Root Chakra Healing and the Atonement with the Father
Root chakra healing includes our relationship to security. One key issue around security for many people is the issue of money. The root chakra is, however, related to abundance. Abundance, as I have written before in this blog, is the way in which the individual is in alignment with and allows the life force to flow and freely express through them as it is intended. Abundance is not simply an issue about money and wealth. One might be extremely wealthy but from an energetic point of view they could be the living dead.
I have issues around money. Some of my more materiality focused friends have asked me if I have ever taken a vow of poverty. In a very real sense part of me did and finds it hard to let go. My Reiki master tells me that in relation to this issue I should cut the ties but not the love. I have always resisted that advice and now at the age of sixty one years I am getting ready to do what I have resisted. This willingness to let go has been prompted by a dream I had last night. In this dream I am running with another man. We are running in a wide open field. He is supporting me. He lets me go and says that I must now run on my own. This dream man is a kind of mentor.
I have root chakra issues I need healing around the issue of my father and money. The longer I live the more loving of him I become and my focus on what we had together is now more on gratitude rather than on loss. I realise that in many ways I am very like him. I used not to want to be anything like him. Now I appreciate who and what he was and the best of who he was. In some way that begins to mirror how I feel about myself.
I have an image that I keep in my mind that connects me to my father and my relationship to money. This is an image that I do not want to let go off. It is one image that when I recollect it connects me to my love for him. Even as I remember this recollection now a tear comes to my eye. My father was a working class man from the tough side of Liverpool in England. He fought for the rights of the working man. In his heart, however, he was an artist but he was forced to work at a job that was essentially soul destroying. He made money wherever he could and worked all the hours that he could in order to make ends meet. I never remember us, as a family ever going without except that I always remember going without the love I longed for him to express to me but never did. He was not a demonstrative kind of man. In that sense he and I are not alike.
My remembered image of my father takes place late one night. I had come down from my bedroom to use the bathroom. There was a light on in the living room and I look in. My father sat at a desk counting money. He was counting union dues from the men whose rights he upheld as their union representative at the place he worked at for most of his life. I remember most of all that he looked tired and sad. I remember too that I wanted most of all to take away that tiredness and sadness because of my intense love for him. He wasn’t aware of my watching him. I didn’t disturb him but left to go back upstairs to bed.
That memory connects me to him still, and in healing the root chakra and the sense of abundance, I have begun to let it go. I have, as my Reiki master advises cut the ties but not the love. This image is one connected to working in the dark late at night. It is an image of counting little sums of money that becomes a symbol of the men who, in a very real sense, are fighting for their souls. My father becomes a kind of guardian of that energy. I don’t want to let that go of this image of him but in a sense it keeps me tied into a relationship to money that does not serve what I am here to serve.
Like my father I am a union man. I am a writer who invites the ultimate union. I do not fight for this union. I invite surrender rather than fight. I pay my union dues through the spiritual practices that are part of my real work in the world. I work in the dark out of choice. I choose to work in the shadow lands of the human mind. I choose to do and practice dreamwork. I work to align the invitations from my dream life into the life that I express in this everyday world of form
Root chakra healing is about healing your sense of security. Money and security are deeply related. As a child my images around money are ones about struggle, doing work you hate, not earning your livelihood by giving up what you would love to do. It includes images of counting pittances that allow a struggle for the rights of the working man to go on. All of these images are a representation of my father doing his best with the situation that he was presented with. There are many such fathers in the world who are doing their best.
The question for me is how do I run on as the image of the dream invites me to do. It invites me to run into the wide open field. In this regard I am reminded of a poem that invites union within a field. It is by my beloved Rumi.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.—Rumi
The answer is that I let go the connection to the images of struggling in the dark with too little light. In order for root chakra healing to take place I let go the images of struggle but not the love that is and was inherent within that struggle. I change the image to one of honouring what was given by my father even if it wasn’t given in the way I most wanted. My father was a provider. He wasn’t a lover. He was too wounded by the blight of his own fathers alcoholism and the times through which he lived. Although in a way I see how he, in his own ay, late into the night, worried and sorrowful, risked for Love in ways I am privileged not to have to do.
