Dreams and Soul
Dreams: Your Inner GPS (iGPS)
I sometimes am invited to talk about dreams on the radio, both commercial and Internet radio shows, and I’m looking forward to some in the coming months. More and more though teleseminars or “summits” are becoming popular and the next one that I’m participating in has a great name, “Inner Soul Safaris” (iSS). Isn’t our inner journey just as much a “trip” as hauling the family to Graceland? You ...
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Turning 40 And Other Glimpses Over The Hill
Happy New Year! If you are anything like me, you have busy trying to sort through life and keep your head above the rising tide of post-holiday clutter! In preparing to write this blog I noticed that this is my 40th Dreams re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” I’m way over that hill — and one other — yet I’m still 25 years old in my head! Even so, time is speeding up for all of us as we...
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Playing with Dreams
We are living in black and white times; in the duality of either/or choices. Good and evil seem to call to us from the sidelines of our lives, and our choices — when we can even accept the fact that we have choices — seem to be only “this” or “that.” While I happen to look great in both black and white, in life I’m an advocate of many shades of grey! Among those who are trying to follow th...
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Portals, Transformation and Snow Tires
I’m a little disappointed in myself. I started writing this on November 11, 2011, at 10:37 am and the much-hyped (dare I use that word?) 11:11:11, 11:11 a.m. portal was about to come into alignment and I was sitting in a tire shop waiting for my snow tires to be put on. I had great plans to be home meditating my way into the new world and yet there I was, sitting square in the old world! In Can...
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If You Really Knew the Answer
If you really knew the answers to life’s questions, what would they be? If you knew whether to take the path on the left or the path on the right, which would you take? No matter what your individual questions may be, you have the answers you seek. You have the key, but are you willing to use it; to put it in the lock and turn it? Using the “key” implies change and we fear change and the u...
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Manifest Destiny
Back in History class “Manifest Destiny” referred to the United States’ 19th century belief that they had the right to expand into the entire North American continent. It wasn’t policy, just an idea bounced around at the time. Once I learned the phrase in school, the two words seem to belong together. But I wondered, once so used, can we take that phrase out of the realm of history and move it ...
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The Nature of Human Nature
I was flipping through the Seth Book The Nature of Personal Reality, during Hurricane Irene. I mention this not because I was in the path of the storm, but to highlight a coincidence that felt more like a synchronicity. Jane Roberts, channelling Seth, experienced a delay in Seth’s dictation of her next book due to dealing with the flooding in upstate New York from Tropical Storm Agnes, in 1972....
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What’s Your Dreaming Style?
There’s a saying that goes “Freudians have Freudian dreams; Jungians have Jungian dreams….” meaning that our dreams will conform and fit into whatever our training or belief systems require. We will, in turn, interpret them according to the rules of our system. The problem is, not all dreams fit into a nice, neat package. Here are three schools of thought, each offering something for your dream...
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My Peace Plan
If you are on a spiritual path, then eventually you will grapple with the issue of God. You will first, in all likelihood, look at God within the religion in which you grew up and depending on what that experience was like for you, you will then continue to examine what it is all about from a spiritual perspective. I went on a Quest with my Soul Coaching(r) group and thought about God. The...
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It's Heady Stuff
If you’ve been following my blog for the last two years, you may remember that over a year ago, I cleared out a lot of books from my library. I’ve talked about clutter-clearing in connection to our bodies as well. Well, I’m at it again! This time I’ve shared 38 linear feet of books! I gave them to friends and most of the books are going to Nigeria to help start a village library. A huge...
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The End Is Near… Or Is It?
Did you get the memo? The world was supposed to end on May 21, 2011! I may have been the only one on the planet to miss this big news story. (And I hate missing a good end-of-the-world party!) We were travelling in Italy and when I’m away, I don’t usually get a chance to listen to the news, let alone find a paper in English, so I didn’t know the end was near until I happened to catch a short ne...
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Retreat
The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. - W.E.B. Du Bois The word retreat has several definitions. Some would first think of the strategic pulling back of an army, but for many of us in the healing arts, we first think of a retreat as a place to go for workshops or R ve had one of those crazy years that astr...
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"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!"
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere! (Dr. Seuss) Dreams can be frightening, wild, hilarious, creative and intriguing. Unfortunately, most people will never see beyond the nightmares and will shrug and say, “It’s only a dream,” dismissing one third of their life in a nano-second. But if you are a regular reader of this blog or you are here for the first t...
