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Wise Woman Wisdom ...
Dream a Mythic Dream with Me
(part one)
by Margaret Hart Lewis
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Dream a Mythic Dream with
Me!
Let’s examine your soul's mythic dream and
explore new ways of working with the rich symbology
of your dreaming life.
• Dreaming is playful not mindful.
• Intend to dream; do not try to dream.
• Dreaming is one half of your life.
Dream a Mythic Dream with Me
Imagine you are standing at the pearly gates of heaven
and are preparing to incarnate into your present lifetime.
You stand with a clipboard in hand and await your instructions.
Your shining Soul gracefully offers guidance for this
lifetime to come and you listen with rapt attention.
Taking notes as your Soul explains the
myth it is choosing to embody in your soon to be physical
life, you shiver with excitement and anticipation for
the great story that is about to unfold. A thrilling cast
of characters and an incredible script is fast developing
and will soon emanate from the profound wisdom of your
Soul's vision.
Your Soul explains its desire to experience physical
life so that your spirit can evolve in consciousness.
This lifetime is the journey of your Mythic Soul. Your
Soul wants to embody a myth that contains many teachings
and the most important aspect of this divine myth for
you to comprehend is that everyone you meet and all
that you experience in life is a symbol of your mythic
journey.
Those of us who share this common understanding
on our spiritual path know we came into this lifetime
for a reason, and we are certain of that urging inside
-- that precious voice of inner knowing, who tells us
we have a destiny. But do we also listen to the messages
that come to us from our nightly dreams? Do we value and
hold dear the profound symbolism gifted to our visionary
experience each night as our conscious mind sleeps? Just
as it is true of waking life, while you are dreaming,
you are living the symbology of your mythic soul's journey.
Perhaps your dreams are the most important symbols
of your mythic journey because they originate within
the symbolic realm of your brain. Isn't it exciting
to realize that we have a wealth of symbolic consciousness
available to us each night as we lay sleeping and dreaming!
But the rub in all of this inner knowing, it that all
too often, due to stress or issues of self-esteem or
simply from a lack of practice or misunderstanding,
WE CANNOT REMEMBER OUR DREAMS!
And even if we can remember our dreams,
we often scratch our heads in wonderment with a fit or
a bit of confusion, because we cannot figure out how to
interpret the meaning of our dreams! Your Soul is scratching
her head now too, wondering how this can be so. After
all, dreams are the way She speaks to you about your mythic
journey. If dreaming is half of your life, and you are
not remembering your dreams, then it stands to reason
that you are forgetting and/or living in a lack of awareness
of half of this lifetimes' experience. If this lifetime
is a sandwich, you are only eating half of it. I bet this
is one diet you don't want to be on anymore.
How could you be living half of your life and yet,
be unaware of its presence and activity, let alone its
symbolic meaning? How will you be able to stay in touch
with your mythic journey and its symbolic expression
in this lifetime without conscious awareness and the
proper interpretation of your dreams? This discourse
is starting to feel very heavy and we might just implode
if I stay on this track of mentation. I bet these thoughts
are binding you up, stomach and jaw clenched, mind in
a vice! Let's give it up and choose to have some fun
because you know we can change this scenario! It is
our mythic dream after all! We are in charge so let's
get off this train of thought and board a new transport
where we play with our dreams! Come play with me and
stop trying to remember your dreams. Forget all those
mental dreaming practices you've read and heard about.
Come dream a little mythic dream with me.
Wanna play? Remember when you were little and you would
call a friend up on the phone after school and ask that
question? You didn't have an agenda, it was just about
getting together and letting it flow. Maybe you made
a house of leaves or built a fort in the woods. It was
'make believe' and it was rich with the trails of your
imagination. Ah, I can smell the blooming lilacs at
the tops of the branches where I lay hiding beneath
those bushes from my brothers during Cowboys and Indians.
I was always the Indian Princess they were trying to
kidnap and tie to the giant pine tree in the back yard.
They caught me a lot and I escaped a lot and the game
was endless, just like our dreaming games can be. Wanna
play?
• Show up
• Be a Kid
• Play
• No Expectations
• No beating yourself up because you secretly
had expectations and you suffered disappointment!
We play this game at home. Find a window
somewhere in your home where you enjoy the view. You need
to see some aspect of nature from this window - a tree,
a big rock, a flowing stream, a patch of greenery, a garden,
a pond and so on. Choose an aspect of nature and focus
upon it. See its entirety and its detail. As you examine
it carefully, breathe in its essence. Make it one with
you.
When you look out this window, pretend that you are
seeing into the world of dreaming. You have chosen a
particular aspect of the natural landscape of dreaming
to focus upon. Pretend this window is a gateway or a
portal leading you to the world of dreaming and your
aspect of nature is an anchor that grounds you deeply
into the vast root system that lies beneath the above-ground
world of dreaming. There are layers to dreaming and
you are connected to this world in all of its dimensions.
For example, I look out my bedroom window
of this waking reality to my hundred-year-old oak tree
that I perceive to be rooted in my dreaming reality. For
years I have watched the sun's glow upon its bark, snow
layer and rain drench its branches and leaves that unfurl
and fall with the tide of the seasons. Faces emerge from
the bark etchings and I know the intimate touch of my
back against its trunk and my rump upon the moist earth
and grassy surface when we sit together, body to body.
This tree, my oak, is my friend.
Maybe it would be a good idea to go outside and touch
your dreaming friend. Explore it with your fingertips;
examine it from every angle. Smell it, color it in your
memory, and be intimate in your sharing. Come back inside
and stand at your window to the world of dreaming and
look at your dreaming friend again. Look at your friend
and memorize its form within your inner vision. Close
your eyes and see your friend in your mind's eye. Open
your eyes and see your friend through the window of
dreaming. Close your eyes and see it again with your
inner vision. Keep playing with this until it feels
like you have played enough, until it feels just right.
