E-Book, Englisch, 122 Seiten
Paul Overman / Overman / Ph.D. Shamanic Dream
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-62309-280-1
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A Guide for New Millennium Dreamers
E-Book, Englisch, 122 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-62309-280-1
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The Shamanic Dream introduces the similarity and relationship of night dreams, waking dreams and meditation for mastering the inner and outer life. Examples from the author's personal journey as well as those of his clients are given. Guidelines and exercises are included to assist the ultimate journey of the dreamer to release evolutionary spiritual forces into the mind and body - turning the mind into an intuitive vehicle of consciousness and the body into a spiritual instrument for self and society.
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1. Awakening I become what I see in myself. All that thought suggests to me, I can do; all that thought reveals to me, I can become. This should be man’s unshakable faith in himself, because God dwells in him. – Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Glimpses, 1950 Normally “to awaken” is to leave the slumber of the night to embark upon the activities of daily life. This book gives a different wake-up call, one that signals an evolutionary way of embracing sleep and dreams, a summons to a paradox: sleep and dream to become more awake and to discover the inner life of your soul, its powers and your life purpose. You must awaken to your inner life so that you can more consciously participate in your personal transformation and that of your collective heritage. This is about an inner-discipline of the dream state, discovering your “mind of light” – transforming your life, mind, and body through transforming the dream state. It is about the inner wisdom of the higher consciousness and how it guides you through your dreams in your journey of Self-inquiry and Self-remembering. Many of us choose to remain asleep, lacking full awareness, for most of our lives. We fail to realize we are truly the Dreaming Self. The Dreaming Self in its greatest sense is the higher, spiritual Self, the ultimate power and light behind our dreams; in its lesser sense it is the dreaming ego or dream state of our inner consciousness. When you realize that one-third of your life is spent asleep, you come to know that you are not fully awakening your deepest potential. Every moment on earth is precious and can be used for spiritual growth. If you learn to transform your sleep and dreams, you can add another third to your life – the equivalent of an additional twenty-five years for the average life span – to fulfill your life potential while assisting the transformation of all. The Shamanic Dream will give you tools to transform dreams to make you more alive. It will show you how to enter sleep to have dreams worth dreaming. It will teach you how to heighten and expand your mind to expand your dream experiences for higher creativity, more profound inspiration, and for greater mastery over your life. It will reveal to you that sleep and dreams can rejuvenate the brain and body through lifting your state of consciousness to rest with and in your soul at night. It will reveal to you how to receive inner guidance from your soul – the bridge to your Higher Self – through your dreams. The Shamanic Dream has three-core goals for you, which reflect potentials of your soul: To empower you in the present; To heal the past, and connect you with others; To transform your mind and body – and your future. You will learn that, when you develop your dreaming consciousness, you can: recall or reclaim the past; see clearly your life circumstances for self-empowerment; and see future potentials and possibilities for experiencing purpose and fulfillment. Through this knowledge you transform yourself and the world around you. You create your outer world to reflect a greater and nobler inner world. One accomplishes these benefits by learning to tap in the dream state the channels of the inner conscious for receiving or giving: power with its potential; loving awareness with insight to relationships; knowledge of past, present and future; and harmonious means to achievement for rightly chosen goals. DREAM MAKER Ancients spoke of the Self, the deepest part of our nature, as both the ultimate source of our dreams and the witness of our dreams. The Self, the Spirit or spark of divinity within, is not only the ultimate source of our dream life and the goal of life, but the witness consciousness behind experiencing and remembering our dreams. Because the Self encompasses your total and deepest being and is the ultimate source and constant witness of your dreams, it is also the wellspring of your understanding of your dreams. It is ultimately the source of your dream mastery. Dreams can assist you in your journey to realizing your soul’s purpose and destiny. Self-knowledge is an unbounded wisdom and awareness that ignites a spontaneous flow of intelligent creative activity. Through dreams you can touch the source of your creative impulse. Dreams are creativity in action. By following dreams back to their source you are consciousness