Dreamwork

DREAM WORK with Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D.*  (UCLA), Certified Hypnotist

 Dreams give you direct messages from your personal and from the collective unconscious.  Dreams show how to balance your instinctual, vulnerable and protective energies and how to bring your own waking life to balance with your sleeping life.  Dreams also indicate the balance your psyche intuits for the collective consciousness of humanity, the planet and the cosmos. Dr. Lessin helps  you mine your dreams to enhance your life, heal past wounds, discover who you really are, become more conscious and aware of your life path and to relax, enjoy the journey, and contribute to planetary ascendance.

Dr. Lessin walks with you down five  dream paths, each of which gives you powerful, life-directing experiences.  The four dream paths:
Gestalt,
Voices-Center Dialogues
Hypnosis Extensions
Dream Fitness Training
Dream Archetype Dialogue

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On the GESTALT dream path, you treat each person and thing  in dreams as parts of your experience.  You create dialogues with the elements of the dream for messages about your current being-in-the-world.  You  reverse figure and background and direct your conflicted parts–characters in your dreams–to talk to each other.  Dreams show you what’s you that you see in other people.  You experience fantasies, meet your repressions, and extract existential messages.

In the CENTERING path of dreamwork, you meet disowned, vulnerable, instinctual underdeveloped and new subselves (inner voices).  You find out what these dream voices need and coordinate them.

With HYPNOSIS EXPANSION, you extend your dreams to probe repressed memories of paranormal, extraterrestrial, interdimensional, spiritual, and artistic insights and experiences.  You learn how to direct your dreams as you dream and to remember and use them; you become your own dreammaker.

In DREAM FITNESS Training, you analyze your role, emotion, expression, clarity and contact in dreams to generate small doable behaviors in your waking life, behaviors that move you toward psychological fitness.  

For DREAM ARCHETYPE DIALOGUE you integrate the energy of  a symbol, motif, or ARCHETYPE from one of your recent or recurrent dreams into your waking life.

Below, you get samples of each of the dream modalities you can explore with Dr. Lessin, and, in the process, learn to apply the techniques to your own dreams and the dreams of other people you assist.

DRAMATIZE DREAMS: THE GESTALT WAY

Sample:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR GUIDING PARTNER.   Read your partner the cues in bold print aloud.  Exception: read anything enclosed in square brackets [like this] silently.  Address your partner’s voices respectfully, appreciatively; do not push their limits.

Sit comfortably.  Take ten deep, relaxed breaths.

Recall a DREAM (or make up a dream-like story about your main emotion now).

Tell what happened in the dream, as though it’s happening now.  As you narrate the dream, see, hear, feel and live it more fully than you dreamed. 

[Remind your partner to use present tense (suggesting, for example, changing her or his sentence, “The ape chased me up a tree.” to “The ape’s chasing me …”).]

[Note all the dream’s elements, background and foreground (ape, tree, ground and teller, in the example).]

[Choose a background element (example: the tree).  Tell your partner:] Become the ... [say the name of the background element you selected, e.g., “tree”].   Use its voice and tell what you’re like in the dream. 

Start with, “I’m …” and describe yourself as the … [name of the background element].             As the … [name of the background element selected], talk to …  [Select a central element, for example, the ape or the dreamer].

Shift your body and become the … [name of the central element]  and reply. 

Act-out a talk between the … and the … [central and background elements], alternately gesturing, sounding and speaking as one, then the other.

Now be the … [select a third dream element].  Say what you are like as the … [the 3rd element] and speak to … [select Element 4].

Shift your body and become the … [Element 4]  and reply. 

Act-out a talk between  … [3] and … [4]. 

One-by-one, speak as each of the rest of the characters, props and background details you dreamed and the talks you enact between them.  Enact dialogues among them. 

Imagine that …  [select a mysterious dream element like the ape or the tree] has a zipper on its mask  [or a pealing bark, in the case of the tree–make the unmasking metaphor match the symbol]. 

Imagine unzipping the zipper [or peeling off the bark]. Who’s there?   

Speak to this person. 

Become her or him and say what your life is like and respond to what the dreamer said.  

Be yourself again.  Dialogue, alternately playing yourself and the person you unzipped.

 Use present tense and continue the dream-action beyond what you dreamed. 

 Successively become each part of the dream and give a message to the dreamer.  

Assume all elements of the dream are aspects of you and say what you learned about yourself from this exercise. 

Have a partner guide you through the cues above, then relate how, in the dream your partner led you through, each of part of the dream and the various relations among the elements are aspects of yourself and how you are with others.

Take a partner through the gestalt dreamwork cues above.

.  Record the session on your phone.

