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Volume CLII – Reconnecting with the Soul’s Calling

Dear Dream Tending Community, Today we revisit a reading by Dr. Aizenstat from his book The Imagination Matrix.To deny the soul’s longing is to become separate from the call, which results in stagnation and psychological paralysis. Creativity withers, and imagination dims. Researchers have found that multiple motivations drive interior reflection.…
John Ziegler
January 21, 2025
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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…
John Ziegler
December 3, 2024
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Volume CXLVIII – Community Support: Embracing Change

Dear Dream Tending Community, In the world of today, deepening relationships with both our inner and outer communities is vital. Befriending our inner community of Soul Companions offers internal support and guidance. Connecting ever more deeply with our outer soul-centered communities provides the support and protection needed to incubate our…
John Ziegler
November 19, 2024
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Volume CXLIV – Explore What’s Unfolding

Dear Dream Tending Community, I want to personally invite you to join me this Wednesday for "The Emerging Possible: The Next Evolution." Together, we'll step into an experiential journey, exploring the dreams moving through us—dreams that offer hints of what is waiting to be discovered.In this special gathering, I'll share…
John Ziegler
October 15, 2024
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Volume CXLIV – Exploring the Imagination Maxtrix

Dear Dream Tender, We hope you enjoy this excerpt from The Imagination Matrix, a  book by Stephen Aizenstat Ph.D. “We are born with a living blueprint, the essential design to evolve our imagination. Each of us enters the world with the capacity to make creative leaps of consciousness and quantum…
John Ziegler
October 8, 2024
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Volume CXLI – Emerging Dreams: The Time is Now

Dear Dream Tender, Emerging dreams are gaining visibility—have you caught glimpses of them? The hints are everywhere—at times visionary, at  times challenging. Prophetic dream offerings inform the circumstances of personal life as well as, the conditions in our world. Generative dream insights can calm our anxieties, befriend us when we…
John Ziegler
September 16, 2024
Dreams and Healing Tending Tuesdays

Volume CXL – Dreams and Healing

I have found that marinating a relationship with your dream life can be integral to physical health. In many instances, dream images have inherent healing properties. They function as imaginal medicines that can be used in adjunctive ways in the treatment of physical illness. I have developed methods to activate…
John Ziegler
September 3, 2024
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Volume CXXXIX – Awakening to your Calling

We come into the world already scripted by parental expectations, cultural norms, and now, technological programming.  However, underneath the haze of conformity there is a unique “blueprint” that is yours alone. Different from the programmer’s code, this soul’s code tells of your authentic calling. Through listening to the hints offered…
John Ziegler
August 27, 2024
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Volume CXXXVIII – The Dream Theme of “Falling”

Dreams have intrigued humanity for thousands of years, acting as windows into the psyche, they reveal our deepest fears, aspirations, and emotions. Certain dream themes recur universally, reflecting shared human experiences. By exploring common dream themes, you can gain valuable insights into your waking life. As I travel internationally, one…
John Ziegler
August 19, 2024
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Volume CXXXV – Tap into the Matrix

Dear Dream Tending Community,You are born with a blueprint, the essential design to evolve your imagination. You are genetically inclined to be curious and imaginative. Each of us enters the world with the capacity to make creative leaps of consciousness, and quantum leaps in learning. Your discerning brain and sensate…
John Ziegler
June 25, 2024
A 7-Year Old Dreaming... Tending Tuesdays

Volume CXXXII – A 7-Year Old Dreaming…

Dear Dream Tending Community,The grief in the world is palpable. Horrors are omnipresent. Shootings in the streets, ecological devastation, wars raging, and political acrimony are daily occurrences. And, it goes on. The distress often feels like “too much”. Yesterday, a seven-year-old shared his dream with me. It was a nightmare…
John Ziegler
June 4, 2024
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Volume CXXXI – Increasing Imaginal Intelligence

Dear Dream Tending Community,How can you reconnect with and enhance your Imaginal Intelligence to meet the personal challenges/opportunities that the world presents? A shift in consciousness is needed. Research demonstrates that when theta brain wave activity increases so does your Imaginal Intelligence. This occurs when you move from an alpha…
John Ziegler
May 28, 2024
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Volume CXXIX – Expanding Your Modes of Perception

Dear Dream Tending Community,As we build toward our upcoming, summer programming people have asked, "How do I get started?"  Whether you are joining us for the Imagination Matrix Workshop, our Pilgrimage to Switzerland or BOTH. Below is one simple method of preparation. This exercise is found in my new book,…
John Ziegler
May 14, 2024
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Volume CXXVIII – Illuminated Consciousness

Dear Dream Tending Community,I want to share with you where illuminated consciousness came alive for me, in Jung's Bollingen Tower.The autonomous psyche and deep imagination can come alive! I invite you into the Dream Tending community to join other like minded souls on the journey into dream and imagination. Warmly,…
John Ziegler
May 7, 2024
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Volume CXXVII – Thinking of You!

