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View From the Bridge
July/ August 2008

Source: by Kotaro Miyagi
http://worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumu.htm

Jean on July, 16th:

I would like to suggest this.  

It seems like it might be irresponsible of us to wait to dream about this issue of the tensions in the Middle East.  What if we were to simply set our intention to begin dreaming now, and dream UNTIL August 15?  

One thing that the Peace Bridge people did at the conference was to reaffirm to many people the MAGIC aspect of dreams: ie, if we're dreaming it all anyway, or making it up as we go along, then anything can happen.  In an instant.  

I know that there is a huge symbolic element of what is happening in the Middle East, an element of the Biblical Armageddon.  One of the men I see when I walk in the park in the morning began talking to me this morning about the "End Times", or what is prophesied in the Bible.  I find it particularly scary that people can turn religion to these purposes, but there is never any doubt in my mind about the power of thought, or the power of dreams.  

I personally would prefer no Nukes, so let's see what we can do about them, right?  Remember that hating something puts out a lot of energy, so it might be a good idea to focus on what we love.    

source: http://www.earthharvest.org/ 

July, 16th Mary’s premonitions

“My feelings and sensing that the nuke facilities will be blown up very suddenly during a night. Here in the US we will wake up and hear on the news first thing during some morning, news report that a sudden and surprise, that Irans Nuclear facilities have been "targeted". It feel it will be very sudden.
I hope, wish and pray this does NOT happen!”
 

 

July 17th, Mermaid’s suggestion :

“how about setting intentions to bring the most dangerous 'hot
spot/trigger points' out into the open before they can do real harm?”
   

 

July, 17th, Ilkin’s thoughts and dreams:  

“If my long time dreams are true something more devastating than Iraq or Palestine will happen in the area. But when my logic puts international politics, strategies, importance of the area I am not so sure. …

- An old lady submitting a crime and send to prison.

- Visiting a friend's house and taking him table-cloths. Put the red with white spots on the table and it turns to purple time to time.

- Climbing a street in italy. Several item infront of windows. Nothing to wear etc, useful but all for nothing or magic.

- Watchig a seaside village. There are many cottages. Everybody is eating on the tables infront of their doors. I am thinking this is a bad habit because everybody can see others table and some are very poor, with few food.

- A hospital. One doctor say non will get well by mistake and others make him silent.

- Many women who left their countries and working unlawfullly

etc..etc..  

My inituation? It may happen, but it may not be as bombing of Iraq etc. We may not be able to only sit and watch from TVs. It may reach us faster than we can imagine. love- ilkin  

 

July, 17th, Ralf’s suggestion for DaFuMu:

How to keep up and even raise our energies over the run of a month? My
idea is to have a special page on wdpb home dedicated to this extended
DaFuMu.
  

 

Source: by meganpru
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meganpru/458446288/

July, 17th, Janet’s Architecture of Peace:

Perhaps this would be a good image to have in mind for the DaFuMu?

At least for me, since I live in Andalucia. I could possibly imagine myself
in the Great Mosque in Cordoba, where there is always a feeling of peace
- in spite of the tourists and the Catholic Cathedral that was built in
the middle of it in the 16th century. But maybe the
"cathedral in a mosque" could also be seen as a symbol of
Muslim/Christian harmony? (At least the cathedral builders didn't
demolish the mosque.)
 

Comment Misa:

Any criss-crossings of cultures are interesting - in this sense, places like

Spain and Turkey are.  Even in Japan, I see evidences of criss-crossings

of East and West, like the photo I am attaching (Torii, a traditional gate

to a shrine and Tokyo Tower, an example of modern/industrial design).

My another favorite is aqueduct in Nanzen-ji Temple in Kyoto. 

http://nanzenji.com/keidai/nanzen6.html

 It is astonishing to suddenly see a structure like a Roman aqueduct that runs

through a Japanese temple.

 

 

So, peace is essentially construction?  If you stick to genuineness of

your tradition, you'll never be open to "fusion" of Christianity and Islam,

East and West, etc....

 

 July, 17th, Ilkin’s news on Iran diplomacy:

Turkey has intensified its efforts to help resolve the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program as the top U.S. security advisor visited Ankara, a day before Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. Turkey has given the green-light to step in to resolve the issue.

 

Source: By PartsnPieces 
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/partsnpieces/79097892/

July, 17th, Rita’s dream of healing masculine wounds relating to anger, power, war and peace  

Last night I incubated about somebody I know and on world peace.  I have tried this now various times and the dreammaker actually addresses both issues.  Just love the multidimensionality of the dream.  

