Monthly Archive for June, 2010

Dreams, Seat of Reality? (Part 2)

Published on June 25, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

“I am as real here as you are standing there.” At the bottom of my driveway in Maui, I heard these words and looked up to see a figure standing on the roof of the house. I waited for my eyes to adjust to the shadow of the palm tree outside the front door. With the moonlight at midnight I couldn’t tell where the tree ended and the man’s body began. As I darted my eyes around the yard, I noticed that the leaves of the eucalyptus in the yard were emitting a soft but vibrant light. I looked back at the figure and he repeated, “I am as real here as you are standing there.”

My friend Claudette Peculik had just transitioned to her next left that day, and I assumed this was a gift from her. We’d talked many times of her illness and eventual moving on to her next life, and I saw this event at a message from her. There’s an opening that happens in the walls between the worlds when someone transitions. “Walls” is probably not the best way to put it; but, perhaps “curtain” would be more appropriate; sheer, see-through, walk-through curtain, available to our consciousness when we come to the edges of our human borders.

As I say in “Corn Woman Sings,” delving into dreams is a wild adventure into other dimensions. So, why would you bother? Simply stated, for the gifts that come from these various other dimensions–Awareness! Anything can happen–it is between you the dreamer and the Great Mystery. These are the powers of the Mother’s Medicine Bundle, expanded consciousness, intuitive gifts necessary to accomplish those tasks Destiny requires of you, wisdom, knowledge, and best of all, transformation.

This is just one reason for venturing forth, though the gifts of entering other realms are unforeseeable. Your consciousness will take you to what you need to see and experience.

The Ancient Dreamers used other realms to gather power: to amass the energy to accomplish in the waking world what needed the aid and assistance, the Divine, Spirit Guides; call the help what you would like. This was where shape shifting was practiced, where a medicine person engaged with the power of the universe to cause change in the face of challenge of a petitioner.

Sacred Gifts come of these travels. A person could receive a melody laced with power to be used for the preservation of a community; ritual empowerment; or a symbol for painting.

Enhanced consciousness, expanded consciousness, is another gift that can come from opening the channels of awareness at deeper levels of reality. Time is enhanced. We come upon what is normally thought of as the “future.” And, we are changed in recognition of the gifts we receive. If more people availed themselves of the gifts of going deeply into dreams, the desecration of Mother Earth would be halted because there would be the connection and awareness of the suffering of all life, and people would be able to see the effects of disregarding what they saw.

But, the point is that going into other realms is just like any other activity that requires practice. You get better at it as you avail yourself of these experiences. Most often people wake up when they start experiencing something unusual and call it a nightmare in the morning. It isn’t that at all. It’s your mind attempting to understand the event from the laws of physics in the waking world. Hold still, and observe–that’s all you need to learn. You Will Be Rewarded For Your Efforts! I Guarantee it.

Take a chance, aim for the Good Stuff, and be amazed.
EBD

Dreams, the Seat of Reality? (Part 1)

Published on June 20, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

My niece Valerie and her seven year old daughter visited me yesterday and we went to Sausalito for a stroll along the water. As we listened to the water sloshing against the rocks, we began talking about Corn Woman Sings, and Val said, “You know, I’ve been meaning to ask you about ‘dreams being the seat of reality, and waking life, the dream.” I had to think about that.

I remembered my epic dream “Going to Tlalocan” that places me at the top of a pyramid and shows me the Wisdom of the Four Directions. Dreams have a way of offering a virtual trip through reality that goes by unnoticed or unseen in our waking time, and this dream invites me into a multi-level reality where I viscerally feel the essence of the South as a place to be birthed and transformed. At it’s opposite, the North, I see those segments of my life where I die and am restored over and over in my waking time. At the end of the dream a voice admonishes me to wake up to life and let each moment show me the wide array of choices available in defining reality. “Know which God you are serving, and which world you are in.”

So, when I think of the God of Duality deciding our Destiny at the moment of conception and the being we are to become, I turn to the Sacred Gifts we receive for the journey. These gifts may be obvious from the time we are infants, or they may develop slowly across a lifetime. I’ve seen some people manifest their gifts well into their elder years. The tradition of “Death Showing Compassion” became obvious to me when I was in my 40’s, though I didn’t recognize it as a gift at the time.

What I find interesting, is that the path becomes apparent as we follow through in the directives handed us in our dreams–and that takes faith or trust.

Living by faith, or living from the heart as some people may think of it, is an example of taking the spiritual realm seriously enough to then bring forth the gift that lies hidden within the directive. Destiny’s call comes from within the spiritual realm, and we take whatever steps to manifest what’s been given. It’s the call from the Spirit Realm that sets the stage for our lives. Obstacles in the path toward manifestation are illusions, and we must overcome them and forge ahead to manifest what’s been given By Spirit.

