The Dream Journal

We talk with certified Spiritual Director Pam Muller about working with our dreams starting with playfulness and trust. She shares a playful dream of her own about defusing a bomb by solving a riddle about pudding.

We then go into the topic of HSPs or Highly Sensitive Persons, a condition discussed by Dr. Elaine Aron and thought to affect up to 20% of the population. You can find out more about what that means at HSPerson.com. HSPs are what Pam calls “deep meaning makers” which makes them perfect for inner work such as dream exploration.

We then talk about the HadenInstitute.com and its programs in the Christian mystical tradition, Jungian psychology and dreamwork. They are having an upcoming virtual conference during the week after Memorial Day. Pam describes her role as Spiritual Director as being a combination of life coach and spiritual anchor and shares that she sees her role as that of being invited to sit in awe and wonder with her clients.

We then take a call from Ellen who share a prophetic dream and asks how this might be possible. We also get a check-in from a final caller who asks about the aboriginal concept of Dreamtime. We all agreed that it would be wonderful to have a guest on the Journal who knows more about this topic. If you know someone who knows about this or it you ever have a suggestion for a guest, please do contact me at [email protected].

We are doing a pledge drive during this show (I did edit out most of the pitching), and I would heartily appreciate your donation at KSQD.org. Any amount helps and when you donate, you get a chance to tell the station that you are a Dream Journal supporter!

BIO: Pam Muller (known affectionately as Sweet Georgia Pam) is a trained spiritual director specializing in dream work and author of the book “33 Ways to Work with Your Dreams”. She is a mentor for the Haden Institute’s Dream Work Training Program and serves as the president of the board for the nonprofit Zeitgeist (a platform for training spiritually independent seekers).

Pam is an experienced presenter, writer, group leader, mentor and dream expert. She is a highly sensitive empath and her understanding, compassion and nurturing spirit are palpable in every area of her work.

She employs more than 15 years of experience studying the language of the dreaming mind to guide individuals and groups through deeply personal journeys of self-discovery.

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Show aired on April 24, 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].

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We speak with astrologer Dr. Michael Lennox starting with his realization in his late teens that he has a gift for seeing meaning in other people’s dreams. He shares some of his formative dreams and says this of his astrological training, “I did not learn astrology, I remembered it”. He also shares some anecdotes about working with dreams on a recurring television show. We take a call from Lucille asking about how we often respond to collective experiences in our dreams. We end by talking about the shadow and projection and about Dr. Lennox’s upcoming class called “Diving into the Shadow.”

Bio. Psychologist, Astrologer and Dream Expert, Dr. Michael Lennox has been helping people have a deeper understanding of their unconscious mind for almost twenty-five years. In workshops, in the media, for private clientele and on the internet via his popular website www.michaellennox.com , Lennox guides people through life’s mysteries with a deep and profound wisdom delivered through a humorous and extemporaneous style that has become his trademark. He is your ambassador to conscious embodiment. His #redrobeastrology reports on Instagram are growing in popularity with every passing month, reaching thousands of people every day.

A highly sought-after media expert, Dr. Lennox has been seen internationally on many television shows, beginning with the Sci Fi Network’s The Dream Team with Annabelle and Michael, in January 2003. His radio and podcast appearances talking about the power of dreams and the impact of astrology now number in the hundreds.

Lennox obtained his Masters and Doctorate in Psychology from The Chicago School. Astrology and Personality, his Doctoral Dissertation, is published by Lambert Academic Publishing out of Germany. Lennox is the author of three books on dreams, Dream Sight: A Dictionary & Guide for Interpreting Any Dream was published by Llewellyn Worldwide Press in 2011 and is now available in five languages. His second book, Llewellyn’s Complete Dream Dictionary came out in May of 2015. The Little Book of Dreams was released in September of 2017.

Dr. Lennox leads classes, workshops, and retreats all over the United States and conducts a worldwide private practice based in Southern California. He is followed by thousands of people on Facebook and his #redrobeastrology offers daily guidance to an enthusiastic social media audience.

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Show aired on April 17, 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 speak with Alaya Dannu about her experiences of receiving teachings in her dreams which she calls Ancestral Dreaming. We start by talking about her early experiences with deceased relatives speaking to her in dreams. She tells us that we can encourage these dreams by learning about and getting in touch with the diversity of our heritages with emphasis on the locations and mythologies of where we came from more than just the people that were our specific ancestors.