I dreamt that I arrived at an abandoned house where mostly elder man were taking residence.  The house was deeply neglected, with excrement on the floor in some of the rooms, and ran by a few elder man who were highly unconscious also.  There was a parent/child dynamic in the place but underneath it all there also was a desire for support and love.    

 

I watched how the elders in charge demanded every person have a physical examination daily and  I felt their human rights were being violated.  Then they all collapsed on top of each other at the center of the room to get touch and love.  There was so much fear,  neediness and wounding in these men - both in the ones that were the leaders and the ones that were taking on dependent roles.   

When I left I noticed how neglected the garden looked.  

I felt I was dreaming about the deeper wounds of the masculine that need addressing and that live underneath the issues of power and anger.

 

Source: by Mal Cubed
http://flickr.com/photos/malcubed/10530275/

July 18th, Mary’s request for marching for peace in Middle East

This is a call to MARCH together with the demand Stop the war in Iraq/Afghanistan, and Stop an Attack on Iran!  You could have separate rallies and speakers at different sites in the park, but call out the many thousands of people to march together  

….
We will join with others in mobilizing everyone who has ever been against this war, and all those who know in their hearts this is wrong, to be in the streets of Denver, standing with the people of the world and refusing to be party to these wars.
  

 

 

 

July, 19th Ilkin on end time visions in different religions in Middle East

As you may see in some maps, it is not only Labenon, Syria, Iraq and Iran but also parts of belong to the lands they believe should belong to them.

 

And of course there are other several such historical scenerios for others too..

 

July, 19th, Rita comments on her dream of 17th and shares a new dream on the wisdom in wounded people:

I believe the message of my DaFuMu dream was to allow human beings, in this case men, to be emotionally exactly where they were when the wounding started - moving to the layer beneath the conditioned behavior and defenses.   To express the strong infantile neediness for love and human touch that comes from supression and conditioning.

 …

The message of the movie that I associated to the asylum "King of Hearts" (thank you - Janet- now I remember Genevieve also - she was such an expressive and beautiful woman in that film) is that crazy people are expressing the deeper truth and wounding of societies while conditioned behavior that is accepted in society (like going to war)  is crazy.   I guess if I want to put a moral to the dream I would say we need to question what is considered normal in our societies and cultures. 

   

Source: By MWyllie  
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diegowyllie/1404152905/

That allowance and inner wisdom of wounded people element - allowing oneself to be the truth of who one is in the wound - in this DaFuMu dream repeated itself in a dream I had today where I accompanied a woman who was very depressed and living in community to a new solitary place in nature where there was a school nearby for her son.  The school provided a balanced approach to discipline and creativity and the young boy was happy there.  In the dream I did not questions her motives.  I knew she was deeply depressed but I also knew that she knew what her son needed more than authorities would know.  So I accompanied her to this piece of land that transformed in a wood cabin while I watched the awesome beauty of this sky with clouds.  The landscape of this place reminded me of Colorado.  I also visited the school and saw with my own eyes and experience in the dream of the value of balancing discipline with creativity.  The principals of the school were a man and a woman - a balance of both sexes - the woman expressing the discipline - the man the creativity.  I was in the last part of the dream with a man who I met in Montreal - I was looking at beautiful images that the man principal (in charge of creativity) gave us and my partner was looking at beautiful words , absorbing them.  Again a theme of  allowing difference and balance in the masculine and feminine.  

 

Source:  by James Gordon
http://flickr.com/photos/jamesdale10/2151987000/

July, 23rd, Ilkin’s Dream on the Japanese flying a nuclear bomber :  

I am in one of those old, wooden, white, island mansions. A group of people is working on a theatre rehearsal at the second floo. Windows are open and it is sunny outside. I am finding my self outside on a wooden wharf. There are some people, villagers at the mediterranian style seaside cafes. Tables, chairs all wooden. They seem happy, relaxed drinking raki with appetaizers. I am walking on the wharf to the shore. I am thinking, this must be the west side of the shore to the open sea, it is not the part we used to swim, it may be dangerous. Some villagers reply me as I voiced my thoughts. They say, they use to swim and fish, there is not danger. But I can see many big fish in the dark blue water and cant be sure if they are shark. Than suddenly we hear a laud voice. All look at the sky. A nuke land beside us in clouds. It dont have a front part and there is a sitting place at the back part for the pilot. There are still clouds coming from the head/ front side, as it dropped the explosive part and too hot. It is windy and I realize the wind is from the other side. The heat is coming on the pilot and he is kind of burning. I am trying to turn the weird nuke to the way of the wind, so the pilot wont burn with the heat from the head part. He looks Japanese. I think, Japan has nothing to do with any bombings at the area. It is surprising to him on a nuke. Than I see nobody moved, care what is happening and begin to worry where he might drop the bomb.

