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		<title>Workshop: What Dreams Say About The Nature of God</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Western God-Image has undergone a series of evolutionary phases and transformations. According to my dreams and those of many dream seminar attendees a new God-Image is appearing in dreams. Men and women scour the globe to find God. Everywhere, &#8230; <a href="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/?p=20">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Western God-Image has undergone a series of evolutionary phases and transformations.</strong> According to my dreams and those of many dream seminar attendees a new God-Image is appearing in dreams.</p>
<p>Men and women scour the globe to find God. Everywhere, people hunger for a personal experience of God. Sadly few are lucky enough to learn that the living God is right inside of them.</p>
<p>As a result of C.G. Jung’s work, how God is portrayed in human consciousness is a living activity that progresses, matures and evolves.</p>
<p>The development of the God-Image is an unfolding process and should not be confused with the term God. To describe how humans perceive God asserts nothing about the nature of God’s existence. Historically, there are several major stages in the evolution of how people perceive God: Animism, Matriarchy, Polytheism, Tribal Monotheism, Universal Monotheism and the final stage I call the “God Within Us.” Human perception of God has changed throughout the centuries.<span id="more-20"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/jung.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-59" title="C.G. Jung" src="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/jung.gif" alt="" width="226" height="220" /></a>Demonstrating the power of the dreaming mind to present the future God-Image, C.G. Jung came to me in a dream and told me who God was. It was nothing I had ever read (on the advice of a Jungian analyst, I contacted the librarian at the San Francisco Jung Library who had an extensive knowledge of Jung’s writings. She told me he never wrote that but it was probably something he believed!). Several dream seminar participants have also shared dreams, which indicate how humans may perceive God in the future.<br />
Dreams not only look back they look forward also and anticipate what the dreamer’s future growth may be. Jung did not mean that dreams predict the future but suggested what possibilities the future may hold, something like a plan roughed out in advance. Basically what Jung emphasized about dreams was their attempt to unite consciousness and the unconscious in a healthy harmonious way.</p>
<p>Jung also stated that dreams could have a collective meaning, which can be true for the dreamer but also relate to others as well. Certainly a search for God is.<br />
Many novel ideas about the new God-Image and why consciousness is evolving in this direction will be presented as well as many dreams from his dream seminars along with their paintings that will contribute to a better understanding of the New God-Image. This presentation will demonstrate the power of the dreaming mind to recognize how humans will perceive God in the future.<br />
<strong>OBJECTIVES:</strong><br />
1. Identify and explain the 6 evolutionary levels of how humans have perceived God.<br />
2. Explain and critique the New God-Image.<br />
3. List three attributes of a spiritual dream.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Do Our Dreams Say About God? By Arthur Bernard, Ph.D. Article Published in the Dream Network Journal Autumn 2011 Issue “Dreams are like stars—you can never touch them but if you follow them, they can lead to your destiny.”—Anonymous &#8230; <a href="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/?p=38">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>What Do Our Dreams Say About God?</strong><br />
By Arthur Bernard, Ph.D.<br />
Article Published in the Dream Network Journal Autumn 2011 Issue</p>
<p align="center"><em>“Dreams are like stars—you can never touch them but if you follow them,<br />
they can lead to your destiny.”—Anonymous</em></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Wake-Up Calls</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/arthur.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11" title="Dr. Arthur Bernard" src="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/arthur.jpg" alt="" width="127" height="182" /></a>YOU </strong><strong>WON</strong><strong>’T BELIEVE WHAT I DREAMT!  </strong>C. G. Jung, the great Swiss Psychiatrist, came to me in my dream and told me who God was. His transcendent disclosure opened my mind to a new way of looking at the divine. But before I share that with you, I must reveal a few previous dreams and experiences that clearly set the stage for Jung’s revelation.</p>
