Respect for David Wilcock / Edgar Cayce

What’s going on with this blog? I missed an entry for March, first time ever missing a month, and now I’m moved to write not about Easter on the day before Easter. Years ago, I would’ve tried to stick more religiously to being the spiritual spokesperson that was my past life as Hildegard von Bingen, 12th century German Christian abbess. That was just the level of obligation I felt to my destiny as well as to anyone listening. But I also became increasing wrapped up in her battles, so this approach reached a point of diminishing returns. I discovered more of my potential to be myself now, thank you God, and thanks to Hildegard’s care and example.

First quarter 2012 has been intense, with my book rewriting my life as I rewrite based on my life’s experience. This has resulted in multiple restarts for the section on ending karma and entering the flow of infinite love in God’s real universe. The battle between good and evil has laid waste to our finite worlds, both inside and out, so it’s high time to be done and transform. In the past 3 months, I have found the final karmic companions I’d been seeking for 14 years, including the current incarnations of Margravine Richardis von Stade and Elisabeth von Schonau. And you know what? We’re all from the same tribe alright, one wounded and wary tribe of monastics and teachers that has suffered long enough. There’s nothing more important than everyone getting the growth experience they need, and what we all need now is to let go the old expectations and reach beyond to a whole new sphere of liberation and awakening. I am busy appreciating now bridges to places I’ve never been before, sights I’ve never seen. The ego balks like a frightened horse, but then calms and shows its readiness for change as well. The energy moves us together into new understandings and relationship roles, where the only thing we have to fear is old fear itself. That maxim didn’t used to be true, when ignorance ruled and evil spirits had the upper hand.

This is something of why I’m drawn today to write about David Wilcock, who says he’s the reincarnation of the late great spiritual channeler/prophet Edgar Cayce. Cayce’s prolific output to 1945 laid much of the foundation for our modern new age. A lot of people are disputing David’s claim, some quite mean-spiritedly. David looks like Edgar and tries to channel like Edgar and certainly has great enthusiasm to help lead the angelic human potential another big step. But he’s too different from Edgar for many of Edgar’s old fans to reconcile, including the Cayce foundation established to perpetuate his work, the Association for Research and Enlightenment headquartered in Virginia Beach. The A.R.E.’s official position is that yes, Cayce said he would return in 1998, but they’re not sure how literally he meant that. And although David was guided to move to Virginia Beach in 1998 and looks and acts like Edgar in some intriguing ways, David is just one of the many Edgar hopefuls who turned up but couldn’t answer the list of questions to which only Edgar would know the answers (besides themselves, apparently). So that’s their litmus test, and God help them if anyone ever leaks it to the press!

Now in talking about this hot potato of a subject, I’m going to remain firmly indisputably subjective and biased. I haven’t researched this a lot, I just have some information and impressions that keep coming my way. That’s the great thing about blogging, right? I don’t have to claim that what I said was true, I only claim that what I said was what I thought was true. Can’t disprove that!

(See the end of this blog for an important followup to this point)

My understanding is that David is indeed Edgar, and all these people who criticize him for being a desperate band-wagoneer and trend follower who’s been trying to make a name for himself for too many years are only technically right. Perhaps these are the kind of people who would disown their rich parents as soon as fortunes turn and mom and dad can’t buy them the same big presents they liked. There is no love for another soul in those who rage that David isn’t their Edgar, they hold at best a love for themselves as they furiously defend what Edgar meant to them. And that is fine, that is good, because everyone needs to find and protect their own values.

People who don’t like a message should not shoot the messenger, but nor are they obliged to love the messenger for a message they like. In fact many spiritual traditions teach, as part of the lesson to let go the ego, do not pay attention to the teacher, just get the lessons. This can certainly go a long way to discourage the cults of personality that corrupt a soul’s progress in the world. But when you’re ready, when you have the teachings firmly internalized and you are called outwardly to find more reasons to love, then absolutely the messenger becomes as important if not more important than the message. Heck, this message I could have gotten in many places and ways, to some extent I already have. But you! You! You are a precious Eternal One, you braved the elements to show up at my door just in time, your soul and my soul have learned our lessons forever together in each other’s dear company! Oh my beloved fellow child of God, spark of the living divine, come in come in please, take a seat at my table, let me pour you some tea while you tell me of the places you’ve seen and for whom you have loved to go there!

