The Dream Journal

The upheaval in the world today is evidence that the cultural myth that we in the western world are living under is undergoing a radical evolution. Our old myths are dying. What will be our new myth and will humanity survive the chaotic transformation? Christine shares the stories of two scientists who used astral travel to explore the nature of reality in a systematic way and developed an institute called the Monroe Institute to research the phenomenon of out of body experiences.

The results of this research suggest that we each contribute to the evolution of consciousness through our own personal growth. Dreams and meditation enhance this process by reflecting back to us our own particular fears.

We take a call from Lucille from Cambria who shares with us her experience of the nine dimensions meditation which leads us to a discussion of somatics or body awareness in personal evolution.  We end with Christine talking about the power of rebirthing breathwork as a healing modality.

Christine mentions the books: Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Carl Jung, Quantum Questions by Ken Wilbur, The Answer to Job by Carl Jung and The Miracle of the Breath by Andy Caponigro. Lucille references the book Alchemy of Nine Dimensions by Barbara Hand Clow.

BIO: Christine Barrington is a Transformational Coach and supports individuals and groups to artfully engage their inner world through exploring dreams, art, and inner visioning in order to effect potent positive change in their lives. She is highly trained in depth psychology and trauma resolution techniques and uses somatic experiencing as a basis for deep listening into the non-rational sources of wisdom that reside in the embodied subconscious. Join us and hear how she combines these multiple modalities in the service of unlocking our dreams.

Contact Christine at her web page BodyBroadcasts.com

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: (1) The First Element: I Just Dropped in to See What Condition my Condition Was In and (2) Lovely lovely day by Yaya’s Kitchen

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

Show aired on November 13, 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.

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Communing in her dreams with animal spirit guides and contacting gods and goddesses is part of Kat’s shamanic dreamwork practice. She begins by describing her childhood nightmares about snakes and how Snake eventually became a powerful spirit guide for her.

Kat tells about how her “dark night of the soul” opened her up to reexamine her contract with God. She describes how surrendering can lead to new growth by sharing the Welsh myth of Ceridwen. Kat also reads a story that she created about snakes called, “We Once Were Dragons.”

We end with a question from Rick about how to identify gods and goddesses in our dreams. Kat suggests it has to do with the “twinkle in the eye” and that the god might show up even as a homeless person.

BIO: Katrina Appleby is a Certified Professional Dreamworker and a Mentor for the Institute of Dream Studies. Since the age of four Kat has been aware of the importance and power of dreams and dreamt often about snakes. She finds that it is indeed quite normal to meet Gods, Goddesses and power animals in her dreams. Kat joins us today from the UK. She is passionate about working with people and their dreams, especially with those that feel that they have a bigger purpose and calling and are looking to their dreams to find out which direction to take.

You can contact Kat Appleby through her Facebook group page called Giant’s Dreamers which can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1158082384595976/

The Institute for Dream Studies can be found at InstituteforDreamStudies.org

We play short clips from the following two guest-selected songs:

(1) Clannad’s “I will find you” the “Last of the Mohicans” song

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week. This week’s creation is called Flowminate. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for the music and also for engineering the show. Thanks to Tony Russomano for monitoring the phones.

Show aired on November 6, 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.

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We focus on how to support each other respectfully as we explore our dreams without unduly influencing or belittling each other. Geoff starts out by sharing some incidents that sparked his interest in ethics. He then shares some of the principles of the Clearness Committee which was written in the 1660s as a guideline for the Quaker community to support spiritual seekers in their midst. One principle is that the supporters are encouraged to ask probing questions rather then directive questions.  Geoff and I are both members of the Ethics Committee at the IASD (International Association for the Study of Dreams), and we speak about the IASD Ethic Statement written in the late 1990s. You can read the ethics statement at www.ASdreams.org/ethics-and-confidentiality/

Rev. Nelson then speaks about using dreams as part of other spiritual practices including labyrinth walking and personal prayer. He shares that dreamwork has been the most powerful spiritual practice that he has experienced and speaks about some of his personal practices around dreams and spirituality.

We speak with two callers. First Chris from Felton shares some dreams she has been having about being a recent empty nester. We also take a call from Ahleen from Santa Cruz who laments that most of her dreams are about everyday problems, and she wishes she could have more comforting or uplifting dreams.

BIO. Rev. Geoff Nelson, D. Min., is a retired Presbyterian pastor, from Whittier, California. He is also a trained spiritual director, labyrinth facilitator and received his D. Min. degree for running dream groups in churches which his book, “Dreaming in Church” describes. Rev. Nelson is part of the IASD (International Association for the Study of Dreams) serving on the ethics committee and the conference planning committee. He has been involved in hosting several regional southern California dream conferences with IASD. Geoff is excited about the upcoming ISD conference in Tucson next summer, which will be the first live conference in three years.

Geoff can be reached at ggnelson(at)ix.netcom.com.