<p>I had a spiritual wake-up call from a dream. Yes, you can just fall asleep and observe how your soul is trying to orchestrate change. This was how my spiritual wake-up call came seven years after I had let go of my teaching job and started a private psychotherapy practice.</p>
<p>If you slumber through life, you will definitely get a wake-up call, even if you don’t realize you were unconscious at the wheel. Wake-up calls, like shots across the bow, can bring your life to a standstill. These awakenings are commands to appear before your inner truth. Books and expert authorities are available to all of us… but the keys for new life sources and changes inevitably come from within.</p>
<p>Wake-up calls come in many forms: some are severe, while others are more benign. Health can suddenly fail or other catastrophic incidents—such as job loss, financial crisis or emotional upheaval—can occur. Then there are the gentler ways: the right word at the right moment, a sudden vision or a powerful earthshaking dream. This is how my spiritual wake-up call came. <span id="more-38"></span><img title="More..." src="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p><strong>You Don’t Know Who God is&#8230; Yet</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It’s nighttime. I am walking down a pitchblack hallway in a strange and unfamiliar building; a female voice calls me by my last name. “Bernard, come in this room; I need to talk to you.” I sense it  is important because the voice sounds sincere and honest. I follow the source of the sound since it is too dark to see. I stop at an open door that leads into a plain, bare room, dimly lit at one end. Two glowing candles on a desk illuminate the withered face of an ancient woman. Deep furrows line her face. Her light blue eyes, however, are youthful and seem incongruous in her aged face. These eyes know things, deep things. She looks up at me and says, “Bernard, come closer, I want to tell you something very important.” Eagerly, I walk up to the desk and peer into her venerable face. She raises her arm, points her finger at me and warns, “I could help you become a superb therapist, but I am not going to help you.” Stunned and deeply disappointed, I ask, “Why not?” “Because you do not know who God is—yet.” Her strong implication is that God exists but my ignorance keeps me in the dark.&#8221;</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 226px"><img title="Ancient Woman with Two Candles" src="http://www.dreamtechniques.com/images/feminine.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="288" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Ancient Woman with Two Candles</p></div></blockquote>
<p>When I was a young man, religion and spirituality were not subjects of great interest to me. I was much more interested in climbing the ladder of success. After several years as a public school teacher inLos Angeles, I left teaching to become a psychotherapist. I was happily married to Sondra and had two great sons, Joshua and David, but felt a lot of anxiety about my professional and financial future. Teaching had been a secure job. Building a private practice and seminar business had no certainties or assurances, let alone the consistency of the weekly paycheck upon which I had come to depend.</p>
<p>But my dreams attempted to jump-start me into exploring my inner world for answers to nagging and complex spiritual issues. My internal resistances were strong. Daily life was a struggle and finances were a constant issue. My concept of God was vague and impersonal: some colossal bearded old man to pray to when I felt threatened, helpless, or in need of something. A desire to know about God was the furthest thing from my mind, and the idea that it had to do with my success as a therapist seemed even more remote. I resented that idea partly because I knew many atheists and agnostics who were successful and had risen to the heights of their professions. Obviously one can live life without God and do quite well. I knew I had the choice to pursue this invitation or decline it. With some resistance then, I accepted the offer made by the wise old woman in my dream and sought the answer to an issue that has plagued humankind since the dawn of civilization. My search took me down a path where dreams once again were the gateway to enlightenment.</p>
<p>During my first therapy session with Dr. Jay Dunn, he suggested I write down my dreams. Jungian analysts put great emphasis on dreams and frequently allow them to guide the therapy. After a lengthy discussion on the value of dreams, in which Dr. Dunn shared some outstanding, life-changing dreams of a few clients, I was impressed. Understanding dreams could get people started on the road to recovery by leading them to their real talent and ability and above all, their destiny. Dreams could heal! I would never have considered any of this before my first therapy session.</p>