Atonement with the father is root chakra work. It is the work of healing the roots of your family dynamic that will in all likelihood impact you throughout all of your life. I am beginning to open up to a real sense of abundance. I have learned new skills that I intend to take into the marketplace. I have learned new skills that I will take into my community. My community is everyone who reads this blog and all the various healers who are connected to each other through an invisible thread of intention.
I am intending to bring a union of the masculine and the feminine into the world of healing in the way I seem most graced to be able to do. This involves the work of teaching technological skills to healers so that they can promote their work to the world and in the process learn to integrate the power of the masculine as represented by the Goddess Techne with the power and grace of the Divine Feminine. This is my work. It is soul work. It is work that I am able to do and in doing it I am able to honour the sacrifice that my father made on my behalf and others so that we might be more empowered to follow the life we love. My father eventually got to do the soul work his heart longed for. He founded an art club that is still in existence long after his death.
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How to Follow Your Dreams for the Dreamed of Life
The House of Dreams by Albert Weltii
As you learn how to follow your dreams for the dreamed of life you will find that you begin to become more integrated. The inner and outer begin to merge. Your inner awareness begins to become as interesting and as important as the your outer life. Your life becomes one of emergence rather than emergency. In learning how to follow your dreams you begin to make conscious that which has been unconscious within you. You begin to connect with the super-conscious mind. You begin to unblock the river of your life and feel it flow freely. The language of dreams then begins to become a language that you love and become fascinated with. It is like going to sleep each night and being given a gift that when you unwrap it is not quite what it first appears. With practice and patience and commitment you will be taken more deeply into the real story and the real life you are here to live and give.
Dream interpretation that leads to deep integrity is not a quick fix, one time event. Dream interpretation and learning how to follow your dreams is an art. It is the invitation to your becoming the artist of your inner life. This, like any art form is slow to begin with. In a very real way it is a unique art form. You can learn the basics of how to follow your dreams but you deepen your learning by doing the practice and by committing to the practice. In the beginning it is like visiting a land where you do not know the language. You feel lost. You feel resistant. You worry about getting it wrong. What is more important is your intention of making the effort.
What is most important is that you simply begin. Like any endeavour that leads to a more integrated sense of self, you will face challenges along the way. There will be resistance but this is always the resistance experienced with birthing the new. Resistance is a process that involves the integration of the opposites and what is being opposed within you. Dream interpretation has for thousands of years been connected to wisdom. It was the seers of old who could take the dreams of others and interpret them for their benefit and for the greater benefit of the community. The wisdom instruction that says
Follow Your Dreams!
can be taken quite literally because by learning how to follow your dreams, those nightly gifts of the psyche, you will be required to expand your understanding beyond the idea of logic. The interpretation of dreams takes you into a more symbolic and magical kind of language. It is like and Alice in Wonderland and you are the one who is required not so much make sense of the dream but reveal the essence of the dream. Dreams use puns, riddles, words that are back to front, that can be divided and reassembled. The key to dream interpretation is energy and the energy of the body. You will have connected to the meaning of the dream when you feel yourself experienced a heightened energy. You feel exalted.
In practicing this trust in the wisdom of the body, the body/mind begin to become integrated. There begins the development of a deeper intuitive sense, This is because you are not so much developing logic as developing the ability to reveal the invitation to the meaning of your dreams.
The mystic poet Rumi could well have been speaking about the power of dreams to reveal meaning and purpose when he said
Trade logic for bewilderment
The word bewilderment could be translated as confuses. However, if it appeared in a dream you could interpret it as
ment be wild……..meant to be wild.
This could indicate that you spend your life without taking any risks while your would knows that you are meant to be wild. Wild does not mean that you go and act in any way that is irresponsible. Wild here means the wildness of that young child who runs with exuberant abandon in to life’s play.
