This is the autobiographical story of a young woman bumping into the enigmatic sorcerer Running Deer and her initiation into the sorcerer’s world and mastering conscious dreaming. It takes the reader throughout the magic realms of the unknown and gives a new approach to the traditional training of women sorcerers. The riveting autobiographical account written by Dreamshield takes the reader throughout the magic realms of the unknown and mastering conscious dreaming. This book, following the traditions of Carlos Castaneda and others, gives a new approach to the traditional training of women sorcerers. The author describes her initiation into the surrealistic world of dreaming and magic, following the teachings of ‘Man of Knowledge’ Running Deer. In the heart of Amsterdam, a thrilling stride unfolds in obtaining the knowledge of the Second Reality on the way to the ultimate goal: finding the Totality of the Self! The combination of unusual instructions and experiences within the sorcerer’s world and the level-headedness of a very Dutch woman offers the reader excitement and contemplation on the way to the source of this reality, finding the ultimate self through the experiences and understanding of Dreamshield herself. Up until the last page the reader remains intrigued whether Dreamshield will reach her goal. Right by the author’s side or facing her stands the character of Running Deer. Sometimes mysterious, then challenging, strict as a guru, or vulnerable as a visitor in a foreign country. However, the precise description of these distinctive steps on the road to her initiation stand like milestones in the landscape of this unique history.
Excerpt from The Sorcerer’s Dream
Vidar stares out in front of himself for a moment and says: “Recently a nine-year-old girl came up to me. She asked me for help because she was lost. She doesn’t understand the world around her; especially her father’s reactions are incomprehensible.”
No need for an elaborate explanation, I am the nine-year-old girl.
“I saw the way your father shouted at you and found it unbearable to watch. Time and again, the girl opened herself up for love, but finally closed her heart to stop getting hurt. A child consists of love,” he continues. “When you hurt a child deliberately, they shut down. People who were maltreated as a child can end up in the same pattern later in their life. They meet a partner who hurts them and think that is love. The absence of love in your youth hurts and causes you to be hard hit later in life as well.”
“You have to go and get the girl,” Vidar says, “she’s in an unknown space and she doesn’t know the way out. She needs to feel safe and a place to heal.”
That’s all I want. “But how do I handle that?”
“Remember the situation when you felt rejected and try to visualize it as vivid as possible and call upon your ancestors. Call her, ask her where she is and travel to her with your dream body and take her to your inviolable space to heal. You were taught about dreaming and therefore you know how your dream body operates outside your body. Tell her not to be afraid, tell her you are the master of fear. Give her your love and say: experience it and absorb it, I will take your fears away now. After that you draw healing symbols on the girl and in your environment.” He adds that it is essential that you are not fixated during your travels or distracted. “Emotions are an obstacle which could make you stop.”
According to Vidar, picking up the girl is a quest or a chivalrous voyage through unknown territory with your knowledge and intent.
Not long after that I remember a feeling of being misunderstood and rejected by my father and I made the decision to go and get the girl.
Ever since then my inner child feels noticed because now she comes knocking more frequently. One night, right before I fall asleep, I hear her crying. Only then I realized that she cried more often in the twilight-zone, but I had always quietly slept through it. Regularly images pass by, unprocessed events from the past, memories, often right before a feeling of fear, loneliness, depression, anger or rejection. I push my reluctance aside and intend to listen to her from now on. Sometimes I avoid her for days or weeks, but eventually I sit down, take her along to my inviolable space and ask the girl (who skips from one age to another, from young to old and back) what she is trying to tell me. As soon as I brought new insights to the surface, I integrate her in myself and in most cases I feel much lighter afterwards.’
About Alysa Baceau, Dreamshield
Dreamshield (Alysa Braceau) studied social work and is a freelance journalist who writes for newspapers and magazines. She has a Healing Practice and gives workshops about the Art of Mastering Conscious Dreaming and Dream Healing.
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Floral Love Dreams
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010by Linda Lane Magallon.
historical tales from the British Isles. The accent is on incubating dreams for love, not only on Valentine’s Day, but all year round. (Addison, J. Love Potions, Charms and Omens . Topsfield, MA: Salem House Publishers, 1987.)
To dream of their future husbands, young women were directed to pin 5 bay leaves to the center and four corners of their pillows on St. Valentine’s Eve (February 13th), then climb into bed wearing a freshly washed nightgown. Before sleep, they were to repeat this rhyme:
In this case, the rhyme was to be repeated 3 times as the young women anointed themselves on the hips, stomach and breasts with a love salve (St. Luke was the patron saint of physicians). The salve consisted of marigold, thyme, wormwood, marjoram, honey and white vinegar. Watch out if you use this one, though. As a flower of the sun, marigold represents fertility!
Before sleep on St. Agnes Eve (January 21st) young women recited the Lord’s Prayer while taking out the pins from the pincushion, one after another. The last one was stuck in a sleeve during the recitation. The prayer , “St. Anne, St. Anne, send me a man,” is a more recent version of this sort of practice. St. Agnes was the patron of young virgins; St. Anne was the virgin Mary’s mother.
Remember the Christmas song, “The Holly and the Ivy”? Holly was used in pagan fertility rites to represent the man; ivy was the entwining woman. So to dream of a future husband required a young woman to pick 9 leaves of holly on a Friday at midnight, then place them carefully inside a three-cornered handkerchief and hide it under her pillow. The charm required absolute silence until the first light of dawn.
Teenage daughters were forbidden to bring honeysuckle into the house, though. It was said to induce erotic dreams!
Originally published in The Dream Tree News, Volume 3-1. © 1999 Linda Lane Magallon.
Linda Lane Magallón , MBA, created the Fly-By-Night Club research group. Linda wrote "Mutual Dreaming,” the Internet course "Psychic-Creative Dreaming" and writes the “Dream Trek” column in the e-zine, "Electric Dreams.” She is a founding member of ASD and co-founder of the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group. Email her at Caseyflyer@aol.com.
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