aware of Self. Since the Self is the wellspring of all of life, dreams are a potent tool in transforming your life and those of others. Dreams are one of the great means for discovering meaning to life and personal purpose. Each one of us has a unique inner Light of the Self, which colors our inner soul and is ours to express in the world. When you experience it, you feel you have come home. When it is blocked from your daily experience, you suffer consciously or unconsciously a deep loss or sorrow. It is through deep self-reflection, including exploration of your dreams, that you rediscover or remember this Inner Light that imprints your soul. One of the greatest lessons to learn about dreaming is the ability to experience the light of the inner Self while in the dream state, just as one does in deep meditation. For individuals who do not meditate, dreaming may be their alternate doorway for entering higher states of consciousness to experience the inner light of the Self, whether they recall this experience or not. For those who meditate, the dream life is enriched and dreams begin to assist the meditation discipline. Entering meditation and entering higher dream states can be your partners in self-reflection and in experiencing higher states of consciousness. Light is the nature of consciousness, and by modifying, controlling or manipulating light we change consciousness, and we can influence or control dreams. It only takes the memory of looking into a clear night sky of stars to understand the mind-altering nature of light as experienced in the three-dimensional canopy of the sky – with its stars of light and contrasting darkness. Mental visualization itself is only possible because of the subtle light of the mind that creates and illumines what we call mental imagery. Every great artist knows the power of light. A number of years ago, I was with my cat Jack in our cottage overlooking the Ohio River. Golden rays of the sun were coming through the window and flooding the floor. Jack sat in these rays glancing here and there, as if mesmerized by the play or movement of light seen and unseen. I received this sudden impulse to try an experiment. I projected in my mind’s eye a ball of white light, the size of a Ping-Pong ball, and floated it in front of Jack. Then with my mind I bounced this ball across his field of vision, and away from him. I bounced it repeatedly from the floor to about the height of his head, as if it were a bouncing ball across a TV screen. To my amusement, when the ball began to bounce, Jack pounced on it with his eyes and followed it, moving his head up and down, up and down, tracking it with precision across the floor until I bounced it off into the distance and he lost interest. If the mind’s inner light can influence the interest and direction of a cat’s gaze how much more it can influence or control the focus and direction of our dreams, our perceptions and visions! We have much to learn about our consciousness, dreams and the natural world, as later will be seen in this book. By training our perceptions we master our inner and outer worlds, our life. EARLY DREAM LESSONS As a child I had a nightmare that haunted me every few weeks. I found myself in an alley behind my family’s home where a mysterious vehicle came after me to capture and harm me. My challenge was to find ways to evade this vehicle and to get back home. Even while I struggled to discover the way home, I always realized safety was around the corner. Every piece of scenery became a clue to how close I was to home, to how much longer it would take to get there, and to the moment I would cross a threshold of absolute safety where those in the vehicle could not reach me. My childhood dreams and nightmares revealed to me a world in which I could think and live, resolve problems, and anticipate the future. My dreams began healing and transforming my past. We moved into the country and my dreams became transformed. My recurring nightmare vanished. The dream world was an uncharted universe explored without maps or preconceived ideas of what this territory may hold. To help understand my dreams, as a young man I designed a dream journal in which I intensively recorded my dreams. I read as many books on dreams as I could, finding many useful but limiting, not broad or deep enough to help me integrate most of my dreams and the reality from which they arose. I reviewed hundreds of my own dreams recorded over a number of years, and discovered underlying themes, which I categorized and analyzed. To fully understand the nature of these dreams, I first turned to the great dream expert Carl Jung, but had to eventually turn to the psychology of the East, especially to the Integral Yoga and psychology of the Twenty-first Century sage Sri Aurobindo whose work was the founding philosophical basis for the California Institute of Integral Studies (formerly the California Institute of Asian Studies), my alma mater. In his work, and the ancient and modern mental and spiritual disciplines of Asia, I finally found references to states of consciousness, including the dream state that began to explain my varied dream experiences. During that period I became aware of and later met the great meditation teacher and spiritual Master Swami...