<p>I wondered if I, too, could experience such remarkable dreams and whether they could shed light on my troubled life. That same night, I awoke from a dream that astonished me with its imagery and touched me deeply. I still see it as one of the most memorable experiences of my life, though, at the time, I had no idea what it was trying to convey. It was like hearing the sounds of a rare instrument whose strings had not been plucked for years.</p>
<p><strong>Inner Treasure and the Sacrifice</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am walking through the streets of Winthrop Beach, Massachusetts, a seaside town that was my childhood home. There are no buildings, vegetation, or people, only asphalt streets and sidewalks made of liquid gold. They have the consistency of quicksand, and I know if I tried walking on them, I would sink to my death. Feeling so uncomfortable near these walkways, I decide to stroll up the street to the beach, my most cherished realm since childhood. The day is beautiful, with clear skies, a light breeze, and comfortable temperatures. Standing on the shore with small waves lapping at my feet, I look out to sea. For some inexplicable reason, I turn around to look at the sea wall. Much to my surprise, I see a large, imposing, modern home situated on top of a huge rock. I had never seen this house before. In fact, no home had ever been built on the ocean side of the beach because of the severe tides that wracked the area during Northeastern storms.</p>
<p>Carved in the rock below the house is a spiral staircase that leads up to the structure. As I put my foot on the fi rst step to walk up, Dr. Dunn appears, puts his arm around my shoulders, and says, “Come, I’ll go up with you.” When we reach the top of the stairs, we stop in front of an expansive living room window that spans the width of the house. Just inside the glass is a pedestal, about three feet high, covered with a velvet cloth. On top is a rough stone about the size of a big fi st. It has many jagged edges with light and dark surfaces. Deeply chiseled into the surface is a cross—just a plain and simple cross. I sense that the stone has a great power, a magical force, and contains the answer to many mysteries—in particular, the secret keys to the purpose and meaning of my life. Waves of energy emanate from the surface like heat ripples that rise from hot pavement.  My desire to possess it is intense. If I could own it, I would need nothing else because I would know the meaning and purpose of my life. It is the most valuable object I could ever hope to possess. I look for a door into the room, but there is none visible, so I stare longingly at the stone and feel its great power with a deep reverence.</p>
<p>Looking beyond the pedestal into the right corner of the room, I see a man in the shadows and immediately sense he is the keeper of the stone. He walks forward and stops next to the pedestal. Dressed in a plain red robe, he is approximately sixty-five years of age, short, bald, and stocky, with a large head and a thick, powerful neck. He has the air of a monk or priest. Although we communicate, no words are expressed; only our minds speak to each other. “I want that stone,” I say. He laughs and replies, “You can’t have that stone unless you sacrifi ce something for it.” I am baffl ed, so I turn to Dr. Dunn (who has been standing inconspicuously by me the whole time) for help. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a fork and spoon, places them in the shape of a Christian cross, binds them tightly at the joining point with a thin strip of leather, and then hands the object to me. I know that this cross can be exchanged for the stone. Feeling rescued, I reach for it&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><em>…</em>and I awaken—fully awake and alert as if I had never slept. Feelings of surprise, reverence, and bewilderment surged through me.</p>
<div id="attachment_42" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 297px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-42" title="Monk in Red Robe with Stone and Cross" src="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/monkrobestonecross-287x300.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Monk in Red Robe with Stone and Cross</p></div>
<p><strong>Trying to Unravel What It All Means</strong></p>