This would have been my spontaneous ideal emotional response to welcome not only to David but everyone who showed up at the A.R.E. door in Virginia Beach in 1998, had I been there. Of course I was not. Fourteen years ago I was too busy discovering all the ways that I was and still am Hildegard, another famous enough spiritual figure whose fanbase includes many academics that are decidedly uninterested (I know, I’ve tried) in getting to see how her soul has evolved a new messenger’s form, much less digest a new message that might not match up line for line with the old cherished song. I have no doubt that I would not be able to answer every question that Hildegard should have known (so, when exactly were you born and where? can you name all your nuns?) I can’t even recite all the facts of this life, facts that I know I knew at the time! I can however answer questions that no one else knows to ask, like what was that formative experience she had as a girl child by the family hearth?

(Answer: Hildegard became one with a beetle as it scurried and burned on a log, we lunged to save it and thank God were pulled back in time, the experience gave us an empathy for the sufferers in hells and even their devils whom too God shall save, mercy for all beings is a hallmark of our teachings that our soul had to reactivate in this way, I saw the scene with shocking vividness in a past-life regression, I sob uncontrollably now to recall it, some people have no idea what’s happening to them in this world, but they should get some idea from the recent wave of self-immolations by young protesters in brutalized Tibet, where the culture I so loved and learned from is being further stamped out, no i do not know my Tibetan name(s) but to anyone who feels that connection I deeply recommend the recent documentary My Reincarnation which is extraordinary for bridging the worlds and bringing souls home.)

I’ve read that David’s provenance is considered suspicious because of how many attempts he’s made through the years to ride someone else’s coattails to fame, including of course the Cayce foundation. He tends to collect other people’s work and present it under his own umbrella, often for free but not always (Edgar was famous for giving readings based on the need and not the payment). I think the critics could have a point, without understanding what they’re seeing of course. Myself, I was a bit surprised that in one video David seemed all over the place for his inspiration, including pointing to a poster for the movie Inconvenient Truth as some kind of proof that humanity was about to ascend, just because the smoke of a smokestack was curling into a galactic spiral. Hello, an artist made that on purpose, it’s a great image but not a huge unconscious symbol that was waiting to be unveiled by the only one in the know whose name would be David. Ego? Sure, we all have one, including sweet, enthusiastic, smart, overeager David who is from his soul trying to help find a world big enough to call Home. At least he knows what he’s doing better than his critics, who can stick to their crib notes for what converts a complex living breathing human being into a simple right or wrong, yes or no, checkbox.

The fact is that Edgar Cayce was called the sleeping prophet because much of his fame rested on not what he said but what was said through him. Cayce was quite the spiritual temple, the grand central station; he got out of the way and went into trances, conveying life-changing guidance for both individuals and humanity from multiple heavenly sources. All this is what is recorded and feted in books and archives by so many many. Edgar’s own personality was not terribly impressive, and there were times that he neglected his family and common sense in pursuit of patrons to fund his own sense of mission and importance, which certainly could look overblown at the time. In retrospect it is easy to worship the validated vindicated heroes of history, but who can recognize greatness in their midst, and love it in another person as ordinary and rare as they are themselves? Those who accomplish this feat can not only make friends with the great but become great as well. The rest of the critics and followers, well, they’re the critics and followers, and they have their value to themselves and those who in turn look to them.

It makes perfect sense to me that Cayce, the sleeping prophet who was unconscious for his most famous work, would come back as a soul in need of more opportunities to develop the self. David collates and conjoins the inspiration of others, in clear deference to the continuing importance of message over messenger, while not being shy to say who he is and hope to be more of that too. He’s not sleeping like Cayce, he’s on late night radio. He’s brash, giving lectures, writing books, plugging himself where he can, trying to balance the needs to make a name for the work as well as himself.

David's journey sounds about right to me, a trailblazing trek I can empathize with completely. When I first found that I was Hildegard, I was ready to go national, or so I thought. I knew that I had an ego, of course. I was human, and I wasn’t going to let that stop any gospel/godspell that I needed to shout. Let people be inspired, this can happen to you, God is about! But because I’m so relationship oriented, and I’ve been guided to develop a deep understanding of the personal inner transformation toward love that is required to enter the new age already so fruitful with its outward signs, I stumbled for lack of support to be bigger than local, and stayed quieter than David for many more years. I may yet regret this I don’t know; I did what the energy made possible, but I was weak of will too at critical times.

