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We have direct access to sacred knowledge, in our dreams. Our dreams are a personal oracle that reveals the future and helps us prepare for it. We must not let anyone tell us what our dreams mean or stand between us and the direct experience of the sacred that is available in dreaming. We want…

“Father, Son and Holy Ghost,” said the burly man who approached me after one of my lectures. “That’s it. I was raised Irish Catholic, and there’s no need for dreams in my religion.” I did not argue, but remarked gently that he might want to look at the role of dreams in the Bible, and…

She designed a stage set when she was eight, and living in her native Rio de Janeiro: a giant tree painted on a black background. As a film maker, she recently directed and produced an extraordinary nine-hour documentary, “Amazônia (Projecting on Black” that flouts the rules of cinema in a number of ways. The images…

The Library Angel. That was Arthur Koestler’s name for the shelf elf that arranges that a certain book appears (or disappears) in unusual ways at just the right moment. To get the attention of the Library Angel, pick any book, open it at random and see whether there is a clue for you on the page…

“I have a question for you. Can I meet my guardian angel in my dreams?” The question was posed during a break in an evening dream workshop I was leading at an Episcopal church in New York. The questioner was a middle-aged woman who had clearly given a great deal of her life to service.…

In the passage in Dante’s Purgatorio where he encounters his radiant guide in the form of a lovely woman called Beatrice, she reproaches him for not heeding the dreams in which she sought him, over many years. The message is clear and enduring: our true spiritual teachers are looking for us, which is why they…

It seems that sleep disorders are keeping pace with technology and modern lifestyle. Text messaging, or “texting”, is a fairly constant activity for many younger people in our society, and it seems that some of them are now doing it in their sleep. Dr David Cunningham, a sleep researcher in Melbourne, Australia (my native city)…

I wrote here yesterday about how diagnostic dreams may give us a richer and less daunting vocabulary than the standard jargon of doctors’ offices. Dreams give us the power of naming, and this brings further gifts. Dreams help us to express what we may otherwise find it all but impossible to express. Such dreams offer…

The New York Times reports today that there is a rising body of opinion that the term “cancer” is out of date and is being misapplied in ways that can even help to kill patients. The concept of cancer as a progressive disease that will kill if the cells are not destroyed stems from the…

In most dreams, the departed appear to be living, and very often the dreamer is unaware that the person he or she encounters is “dead” until after waking. The reason is that the departed are indeed alive, though no longer in the physical realm. The departed may appear as the dreamer remembers them from their…
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