<p>I had absolutely no idea what this dream was trying to convey to me, although I did sense its holiness. Sacredness was a rare feeling for me, yet this experience was the initial driving force behind my spiritual interest and journey. It was the first in a series of reverential dreams that would span more than forty-five years of my life, and which still occur occasionally, especially when I forget my life purpose and allow my mind to wander off the path. At some point in life, most people have experienced an unusually intense, vivid dream or vision that seems to flood their consciousness. Although I knew nothing about dreams, I did sense that a universal chord had been struck, and that entwined in the symbolism of my dream, was some profound idea that was attempting to connect my inner and outer worlds. This internal adventure had the earmarks of a small religious experience, giving rise to a change of attitude about what was real. Later in life, I would know with certainty that these powerful symbols expressed the innermost needs of my soul. Up to that point, however, no other external object or event ever had as much meaning as this subjective experience. These dream symbols were living entities that wanted to transform my conscious attitudes. What a mystery! The thought that I didn’t personally manufacture these images— that they were products of spontaneous internal combustion—was astonishing.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I didn’t work on this dream in therapy. When I brought it to my analyst, he validated its importance but suggested we put it on the back burner because I had so many other problems to tackle. At the end of the session, he made the prescient statement that I would have to spend much time wading through a lot of childhood issues and that my life would take a major turn when I hit middle age. Many of my dreams were as accurate as the analyst, also seeming to point to a late development. I stayed in therapy for two years and then decided to take a break. Although I didn’t work with the dream on a conscious level until I left therapy, I think the dream began working on me. It must have permeated my consciousness because subsequently I became interested in New Age explorations such as transcendental meditation, psychic healing, and aura reading. In the forty-five years since, not a week has gone by that I haven’t refl ected on the spiritual meaning of those unforgettable symbols.</p>
<p>I emphasize again: at that stage of my life, I knew nothing about psychology or the dreaming mind. Given my limited state of awareness at the time, my conscious mind could not have concocted this scenario. Was I giving this message to myself? It felt as if some energy or intelligent power, an age-old forgotten wisdom outside the range of my conscious mind, was trying to awaken me to another reality. This spirit force knew me, and I wasn’t aware that it did until this dream. I don’t think I dreamt this dream. It felt like this dream dreamt me.</p>
<p>Perhaps another way of saying this is that many of us are seeking God, but in actuality, it may be God that is seeking us. Some dreams bear the imprint of an inner celestial power, and this was one of them. When I dreamt it, I had no interest in religious or spiritual issues. Yet this dream addressed them in spades. Whatever we consciously undervalue is often given extraordinary value in dreams.</p>
<p>Over the years I have come to believe that this super-conscious part of mind plays a major role in steering us to our destiny. Spirit was seeking me just as spirit is seeking you to lift the veil from your eyes and illuminate the mysteries beyond your personal for everyone: to bring awareness of the divine within. There’s an unconscious force available to all that can suggest radically different paths—always for our highest good—from those consciously pursued in daily life. Many modern dream theorists say dreams are primarily a reaction to conscious thoughts and what is going on at that time, but it was Jung’s contention that some dreams emerge seemingly from out of the blue to impress dreamers with a deeply felt sense of mystery—to encourage individuals to enter the mystery of their minds, explore the unknown, and become adventurers in the inner landscape of the soul. Life is so much more soul stirring than we realize. C. G. Jung believed that many modern ills were due to the loss of connection to religious roots and therefore, to meaning. Reconnection to this spiritual reality cannot be fully realized through adherence to dogma or teachings from books or the pulpit. (1)</p>
<p><strong>The Messenger from Beyond—C.G. Jung</strong></p>
<p>Since my original dream posed the question of knowing God, I began to assume this same source could also disclose the answer. And it happened! After two years of reading, studying, and looking for God, Jung himself appeared in my dreams, delivering in clear and simple words the truth for which I had been searching. This revelatory dream, which occurred approximately fifteen years after Jung died, introduced me to an idea about God that I had never consciously entertained. I had never met Jung but had seen a movie about him, read many of his writings, and even had access to privately distributed works that weren’t released to the public. (My memory does not recall the statement he makes in my dream as coming from anything I had read by Jung. There are, of course, numerous writings I have not read, and he very well could have stated what he does here.)</p>
