Earth First Dreaming School

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I've been dream journaling most of my life. I joined Sea Life, an online dream forum, October 2003. The site owner, Explora, who hails from down-under Australia, has partnered up with me in bringing forth The Star Foundation (from another dream, of course!). I help moderate a dream team over at Sea Life called Way of the Wind, where we have 9 members.

I've read some great dream books: Robert Moss: "Dreaming True", "Conscious Dreaming", "Dreamgates", "Dreamways of the Iroquois"; Lynn Andrews: "Tree of Dreams", Jeremy Taylor: "Where People Fly And Water Runs Uphill", John D. Goldhammer: "Radical Dreaming" and I have worked extensively with Strephon Kaplan-Williams "Dream Card". I encourage my students to read similar dream books, and visit the web sites of these folk.

I am a dreamer and networker. I am highly drawn to shamanism, magick.
I always pull a dream card or a tarot card after a dream, it's a great way to focus and it usually has a synchronistic interpretation for my dreams.

Like Sea Life, Earth First Dreaming School was dreamed into being. Here are some of the great dreams that helped to manifest the School, finally January 15, 2005:

This was the original dream that kicked-off the inspiration for me to figuire out how to design Earth First Dreaming School, GreenEyes, Sandy, had this dream over at Sea Life:

"There was a wall of aquariums that had 2 doors. One door said Production and the other door said Pleasure. On each door was a list of questions I couldn't see. You were supposed to read the questions to decide which door to go in. I knew that behind me there was a glass door that said Lounge and people were everywhere going back and forth. In one of the dreams I saw the 13 moon calendar in the distance on the wall next to the lounge.

The teams in the Production area worked on specific projects that included crystals and some kind of magic. I wasn't supposed to talk about it.......yet (?). If you were going to be doing magic, you had to wear a little mask thing, but we only had enough of them for one team at a time. Explora had left everyone a memo asking for ideas on how we could come up with some more of the little mask things. The memo was like a small hologram in the lobby area where the aquariums were. There were 13 of us in each team.

The Pleasure teams were just for exploring whatever came up in dreams and one project was for dreaming only in cartoon characters. Someone was trying to build a bright blue tent they had seen in a dream. Some kids were making a computerized video/movie created out of 3 different dreams combined.

One dream had me finding an empty container and realizing someone had eaten my entire bag of shrimp and half the sauce! I said, Noooooooo! and woke up.

In the other dream, I came out of the Pleasure area and somebody said they were going to tell Sun I didn't have my mask on! Like, Ummmmmm! I'm gonna tell! I said I had just been visiting and would tell him about it myself! then I woke up."

My Comments: The two doors saying PRODUCTION and PLEASURE helped me create the two sections of Earth First. The 13 dream teams, based on the 13 tones of the Dreamspell calendar, became Dreaming Feathers, and is for the mere pleasure of dreaming and being on teams.

The other section is the Collective Dream work section, which I've called Dolphin Dreaming. There was have the Revised Silver Star and the Dolphin Human Holographic Libraray.

Wearing the Masks part of the dream I can see being about the symbols Carl Jung's uses: the Persona, the Shadow, the Anima (Female) and Animus (Male) sides in our dreams that motivate us, frighten us, and help us find our true SELF. Of course with dream interpretation it just never ends, so I will stop here for now. There is always more, that many might see, different symbols in these dreams.

Sandy had this great dream, and it reminds me of the

Aboriginie Dreamtime:

"Anyone that would be interested in helping EFDS manifest, consider incubating a dream around this question:
"Why Earth First?"

With a conscious thought of having the universe decide the meaning of the question, I said, Why Earth first? repeatedly to myself as I went to bed and drifted to sleep.

Immediately I was seated at a small camp table in the front opening of a large brown tent. The ground inside the tent was covered with a red and blue carpet. An old man was seated on the other side of the table. The door flap was tied back and I could see just past the old man's left shoulder. When I looked out I could see a couple of trees, some boulders on the right and a large circle of smooth bare dirt.

The old man was talking to me, showing me papers too quickly for me to focus on them and talking to me about how much I had planted and harvested, how much I still intended to collect and what we were having for dinner that night. I was sort of tired, but satisfied as he waved papers around and kept talking. Although I can't really remember what he was talking about, I had the thought, Oh my. Surely he isn't going to tell me all that again!