Dear Dream Tending Community,Hello from Campus!Until next time…. Dr. Stephen Aizenstat Learn the Power, Purpose and Intelligence of Dreams Unleash your creativity and innate genius Stephen Aizenstat Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dream Tending, and the Academy of Imagination. For more than 35 years, he has explored…
John Ziegler
April 30, 2024
Dream Tending in Community Tending Tuesdays

Volume CXXVI – Dream Tending in Community

Dear Dream Tending Community,Dream Tending  in community is a sacred and transformative experience. There are a few times a year where we come together. This is a deeply personal time where a limited number of us will be working in depth with dream and imagination.This retreat promises to be an…
John Ziegler
April 23, 2024
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Volume CXXV – Applied Methods of Dream Tending

Dear Dream Tending Community,During my career as a clinical psychologist, a marriage and family therapist, the founder of Pacifica Graduate Institute and Dream Tending, I have tended the dreams of thousands of people around the world. From my time in the field, I have crafted a three-step orientation of working…
John Ziegler
April 16, 2024
Soul Companions Tending Tuesdays

Volume CXXIV – Soul Companions

Dear Dream Tending Community,When you travel to new places, it is helpful to have guides who facilitate your experience, much as sherpas do on mountain climbs. When journeying in the realms of deep imagination and the dreamtime you notice that helpful figures also begin to appear. These figures are your…
John Ziegler
April 9, 2024
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Volume CXXIII – Finding Peace in Times of Heartache

Dear Dream Tending Community,When hurt is present, communities of support gather. I will be offering a Master Class where you can learn skills in finding peace in times of Heartache. Tending dreams and nightmares offer “imaginal medicines.” This two-hour Master Class will provide specific tools that can be used to…
John Ziegler
April 2, 2024
THE DEEP DIG Tending Tuesdays

Volume CXXI – Journeying…The Dig

Dear Dream Tending Community,The journey starts with the “dig,” an inward exploration of deep imagination.  Here you get in touch with the imaginal  intelligence and  embodied wisdom from within.The call goes out… The gathering is happening… The journey begins…   Join me as we journey together into the inner realms…
John Ziegler
March 19, 2024
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Volume CXX – Soul Companions

Dear Dream Tending Community,Momentum is building toward our workshops on the Imagination Matrix. We will be journeying through the realms of Dream and Imagination. Our destination is well known. It is the place of homecoming, a returning to the source of our deep belonging. To make this courageous journey, we need…
John Ziegler
March 5, 2024
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Volume CXII – In Service and Heart

Dear Dream Tending Community,Wishing you a Happy New Year! Imagination Matrix Workshop How to Access the Greatest Power You Have for Creativity, Connection, and Purpose Three Opportunities to Participate Led by Dr. Stephen Aizenstat and Mentors of Dream Tending, this program offers a supportive and creative space where you can…
John Ziegler
January 2, 2024
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Volume CX – Dream Tending in China

Dear Dream Tending Community,I have just participated in The 10th International Conference of Analytical Psychology and Chinese Culture. We studied Jungian Psychology in relation to Chinese I Ching bringing east and west together. So much to learn… so many beautiful things presented and offered. I especially appreciate how the I…
John Ziegler
December 11, 2023
THE CREATIVE HOME PLACE Tending Tuesdays

Volume CIX – The Creative Home Place

Dear Dream Tending Community,Today’s Tending Tuesday is brought to you by Louise Rosager, Dream Tending Mentor, member of The Academy of Imaginal Arts and Sciences and Founder of Wake Up and Dream. I live and work in Los Angeles, arguably one of the most creative cities on the planet. But…
John Ziegler
December 4, 2023
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Volume CVIII – Living Systems and The Imagination Matrix

Dear Dream Tending Community,Journeying in the realms of Deep Imagination—in The Imagination Matrix—you become connected to the evolutionary powers of living systems. Here you gain access to the “source code” of imagination. Now is the time. The generative sparks of nature’s genius are still among us. As we approach the…
John Ziegler
November 28, 2023
Ensouled Stewardship Tending Tuesdays

Volume CV- Ensouled Stewardship

Dear Dream Tending Community,Ensouled Stewardship is vital to the task of enhancing our humanity in the world of today. It is a process of co-creation with others in its highest form. Thank you to all our service members who have answered this call. On behalf of the extended Dream Tending…
John Ziegler
November 7, 2023
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Volume CIV- Gratitude

Dear Dream Tending Community,What an extraordinary week it has been! I wanted to take a moment today to reflect upon the incredible journey we've embarked upon with the launch of my new book, "The Imagination Matrix." The outpouring of support and the depth of engagement from all of you have…
John Ziegler
October 31, 2023
Imaginal Intelligence Tending Tuesdays

Volume CII – Imaginal Intelligence

Hello Friend, We hope you enjoy this excerpt from The Imagination Matrix, a new book by Stephen Aizenstat Ph.D.Over the years, I have found that when people open their Curious Mind and connect to the Four Quadrants of the Imagination Matrix, their Imaginal Intelligence increases. There are many kinds of…
John Ziegler
October 17, 2023
Journeying in the Realms of Deep Imagination Tending Tuesdays

Volume C – Journeying in the Realms of Deep Imagination

Hello Friend, We hope you enjoy this excerpt from The Imagination Matrix, a new book by Stephen Aizenstat Ph.D. To deny the soul’s longing is to become separate from the call, which results in stagnation and psychological paralysis. Creativity withers, and imagination dims. Researchers have found that multiple motivations drive…
John Ziegler
October 3, 2023

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