Dreams
For a Lakota Sioux, tribal beliefs speak of another world: a place where one can commune with their ancestors, receive messages and visions from the Creator - a place of prophecy, where everyone has a duplicate self which roams astral spaces in search of wisdom and meaning. That world is known as the Dreamtime, a place which elders believe to be more real than our waking life.
Early in his spiritual development, after his grandfather bestows him with an Indian name, the author finds the architect of this dream world offering a communion unlike any other - one which frequently spills out into his waking life - a higher call toward oneness amid the challenges of youth and establishing identity.
Through an incorporeal midnight frontier we each cross in our sleep, join one of the stars from Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, Paranormal Nightshift and shows such as Most Terrifying Places in America, Scariest Night of My Life and My Ghost Story. Author of Selfies From the Underworld: A Native American’s Record of the Supernatural, Christopher Allen Brewer continues to share Native wisdom, deeply personal stories, synchronicity and high strangeness - a celebration of the surreal in the odd echoes of a duplicate dream world superimposed over ours.
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A psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness - Presents effective exercises and techniques, inspired by ancient texts, to deepen your personal awareness of the dream state and experiment with dreams for healing and divinatory purposes - Each initiatory chapter includes a psychodramatic narrative designed to generate the perfect dream for each stage in the initiation - Explains how dreaming has influenced cultural, religious, and spiritual thinking - Includes access to a seven-part hypnagogic guided journey recording Invoking Mnemosyne--Greek goddess of memory and eloquence, daughter of Heaven and Earth, mother of the Muses, and archetypal deity of the Asklepion dream temple tradition--this book initiates you into full dream consciousness, offering a lucid-dreaming ritual experience in the spirit of the Mystery Schools of antiquity. Sharing her more than a decade of research on Sleep Temples and Mystery Schools of the Esoteric Tradition, lucid-dreaming instructor Sarah Janes explores the evolution of imagination, memory, and consciousness throughout the ages and proposes that dreams have been fundamental in the creation and development of culture. Dreams play an important role in ancestor worship, afterlife beliefs, animism, religion, and wis-dom traditions. Explaining how a conscious dream life is essential for self-discovery, deep integration, and healing, Sarah presents exercises, techniques, initiations, and seven guided audio meditations to help you explore the inner depths of your psyche. Sarah reveals how dreams offer us an opportunity to remember and directly experience our divinity, to transcend the limitations of our mortality and enter timeless imaginal realms. These realms, accessible through dreams, can help you to form a better under-standing of who you are. Employing the power of story to affect the mind and lay down new neural pathways--as if one were really living the story--Sarah connects each initiatory chapter with a psychodramatic narrative as well as a guided audio meditation. Using symbolism and powerful imagery, these stories, combined with her meditations, help you generate the perfect dreams for each stage in the initiation. And by becoming a better dreamer, you can make better, more aware decisions in your waking life.