have come to disregard dreams, which is ironic since some major scientific discoveries and theories were based on insights gained through dreams. Descartes, Einstein, Neils Bohr. (Linn, p. 19)<\/p>\n

Dreams are messages from our unconscious mind trying to break through to consciousness for the purpose of our health and wholeness.<\/p>\n

The understanding of dreams is that in the dreamtime, we have greater access to subconscious material, our own as well as the collective. Dreams are the subconscious mind\u2019s way of trying to bring something to consciousness, it is our subconscious knocking on the door. And the conscious mind is resisting this material, thus our quickly forgetting or dismissing of our dreams. Sometimes the knocking becomes quite loud however, in the form of a nightmare, an urgent call from the subconscious, literally wake up and pay attention!<\/p>\n

But the dreams don\u2019t often mean what we would think in a very literal translation. \u00a0Rather dreams are spoken in symbolic language, a universal language of symbols. Some of these symbols will also carry very personal meaning and some will have a universal meaning.<\/p>\n

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Various levels of meaning of dreams:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mundane; the junk of the day. Cognitive waste bin.<\/p>\n

Personal experience.<\/p>\n

Intra-psychic struggles.<\/p>\n

Archetypal images.<\/p>\n

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Some spiritual symbols though only the dreamer can say for sure:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Water: spirit, the unconscious (ocean)<\/p>\n

Gate, doorways: Threshold, transitions<\/p>\n

Pregnancy, birth: initiation, creativity, new birth, renewal.<\/p>\n

Child: Divine child-precocious, grows very quickly, wise.<\/p>\n

Grandmother: wise woman, crone, grand mother.<\/p>\n

Mountains, stairs: acsent, journey.<\/p>\n

Caution not to take our dream images too literally and to remember that all dreams come in service of health and wholeness.<\/p>\n

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