The People of the Longhouse, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) People, have for centuries all times of the year for many occasions given thanks to all life.

Give thanks in your own way and enjoy and share this version of the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address.

Thanksgiving Address

Greetings to the Natural World

The People

Today we have gathered and we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People.

Now our minds are one.

The Earth Mother

We are all thankful to our Mother, the Earth, for she gives us all that we need for life. She supports our feet as we walk about upon her. It gives us joy that she continues to care for us as she has from the beginning of time. To our Mother, we send greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Waters

We give thanks to all the Waters of the world for quenching our thirst and providing us with strength. Water is life. We know its power in many forms—waterfalls and rain, mists and streams, rivers and oceans. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to the spirit of Water.

Now our minds are one.

The Fish

We turn our minds to all the Fish life in the water. They were instructed to cleanse and purify the water. They also give themselves to us as food. We are grateful that we can still find pure water. So, we turn now to the Fish and send our greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Plants

Now we turn toward the vast fields of Plant life. As far as the eye can see, the Plants grow, working many wonders. They sustain many life forms. With our minds gathered together, we give thanks and look forward to seeing Plant life for many generations to come.

Now our minds are one.

The Food Plants

With one mind, we turn to honor and thank all the Food Plants we harvest from the garden. Since the beginning of time, the grains, vegetables, beans and berries have helped the people survive. Many other living things draw strength from them too. We gather all the Plant Foods together as one and send them a greeting and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Medicine Herbs

Now we turn to all the Medicine Herbs of the world. From the beginning, they were instructed to take away sickness. They are always waiting and ready to heal us. We are happy there are still among us those special few who remember how to use these plants for healing. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to the Medicines and to the keepers of the Medicines.

Now our minds are one.

The Animals

We gather our minds together to send greetings and thanks to all the Animal life in the world. They have many things to teach us as people. We see them near our homes and in the deep forests. We are glad they are still here and we hope that it will always be so.

Now our minds are one.

The Trees

We now turn our thoughts to the Trees. The Earth has many families of Trees who have their own instructions and uses. Some provide us with shelter and shade, others with fruit, beauty, and other useful things. Many peoples of the world use a Tree as a symbol of peace and strength. With one mind, we greet and thank the Tree life.

Now our minds are one.

The Birds

We put our minds together as one and thank all the Birds who move and fly about over our heads. The Creator gave them beautiful songs. Each day they remind us to enjoy and appreciate life. The Eagle was chosen to be their leader. To all the Birds—from the smallest to the largest— we send our joyful greetings and thanks.

Now our minds are one.

The Four Winds

We are all thankful to the powers we know as the Four Winds. We hear their voices in the moving air as they refresh us and purify the air we breathe. They help to bring the change of seasons. From the four directions they come, bringing us messages and giving us strength. With one mind, we send our greetings and thanks to the Four Winds.

Now our minds are one.

The Thunderers

Now we turn to the west where our Grandfathers, the Thunder Beings, live. With lightening and thundering voices, they bring with them the water that renews life. We bring our minds together as one to send greetings and thanks to our Grandfathers, the Thunderers.

Now our minds are one.

The Sun

We now send greetings and thanks to our eldest Brother, the Sun. Each day without fail he travels the sky from east to west, bringing the light of a new day. He is the source of all the fires of life. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to our Brother, the Sun.

Now our minds are one.

Grandmother Moon

We put our minds together and give thanks to our oldest Grandmother, the Moon, who lights the nighttime sky. She is the leader of women all over the world, and she governs the movement of the ocean tides. By her changing face we measure time, and it is the Moon who watches over the arrival of children here on Earth. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to our Grandmother, the Moon.

Now our minds are one.

The Stars

We give thanks to the Stars who are spread across the sky like jewelry. We see them in the night, helping the Moon to light the darkness and bringing dew to the gardens and growing things. When we travel at night, they guide us home. With our minds gathered together as one, we send greetings and thanks to all the Stars.

Now our minds are one.

The Enlightened Teachers

We gather our minds to greet and thank the enlightened Teachers who have come to help throughout the ages. When we forget how to live in harmony, they remind us of the way we were instructed to live as people. With one mind, we send greetings and thanks to these caring Teachers.

Now our minds are one.