What impresses me most about David is that after he moved to Virginia Beach in 1998 and was kicked out by the Cayce foundation, he continued to look for support, he couldn't give up. Eventually he met Wynn Free, a poet, songwriter, and freelance author who helped him co-write their breakthrough book, “The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? Interdimensional Communication & Global Transformation”. This book impresses many more people than David’s critics can sway, and I’m looking forward to getting my copy next week. So this speaks to me of David’s indefatigable soul that could not give up - he must be and do what he must be and do, that is the nature of divine destiny - and for this God had a plan. In my own life, I am often finding that where the old karmic contacts for Hildegard or other past lives are seen to be plugging the old work and old ways, it’s with a new contact that I am destined to discover and build a real love of the future potential.

So, happy Easter tomorrow and all that it means! I won’t recite the old texts, because resurrection, spring, and eternal flame are everywhere to be found, as you need to learn for yourself. Last year Easter I posted my vision of Jesus with Mary that changed my life fourteen years ago. I’m happy to be a messenger with a personality, so you can get to know me or my ego or both, you decide. In the first council of Nicaea, my past life named Gregory of Nazianzus helped to decide the formula for the date upon which Easter falls: it’s the first Sunday following the Paschal full moon. The cycles of nature, Her rise from her fall, are thus honored in the tradition of Christ, and I’m glad for the chance to have helped ensure that.

Am I overstating my own potentials to claim more than one historical life? I don’t think so, but time will tell; it took me plenty of steps to even say that. I completely agree with A.R.E.’s statement on Edgar returning that many explanations exist for people’s sincere claims to being someone known and come back, and anyway personalities change so they’re not exactly the same even if they are right. One critic ridicules David for supposedly saying he’s also Shakespeare and Pythagorus, and if he did then I agree to disagree but not without empathizing, and definitely not to shame. August Wilson makes a much more convincing Shakespeare, including the look and his soul’s determination to spotlight and uplift the human condition by immortal prose. For a confused period in 1998 I speculated I was too many people as well based on the stuff I was getting, until I realized that kindred spirits are in constant contact and interdependent support. Shakespeare and Pythagorus are dear friends to many; I didn't too much consider I could have been them, but I seriously thought I was Carolus Linnaeus for years (we have a kindred love for nature and remain close spirit compadres in ways I will continue to happily uncover).

You can better see how the past lives I’ve settled down to own with Gregory, Hildegard, and Vladimir make a logical set, as my friend Walter who researches reincarnations posted on his site. There are others as well, like the 17th century English mystic who lived to same age as Hildegard, running a similar spiritual community that she also inherited from the same soul as Hildegard’s teacher Jutta. Lifetimes fit together and borrow from each other remarkably; of course, they have to, they’re all running concurrently in the same play of time and space, whose stage illusion is perfectly real in its usefulness. The people who aren’t ready to embrace souls for their arcs of continuing contributions and humanity - since that would upend the very ego in them that they think claims to reincarnation expose in others - have no need to understand.

I’m doing so much better now that I know how to recognize my real friends, some in the flesh and more in the spirit. Plus more supports are always waiting to be found within the increasingly manifest union of Heaven and Earth, that magical mystical miraculous gift place where messenger and message can become eternally one, so we can all sit down for some tea together by the hearth of our immortal lives (no beetles burning on the logs this time, thanks).

I’d better get back to writing my book. Seriously, karma’s done, go to the love.


(IMPORTANT ADDENDUM 4/23/2012: I'm not going to change my original blog post here, but I'm glad now I was moved to highlight my subjectivity, apparently there was a reason! My friend Walter Semkiw has recently posted on his site that he and Kevin Ryerson and in particular their spirit advisor Ahtun Re, whom I deeply admire and trust, say that Edgar Cayce is reborn but is still a youngster, not ready to be identified, and is not David Wilcock. I don't see as well as Ahtun Re can from his vantage in spirit, I do however feel deeply and he's helped me a lot to understand what I feel. So now I look forward to asking him next chance I get what the explanation can be for the Edgar-David connection, which I was moved to defend in this blog given some rude attacks on David's earnest teachings that had come to my attention. I face the prospect of having empathized with David's best intentions beyond accuracy; that's ok, I'd rather err that way than the other. Ahtun Re has also stated that I am correct in who I say myself to be (I certainly try to watch for my ego directly), and this blog was only the second time I was going out on a limb for a reincarnation opinion regarding someone else before checking with Ahtun Re. The first occasion was Ada Byron Lovelace as posted in my blog October 2011, and that one Ahtun Re confirmed 3 days later. I have a sensitivity for significant patterns and I'm not infallible for how to interpret them, so I try to be honest about that. I still think this blog entry is built on ideas and inspiration which are perfectly valid - heart and mind opening - so I'll let it stand for itself rather than take it down for my own comfort level. I tend to do this in general, leave earlier stages of my evolution on view for greater lessons than being infallible.)