So, returning to the fact of Dreams as the Seat of Reality, the Dream “Going to Tlalocan,” illustrates it perfectly. I hear the call to become conscious or awake, and I make a conscious decision to pay close attention to the inner voice. This voice tells me something my soul already knows and the dream helps me see and understand the value in being attentive.

When we take into consideration that the Old Dream Sages traveled into other dimensions and communicated with spirits beyond our understanding, we begin to see a complexity to reality that baffles our Western mind. But, it’s precisely because they vibrant and active universe that they had to believe life in the waking time was not the whole truth. It gets murky and circular. For now, I will just say that following the heart (voices from the Spiritual Realms) empowers us to manifest what Destiny has chosen for us; limiting ourselves to the waking self reduces our chance to a magnificent life as designed in the Spiritual Realm. Ignoring the dream and the directive, “know which world we are in and which God we are serving,” bypasses our connection to the wisdom coming from the Spirit Realm, from which True value comes. And this is why The sages believed that the Seat of Reality was in the Dream Time. They saw that life was a vale of tears and deceit, and Dream Time was full of wonder and magic that could be utilized in the waking time. Does that make sense?

Part 2 will delve into multidimensionality and why it’s important to having a rich and authentic life today.

Sweet Dreams,
EBD

Back to Culling the Dream

Published on June 10, 2010 in Destiny and Uncategorized. 0 Comments

What I love about blogging is that I get to see how easily I can get distracted and move onto other things while the draft of a new entry remains a draft for longer than intended.

“Dreams, Sacred Gifts, and Artists as Mystics,” is the title I gave to a new project that was just completed. I got to test some of my theories in hearing artists talk about their art, their sources of inspiration, and their desire to push toward transformation of themselves, their art, and the transformation of the world.

The inspiration for the project came from a dream, but the idea hit me at a time I was busily scrubbing away at the tile in the bathroom thinking about my next move. It was so clear–like a dream that came and said, “Do this. . .” and swiftly flew away. The difference to this shiny new idea is that this time I paid attention and didn’t judge it. I immediately stopped what I was doing, picked up the telephone to make contact with a friend who has access to the services at the Marin Community Media Center in San Rafael, CA. I submitted the proposal as requested, and two month later, I, as moderator, and a group of artists, Gary Politzer, fine art and digital artist; Diana Marto, fine art paper maker and performance artist; and MamaCoAtl, curandera, lyricist and singer, produced a video for public television to put my concepts to the test. It was thrilling–terrifying–but thrilling!

I froze, and we’ll have to do a voice over to cover up my shaky and faulty beginning, but so what! It got done and something good is coming out of it. Grand ideas don’t come to fruition unless we walk through the fire and spring them to life. So many times, I’ve had great ideas, instantly discounted them as absurd, and promptly laid them to rest before their glorious moment.

As the Guatemalan Day Keepers say, “The dream will struggle against the dreamer to be forgotten.” We must learn the art of stalking dreams and capturing them. Manifesting them must come from force of habit; otherwise, they become like King Tut’s jewels hidden within the dark mysterious chambers of Giza.

Here is an excerpt from Chapter Seven: Sacred Gifts of Corn Woman Sings which suggests you court your dreams and the gifts they bear:

“The topic of sacred gifts, most often merely called power, is vast and multileveled. As mentioned in the previous chapter, destiny calls, leaves directves and brings with it the tools to follow through. For us as dreamers, taking action is as important as receiving destiny’s request. . . The dreamer’s responsibility is to honor the gifts and follow the dictates of destiny according to the power that the gifts impart to you. Gifts of healing, seeing the future and the past, anticipating death, creative endeavors, and the like–carry with them responsibility to the spirit realm. These gifts are for the perpetuation and empowerment of the community. Their unfolding happens while we participate in listening and doing our part in making our mind, body and spirit ready for them. . .”

Dream:

“A group of students are filming their instructor’s lecture in the Financial District in San Francisco where I am having lunch on a low stone wall. The professor, a stocky Mexican man with black wavy hair, announces in his tutorial voice, ‘You must sing your song. When you have a song, you must sing it out joyously.’ That’s his lecture. With his talk concluded, he breaks into song–beautiful waves of energy flow from his lips like the music of silver bells. A Luscious melody resounds in my being, and the world stops to listen reverently. ‘Just sing your song. Everyone has a song to sing. Belt it out!’ He laughs sweetly.”

According to the Native Sages and Dreamers, the seat of reality lies within our dreams. There is a greater over-arching purpose that reveals itself to us over the course of our lives. Our job is to understand what that purpose is, and follow through on the smaller assignments that come to us as day dreams or flights of fancy. Stick to what makes your heart sing. Life just makes more sense that way.

Sing your song.
EBD