The Dream Journal

What is a futuristic dino apple? This is a creature that came out of Katie’s forearm in a dream. She has been working with this image for years now and it has opened a rich vein of authenticity. Katie talks about this image and about how leading a parade in Santa Cruz was the most fun thing she has done so far in her life.

We talk about learning to play and to getting into our child selves. We talk about dreams and creativity and daydreams. Katie will be giving a performance at the IASD conference in Tucson July 17-21. Learn about the conference at IASDconferences.org/2022/

We take a call from Sebastien from Ohio and he describes a dream in which he meets a dead professor at a theme park and ends up with gazpacho soup. We also get a call from Doris Snyder from New Jersey.

BIO: Katie Mason, MA, LPC is from Colorado. She is a psychotherapist and facilitates growth and healing using Dreamwork in her Private Practice. Katie is also a dream performer, combining spoken word poetry, humor and dream images to creatively express her dream truths.

Contact her at katiemason.com

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Trampoline (by Shaed) and Here I come (Izo Fitzroy).

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

Show aired on January 22, 2022.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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The work of 13th century poet Dante is a decades-long fascination for our guest who read for us three cantos from her forthcoming book buried [a place] which is patterned after the epic poem, The Divine Comedy. Each poem in Sue’s book is a canto in a larger arc which reflects her personal journey including her powerful relationship with her dreams.

We touch on issues including going through hell, the potential for violation in the teacher / student relationship, the development of discernment, finding voice, getting in touch with intuition and the futility of dream dictionaries.

We end by talking about Sue’s offerings including a dream-forward arts magazine called Deluge Journal, the Limina School which you can find at Students of the Dream, her blog about Dante and more. Her book buried [a place] will be available soon. by pre-order from Anhinga Press.

BIO.

Born [in the middle] in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sue has lived most of her life at one edge [California] or another [New England]. Her debut book of poems Buried [A Place] is forthcoming Spring, 2022 from Anhinga Press.

Her work has been published in numerous publications including Poet Lore, Blue Heron Review, Aster(ix), Burning House Press, Literary Mama, Panolopy and others; and in anthologies, including What Have You Lost? ed. Naomi Shihab Nye (Harper Collins). Before receiving her MFA from New England College, she was awarded a writer’s residency at The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont where she became a staff artist.

Sue is co-editor/co-founder of deLuge Literary and Arts Journal and is a Dreamwork Teacher/Practitioner who has taught/presented internationally at conferences/venues such as Esalen Institute, Kripalu Center, Breitenbush Retreat Center, The Rowe Center, Hollyhock and the International Association for the Study of Dreams.

SueScavo.com – author page as well as dream page

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs both by U2: Love is Bigger Than Anything in its Way and Ordinary Love.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

Show aired on January 15, 2022.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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Gilda Morina Syverson reads three of her dream-inspired poems throughout the show starting off with one about connecting with her ancestors. Gilda then talks about her Italian-American father and how his interest in dreams sparked her life-long interest.

We speak about spiritual guides, guardian angels and animal guides (which can appear in either dreams or waking life) and also the dream revolution, day dreaming and potholders (yes potholders).

It’s a banner day for the Journal; we take two phone calls and four emails from listeners who have questions ranging from angels to dream droughts. One of the callers is Doris Snyder who we talk about in regards to day dreaming. Doris was on the show in October.

BIO: Gilda Morina Syverson is a poet, author, artist and educator with an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She is a Healing Touch Practitioner and a Memoir Instructor. Gilda has been writing poetry for over thirty-five years much of which is based on her extensive dream life. Her books of poetry are called In This Dream Everything Remains Inside and Facing the Dragon. Gilda’s award-winning poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals, magazines and anthologies in the US and Canada. Her Italian-American heritage is also the impetus for many of her poems and her first memoir, My Father’s Daughter, From Rome to Sicily.

Contact her at GildaSyverson.com.

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Iron and Wine, Call it Dreaming and Josh Groban, To Dream the Impossible Dream.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks for the music and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

Show aired on January 8, 2022.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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Happy New Year! We start by speaking about announcing dreams where pregnant women dream about their children-to-be and segue to how the body holds memories even from pre-verbal experiences such as childbirth. We touch into visitation dreams then shift over into talking about Kim’s diagnostic dreams and the advice she received from them during her recent healing experiences.

We then talk about the dream-based practices that Dr. Mascaro recommends including sleep hygiene, meditation, dream journaling and making dream art, as well as joining a dream group. We also talk about synchronicities and how working with dreams helps us to deepen our intuition.

We end by speaking about the upcoming IASD conference in Tucson, July 17-22. The deadline for proposing a presentation is coming up at January 10. Look into the details of the conference here: https://iasdconferences.org/2022/

BIO: Kimberly R. Mascaro, PhD, LMFT is a holistic psychotherapist, nonfiction author, visual artist, and university faculty with over 20 years of professional experience in the field of mental-behavioral health. She is passionate about wellness and spiritual development holding certifications in hypnotherapy and yoga nidra. Dr. Kim is the author of two nonfiction books: Dream Medicine: The Intersection of Wellness and Consciousness (2021) and Extraordinary Dreams: Visions, Announcements and Premonitions Across Time and Place (2018). Her presentations and workshops are rooted in consciousness, dreamwork, and self-care.