Forget to write an important part; 

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt and a woman with 3 children in their arms are with me on the wharf. But it is Charlize Theron in the place of Angelina, acting like her because Angelina is needed for a humanitarian chrisis. I am thinking the sea may be dangerous because of the children in their arms.  

Some comments:  

Jean: If this were my dream, I would be looking toward what the *feelings* in the dream, or my feelings evoked by the dream, had to do with my waking life.  Primarily because this seems to me very much like the dreams I have which are announcements to me of how I am feeling.  

Ralf: I feel the sharp contrast of a peaceful setting and the threats of
water creatures and nuclear bombing. And again (like in a dream of
Rita lately) there is ignorance and indifference.
 

Mermaid: We need some contra-imagery to all of this  

Kotaro: I have been thinking about the dream of yours because there are many important symbols.
The most intesting one is the relation between a Japanese pilot and nuke weapon.

   

Source: by Marshmallow
http://flickr.com/photos/tmarschner/2729647854/

July, 24th, Ralf’s dream: The Evolution of Bear and Wolf  

A scene in the countryside. Two rivers joining and streaming through
a green valley. A bear holding in its mouth a wolf is standing
before me. The wolf is dead, stiff, but bear keeps on holding its
prey. Wolf looks somewhat like a puppet. I'm zoomed out and get an
out in space view of the earth, I see the American subcontinents,
how the plate tectonics evolve over ages, how the land bridge
between them is sometimes wider, sometimes narrow. I also see how
the species of bear and wolf evolve and I'm told about the vast
wealth of nature how it shows up in the evolution of mammals. I'm
filled with awe.
   

 

Source:by Tambako the Jaguar
http://flickr.com/photos/tambako/2538562565/

Comments:

Ralf:

So, in the end this may be a healing dream for me, directing me to
an encompassing view of the evolution of my life, including my
current situation, but transcending it.

I wonder what it has to do with our current DaFuMu, but I feel it
could sometime provide a healing impulse to look at the larger
context of situation of Iraq (children)
 

Ilkin:

cant write long now...think again..try from our subconscious perspective..dream is so direct. open again..ilkin  

Jordan:

If this were my dream, I would think about how the Bear, known as the
great dreamer, seems hungry for Wolf, the bearer of inner strength
through intuition. Especially if I were sleep-deprived.

I would also think about the dream as a message as much for me
specifically as for the collective humanity, waking me further into
great respect for the workings of Mother Earth.

Your dream has certainly woken me to this beauty and reminded me to
give thanks by your description.
 

Rita:

The wolf and bear dream felt like a large, universal archetypal dream to me.    I was just remembering that recently the wolf was taken off the endangered list to be put back on it.  Makes me wonder if the dream at one level is not talking about the extinction of the species that is going on on planet earth.     

 

July, 25th, Mary’s appeal: FREEZE a US Attack on Iran National Day of Action Wednesday August 6 (Hiroshima Day)

   

Source:  by Behrooz Nobakht
http://flickr.com/photos/behruz/1484565910/

July 25th, Janet’s “Forgiving Room”  

Last night I was woken up at about 5 am by the wind howling around my
apartment, and got up to rescue some of the plants on my terrace. After
I was back in bed and settling down to go to sleep again, the words
"Forgiving Room" popped into my mind.

I haven't been remembering my dreams much during this Da Fu Mu period,
but I thought that the concept of a "Forgiving Room" might be conducive to peace. It could be a room where people meet specifically to forgive
each other, or maybe even a room that magically makes people forgive and
feel forgiven.

Anyway, it could make a good focus for me to try once again to incubate
a Da Fu Mu dream tonight.
 

Comments:

Rita:

A forgiving room - what a beautiful image, dear Janet. I will join
you in that dreaming.
 

Even though in waking life forgiveness is a complicated process
because we human beings are complicated creatures, it is important
to dream about that forgiving room - to give it space in dreamtime so
it can grow in all of us and in the world.

 

Ilkin:

How good you remind it just at the time. I always find it healing and helping to forgive. How hard it is to forget, it is easier to forgive. Not only to forgive others but forgiving our selfs is also very important I think. Hope we can do it or help each other to forgive self too.

 

Kathy: ... this is a most beautiful concept - and to think the words just came to you!  

Ilkin: (message #44923) gives material and links on forgiveness  

Gina: I sometimes do a guided meditation that ends centered in the heart, where you forgive everyone, including -- and especially -- yourself. 