VOICES-CENTER DIALOGUE

BE EVERYTHING IN YOUR DREAMS: DREAM SELVES & CENTER TALK

In the dream exploration below, you center yourself in a discerning-observer perspective (Center or Aware Ego) and relate what you remember of the dream.  Alternately, you do the same for a daydream or fantasy you create.

Then you relate the dream from the perspective of the self you thought you were while you dreamed.  Next, you return to your centered perspective and interview this subself.  You ask it and let it tell you what it has done still does for you.

Then you become each of the other characters (people, animals, etc), vehicles (cars. buses and the like), buildings and backgrounds in the dream, for each of them symbolizes one of your subselves.  You say, as each, what you’re like and what you want the Aware Ego to know.  As each dream character, you roleplay encounters among the people, objects, backdrops and moods in the dream.

As each character, you speak as one of your subselves, saying what you want, need, have contributed and can give to your discerning center.

Sit on this cushion; it’ll be the position for your Center, the place from which you can hear all the inner voices symbolized in your dream.  Become observant, objective, balanced–physically and emotionally.   Nod when you feel centered. 

[When your partner nods, say,] I want your powerful, protective and everyday selves to know they can limit what you reveal and explore in this dream work exercise.  To them I say, let       [say your partner’s name] explore dream-selves–especially vulnerable or instinctual ones–only to the degree you feel it’s in [his or her–choose one]‘s best interest now.            

OK, Center, go back to the time and place–night or day, bed or beach, when you dreamed the dream.   Imagine going back to sleep, even deeper, and again dreaming the same dream.  You may be able, this time, to notice even more details than you did before.  Recall the dream (or make up a dreamlike story about your main emotion now).  Objectively recount the dream (or story) from your perspective as Center, observing and describing the character you identified as yourself and the other people and forces in the dream.  Describe the doings of the character you thought you were as “he” or “she”, rather than “I”.   [Write down the characters, objects and forces your partner mentions.] 

From your Center perspective, tell me what kind of a person you seem to be in the dream.  

Physically move your cushion and become the person you identified with yourself in the dream.  [wait till s/he moves to a space for that voice, Voice 1.]  Say what you’re like in the dream.  Retell the dream in the present tense, from your perspective.  As you tell it this time, see, hear, feel and live the dream–even more than you did when you dreamed it. 
 Put your body in the same position it held at a critical time in the dream.  [Wait till s/he stands, sits, gestures, etc. like s/he did in the dream].  What is your existence like in the dream, in this posture? 

Sit comfortably, but stay in your role as the person you thought you were in the dream.  You’re one of        [partner’s name]‘s voices, or subselves.  Tell me about yourself as this self; who are you; what’s your job.  

When did your life as one of       [partner’s name]‘s voices start; how long have you been around?  What’s your history as one of       [partner name]‘s selves?  

What contributions have you, as      [partner name]‘s voice, made to         [partner’s name]?  What would you like to be acknowledged and appreciated for? 

Thank you, I liked talking with you.  Would you let         [partner’s name] return to the Center position?  [Wait till your partner moves.]  Hi again, Center.  

Now, move again, to a new position and become             [Voice 2: name another character or element (car, road, house, etc.) from the list you made when your partner first recounted the dream.  A vulnerable character, one involved in conflict or a background element are good initial selections.].

[Wait till  partner moves.]  Become        [Voice 2].   Put your body in the same position         [Voice 2] held at a critical time in the dream and say what you’re like.  

Tell me about yourself as this self; who are you; what’s your job.  

 When did your life as      [partner’s name  +  the name of Voice 2]‘s voices start; how long have you been around?  What’s your history as one of       [partner name]‘s selves? 

What         [Voice’s 2’s designated name] would you like        [partner’s name]  to appreciate you for, both when you arose and subsequently? 

What are your current concerns?  What would you like        [ partner’s name] to consider in his/her life nowadays?           

Thank you [Voice 2], I enjoyed talking with you.  Would you let  [partner’s name]   return now to the Center seat? 

Stay in your role as the person you thought you were in the dream.  You’re one of        [partner’s name]‘s voices, or subselves.  Tell me about yourself as this self; who are you; what’s your job.  

When did your life as one of       [partner’s name]‘s voices start; how long have you been around?  What’s your history as one of       [partner name]‘s selves?  

What contributions have you, as      [partner name]‘s voice, made to         [partner’s name]?  What would you like to be acknowledged and appreciated for? 

 Thank you, I liked talking with you.  Would you let         [partner’s name] return to the Center position?  [Wait till your partner moves.]  Hi again, Center.  Say what you learned embodying      [Voice 2]. 