<p><strong>C. G. Jung Tells Me Who God Is</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_44" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 280px"><a href="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jung_large.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-44" title="C.G. Jung" src="http://dreamtechniques.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jung_large-300x293.jpg" alt="C. G. Jung" width="270" height="264" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">C. G. Jung</p></div>
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<blockquote><p>I am walking by a round table in a spacious cafeteria where Jung and another man are seated. The other man is a stranger I do not recognize, but I am astounded at seeing Jung. Oh, my gosh! I am thrilled that the great man is here in my presence. As I pass the table, he calls out to me, “Bernard, sit down, I want to tell you who God is.”  I stop, step back from the table quite astonished at his request, and reply, “Oh, Dr. Jung, that’s all right, no need to do that because I have been studying and I know who God is!” He reacts, “Oh, no you don’t. Sit down.” I again insist, “Yes I do.” His next response is much more emphatic. In fact, he raises his voice and says, “No, you still don’t know who God is, so sit down and listen.” Now, I would have thought it a great honor to have polished his shoes, carried his briefcase, or dusted his bookcase. When this master speaks in such strong tones, you obey. I did. He looks me straight in the eyes and says: “Listen,Bernard, God is neither a man nor a being with a long white beard sitting on a throne dispensing wisdom. That’s not God. God is the life force. It is the spirit that creates and animates all of life.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I awakened wide-eyed and lost in wonder. I had never thought about God in this way.</p>
<p>(Part II of this article to be continued in DNJ’s Winter issue.)</p>
<p><strong>Readers, please consider and respond to these questions:</strong></p>
<p>1. What is your reaction to Jung’s definition of God?</p>
<p>2. How would you describe God or Higher Power?</p>
<p>3. Have you had any dreams about the nature of God/Higher Power and would you share the one most meaningful.</p>
<p>Please share your response to these questions directly with Arthur via email dreemdoc@aol.com or to Letters DNJ, publisher@dreamnetwork.net</p>
<p><strong>Bibliography</strong></p>
<p>1. C. G. Jung<em>, Psychological Reflections. </em>Princeton,NJ:PrincetonUniversity Press, 1970.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Dreams, ESP</em> <em>and Money-Making</em> (Article 1 of a Series)&#8230;<br />
by Dr. Arthur Bernard<br />
Dream Network Journal -  Autumn 2011 Issue<br />
(Article 1 of a Series)&#8230;</p>
<p>WHEN IT COMES TO TIME, dreams are free from the chronological constraints of the waking world. Past, present and future have illusive qualities in the dream state. In fact it is not uncommon for information to come right at us from the future. Even Einstein believed the distinction between past, present and future was a persistent illusion. Perhaps it will be left to science to explain how this dream mechanism works, but until<br />
then, dreamers will have to evaluate these experiences in a personal way without the validation of science.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 168px"><img title="C.G. Jung" src="http://www.dreamtechniques.com/images/jung.gif" alt="C. G. Jung" width="158" height="154" /><p class="wp-caption-text">C.G. Jung stated that perhaps consciousness has no limits and may be capable of infinite extension. When we look at history and science, we see that every boundary that existed has ultimately vanished.</p></div>
<p>In 1929, Edwin Hubble, an astronomer at Cal Tech, made the brilliant and revolutionary discovery that the universe is not static but expanding.  C.G. Jung stated that perhaps consciousness has no limits and may be capable of infinite extension. When we look at history and science, we see that every boundary that existed has ultimately vanished. The Berlin Wall came down, just as the impediment to unleashing the power of the atom disappeared. We are starting to realize we have unlimited creative power that will inexorably revolutionize our consciousness. All of us see things we never thought would be possible—and this is only the beginning. We are diving beneath the little waves on the surface to an immense kingdom within us.<span id="more-22"></span></p>