Victoria: There is forgiveness, but there is also ego in deliberate exclusion.

By http://goldseven.de/

July, 27th, Ilkin experiences synchronicity in forgiving:

When I listened the friend saying he had colone cancer 5 months ago and it made metastases to his kidney, all I could remember was his good days in the past before that unlucky event, how he made us laugh, find increadable topics to our articles etc. I get ready immidiately and took a taxi to meet the friend and visit him. I remembered the unlucky event, loosing my job and all only after I took the taxi. I realized; even if I still remember, didnt forget I already forgive him.

...

I wasnt aware I had forgiven him, I didnt do it on purpose, thinking on it. I felt peace holding his hand. Like forgiving also bring peace and you reminded it just in time

 

Comments:

Ralf: Ilkin, your story made me weep.

Janet: I had tears in my eyes too, Ilkin. What a moving story.


I am having many thoughts about the "Forgiving Room" which I will try to
share with you all when they become more coherent. But one thing I did
was to look up "forgiving" in the dictionary, which gave the following
definitions:
- ready to pardon
- merciful
- compassionate

It seems to me that these qualities can't be forced, but happen
gradually while we work with our own issues.

Source: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/

July, 27th:  News from Istanbul: Tensions in Turkiye are escalating. An inhuman bombing. Ilkin is in the center of the storm again.

Ralf: DaFuMu is certainly needed   

Mary: praying for peace and for your safety Ilkin!
stay safe, be well. Please, please don't ever let this chaos "break your spirit"...

 

 

 

 July 27th: Ralf locates a German group of doctors, that can hopefully help in making the Erbil PTSD camp for children in Iraq come true. He joins forces with Jean. Much of the conversation happens off group, because the Iraq doctors must stay secure.

 

 

 

July 28th, Mary forwards: FYI ONLY STOP WAR ON IRAN MARCH ON AUGUST 2nd

Mary forwards: IRAN WAR RESOLUTION House of Representatives Res.362

Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the threat posed to international peace, stability in the Middle East, and the vital national security interests of the United States by Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and regional hegemony, and for other purposes.

...

Source:Digiart2001
http://flickr.com/photos/digiart2001/2214844805/

Whereas nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress--

(1) declares that preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, through all appropriate economic, political, and diplomatic means, is vital to the national security interests of the United States and must be dealt with urgently;

July, 29th: Ilkin forwards:  White House sees record budget gap in 2009, (and this is just a snippet of our long discussion on economics (and war) )

"President Bush has mortgaged our future with record deficit spending on the wrong priorities," Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. "An unnecessary and extraordinarily costly war in Iraq has turned record surpluses into record deficits."

 

Source:by Vern and Skeet
http://flickr.com/photos/taspicsvns/2114929188/

 

July, 29th: Janet envisions forgiving room:

My forgiving room image this morning was a hut at the reservoir - a
plain, ordinary, small hut on the outside. Inside, it becomes whatever
the person needs for their own forgiving process - for instance: it
could be a richly furnished brightly lit room, or a simple place with
little or no furniture; there may be other people there, or not; it may
change over time. Maybe at some point we can all dream or visualize our
own forgiving rooms?

 

 

 

 

Source:by n0ll
http://flickr.com/photos/m-j-s/2724756177/

Neglected child, dark mother, and the case of frozen funds for Palestine children

July, 30th: Valley shares: The Dark Mother and the Solar Eclipse.

I work in a restaurant as a waitress and there is customer I am waiting on, a woman with a baby. The child is thirsty and the mother will not give her water or a drink of anything. I find out from the mother she has not fed her anything all day. The child is hungry, but does not bother her mother. She does not complain or whine about not being fed. The restaurant where I work has a court yard in the back, and also one in the front. I take the child in my arms and carry her into the back courtyard. I intend to call CPS (Child Protective Services) to report the neglect of the mother. I am hiding behind a brick wall in the courtyard as I make the call to be sure the mother will not find me and demand her child be returned to her.  I tell the owner of the cafe to feed the child while I make the call.  I notice over the wall where I am hiding from the mother there is a solar eclipse taking place. The eclipse is on the horizon and it appears large, there is some kind of cloud or light that passes in across it and I stop and stare with wonder, in awe of the beauty. I go back into the restaurant to wait on the woman and tell her to expect a call from CPS because I have reported her neglect of her child. I am now in another area of the courtyard surrounded by old brick buildings, C W is looking at my toes, I have only a few painted. He asks me about it, if I like painting my toenails, I say I do, and I ask him if he would like me to paint his.  He smiles as if he likes the idea, but fails to commit. I say I only paint them every so often.  In the courtyard I can hear chanting coming from the building next door. The Soka Gakai International Buddhist Dallas Chapter has located its new building there. I am now outside in the front courtyard, and my mother is there sitting at a round table where she is providing counseling to people. The colors of water surround her  and  veils or  scarves hang down around the table creating a safe space. There are 2 round tables connected together. She tells me to sit in a chair, and then a friend of hers joins us, and then another friend. I am not too happy about these people invading my space. I was wanting privacy to speak to my mother about the neglect of the child and needing to call CPS. I did not say anything and left. I was walking out and noticed there was a picnic table, I was thinking the restaurant is a perfect place to have an IASD event. EOD