Take the Leap!

I read that a 60 year old woman is celebrating her 15th birthday today! Yes, it's Leap Day 2012, a great day to do something outside of normal space and time.

Like what? Like ending a karmic relationship attachment! Set yourself free, by completely accepting a painful situation that you were hoping would get better someday. Perhaps you've exhausted yourself trying to rescue, fix, change, teach a lesson to, guide, uplift, convince, inspire, argue with, prove wrong, fight, reform, prevent, nullify or otherwise remove yourself from the impact of another person on whom you somehow grew to depend. Or you thought you didn't care anymore, but you've forgotten how much more potential you will have to live if you not only let go better expectations of that limiting person, but actually replace them with someone else much more able AND willing (don't forget the willing part!) to supply you with your own sacred needs and wants. After all, you're the one who so beautifully hoped and chose to grow! So let's be absolutely done with supporting, helping, and enabling that opposing person in your life, shall we? It's time to support, help, and enable the most amazing precious individual on whom you can always rely to really care about what you're going through - YOU!

So say it, feel it, let it be: "This situation is already all it's ever going to be. That's it, I'm through, I'm starting a new chapter in my life! If they had wanted to do more better things with me they would have done so by now, because I made myself plenty clear on more than one occasion. And I really *like* what I stand for, I stand by what I said to them! I admire me, and if someone came to me with what I said and did, then I would have valued and adored them to no end. We would have had such fun!"

"So... I no longer judge, criticize or worry about what will happen to that other person who didn't get me now, because they have their own connection to the universe to take care of themselves. They always did and always will, and what's more I have mine! They make their own choices, and what's more I make mine! So dear Universe, I turn away from them and turn myself back to you. I create my own life with your support, not theirs! I'm done with that old dead-end relationship and situation. My own hopes and dreams, which they never really wanted but I still absolutely do, were and still are so alive, vital, and beautiful that I refuse to be affected by their limiting decisions for me anymore. I am willing to finally be free! Provide me directly and abundantly with all I need to grow more fully, deeply, rapidly and joyfully than I have known before! I am ready now, in fact I have been for a while, so watch me, here I go!"

Leap Day is traditionally a day to turn the tables on chauvanism and give the ladies a chance to speak up for what they really want. St. Bridget of Ireland, whose namesake was the goddess Bridget of the fairy kingdom, the Tuatha de Danann, struck a deal with manly old St. Patrick, charmer of the snakes. Bridget declared that every four years the women would get to propose to the men they prefer to wed. In many countries on Leap Day, men are supposed to pay a penalty or buy clothes for a woman whose proposal they refuse, and in the middle ages this was governed by law.

What this means is that Leap Day is the perfect day to let the Goddess rule from within your own soul, whose deeper love has been so often overruled in a world of might making right. Choose the mate to whom your heart really belongs. In other words, end that old karmic relationship and propose to commit to yourself, and be sure to say yes I do! More love than you've ever known will follow in the footsteps of the sacred inner marriage that only you decide.

If you live in the Boston area, you're welcome to join us for a Leap Day discussion about ending karma at the Swedenborg Chapel, see my meetup description at www.CosmicDocent.com

For more clarity on the nature of codependent dysfunctional relationships and how much you want and need to end the pain of unrequited love, check out this Feb 21 Wall Street Journal article by Elizabeth Bernstein on Why we pair up with our emotional opposites, which summarizes the points of a great new book called "Attached" by Amir Levine, M.D. and Rachel S. F. Heller, M.A. The field of attachment theory, long observed from how infants attach to caregivers and what happens when they become alienated, is now being applied successfully to adult relationships. When you don't get secure love, you become either compulsively seeking of love (called the Anxious type), or reflexively emotionally suspicious and withholding (called the Avoiding type). Stereotypes that say that's just what women and men do wouldn't be the point, unless you're an Avoidant!

Below I repeat two comments I made on the WSJ site to the article, the second being in reply to a woman named Alex who basically said (I won't presume to repost without permission) that she paid a therapist a lot of money to tell her what I said, and she wishes someone would write a book advising Anxious types to spot Avoidant types and run in the opposite direction!


