Volume CXLIX – Dream Council: An Inner Community

Dear Dream Tending Community,

Last week at our community’s Tending Tuesday Live I offered insights from my personal dreams that provided guidance in navigating the world of today. I shared the value I find of being in supportive inner and outer communities. After our time together I deepened my appreciation for my daily praxis of engaging my Dream Council. Below is a partial description I described in my book Dream Tending.

“In its most basic form, Dream Council is simple to do. We take a few dream images, create physical objects to represent them, and interact with these objects. These embodied figures meet with us and with each other in a Council setting, where we all can have our say. And in my experience, once these figures start speaking, there is no holding back the conversations.

Council is a kind of ritual. It is a forum to gain and maintain relationship with dream images. It grows in complexity, depth and meaning the more we engage in it. Dream Council forms a container for ongoing Dream Tending; it is the bridge between dream world and daily life, the path between worlds. I find it is as fun and uplifting as it is profound and meaningful.

While it may take years for the practice to have its full effect, even the first encounter with Dream Council offers tangible rewards.”

As you continue your own journey with Council, I invite you to trust the unfolding process. In the company of your Dream Council, may you find both guidance and inspiration.

Warmly,

Steve