...

Source: by carf
http://flickr.com/photos/beija-flor/1613611664/

It feel it could be a collective turning point in energy of this upcoming Solar Eclipse.

I would like to propose that we focus our DAFUMU energy on dreaming for the neglected child on the Solar Eclipse on Friday August 1st.

Comment Ralf: Your mentioning of courtyards reminds me of "taking your case to
court", demanding truth and justice. If it were my dream, I would say
I desire to bring to public attention the needs of my inner child, as
well as those of children all over the world.

Comment Valley (August, 1st):

It is interesting your mention of taking your case to court. Yesterday I participated at Dallas City Hall as a speaker representing the Dallas Peace Center in a press conference designed to speak out against injustice that is being carried forward toward the Holy Land Foundation by the U.S. Justice Department. ... The Holy Land  Foundation has garnered millions in  funds to  provide  food and clothing to children in Palestine as well as other places around the world. Those funds have been frozen by the U.S. government and so the aid is not going to where it needs to be. There are 6 other Muslim charities in the U.S. whose funds have been frozen and they have not even been indicted of a crime. Meanwhile the Justice Department has become another political tool for the Bush Administration.

Your input was quite perceptive, especially since I did not know at the time I sent the dream I would be speaking yesterday.

Source: by Wolfgang Staudt
http://flickr.com/photos/wolfgangstaudt/2195373631/

August, 2nd: Jean's DaFuMu

I have been talking with another woman at what seems to be a conference, or at least in a hotel room, about what we are going to do while in the city.  She wants to visit an Indian Reservation somewhere deep in a part of the city I am not too comfortable with.

 

But then I find myself walking through a parking lot, talking with a man who's planned to go with us.  He looks suspiciously like Jeremy.  It's early in the day, maybe on a Sunday, and the parking lot is deserted.  As we walk past the entrance to the lot though, a dark car pulls in.  I realize that it is full of uniformed policemen.  They look at us, and I realize that I have been carrying my shirt in front of me, rather than wearing it. 

 

I run across the street, fearing that I will be arrested for indecent exposure.  I run up the first flight of stairs in what I see from the front is a small hotel, painted gray with white trim.  Then I see someone I know, a man who is taking the elevator.  I follow him to the elevator door. 

Comment Jean:

Would you say that I've been feeling a little exposed? :))

 

I guess that's what happens when a whole group of friends tells your deepest secrets in a magazine!!

Comments:

Kathy:

Ha ha jean - yes exposed BUT I'm also interested in the also rather obvious symbolism of the Indian reservation deep in the city - and that you don't want to go there BUT the very fear/awareness of exposure is what literally drives you on - to a DOOR (and is not that what someone was talking about just recently - sorry someone - I'm only scanning mails!). So now you are moving UP towards, I'd guess, somewhere you feel is DEEP within (the city) - you are NO longer in a DESERTED PARKING (NO MOVEMENT) lot. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Ha HA!! Sometimes our dreams are VERY OBVIOUS!!

Hermine:

Like inner circle and community and sometimes we need boundaries(police) to be in a safe place then. So if it was my dream I have guidance (Jeremy) to go to a tribal meeting and instead of a grey hotel, the white trim(which is also present) brings me to the right door to get there.
It's a higher level though...

August, 3rd: Misa on radioactivity

Now, Israel will attack Iranian nuclear sites in several months?

That doesn't sound very safe.  Another reason why Japanese people

are sensitive to nuclear power is that, obviously, they learned the

horror of its power decades ago.  Hope everybody in the world

realizes how to handle (or not to handle) such a power.

 

Peace, peace, peace.