Contact her at ConsciousChimera.com

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Heart Math Doc Childre, Song One and Song Four.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. The piece today is called Sympetheseum. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

Show aired on January 1, 2022.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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A special live Christmas show with long-time Dream Journal listener Lucille Bosco from Cambria. She speaks about her history with astrology and tarot also studying Jung as she worked for her Master’s degree at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2006. She also addresses how virtual reality has parallels in the dream world. There is a potential for deep dream incubation or practicing for lucid dreams using virtual reality.

Lucille draws a card for the show from her Shaman Deck which turns out to be number 17, the Earth card, and we spend the second segment talking about tarot cards and how she uses them especially during times when she is having few dreams. We get a call from Sylvia from Dryden, Ontario who shares with us the Christmas miracle that she saw a rainbow that morning even in their snowy -20 degree weather. She also shared with us some of her techniques for incubating dreams and choosing tarot cards using sacred objects.

We end by talking about my new round of Experiential Dream Workshops which will start up again January 10 since both Lucille and Sylvia have been regular members of the group since it began in May of 2019. Send me an email if you have quesitons or would like to join.

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Lucy in the Sky with Diamond by the Beatles and Brand New Day by Sting.

Lucille does astrology readings and interactive Tarotpy. You can contact her by email at libralubo at yahooo.com

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Max Deaton for answering the phones.

Show aired on Christmas Day, December 25, 2021.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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We turn the mic around today and Katherine is interviewed by the host of Narrative Species, music creator and engineer for the show Rick Kleffel. Katherine starts by talking about her history first growing up in a family of six scientists and then as an astrophysicist getting her PhD from UCSC and working at NASA in Mountain View for 11 years. We talk about the evolution of her focus from thoughts to feelings as she moved from science to dreams.

Katherine describes her experience of almost dying in 2005 because she was able to successfully suppress her feelings until her appendix ruptured and how this lead her to go deeper into her dreams. Katherine recommends accessing emotions through bodily sensations rather than using labels and describes the parts of the brain that are active during dreams. She encourages listeners to set up their own dream groups and describes how difficult it can be to distill the chaos of dreams into a concrete dream report.

We take a call from Chris from Felton who was a member of Katherine’s original dream group which started in the 1990s. Chris asks Katherine about her vision for the future. She finishes by talking about the book about dreams that she is working on.

Katherine is going to start up her Monday afternoon group again by mid-January. Contact her if you’d like to join.

BIO: Katherine has worked with dreamers and dream groups for 25 years and has presented in venues ranging from local to international. She works with the international association for the study of dreams where she is on the Board of Directors and the Ethics Committee. Also she is the conference planning co-chair. Katherine is working on a book about dreams. She came to Santa Cruz as an astrophysicist in 1985 and earned a a PhD, after which she worked for NASA in Mountain View for 11 years. Find her at ExperientialDreamwork.com

Books that are mentioned:

How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut

Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill by Jeremy Taylor

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Reina del Cid and Toni Lindgren cover Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece” and Achilles Wheel plays “This Is Life”.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

Show aired on December 18, 2021.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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The picture shows Dr. Tom Whalen on the left with his beloved Zen teacher on the right.

Katherine speaks with Dr. Whalen about Dreamwork and Zen each of which he has practiced for over thirty years. He speaks about his synthesis of these two disciplines into what he calls Dream Koan practice. We then delve into our guest’s medical pain practice and what results he has seen in using ketamine to ameliorate treatment-resistant depression.

We take two listener calls. The first is from Ellen who speaks out in favor of microdosing psychedelics. The second is from Dr. Whalen’s colleague Rick Issan Elkin, and he speaks about sacred mythology and their collaboration called The Eighth Wave.

BIO: Tom Whalen is an MD practicing pain medicine. For the last 15 years, he’s been following advances in neuroscience, including the use of psychedelics to treat addiction and PTSD. His passion lies in the realms of spiritual practice. After personally experiencing psychedelics in the 60’s, he recognized the short-term benefit that these provided, and sought a more sustaining form of practice. He began to practice Zen in 1971, and eventually found his lineage teacher in 1997. He has been given transmission in the Maezumi-Glassman-Ancheta Roshis lineage, authorized to be a “teacher.” Thirty years ago, he began practicing Archetypal DreamWork with Marc Bregman and Christa Lancaster, with whom he continues to have weekly sessions. With these two practices, he has synthesized a “new” form of Zen practice, which he calls Dream-Koan practice. He currently offers this practice with his buddy and Dharma brother, Rick Issan Elkin, through the Eighth Wave Community at EighthWave.org

Show aired on October 17, 2020.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

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We start off by speaking with Katherine about working with cultural symbols vs letting the dreams speak for themselves through embodiment and personal associations. Gerette questions the idea that certain techniques are difficult to do on one’s own and we launch into a discussion of what to look for in a dream teacher including certification and evidence that they are doing their own work.

