It has long been held – at least since the “discovery” of The New World in the late 15th century – that primitive societies who knew nothing of taxes, the wheel, Holy Mother Church, smallpox, cholera or gunpowder were more attuned to the Ways of Nature than their more civilized European conquerors.
The importance of doing so is all too often ignored or ridiculed and dismissed. We live in a world where "perception is reality," with no thought given to the notion that there may well be layers to that "reality," that maya, "the cosmic illusion," may be something more than a quaint, archaic, and decidedly foreign concept. In the 14th Century, the Franciscan monk William of Occam (yes, of "Occam's Razor" fame) believed that what appeared before him in any given moment was not necessarily true, and therefore should not be accepted at face value. Six centuries later, one of the cardinal rules of Cold War intelligence and counter-intelligence work was "nothing is what it appears to be." In between, Sitting Bull called upon dreams for a solution to the arrival of "The Son of the Morning Star" and his Seventh Cavalry. Medical science still doesn't know the "how and why" of dreams, but declares they are necessary to our health and well-being. And yet, to be called "a dreamer" is little different from being called a fool. Go figure ...
I had a friend who dreamt for others, a very special gift. I lost her a few years ago but I published her book Buffalo Dreams about her own dreams and how she interpreted them. The New Age movement trashed our sacred to the point that everyone lost faith in dreamtime.
The Medicine people I have met recommend we watch (write down) our dreams/dreamtime. It's the only way to get through our thick skulls.
The importance of doing so is all too often ignored or ridiculed and dismissed. We live in a world where "perception is reality," with no thought given to the notion that there may well be layers to that "reality," that maya, "the cosmic illusion," may be something more than a quaint, archaic, and decidedly foreign concept. In the 14th Century, the Franciscan monk William of Occam (yes, of "Occam's Razor" fame) believed that what appeared before him in any given moment was not necessarily true, and therefore should not be accepted at face value. Six centuries later, one of the cardinal rules of Cold War intelligence and counter-intelligence work was "nothing is what it appears to be." In between, Sitting Bull called upon dreams for a solution to the arrival of "The Son of the Morning Star" and his Seventh Cavalry. Medical science still doesn't know the "how and why" of dreams, but declares they are necessary to our health and well-being. And yet, to be called "a dreamer" is little different from being called a fool. Go figure ...
I had a friend who dreamt for others, a very special gift. I lost her a few years ago but I published her book Buffalo Dreams about her own dreams and how she interpreted them. The New Age movement trashed our sacred to the point that everyone lost faith in dreamtime.