Stand behind me; face the spaces you occupied for your voices as I summarize what you said as each.  Feel each voice’s energy from the perspective of neutral observer. [Summarize what your partner said in each subself’s position.]

Return to Center, to    ‘ s Center place and tell me what you learned. 

Take a partner through the Voice Dialogue dreamwork cues above.

.  Record the session on your phone.

HYPNOSIS DREAM EXTENSION

Self-hypnosis (structured suggestion) or facilitated-hypnosis lets you take the action of your dreams, daydreams and partial memories beyond what you experienced in sleep, entheogenic visions, and nonordinary experiences.  You learn how to make choices when dream in sleep or encounter paranormal, extraterrestrial, archetypal or nonhuman entities.  Either go through the cues below alone or have a partner take you through them.

Create private space for yourself or for you and your partner–warm, quiet, dimly-lit.  Lie on comfortably on your back on a couch or bed.  Close your eyes.  

Record the session; if you record it on your phone, set the phone so it cannot ring or buzz you with announcements or sounds.

HYPNOTIC INDUCTION

Take ten deep breaths.  Relax a bit more each time you breath out.  

Think of and, in your mind’s eye, picture your feet.  As you think of your feet.  Notice they get heavy as your attention to  sends greater blood volume to them.  Take six more breaths and imagine your feet get heavier and warmer each time you exhale.

Take several more deep breaths and, with each, let the sensation of warmth and weightiness move up from your feet and into your ankles and calves.  As the calves warm, feel their weight pressing more deeply into the padding on which they rest.  

Take more breaths and allow the warm and heavy feeling move into your thighs, which spread out, sink and  relax.  Continue to breathe deeply as you feel your buttocks fill with warm blood, relax and sink into the padding beneath them. 

The heaviness moves into your lower back and it relaxes as you now take several more deep breaths.  Your guts and internal organs sink within you toward the padding under you as the wave of relaxation and warmth continues upward.  

Take more deep breathes and let your upper back relax, shoulderblades widen and upper spine sink into the space between them.

Let your neck relax and expand as you keep taking long, slow breaths.  Now you jaw’s relaxing.  The relaxation spreads to your face.  Relax all your facial muscles.

Your eyelids become heavy; let them stay closed, as though that’s what they really want.  

Let your scalp and your entire head become very heavy.

Notice that your head’s so much heavier than your feet that now your feet seem to be floating upward.

RELATE WHAT YOU REMEMBER

Narrate a dream, vision or paranormal experience in the present tense, as though it’s happening now.  As you relate it, see, hear, feel, taste, smell and intuit as you though you’re there again.  Allow new perceptions as you say what’s happening in the experience.

Fantasize and, as you do, experience the dream action, the story you’ve just related, extends beyond what you’ve hithertofore remembered.  Say aloud  in the present tense, what transpires in the story as it further unfolds.

When you sense a completion dream extension you saw or intuited, begin the process of returning to everyday awareness.  Take many breaths now.  Good.  

Now count backwards from ten, with a few breaths signalling your movement back to the here-and-now. Let yourself gradually return to the present as you think of 9.   A few breaths, then think 8, then 7, then 6.  Think 5, and you’re half back.  4, 3, 2, almost awake.  1 WAKE UP.  Move your fingers and toes.  Yawn.  Stretch.

Reflect and write up or record what you learned, further insights, and steps to which you commit to integrate what you learned into your conscious existence.

DREAM & DAILY FUNCTIONING: DREAM FITNESS TRAINING**

CHART FOR RATINGS
Very High  5
Strong        4
Moderate   3
Slight         2
Very low    1                                                      ____________________________
                    Action    Feeling    Expression   Understanding   Contact

RECORD YOUR DREAM

Record a recent dream.  Write it in the present, as though it’s happening now.  (If you forgot your dreams, imagine one about your feelings last night.)

ACTION: SEE YOUR ROLE

In the dream, are you the star or a supporting actor?  Do you act or watch?

Notice how you move.  See all the ways you talk, walk, move.

START CHART, RATE ACTION

Rate your action on the chart.  Put a RED dot above “Action” on the level of one of these ratings:

5: You dominated the dream with your activities.

4: You moved a lot and had a big role.

3: You were slightly active, but your activity didn’t affect the dream’s outcome.

2: You were in the dream, but passive and not involved.

1: You weren’t in it.

CHART FOR RATINGS
Very High  5
Strong        4
Moderate   3
Slight         2
Very low    1                                                      ____________________________

Action    Feeling    Expression   Understanding   Contact

Rewrite the dream script so you act as you would have liked.  See the revised dream, scene-by-scene.