Learning to follow your does not mean taking your dreams literally. For example, you dream that you die. THis does not mean you will actually physically die. In your dream you are advised to go to another city. It does not mean that you literally have to pack up and relocate. Dreams begin to build patterns. Certain motifs recur and are intended to invite you to pay attention to patterns in your life that you are repeating and that which you are invited to expand.
When dream interpretation begins to be your art then dreams become your friends. They became a major source of guidance and they are essentially it is guidance from the true Source. Dreams are the royal road to your unconscious and one way in which practice and commitment allow you to follow your dreams. These are not the dreams of the culture, your family, your nation but the dreams of what the Irish poet W. B. Yeats called ‘the deep heart’s core.’ You may learn many skills that assist you along life’s path. Certain skills will bring you deeper integrity than others. One key skill that I invite you to lean and make an art of is dream interpretation. It is always available and it is an art that deepens and expands the longer that you practice it. Usually along the way you are given certain key dreams. There are dreams that you will return to again and again.
Idyll by Fredric Lord Leighton
There are the dreams that guide you toward following your true dreams. With practice you will begin to know how such a dream feels. You will begin to sense within your body the greater integrity and consequently greater health. You can develop your intuition and you learn to trust the interior language of your dreams to live your dreamed of life. This dreamed of life is that which creation intended for you to be and to express. That dreamed of life does not necessarily mean you follow the dictates of your society. The dreamed of life means you follow the flow of life’s energy. The poet Mary Oliver invites the dreamed of life in this way.
West Wind #2
You are young. So you know everything. You leap
into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me.
Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without
any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.
Lift the oars from the water, let your arms rest, and
your heart, and heart’s little intelligence, and listen to
me. There is life without love. It is not worth a bent
penny, or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a
dead dog nine days unburied.When you hear, a mile away and still out of sight, the churn of the water
as it begins to swirl and roil, fretting around the
sharp rocks – when you hear that unmistakable
pounding – when you feel the mist on your mouth
and sense ahead the embattlement, the long falls
plunging and steaming – then row, row for your life
toward it.
The one thing that you require to live the life of your dreams is courage. This is the courage to follow the way in which your dreams lead you. THis following your dreams is what the poet Robert Frost meant when he wrote of a life as a “road less travelled.” The road of following your dreams through the practise of paying attention to your dreams is the way of the Hero’s Journey. It is a kind of endless road into a more expansive self. One thiing I haven’t mentioned is that there comes the point when dream interpretations really become fun. It is like being given a living riddle to solve that takes you higher and gives you a sense of integrity that in a very real way you could only ever dream.
As a writer and practitioner of personal and spiritual development courses I invite integrity in ways that I find key to my own spiritual development. In one sense whatever personal and spiritual practice you choose does not matter. What matters more is the way you make the commitment and the practice real in your everyday life. Dream interpretation and how to follow your dreams is a practice I have spent tiem with and now it is a practice I love. It has truly become for me and art and integral to my heart. There are plenty of languages that you can learn but the language that I invite you to become fluent in is the language of dreams. This is the language of the unconscious that helps integrate what is wishing to be integrated within you. You might learn many skills but, personally speaking, not many will give you the ability to be more
- intuitive and more integral
- bodily aware and feel beyond sensational
- more deeply aligned with source
- intent on following your dreams
- able to discover lifes’ patterns
- connected to your real story
- aware of true meaning and purpose
than becoming skilled as an interpretor of your dreams. In this way the inner and outer merge. Rather than experience life as a kind of emergency one lifes become one of emergence. Learning how to follow your dreams is a course in life long learning. You might well begin this journey into true integrity by making your commitment to begin a course in dream interpretation here.
