05-01-2009, 12:00 AM
Hey docta lee,
Your post had caught my attention the other day when I read it, but I did not post because what I wanted to tell you about your dream is at odds with the
warrior approach to dreams, but last night I had a bit of a dream of posting to you, so here it goes.
I think you did have a power dream, but forces in your own ego are consuming your energy and you can't understand it clearly. What I would suggest you do,
and this is in a way strattling a fence, is use this active imagination process developed by Ann Faraday. She wrote two books on dreaming in the 70's, then
had an enlightenment experience by waking up one morning and having no ego attachment, she was just awareness, and she wrote no more about her process. Her
books are The Dream Game and Dream Power. You can read about her on angelfire, a search engine I think.
Her process is very effective in removing blocks caused by elements in ourselves that need to be addressed and paid attention to before we can move on to
freedom. What you would do to have more clarity of this dream is to pick a character in the dream and have a conversation with it, write down both responses,
switch back and forth between yourself asking questions of the dream character, then write their answer, you will be supprised at what they tell you. The best
way to approach this would be to get into a meditative state first before you begin, I would meditate or do a visualization excercise, but I feel for you the
best way to get into this light trance state(a doorway into creativity) is to use your drumming, then when you feel all trancy, do the active imagination
conversation with the dream characters, I'd start with that girl with the pony tail, she sounds pissed at you. What I think she is is an element of your
ego that you have not paid attention to, Faraday would call her an underdog, and by paying attention to them, you would potentially release a good bit of
energy, because enormous amounts of energy are held the shadow side of our personality. This is different from the warrior path where the shadow should be
avoided, and I think they mean something far more sinister. I think we need more wholeness in ourselves before we can progress to certain levels, and if you
integrate these aspects you can move with more fluidity - this is what I meant by straddling a fence, you have your feet in both worlds like CC was told by DJ.
I know that in that senario, dreams are to be disgarded, but I think that this is a paradox we are facing, and you might have to do some dreams work for
integration since you are stuck, then move on.
I know I rambled a lot when writing, I hope I have been clear, it is just that I have just gotten out of bed and remembered the dream I had of posting. Good
luck with understanding your dream.
Artwarrior
Your post had caught my attention the other day when I read it, but I did not post because what I wanted to tell you about your dream is at odds with the
warrior approach to dreams, but last night I had a bit of a dream of posting to you, so here it goes.
I think you did have a power dream, but forces in your own ego are consuming your energy and you can't understand it clearly. What I would suggest you do,
and this is in a way strattling a fence, is use this active imagination process developed by Ann Faraday. She wrote two books on dreaming in the 70's, then
had an enlightenment experience by waking up one morning and having no ego attachment, she was just awareness, and she wrote no more about her process. Her
books are The Dream Game and Dream Power. You can read about her on angelfire, a search engine I think.
Her process is very effective in removing blocks caused by elements in ourselves that need to be addressed and paid attention to before we can move on to
freedom. What you would do to have more clarity of this dream is to pick a character in the dream and have a conversation with it, write down both responses,
switch back and forth between yourself asking questions of the dream character, then write their answer, you will be supprised at what they tell you. The best
way to approach this would be to get into a meditative state first before you begin, I would meditate or do a visualization excercise, but I feel for you the
best way to get into this light trance state(a doorway into creativity) is to use your drumming, then when you feel all trancy, do the active imagination
conversation with the dream characters, I'd start with that girl with the pony tail, she sounds pissed at you. What I think she is is an element of your
ego that you have not paid attention to, Faraday would call her an underdog, and by paying attention to them, you would potentially release a good bit of
energy, because enormous amounts of energy are held the shadow side of our personality. This is different from the warrior path where the shadow should be
avoided, and I think they mean something far more sinister. I think we need more wholeness in ourselves before we can progress to certain levels, and if you
integrate these aspects you can move with more fluidity - this is what I meant by straddling a fence, you have your feet in both worlds like CC was told by DJ.
I know that in that senario, dreams are to be disgarded, but I think that this is a paradox we are facing, and you might have to do some dreams work for
integration since you are stuck, then move on.
I know I rambled a lot when writing, I hope I have been clear, it is just that I have just gotten out of bed and remembered the dream I had of posting. Good
luck with understanding your dream.
Artwarrior