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Soul Train

7/22/2013

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In travels in dreams, the train is a powerful vehicle and symbol. It implies movement forward, and speedy movement.

It implies having an inner “engineer” and “conductor.” It can signify being directed by your inner being to a specific-life goal or destination, riding at times alone, being both engineer, conductor and passenger. At times others come along and travel and work with you – in life and in your dreams. 

It can indicate having laid a path, using a “map,” and then laying a road-bed with “tracks of steel” to your destination – when the dream train is a traditional track-wheeled train. 

The train can be a powerful symbol of a dream experience called mutual dreaming, in which two or more are traveling the subtle worlds together. The train implies safe traveling as the means and way is “engineered” by the individual’s soul-being or the collective “soul agreement” of the riders. When one follows (or rides) the “soul train” one is nurtured (trains do have diners) and assisted along the way, as the travel is in agreement with the soul’s destination and life purpose.

Of course, in the vast world of the mind and imagination, there are sky trains, space trains, and trains that burrow and tunnel through the earth – all signifying different potentials and movements that can be experienced in dreaming..

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Child: "Tell them about Visions"

7/9/2013

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I knew a child. He saw me writing. He asked, "What are you writing?" I said, "About dreams." He said that was good. After a moment he said, "And don't forget to tell them about visions."  I thought, isn't that amazing – a child wanting the world to know about visions!  I asked, "What do you know about visions?" He then began telling me about some of his visions. I then pondered, here is a young child wanting the world to know what a child can see, and seeking an adult to listen.

What an amazing platform with social media, and the dawn of a new collective consciousness to share.
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The Sound and Meaning of Words of Others

7/7/2013

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I once met a woman who had an extraordinary ability to listen to a word given her, and she could tell you the inner meaning, quality or intent of the word, whether your name, an abstract concept or a thing. She would repeat the word one or more times and focus on it, the sound and the vibration, and appeared to "feel" the essence of the word.

In the Yoga Sutras it is said, "The sound, the meaning (behind it) and the idea (which is present in the mind at the time) are present together in a confused state. By performing Samyama (on the sound) they are resolved and there arises comprehension of the meaning of sounds uttered by any living being. (I.K. Taimi, The Science of Yoga: The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali)

Samyama, the culmination of concentration, meditation and absorption of that of your focus brings about insight, awareness and knowingness of the object, or in this case the word to which you listen.

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Listening to a Child's Dreams

7/7/2013

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When we listen to a  child's dreams, we must listen through the heart center. The young child's dreams are created not so much from thoughts, as from deep psychic impressions and memories – and feelings.
 
When the child shares a dream they are inviting you into their heart. They are seeking inner knowledge and knowledge of the self. They are seeking the language and words to put their experience into waking consciousness – for you to help them decipher – that is for them to know what their inner soul already knows. 

That is why it is so important to listen to every word the child speaks when sharing their dreams. We do this by focusing on our own heart center, quieting the mind with sustained-quiet listening, and seeking inner knowledge with the child – seeking to see or feel what they had seen or felt – to know the unknown.
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    Catching up!

    After a long "sabbatical" -  I will hopefully be back blogging on a more regular basis. I make no promises though, as there are many demands on most of us at this time.

    ​I have deleted many blogs, trimming down to a small number, a handful, to start anew. 
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    ​ I hop to also share more stories on the crow, and some ancient stories, such as the immortal sage-crow, who mastered the breath to diminish sorrow, illness and death; the first, heavenly hound, and heavenly canine guardians of foreknowledge, intuition or keen senses to aid us and the heavens. 

    Such wisdom tradition knowledge appears important at this critical time and transition.

    It is said in the spiritual and wisdom-mystical traditions that when things appear darkest, an even "greater" Light is available, working to conquer the darkness, transform it, and enlighten us.

    We are called to be aware of it, to work with it, and within it.

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    ​Paul Overman, Ph.D., originator of  Integral Dream Analysis and Integral Dream Yoga; specialist in meditation, and eco-spirituality. Speaker, teacher and author, dedicated to exploration and mapping of the interrelationship of meditation dream, creativity, nature and healing states of consciousness.

    His education is in both Eastern and Western psychologies with his master degree from University of Dayton and his doctor degree from the California Institute of Integral Studies. 

    Paul has practiced meditation since his early teens and has been facilitating training in guided imagery, contemplation, dreaming, and inner-healing for forty years.

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