The Creator

Now we turn our thoughts to the Creator, or Great Spirit, and send greetings and thanks for all the gifts of Creation. Everything we need to live a good life is here on this Mother Earth. For all the love that is still around us, we gather our minds together as one and send our choicest words of greetings and thanks to the Creator.

Now our minds are one.

Closing Words

We have now arrived at the place where we end our words. Of all the things we have named, it was not our intention to leave anything out. If something was forgotten, we leave it to each individual to send such greetings and thanks in their own way.

And now our minds are one.

In a whispered breeze or bellowed power

to Nature’s rhythm

The wind speaks of its duty to man, beast and plants

Over the high seas and rivers calm.

He does his cleansing and caressing to all,

Forever carrying a message for future generations.

“My duties are many. Many that Man does not know…..

I am vital.

On my currents are carried the future for the Universe.

I ebb and flow with power, beauty and love…

No beginning, no end”.

“I am Wind”

Small Voice

1998

Seems everyone is clearing and releasing these days including elders. Just last week Small Voice found this treasure tucked in box and put away more than 10 years ago, how wonderful she kept it and it can be shared here.

Dear Garden Blog Readers ~  Flowers of Light with luminous roots that reach deep into our planet and petals so bright the stars smile… our time is NOW

This one has been silent these past months… quietly revitalizing in a cocoon of light and just emerging now, in part to share some of the wonders within and without. So over time there will be writings… “Whispers from the Cocoon“. today though I want to share with you a timely and most awesome gathering …

A CALL TO ALL

THE GREAT EMBRACE

It takes little Earthly time to join in, to view the simple site, to be part of the collective wave of love building and washing over our dear EARTH. Please take a moment to view the short video, open your heart to the waves… sign on, let the people of  Earth know you are counted in during these times of creation and emergence of the heightened consciousness of humanity.

www.globalintentionsforearth.org

Brightest of Blessings for all Humanity and all Earth,

Rainy

Dear Friends of the Garden,

Its summer here in New York, we’ve had lots of rain and everything is green and overgrowing. Here though in the lumimous garden it’s been quiet, the blog entries and messages are piling up, just waiting for me to get to it… so what’s going on?

I have been and really still am in a deep quiet space, its been for a while now and I thought I’d offer a bit of an explanation for my absence in case anyone was wondering. Especially I want to share some about this experience as I feel others may have gone or will go through something similar.

A few months back I found myself shying away from my usual communications in person and on the net. I went with it as time has taught me to listen to inner guidance even when not understanding at all what was happening. Participation in projects and causes that both pull at and lift my heart I have taken a hiatus from too.

I’ve wrestled with not carrying on as usual and still do not have the full understanding of why this silence. I read a lot less too. I’ve kept a bit of chatter up on face book but that is mostly passing on information. Periods of quiet are not unfamiliar to me but there is something much different in this one. What I have clearly come to know, my spirit is cocooning in a beautiful restful place.

Once I dropped the concern about not connecting in the garden forum, entering the blog notes and  conversing on other sites, I began to feel the brightness and the support of this silent magical place.

My extra senses livened, the mystic ears of my heart now hear sweet tones of the coming age and whispers of the change birthing vibrates etheric fibers, softly resonating around the walls of my cocoon. The mystic eye of my being sees the shifting of the molecules forming the layers of material substance. Showers of light are pouring, soaking into the cocoon and into all the spirits upon and within our Earth and beyond. The luminous rain I have witnessed for years is coming in sheets… rays upon rays of exquisite new light.

How is this different from all that gets talked about with the coming age? For me it is no longer talk, it has moved from my mind and heart to sensation and vision. I feel like the walls of reality are dropping away ,like in the movie Inception, as they fall and diffuse imprints of the new shapes forming are growing from transparent to translucent.

Every day life, doing the simple things, I’ve certainly kept up with and it feels richer than before. The world is rushing past my cocoon, intense weather, intense politics and economic chaos, its all there but does not alarm me as from this sheltered place I have a clear sense all is going to be very OK. The frenzy humans are creating will ease, fear release and we will begin to fill out the frame work of the age we have heard is coming. It’s not far off now.

I’m grateful for this quite, it feels like I’m not only resting but becoming familiar with new energies that will animate my being. This is all very personal and yet I really feel others are going through something similar. I don’t know how long the cocooning will last, and it feels so good, I don’t really care.

