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A woman enters a clear mountain stream to bathe and finds it is teeming with snakes. She regards snakes as allies rather than adversaries, but there are so many in the water that she becomes fearful. When a huge snake approaches her, she manages to grab it behind the head and uses it to hold…

“I had a full-body orgasm last night,” reports a woman who divorced several years ago and has not dated since. “I thought I had given up sex, but in my dreams I’m with a series of fantastic lovers, doing it in all kinds of wonderful places, from a castle on a mountain to a tropical…

I’m at the departure gate for the first leg of my journey to Charlotte, en route to a conference up in the Blue Ridge Mountains where, inter alia, I’ll lead a workshop on “Dreaming with the Departed.” The cover of the book the man sitting next to me is reading catches my eye. Above the…

I went to an improv workshop yesterday, a pleasant break from regular sessions at a conference where I’m presenting up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. We were coached to loosen up by saying our names in silly ways, doing the hokey-pokey, shaking ourselves out, performing hand dances, and walking about outside in…

What is a shaman? The word was borrowed by anthropologists from the Tungus Siberian people. Correctly pronounced, the long As (“ah”) are given equal weight (“shah-mahn”); the magic of the word is in its resonance. The word came into widespread use after the publication of Mircea Eliade’s classic work Shamanism, An Archaic Technique of Ecstasy.…

Robert Louis Stevenson received some of his best-beloved stories in dreams and a twilight state of “reverie” in which benign visitors he called “Brownies” helped him to compose, and we have lots to learn from his practice.  RLS described the central role of dreaming and dreamy states in his creative process in “A Chapter on…

When I am asked why I do what I do, I sometimes respond, “Because I love to see the light of spirit coming on in the eyes of someone who has recovered part of her soul.” Whatever the titles and descriptions, all of my workshops are about soul – about remembering the soul’s purpose, and…

“This isn’t a game.” I turn from my puppy, who is straining his leash to dark at squirrels and falling leaves, to see the speaker. He’s on a rise in the park, above the service road. His words are the first human speech I’ve heard since I left my house this morning, so they could…

Calling all dreamers: My next “Way of the Dreamer” radio show on healthylife.net will be LIVE with call-ins next TUESDAY, October 12th. Please call in with dreams and questions to share. We’ll play the Lightning Dreamwork game and explore the many ways in which we can use the arts of Active Dreaming to live more…

“Sometimes you find the universe has a different plan.” These words give me pause, as I transfer pieces of cut melon to my plate at the breakfast buffet at the Omega Institute, where I am leading a workshop this weekend. The hood over the long buffet table makes it hard to see the speaker’s face.…
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