Dream Matters
Dream Matters is the portal for Dreams and their Corollaries where I post about the dreams spaces (barzakhs. third spaces, special gates, communities) and dream imaginaires. Dream language has its own poetics, and I add more personal musings and dreams. Attend to your dreams! Approach your other worlds with care.
Resources (updated periodically)
- International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). A remarkably diverse group of adepts and scholars. It permits one to work out in space while tethered to the mother ship.
- Embodied Dreaming ,is a very powerful form of dream work originated by Robert Bosnak. (The Basics of the Embodied Imagination, Jung Institute of Chicago)
- Dream Tending articles by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat Chancellor and Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute
- Experimental Research on Dreaming… State of the Art and Neuropsychoanalytic Perspectives (article)
See Dream Bibliography below
Dreaming Social Change (potential course)
Visions, prophesies, dreams have shaken and inspired many to work for the ‘peaceable kingdom.’ In modern life, few expect to speak or hear these languages. While we may not be able to see visions or prophesy, we all dream. We need to revive the ancient understanding that dreams are not only personal property; they can belong to the community. Early Quaker social witness was compelled by prophetic dreams. Did you know that a Quaker dream inspired abolitionism? In the 18th century, Quaker women were propelled out of constricted gender roles to mission work and pastoral leadership because of their dreams. See Night Journeys: The Power of Dreams in Transatlantic Quaker Culture.
We will explore ‘social dreaming’. Through dream tending, we will consider how our “night journeys” offer personal insight, information for our community’s transformation that we may not be able to imagine in our waking life.