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Color Your Dreams
In this morning’s dream I found myself spending a lot of time painting my toilet lid green! I don’t remember why I was doing that but I mentioned it on Facebook and found other dreamers mentioning the color green as well. It may be because spring is here (or so says my calendar, though not my Toronto backyard). For one friend, green represented prosperity and the heart, but for me, my first ass...
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What Channel Are You Watching?
Whenever things come to my attention in bunches I try to pay attention. I’m not especially psychic but a psychic friend tells me thatI’m a “seer.” I have no idea if it’s actually true or not but for me that simply means that I pay attention to “signs and wonders,” a cigar is rarely a cigar, and I listen to the dreams that want to be heard! So today’s word that I’ve been hearing from different ...
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Dreaming God
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Dream FAQ’s
No matter how many groups I run or talks on dreams that I give, I always find people who have never worked with a dream. It is a fact of life, unfortunately, that we are not teaching our children how to appreciate and work with their dreams. It’s hard to teach what you never learned, and we simply were never taught how to appreciate our dreams. In so many ways, we are like explorers who have fo...
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Clutter-Clearing For Health
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Groundhog Day and other Do-Overs
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me. January is almost up Groundhog Day is fast approaching. What? You don’t celebrate this wonderful holiday? Perhaps you should! Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated on February 2nd in the United States and Canada as hundreds of ...
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Holistic Learning
It’s January and the kids are back in school. They are probably learning reading, writing and ‘rithmetic as the old song proclaims. They study history, science and many other subjects depending on their age and stage. Schools, if they are good ones, engage a child’s mind and allow their innate curiosity and creativity to blossom. But I worry about their hearts and souls. Are they taught compass...
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Defy Gravity
As I write this, the wind is blowing, up to 100 kilometres per hour and it’s pretty frightening. I’m in Jerusalem and praying (a good place for that) that the winds will calm before I fly home tomorrow! I started thinking about the wind and how mysterious it is. The very air that we breathe, that is generally unseen (smoke, fires, dust and smog notwithstanding) relates to Spirit for me. When I ...
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Dreaming Death: It’s A Good Day To Die
In his book, “Dreaming Beyond Death,” author and dream scholar Kelly Bulkeley (co-authored with his mother, Rev. Patricia Bulkley) writes about Charles Rasmussen, a retired merchant-marine captain in his mid-80s who was dying of cancer. He was consumed by fear until, in a dream one night, he saw himself sailing in uncharted waters. Once again, he felt the thrill of adventure as he pushed throug...
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Radical Dreaming
Let the river run, let all the dreamers wake the nation. Come, the New Jerusalem. (Carly Simon) Dreamers unite! It is time to take back your power. Be a “radical” when it comes to your dreams, in the sense that you don’t have to accept the status quo. You may think that you don’t understand your dreams but in actual fact, all you need is inside you. You know enough. You do not need t...
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Imagine That
Imagine that you have come to the end of your life. You’re not sick or infirm but you somehow know it’s the end. Imagine that you walk slowly up a path that leads to the top of a gentle, rolling hill. From the top you can see for miles around and at the base of the hill, people have gathered. These are people who have had contact with you, who know and love you, but also people who have heard o...
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Project Genesis
We often think of springtime as a time of hope and new beginnings, but I believe the Fall is perfect for that. Yes, plants are in their final throws of life for the season but the winds of change begin to blow. I remember blustery dark Halloween nights from my childhood and feel the potential in my cells that lies in the Void. I think of the Void as a place of this great potential; a prim...
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Soul Growth: The Next Generation
There are a lot of people working on soul growth and if you are reading this, you are likely one of them. There are many of us who have been transforming since the 60’s and 70’s (when the moon was in the 2nd house and Jupiter aligned with Mars) and we are classified by Doreen Virtue and other authors as “Lightworkers.” We are normal people trying to grow and are often in the healing professi...
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No Bad Dreams
A Facebook friend who said that she mostly remembers the troubling dreams more clearly than others, had posted the following quote by M. Scott Peck, The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searc...
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Dreams Matter
I’m preparing a proposal for a book that I’m writing on children’s dreams hoping to find a publisher. It’s an exercise that forces one to focus on what is important in a concise and succinct way. When I peel back the layers of my book, what it comes down to is this: Dreams Matter. I feel so strongly about this that I’ve trademarked the phrase! And if they matter to us, then why aren’t we teachi...
