Why Have We Denounced Dreaming as Something Weird or Useless or Just a Bunch of Chemicals Lighting Up?

I love the early Christian churches the best, the ones that gathered on the mount before cathedrals were built. A time when Mary Magdalene was not branded a prostitute, when the Mary's were equal followers. After reading the bible through several times in my life I decided long ago that Jesus had to have been extremely progressive for women's rights as compared to his Jewish community, or Roman or other Gentile communities around him. It was Mary who was chosen to be witness at the tomb after all. So now I am wondering what else do we not preach about in the life of the communities of the Bible?

Well here's one biggy that bites my chaps, we do not talk about the human gift and skills of dreaming. We say prophet and that puts dreaming in a speciality light. Those that tell the stories for their community from the mind of God, become prophets because they have the courage to speak. Those truth tellers of courage that speak from the heart and language that dream space for the good of community and self growth are not a speciality group. Every single human being is born to dream in the night and during the day bring those skills to life. I suppose that makes prophets of us all.

And when we lose our dreaming? When a mass forgetting and loss occurs in a society, what then of God and Spirit within the wholeness of culture? One correspondence I have heard during a medical oriented workshop is Depression. Another I have heard is Soul Loss. I figure it is a symptom of social disease when I hear," it's only a dream". Or It's "just" the mind dumping out images from the day. How about those really weird dreams we all try to forget? Most often the ones we wake up with and think that's just really weird, hold future viewing elements.

Here is a recent example from my own night dreaming experiences into a day experience of line dancing at a concert I recently went to. I dreamt the night before I was with a group of women in a staff meeting. I left the meeting and saw another group doing a line dance and joined in. Of course when I woke up my first thought was that this could be about my new job. When I was waiting in line with a bunch of women to use the public rest room and saw the dancing line moving around the crowd at the concert, I knew I would have a blast dancing and my bladder could wait a bit.

I am a dream teacher and can guide you into your own personal understanding and symbology of your dream world. With a bit of guidance in the active dreaming ways you will also help yourself to grow and know your habits of mind. I do believe it is time to shed the guru attitude that we have to go to some one else to find the higher answers. Didn't the protestant movement step away from the priest mediator and a whole movement organized that knew they could communicate with God directly?

Creator has given us this vital way to use our humanity. It can be scary. It also can be a chance to work past scary into healing of traumas. Becoming a conscious dreaming society once again will bring the playgrounds back into this world! Ask Jesus, one of his roles in the world was as an awesome prophet after all.