Chicana Dreamer

When I was a girl in hot, dusty, Stockton, California in the 1950’s, my father often came to breakfast with a report of his dreams. I remember the morning he arrived at the table looking rather agitated. “Soñé de una vivora que no me dejaba pasar el camino,” he reported to my mother. “A terrifying snake wouldn’t let me cross a road. I froze and couldn’t move.” Mother listened and thought for a moment,

“Is that all?” She asked. “Why didn’t you pray? You should have prayed, and asked for God’s help!” She insisted.

“I was paralyzed; I couldn’t move, and I couldn’t think,” he repeated.

He just laughed at her, and she exaggerated her dismay at his ignorance with a nudge on his shoulder.

Of course, now, fifty or sixty years later, we are learning the invaluable lessons of focused concentration. Thanks to the movie, “What the ..(Bleep).. Do We Know?” it’s fairly common knowledge that even water has the capacity to respond to positive or negative thought forms. This suggests that in dreams it’s even more important to exercise choice on what messages we will respond to from the subconscious mind.

In our Dream Circle starting September 9, 2011, we will direct our attention to the symbols and Dream Guides that smooth the progress of manifesting our heart’s yearning. In the coming weeks in this blog, I will be discussing in greater detail how our dreams influence our creativity and how we can take steps to engage the Muse within to benefit our goals and visions for our lives. The popular ‘law of attraction’ works when we align our subconscious with our desires.

Some preliminary steps need to be taken before we navigate the depths: First let’s address the separation between sleeping and waking that interferes with our ability to communicate with the Feminine, the Divine, that are at the deeper levels of our consciousness. In my book Corn Woman Sings . . . I often liken this separation to a curtain that needs to be intentionally pulled back, or worn out to such a frazzle that the threadbare remains literally crumble and fall.

My definition of Awakening, so that you can understand what this upcoming Dream Circle holds at its central core, is that we be so focused there is no curtain. With our eyes open or shut, we are aware of the Truth; the Truth that runs like a laser beam throughout our consciousness is the fire that alights our activities with the splendor and wonder of our true Likeness of the Feminine and power of creativity. This is the lamp we want to guide our paths. Our minds must be as direct as the rays of the sun that light our world.

We need the consciousness that banishes the thought of sacrifice or punishment or sin from our minds to bring us to the altar of Strength, Wisdom, and Innocence; Where our consciousness and awareness of the Divine travel on the same beam of light, as opposed to being static and stagnant in darkness waiting for the spark from a beam of light that may or may not ever arrive. We need our efforts to be in communion with the Divine, where we are ever present in the Moment; where Power is at our fingertips, the tip of our tongue, and instant healing is the norm.

To have such power of discernment and creativity, we must labor at traveling between dimensions so that the curtain finally drops. We provide this all-important task the single mindedness it merits when we choose to become awake in our dreams. When Destiny calls, we must be prepared.

However in the past I have shrunk from Awareness, I now commit to being present and letting the Divine be the lantern for my life. I step aside and let Its Light shine upon my mind, to be used for Its intents and purposes.

Next week, we’ll talk more about the ways that Dream Awareness helps us garner power and clarity for our creative and spiritual aspirations.