"Holding" a dream can sometimes take some practice--especially those visiting from very distance spaces. But with practice, it's a snap!

Date:   4/22/2006 3:28:17 AM ( 18 y ago)

            It’s a shame our modern world doesn’t offer us the ways of civilizations such as the ancient Greeks when it comes to working with the “other world” of dreams, visions, and mythologies.  The Oracle at Delphi and the Temple of Asclepius were wonderful means by which the Greeks attuned themselves to that “other world.”

We don’t think we have direct links with that “other world” in ways that were commonplace in the days of the Greeks, but we do—through our dreams.  Our dreams are wonderful teachers, superb sources of oracular advice, and tremendous re-minders of what we are doing here on Planet Earth.

Dreams are beautiful teachers in how to hold the energy of the “other world.”  Being able to listen to that “still, small voice” in ways that allow us to be continually guided is difficult.  Meditation is oftentimes taught as a way in which to attune oneself with that inner voice.  Yet, dreams can teach us that same process, simply by learning how to “hold” them.

Holding the energies of that “other world” takes practice.  Waking with a dream each morning and holding it in a way that brings us the inner depths from the dreaming world is a real art.  Yet, by practicing that art each morning, we are, in a sense, developing the “muscle” that allows us to hold that energy of the “other world.”

That “other world”—or what Rudolf Steiner calls the “supersensible world”—is everywhere around us, yet remains imperceptible to most of us.  Parting those veils of illusion is something the common person can do, even if they’re not psychic.  Learning how to hold the subtle essence of a dream develops that skill and builds that muscle.  It’s as though the dream is more than just a source of information and practical guidance:  it is also a teacher of working and holding subtle energies. That’s what a dream brings to me each morning, that subtle energy, and to wake up and be able to hold a dream is a real skill that has to be developed.  It doesn’t happen overnight.  It takes an attitude of reverence and respect.

I think one thing that has been overlooked in all of the research and writing over the years about dreams is that dreams are a direct energetic link for us to the spiritual world.  Without a doubt, those gems that arrive in our beds each morning have traveled the terrain that connects us to the spiritual universe.  They are indeed like butterflies that gently land, fluttering off at the slightest movement of anything that might disturb them.

When one truly learns how to entertain a dream, it is as though we are learning how to entertain and hold the very light and delicate membrane that connects us to the spiritual world.  It is through that fabric that we are able to develop the necessary muscles in which to begin bringing greater amounts of that connection into our lives—something that, indeed, will change us forever.

Even after a decade of journaling my dreams, I believe that I am doing the dream a greater service to simply hold it and bring it into my conscious awareness than if I were to spend hours tearing it down by some analytical analysis of its products.  Yes, analysis is fruitful and helpful, but that approach to dreamwork scares away many people from taking the first step towards working with dreams.  The primary key, in my estimation, is learning how to hold the dream.

You see, when you wake in the morning, there are two worlds colliding in and around you:  the spiritual world, where you have been dreaming; and the physical world, where you are “awaking” to and where your conscious life is taking place.  The energies of those two worlds are powerful, and often clash in a way that keeps you from holding the dream.  To be able to pry open that door to the spiritual world for just a moment longer will make the difference in whether a dream is remembered or not.

It’s as though a primary technique for holding a dream is being able to keep the physical world and all of its memories and demands and callings out of your conscious awareness upon waking.  The longer you can do that, the better chance a dream will have to surface, if you haven’t already kept it alive upon waking.  And in this way the holding of the dream will manifest.

Along with the dreams and the dream images are a whole host of related feelings and sensations that come trailing in behind and with the dream, like the meteor dust behind a meteor.  Those are also coming in from the spiritual world.  To be able to catch those remnants, also, is a real gift and treasure.

Holding a dream is exactly like meditation:  you are quiet, you have released yourself from the gunfire of your mind and the world around you, and you are simply being present to what is.  And in that space of what is will be your dream, and your connection to the world of spirit.  It happens just like that, and it is in that space that you begin to develop that relationship with the spiritual world.

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