Posts from ‘July, 2012’

THE BLOOD-AND-GUTS OF DREAMING

One thing that confounds even the most dream-savvy among us is the degree to which some of our dreams are gory and disturbing. Here is one key to understand: the dreaming mind expresses emotional violence in scenes of physical wounding. The dreaming mind is vigilant about personal evolution, satisfaction and self-expression. These are not trivial [...]

BRINGING INTUITION INTO YOUR BLIND SPOTS

Twenty years ago, when I was asked to teach a class on intuition, I went in search for books on the topic. I could only find two: both focused on using a pendulum and opening the third eye. I have nothing against those ideas, but did not really see how they would fit in at [...]

DID THE VOLCANO SPIT YOU OUT?

A mistake unmade: Years ago, I worked with a man whose dream taught me a beautiful life lesson. In the dream, he had lost his way and attempted to recover by leaping into a raging volcano. Incredibly, his spiraling free-fall to death was reversed and he whooshed back out again: the volcano spit him out! [...]