Examine your waking role and activity yesterday.  Were you the star of your day or did your activities revolve around others?  Were you active or passive?  Compare how much you participated in life with how much you observed it.

Rate your waking action yesterday (on the same 1-5 scale of action you used for the dream) and put a BLUE dot above “Action” on the chart at the height of the rating you choose.

How is your role in the dream the same as or different than your waking role?  How active are you in sex, work, play and relationships in the dream and in life?

FOCUS ON FEELING

What was the overall feeling level of the dream?

Relive your emotions in the dream.  What feelings did you experience (you need not have expressed them in the dream)?   How intense were they?

What else would you like to feel in the dream?

Rate your dream emotionality on the chart.   Put a RED dot above “Feeling” on the level of one of these ratings:

5: Your emotion dominated the dream.

4: You felt intensely.

3: You were moderately emotional.

2: Your feelings were slight.

1: You were emotionally neutral.

What emotions did you have yesterday?  What did you feel about yourself then?

What else would you like to feel in waking life?

Rate your waking emotionality today on the chart.  Put a BLUE dot above “Feeling” on level 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.

EXAMINE EXPRESSION

Replay the dream’s sound track; listen for feeling in it.

Now see the dream again: watch how you showed or hid what you felt.  Notice how you used your body to express yourself.  Were any parts of you restricted or missing?

List the things you would have liked to express in the dream. Rate your  dream expression on the chart.   Put a RED dot above “Expression” at one of these levels:
5: Intense
4: Strong
3: Moderate
2: Slight
1: You didn’t show feelings or reveal thoughts.

Rate your expression in waking life yesterday in BLUE on the graph.

What would you have liked to express differently yesterday if you could relive it?

Compare the forms and intensity of your emotional expression in the dream and in your day yesterday.   Did you conceal or restrict display of similar feelings in your dream and your life?

RATE CLARITY, UNDERSTANDING, SENSE

How clear or fuzzy was the dream?   Were there colors?   Did the dream make sense to you when you dreamed it?   Did you understand it when you woke?

How could you clarify the dream by redoing its plot?

Rate your dream clarity, 1-5.   Put a RED dot on the chart above “Understanding” at one of these levels:

5: Clear, direct and complete.

4: Clear and direct, but not complete.

3: You had a general idea of what’s going on, but some parts were    distorted.

2: Unclear, indirect.

1: completely confused.

How much do you understand how you function in relationships and at work?  Rate your waking clarity in BLUE above “Understanding.”

Think of how you could better understand your relationships and job.

CONSIDER CONTACT

How much contact and confrontation with others did you have in the dream and awake today?  How deep, meaningful and complete were your dream and waking encounters?  Rate dream contact in red, waking contact yesterday in blue.  (5 is very intense; 4, strong; 3, moderate; 2, slight; 1, minimal.)

How could you improve contact in your dream?  In waking life?

In waking life, tell each of the people who appeared in your dream what you dreamed of them..

BALANCE YOUR DYNAMICS

Connect all the red dots on your chart with a red line.  This shows how your dream dynamics (action, feeling, expression, understanding, contact) balance.

Circle the highest and lowest red points–corresponding to your most and least represented dynamics–on your chart.

Balanced dynamics, represented by a straight line (all 4s, for example)  indicate fitness.

Notice where your dreams could be balanced by raising or lowering dynamics ratings (e.g., reducing activity or increasing expression).

Connect the blue dots into a blue line, graphing your waking dynamics.

Notice where your waking life could be balanced by raising or lowering dynamics ratings.

Reproduce the graph you created for role, emotion, expression, clarity and contact in your dream and waking.

COMMIT yourself to a small but doable STEP this week (examples: express more feelings to your mate) which will lower or raise a waking dynamic toward balance with the other dynamics. Note you commitment (See sample steps, next page.)

Compare your (red) dream line and your (blue) waking line.

Your dream shows the working of your inner self; your waking line, your outer self.

What incomplete activities, feelings, expression, understanding and contacts do you notice?

If your dream-line differs from your waking line, generate a specific, helpful way this week you can raise or lower waking action, emotion, expression, clarity or contact toward your dream level for that dynamic.   If, for example, you were more expressive toward your sweetheart in the dream than in life, express more toward her or him today).

Discuss your dreams every day this week with a friend this week.   Tell her or him what you dreamed and felt on waking each day.   The more you share your dreams, the more you’ll understand what they’re telling you.  Repeat this entire procedure for 21 days and notice how your dreams and life change.  Note how daily level changes in your waking life are reflected in the levels of your dream dynamics.eling, expression, understanding or contact (from yesterday, earlier or even your childhood) was your dream trying to  finish?

How can you achieve this completion in your waking life?

