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 DREAMING
INTO THE ABORIGINAL DREAMTIME
Aboriginal Australians believe that we dream our way into this world, and
dream our way out of it.
“We talk to the
spirit-child before a baby is born,” naturopath and traditional healer
Burnham Burnham explained it to me. If the father-to-be is a dreamer, he is
frequently the one who first meets the spirit-child in dreams. These dream
encounters often unfold at places of water that exist in the natural world –
a billabong, the shallows of a river, a waterfall – where the spirit-child
plays with its own kind and is not confined to a single form. It can appear
as a kingfisher or a platypus, as a fish or a crocodile. The dreamer may
have to negotiate with the spirit-child, giving it reasons for coming into a
human body. Finally, the dreamer plays soul-guide, escorting the incoming
spirit to the mother’s womb.
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HEALING
THE FLAYED HORSE:
A Personal Experience of Healing through Dream Rentry
By Jenny Noble
As a provocative symbol, the hammer has played an immense role in my life
for the past two years. It was a renegade hammer, slipping in an instant
from the stubborn nail I was prying loose, that re-wrote my life script.
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DREAMING
UP "MYSTERY GIRL"
Bono of U2
tells his song “Mystery Girl” came from a dream followed by
an
amazing coincidence. In jitters before a big
gig at Wembley stadium, he could not
sleep sleep and stays up most of the night with a recording of the
soundtrack to David
Lynch’s Blue Velvet set on repeat, looping around again and again to
Roy Orbison’s song “In Dreams.” Bono finally
drifted off, and woke with a song in his head. It had something of the
quality of Roy
Orbison, and his
first impression was that it was just another Roy Orbison song. It slowly
occurred to him that the song was new, something he had composed in his
sleep. It was about a “mystery girl.”
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MOUSE
EXPLAINS HOW THE UNIVERSE WAS MADE
On a plane bound for Cincinnati, I am sitting next to a round-faced
little girl in pink. Her mother calls her “Mouse” and isn’t interested in
talking to her, but she’s full of curiosity about everything from the
ventilation system to the creation of the world, so she plies me with
questions and stories for the whole flight.
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