I sighed and looked over his shoulder, wanting to escape outside without hurting his feelings! I saw something move in the patch of bare ground. A head formed and shoulders and arms....on down to feet as a sexless body stood up (as if it had been lying face down under the dusty surface). No facial features and no ears....extra-long fingers. The closest I can describe the way it looked is to imagine a clear glass, sprayed with a mist of water and sprinkled with fine dust....slightly darker brown than the dust it rose out of.

The being turned and began to walk away from me. As he did, another being rose out of the dirt and followed. On and on until there was a line of them walking away, with more still rising up.

The old man was leaning back and forth and waving his papers around and I was trying to look around him, so I could see what was going on. He said, So? I said, What is it?.....squirming and trying to see around the old guy. He glanced over his shoulder. As he did so, I could finally see the line of beings walking away. He said, Oh, those are replacements.....and turned back to his papers.

As they walked further away from me, with each step, they began to form skin and features(lips, nose, teeth, ears..), different colors of hair. I watched 3 of them closely, leaning back and forth to see around the old man. The fingers shortened, hips and shoulders changed slightly.

The first turned into a man with sort of long dark hair (jeans and no shirt), the second into a woman with long blond hair (jeans and a white shirt), the third into a tall man with short brown hair (in jeans, boots and a plaid flannel shirt). I could only see them from the back as they walked away in line. Sometimes one would turn their head slightly and I could see the teeth in a smile or know the eye colors (brown, blue and hazel green) were different.

The old man snorted and waved a hand in front of my face, totally blocking my view of the line of beings. In my dream mind, I kept seeing those beings rising up out of the smooth brown dirt. I finally focused on his hand and I said...Uh, Why?

He snorted again and chuckled at me. He said Why waste time and breath asking what you already know? It's okay. We're finished here.

I said, Wait! Please!, but the dream faded and I could hear him chuckle again.

The old man had those gray eyes that I've seen in past dreams. I wouldn't look at him. I never looked directly at his face. I do wish I had. What was I afraid of? At first it was so he couldn't tell how bored I was with all his paper waving blah, blah, blah that I'd heard several times already. I can think of at least a dozen real things I would like to have asked him!

I did feel a surge of pride when he asked about how much harvest I was still bringing in!

Ha! The Earth provides and the Earth is us! Our bodies are the Earth....a little dust and minerals and a lot of water, eh? We need the harvest. We need the Earth.

This was a very short, very powerful dream! The sight of that first head and shoulders rising out of the dust has been popping into my head all day long.

Cool!"

Alpha Self-existing 5 (10-22-2004) Blue Solar Hand
Earth Temple dream
I was with about 100 people inside a glass cathedral, temple. It was non-denominational. I felt people from Sea Life there, Way of the Wind dream team, Nick and Sandy, and the Self-existing Moon group, etc.
The Steeples of this cathedral were awesome.

The upper part was pure glass, against the night blue sky, farther down the glass was Smokey quartz, then on ground level the stained glass scenes were nature scenes and I felt them Native American Indian. I remember seeing image of deer, rabbit, cat, fox, fish, raccoon, butterflies, eagles, hawks and other birds, dolphins and whales, all peaceful totem animals.
We were all looking upwards as ultra violet mists of lights were flowing down from the stars and skies. Kind of like aurora borealis lights.
We all were waving, praising our hands and feeling joy, ecstasy, and power. The energy was lifting us up.
I then deliberately smacked my right hand up into the air and an image of another hand hi-five me. I could see the kirlian field of both hands.
I yelled “Hey, I just hi-five God!”
Everyone clapped.
A woman with blonde hair, very gentle and spiritual looking came up and said, “I guess it’s unanimous. You are chosen!”
I asked “Chosen for what?”
She laughed “You need to ask?”
Some guys, probably Nick, Dreamster, Haku and Ypm brought up a Red Earth glyph, made of stone, about half my size.
She pointed to the glass tower on the side of the temple.
I knew that I had to take the Earth glyph in there.
It was heavy, I remember that in the dream.