We play clips from two different versions of the guest-selected song John O’Dreams.

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 October 30, 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 speak with Doris Snyder about daydreaming which is what thoughts and images float through our minds when we are otherwise occupied with simple tasks so our mind is free to wander. Doris quotes studies that suggest that we daydream as much at 40% of the time that we are awake and that this is a time that is rich in creativity and can reveal insights about our concerns much as dreaming does.

Doris suggests that we keep a daydreaming journal just like we would keep a night dreaming journal to keep track of what thoughts are bubbling up during our moments of down time. She also suggests that we set up times when we can devote our attention to daydreaming such as going for a walk or taking a bath.

Doris also talks about some ways to incubate daydreams. She lists a number of possible topics on which we could daydream including “what if I won the lottery” or “what would the perfect vacation look like.”

We then take two calls. The first is from previous Dream Journal guest Katie Mason who talks about how she works with her clients day dreams the same way that she works with their nighttime dreams knowing that they come from the same intuitive emotional place. We also take a call from Gilda who shares that she uses daydreams as a way to create poetry. She encourages us to accept the daydreams and not try to judge or analyze them.

BIO: Doris Snyder is a professional dream coach and author of Numbers in Dreams. Her holistic and creative approach to dreams has led clients and conference attendees to greater understanding of their dreams. She is a member of the IASD, the International Association for the Study of Dreams and is a workshop presenter at their annual conferences. Her new book is called, “Daydreaming: The Beauty and Power of a Wandering Mind.”

You can listen to our conversation last year about numbers in dreams here: https://ksqd.org/day-dreams-and-numbers-in-dreams-with-doris-snyder/

You can reach Doris at her webpage DorisSnyder.com

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: The Monkees, Daydream Believer and The Lovin’ Spoonful, Daydream.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week.

Show aired on October 23, 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.

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Carol starts by describing that she got interested in her dreams while sleeping for several months by her grandmother who was making her transition. She describes her introduction to the study of dreams with her mentor Robert van de Castle and his book, Our Dreaming Mind.

She then describes her role in creating the ethics statement for the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) and tells about some of the early breeches in ethics that occurred in the early days of the IASD conferences. She reads from the statement itself which emphasizes that only the dreamer is the final authority on their dreams.

In the final segment, Carol talks about the reissuing of her book At the Feet of the Master which is the result of channeling words from John the Beloved about his relationship with Jesus Christ. We talk about the idea that “In dreams, we enter God’s world. Through dreams, he enters ours.”

You can find out about the IASD here: https://www.asdreams.org/

And read the ethics statement for yourself here: https://www.asdreams.org/ethics-and-confidentiality/

BIO: Carol Warner has been working with dreams for over 45 years. She has a Master’s Degree in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Social Work from Smith College. She is a psychotherapist in private practice over the past 36 years and has served in various positions on the International Association for the Study of Dreams. As Chair of the Ethics Committee for over 20 years, she led the development of the Dreamwork Ethics Statement, the gold standard for safe and ethical dreamwork. Warner has written two books: At the Feet of the Master, which had its genesis in a dream and tells the story of John the Beloved’s life with Jesus from the point of view of John as an old man. Her second book is Return: Dreaming and the Journey which focuses on modern dreamwork.

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Chuck Berry: Johnnie B Goode and Jesus Jones: Right Here Right Now.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week.

Show aired on October 16, 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 shares stories about how her dreams for others brought them healing, insight and comfort including about the man who decided not to kill himself but instead to change his life based on one of Carol’s dreams. These dreams often feature the voices of deceased loved ones. Carol also shares how messages in her dreams helped her in her spiritual life and to heal various health issues. We take an email from Katy who has a question for Carol and shares a dream featuring a red wagon that moves uphill on its own.

BIO: Carol Oschmann has led dream groups weekly since 1986. Her education was from her own dreams. She finally connected with dream researchers from around the world in 2006 when she took a dream leadership course at the Haden Institute. Carol has written several books including Prison Dreams, and her latest, When God Stood Up. For Carol, her most amazing spiritual gift is the ability to dream for other people’s questions of God and get answers. She has done over four hundred of these, beginning in 1987. Carol is eighty-two and lives with her husband in upstate New York near her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs:

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week.

Show aired on October 11, 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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Shauna starts by sharing some of her early experiences of connecting with loved ones on the “Other Side”. Some of these connections come through dreams as well as through waking life such as Shauna’s encounters with butterflies, heart rocks and whiffs of perfume. We talk about the grieving process and how that can get in the way of receiving dreams about our loved ones.

We take an email from Amanda who shares her dreams of her deceased twin and how helpful they have been. We then take a call from Ellen who shares that she has so far never dreamed about her mother after death even though they were very close. We end with a call from Sarah who shares her experiences about dreams of her estranged deceased sister.

