What is a dream, anyway, and why should I care about them?

A dream is a message from the unconscious showing the dreamer what is needed to progress on the path to wholeness and healing.

When we fall asleep each night, we enter a realm of limitless possibility and profound potential. We dream. Although we may not remember them upon waking, all of us dream.

Human beings are most connected to the Divine at this time than in any other state of consciousness, including those we create artificially through meditation or the use of psychoactive drugs.

If you are looking for a way to profoundly open yourself to Higher Guidance, consider joining a projective dream group.

What is the difference between projective dream work and dream interpretation?

Projective dream work is based on the work of CG Jung, and it differs greatly from simple dream interpretation.

The most important distinction is this: only the dreamer can say with any certainty what meaning his or her dream may have. What that means is, someone else cannot tell you, the dreamer, what your dream means, so regular dream interpretation is not the most useful way to work with your dreams.

I can only tell a dreamer what their dream means if it were my dream. The dreamer chooses whether that fits for them or not.

What happens when we dream?

When we dream, we tap into what Jung called the Collective Unconscious. This is the storehouse of all human experience from the deepest past to the present moment. It records every insight, every awareness and every shift in consciousness of each individual spark that comprises this collective. It is this consciousness that connects us all, and which changes based upon the efforts of each of us, every day.

Now read that last paragraph again. Slowly.

When we enter this space of dreams, we connect with a level of higher consciousness that transcends time and space, and the ego-self that runs our daily waking life is not in charge in this place.

Here, we experience our true nature, our Soul-self. The door opens on a higher perspective to our daily lives that enables us to grow into our fullest potential and free the frozen life force that is holding the greatest of our misconceptions and obstacles in place, if we are willing to mine the wisdom that is being transmitted to us.

You want to change the world? Work with your dreams, preferably in a group.

You want to access what many people call the Akashic Records? Work with your dreams.

You want to expand your awareness and accelerate your spiritual growth and development? Work with your dreams.

What should I do if I want to explore my dreams?

We can work with our dreams individually, but the greatest benefit comes when we work them together in small groups. Each of us is uniquely blind to the deeper meaning of our own dreams.

The Shadow, for example, is our unconscious material. The Shadow is not just our failings and our faults. We all have a Bright Shadow, the talents and gifts we deny.

The Shadow is unconscious because we cannot perceive it for ourselves.

In a group setting, we are able to help a fellow dreamer see the amazing gifts that are there just beneath the surface. And the magical thing about working with dreams in this way is a person cannot see something about the dreamer’s dream unless they can also see it in themselves.

In other words, when you are working with the dreamer’s dream, you are also working on shifting your own awareness.

Find a projective dream group. Sit in the circle with other dreamers and do the work that will change the mind of the collective. One dream, one dreamer, at a time.

In answer to the continued call of the Dream Source, and to honor the memory of my dream Teacher – a true Dream Master – Jeremy Taylor, I call the dreamers together once more.

This is my favorite quote of Jeremy’s:

We human beings, regardless of gender, language, age, ethnic heritage, intelligence, physical capabilities, beliefs, and so on, are only as free as we are conscious and self-aware.

Dreamers, there is work to do.

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