Tag: Dreams
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Death and Afterbirth at the bottom of a Lake

With startling synchronicity I found myself facilitating a dreaming circle while simultaneously participating in one. (I suppose when I saw the title “Earth Dreaming” I could’ve anticipated it, but I read that more figuratively so it came as a surprise.) In this circle we are inviting the Earth to communicate through our dreams. And the night…
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Landscape of a dream

It had been more than six months since I left New York for more than a day. There were several reasons but it wasn’t because I didn’t have a desire to travel.I returned to Asheville, NC where I experienced a deep grounding last year, and it felt so different.Maybe it was how the city had…
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Dreaming again

In the first quarter of the year I didn’t dream much, or, I did but they didn’t have the epic, saga like quality that I’m accustomed. They were felt, slowly, and seen only in fragments. I needed the rest, and I didn’t think too hard about them. I had also been contemplating the idea of…
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Creative Expression and Energy Movement
This is the third part of a short series on energy movement Free play, spontaneity, and creativity are perhaps some of the better recognized assets of the child’s natural gifts. They are also the first to dissipate in a traumatic or high stress environment. When I worked as a child therapist, it was so reliable that…
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Winter Dreaming…
Dreaming for me is an act of communion, a relationship. I allow my dreams to hold their own space. I try not to analyze my dreams, but to participate in them. To let my dream selves show me what I need to know. I take some time in the morning to transfer to my conscious…
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What is dreaming, why dream?
Although in some ways the content of this particular essay has been percolating for the last couple months, I have really struggled to put it into words and sentences and paragraphs that lead to a Point. You’ll have to forgive me for the somewhat non-linear nature of what I’d like to share. And after all, how…