<p>We are somewhat aware that our inner world of dreams is at least one step ahead of us. It seems that all life-sustaining or life-giving operations progress in a forward direction. Seeds germinate, expand, grow roots, sprout leaves and bear vegetables and fruits. All life appears to be pulled forward by some inner blueprint, or spirit, toward impending wholeness. The subconscious contains the faculty [this blueprint?] of future envisioning and sees things laid out endlessly.</p>
<p>With the rapid changes in consciousness happening, the stock market may be ripe for a different sort of investment program. I fi rst noticed this in the 1990s, when contemplating retirement. My savings were meager and I realized my retreat from the daily grind looked dim. Then a small miracle occurred. I received an e-mail from a stockbroker I knew stating that he had a dream about a stock and me. In the dream he told me that a small biotech stock (ICOS) was going to go from $4 to $11 a share and if<br />
I didn’t do what he told me, he would never talk to me again. The dream proved to be prophetic.</p>
<p>This biotech company was developing an erectile dysfunction drug to compete with Viagra. I had many dreams about ICOS: 1. Looking at the stockbroker’s computer I see the stock closed at 71/2 and it opened the next day at $13 a share. 2. Using a bow and arrow and hitting a bulls eye three times in a row. Based on these dreams, I bought and sold the stock several times and eventually had 50,000 shares. The stock started to progress up into the 30s, but when the value started to plummet, I panicked and sold in the low 20s.</p>
<p>The second investment opportunity was also a biotech stock (LIFC); a surgeon friend sent me an article concerning the company and its products. After reading the article, I incubated a dream about the company. (See my Web site on incubating dreams for financial abundance: www.dreamtechniques.com). In the dream, I am in a Las Vegas casino. Two young men are playing a pinball machine and they hit the jackpot, but no<br />
money comes out. Instead, a series of wafers (shaped like Baccarat chips) slowly accumulate and stack up on top of the machine. I walk over to the two young men and nudge them aside, because I had given them money to play. I look at the wafer-like chips that are still coming up slowly and realize they look like a loaf of bread.</p>
<p>In the morning I re-read the article sent to me and I noticed that the skin products they were using for grafts were shaped like wafers. In a day or two I purchased 30,000 shares slightly below $4 a share. Also, I connected the two young men in the dream to my two sons. Hitting the jackpot was a good omen, so I continued incubating dreams about this stock and I would receive many dreams where someone would whisper in my ear, <em>“Don’t worry, LIFC is going to 36 or to 38.”</em> But again the market began tanking and again I panicked and sold in the 20s.</p>
<p>Those two stocks, ICOS and LIFC provided me with a low 7 figures and when I was able to retire, the resources were in place and I had time to write my book, <em>God Has No Edges, Dreams Have No Boundaries</em>. Stock market investing can be a challenging area in which to incubate dreams. Edgar Cayce was a staunch believer in dreams having the power to offer financial guidance. In fact he thought a person could train himself in the art of pinpointing future financial conditions. He worked with a stockbroker who had advanced psychic capacities and encouraged him to further develop his ESP talent. Cayce assured the broker that great results would follow if he applied himself in the service of others, maintained his spirituality and took care of family responsibilities. The stockbroker followed Cayce’s suggestions and became a wealthy man. His forecasting<br />
abilities in dreams reached the level where the whole market opened up to him so he could ask any question about individual stocks or market trends and receive accurate answers. Dreams became his primary source of information about stocks.</p>
<p>Many wealthy people came to Cayce to get even richer, but his main criterion for guiding them in investment and monetary advice was their enthusiasm for serving others. Cayce’s vision had no boundaries as proved by his consistent ability to see intricate particulars that influenced the investment world. He emphasized that the boundaries that limit the conscious mind seem to dissolve in the dreaming mind.<br />
The following dream is a prime example:</p>
