Adventures in the Dreamlands

Do check out the other Dreamwork for Pagans clones on the other networks. When we talk about dreamwork, we’re not just talking about writing down your dreams. We’re talking about the idea of using your dreams to enhance your magick.

Do you know that you can have your own dream movie theatre in your head? Dreams are like little movies playing in your head. Scientists tell us that out of 8 hours of sleep in a night (how many of us get that much sleep?) we have REM sleep for maybe 90 minutes. REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement, science’s way of knowing from the outside when we are dreaming. We are not the only creatures who dream. Ever seen your dog or cat twitch its paws in sleep? It is dreaming, probably about hunting some small creature. The neat thing about dreams is that you can have any person appear in your dreams, living or dead, either John Wayne, who has been dead for 38 years, or Aunt Flo, who has been dead who knows how long. I don’t know how long, because she’s your aunt, not mine. I had an Aunt Fran, and an Aunt Ruth. They both died, and now our whole family is Ruthless. Seriously, folks, dreams can be fun. They’re from your sub- and unconscious, which are parts of your own mind, and nothing to fear. It’s a seething broth of everything you’ve absorbed, all the art, stories, myths, legends, books, movies, and television you’ve ever viewed. About 15 years ago I decided to make friends with my wild, wonderful, weird sub-conscious. I separate them into the subconscious and the unconscious. The subconscious we are dimly aware of. It is the stuff of dreams, what we create, the magick we do. The unconscious we aren’t at all aware of, but it comes out at times that we intend to say something else, or when we have deep-seated atavistic motivations.

We highly recommend that you start and keep a dream journal or log. It should be dated. You describe your dream(s) as fully as you can, Leave room for interpretation, what you think it means. Dream imagery can be very very valuable. The more graphic the images are the better. You want to put yourself into an altered state with the images. You want to pay attention to other senses, such as sound, as you hear people talking. For example, in one of Stephen’s dreams, he’s with a bunch of non-Pagans talking to them about Paganism. Also, in his dreams, he isn’t always the male lead. He plays many roles. We think it should be clear that if you have such vivid and deep dreams that they can be turned into short stories. In fact, I had a dream about going to a clinic for a sore toe, and everyone thought I was there to get an abortion, and this was before Roe vs. Wade. We want to hear about YOUR vivid dreams, and dreams that you think you could make a short story out of.

We’d also like to see some reviews of books about dreams and dreamwork. We’d prefer books that are actually accessible. I have 2 dream dictionaries. The trouble with these is that the same image means different things to different people. I could have a cat in my dream and one person will say “That’s too bad,” and the other person says, “That’s great!” Dreaming true is lucid dreaming, that is, you control how your dream proceeds consciously. I taught my daughter lucid dreaming when she was 4 and having nightmares about being chased by monsters. I taught her to have my cat Greymalkin chase the monsters away. She did me one better. She went on to trace the life cycles of the monsters, and identify the various kinds. Stephen doesn’t know about you, but he has lots of animals in his dreams: wolves, cats, bears, dinosaurs. I usually see myself in the body of one of my totem animals, either the black panther (the cat, not the political party of the 60s and 70s) or the Tasmanian Devil. When I’m really angry at a person or a group, the thought occurs to me, “The panther walks tonight,” and I shape-shift into a panther, and maul the offender to death.

The Australian aborigines have the concept of the Dreamtime, and H.P. Lovecraft wrote about the Dreamlands. For those of you who don’t know what these are, we’ll define them for you. The Dreamtime is a major part of the philosophy of the aborigine. It’s a place where dreamers go, as are the Dreamlands. In the Dreamlands one meets the creatures of the Cthulhu mythos. Do check out our Call of Cthulhu and Cult of Nyarlathotep. Stephen has the Dreamlands module for Call of Cthulhu. Also check out Adventures in the Astral Realms. If you know of any other dream worlds or realms, please post here. please

One additional method of dream recall is to ask yourself questions: “Did I have a dream about…buying books…animals, being on an investigative team…etc?

If you know anyone who wants a fairly cheap housing situation with two congenial Pagan magickal housemates in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Sacramento, contact me at tezra.reitan@gmail.com or Stephen at abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or Stephen at his phone number 916-455-2267. Also, we desperately need donations to keep Abbott’s Inn International School of Magick afloat. You can send donations of any size to either Stephen’s Paypal account at abbottsinn@gmail.com or abbottsinn_school@yahoo.com or my Paypal account at tezra.reitan@gmail.com. If it’s for at least $32, you’ll get either a reading or a class from our vast collections of divination decks/methods/tools or for the class, pick a topic from our vast repertoire in the field of magick. For $60, you can actually have both a reading and a class. I don’t have my webcam hooked up yet, or my mic, but with Stephen you can have sound and video on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr or Skype. With me for a short while, it’ll be just phone or typing on Yahoo IM or Windows Msgr. Thank you for using and disseminating Stephen’s Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. Stephen1580. It helps ever so much when you use it instead of the regular number because you don’t pay any more, but he makes three times as much. We’re both on SSI, thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger drastically cut both of our checks, and Keen isn’t coming up with the paying calls. I haven’t made one cent since signing on with Keen. My clients all demand free five minute readings, and refuse to go over that five minutes for a paid reading. In fact, it’s cost me money to bid so altogether, Keen has been pretty much of a total loss for me. If you need money, kids, mow lawns or babysit, don’t join a psychic reading service, because it’ll just suck in what little money you do have.

Do check out the PaganRadioNetwork.net It’s free, although they certainly do accept donations. Doesn’t everyone? Seems like everyone has his hat out nowadays, and we’re sorry to be part of that, but the situation is dirt. We almost lost our power yesterday. In these times of smaller SSI checks, a bankrupt state, and practically non-existent paying KEEN calls, the prices just seem to be rising all the time for less and less service or quality.

In order to keep his computer alive, or perhaps get a new computer, Stephen needs a new battery and Windows 7, because Vista is just too unreliable. Vista is the worst operating system since 98. But first Stephen has to pay off his rent, and so do I. Don’t buy a Dell or do business with Wells Fargo. They’re both ripoffs.

If you’re ever in Sacramento, look up Walter Rhoads and Julie Maahs. Together they own Gallery 14 at 14th St. and 60th Avenue. We’re promoting them big time. Walter Rhoads has a very interesting and different approach to art. He compares himself to the late great Jackson Pollock but there are two main differences: Rhoads is still drawing breath with a healthy 98.6 degrees temperature (except when he’s sick, in which case it’s somewhat higher) and I think Jackson Pollock was gay, and Rhoads is, like us, hopelessly hetero.

We certainly hope you’ve enjoyed this post. Sorry about my negativity up there, but I’ve been very depressed by this economy lately, and wishing I were with Doc in the Summerland.
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Stephen Abbott
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