Alaya encourages us to “follow the breadcrumbs” of our dreams to enquire into our past lives as well and distinguishes between our conscious ancestry as opposed to our biological ancestry. We then touch into what Alaya’s dreams and visions have revealed about female-centered cosmology and the legend of the Seven Mothers as well the use of color in connecting with our dreams. Finally is there a connection between prophetic dreaming and deja vu?

Alaya Dannu will be presenting her views on Ancestral Dreaming at the IASD virtual  conference coming up in June. Find out more at asdreams.org. A picture of Alaya’s painting that we speak about is published on the IASD Dreams and Ethnicity portal and can be seen there.

We take three callers. Christine inspires a conversation about how to approach our heritage when we aren’t aligned with the actions of our ancestors. Ellen speaks about looking for teaching moments in our dreams. And finally Karen wishes to thank Christine for calling and encourages her to surrender to her ancestors and to be open to what they will teach.

BIO: Alaya A. Dannu, MA is a woman of mixed heritage, born in Texas, raised in NYC. She endeavors to illuminate the nature and importance of ancestral dreaming and its ability to enhance academic and scholarly inquiry. Combining her background in Transpersonal Psychology and 20 years of dream documentation, part of her purpose in life is to re-establish and bring awareness to a female-centered cosmology that has been revealed to her in her dreams, trance/guided meditations, and shamanic journeys, as it is the foundation of her maternal ancestral tradition. This also serves as the topic of her dissertation thesis she is currently working on as a doctoral student. Her three year, three month, and three-week ancestral pilgrimage that was crafted and revealed to her by her ancestors in her dreams, served as a means to highlight the connection between her diverse biological ancestry and spirituality, further reinforcing the importance of knowing and honoring one’s origins, true identity, and purpose in life.

You can contact Alaya at Diya (at) cosmogenia.com

During the show we mention the book The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant.

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Show aired on April 10, 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.

We talk with IASD president Dr. Angel Morgan about our upcoming conference June 13-17, 2021 which will be fully virtual and available from your own living room with workshops, keynotes and symposia on dream-related themes ranging from the arts, to culture, history, personal growth, research and theory as well as art, receptions and the famous IASD Dream Ball. We discuss Angel’s presentations which will be called Dreams and the Arts and also Lucid Dream Drama.

We then talk about the diversity work that the IASD has been doing under Dr. Morgan’s watch as well as the Dream Study Groups Program.

We share an email from Santa Cruz listener Ray N. asking about practices that would help him bring his dreams into his music composition. Angel urges Ray to record any musical dream gifts immediately upon awakening and also to share the finished pieces with others. We end with Angel sharing the way her father helped her to learn to lucid dream when she was four years old.

We play pieces from Dr. Morgan’s original dream music including Charade and Ancestral Healing Dream. You can listen to Ancestral Healing Dream on the IASD’s Dreams and Ethnicity Portal.

Bio: Angel Morgan, PhD, President of IASD, is a dream psychologist, founder/director of Dreambridge, adjunct professor and research faculty in the Global PhD in Transpersonal Psychology program at Sofia University. She specializes in dreams, creativity, and the connection between the two (Dream-Arts). She has a chapter in Sleep Monsters and Superheroes: Empowering Children Through Creative Dreamplay called “Dragons, Angels, and Rites of Passage: The Universal Language of Children’s Dreams” and won the Best Screenplay Award from The Buddha International Film Festival in India for a story filled with dreams, spiritual development, consciousness exploration, and humor. Her books are The Alphabliss of Miss, and Dreamer’s Powerful Tiger: A New Lucid Dreaming Classic for Children and Parents of the 21st Century (now also an audiobook).

You can learn more about the IASD and its June virtual conference at asdreams.org

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Show aired on April 3, 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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“Bleed through” dreams, romancing our dreams and dreaming on medication. A conversation with Alyssa Spungen. We also touch on how sharing our dream in a group can deepen our experience of it and on Alyssa’s experiences in the dreamwork training program with the Institute for Dream Studies.

We work one of Alyssa’s recent dreams about driving someone else’s car and maybe falling into the water with it or not, and we answer questions from two listeners. Diane through Instagram asks Alyssa about a time in her life when her dreams were especially vivid. Naomi asks by email that if we have “negative emotional responses” in our dreams about someone we know in waking life, should we then distance ourselves from them?

We finish by Alyssa reading her dream-inspired poem titled, “Swing Set over the Moon.”