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Dream Interpretation and Developing Psychic powers
In my personal and spiritual development work I pay attention to my dreams in order to assist in developing psychic powers. This paying attention to ones dreams assists that phase of the spiritual journey the writer Jim Marion calls physic consciousness. The attention to dream work can lead to the awakening and the developing of physic powers. Here is what Jim Marion writes about the psychic level of consciousness,
At the psychic level of consciousness we no longer identify the self with the rational mind. Instead, we identify the self with the inner witness that observes body, emotions, and mind. This inner witness is the permanent self, the part of the self beyond space and time. The permanent self has senses such as clairaudience and clairvoyance that roughly parallel the physical sense, and which are referred to in the New Testament. Persons with psychic consciousness may make use of abilities such a healing by laying on of hands, prophesy and speaking in tongues.
This developing psychic powers arises from beyond that aspect of the self called the personality. These psychic abilities arise from within. They give guidance and are for the use of the highest good of all. It is not at all a good idea to delve into such psychic dimensions unless your personality is integral and that you are in good psychological shape. These physic powers are not there for the purpose of self serving but for use in the service of the Self, or to state it another way, they are there to serve Loves purpose.
Dreams are also the language of the the psychic consciousness. They are what John A. Stanford, a Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest calls
God’s forgotten language.
The Beguiling of Merlin – Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Developing Psychic Powers
1st Stage in Developing Psychic Powers with Dream Interpretation
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Those persons who are moving into the witness stage of consciousness, which is also the psychic stage of consciousness, can develop a deeper understanding of themselves by doing what this writer and storyteller calls dreamwork. This is where one, as a first stage in dream interpretation, engages in writing one’s dreams out on paper and then reflecting on them. I had a dream some nights ago. This is an outline of this dream and the practice of dream interpretation that invites the development and awakening your psychic power. This practice should be followed with the intention of revealing those aspects of yourself that are required to be integrated into the personality. Do not play around with psychic phenomena simply out of curiosity.
I am travelling with two companions. It is late at night. There is a bus that we can get to a hostel. We find a number of buses. All these buses have their lights out and there is no sign to say where they are going. The buses are driven away into the night and we are left out in the cold dark night. One of my companions tells me he is going off to find a place to sleep. I am left wondering if we will be warm enough throughout the night.
2nd Stage of Developing Psychic Powers aligned Dream Interpretation
The next part of the dream interpretation is simply to take the images and symbols that immediately speak to you. Do this without any rationalisation or any judgement. The symbols or images that you choose at this point of the process do not have to make any logical sense. In fact it is more likely that at this point of the exercise that they will not make sense. Please don’t dishonour the dream by going and looking up its meaning in a dream dictionary. Simply trust this process of dream interpretation to reveal to you what the dream is inviting you to know. Here are some of the immediate images and phrases that come to mind in relation to the above dream.
- left out in the cold
- missed the bus
- dark night
- three companions
- no signs
- hostel
When I first awoke from this dream the first thought I had was around the idea of having missed the but. This is of course a common day expression meaning that one has missed some kind of opportunity to that it is too late to seize such opportunity. The question then follows for me the dreamer
What opportunity have I missed
3rd Stage of Dream Interpretation
The third stage of dream interpretation is to pay attention to how you feel in the body when you are working with the images and phrases that you have written down. In working energetically with the above dream I do not feel that I have missed some opportunity. If there is little or no change in your energy then do not force the issue and move on. This work also requires that you are in touch with your feeling self. There will be some part of the dream that rises your energy even if it is only slightly. In this stage of dream interpretation you are listening to the body more than the intellect. Since there is not energy moving around the image of the image of having missed the bus I move on. I take the phrase and the image in the dream of the dark night. In this dream there is a clear reference to having to live through a dark night and wondering will I be warm enough. The thought about being warm enough is the throught about being loved enough. The question that arises from me is, “Will there be love enough to take me through the cold dark night?”
In this dream the community of three is abandoned by the people of the bus. The issue of abandonment raises the energy for me because it has been for me an archetypal theme that rans through my life. The trinity, which I take to mean the holy trinity of mind/body/spirit, is left to make it through a dark night without shelter. In a real Dark Night of the soul, which is a passage one transitions at higher levels of consciousness, the individual is left without signs. One is abandoned to make it through without even the assurance that one will make it through, All that can take one through the dark night is a connection to the Self and even this is felt to be lost. The transition of the dark night is called the Crucifixion initiation. It is that moment in your life where you feel totally abandoned without any support from your previous life’s experience.
