Ancestral Dreaming

Here’s a quick review of another excellent panel at the 2007 IASD conference. Apela Colorado, lead professor at Wisdom University, chaired a panel of three of her graduate student on the topic of ancestral dreams. These four powerful women shared their journey of coming to know who they are through the process of remembering and honoring their heritages.

According to Colorado, dreams are one way the ancestors “speak.” By cultivating these dreams, she insists, we can come to know not only our forgotten lifeways, but also the traumas that haunt our heritage. Researching your heritage is not all ancestral rainbows and butterflies… it’s work.

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Eco-Dreaming and Quantum Leap

The International Dreams Conference has passed us by. It was a hot week in Sonoma, but the rooms were cool. Tempers were cool too, at least that’s what I gathered. Gentle dreamers from all walks of science: psychologists and psychiatrists, anthropologists, poets, shamans, and students all.

I somewhat remember wine, at some point, and the wine tasting that was more like a cascading. At that point, dream performer Lana Nasser emerged from the trees as a bird and adventured around on the outskirts of civilized white tablecloth conversations in a decidedly bird-like manner. (Photo credit: Bhaskar Banerji)

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