<blockquote><p>“An unfamiliar man is trying to sell me a radio. Someone then puts poison on the doorknob of my offi ce door and urges me to come and touch it. I am very frightened, especially when he tries forcing me to touch the poisoned doorknob. I awaken in a cold sweat.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The sleeping Cayce said that a deal in radio stocks would be offered to the dreamer. The proposition appeared wonderful, but the poison on the doorknob was a severe warning about the negative conditions that would enter into the investment. Cayce’s final statement was not to invest in radio stocks for the next sixteen to twenty days! Here we see how prospective dreams can be comprehensive. Not only did Cayce’s interpretation indicate future events, but it also included warnings about potential danger. An intriguing book written by Walt Stover, Dreams—My Lamp unto the Darkness, provides methods and cautionary guidelines for market investing. He also conducts a Precognitive Stock Market Dream Group, which fosters the use of intuitive material (dreams, meditations, visions, etc.) for the purpose of arriving at individual financial planning decisions.  They can be located online at http://www.stockdreams.org. An example: Stover read an investment magazine that recommended purchasing Johnstown America, a company that makes railroad cars.  Several days after reading the article, he had the following dream:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I see a little railroad that starts up at the bottom of a steep hill. It keeps going up and up until it vanishes over the hill with the number twenty on it.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Taking this dream as a positive omen, he purchased the stock for $3.50 and sold it twenty months later for $22 per share. As the dream had indicated, the company literally vanished from trading when it was bought out and became a private company. For several years, it was delisted from trading. His favorite dream in 2002 involved Corning Corporation and brought a six-figure gain:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I see a circus performer ride into the ring on a unicycle. He<br />
rides around the ring several times with the ticker-tape signal<br />
GLM (Corning Corp.) emblazoned on the front of his shirt. On<br />
his back is a sign showing the current stock price at $2.50. As<br />
he rides around the ring, the unicycle seat keeps getting higher and the price sign on his back increases to $5, then $7, then $10, $15 and eventually to $20.”</p></blockquote>
<p>He purchased the stock at $1.85 and the increases in the dream occurred as predicted. Four years later he sold out at $22 a share, which meant a handsome profit for him.</p>
<p>A person has to be cautious and conservative in using dreams for investing. Just as many fail as gain. Some dreams are accurate, some partially correct and others distorted. It is diffi cult to decipher true precognition from fabricated prediction. If an individual is interested in this mode of investment, it is wise to be level-headed and learn how to read technical data on stocks. Do not immediately bet the kitchen sink because of a dream. In business dealings information may not register at the conscious level, especially when emotions are involved. However, amid all that static, the subconscious can pick up the most delicate signals and transfer them to the conscious mind through dreams. I believe time, distance and emotional barriers are non-existent at this level, and so information the dreaming mind sees as essential cannot be blocked out.</p>
<p>For example George was a client of mine and seemed very excited about entering a complicated and expensive business partnership with an associate who appeared destined for success. I taught him to incubate dreams to see if there was anything he may have overlooked, and he received two responses:</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>Dream 1—</strong></em>“I am walking down the street toward the business complex that my partner and I are about to purchase. As I approach the front entrance, I receive quite a jolt. A large sign on top of a marquee has the name of the business emblazoned in bright neon letters. It is not the name we agreed upon, but rather it’s my partner’s last name.”</p>
<p><strong><em>Dream 2</em></strong>—“My partner is trying to steal money out of my pocket.”</p></blockquote>
<p>These are not what I call good omens and obviously ran counter to the optimism of his conscious mind. After he shared the dreams with his lawyer, they carefully reviewed the contract and found a clause that, under certain  conditions, greatly favored his partner. The dream warnings helped him back out of the deal. What is concealed from the conscious mind can easily be perceived and revealed by the intuitive, dreaming mind. Over a million bits of information per second descend into our nervous system. That’s a lot to process, but fortunately—except that which is urgently needed by the conscious mind—it is mostly filtered out. Although hidden details may be screened out of the conscious mind, nothing escapes the perceptive ability of our sixth sense, and just as fortunately, there is a mechanism that translates the subliminal mind’s information<br />
