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Volume LXXXIII – Keeping Healthy in Threatening Times

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, As we continue to journey through May, National Mental Health month, we will shift our attention to the ever-present cyber influence that is a deeply woven part of modern existence. Google Maps, Instagram, security, smart watches, payment systems, checking the weather, E-mail -…
John Ziegler
May 23, 2023
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Volume LXXXII – Keeping Healthy in Threatening Times

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, Over these past years, our personal and collective mental health has been challenged in debilitating ways. The pandemic inflicted illness, isolation, and heightened anxiety. Shootings in our communities create fear, agitation, and horror. The threat of death has been omnipresent. Children are frightened…
John Ziegler
May 16, 2023
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Volume LXXIX – What is Earth asking of us?

What is Earth asking of us? What is Earth’s dream? Earth Day is an annual event dedicated to raising awareness about environmental issues and promoting sustainability efforts worldwide. We invite you, in acknowledgment of Earth Day this past weekend, to spend some time attuning to Earth. Touch her soil, smell…
John Ziegler
April 25, 2023
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Volume LXXVI – How do I have less stress?

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, April is stress awareness month. We, in the Dream Tending Community, want to shine some light onto the hot topic of stress. I always grew up hearing that stress was bad for you. It inflames the system, it makes most illness worse, it…
John Ziegler
April 4, 2023
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Volume LXXIV – Mentorship

A Mentor is a wise person who imparts advice. In the world above-the-world, a Mentor can be a teacher, a counselor, a parent, a friend, even an animal or a landscape. In the worlds below-the-world, Mentors come forward as imaginal figures or settings offering insights to the never-before-seen. In your…
John Ziegler
March 21, 2023
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Volume LXXIII – $ and the Collective

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, When eyes close at night, and the imagination wonders where do we go? Falling. Being chased. Dying. Teeth. Being naked in public. Pregnancy. Money. Flying. Sex. Cheating. These are some of the most common dream themes. Joseph Campbell, perhaps the world’s best-known navigator…
John Ziegler
March 14, 2023
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Volume LXXI – Greetings from Montana

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, We say hello here, from the B-Bar Ranch, as we conclude our last day of the Winter Montana Dream Tending Intensive. Hearts are full; imaginations alive; landscape potent in its winter wonderland. We are excited to announce the opening of several Dream Tending…
John Ziegler
February 28, 2023
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Volume LXX – The Dream Landscape

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, When I first began learning about dreams and Dream Tending, all of my dream work was focused on the people and objects they interacted with, almost as if all of my dreams took place on the set of Our Town. For those unfamiliar…
John Ziegler
February 21, 2023
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Volume LXIX – Embracing the Love of Imagination

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, That’s so silly! You have such an over-active imagination! Stop daydreaming and pay attention! You are too old for imaginary friends, that’s so childish. That was just a dream…forget it. At some point in our lives, many of us were taught, or shamed…
John Ziegler
February 14, 2023
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Volume LXVIII – Black Dreams Matter

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, I am grateful for the opportunity to recognize and celebrate Black History Month. Two of my favorite African American figures, amongst many others, are Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and W.E.B. Du Bois. While these are familiar and popular African American figures, I have specific admiration for them…
John Ziegler
February 7, 2023
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Volume LXVI – Gripped by a Nightmare?

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, My alarm blared in my ears as I hit snooze on my cellphone. My psyche was deep inside a nightmare. I felt conflicted: a part of me wanted to wake up to leave this terrible dream reality, another part of me felt haunted…
John Ziegler
January 24, 2023
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Volume LXV – Wishing You a Fulfilling New Year

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination community, On this second Tuesday of 2023, let me wish you a fulfilling New Year. And, too, I want to encourage you to set an intention for this year. Bring your continued attention to tending dreams. This year, our Dream Tending community will attend…
John Ziegler
January 17, 2023
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Volume LXIII – Dreams as Messengers

Dear Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Community, Dreams are messengers. They are couriers delivering important “letters” from the dreaming psyche. The communications offer insight, speak of warnings, and tell of your fate. As storytellers, their language is metaphoric, symbolic, often poetic. In your tending to dreams, remember to respond to…
John Ziegler
December 6, 2022
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Volume LXI – The Practice of Wabi-Sabi

