Natural Dreamwork with Mary Jo
How many times a day do we find ourselves checking our phones, e-mail, Twitter, Facebook? What is it we’re hoping to find? Who is it we’re hoping to hear from? And yet some part of us knows we’ll recognize it when we see it. Running through us like a subterranean current is this ineffable yearning, …
Dream – Night, in an unfamiliar house, with three other children. A monster is coming. We are running around getting ready. One girl is brave and runs into the yard and then she yells that she sees him in the corner of the yard. I am standing near her and can barely make him out …
Dreams have always had a strong presence in my life. I’ve written before about my lifelong relationship to my dreams beginning with my first remembered dream, age four, which kept alive in me an awareness of this nightly world filled with mystery, excitement and grief. Dreams also had another strong presence in my childhood home. …
A few years ago I took a course on Dream Yoga, the Tibetan approach to dreams. One of the first things that struck me is the idea that in our dreams we work out karma. This feels encouraging that our soul is always being met and supported. …and it also feels a bit frustrating. So …