DREAM MEDICINE
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What is Dream Medicine?
The practice of embodying the healing power of dreams. It is a process of renewal and transformation that can lead us into the wholeness of who we are. Dreams, including nightmares, function to restore balance.
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Nancy Huslage is an interfaith minister living in Raleigh, North Carolina USA. She has been leading dream circles since 1994. Nancy believes that dream work takes a person to one’... read more |
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Dream Mirrors of the Self
by Robert Moss One of the most important gifts of our dreams is that they put us in touch with more aspects of ourselves than we have recognized in what Yeats called our “daily trivial minds.” Among these aspects is the famous Shadow, composed of parts of our selves we have repressed or denied (and tend to project on to others in regular life, till we awaken). But we encounter much more than the Shadow. We encounter a whole family of aspects of ourselves, and as we recognize them and bring them together we become much more than we were.   Editors Spotlight
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A number of years ago, while working at a high school in Nassau, New Providence, the capital island of the Bahamas, I was faced with a hot and thorny issue. I had been at the school for many years and had taken on extra work in order to facilitate a rise in enrollment, and lack of sufficient staff. Now, I was hearing 'second hand' that I was being overlooked for promotion and instead, a new coordinator was being brought in from another school...
When the snake shows up in dreams, it almost always evokes a strong response. I have lead dream circles for 15 years and it is a common symbol presented early in each dream group. Since encounter with snakes in waking life are often frightening, they are usually the subject of nightmares in the dream world. While nightmares are frightening, I have found that, once the dream is “unpacked”, the message of a nightmare is usually positive and helpful to the dreamer. Let’s explore what the snake may be trying to tell us...
During a recent interview for my hometown newspaper, I was asked, “How do you know the difference between a dream that has a real message, and a dream that is just messing with you?”...
I sometimes say that dreams are “technology” for the soul. I’m not a technophobe and I think of technology as something that will benefit my life. Since you are reading this article online, for which technology is required, I will imagine that you share this philosophy with me, though it may be a love-hate relationship... 
Dreamwork has been my most rewarding and consistent spiritual practice for 22 years. You might not think of dreams as having anything to do with spirituality but they absolutely do. Carl Jung demonstrated this with exquisite beauty in his recently published The Red Book in which he recorded some of his most meaningful waking and sleeping dreams...
It is a difficult balance to achieve: Realizing that what matters to us most in the world is indeed precious and beautiful and wholly indispensible … but at the same time, all that really matters are the things that are invisible, formless and timeless. This dream dialogue has helped me see the situation from this perspective, and as much as possible to remember the big picture when I start to slip into worry and sadness.
When we have a love for something we strive towards in our everyday life, we may find in dreaming, we can connect with the greater experience and presence of those who have passed on, but their legacy remains. I have dreamt and worked as an activist toward peace and justice for more than 10 years. It is often difficult and thankless work, but clearly needed in order to create change from a culture of violence toward one of peace with justice... 
Most people fear death. Although we know that death is inevitable, there is often a difference between what we believe intellectually and what we experience emotionally. Why is this so? It would seem that such a universal experience could be met with acceptance...
It’s been two years since my mother’s death but I’m still reflecting on the dreams I had at that time. I want to return to that period because I had so many dreams at the time, there was almost an onslaught I couldn’t keep up with. Having lost my father when my siblings and I were all still quite young, our mother became a powerful matriarch. Now that I was losing her, albeit that she was 94 and 5 years into severe dementia, I know I had many mixed feelings. She had for so long been sharp and clear and independent. It was heartbreaking to see her totally dependent...
Lucid dreaming doesn’t work for everyone, but those that do find themselves able to induce
I love Halloween because it reminds me of scary ghost stories and the corny television shows I used to love as a kid. 
Dreams bring constant reminders that our journey is all about affirming life and being in deep relationship with a transcendent source. Dreamers who are in daily dialogue with their dreams speak of recurring symbols that serve as little navigation lights for traveling into the depths of sacred mystery...