I can’t say when I’ll get back to adding things to the forum or the blog or new pages to the garden… there are many ideas half created and just waiting to be finished. A sister site too is in process.… WE TOUCH EARTH…

Hoping this makes sense to some… and as our dear sister Kathleen says… just sharing thoughts…..

Bright Blessings to you all,
rainy

by Brendan Hill

We are a seed planted in the ground. We feel misplaced and out of the ordinary but we continue to pursue growth from within. We take in light and information from our surroundings which allows us to grow to a higher level. We seek more sunlight and energy the more we grow. We soon realize why we felt misplaced. We show color in a colorless atmosphere, we show brilliance in a dull world and we absorb sunlight in a harsh environment.

We look up, instead of down, even though the only observable life forms are below us. We continue to expand, despite the overwhelming pressure to contract. We feel alone in the world with only black and white colors surrounding our spectacular rainbow-like colors as we penetrate deep within the heart of the desolate land.

For hope of existence we reach down beneath the arid soil and lift the nutrients to a higher realm. Once we have reached our peak performance, once we have reached the point of no return, once we have evolved into our true magnificent self, we are able to spread our beauty outward by planting our wisdom for the seeds to follow.

The unknown world we once thought we lived in becomes known. The dark, dry, desolate land we grew up in becomes soaked in our color and the height we once achieved long ago has now become the norm of this new world. The seeds we once planted have turned a non-existent world into existence, a “do not disturb” area into a prosperous new future and have brought hope to a lost and out of the ordinary landscape.

We are a wildflower; growing, expanding, and ever evolving.

Desert Lily

We are grateful here at the Garden for Brendan sharing his stories. He is an amazing young writer and we hope soon to be able to direct you to his own blog site.

by Theresa Varela

My problem with the paranormal is that it’s become the mundane. Blogging about something that’s about as typical as tooth brushing makes for a challenge. I could ask you what you dreamt last night, whether your thoughts became clearer in the shower this morning or what the homeless man yelled out to you when you passed him on the corner. But recognizing various means of communication is an essential part of living comfortably with the paranormal.

We receive messages via all sorts of media. Some of us see with our two eyes and many of us with the third in the middle of our foreheads. Some of us listen to our iPods and others sit in meditation and listen to their inner voices. Imagine how long our lists would be if we charted down each time we received a message?

Defining the paranormal is simply complex. The definition depends on who is asking and who is doing the defining. Look up the term and you’ll see paranormal is described as being from something ‘out of the range of normal’ to UFOs. That’s pretty vast in itself. I’ve sat with many entities, theoreticians, my own spiritual guides and a bunch of others to discuss what the paranormal means. We all love to give our opinions.

I started writing this on the train to work this morning with the plan to finish it on the way home. As I was walking along Second Avenue, passing another worker, someone I see but have never been introduced to, I heard ‘check your blood pressure.’ The message was as loud as could be. Immediately, I thought, oh no, I can’t tell her this! She’s going to be frightened. My common sense kicked in, fortunately, and I knew that I had to share the message with her. My thinking told me that I would not be able to live with myself if something happened to her and I hadn’t shared the message. So I did. I felt a bit quirky when I turned back around and introduced myself. After about two minutes of small talk I delivered the message. She did look a little fearful but simply said, I understand this, and vowed to get it checked. She also promised to let me know what the result was.

I feel pretty good because I listened and took a decisive action on something that I could have chalked up to my imagination. The larger issue is that I can be of service to another by listening to the voices that tell me some things. There are areas of this that I may not be certain of, but helping another is something I am always sure is taking right action. Pretty mundane isn’t it?

More of Theresa’s writings can be found at theresavarela.com, LATINALIBATIONS, and LA PLUMA Y LA TINTA

“The Golden Sun’s Light Portal and Mother Earth’s Light Activations”

Dear One,

It is I, El Morya, Keeper of the Golden Flame. Today, we wish to remind you of the Grace of your Golden Sun. Its wisdom . . . and its place as a Divine Portal of Light . . . that invites you into Higher Realms of Consciousness. This Light of your Solar Sun is a Cosmic Light, a Galactic Light, a Divine Light, that expands multidimensionally into the ethers. It’s wisdom and power still largely unknown to most beings walking the earth path right now. But I will share with you . . . that if you can connect to its Light, it is a Cascading Fountain of Youth for you. It’s a Source of Divine Power, long misunderstood. It’s gifts and nourishments are many, and are yet to be rediscovered. Call on the Sun, the Solar Sun, to awaken and resonate with your Inner Sun, especially on cloudy days in your thinking, feeling, and shifting process. It will help to ground you in the Light, that you Truly Are and in All That Is.