Carl Schroeder Wrote:

Great article, looking forward to the book! Anxious/Avoidant labels may be just an update of the old pursuer/pursued dynamic that fuels unrequited love, but how worthwhile more study is. Reminds me of the term "limerance", invented by Dorothy Tennov for the urgent emotional state at the beginning of relationship attachment when feelings need to be reciprocated and if aren't then painful emotional coping mechanisms can set in. I know too well the codependency patterns of mismatched love temperments, so what's new to me is this encouraging idea that 50% of the population is Secure and stable and ready to give and receive intimacy just fine, hurray! I've been an Anxious type who was hurt and stuck on Avoidant types who made me feel just awful for simply being a guy who values lots of communication and affection. Forget fixing them to want what I want, I've sworn off the chemistry of opposites attracting and am switching to the happy majority that knows they're okay and just needed to find some real compatibility!

ALEX LANDRY Replied...

Carl Schroeder Replied:
I totally appreciate your reply and your experience Alex, thank you! And I am writing a book about these kind of relationship issues, but it's a little more complex and spiritual than simply advising Anxious types to run from Avoidant types, which is many books on unrequited love do say. I say that relationships are transcendent and there are people we are destined to meet in life, so running from these soul connections is what Avoidants are doing and we don't want to just sink further to their level of injury/injuring. Anxious types know what love is but haven't had a consistent source, so that is what they are needy to cultivate, while Avoidant types have been directly abused by those they love and are threatened by intimacy, so the love they seek needs to be controlled. The trick is to find a healthy right relationship with everyone we are meant to love in life, reserving our full vulnerability for the most reliable secure individuals. We actually all have inner Anxiety and Avoidant personalities for different situations in which we still need to master personal success. Anxiety types when in the desperation of getting someone to love them can become extremely avoiding and escapist of the rest of their life, and like the article said they can then become Avoidant and uncaring of the spouse who gets "secured" in marriage but remains emotionally distant. Ultimately, everyone decides how much they want to get from their own life, and will find support to match, for good or ill. Hope these ideas help!



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Reincarnation Coast to Coast

Tonite my dear friend Dr. Walter Semkiw will be on Coast to Coast AM radio, interviewed for 4 hours about his reincarnation research and new website at IISIS.net! This is very exciting as the station is a phenom of alternative thinking and spiritual culture, with millions of live listeners and online archives for later listening. Walter wrote "Return of the Revolutionaries", helped to found the United States as President John Adams, and is the greatest champion alive for the new global society that will welcome and nurture the return of souls and their immortal destinies. Walter's validations have been vital for launching my career as a spiritual writer in more than one lifetime, so I'm incredibly grateful to his vision. Three cheers for Walter, You Genius! :-)

In Praise of Conditional Love

On One Condition

Just don't abuse me,
and I will love you forever.
Please don't abuse me,
so I can love you forever.
A part of me was made specifically for a part of you.
But if you try to kill another part
to which you have no response
just because it makes you fear
that I will leave,
then I will have to go.
You are not the only one I love;
that's why not all of me belongs to all of you.
But our love is unique in all the universe,
so please please let me forever give
that part of me that's just for a part of you.


by Carl Johann Schroeder, Jan 11, 2012,
you may share with credit given.

And just to be clear so there's no undue concern, the poem came to me from thinking about relationships that were unsupportive of my potential so I couldn't feel safe and had to leave to be and explore more of my true self, a situation that's often felt in families of various kinds where there are psychic contracts to not go outside the box. I share the words to resonate with many kinds of emotional unsafety, and give strength for making better boundaries like we all need for the changes of 2012. No one's growth should suffer from another person's problems that they need to solve for themselves.

the sister world

Here is a fabulous video lecture on youtube, a summary of state of the art research into the sister world as Merlin calls it affectionately. I've met the beings there, they were nice to me, but since they're wary of humans (for good reason) not everyone finds them so friendly. Note that I met them in dreams and meditations, so you definitely don't need to do radical shamanic potions that can hurt your body and land you in jail.
Graham Hancock: Elves, Aliens, Angels and Ayahuasca

a song for 2012

Happy New Year! Here's a hopeful song that came to me for 2012, may it bring you the peace and joy of "Heaven Now"

I didn't make a post for Christmas, I hope that time of the return of inner light found its blessings for you. The song is from the winter solstice 2 days before, so I think it carries some of that energy forward now.

meetups and 2012

Friends and I have been enjoying community meetings through meetup.com for a few years now. Did you know that the service started as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York City? Some visionary good folks created it to enable grassroots groups to organize and comfort each other. Since then it has grown into a worldwide system for introducing people of compatible values to each other in regular meetings on all manner of topics. Distance tools like online forums and phone conferences are certainly valuable and often necessary, but there's no substitute for the kind of local face-to-face time that meetups can offer to the spirit in a body. It's easy to sign up, pick interests, and get notified about groups as they form in your area.