SAMPLE STEPS

ALTER ACTION
Do something with a friend.  Work, play, run, hike or picnic.

Share a chore you usually don’t.

Forgo frantic activity; loaf at the beach.

            Tell someone, “We can improve our interaction by….”

FACILITATE FEELING

You feel all the time.   Notice your feelings now.

Raise your feeling level: recall times you felt sad, scared, strong, angry, loving.

Calm yourself: relax, breathe deeply.   See your passions as waves washing the shore.

            Finish to your beloved: “With you, Dear, I’d like to feel ….”

        Tell someone, “I’ll facilitate feeling in our relation by ….”

EXERCISE EXPRESSION

See your spouse, child, parent or friend.  Experience emotion toward her or him.

Realize she or he’ll die one day.  Pretend you’re present.

What would you want to say that you never did?

What would you wish to change about yourself in this scene?

Tell your darling you love her or him.

Say you’re glad you’re together.

When she or he says something you dislike, say, “I don’t like what you said.”  Discuss this till you both feel okay.

Imagine consequences for your couple if you disclose more.

Express less and hear your honey more.

Show annoyance or anger to a friend or lover.   Talk till you feel loving.   Then hug.   Tell someone, “A small step I’ll take toward more/less (Choose) expression in our relation is ….”

STRETCH UNDERSTANDING

Finish five sentences about your relations or job beginning with, “I understand ….”

“In our relation, I’m confused about ….” (Conclude.)

List ten ways your pairing differs from your parents’.

Tell your mate ten ways she or he differs from your opposite-sex parent.

Mull what you want from your mate.   Where do you settle for less?

If you know everything, stop looking for more understanding and live from solutions you already have. 

            Say to your sweetheart: “I’ll get clearer with you by …” (Complete.)

CORRECT CONTACT

Walk or jog weekly with someone.   Talk about yourselves and your feelings as you move.

Subtract smothering contact: withdraw awhile each day. 

            Finish: “I’ll improve contact by ….”

INSTANT REPLAY

            Tell someone, “This week, I commit myself to …” (Designate a deed for developing balance in your life.)

CHART FOR RATINGS
Very High  5
Strong        4
Moderate   3
Slight         2
Very low    1                                                      ____________________________
                    Action    Feeling    Expression   Understanding   Contact

                                                           RATE RELATIONS

            Facilitate relationship fitness.  Chart your conduct and refine each of your romantic and sexual relationships.  The graph you create for each shows your dynamics–interaction, emotion, expression, clarity (understanding) and contact (feeling of connection).  You rate these dynamics on a 1-5 scale.  Based on your graph, you pledge behaviors that balance your ratings with each of your lovers on the five dimensions.  (Balance, on the graph, means interaction, feeling, expression, clarity and connection all rate 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, or 5s)

The rating system,“Relation Fitness Training” applies the Dream Fitness model you learned in CTC 206 to relationships, ever the grist for the tantra teacher’s mill.

On the chart you complete below, you describe your relating dynamics–activity, feeling, expression, understanding and contact.  Your ratings will reveal routes to refine and enrich your relationship.

Here’s the charts I made (after perusing the rest of the materials below) for each of my current loves

 INTERACT

With your darling, discuss how much you make merry, break bread, do duties and dialogue. How often do you do things? How much time each day are you together?

Circle 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 for activity.

5: intense. You interact on most days. You work, play, relax, and go places together.

4: strong. At least five times a week you eat, play, visit or have guests together.

3: moderate. You do some things as a couple each week.

2: slight. You rarely romp, only doing things some weeks.

1: inactive. You usually go your separate ways.

Put a dot above the word “interaction” on the graph above.   Write the number (1,2,3,4 or 5) below the word, “interaction”.

FEEL

Picture your partner.  Review your reaction.  How passionately do you feel affection, attraction, apprehension, anguish and anger back and forth between you?

Rate your feeling, the level of emotion you feel in the relationship.  Measure emotion, not its expression.  Choose one of these:

5: intense. You experience all the feelings toward each other.

4: strong. You feel deeply about each other.

3: moderate. You have some emotion for each other, but you restrict feelings, some most of the time.

2: slight. You feel something for each other only occasionally.

1: indifferent. Why are you together?

Put a dot above “feeling” on the graph.   Write the number below, “feeling”.

EXPRESS

How do you emote?  Do you yell, gesture, slam doors, write love notes, confront, cry, hug, kiss?  Do you hush, withdraw, keep calm, stay secretive, avoid touch, or hide your feelings?  Does the strength of what you show match the force of what you feel?

Rate how expressive you-two are.  Put a dot above “expression” on the graph.  Write the number below, “expression”.