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Personal Growth: Over Easy
I’ve touched on this topic before, but here it is again! I was just talking to sister Soul Coach® Kathy Dannel Vitcak and getting off topic (about her just published past life oracle deck called “It’s Your Karma”) when we noticed how so many people want instant information and instant enlightenment. People would rather get a psychic reading than do the work to figure their lives out for themsel...
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Thoughts on Emptiness
This afternoon I saw my daughter off at the airport, to catch a plane to who knows where. She’s not a baby, though she is my youngest and I say “who knows where” because she’ll be spending a year away studying and she’s right on the bridge between young adult and the rest of her life. It’s a time of change of directions, friends, opinions and options; a time of choice. And that is as it should ...
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Night Sweats and Enlightenment
I am serving as a Dream Mentor for Denise Linns Gateway Dreaming Certification Course that is currently being offered through Hay House. I noticed that a lot of students start the course ready to get dreaming only to find they are in a dry spell in Dreamland. And as I woke up this morning, suddenly too hot, then freezing a moment later, it occurred to me that sometimes what looks like a dry spe...
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Embrace Dream Travel
When we sleep, it is conventionally believed that we stay in bed (sleep walkers, notwithstanding) and all our dreams are a reflection of our psychological states. We do, and they are, but dreams are much more than that. They are also another level of reality or existence that we can explore. Have you ever awakened just "knowing" something that played out later in the day? Have you ever ...
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Creating a Dream Society
I recently returned from Prague, Vienna and Budapest and it was a wonderful and complex trip of political, cultural and religious history and current events. Among the highlights was a visit to Trebic in the Moravian part of the Czech Republic. In 2003 Trebic's Jewish Quarter was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site and represents the oldest Jewish ruins outside of Israel. The first refer...
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What Are Your Body-Mind-Spirit Priorities?
In Denise Linn's new book Unlock the Secret Messages of Your Body (Hay House), she asks readers to make a list or pie chart of their personal categories and to rank them according to time spent on each. These include work, recreation, personal hygiene, meals, friends, shopping, and so on. Then, when it is all on paper in front of you, you can better assess if that's where you want to be ...
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Find Answers with Dream Incubation
Have you ever had to make a decision and told someone you'd "sleep on it"? Where did that expression come from and why is it still with us? Common sense tells us that taking time to think through a problem will lead to a good decision but this expression may take us back beyond common sense to the ancient world. In ancient Greece, people would travel to the temples of Asklepios, th...
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In Praise of Seth, Jane and Your Inherent Wisdom
I'm coming out of yet another closet with this admission: I love channelling. Channelling is the intuitive or psychic ability to bring forward the thoughts of a consciousness outside oneself. When I have an opportunity to ask a question of a channel, I find the answers are given from an objective distance that helps me gain perspective in my life. I usually find that the information that come...
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Kindness as a Soul Practice
When a natural disaster takes place in the world, as has happened in Haiti, it seems that for a while, there is nothing else to talk about.The pictures and the news fill our newspapers and media, and even if we have no connection to the people of Haiti, we are suddenly in it right along with those who are there. If we are a feeling type, and allow ourselves to actually feel it, we cannot h...
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Letting Go of the Inner Bibliophile
I love books.That may be a strange statement for the writer of blogs, but there it is. That makes me a bibliophile, a lover or collector of books. If I ever come across a book that has some information in it that I may want to use some point in the future, I will buy it.I am also married to a bibliophile, so as you might imagine, we own a lot of books.To add to this strange mix, ...
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New Year's Resolutions: A Thought Experiment
Its a new year according to the calendar, but for those who work in fields that relate to the school year as well as parents and students, it seems weve only just begun! Even so, the calendar is an important way that we mark time.Have you ever looked at your own inner calendar? I want to propose this experiment for your New Year. Here are the steps to follow:
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Light in a Dark Night: The Mystics Dream
Darkness lays her crimson cloak.Your lamps will call, call me home.— Loreena McKennitt, The Mask & The MirrorGood news for lovers of dreams: Long, dark nights give us lots of encouragement to get to sleep and dream!So many people associate darkness with depression. While it certainly is the experience of many, I wonder how it would look from a dream and soul perspective?...
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