This month I wrote the announcements for two meetups, my own that I've been running since July to field-test ascension ideas for my book that I'm writing, plus the dream sharing group that I've helped a friend run since early 2009. Below I'll post each description starting with my sassy introduction to 2012, and encourage anyone with a vision to consider using meetup to create their own group support experiences. People need to share and build their values with each other in like-minded communities. The recent Occupy movement has shown the power of coming together to validate each other, and now as these social justice camps are being disbanded the energy needs to continue in places like meetup. Group sharing and encouraging is a vital part of living that has always been at the root of civilization, from churches and esoteric societies to pubs and clubs of all kinds. As humanity evolves to empower itself with more specialized interests from awakening people, a tool like meetup.com can literally help us all save the world one heartfelt gathering of visionaries at a time.

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2012 is coming to town!

Let's have fun with the last meeting of the year by making our resolutions to go into the big 2012!

What's all the fuss about, should we be worried, excited, a little of both? Ok, so the big event, when the "shift hits the fan", isn't due til the end of next December, but you just know the self-fulfilling prophecies and tensions are going to keep rising all year. As ascenders, people are going to be instinctively looking to us for answers and strength! Meek inherit the Earth, baby!

Some say there will be Earth changes, from magnetic pole reversals to solar flares. As I understand, magnetic reversals have already happened many times in history, they're gradual on irregular schedules and don't have to be too meaningful or that big a deal. But solar changes can cause little ice ages like the one between 1550 and 1850, when all the classical paintings showed ice skaters on the Thames and Rhine. So who knows, maybe an antidote to global warming? I say that with all due respect, because Gaia and the Universe will help us fix anything if we let them.

Others talk about the end of the Earth experiment when the results will be graded, or the opening of the chakras. Well from what I hear, our planet has already passed with flying colors, so entrance into the Galactic Federation or whatever is assured. Check out Steven Pinker's new book for example if you don't believe it. "The Better Angels of our Nature" is a revelation for how much humanity has actually been breeding out violence for millenia, despite the invention of weapons both technological and idealogical which can make it seem otherwise. I can personally attest to the difference, as in a recent lucid dream visit to my lifetime in the Middle Ages I was shocked at the brutal vibes there.

As for opening of the chakras - hmm that could get messy couldn't it. Which is why I'm predicting and giving tips for the Lovacalypse! Uncontrolled hugging everywhere, so learn your types of love now and don't fall too hard for the big puppy eyes. :-)

Come share your hopes, rumors, and plans! Good snacks provided for festive atmosphere, bring instruments if you want to play a song.

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Interpreting Characters in Dreams & Dream Sharing

This month we'll continue our open door policy for dream sharing, which has been so very valuable for our community of dreamers. Additionally, Carl will present some ideas for how to interpret the characters in our dreams. Dream Dictionaries can give us some good starting points for what places and things may symbolize, but what about people? You can't just look up Aunt Mabel or that ex from high school, except in the most general of ways as a role. Dream characters make it clear just how very personal and rich with emotional associations are our own dreams.

Some traditions say to interpret all characters as sides of yourself, which can be a good place to start, but this excludes the fabulous mystical possibility that we really do dream of each other as well as nonphysical beings and higher friends. In fact, dreams are most useful to guide our lives when we don't just dream about ourselves, but see how we are interacting with the hidden unspoken energies of the actual relationships that are important to us.

Carl has many years of experience in navigating the continuum between sides of ourselves and aspects of others that can and do show up in dreams, so he'll present some perspectives and examples that could help you crack the riddle of recurring dream figures. Hints: someone you know in a dream often isn't that person, but someone in that role energetically, and how much it is you or another person can change from night to night, depending on what you're working on during the day, with clues to help you sort out possibilities including boundary symbols, sidekick characters, replays, and how much you can see and feel from the other's position.

As always, you're welcome to bring a dream to work on, or just come to listen to other people's processing. Dream sharing is never required to attend, only encouraged. Sharing dreams in a group provides a rich validating resource to understand the many layers and facets of subconscious communication. It is always helpful to gather together and share dreams with others, to get ideas on what our dreams tell us about ourselves and our lives, and what they foreshadow of the future.

Come, share, explore, learn, and grow with the knowledge and wisdom of our bold and adventurous dream explorers.