Wishing on a Dream
Sometimes I’m stunned silly by the call and response between the lines I set down in my journal and the responses that light up my consciousness when I close my eyes. My hopelessness was soothed by a series of vignettes that literally enlivened me.
The Royal Road to Joyful Dreams
When you journey to the unconscious, bring a map During a recent trip to Mexico, where I’d come to present a program on Dreaming Toward Bliss at a conference on dreams and healing, I did …
Dreaming into the Twilight Zone
After years of helping to care for my mother, and witnessing the ravages of a disease that stripped her of her memory, identity, and her access to language, and then mourning the loss of the woman who was also one of my closest friends and favorite people, I was eager to learn more about the joy, which at times during my grieving process felt as if it existed on a faraway planet, not right at the center of my 5’4” body—not very far away at all.