August, 7th: Mary's news: Kuwait Times Govt Finalizing WAR emergency plan

August, 8th: Ilkin's news:  Russia bombs Georgia (neighbour to Turkey)

Source: by Delfo
http://flickr.com/photos/delfo/177667033/

August 11th, Rita posts "outsider" dreams

First dream: I am with a group of people all belonging to the Unity organization.  We are all working on a program on healing including the use of Reiki and other healing modalities.  There is a short guy making the rounds who is in charge of this operation.  He is aware that I am not a member of the organization and is unhappy about this and trying to remove me from the group.   The rest of the group is very glad to have me participating in the process.  In the next scene the group leaves in a bus and I am walking alone on this very wide highway - not a car or anything on it - just me and this very wide highway going somewhere.  I am aware that the guy is observing me from the bus as it drives away in a different direction.  EOD

 

2nd dream:  I am observing the meeting of the Bush cabinet.  I am inside the office where they are all sitting around a long table.  Every man sitting at the table is very short, almost midget like, including Bush.  I notice that Gonzalez is at the table also.  There is a sense of rigidity and strong opinions in the group and definite pressure to conform to Bush's dictates.  Nobody in the group seems to know I am in the room.

 

In the next scene I watch a woman walking away from this meeting - I don't remember seeing her in the meeting but somehow in the dream know that she came from there.  I know that she has had a government job for a very long time and that she is keeping this job because of security reasons even though it is creating deep feelings of hopelesness in her and disempowerment as a woman.  She carries her body in a position of defeat.  I see her arriving at the door of her home and entering it.  EOD

In both dreams I was an outsider, in one I was participating, in the other I was observing.  I seemed at peace in both dreams accepting whatever the situation was. 

Comment Kathy:

Ah if this were my dream I’d ask some personal questions about myself:

Do I dislike an aspect of myself which could be a leader in a group?

Do I dislike someone else when I see that same aspect in them?

 

AND – oh yes I’m sure it/s collective too – but first it seems deeply personal.

Source:
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/History/Articles/Liberation2.html

This dream is posted by Janet on August, 14th:

Jean to the Rescue
4 August 2008

I'm living in some kind of totalitarian state, much like a Nazi regime.
I'm suspected of fighting against the regime so they watch me carefully
- I'm almost a prisoner in my home and if I don't behave I'm likely to
be a prisoner for real. And most such prisoners never return. So I do
what I can but am afraid to do anything that will get me noticed.

But there's a small child, a girl of around 6 to 8, who is , who is
being used to carry messages across the border from freer countries,
particularly the US. I hear that she has been captured and know that I
must help her escape. So I go to the border, disguising myself somehow,
and find out where she is - she's well-guarded but I somehow managed to
distract the guard and go to free her, but she has already freed
herself. We escape together, but our escape is short-lived and we are
both soon recaptured. But we are looking for ways to get free again.

Before I went to rescue the girl I sent a message to Jean Campbell in
the US. Jean is not allowed to enter the country but she immediately
gets on a plane and comes over. She somehow gets off the plane before
the border and comes in on foot. My aim is to get the child to Jean so
she can take her back across the border. I manage by various tricks and
help from sympathizers to free myself and the girl - the girl may have
had a larger part in this than I did, actually. But we're in great
danger of being recaptured - in fact the girl is about to be recaptured
when Jean appears. Somehow between the three of us we manage to
eliminate or at least temporarily neutralize enough of the Nazis so that
we are free and can help other people free themselves. But we're still
in danger, and Jean and the girl (and maybe me?) should get back across
the border as soon as possible.


Comments:

Jean:

It seems an absolute metaphor for feelings that I have often had myself, and dreams I have had as well.  There was a period when I went through a whole series of dreams of being captured by the Nazis as a young girl in Poland, and taken to a specific prison camp that was built at the top of a cliff  ...

I think we are all involved in rescuing our own children (and that can be interpreted in many ways, I know), when we do this work with the Aid for Traumatized Children Project.  It made me happy to see that in your dream I represent a free country, because I think that a part of what we are doing, all of us, is attempting to free ourselves from fear.

Janet

Some of my thoughts on the personal level of the dream related to the
girl of about 6-8. ... That child of course is still with me and I guess I neglect
her at my peril. But it seems that being part of this group is healing
her, as the girl in this dream seems quite competent to take care of
herself - and maybe the adult me is getting less afraid "to do anything
that will get me noticed"?

Ilkin:

Your dream reminded me some series of dreams I had, in which I was back in Nazi period. They were so interesting that I remember making searches about them and find out there is a kind of "reincarnetion of WW 2nd victims" group and a "derams/ reincarnation etc of Holacoust victims" project. I was surprised with the number of people who try to find out from their dreams.

Anonym Dreamer:

a "reincarnation WW2 victims group" and a project? Could you tell me
where this is please? I am one of those, I think.