We also talk about the ethics of dream sharing from the point of view of the teacher or therapist. For one thing one must be aware of the egotistical high that can come from being in a position of authority. Also we speak about the pressure of being in the projections of the people we work with and how important it is for the teacher or therapist to be self-reflective and to have their own support network.

In the context of peer support, we mention the work of the Association for Spiritual Integrity which can be found at Spiritual-Integrity.org

We take a call from Jane who asks how can a practitioner recognize when a client is not the right fit for them?

Katherine’s BIO: Dr. Katherine Lawson has an MA in Counseling Psychotherapy from Pacifica and has her doctorate from Saybrook University in Mind-Body Medicine with a specialty Integrative Mental Health.  She is a therapist who has studied extensively with Robert Bosnak and is a certified Embodied Imagination practitioner.  She recently released a book: Dreamwork for Growth and Healing: A Guided Dream Journal. You can reach Katherine at DreamsHeal.com

Gerette’s BIO: Gerette Buglion is author of An Everyday Cult, a memoir which shows how her innocent quest for meaning left her open to manipulation by a controlling dream teacher. Gerette’s current work is in Cult Recovery and Education. Her signature writing course called, ‘Writing to Reckon’ offers a safe space for cult survivors to share their stories. She is a founding collaborator of the #iGotOut movement, whose mission is to encourage people who have experienced cultic abuse to tell their stories. She also has a podcast called Everyday Cults, Everyday People.

You can reach Gerette at GeretteBuglion.com and at Igotout.org

Both of these guests have been on the Journal before here they talked more about their specific history and influences. You can find Katherine’s show here: https://ksqd.org/embodied-imagination-with-katherine-lawson/, and Gerette’s show here https://ksqd.org/an-everyday-cult-with-gerette-buglion/,

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Head Full of Doubt by the Avett Brothers and Walking in the Rain by Grace Jones.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Today’s composition is entitled Anullabye. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

Show aired on December 4, 2021.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

It’s a dreams extravaganza as Katherine exchanges dreams with Lucille from Cambria in this show. Lucille starts with a dream in which she explores the symbolism of rectangles vs squares concluding that she gives “a little more leeway” than most of the people she knows. She also notes that she changes her clothes in the dream to be wearing her favorite color, purple, and laments that it can be hard to let go and accept the things that happen in life. We reference the poem “When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple”.

Katherine then shares a dream about taking care of some very colorful lizards owned by my writing teacher. Lucille asks about my association with lizards and it brings up for me the kind of “lizard mind” which reminds me of a kind of primitive instinctive part of myself. This also reminds me of my writing process and Lucille shares a quote from Stephen King in which he says that as a writer that you should “Just keep going”.

Lucille then shares a second dream in which she is debating with others about the environment. The dream brings up ideas about what she can and can’t do in waking life around such big and important issues.

I finish out with a couple more dreams from my journal including one about building a space ship and another about my relationship with my husband, Max.

We play longer than usual clips from the following songs: Every Day is a Winding Road by Sheryl Crow and All around the World by Taj ‘Mo.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. This week’s creation is called Soft Fall. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Max Deaton for answering the phones.

Show aired on November 27, 2021.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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Our guest is a certified dream group leader, a marketing strategist AND a musician who writes and performs her own dream-inspired songs (two of which we play on the show). We talk about the visitation dream that inspired her early interest in dreams and what inspired her to go deeper to receive her certification with the Institute for Dream Studies. We also talk about using active imagination for honing brands and envisioning career choices.

We take a call from Pamela from Los Angeles who asks if she gets to decide on the meaning of her own dream.

BIO: Sharon Pastore is a brand and marketing strategist and a dreams expert. She is a mentor for those in career transition, and she helps mission-driven founders get brilliant ideas out of their heads and out into the world. Her Empassioned Way™ process infuses data with dreams psychology for higher levels of creativity and problem-solving. She also is the founder of the Dream Girl Power project and runs dream groups plus workshops on intuition, dream interpretation, and lucid dreaming. Sharon is a dreamwork professional certified through the Institute for Dream Studies and is a Regional Representative for the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Sharon Pastore is also a singer-songwriter and performs locally in Pennsylvania with her husband in the acoustic duo, Miss Nay and Mr. Maas.

You can find Sharon at her two webpages: EmpassionedMarketing.com and DreamGirlPower.com

Other pages of interest are the International Association for the Study of dreams at ASDreams.org and the InstituteforDreamStudies.org

We play longer than usual clips from the following two songs created and performed by Sharon as part of the musical duo Miss Nay and Mr. Maas: (1) The Devil Takes the Lead and (2) Fear of the Fall.

You can find more of their original music at the following link MissNayMrMaas.com

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

Show aired on November 20, 2021.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at [email protected].

If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact [email protected], or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

You can also check out The Dream Journal on the following podcast platforms:  Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

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