The main feeling in this dream is a sense of anxiety. It is important to pay attention to the feelings that the dream images and phrase evoke. For me it is the anxiety of the cold. The cold to me is representative of frozen love and abandonment that I felt throughout my childhood. This dream may be indicating that I am required to process the sense of abandonment by travelling through a dark night without signs and without certainty that such a night might be survived. It is the idea of non-survival that makes me anxious. The dark night, however, in its final stages is the process of dying into life.
The Nightmare – Henry Fuseli
In writing about dreams and their value in developing psychic powers one begins to become clearer about their invitation. In this dream I am not really concerned about missing the bus. The missing of the bus is a prelude to travelling through the dark night without signs or without shelter from lack of love from any source. The bus is a communal vechile and a vehicle of communion. Does this mean I am going through a dark night of the soul or will go through a dark night of the soul. At this moment in time it does not feel like this will happen. As to the future one never knows. However, it is important for serious personal and spiritual development to know of the various stages of consciousness that any human being will journey through. In this way one can at least be intellectual, if not psychologically, prepared for those periods of transition that do appear. You will become more aware at what level of consciousness that developing psychic powers reveals itself to you
Here is what Jim Marion writes about the Dark Night of the Soul
The Dark Night of the Soul constitutes the transition from the subtle to the casual levels of human consciousness. It is the transition during which our identification of ourselves as human personalities finally gives way to the realisation of our divinity.
Dream interpretation will assist the integration of the conscious personality with the unconscious and to developing psychic powers. This integration will develop to the point that one becomes able to surrender the personality to the will of the Divine. This is a very high state of consciousness and cannot be dictated to by ego demands. At higher levels of consciousness more subtle energies become available but it is important to be aware of the dangers involved in playing around with such energies because you can be damaged in a psychological way. The sense of total abandonment is a common experience of the individual who is moving from the subtle stage of consciousness to the causal stage of consciousness. Paying attention to your dreams can, and does, allow you to integrate what is within with what is without and gives you integrity enough that you can then enter the hell of total abandonment. This is the precursor to your dying into eternity while still living in time and space.
The development of psychic powers will arise from integrity and not simply from curiosity. These powers are for prophesy, healing and for the greater good. They are absolutely not there for the development of the power of the ego. Be warned. Do not go developing psychic powers without first beginning to develop powers of self love, compassion and integrity. Commit to becoming a servant of Love for the highest good of all. First develop states of consciousness beyond identification with the ego. Then the how of developing psychic powers may well be revealed to you. Master the use of these developing psychic powers but do not dwell in this region of consciousness because it is the region of hell realms.
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Finding Spiritual Direction from Dreams
I take council from the wisdom of dreams. Dreams, I believe, do not lie. Sometimes they are frightening and sometimes, as in my own case, they are unflattering. One of the central aspects of my own spiritual journey has been my relationship to the dynamic of arrogance. Teachers have refused to teach me spiritual lessons because they have told me that I am arrogant. That has pained me.
I have dreams that tell me I am more arrogant than compassionate. In these dreams there is a part of me that shouts down those whose theology is not so much childlike, but according to me, is childish. In some dreams I am in a classroom, not so much debating the Word of God, but debasing the views of others in the class as a kind of nonsense. In the dream, the God woman who has invited me to be a part of this class, has left feeling disappointed.
Last night a friend asked me if I would consider joining a local group of people interested in exploring and deepening their relationship to the teachings of Christ. My friend is not a Christian and neither am I. Except that I am deeply interested in the experience called the Christ. I have thought about this invitation and its relationship to this dream. I think this invitation to this group would be an opportunity for me to explore my woundedness in relation to the teachings of my childhood. Here I am being given the opportunity to be in a classroom in the outer world where I might explore this dynamic of arrogance that my unconscious tells me causes conflict rather than harmony.