Dear Dream Tending Community, The leaves are changing; fall and Thanksgiving are upon us. Thanksgiving holiday is a day of giving thanks for the blessings of the year. As this holiday occurs on different dates in different countries, the season of gratitude is upon us worldwide. Gratitude is the quality…
John Ziegler
November 16, 2022
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Volume LX – A Day of Celebration

Dear Dream Tending Community, Today marks a milestone in the Dream Tending Community. As I write this, the Mentors of the Academy of Dream Tending are graduating from their final course. I want to name and honor this grand accomplishment – of hearing the call, learning the craft of working…
John Ziegler
November 15, 2022
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Volume LIX – The Disruption

Dear Dream Tending Community, Late fall raindrops patter on my roof. They sing to my nervous system a melody of cleansing and renewal. November’s crip voice is calling; beckoning me into Winter’s blanket. The crisp air hits my skin; a disruption. Awakening into Winter’s cry. I listen. I focus. I get…
John Ziegler
November 8, 2022
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Volume LVIII – Celebrating Ancestors

Dear Dream Tending Community, I just awoke from a dream that my mother, who died 4 years ago, was moving into my current home to live with us. This dream is a wonderful example that The Day of the Dead is upon us. All around the world, people are remembering…
John Ziegler
November 2, 2022
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Volume LVII – Finding Gold In Communitas

Dear Dream Tending Community, From Atlanta to Santa Fe, to South Australia, to Portland, to Ecuador, to Maui, to Canada, to Los Angeles, to Italy, to Vermont, to South Africa, to San Antonio, to the UK, to Kansas, to China - dreamers and seekers have gathered to start a new…
John Ziegler
October 25, 2022
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Volume LVI – Synchronicity

Dear Dream Tending Community, It’s been quite a magical week for Dream Tending. On Monday, October 10th, we welcomed an incredible group of dreamers into the Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I program and journeyed together for our first three day intensive module. I marveled at the synchronicities that…
John Ziegler
October 18, 2022
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Volume LV – Grace, Grit, and Gratitude

Dear Dream Tending Community, ​Dream Tending is in full swing this Fall! Last Saturday Pacifica Graduate Institute celebrated welcoming Dr. Mattison, the new CEO and President into the community. As a part of the weekend festivities, the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association threw a lively evening tribute and roast to…
John Ziegler
October 11, 2022
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Volume LIII – Nature and Feeding the Soul

Dear Dream Tending Community, Speaking to you from the Big Sky and high mountains of Montana opens my heart. Breathing the fresh air and listening to the sounds of the flowing rivers feeds my soul. Being here with several people who have enrolled in the upcoming Certificate I program brings…
John Ziegler
September 27, 2022
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Volume LII – Love Wins

Dear Dream Tending Community, I am touched to share that today marks the one-year anniversary of Tending Tuesday. Tending Tuesday was inspired by a pull to sustain the value of what happens when we come together as a community. During challenging post Covid times the Dream Team wanted to do…
John Ziegler
September 20, 2022
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Volume XLIX – The World’s Soul

Dear Dream Tending Community, This week's Tending Tuesday continues the exploration of the foundations of the Dream Tending and Deep Imagination Certificate I program, which is currently accepting limited applications. Today's topic, The World's Soul, follows The Living Image, and The Intolerable Image. On Sunday afternoon, I spent a precious few minutes…
John Ziegler
August 30, 2022
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Volume XLVIII – The Intolerable Image

Dear Dream Tending Community, Last week and over the next three weeks, Tending Tuesday will be devoted to aspects of Dream Tending that mark its foundation. Last week, Tending Tuesday explored The Living Image. This week, we are delving into The Intolerable Image, known commonly as nightmare. One of the…
John Ziegler
August 23, 2022
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Volume XLVII – The Living Image

“The living image functions as an intermediary between the dreamer and the dreaming psyche. In its life as an implicit energy, the living image connects the dreamer to the energetic underpinning of the psyche. Connection to this generative resource gives the dreamer access to the rhythm of life itself.” ~Dr.…
Krystyna Knight
August 17, 2022
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Volume XLVI – Celebrating the World Soul