into meaningful images.<br />
<strong>A Dream Hits the Jackpot</strong></p>
<p>Here is a dream about ESP and gambling from a seminar I led that is quite striking because it accurately fits Mark Thurston’s description. This experience is unique because it happened in a one-day seminar; due to time restraints, we did the dream incubation in the morning (in a two-day seminar, the incubation occurs late in the evening of day one and is the last activity before going to sleep). The following are the exact words of the dreamer who wrote me an e-mail soon after the seminar:</p>
<p>“Hello! I wanted to thank you, fi rst of all, for coming to St. Louis to speak about dreams. I attended the conference, learned a lot and thoroughly enjoyed it. I don’t know if you remember me or not, but when you did the dream induction and asked if anyone had actually fallen asleep and dreamt during that time, that we should come and see you during the lunch break. I was one of those people. My dream was that <em>I was in Harrah’s</em><br />
<em>Casino with my mom and she won a large jackpot. I walk around to the</em><br />
<em>machine across from hers and I also win a smaller jackpot.</em></p>
<p>“You suggested that some dreams are prophetic and some literal, so I figured, what the heck! I’ll call my mom and see if she’s free after the  conference. She was. We went to Harrah’s and although the slot machines were in a different place than in my dream, we sat down side by side. She immediately hit a jackpot for $4150, and a few minutes later, I hit one for $600! Everyone at work said I should e-mail you to let you know. Wow!<br />
I was impressed! (I was also thankful that I had relayed our conversation to my colleagues during the lunch break so the next day when I came into the offi ce with my news, they knew I wasn’t making my dream up.) Just thought I would pass this along.”</p>
<p>I wish I knew the secret of how this dreamer created a money-making dream. She was not a gambler, nor was her mother. Sometimes the universe wants to give you a gift and it’s best to just accept it.</p>
<p>Rational explanations for ESP events do not sufficiently explain how our subconscious mind can conceive of time as not only “now,” but as somehow existing ahead of us.</p>
<p><strong>Identifying ESP in Dreams</strong></p>
<p>How does one differentiate the psychic from the symbolic? How do we know the headlines of our inner newspapers are accurate before the fact? Mark Thurston claims that many of our dreams have some degree of psychic information. ESP is an attribute of the soul itself, so we all have the potential to access it. During sleep and dreams, we edge closer to soul connection. Cayce emphasized the concept of oneness that allows us to harmonize with the super-conscious mind and subsequently have access to original information and pending future events. It seems that all life is interconnected, because our universe is composed, essentially, of one energy.</p>
<p>Thurston suggests a three-fold approach to help identify literal dream elements (Mark Thurston, How to Interpret Your Dreams, ARE Press. 1978). But first and foremost, one must accept the idea that dreams contain elements of ESP.</p>
<ol>
<li>People with open minds who believe in the reality of psychic<br />
ability do better on ESP tests than those who don’t. When dreams<br />
that occurred in the past are examined with an open mind, it is not<br />
uncommon to find they frequently pointed to future events.</li>
<li>If you think and feel a dream is psychic, try to work out a<br />
practical way to apply the message. Observe the results carefully<br />
to help uncover your particular style of psychic dreaming. If an<br />
application is impossible, then look at the dream from another<br />
angle.</li>
<li>Literal dreams have common elements. Imagery is usually acute,<br />
not vague and color memory is generally recollected. Symbolism<br />
appears normal, so people, places and things, as well as their<br />
interactions, are realistic. Events flow naturally, with scenes<br />
having their own paced sequences. If the dream is a favorable one<br />
that occurs before or after you have taken a new direction and you<br />
awaken happy, you probably have chosen the right path. If it’s<br />
negative and you awaken with doubt, it may be a warning that a<br />
negative result is around the corner.</li>
</ol>
<p>By keeping a dream diary and faithfully recording all dreams, you can begin to pinpoint the personal signs and symbols that characterize your own ESP. !</p>
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