In this dream I am experiencing myself, not so much as an instrument of peace, but as an instrument of provocation. I provoke in others a kind of looking stupid. In this dream I make it quite clear that I know what they do not know. I tell them in no uncertain terms that what is revealed to me is the truth, the way and the life. I tell them in different ways that they only know the words and not the essence the words are intended to express. Rather than being an invitation to revelation from a sense of inner peace within, I roller coaster my way over what I see as their very limited understanding. At the end of the dream the spiritual teacher has left the room and I am being chastised by another classmate.
There is not much compassion in evidence here. Yes, there is knowing, but knowing without compassion is not of much help. As I write these last lines I am reminded of the great invitation from St Paul.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
This is, I believe, what this dream is inviting me to be more aware. You can substitute the word Love in this quotation for the word compassion if you wish. Wisdom, which for this writer and storyteller, is the knowing of who you are and why you are is of little service if it is not allied with compassion. So it is unflattering to my ego to be seen as a kind of superior ranter who knows the wisdom of the two worlds but whose knowing is used to override and berate the understanding of others.
I’ll be honest. At this point I don’t quite know what to do about what this dream is inviting. Except that I intend to be more alert to ways in which I might unconsciously judge others in relation to their spiritual understanding. This judgement can be subtle. One does not even have to say anything. So I will take this invitation from the dream and the connected invitation from my friend to explore my relationship to the teaching of the Christian church that sore wounded and judged me. I will choose to enter a new classroom and I will, with sincerity, attempt to be aware of judgements both gross and subtle that I might be tempted to make.
Each of us has psychological blocks. These block the energy of Creation that arises within us. These blocks are often unconscious and are then projected outward unto others. To become an instrument of peace, which means living from the heart centre (4th chakra), one courageously works to release these blocks. One is assisted in this process by a commitment to dreamwork. John A. Sanford, a Jungian analyst and Episcopal priest writing in, Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language
Yet in our everyday language we use expressions that intimate the power of dreams. We might say, “It was like a dream come true.” We might ask, “What is your dream for living a wild and precious life?” Martin Luther King Jr. lived a dream and left us a legacy that we might follow. Dreams are not simply random images that happen during sleep. They are as, John A Sanford suggests God’s Forgotten Language
One way to uncover the symbolism of a dream is to talk about it. Another way, the way in which I invite the unfolding of dream symbolism, is to write about them. This is a form of spiritual practice. It is also an honouring of the process. I do not analyse the dream but simply free associate about what the images might be saying and how I might take direction from them. This takes time. This practice is about becoming fluent in another language. It is the language of the unconscious. It is the language that guides you through periods of doubt and even despair.
This is a unique language. It is not a language of words but a language of symbols and images although it is not a flight of the imagination. Honouring your dreams honours your individual authority in your spiritual life and its spiritual direction. The more that you ask of your dream life the more you will receive guidance from these nocturnal visitations that tell you a deeper story of who and why you are. They invite you to be reconciled within and without in ways unknown. If you are intent on living the wild and precious spiritual life then pay attention to all aspects of the invitation that is playing out in your life. Let this include your dream life and let the inner and the outer world become reconciled within you. Then you will receive real spiritual direction and might become one who is graced with the ability to balance wisdom and compassion and live as a true instrument of peace.
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Dreamwork and the Power of the Unconscious Mind
Maybe it shouldn’t have surprised me but it did. This is the power of the unconscious mind. It took only moments but I was left disturbed. I had been working at editing my book An Irish Heritage and the story within it entitled Return to Tir Na Nog. In this story there is featured a women called George. This led me to consider that I might dedicate this book to my father George Cuckson. I thought no more about it and took a nap. During that time I had a dream. This was a very short and disturbing dream. Even writing about it now after some twenty four hours I can feel the power of its vehemence and hatred.
In this dream I am sitting at a desk. My father stands over me and he has with him a considerable sum of money. He tells me in no uncertain terms that he wouldn’t give a little sh*t like me a penny of his money. I reply with some heavy expletives of my own and stand up in order to punch him. What surprises me is the degree of hatred we both feel for each other. It felt that we might be happy to kill each other and that anger wasn’t really what it was about. It was more about rage and violence.