Dear One – your path ahead is clear. It may not feel this way at the moment. But be reassured . . . every step taken in this long walk upon on the earth . . . was to bring you to this moment of Divine Expansion. There is Divine Timing and a sequence of Divine Coordinates that are taking place, within and without. Stay grounded in your Truth. Anchor in the Light. Feel safe where you are, and in what you feel called to do. Rest in the reassurance that we are with you, exalting you, loving you, and calling forth the inner wisdom within you, to rise and resurrect the wisdom of Life Eternal within you. Ask your Higher Chakras to lead with their Wisdom, and your Lower Chakras to yield to the Wisdom of the All-Knowing, All-Balancing Heart.

Dear One – there is a sea of fear flowing and churning about. You have perceived this fear, and [at times] taken it in as your own. But we say, cast it out by releasing and cleansing it to its proper place in the ascension story, healed and whole now, for all eternity. Embrace the Love and Light shining as Bright as the Sun, grounded in the Eternal Light, of All Time, Space, and Experiences. Embrace the knowing within, that your tasks are equal to the level of self-mastery that you already hold within. And those tasks then are the awakening codes of your own DNA and Light Body, to radiantly expand and know itself to you again.

Dear One – the Great Mother wishes for you to know that she [loves you]. In this mutual field of love energy, much is aligning to birth forth a new consciousness. A new Beingness. A new flowering seed for the experience of new Light Realms of Love, Peace, Unity, and Bliss.

She is in your heart, aligning you with the Codes of Light, that she carries within as well. She is a Friend, and the Grand Mother to All Beings of Light and Light Codes within the Core Cellular Structure of All Living Things. You must trust her Light Activations within. You must transmute fear by allowing these Light Codes to disable fear’s vibrational frequencies and activate the True Synergetics, Harmonies, and Sound Healing of the Universe within. All of Source Essence exists within you. May you walk in its Light, and allow it to comfort your fears, so you may Truly Know the Sun’s Light shining from within. Let go to the Earth Mother and the Rising Soul Energy within. That is the recalibration unfolding. Resisting only makes the perceived challenges stronger. Ease and flow with it. Allow yourself to feel the Stream of Divine Consciousness within you . . . recalibrating and knowing itself . . . within you.

Blessings Dear One. We love you.

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by Shamai Currim PhD ~ Dream Feather

My first thought on entering into and researching material for writing this paper on working with the Dreamtime was that I would be reviewing material that spoke to the dream space. In my naiveté I didn’t include the dreaming wish, the other worlds, or the steps beyond. While I have done much inner growth, have practiced mediation for many years, and have worked over the years with Shamans, Elders, Traditional Dreamers, Mystics and Saints, I had not been aware of the multitude of information that had in the past, and now in the present been revealed, with accuracy and with determination of spirit, to provide the physical provings so necessary in today’s concrete world. I had moved well beyond the symbolic language, journals, and lucid practices. I was eager to find, put into words, the experiences I have been living.

Malcolm Godwin takes us into the world of lucid dreaming. He suggests that we become active participants in the dream world, encouraging us to find the true reality. Wolf, when referring to the stages of self-awareness, tells us that the ‘observer’ is actually a more advanced stage of consciousness. Godwin goes on to say that we should move beyond the assumption that the observer is outside of the observed, but is, in actuality, an affecter of its observations. Of course we know that lucid dreaming actually means taking responsibility for ones own actions/life, choosing reflection over reaction. When the restlessness of change brings with it greater responsibility for choice of action/non action, the dreamer must choose between devotion and devouration. Godwin suggests that the role of sleep is biological as well as psychological, carrying the significance of practicing our waking environment, and he reminds us that “lucidity, or alert attentiveness is closest to the original state of witnessing consciousness”. (Godwin, P.77).