Now bring sky energy down from the heavens
and envision it entering the top of your head as you feel
earth energy surge up from the bottoms of your feet. Feel
this energy pouring down and rising up like a current
of electricity, like a rush of water, like the strong
whoosh of wind. Feel it gathering at your solar plexus,
your third chakra, at the V opening of your rib cage.
Imagine that all of this energy is gathering at a beautiful
brilliant sun that is living in your solar plexus. Let
the energy be there. Feel it glowing vibrant inside of
you.
Pretend you have a fishing line that is all coiled
up at your radiant solar plexus and with your next exhale,
your outward breath casts this fishing line to your
dreaming friend. See the luminous cord of fishing line
project through the window gateway and watch it cast
into the dreaming world and hook onto your dreaming
friend - hooking in a soft way, a loving connection,
which your dreaming friend gladly accepts. Maybe you
see the casting line of connection enter your dreaming
friend or tie about it in a lovely bow. However you
perceive it, you are now connected via your intent and
you are telling the dreaming world that you intend to
dream. You are not going to try to dream; you are intending
to dream.
Now that you have intended to dream, you
go about your daily round. You walk the dog, go to work,
buy groceries, do errands, and so on. You don't have to
think about your dreaming friend, because your intent
has forged a bond of connection between you two. There
is nothing to do, just be about your daily business. Tonight
when your waking life comes to a close for the day, lay
down and as you prepare to sleep feel your casting line
tug a bit at your solar plexus. Your dreaming friend is
wishing you sweet dreams. Say goodnight and send a tug
of connection back to your dreaming friend.
As you feel your body readying for sleep, muscles relaxing,
bones settling, the weight of your body releasing, you
realize that your dreaming friend will be dreaming with
you this night and in the morning your dreaming friend
will be acting as a storehouse for your dreaming. Oh
my, your dreaming friend is a library of your dreaming
memories. How exciting! You now have a friend to help
you with your dreaming! You are not alone with your
dreaming anymore.
As you fall asleep tonight say this:
• Dreaming is one half of my life.
• Dreaming is one half of my
• Dreaming is one half of
• Dreaming is one half
• Dreaming is one
• Dreaming is
• Dreaming
In the morning, when you wake up, observe
your dreaming by intending recall. No trying! Go to your
window and see your dreaming friend. Wish your friend
a good morning and feel the fiber of connection between
you. Feel the energy flowing back and forth, you two sending
and receiving energy from each other in a reciprocal exchange.
Play with the energy and see what comes. Store the energy
of your dream in your solar plexus. Go about your daily
round. Walk with your dream gestating in your solar plexus.
Continue to play the game. Who knows when the egg will
hatch? What will emerge from the cracked egg of dreams?
Only your intent can tell you.
This practice removes dream recall from your thinking
mind and places it in your energetic mind, where your
whole body is involved. Your thinking mind is a very
skillful tool, yet too often, when the mind tries to
remember and interpret a dream, it utilizes the left
side of the brain, the place of logic, reason and rational
thought processing. But dreams live in the symbolic
realm of the right brain. Your Dreaming Window leads
you through the portal to your right brain's capability
and gives you access to the landscape of your dreams.
In essence, this game enables your right brain to cast
its fishing line to catch a dream that the left brain
can then consume, digest and assimilate.
Question to ponder: When are you
not dreaming?
About Margaret Hart Lewis
Margaret H. Lewis is a highly regarded professional
speaker, workshop facilitator, business and personal
development consultant, gifted spiritual practitioner
and author. For over 20 years she has provided countless
training seminars and workshops on a wide range of life
management and personal development skills.
Margaret is a graduate of an intensive four-year program
of spiritual study, receiving her professional certification
and ministerial license. She is continually engaged
in many areas of research and study that further her
continuing education as a spiritual practitioner.
From 2000 - 2005, Margaret directed Lynn
Andrews’s website where she designed, wrote, and
taught Online Spirituality Courses with Ms. Andrews. In
her role as the Online Course Creator, Margaret oversaw
the entire learning environment and curriculum presentation.
Margaret has ventured out on her own and is offering many
new online courses and learning adventures on her website
at www.wisdomwalks.com. Please keep checking the website
and new issues of Spirit's Scroll for updates!
In private consultations, Margaret has assisted hundreds
of people in releasing the blocks that are holding them
back from achieving their goals and visions of fulfillment.
To set up an appointment with Margaret, please email
her at info@wisdomwalks.com
or visit her online store at www.wisdomwalks.com.
Margaret’s first book, Wisdom Walks
In Circles, The Spiraling Journey of Your Inner Voice
offers a compelling story of a hero's journey to the heart
of intuition. Woven within this tale are the essential
elements needed to forge a deep and lasting relationship
with your inner voice of intuition. Among the numerous
titles written about accessing intuition, none have taken
this unique storytelling approach. While whisking you
into the center of sacred wheel teachings, Margaret offers
empowering strategies to break through the internal and
external challenges we face when attempting to access
our often-elusive inner voice of wisdom.
Please visit Margaret at www.wisdomwalks.com
to learn more about Wisdom Walks In Circles, and Landings,
The Spiritual Return to Living Fully in the Body, her
new book, which is in the publication process. Margaret
has a free monthly newsletter you can subscribe to and
a vibrant online community message board you are welcome
to join. Feel free to email Margaret at info@wisdomwalks.com
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