Dear Dream Tending Community, Today, I feel something new in relation to the world soul. I celebrate the actions taken in the United States Senate in relation to the climate crisis. For decades, many of us have worked through local advocacy and international activism, in organizations like Greenpeace and the…
John Ziegler
August 9, 2022
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Volume XLIV – Resonating with Resonance

Dear Dream Tending Community, I get asked questions often that include the phrase, “how do you know?” As in, “How do you know what to say to a dreamer?” Or, “How do you know what to do with a nightmare image?” Or, most recently as we navigate through these world-wide…
John Ziegler
July 26, 2022
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Volume XLIII – Tending our Inner Teenager

Dear Dream Tending Community, “I don’t even know how to talk to them! They don’t hear me!” “How am I supposed to learn stuff when the rules are always changing?” “I give up! My words never come out right anyway. Just forget it.” These statements might seem like they come…
John Ziegler
July 19, 2022
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Volume XLII – Cultivating Courage

Dear Dream Tending Community, Yesterday a ten-year-old girl walked into my clinical therapy office with an ear-to-ear grin. “You didn’t tell me life could feel like this! Feeling like this is so much better.” She sat back on the couch in a casual, effortless way, a behavioral contrast to years…
John Ziegler
July 12, 2022
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Volume XLI – Emergence and Empowerment

Dear Dream Tending Community, Engagement and activism are the pulse moving through the collective field. If you are feeling a sense of inner movement, we are too. In the Dream Tending Method, we use discomfort to find the inner resource. When I was traveling in Bangkok, Thailand, I went to…
John Ziegler
July 5, 2022
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Volume XL – Finding Your Archetypal Activism Within

Dear Dream Tending Community, With the Fourth of July on the horizon and amid current socio-political events freedom is at the forefront of consciousness, both its shadow and its light of opportunity. In times of collective turbulence, activation is present. When activation visits, agitation, frustration, grief, fear, and anger may…
John Ziegler
June 28, 2022
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Volume XXXIX – An Interview with Jean Houston and Stephen Aizenstat

Dear Dream Tending and Imagination Community, “What if it were possible to access the worlds of your imaginations and bring them to life as never before?”                                                                        —Dr. Jean Houston, 2022 For this Tending Tuesday series, I had the privilege to interview Dr. Jean Houston and Dr. Stephen Aizenstat on human consciousness.…
John Ziegler
June 21, 2022
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Volume XXXVIII – Awakening Curiosity

Dear Dream Tending and Imagination Community, To live a life enriched by a curious mind animates both body and spirit. Since I was a little boy, I’ve been curious about my dreams. As I grew older, my curiosity extended to waking life, as if the world was a dream. What…
John Ziegler
June 14, 2022
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Volume XXXVII – The Vale of Soul-Making

Dear Dream Tending and Imagination Community, We have gathered in our Certificate I program here at the Pacifica Lambert Road campus. In this module we consider the world’s dream. In community we remember that in an animated world everything is dreaming. Over these days we listen as the landscapes, creatures,…
John Ziegler
June 7, 2022
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Volume XXXVI – My Wish for You

Dear Dream Tending and Imagination Community, On Saturday, at the Pacifica Graduate Institute Graduation Ceremony, I along with others read this poem by Maya Angelou. I share this with you now in hopes that you will read it at least twice and breathe in the spirit of what resonates with…
John Ziegler
May 31, 2022
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Volume XXXV – Story and Soul

Dear Dream Tending and Imagination Community, Recently I had yet another occasion to share dream as story and offer story as dream. I discovered yet again that when I am not in such a hurry to interpret or analyze, both story and dream stir the wellsprings of soul. The innate…
John Ziegler
May 24, 2022
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Volume XXXIV – Gifting It Forward

Dear Dream Tending and Imagination Community, War, shootings, and environmental crises stir feelings of horror and anguish. Reactions of alienation and rage follow soon after. Our hearts ache, our souls thirst. How to respond? When I was in my twenties, a wise teacher offered an idea, simple yet profound. He…
John Ziegler
May 17, 2022
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Volume XXXII – Medicine for the Wounded Soul

Dear Dream Tending and Imagination Community, Greetings. As I write this, I am returning from Switzerland where I presented a lecture on the value of deep imagination and story in the world of today at the annual Eranos Conference. There were people attending from countries worldwide. As I travel home,…
John Ziegler
May 3, 2022

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