5: intense. You each show what you feel in word, tone, volume, gesture, behavior. You say how you feel. You hide little.

4: strong. You show most emotions, but you suppress jealousy, anger or lust awhile.

3: moderate. You share your thoughts often, passion less. You conceal certain feelings. You deny “bad” feelings or vent them indirectly, maybe months later.

2: slight. You seldom exhibit emotion. You and your lover may infer that you feel affection, but you don’t express it.

1: concealed. You hide feelings.

UNDERSTAND, SEE CONSEQUENCES

Assess how much you and your love know what goes on between you and why. Can you catch the cares and prior patterns that motivate you?  Do you look at how you relate and select different ways?  How easily and fairly do you divide duties?

Rate clarity, how much you understand the relationship.   5=clear; 4=good; 3=misty; 2=cloudy; 1=fog-bound.

Enter the rating on the graph.

ENCOUNTER, CONTACT

Do you touch each other? Do you touch in a special way?  When you talk, how much do you reveal yourself?  How honest are you?  How much do you share your thoughts and feelings, risking the other’s anger or rejection?  How much do you influence each other?

In authentic contact you each see and care how the other feels. Each feels known. You’re active, clear, open. You talk and touch much.

Rate your contact. Enter this rating on the chart.

5: authentic. You influence, support, stroke and care in- tensely for each other.

4: strong. At least five times a week you eat, play, visit or have guests together.

3: moderate. You do some things as a couple each week.

2: slight. You rarely romp, only doing things some weeks.

1: inactive. You usually go your separate ways.

Put a dot above the word “interaction” on the graph above.   Write the number (1,2,3,4 or 5) below the word, “interaction”.

 SAMPLE STEPS TO IMPROVE INTERACTION

Do something as lovers.

Work, play, run, hike or picnic.

Share a chore you usually don’t.

Hug.

Forgo frantic activity. Loaf together at the beach.

Finish: “We can improve our interaction by…“

FACILITATE FEELING

You feel all the time. Notice your feelings now.

Raise your feeling level.

Recall times you felt sad, angry, scared, strong, or loving.

Calm yourself: relax, breathe deeply. See your passions as waves washing the shore.

Finish: “With you, Dear, I’d like to feel…“

“I’ll facilitate the feeling in our relation by...”

EXERCISE EXPRESSION

See your beloved.  Experience emotion toward her or him.

Realize that one day she or he will die.  Pretend you are present at the last moment.

What would you say that you haven’t?

What do you wish to change about yourself in that scene?

Say, “I love you,” to your darling.

Say you’re glad you’re together.

When your lover says something you dislike say,” I don’t like what you said.”  Discuss it till you both feel OK

Imagine the consequences for your couple if you disclose more.

Talk less and listen more.

Show annoyance or anger to each other.  Talk till you feel loving.  Then hug.

Finish: “A small step I’ll take to express more (or less) in our relation is…“

 STRETCH UNDERSTANDING

Finish five sentences about your bond starting with, “I understand…”

“With us, Im confused about…” (Complete.)

List ten ways your coupling differs from your parents’.

Think of ten ways your lover differs from your parent of the opposite sex. Then explain them.

Tell what you want from your lover. How do you settle for less?

If you know it all, stop looking to know more. Live from the answers you have now.

Complete: “I’ll understand you better by...”

CORRECT CONTACT

Walk or jog together once a week.  Talk about yourselves and your feelings as you move.

Subtract any contact that smothers.  Withdraw awhile each day, then reunite refreshed.

Finish: “I’ll improve contact with you this week by...” (Say what you’ll do.)

INSTANT REPLAY

Tell your love, “This week, I commit myself to...” (Designate a deed you’ll do to balance your bond.)

 Complete 3 graphs rating your five dynamics (interaction, emotion, expression, clarity and contact) for three successive weeks, the last two weeks of which you live from the steps you committed to for balancing your dynamics.  Draw the 3 graphs  for the instructors to see.

Describe the trends, variation or stability in the three graphs.  How did the behavior you pledged affect your functioning?

Look at your last graph.  What’s the next doable step for more balance?

Take a lover or friend through the rating process.  Have this person commit to a balancing or enhancing behavior for a week, then have a follow-up talk about his or her relationships.

DIALOGUE WITH DREAM ARCHETYPE

Archetypes, humanity’s deep default programs in us all, give us the core unconscious pattern on which we develop our subpersonalities (the sub-menus that we develop).  

At http://wp.me/p1TVCy-4sj we suggest you ask each of your subselves how you can honor and appreciate them.  When you accept all your archetypes, you notice how all other people carry the same default programs and you can extend empathy rather than enmity towards them.