Source: by Colpro
http://flickr.com/photos/colpro/2457065874/

August, 14th Rita's "Group Dreaming"

I had a dream early this morning that is connected to all the conversations (volunteering vs. getting paid - PTSD - children of war - the healing of the earth,  fund raising, etc.) we have been having on the Bridge and also to the inner work I did yesterday.

 

Dream:  I was on this very large piece of land with various buildings were a large conference was being held.  The first building I enter is a very large and high log cabin with no rooms - just one open space -  I can see the dark wood of the logs around me.  It is a communal log cabin where people are learning how to live in harmony with the earth. I know that living here means no need for exercise of any kind because of the life style involved in this kind of life.  I look at my hands and feel the value of my hands.

 

In the next scene of the dream I enter the second building and this is a men's gathering and I am the only woman here.  They are addressing finances and money. I hold my own in the conversation.  After a while I leave this group and enter another building where there are only women.  Volunteers are running this area and they are really stretched as there are not many volunteers.  There is an area where tea is being served and I go and get my cup filled. I go find my purse and get my credit card to buy a ticket for this event.  L S and P G also arrived.  Lauren is dismissing the value of money and I tell her that I just got back from talking about money with this group of men and  that money is important.  That women tend to volunteer and leave man in charge of money which creates a  financial separation between the sexes.   I am aware that I can bridge both areas.  I return to the front desk to refill my cup of tea with hot water and sit down with the women volunteers as they are being instructed in regards to their tasks.  This one elderly woman remembers me and we greet each other with warmth.  

 

In the next scene I enter the reception area of this large auditorium of this compound.  They are stretched for volunteers here also.   Then I go into the actual theatre area of the auditorium and it is packed with people.  This little girl, maybe 6 years old begins reciting something she practiced for everybody,  then gets scared and runs to her parents who hold her with love.  I notice how lovingly the parents hold her.  I shift my attention and notice that all the chairs are turned around away from the stage facing the entrance and a movie beings playing on a white screen on the drapes.  The movie is black and white and has no sound.  It is showing little children running in circles, playing, spinning, expressing their little bodies in movement and filled with joy.  There are adults supervising this activity of play.  I am watching this in awe.  Aware that I never had that kind of experience as a child.  Then I have a magazine in my hands that has beautiful golden designs and calligraphy and is about the god of all religions and the god of no religion.  I read it aloud and it is somehow synchronized to the movie.  I am deeply touched by the writings and cry and then read it quietly.

 

I leave this area and go to a large tent connected to the auditorium and volunteers are rolling up plastic covers that were on the grass - there are a couple of plastic sheets hanging from the top of the tent creating rooms for workshops.  I wonder if this setting would work for a regional.  I notice a single mother trying to get her $25.00 credit and Valley who is volunteering and very tired directs her to the finance volunteers.  The event held here has ended and the volunteers are putting things away.

 

I am aware that there are not enough resources, not enough money, not enough hands for this very large communal effort to heal the children and women of the world and to change the existing conditions in the world.  

Comments:

Ralf:

My guess is, that not only the women and children in the world need
healing, but (as your earlier dreams showed) also the men. Only I feel
they maybe don't suffer enough while they play their games of power,
control and money. They seemingly don't know, what they are missing,
not before in their games they break down and sense their lack of,
their need of connection, of love. This discovery could be the
beginning of a way to bridge the gap of sexes, as well of rich and poor.

Rita:

I believe on a larger level the dream is reflecting the imbalance in the world and who knows what other mysteries. ... 

But maybe the dream is also hinting at ways that I can bring into the world that inner balance I have in the way of some work I have not explored as yet?

Ralf:

... this passage with the playing children and the book especially moved
me. I feel an intense healing quality in both of them. Maybe here
you'll find the bridging of male/ female spheres? And I guess it is
not just for you, but for the world.

And last but not least:

Kotaro's daily flowers and now Hermine's poems, giving us HOPE!

Source: Kotaro Miyagi

Dear Kotaro,

Sunflower(s)of delight

Warming our emotions
freeing our senzations
growing sense of understanding
seeding thoughts of LOVE
and neverending
yearning for PEACE

Hermine

 

 

August, 15th: Ralf is trying to honor current DaFuMu dreaming:

While compiling most of what I saw related to our current DaFuMu it
again came to my mind, that we forget something: Honoring our dreams.

I guess we are all in awe of the great weaving of day and dream, but
then what we do with this? I mean, I'd like to cautiously analyze the
ways of action and reaction, give more attention to the details of
DaFuMu and reality creation. So we can learn dreaming more
consciously, develop the power of our intention, enforce our motivation.