BIO: Alyssa Spungen (she/her/hers), is a dreamer from Tucson, Arizona. She is currently in the process of obtaining certification as a dream-worker with IDS (the Institute for Dream Studies) and is particularly interested in how we collaborate with our dreams. Alyssa sees sharing and working with dreams as powerful tools for building interpersonal relationships, developing intimacy in groups, and accessing the collective mind. Alyssa has been working in behavioral health for 3 years and is currently at Tucson Counseling Associates, which specializes in anti-oppressive outpatient psychotherapy services for children, teens, adults, couples and families. She is a Trauma-informed Yoga Teacher and writer. Alyssa posts dreamy art and writing on her Instagram @yourdreamfish.

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Show aired on March 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.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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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.

We speak with Lauren Schneider about how our dreams prepare us for what’s to come in waking life. She gives examples of her own precognitive dreams ranging from mundane problem-solving dreams to sublime encounters. She also shares dreams that her mother had over the years leading up to her recent passing. Lauren gives us ideas about how to successfully incubate dreams by ramping up our state of yearning and also how to use a daily drawing of tarot cards as a spiritual practice. Lauren talks about how the children of survivors are often themselves stressed or even die before their parents.

We then take a caller from Ray of Westside Santa Cruz who shares a dream of trying to get his empty plate filled with food. Lauren and Katherine explore ideas about how the dream might be offering help with Ray’s desire to put on some weight, and we also muse about the collective aspects of the dream relating to how we feed ourselves as a species going forward. We finish by addressing how dreams so often reflect aspects of the larger collective in addition to the particular needs of the dreamer.

Lauren Z. Schneider has been a psychotherapist, consultant, author, trainer and group facilitator for three decades. She pioneered an innovative approach to spiritual psychotherapy through dream work and Tarotpy®. Lauren lectures worldwide, facilitates workshops and on-going dream and Tarotpy groups for therapists and laypersons. Over many years, she has paid particular attention to prescient dreams which offer insight and guidance on collective issues, relationship dynamics, and navigating life from birthing to death.

Lauren’s new book will be available in early April and is called Tarotpy: It’s All in the Cards.

Contact Lauren Schneider at her webpage:

DreamsandTarot.com

which will soon be migrated to DreamsandTarotpy.com

Here are two tarot images that Lauren refers to during the show which she drew leading up to the time of her mother’s death:

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Show aired on March 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.

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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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 speak with friend of the show Bill St. Cyr about many things starting with how common shame is and how the mean voices that we carry around make it hard for us to let in the love that’s all around us. We talk about how in our desire for safety we sometimes put ourselves in a kind of self-imposed prison and also about how test taking in a dream is often about shame. Bill shares a dream in which a deep sense of relaxation and acceptance came for him when a dear friend came up and put their forehead up against his.

We talk alot about how important it is to learn to hold ourselves in tenderness. I bring up the idea of having a treasure hunt with our dreams in which we look for moments of support and love in our dreams rather than always focusing on the difficult moments. We talk a bit about something called the entropic theory of the brain which draws parallels between the dreaming brain state and the brain on psychedelics and how they both can throw our brains into enough disarray that we come out of them in a new state.

We then take a call from Christine Barrington who shares a dream where she felt support, and she speaks about how we all learn best when we learn through connection. She also shares that a heretic is by definition one who choses.

Bill closes by encouraging us to bring tenderness to our life’s journey every step of the way.

Bio: Bill St. Cyr is a devoted student of the dream and of the process of coming into deep consciousness in the face of the trauma and alienation that is so endemic in our culture. Bill has over 10 years experience working with dreamers and teaching practitioners the practice of Embodied Dreamwork. He has presented and facilitated over 75 workshops, retreats and conferences throughout the US, Canada and Europe.

To learn more and to contact Bill, see his and his partner Sue Scavo’s website: StudentsoftheDream.com

Books we talked about include Pema Chodron’s Start Where You Are and Lisa Barrett’s How Emotions are Made.

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Show aired on March 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.

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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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.

(Sorry for the delay in publishing this week due to a problem with the KSQD server.) We start by exploring some of the early spontaneous lucid dreaming experiences of our guest Dr. G. Scott Sparrow. He then shares some of his favorite lucid dreaming induction techniques and suggests that meditating before sleep can enhance lucid dreaming. We then talk about co-creative dreaming which is where the dream is viewed as collaboratively created by the dreamer and the dream itself. These dreams and working with them in waking life can help resolve long-standing issues in the dreamer. We then go through the steps of the FiveStar Dream technique.

Dr. Sparrow talks about his free online groups that are being offered now through the Dream Star Institute. He then shares some of his own dreams of religious figures and the opportunities that the dreams were pointing to and the resistances in himself that they highlighted. We talk next about Scott’s research into the supplement galantamine as a way of enhancing lucid dreams. He will be presenting this research at the IASD virtual conference in June as well as a workshop on the co-creative method.