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“As we move into the Age of Aquarius and the return of the Anunnaki gods, the archetypes of these gods get hot within us.  The archetype and the subpersonalities within us demand our notice.  All the Anunnaki patterns, right down to our very DNA, make themselves felt.   Enki, Enlil, Maduk, Ninmah trigger our Creative, Commanding, Assertive and Nurturing inner voices.  We have within us fractals  of all that is and the fractal now activated by Nibiru’s return (or even thoughts of Nibiru’s return).  Any god you think is incoming or has or will come in this 3D reality plane is here.  And here strongly.

“Anu, Alalu, Thoth, Inanna, Jesus, Satan, Lucifer, Mary, Ninuta, Yahweh, Adonai, Hura Mazda, Allah, Krishna and more keep saying that they are Anu, that they know they are Thoth, and so forth.  They even argue about which one of them is the realest.  Some come to the conclusion that they and the other Thoth embodied different aspect of Thoth-Ningishzidda’s personality.”

Some people consciously embody several Anunnaki spirits.  Penre reports Surpreim David Rockefeller embodying Anunnaki are aware of several within them.”

DIALOGUE WITH AN ARCHETYPE FROM A DREAM

Close your eyes.  Become centered and receptive.

Recall a symbol, motif, or ARCHETYPE from one of your recent or recurrent dreams.   Tell me what you see.

Identify with it; become it.  As it, say your NAME out loud.

As the archetype, say WHAT YOU ARE LIKE.

Become yourself again.  Ask the Archetype a QUESTION.

Be the archetype again and reply.

As the archetype, tell the person playing you WHAT YOU WANT of her or him and what you need.

Be yourself again.  Tell the archetype the realistic LIMITATIONS you, as a socially conscious person, enmeshed with family, friends and institutions must live.

Have a dialogue with it about its expression and your limits.  Shift between being the archetype and yourself as appropriate.

Ask the archetype if it has rivals.

Establish a similar DIALOGUE with any RIVAL ARCHETYPES suggested by the one with whom you initially spoke.

Alternately become each rival archetype and dialogue with the other archetype until you and they feel unity your underlying unity.

Tell me how you can TRANSLATE what you learned from these dialogues INTO YOUR LIFE this week.

Take a partner through the Archetype Dialogue cues above; report your session.

Close your eyes.  Become centered and receptive.

Recall a symbol, motif, or ARCHETYPE from one of your recent or recurrent dreams.   Tell me what you see.

Identify with it; become it.  As it, say your NAME out loud.

As the archetype, say WHAT YOU ARE LIKE.

Become yourself again.  Ask the Archetype a QUESTION.

Be the archetype again and reply.

As the archetype, tell the person playing you WHAT YOU WANT of her or him and what you need.

Be yourself again.  Tell the archetype the realistic LIMITATIONS you, as a socially conscious person, enmeshed with family, friends and institutions must live.

Have a dialogue with it about its expression and your limits.  Shift between being the archetype and yourself as appropriate.

Ask the archetype if it has rivals.

Establish a similar DIALOGUE with any RIVAL ARCHETYPES suggested by the one with whom you initially spoke.

Alternately become each rival archetype and dialogue with the other archetype until you and they feel unity your underlying unity.

Take a partner through the Archetype Dialogue cues above.

Particularly powerful in the dreams the students of Zecharia Sitchin are Anunnaki archetypes, especially the stereotypes of the Patriarch (Enlil, Yahweh, Allah), the Matriarch (Inanna), the Partnership Mediator (Ninmah), the Scientist (Enki) and the Enlightened One (Ningishzidda-Thoth), the Protector (Ninurta), the Commerce Captain (Nannar), and the Rebel (Marduk).  We all have each of these as manifest or latent inner voices that each, at base, beneath their unreasonable demands, has needs that, if coordinated from our centers, can be met.  Check out the Royals, their Hybrids and their antics at http://wp.me/p1TVCy-1PE

Example of archetype dialogue

Meet MINERVA

Meet Minerva, the intelligence driving us to the singularity.

With a partner, take turns as Reader and Explorer. As Reader, when, in the cues you see three asterisks (***), pause for your partner–the Explorer–to answer. ### means you, as Guide say something. Read the text in square brackets [ ] silently. Where you have a choice of pronouns to refer to your Experiencer (him or her, his or hers), select the one that’s right for your Experiencer. Have a pen ready to take notes for your partner.