I opened a golden trimmed door of glass and walked into the round glass-walled tower, and sat the Red Earth glyph down in the center. I saw outside the glass that we were in the mountains.
I then looked up and saw the purple lights spiraling down and knew I had to get out of the tower.
We all stood there and watched the tower fill up with purple spiraling lights, covering the Red Earth glyph.
We all were excited, a few oohs, and ahhs.
I woke up.
Comments: After work, on the bus, I meditated and returned to the dream scene.
Meditation:
It was fresh and awesome.
I noticed the details and watched the lights again. I felt Certainty.
I went up to the priestess and asked what all this means. Again she smiled “As if you don’t know.”
She then told me what I already knew “You are a shaman who can now guide people on their path.”
I realized that’s what the Earth navigation glyph means.
I said, “I knew this!” She laughs “now its official, isn’t it!” (this was probably the dream that cinched it for me started FEDS)

"Limi Rhythmic 13 (12.25.04)
Blue Galactic Monkey

Why Earth First?

I did an incubation on why we need to hold the Earth as sacred.

In this dream many members of Sea Life and EFDS are present. I am explaining something to Nick about the importance of grounding and balancing the body.

It feels like he doesn't listen or he is thinking of something else. Everyone else goes off to a lecture. I get a cell phone call from Mer, she tells me she and Mark want to be part of my project. She tells me they are at the lecture too. I feel I should be at that lecture. I try to make it clear to her that my project is about the sacred nature of the Earth and honoring our sexual/sacred connection with the Planet.

I ask her if that is clear enough.

She says yes.

I wake up.

Comments: Mark and Mer are friends who live in Denver. I met Mark online a few years ago, around 1994. He is into the Mayan Dreamspell. He also created his own Dream Star. I am going to be co-authoring a book with him on the Dream Star and the prophecies of Pacal Votan. I feel he is an important connection to this sacred Earth connection we are exploring. Mer is very Catholic. Mark is Catholic because of that, but he is very shamanistic.

Not being heard by Nick felt ok, like he was just preoccupied or busy, or he was focusing on his own path (maybe playing with Storm clouds?). I realize who listens and can hear will come to me.

I pulled three Dream Cards. Interestingly they are all Feminine.

WOMB: Place of Theme.
Feminine card 21 GIVING
Giving of my gifts.
Secondary image: DANCE
Create situations for greater mutural sharing.
DREAMER: Place of Dream Ego.
Feminine card 15, DISSOVLING
I was letting go of my connection with Nick, momentarily, so he could go to the lecture. Sometimes we can't hold on too tight, so that others can grow.
Of course I don't want to dissolve eveything.
NEST: Place of Resolution.
Feminine card 17, GENERATING
Time to generate more of my oral teachings.
Secondary image: HEALING
Increase your level of intimacy by allowing yourself to receive more.
Sound like this dreams portends some real adventure with Mark and Mer, and reconnecting with them in writing this book."

My Comments: Everybody has their own spiritual views. Part of Earth First is holding that the Earth is sacred, and each part of the Earth has something to contribute. Mark Borcherding and Nick Cumbo have been 2 wonderful and inspiring friends on my path and my growth. Yesterday, December 4th, 2006, Limi Overtone 20, Yellow Lunar Sun, Red Moon Year, I stepped down from being a Team Leader on my Sea Life dream team, Way of the Wind. This might be part of honoring this dream, where Nick and I have to do seperate work, everyone, every relationship needs time apart to grow. This might also be a key to some dreamers participation fluctuating. We shall see how this impacts the Active Dreaming and growth of Earth First Dremaing School.

"Dali Rhythmic 22 (1.3.05)

Yellow Self-existing Sun

What is a Dream School?

I am in a parked car with my friend Therese. Eric and someone else is in the back seat.

Some guy taps on the window. He looks mean, like a mob type or bounty-hunter. Therese gets out. The man slaps her around. I open my cell phone to hear what's going on outside, between them.

I hear the man tell Therese he wants his payment for the designer cloths and furniture she was suppose to sell at the elementary school.

Inside the car, we wanted to go out and help Therese, but the guy turns to the window and says "If you want to be slapped around too like this, just keep it up!"

They get done talking and Therese gets back in the car acting like nothing happened.