Dreams can be used as a tool to empower or disempower. Through the act of visualization or the action of Gestalt, a therapist can move the client from believed helplessness to a felt sense of empowerment, from a loss of self to a strengthened sense of ego. The dreamtime state can also be used to take power away from those that are most vulnerable. Much of my work over the past few years has dealt with the Dissociative state, another form of dreaming. Fred Wolf’s introduction of Libet’s work and the importance of the perception/time marker signal could be compared to the programming procedures done on Satanic Ritual Abuse survivors. If the abuse is done quickly, and at a very young age, and the stimulus does not reach the brain’s perceptive understanding, then, in fact, the abused will feel like he is in a dreamlike state, unable to differentiate physical fact from fiction (dissociation). “They separated their bodies into parts in their minds” (Wolf, P.99) Since, as Wolf says, the ability to consciously veto an action is not the same mechanism as the ability to become aware of the intention to act, and, because inhibitory mechanisms delimit the spread of activity in the cortex, we can understand the use of psychoactive drug induced awareness which depresses inhibition (the cults use of inhibitory and analgesic drugs). He further goes on to speculate that, with electrical activity, or sensory cortex manipulation, the same type of imagery could be experienced by different people, giving possible proof of collective consciousness. Since unification and consolidation form the concept of an “I”, largely through the activities of the dreaming brain, the cult keeps the mind of its members in a fantasy reality where they can direct and exploit the victim’s inability to reason within moral inhibitions. Wolf also refers to the work of Crick and Mitchison, proposing that since brain neurons are excitory rather than inhibitory, they have the capacity for associative memory. He refers to using memory overload to create memory extinction, leaving certain memories stronger and easier to access, the dream of a person seeking mind control over another.

Wolf, when he refers to the aboriginal people, states that the dream world is considered to be the real time, or real world, while the physical world is considered to be the dreaming. He refers to the objective component (the action) and the subjective component (the awareness of the self in the observation).

He also talks about REM sleep giving us easier access to our waking state, an aid for primitive cultures, and he refers to hypnagogic dreaming, the space between awake and asleep, and the images which can also occur when a person is left in a darkened room for extended periods of time.

When Wolf talks about the essence of time, he suggests that the chronological time line on which we put the events of our lives does not apply to the dreaming. They are not historical-time based. “That doesn’t mean they are not real or that they didn’t happen or for that matter are not happening now” (Wolf, P.150). This reminds me of the experiences of working with past lives, which don’t always follow a logical sequence, or may appear to have overlaps of time. He also states that “Duration is not governed by the clock but by the business at hand” (Wolf, P.151), which in past life language means that it is not important whether the work is, in reality, connected to another space and time. We need to just the work that is presented to us, in the present moment, and is to be dealt with, in the present moment.

I loved hearing the aboriginal story of creation, where each part dreams the next, with the human being last. The basic driving force of the universe is seen as the capacity to dream, to bring into existence, to use the ability to go beyond that which is, to dream. From here we awaken the consciousness that we are more than our existence, and so, have a larger responsibility in the creation and caretaking of life.

In speaking to the quantum wave theory of transactional interpretation, one sees the stream/counter stream that is dependant on the observer for interpretation. In this reinforcement of self and other “they then cancel each other out in the space outside these events and before the initial or offering event and after the final or echoing event” (Wolf, P.163). While this refers to the understanding that there must be two before there can be one (the reality of consciousness), it also reverberates to the loss of boundaries when doing balance/counterbalance exercises. In my experience this form of movement, which goes from the physical to the transpersonal, helps to eliminate physical barriers, aiding the healer to see beyond and within the structure of the physical form. This would help to explain the experiences of the Intuitive Healer or the abilities of the psychic persona.

Whether dreams are replays of daily events, chances for expansion, soul travel, experiences from other dimensions, re-tells, pre-tells, post-tells, or psychic prophecy or intuition, dreams can be worked with, encouraged, cajoled, and understood symbolically or perceptually. We can be observers, active participants, or find ourselves somewhere in between, and we can even ‘dream storm’ in order to find an answer. We can be catalyst, pacifist, or reactionary. We can set intention through prayer and bring potential forward.

We can be believer, or nonbeliever, and still find ourselves falling into the dream state.

We can believe that the dreaming is our reality, or that our reality falls somewhere between the dreaming and the waking, or that the only true reality lives only in the physical. The dreaming may be our potential, our unconscious, or even guidance from our superconscious. It may be from our state of Id or Ego, I or not I, and can be seen as guidance, repression, or denial from our multi-faceted self. Dreams can be objective or subjective, observed or experienced, group oriented or soliloquy, orderly or in disarray, full of possibilities or actualities, correlated or separated, pre, post or present process, communal or self oriented, telepathic, conceptive, existential, gestalt, precognitive, paranormal, prophetic, or species connected, controlling or controlled, related or unrelated, and may have nothing to do with any of this. Dream theory is still rather speculative and is best understood through experience. We have proof of some theories, perceptions of others, direct experience with others. I like Wolf’s idea that ego is constructing causality while Id is synchronizing events and meaning that deal with feeling and intuition, that the future is directing and correcting our actions and always leading us forward, and that the need to see the beyond is a result of early childhood trauma.