The other emotion involved in this exchange was fear. I felt disturbed and afraid of this degree of vehemence that I felt within me. I say that this was unconscious because I did not realise the depth of this hatred and this rage that I felt. The symbol of the money and his refusal to give me any of his wealth is the representation of his emotional abandonment, not only of me, but all his children. This is the symbol that represents a kind of worthlessness. I thought that I had been through this cycle before but it seems that life very often takes us spiralling back and forth in order to alchemise unresolved emotional issues.
Over the last week I have felt strangely disembodied and still do to some extent. This may be the reason. I want to detach from this emotionally powerful dynamic of hate and rage. The work of integrating this dynamic is that of the 1st and 2nd chakras and the use of the will (3rd chakra) to unify those disparate aspects of the psyche. This is the process of personal integration that takes one higher and into the true peace of the heart chakra.
One of the prayers I pray as a daily spiritual practice is the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. It is a prayer that I feel to be a universal prayer and the first two lines ask,
Lord make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred let me so Love.
This request contrasts so much with the experience of the dream and dreams do not lie. There is that less than conscious aspect of my psyche that feels the worthlessness invoked by the abandonment by the father. This is a key dynamic within my family. In Jungian terms it is the living of the archetype of the Orphan. This is the individual who lives from the pattern of exile. This is why I love stories and tell stories. They are for me a way in which I empower the Orphan and in a truer sense the way the Orphan has empowered the archetype of the Magician within me.
I ask myself, “Do I feel worthless?” Off the top of my head the answer to that question is, “No.” However, I feel physically unwell and that is not usually something I experience. Usually within any physical sense of illness there is an element of emotional disharmony. This may be a result of the deepening of the prayer. It is also likely to be a result of moving into the role of becoming a workshop leader. This role I am finding opens up my psyche in ways unimagined. It opens up on a deep level the question,
Am I worthy to be a guide to what is worthy in all of us
That is a question I am less willing to say “Yes,” too. What is worthy in each of us is so beyond our wildest imagination. To even touch it, and to have it touch ones life, is the greatest of graces. How am I to say that I could ever be worthy of being a guide to such a revelation. The more important aspect of this question isn’t whether the answer is “Yes” or “No” but the willingness to be available to that grace. This is the process that we are all travelling through. It isn’t some form of examination of our worthiness. It is more a test to see if we can stand the revelation that comes through the physical body and the psyche. Any impurity of thought that we are attached to in conscious or unconscious way is burned up in this light of revelation.
This dream shows me the depth of the challenge before me if I would continue to work with my Living the Wild and Precious Life process. In a real sense it reveals to me what I feel about myself and in some way my unconscious relationship to my earthly father and my Heavenly father. This is that I feel unworthy. I was also taught this unworthiness by the ecclesiastical establishment that taught me when I way growing up in Northern Ireland.
I am learning just how much I hated I feel at being made to feel wrong. I do not use this word hatred lightly. The power of this feeling scares me. I found within that dream that I would literally speaking kill. This is where the role of the healthy ego comes in. The will (3rd chakra) can be used, and is intended to be used, to reconcile the opposites discovered in the 2nd chakra. Those opposites that I am discovering within myself at a more powerful and dynamic level are in a real sense making me feel sick.
So I am praying to be made an instrument of peace and instead of peace I am feeling the vehemence of an now arising rage and hatred brought on by a sense of unworthiness. So what to do? I could simply run away and not do the work. This wouldn’t necessarily resolve the conflict. Life would find a way for me to return to it in order to be at peace. It would also mean I was refusing to be made an instrument of peace. It would mean I would be, in the words of the great poet Goethe, refusing to enter the fire and be burned to death for the sake of love.
