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Symbology: Every snowflake is unique. And yet every snowflake is elementally identical. That's a brilliant and truthful description of human beings. Our spiritual journey is about discovering our uniqueness, yes -- but it's MORE about remembering our connectedness.

A snowflake is crystallized water. After it descends, it experiences many many transformations -- liquid, gas, ice, etc. If we see ourselves in that metaphor, we see that our primary job is to keep ourselves purified, so that whether we're in the ocean of collective reality, or in the clouds of sweet solitude and meditation, we'll be operating from the essential self -- not from the pollutants we pick up along the way.

Spiritual practice is our purification tool.

SECTION HEADINGS

The Physical Path
The First Physical Task
The Second Physical Task
 The Third Physical Task
The Mental Path
The First Mental Task
The Second Mental Task
The Emotional Path
The Dreamer's Emotion
Emotional Memory
 The Dreamer's Breath
The Results of the
Dreamer's Breath
The Soul Path
Why Maintain Spiritual Practice?


DREAMING AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

Dreams are the original language of the spiritual path. . .Dreams are a straight connection to the divine heart of the cosmos.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Dreamwork for the Soul, p. xii.

Spiritual practice is as essential as eating and physical exercise for the dreamer. When you realize the truth about your dreaming -- that we are working together in the unseen realms to dream the world into form -- then the power of your dreams magnifies and augments. You must have the spiritual chops to handle these new levels of dreams that will come to you, or you'll blow out, either mentally, physically or emotionally. Keeping your mind, your body, and your emotions pure and ready for magical, mystical journeys is something you simply must do.

In Journey to Ixtlan, Carlos Castaneda's teacher, don Juan told him that there is no other task in our entire lives which is more important than the purification of our spirits. "Lowering his voice to almost a whisper, he said that if I really felt that my spirit was distorted I should simply fix it -- purge it, make it perfect -- because there was no other task in our entire lives which is more important."

 
As dreamers, we need to live lives which truly express our deepest understandings of the true nature of life. We need to consciously make choices that reflect our cosmology -- our universal philosophy.

In ordinary consciousness, we live in a polarized reality. Everything in the three dimensional world that we call "real" has an opposite. Everything is magnetically charged to attract its opposite. We live in a mirror world. That's not the case in the dreaming realities. On the other side of the mirror, polarities dissolve and suddenly we attract that which is like us. The dreaming dimension dynamics pull us toward that which empowers us -- that which is us.

For that reason, the dreamer must enter the dreaming realities in a spirit of the sacred. Entering a dream is like entering a temple or a sanctuary. We must be clean of mind, body, and emotion. Our relationship with our souls must be in tact. That way we can trust that what we magnetize in the dream will be for the highest benefit to ourselves and to all beings and all dynamics.

I strongly urge you to get a copy of Tamar Frankiel and Judy Greenfeld's Entering the Temple of Dreams and their other book, Minding the Temple of the Soul.. (You can get them by clicking the store icon -- or click here.) Using these prayers will truly help you.

The following is an overview of my practice. Use it, adapt it, make your own. But don't ignore this part of the work. It's vital.





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