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Mark Twain said that.

And Robert Moss, who's fast becoming my most favourite blogger, quotes Twain after introducing a post on synchronicity and dreaming while awake with this:

"One of my rules for navigating by coincidence is: Life rhymes. We want to develop a kind of poetoic consciousness to observe how this works and develop the field perception this will give us."

Moss says we need to start to notice what rhymes in a day .... and this is when it gets really crazy. This is where we need to sail through the two Pillars of Hercules and leave everyday life behind. And this is where your friends get to say:

"Oh yeah, I remember Ishtar [supply your own name]. She used to be a very intelligent writer. But then she went mad... I wonder what ever happened to her."

There are certain members of my blood family who, reading this post, would not understand a word of it and so would consider me completely mad. I'm not mad. I just sound to them like I've swallowed a gobbledegook dictionary.

This thread is about viewing reality in a completely other way than the way we've been taught. And it does turn everything upside down. It is about how to live life as wide-awake dreamer.





Often, in my childhood, I would wander into a room, book in hand and deep in thought, and my father would start to sing, ironically:”Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me. Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee.” I don’t think he knew the rest of the words. But it happened so often, it became my theme song.

But neither he nor I knew then that there are those that live their lives that way because they have a different view of reality.

It took me several decades to get my head round the idea that my nighttime dreams had messages for me. What really got to me, in the end, was a book by Denise Linn, which finally brought it home to me that the plots and the characters in the movies I got to watch and even partake in every night, aka my dreams, were trying to teach me about me.

Nowadays, I use a different vocabulary. I say “my spirits come into my dreams at night to teach me about different aspects of myself which I need to face, transform and transmute,” but it’s the same thing.



However, it wasn’t until I became a trainee shaman that I began to notice that the spirits were not only coming into my night time experiences to teach me about me. They were also coming into my daytime experiences. **** a duck, they were in my life! Stuff would happen … Robert Moss calls it synchronicities … where it was almost as if life was a play and several dramas would get acted out in the same day that were seemingly random, disparate and not connected, but were connected by meaning. This is known as connectivity of meaning. And not only that, but the hidden message that ran like a theme through these seemingly random, disparate and separate events was exactly the answer to a question that was bugging me.

I’m writing about this today because last night I had a dream where I woke up to find all the land flooded. The Bristol Channel had come in to about half a mile away and the rest of the ground was completely water logged right up to my house.



So later on in the day, I did a shamanic journey to find out what it all meant. And I learned and re-remembered a lot about my early childhood life and some of the problems that were caused in my family at that time. I was shown the root of them. I also learned that I can't fix it, which was a relief, in a way, because as the eldest daughter, I always feel responsible for making everything all right. And through this process, I was able to release a lot of emotion ~ the tears being the water in the dream, erupted like a flood down my cheeks. Then I came out of the journey to hear about the earthquake hitting Japan and the tsunami.

Of course, my heart is sad for the people of Japan and I will be praying for them and sending money. Their suffering will feel real to them, just as it would if it happened to us here.

But at the same time, viewed through this other lens, from the other side of the Pillars of Hercules, this is what is meant by connectivity of meaning. We receive messages in our dreams, and the messages in our lives support the messages of our dreams. I sometimes think that nothing is ‘real’, but that everything is a dream and that each dream has something to teach us. The ancient Vedics thought that too. They called this ‘reality’ ‘maya’ or ‘illusion’, which is another word for ‘dream’.

And so the Fool sets out ...