One reason for writing this compilation was for us to focus on DaFuMu,
as I learned from working for the PDC presentation, that many of our
dreams go by relatively unnoticed, jewels drowning in the stream of
messages.

Rita's latest dream, e.g. seems to me like a perfect roundup of this
month of (extended) DaFuMu. And also leaves good questions for the
next round. How comes? What is group consciousness, that it can shine
through our dreams this way? What is it which can structure individual
dreams, put them in a meaningful order; which can create mutuality,
synchronicity, reality?

Can we compose the jewels of our group dreams making up precious
necklaces? Or even magical amulets, amplifying the light of our group
soul, so it shines like a beacon? How do the ships of abundance reach
the shore of our DaFuMu island?

Source:by imylthinle
http://flickr.com/photos/chelso/77608137/

Comments:

Rita:

I love your idea of making a necklace out of the Bridge dreaming.  I am reminded of the workshop of Meredith Sabini and Richard Russo I attended a few months ago of Community Dreaming.  We all set a large intention and then allowed dreams to bubble up.  Then Meredith and Richard recorded them all and linked them together as one large dream.  Then we collectively found the jewels of wisdom in the dreams in regards to the intention we had set. 

Ralf:

I'd love we did similar with our July and August DaFu dreams.

 

August 21st, Rita creates a shining necklace of dreams:

I decided to do the last step
of the workshop I mentioned to you which is to state the messages of
each dream in relationship to the intention of the group dreaming and
this is what I came up with:

VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD- THE REALITY OF DESTRUCTIVE ACTIONS
HUMAN LAWS THAT PUNISH VIOLENCE
TRANSFORMATION
HUNGER AND ABUNDANCE AT THE SAME TABLE
SILENCING TRUTH
INVISIBLE IMMIGRANTS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY
INSPIRATION BY THE GREAT WORKS OF ART BY HUMANITY THROUGH THE AGES
MASCULINE CORE WOUNDS THAT NEED TENDING
WHAT IS NORMAL?
MARCHING FOR PEACE

Source: by gazzat
http://flickr.com/photos/gazzat/309801531/

IN AWE OF THE BEAUTY OF NATURE IN THE MIDTS OF HUMAN TROUBLES
BALANCING CREATIVITY AND DISCIPLINE
FOLLOWING ONES DEEPER TRUTH
WITNESSING VIOLENT ACTIONS IN WAR - PROTECTING SOLDIERS
WOMEN PROTECTING CHILDREN
A LARGER VIEW OF EVOLUTION
THE RELATIONSHIP OF PREDATOR AND PREY
ROOM OF FORGIVENESS
EXPERIENCE OF FORGIVENESS
MAKING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN COUNTRIES TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF WAR
FEAR AND A NEED FOR POWER CREATES VIOLENCE AND LARGE INDEBTEDNESS
IN AWE OF BEAUTY IN THE MIDTS OF HUMAN SUFFERING
DARKNESS HIDING THE LIGHT BUT THE LIGHT IS STILL THERE (LUNAR ECLIPSE)
JOY AND SMALL ACTS OF CREATIVITY IN THE MIDTS OF SUFFERING
SPEAKING OUT AGAINST INJUSTICE
RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL VS. SOCIETY RULES
THE VIOLENCE OF WAR
JOINING OTHERS AS ONE
OBSERVING EMOTIONALLY UNDEVELOPED LEADERS AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE
BEHAVIOR CREATING FEMALE DISEMPOWEREMENT
TOTALITARIANISM AND THE DESTRUCTION OF LIVES.\
PEOPLE WHO RESCUE PEOPLE AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN SAFETY AND LIVES
HOW TO INTEGRATE THE POWER OF MONEY IN THE HANDS OF MEN AND THE POWER
OF VOLUNTEERISM IN THE HANDS OF WOMEN
HEALING THE CHILDREN
SPIRITUALITY THAT TOUCHES THE HEART
NOT ENOUGH RESOURCES TO SAVE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF THE WORLD
HEALING FLOWER- BEAUTY OF NATURE

Comments:

Jean:

Wow, Rita!

 

I was just sitting here doing some other things when your mail came through.

 

What an amazing analysis.

Ralf:

A wonderful necklace of dreams, a shining essence you created, dear Rita!

While reading it all the dreams, messages and images came to my mind.
A river flowing, merging into the ocean of collective soul, creating
peaceful change in our world.

 

Notice: To honour the artists I tried to give the sources/ owners of copyright to the best I can. For details on licences please follow the links given above each picture.

Thanks

Ralf


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