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Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthret...Aloha all , this is the first posting of excerpts from my "Dream Analysis Handbook", if you would like to order the soft cover from amazon.com or PDF version in it's entirety from http://www.healthretreats.info. I hope to also in the next month or two have dream analysis workshops online at the same web address. Aloha and blessings Keala
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
*********************************
ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
INTRODUCTION
I was first introduced to evolutionary dream analysis when my then future husband Tyco, took me to a Tuesday Puna Dream Work Group. As a certified hypnotherapist, I was familiar with dream work to some extent. I have been trained to assist a person to understand their dreams by putting them in a hypnotic state and asking the higher self and spiritual guides to help us take the dreams apart and finding the meaning that the self was trying to communicate. I still find this method of dream interpretation actually more precise, especially if it is a dream that needs more in depth analysis. However, hypnotherapy takes one on one time and is not always a practical option. Many dream analysts will argue the virtues of one approach over the other but I will say this, what ever works for the dreamer is best.
That night, I sat there amongst the many other dreamers and simply watched and listened. At the end of the meeting John asked me what I thought and I told him that I wasn’t very impressed and explained how I was trained. John didn’t seem to be very impressed with my technique either. So there it was and there it stayed for a while.
I attended other meetings but was personally turned off by many aspects of the dream work. The fairly rigid interpretations of dreams and how some people would tenaciously insist that this meant that, especially bothered me. But I could see how much the dream work was helping my husband Tyco, so I began attending the women’s groups. I found them to have a more flexible attitude. That is to say, they would include the emotional aspects more than they would in a mixed group. The more I understood about the process, the more user friendly it became. It takes some time to understand “DREAM SPEAK”, the terms and the processing of dream work but it is definitely worth the effort.
Poor Freddie would stop time and time again to explain something like the mother complex for example. I would try to capture the meaning but many things didn’t truly become clear until I began to put this book together.
As a therapist, I find that I have often set aside little or no time for my own healing or process. During my training as a hypnotherapist, I did more personal processing than most people do in a life time. However, we are always processing and continue to do so until we die and even beyond.
Dream Analysis became my own personal therapy. I could go to the women’s dream group and bare my dreams and thus my psyche to a group of women who are all on their own personal quests to become whole. When I began understanding my own dreams, the dream process really started to unveil itself.The psyche goes, “ Hey! Hey!! Great, you are listening! So here, what about this ...”,and so on.
Here at the retreats, right after our “Good Morning” greetings, that salutation is invariably followed by “Did you have any dreams last night?” Dream work has proven to be a wonderful adjunct to our holistic health program as well as a dynamic tool for my own personal growth.
And so it is. We all are on a quest toward understanding the universe that resides in each of us. So I hope this book will give you some tools to begin your journey into the world of your dreams.
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ASCLEPIUS
Asclepius was born of a mortal mother by the name of Coronis and the Greek god Apollo. As the student of Chiron the Centaur, he learned the use of herbs, medicines, love potions, surgery, incantations and magical formulas. Zeus thought Asclepius had overstepped the laws of the universe by bringing the dead back to life, for a price. Asclepius was then murdered by the gods but after reviewing all the good he had contributed to humankind, he was made the god of medicine and healing. The symbol of Asclepius is a physician’s staff with an snake wrapped around it. The modern day medical symbol, the Cadeusus, is similar in that it has two snakes entwined around a winged scepter.
In times of illness and when the physician was unable to help, one would turn to Asclepius for healing by going to one of the numerous temples built in his honor. Healing would come about in a dream, with a visitation from Asclepius or in the form of one of his totems - the cock, the dog or the snake. The dream would then result in the beginning of the healing or give an indication of what had to be done or undone to bring about the healing.
It is said that Asclepius told his students, “come, dream of snakes....”. Snakes in dream work can represent many things, among them - alchemical changes, a self image in transition or flux, healing, or a shedding of the old, as in the shedding of the skin of a snake and least prominently the phallus. Each dream can be thought of as a shedding of your psyche, another self aspect revealed and released. There is a Hawaiian phrase Kala Kala, which means you must release in order to be released and so it is with dreams. We take on new dimensions and reshape our psyche through the processing that occurs through our dreams. We reshape our minds and our lives by freeing ourselves from unwanted programs and thought processes. So, come dream of snakes. Let the shedding and transformation begin.
********AN ASCLEPIUS DREAM - KIRSTI
I dream I am in a house. It is not night, but it’s shadowy inside. I go into the bathroom, which is old and has broken floor boards. A multi colored animal appears through the cracks, looking a bit like a little dragon.
This snippet - a short dream, states that the self is in a construct of the psyche - I am in a house, though not in the unconscious - it is not night but it is shadowy inside. This may mean there are issues that she has not yet assimilated - things not eaten or consumed in dreams take on a shadow quality. The self goes to a place of relief - I go into the bathroom, from the past - which is old, and the base is not supporting her - and has broken floor boards. A self image of transition which has the alchemical development stage of the peacock, comes forth - the multi colored dragon appears, from a place of the mother complex - through the cracks, displaying a diminished form of an archetype - looking a bit like a little dragon.
John Maguilla told Kirsti that the dragon was a self symbol. The dragon would be a composite image of the self that has many values which is indicated by it’s multiple colors. John told her that in ancient Greece, when someone was ill, the healer would tell them to come come back after they had had a dream about a reptile. This is a loose example of Asclepius saying “come, let’s dream of snakes.”