Now, if we add in the work of Wilder Penfield, we move into the speculation that certain areas of the brain hold memory, and produce a dreamlike state when electrically stimulated. The question arises, then, whether the memory state is produced by stimulation, or whether the memory produces the stimulation, through the induced fear.

The question that Wolf brings forward, and then answers, is the one that states that children that have been abused, who have the capacity for dissociation or alternate reality experiences, who have the physical ability to suppress the self and effect the change, may be the majority of reported cases of NDE and UFO experiences. He appears to state that this is a physical phenomenon, capable of being induced. Perhaps this gives us another reason for the efficacy of the EMDR work that is being accomplished in therapeutic settings today. It is important for me to note here, as well, that the meditative practice of Surat Shabd Yoga can produce the same experience as NDEs, and that not all practitioners have been abused as children.

Wolf refers to the five levels in the dream. I believe it takes us five levels just to be able to come to a level of conscious awareness. From here, it is said, we travel the five dream loops and the 24 levels of dreaming (Tardiff, 2003) and, with more self- consciousness, we can work with and from the worlds beyond. The Kalacakra system refers to thirty-one realms. The Yogacara didn’t work with anything except the inner world. The Cuna Indians descended vertically through eight levels of Kalus and ascended progressively higher through eight aerial levels. My sense is that this opening to other depends on how easily we are able to move out of illusion and beyond the self. I have enjoyed watching my dreamtime move from black and white, two dimensionality, to full colour, multi dimensionality, ethnicity, and otherworldly. I also wish to mention here that age is of no consequence. I have met children who are natural dreamers, able to work and travel in the dreamtime at will. With support they do not lose this ability, but rather, are capable of bringing this forward into their everyday lives. The dreaming and awake states become one.

The questions I came into this paper with were: what is the difference between the dream state and the meditative state? What is the process of consciously moving through the dream loops, or many different levels of the dream state? Is there more of an opening into the dreamtime state now that we, as a paradigm, are moving towards consciousness? Or will that mean that we will no longer have use for/ need of the dream state? I come out of this writing with questions around Quantum Mechanics and the model of waves/particles. I am intrigued by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and its fixed law of imperfection. It amazes me to see the copious amount of dream work that goes on in our society. When I think of the dream state, I think of a state of being/becoming. Our scientifically oriented society seems to have the need to create the provings. If one would move with Wolf’s holographic ideal of real and virtual images, one could concede that in order to reach a higher level of dreaming, one would need more clear light, and yet it is this light that creates the alternative action of the electrons. Perhaps when one becomes fully conscious then there will no longer be a need to retain the dream state. I would, to the contrary, like to propose that, when we have reached a full state of consciousness, we would no longer have a need for the body. We will become, reawaken, return to the dream. As Wolf said “Matter Dreams”.

What I especially liked, when the material began to come together, is the fact that in all the work, in all the studies, in all the different facets of the sciences, the reality of all of this research really comes down to the one question we all continuously ask ourselves “where do we come from?” For it is in this search for the knowing of self/Self that we begin the journey, lucid or asleep. It is within these travels, this life journey, that that we find our true reason for being/becoming, matter enfolding and unfolding, present in the finding and returning to the nature of our true authentic selves.

References:

• Godwin, Malcolm (1994), The Lucid Dreamer: A Waking Guide for the Traveler Between Worlds, NY, Labrinthe
• Tardiff, Lisa (2003), Rattling the Bones, unpublished
• Van de Castle, Robert (1994), Our Dreaming Mind: A Sweeping Exploration of the Role that Dreams Have Played in Politics, Art, Religion, and Psychology, From Ancient Civilizations to the Present Day, NY, Ballantine
• Varela, J. (1997), Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with The Dalai Lama, Boston, Wisdom
• Wolf, Fred Alan (1994), The Dreaming Universe: A Mind Expanding Journey into the Realm Where Psyche and Physics Meet, NY, Simon & Schuster

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