This burning to death is a metaphor for the alchemical work of processing opposites within the psyche. It is the work of the 3rd chakra and is referred to in mythological stories as the City of Jewels and also as the Road to Hell. It is likely that the more I sincerely pray to be made an instrument of peace that the more I might process that which is not at peace within myself. The modern mystic Andrew Harvey outlines this process in the Sounds True audio series entitled Radiant Heart from which I learned the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. Given the vehemence of the dream experience I look forward to moving to the other side of this experience and learning to reconcile the opposites within me so that when I ask,
Where there is hatred let me sow love
at least I will have some degree of authority to allow that dynamic to move through me because I have reconciled these dynamics in my own heart. I have thus processed the opposites within that then allows the peace beyond understanding to arise within the heart centre. This is the way of Love. It is a kind of figure eight that spirals upward and downward at ever more refined levels and burns up in the fire of Love that which is unloved within ourselves that we are unwilling to make a conscious part of who we are. Thus in this way one might become a worthy instrument of Love and be willing to be used for Love’s purpose.
One of the most powerful of languages that you can ever learn is the language of dreams. The language of dreams will give you benefits that no other language can ever hope to give you. These powerful benefits include
- Deeper powers of intuition and integrity.
- A fuller body awareness that is beyond sensational.
- Feel more deeply aligned with Source.
- Literally and superconsiously follow your dreams.
- Discover your key life patterns.
- Feel connected to your true life’s story.
- Reveal the true meaning and purpose of your one wild and precious life.
You can become an skilled interpretor of your dreams. In this way you align the inner with the outer which is a major key in the process of real personal and spiritual development. Rather than experience life as a kind of emergancy one’s life becomes a life of emergance. Dream interpretation in a very real way is a course in life long learning.
Take the journey into true integret by make your committment to begin a course in dream interpretation here. Dream interpretation is a skill that will help you on through key transitional stages of the spiritual journey that we are all undertaking in our various ways. This is an affiliate program that I endorse. Dream interpretation is one of my key spiritual practices and I invite you to learn a language that will over time begin to integrate you in personal and spiritual development ways that you might only ever dream off.
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Lesson 1: Why We All Dream and Why We ShouldA dream well dreamt can prompt us to question the world around us, what we are doing in it, how we view it and what we do, as well as, defining what is real and what isn’t. |
Lesson 2: Dreaming Through HistoryThe point is that dreaming is a fundamental part of all our lives, one of the very few universal strands that unites all human beings. |
Lesson 3: Freud/Jung/PerlsDescribed as the “royal road” to understanding the unconscious mind by Sigmund Freud — DREAMS — were the centerpiece of his highly controversial book The Interpretation of Dreams |
Lesson 4: Dream State, Levels and LogicIn this lesson we will be covering several of the better known, and more widely acknowledged dream states, as well as some of the very important points in relation to levels of dreaming. |
Lesson 5: Dreams Across the Cultural DivideDreaming is a truly universal experience, however, cultural factors and religiousness do play a significant part in how people regard the significance and consequences of dreams. |
Lesson 6: Your Own Dream LexiconOur dream pictures and feelings are generated by our unconscious and for our own benefit — you can find comfort in that. Our unconscious talks directly to us through our dreams, one-to-one. |
Lesson 7: Dream SymbolsThe messages contained in our dreams are typically conveyed as symbols — representing an idea, concept or emotion — something that is difficult to put into actual words. |
Lesson 8: Dreaming AboutYes, we often dream about things, and occurrences, which are common in our every day lives. |
Lesson 9: Analyzing and Interpreting Your DreamsIn practically every culture and during practically every Age in our history, dreams have both enthralled and mystified us and had us scrambling to find bigger and better ways to understand their implications. |
Lesson 10: An Eclectic Approach to Dream InterpretationEverything changes over time, so naturally the approach to dreams and their interpretation is no exception. |
Lesson 11: Dreaming CreativelyThe real meaning of what it is to be creative is frequently mis-stated and misunderstood with so many people thinking and saying things like “I’m not creative at all”. |
Learn to truly follow your dreams.
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SPIRAL DYNAMICS – Another map of personal and spiritual development for your consideration