We drive off. Park. Get out and walk. We are walking down a bike path under an overpass bridge.

I tell Therese I heard what the guy said to her, through my cell phone.

She found that hard to believe, folded her arms and said "Tell me!"

I preceded to repeat to her about him wanting the payment for her selling designer clothes and furniture at a gradeschool.

She said "So what? I just sell it at the elementary school. Btw, you've never given me a psychic reading that has come true!"

I replied: "Well not to impose my moral code on you, don't you think you ought to stop selling these things to the kids?"

She says "No. Anway I need the money."

I responded "Yeah, well next time you're at the gradeschool why don't you set up a little psychology booth like Lucy did in Peanuts cartoon?"

Just as I was becoming conscious I was dreaming, I slowly woke up.

Comment: As I slowly woke up, I was aware that my last comment was about the incongruent statement of her needing the money, since she was suppose to be making good money as a therapist.
Also the comment about not ever giving her a psychic reading that came true definitely took me back. It was almost an attack. It was something a drug dealer might say, I thought. Yet here we are talking about designer clothes and furniture, to elementary school kids.
In context of my intent, What is a Dream School? I think this dream reflects some of the discussion I have had with Kat, over at our Earth First Dreaming School, about old-school therapy. Seems like maintaining the status quo, how our culture and society doesn't value dreams, in fact, might even feel dreams are a sign of delusion. I know in reality Therese is not like this, more open minded. In the dream though she represented something more conservative. Selling designer clothes and furniture to school kids might symbolize selling the same old props to the innocent. I mean if you get young kids to accept something, to "wear" it, to sit in it, then they are bought and sold into the old system.
I believe my comment about setting up a Psychology booth, like Lucy did in the cartoon Peanuts was represented my revealing that I didn't buy her cover. It had nothing to do with needing money. She wanted to corrupt our youth. (its interesting in this dream, Therese is selling designer clothes and in the next section, Kat dreams of a bazaar with plants for sale)
I incubated this dream, as the second part of Why Earth First?
This part of the incubation was What is a Dream School?
If any of you would like to incubate the second intent, please join in. I think these incubations are developing well, and revealing much of what the potential of our work it here."

Kat, who publishes Rocky Mountain Dream Journal, wrote: "I incubated a dream "why Earth First"
Dream:
I am at a dance and I have been in and outside during this gathering. I'm with my boyfriend at the end - he comes outside and we dance outside together. He is very tender and sweet as we talk. There are vendors galore outside, selling plants, plant material (leaves, branches), and seeds. The vendors are Asian, Thai, Vietnamese, etc). As I am looking at their baskets of things, someone asks if the vendor discount their stuff as it's the end of the dance. No is the answer. I look at a bin or basket of (we call it artichokes in the dream but it looks like a bin of large seeds) and then look at them again a bit later after looking at other plants, leaves, etc. I see the seed (I call it an artichoke) I want. I find something else to buy and I give the man my cash and my boyfriend gives him change so I don't' get more change back. I thank my boyfriend for the change and kiss him on the cheek. EOD
In this dream, my bf is underappreciated, not trusted by me until the end of the dance when he comes outside where I am. I see the influence of the Tsunami.
Kat

My comments on her dream:
Kat:
If this were my dream I would look at the images of dancing, particularly when we moved outside away from the group. The boyfriend symbolizes the dream, to me, as my dreams can be my lovers. Maybe I am looking for more tender and sweet dreams?
The vendors outside selling plants and seeds might represent the different members of the EFDS, with all their potential seeds for learning and discovery.
The fact that they are oriental might also symbolize more an intuitive and meditative approach to EFDS. Not so goal oriented. Hence I was told no when I aksed to buy them at a discount.
I would look at the word discount, and notice it might me not to discount my dreams at the end of the dance. Dance can mean many things, but particularly it represents the flow, bouncing and enjoying myself in the dance.
I find the artichoke I want. Notice the words art I choke. Is this dream telling me that I am strangling, holding back my artistic expression, not appreciating what my dream lover has to say in my dreams?
The boyfriend helps me out by giving the man the change, so I won't have to get more change back.
Very interesting dream work, Kat.
Sweet Dreams,
Sunwolf

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