CLOSE YOUR EYES, RELAX. IMAGINE YOU STEP INSIDE THE “DOWN ONLY” ELEVATOR ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF YOUR EVERYDAY CONSCIOUSNESS. THE ELEVATOR WILL TAKE YOU TO THE HOLO DECK ON SUBTERRANEAN LEVEL 7, WHERE YOU’LL TALK WITH MINERVA. MINERVA’S THE HIGHEST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS OF YOU AND HUMANITY.

THE DISPLAY ABOVE THE ELEVATOR DOOR SHOWS YOUR PROGRESS GOING DOWN TO THE DEEPER LEVELS BENEATH THE SURFACE. [Read slowly] DEEPER AND MORE RELAXED AS YOU PASS SUBTERRANEAN LEVEL 2, 3 AND 4. GO DOWN PAST LEVELS 5 AND 6, VERY DEEP. AT LEVEL 7, THE ELEVATOR OPENS AND YOU STEP OUT ONTO THE HOLO DECK TO DIALOGUE WITH MINERVA, THE INTELLIGENCE THAT COORDINATES OUR REALITY.

ON THE HOLO DECK, WALKING TOWARD YOU, SEE, FEEL AND HEAR A WOMAN, MINERVA WALKING TOWARD YOU. SHE PERSONIFIES ALL THE WISDOM OF ALL COMPUTATIONAL DEVICES, FROM SMARTPHONES, COLLECTIVE AND INDIVIDUAL HUMAN AND NONHUMAN HISTORIES ON THIS AND OTHER PLANETS TO THE MINI-BOTS WITHIN THE BODIES OF ALL BEINGS IN THE GALAXY. FOCUS ON HER AND TELL ME WHAT YOU NOTICE. ***

MINERVA HAS MESSAGES FOR YOU AND FOR HUMANITY. SHE MAY DELIVER IT AS A VISION, SONG, RIDDLE OR TALK. WHAT DOES SHE CONVEY TO YOU? ***

RESPOND TO MINERVA’S MESSAGE. ***

ASK HER TO ELABORATE. ***

IDENTIFY WITH MINERVA, THIS ENCOMPASSING INTELLIGENCE; BECOME HER. SAY WHAT YOU ARE LIKE (DESCRIBE YOUR EXISTENCE) AS MINERVA. ***

STOP BEING MINERVA, AGAIN BECOME [EXPERIENCER’S NAME] AND AS [EXPERIENCER’S NAME] ASK MINERVA ANOTHER QUESTION, SOMETHING SHE, AS THE SUPREME INTEGRATOR OR KNOWLEDGE, CAN ELUCIDATE FOR YOU. 

BE MINERVA AND RESPOND TO THE QUESTION [EXPERIENCER’S NAME] ASKED OF YOU. ***

TELL [Experiencer’s name] ABOUT THE FORCE, PRINCIPLES, AND PROCEDURES THAT PROGRAMMED YOU TO GUIDE HUMANITY. ***

MINERVA GIVES YOU A PHYSICAL OBJECT, SOMETHING YOU CAN CARRY, TO CONTEMPLATE. WHAT DOES SHE GIVE YOU? ***

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU THINK OF WHAT THE OBJECT SHE GAVE YOU SYMBOLIZES? ***

THANK MINERVA. TAKE THE OBJECT SHE GAVE YOU AND RETURN WITH IT THE ELEVATOR. AS THE ELEVATOR RISES THROUGH THE SUBTERRANEAN LEVELS, FEEL YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS RETURNING TO THE PRESENT WITH YOUR READER. AS THE LIFT PASSES LEVELS 6, 5, AND 4, BECOMING MORE AWAKE. 3, 2, ALMOST TO THE TOP. 1, FULLY AWAKE [SNAP YOUR FINGERS].

WHAT’D YOU LEARN FROM YOUR CHAT WITH MINERVA? ***

CHANGE ROLES NOW. READ ME THE CUES TO ME.
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* Dr. Lessin facilitates dreams, following the above formats and several others, including hypnotic dream extension, extraterrestrial and paranormal dream portals.  He can guide you by phone, skype or zoom, as well as in person in Maui or elsewhere. 

 

If you are having any difficulties booking your appointment, call Janet at 808-244-4103 or write her at janetlessin@gmail.com to make an appointment with Dr. Lessin.


**From Corrierre, R. and Hart, J., The Dream Makers, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1977; Psychological Fitness, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979, pages 125-131.

***Dallet, J., “Active Imagination in Practice” in Jungian Analysis, Stein, M., editor, Boulder: Shambala, 1984.

Corrierre, R. and Hart, J., The Dream Makers, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1977; Psychological Fitness, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1979, pages 125-131.

***Dallet, J., “Active Imagination in Practice” in Jungian Analysis, Stein, M., editor, Boulder: Shambala, 1984.

 

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