Dreams as
Spiritual Guidance, Healing
& Encounter

Our earliest ancestors

--meaning countless cultures and spiritual traditions, including Biblical-- turned to dreams for the purpose of receiving wisdom, healing wholeness, navigation for the life journey, and soul travel. This includes for tapping into unseen realms of reality and mysterious healing forces. All of it encounters with The Sacred--one's deepest and often unconscious Self.  

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When the biblical character, Jacob, wrestled with the Night Stranger, was he wrestling an God, an angel, or with his broken past that needed healing and thus with his unconscious or what Carl Jung called his "shadow"? Was the Night Stranger his brother whom he stole from decades prior who came under the cover of darkness the night prior to their official reunion? Or in the morning as dawn was breaking, did it turn out that the Night Stranger visitation and wrestling match was a dream?

Wisely, given these options and more, rabbinic tradition simply says "yes".
And what rich fodder for growth and healing wholeness when doing so, especially when we put on Jacob's Night Stranger encounter,

or dream, as our own.

Of going into The Shadow, or Mystery. Asking for growth. Healing. Wisdom on the unfolding life journey as a soul.

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While we Westerners prize our individual sense of self, including when it comes to our dreams lives, historically dreams were understood throughout the world as also being for our collective life in this One Reality of which we all are part. That includes for the well-being and survival of their people (ie. think of the biblical Joseph with is coat of many colors, dreaming of a future famine, which leads to Egypt storing food...which saves the lives of Egyptian peoples yet also in reconciling ways with his brothers who had previously meant to harm him. Note all the family alienation and healing stories in scripture...often mirrors for helping us process and heal our own lives). 
Other reasons to pay attention to our dreams?

Ancient Romans gave special attention to the liminal state

between sleep and waking. They understood that liminal state as being when the gods were said to speak. At least that's when they--and us--are relaxed yet also partially aware enough to finally ear.

Abolitionist Sojourner Truth utilized dreams and intuitive insight to navigate
her way North, bringing countless people to safety.
Inventors like Thomas Edison have made scientific discoveries
through dreams.

We too can learn how to catch, remember, and more mindfully listen to both dreams of the night

 and dreams of the day
(those meaningful signs and mysterious synchronicities
or timing of events amid daily life).   

Doing so can help us live more deeply

with greater wonder, meaning, and wholeness. 

I work with people one-on-one and in groups to help them explore their dreams and synchronicities for:

• Discerning which life direction to take.

• Honoring encounters with deceased loved ones, guides, and The Sacred.

• Facing the Shadow in order to heal and grow on the life journey.

• Soul travel.

•  Being more awake to mysterious healing forces, communing Oneness, and interconnectivity with all beings in this One Reality of which we all are part.​

     The process is easy, fun, meaningful, and safe (no one is imposing their understanding of a dream upon you; only you are the expert of what your dream ultimately means--not others nor some generic dream symbol book).

     Dream work can be part of ongoing Spiritual Direction/Companioning, or a one-time session (See Soul Friend page) and are typically held via Zoom. 

     Dream Share is also a fun, meaningful experience for friendship groups and orgs.  Friendship or work groups, retreats (with yogic sleep and other goodness enfolded). and workshops are typically offered in-person if geographically close.  

  Feel free to contact me at cqe@calmwithcatherine.com

Peace,

Catherine