We take two calls. The first call is from Barbara June from Charlestown, West Virginia who shares a life changing dream from years ago where she learned to be more accepting of herself and a new dream from this morning in which she sees that a “ghastly insect”. At first she tries to get rid of it but ultimately learns that it can be helpful. Scott quotes Rainer Maria Rilke, “Everything that is terrible is in the final analysis only something that wants our love.”

The second call is from Julie who shares a dream about a young girl that she finds in the garage. The girl is upset and is saying that she wants to know what’s going on. She recognizes that this may be a part of her both from her current waking life and also reflecting a pattern from her childhood.

BIO: Gregory Scott Sparrow, EdD, LPC-S, LMFT, is a full Professor in the Counseling Department at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and a charter faculty member of Atlantic University in Virginia Beach. He is one of earliest lucid dream researcher, having  a past President and Board Chair of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD), and has maintained a psychotherapy and supervision practice for over 37 years. He specializes in existential, Jungian, family systems, and transpersonal approaches to therapy, and has developed a widely used approach to dream work based cocreative dream theory and his lucid dream research, called the FiveStar Method. He is founder of DreamStar Institute, which offers mentoring and certification in co-creative dream analysis. He has authored several books, dozens of articles and home-study courses in the field of lucid dreaming, religious experience, dream theory and dream analysis.  He is founder and clinical supervisor for DreamStar Free Online Counseling.

We talk about the Great Walk which includes the four components of dreams, meditation, inspired creativity and eco-spirituality with spiritual dream guide and shamanic dreamer Dr. Paul Overman. Paul shares some of his visionary experiences and suggests that by inviting ancestors or loved ones to walk with us that we can deepen our experience of the subtle world. Paul then speaks about dreaming under the guidance of the soul and makes distinctions between the Midheavens, the Heavens and the Source. In the third segment, Paul talks about how we can work with our own dreams using meditative visualization and then offers tips on how to recognize shamanic elements in our own dreams and how to use our dreams to explore our own inner shamanic landscape.

BIO: Paul Overman, Ph.D., is an author and an East-West mind-body-consciousness explorer and researcher. A former practicing psychologist of forty-years, Paul currently is a member of Spiritual Directors International, conducting webinars, seminars and online courses – as well as giving personal assistance and training. In his work, Paul integrates meditation, dreams, inspired creativity, and Eco-spirituality. He calls the synthesis and practice of these four guides and ways of living The Great Walk. Paul has listened to and guided youth, adults, and our elders for over forty-seven years about their life dreams, goals, obstacles, desires, and wishes. He has guided individuals in their heart-felt need for harmony and healing, as they sought to align their life direction with their soul needs and life direction.

You can learn more about Paul at his website: TheDreamListener.com

You can play without charge his popular CD: TenMintuestoRelax.com

And you can download his ebook free of charge at TheShamanicDream

We play a piece of music written and performed by Hanna Asazuma-Cheng which was shared by her for use in this podcast.

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Show aired on February 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.

The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page is found here.

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We talk today about the transrational logic of dreams with Hadley Fitzgerald and following our soul’s calling. We begin by talking about how addiction coopts the natural longings of our soul and how commercial images also can overwhelm our inner archetypal images leading to feelings of unworthiness and depression. We also talk about Hadley’s idea that our birth chart represents our DNA or Divine Natal Agenda. Hadley shares a riveting story of a dream about her deceased mentor that totally changed the course of her life causing her to move across the country and start a new career.

We take two calls, one from Carol about a recurring dream of bliss with her ancestors and one from Mel who shares a tender dream about feelings coming up for her around caring for her mother who died four years ago.

Hadley Fitzgerald, MA, LMFT, has been a licensed psychotherapist for almost as long as she’s been an astrologer. She integrates poetry as well as images from the birth chart, from dreams, and from multiple Tarot decks in her teaching and her private client work. She has degrees from UCLA and Phillips Graduate Institute; a certificate in Ecopsychology from the Institute for Cultural Change; and is also a Certified Tarotpy® Practitioner. She’s the co-author with the late Judith Harte of Images of Soul: Reimagining Astrology, the author of the Psychological Astrology section of Under One Sky by Rafael Nasser, and an online educator with Astrology University. She believes we have another kind of DNA—a Divine Natal Agenda—and at the heart of her training and her work is the question: “What does your soul want of you?”

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.HadleyFitzgerald.com

She’s in the Los Angeles area and can be reached at 818-783-3891

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Show aired on February 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.

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.

Apple Podcasts

Google Play

Stitcher 

Spotify

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.