BIO: Shauna is the creative founder of the Growing Up in Heaven Programs for mothers who want to connect and communicate with their children on the Other Side. Shauna’s personal journey through the loss of her son has paved a path for mothers to move from grief to relief as they learn to make the connection with their child in Heaven. A powerhouse in the spiritual communication realms, Shauna’s first-hand experience with loss and grief allow her to share a wealth of soulful + heart-felt tools and support on how to navigate loss and find true meaning in life again. She runs her business from her home in Canada and is the host of The Oracle of Light Podcast. Shauna enjoys kickboxing and working out, spending time in the mountains with family and friends, and her continued quest for the perfect cup of coffee.

Visit her website to learn more: LiveALifeYouLove.org

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs: Everywhere by Fleetwood Mac and Diamonds by Rhianna.

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week.

Show aired on October 2, 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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Connecting with the feelings in our dreams can lead to improved relationships. Dr. Vishny shares some personal dream stories and also gives examples about how dreams have helped people to open up to their innate ability to love.

BIO. Keren Vishny is a psychotherapist and certified Natural Dreamwork Practitioner. She is also a teacher and workshop facilitator affiliated  the CG Jung Center, Evanston Illinois and the Marion Woodman Foundation.Over her 28 years of work in the healing arts , Keren has shifted from mainstream medical practice  to a focus on psycho-spiritual healing through dreams. Keren has a master’s in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University, studied for many years with Jungian Analyst Marion Woodman and completed the BodySoul Rhythms Leadership training offered by the Marion Woodman Foundation. In 2012 she met poet/ dreamwork practitioner Rodger Kamenetz, whose guidance and mentoring provided the capstone to her dreamwork training. Keren has experienced first-hand, the potency of dream healing. For Keren,this transformation has included improved relationships and the reemergence of her poet, after 40 years hibernation.

Keren’s dreamwork integrates a Jungian understanding of Psyche with an appreciation for the importance of felt experience  and embodied imagination.

Keren works with clients in her office in Wilmette, Illinois, and nationally via video-conference.

She can be reached via her website: www.kerenvishny.com

Also see www.thenaturaldream.com

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs:

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week.

Show was broadcast September 25, 2021 from an interview which originally aired on January 11, 2020.

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 speak about the relationship between fathers and daughters especially about what happens when the father goes missing. She gives several examples of client dreams exploring this kind of wound. We talk about the various ways that the masculine shows in up dreams and also about the negative father complex which creates a sense that the daughter can never be good enough or pretty enough. Dreams bring us hope that our difficulties can be met and surmounted.

We get a call from Jenny, my friend from my “Jenny’s GPS” dream which I shared at the top of the hour. She talks about the evolution in father figures in her dreams over the years from one which was weak or violent to a more nurturing figure. She finds she has a great deal more love for him than she used to.

BIO: Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist is a member the International Association of Analytical Psychology. She has taught in numerous Jungian programs and presented workshops and lectures in the USA and many other countries. Susan has articles in several journals and chapters in books on Jungian analytical psychology. She has a book published by Routledge in 2020 entitled, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds. Her analytical private practice is in Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA and her website is SusanSchwartzPhD.com

We play clips from the following two songs: Aretha Franklin with Respect and Billie Holiday singing All of Me

Ambient music created by Rick Kleffel new every week.

Show aired on September 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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Dr. Leslie Ellis teaches therapists to learn how to explore dreams with their clients. Natural empathy and curiosity can be used by anyone wanting to support a client or a friend with a dream they are curious about. We talked in depth with Leslie on Aug 8, 2020 about nightmares, so we skip the background talk and go right to Leslie’s latest dreams and interests.

We speak about the power of dream shards (aka snippets) and encourage listeners to record even their smallest dreams. We then shift to somatics and the “felt sense” which is the basis for the famous dreamer’s “aha”. We talk about Leslie’s specialty of trauma therapy; what are the hallmarks of PTSD, and how can dreams mark that the condition is waning? We end with a plea for people to get help with their nightmares especially if they are having suicidal thoughts.

BIO: Dr. Leslie Ellis is an author, teacher, speaker and clinical dreamworker. Her recent book, A Clinician’s Guide to Dream Therapy (Routledge, 2019) offers therapists a primer in modern, experiential dreamwork methods. Her award-winning PhD research developed a nightmare treatment process for refugees. She honed her somatic, experiential focus through extensive study of focusing, a gentle embodied approach to therapy and she is a past president of The International Focusing Institute. She studied depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and her practice is a hybrid of Jungian and focusing-oriented approaches. She is also an expert in treatment of complex trauma and post-traumatic stress injury and developed and taught trauma work at Adler University in Vancouver.

You can get in touch with Dr. Leslie Ellis at DrLeslieEllis.com

We play clips from the following two guest-selected songs:

Ambient music created new every week by Rick Kleffel.

Show aired on September 11, 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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