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Dream time is the
time you get into when you go to
sleep and have a
dream.
Dream time talks
about permanent conditions within your
own psyche
as they relate to the
physical conditions of your
life now, at this moment.
For example, you may be
worried about whether you are going to pass an exam. Then you have a
dream of some
category of
failure. You will find that
failure will be associated with many
other failures in your life all
piled up together there in your subconscious.
The
dream is an inexhaustible
source of spiritual information about yourself.
Now the level of
dream of "Will I pass the exam?" or "Should
I marry, this
girl?" that is
purely personal. On
another level the
problem of passing an exam is not simply
a personal problem.
Everyone has to pass over the threshold of
personal self limitation.
That is an
archetypal
thing.
So there is a
basic mythological theme there even though it is a
personal dream.
These two levels; the
personal aspect and then the big general problem
of which the
individual's
problem is a local example are found in
all social cultures.
To
understand your
dream all you have to do is
remember your
dream in the first place, and write it down.
Then take one little fraction of the dream,
one or two images or ideas, and associate with them.
Write down what comes to your
mind, and again what comes to your
mind, and again. You'll find that the
dream is based on a
body of experiences that have some
category of significance in
your life and that you didn't
know were influencing you. Soon the next
dream will come along, and your
interpretation will go further.
Ever
since Freud's Interpretation of
Dreams was
published, there has been a
recognition of the importance of dreams.
Dream interpretations have existed for millinium.
People of all cultures have succumbed to superstitious notions about
dreams. For example, "Some
thing is going to
happen because
I dreamed it
is going to happen," or "I dreamed
that was going to happen."
A
dream, arising from our
subconscious mind, is a personal
experience of that deep,
dark ground that is the support of
our conscious lives.
A myth is a social
culture's dream.
A myth is a
cultural dream and a dream is a
private
myth.
If your private
myth, your dream,
happens to coincide with that of the culture, you are
in good accord with your social culture.
If your private
myth, your dream, is
not in accord with your social culture, you've
got an adventure in
the deep dark forest ahead of you.
Visionaries have moved out of
social cultural protection and
into the deep dark forest,
into a reality broken
down into it's basic elements,
a reality of first hand
original experience. These
original experiences have not been
interpreted for you, and so you've got to
work out reality for yourself.
Either you are forged in this
fire of original
interpretation of
reality, seeing things anew or you become lost and must
return to the previously known
social cultural
interpretation of
reality.
You don't have to go very
far off the currently popular social
culturally interpreted
path to find yourself in very
social culturally difficult
situations.
The courage to
face the trials and to bring a whole new
body of possibilities
into the field
of interpreted
experience for
other
humans to experience - that is the hero's deed.
Dreams come from the
imagination.
The
imagination is grounded in the
energy of the organs of the body, and these are the same in all
human beings.
As
imagination comes out of one
biological ground, it is bound to produce certain themes.
There are certain characteristics of
dreams that are similar, no matter who is
dreaming them.
On some levels a private dream runs into truly mythic themes and
can not be interpreted except by an
analogy with a
myth. Carl Jung
speaks of two orders of dream, the personal
dream and the archetypical dream,
or the dream of mythic
dimension. You can
interpret a personal
dream by association, figuring out what it is talking
about in your own life, or in
relation to your own personal
problem. But every now and then a
dream comes up that is
pure myth, that
carries a mythic theme.
There is
another, deeper meaning of
dream time -
which is of a time that is outside of
time which is simply just an
enduring state of being.
-adapted from the
Power of Myth, interview of Joseph Campbell,
mythologist, by Bill Moyers, journalist.
Australian Aboriginal
Dreamtime - Alchera
"Initiation is equivalent to introducing the novice
to the mythical history of the tribe; in otherwords, the initiand learns the
deeds of the supernatural beings, who, in the dreamtime, established the
present human condition and all the religious, social, and cultural
institutions of the tribe. All in all, to know this traditional lore means to
know the adventures of the ancestors and the other supernatural beings when
they lived on earth. In Australia these adventures amount to little more than
long wanderings during which the beings of the dreamtime are believed to have
performed a certain number of acts. As we saw, the novices are obliged to
retrace these mythical journeys during their initiation. They thus relive the
events of the dreamtime. For the Australians these primordial events represent
a sort of cosmogony - although, in general, the work of the dreamtime is one of
completing and perfecting: the mythical ancestors do not create the world; but
transform it, there by giving it its present form; they do not create man, they
civilize him." - Mircea Eliade
The
Dreaming is a sacred
time outside living memory
when ancestral heroes traveled across a formless land
creating sacred sites and all the
living things out of their own
essence merging into the
Mother of all
things - the
Earth.
All life is part of a vast and complex single
network of relationships which can be traced directly back
to the great spirit ancestors of the
Dreaming.
In this
Dreaming lies the sacredness of
the Earth.
The
life spirit of a
human being is derived from
connections with ancestors and the
Earth.
Each
human being is an incarnation in
human form of the original ancestral
spirit.
This
eternal
spirit existed before the
life of the
individual begins, and continues
to exist when the
life of the
individual ends. Both before and
after life, it is
believed that an ancestral
spirit exists in the
Dreaming and is only initiated
into life by being born through a mother. At death, the ancestral
spirit returns to the
Dreaming to commune with the other
ancestral spirits.
Every
individual in an
essential way
exists eternally in the
Dreaming.
When the mother
felt the child move in the womb for the first time, it was thought that this was the
work of the ancestral
spirit of the
land in which the mother currently stood.
Upon birth the child was considered to be a special custodian of that part of
the land and was taught the
stories and songlines of that place.
Songlines travel across Australia, through as many as six to ten different
language groupings. The songs and dances of a particular songline are kept
alive and frequently performed at large gatherings.
The
expression 'Dreamtime' is often used to
refer to the 'time before
time', 'time
outside of time' or 'the
time of the creation of all
things', as though it were the past.
But Dreaming in a
real sense
is also of the present and of the future.
Aboriginal people call
Dreaming the all-at-once
time because they
experience it as the past, present, and
future existing at the same
time.
The everywhen of the
Dreaming is considered to be
objective, while linear time is considered a
subjective creation of the wakeful
consciousness of one's own
lifetime.
The
Dreaming is often used to refer to
spirituality.
The
Dreaming
stories are
stories about
creation of sacred places, landforms, people,
animals and plants, law and tradition.
The
Dreaming includes a complex
network of knowledge, faith and practices
derived from stories of
creation which dominates all
spiritual and physical aspects of
Aboriginal life.
The
Dreaming sets the structures of
society, the rules for social behavior and the ceremonies performed in
order to maintain the life of the
land.
The condition that is Dreamtime
is met when the tribal members live
according to tribal rules and
traditions, and initiate through rituals and
songlines a state of mind relating their
subjective consciousness directly to
the objective Dreaming of the
Dreamtime.
Also see Joseph Campbell on:
in the beginning
image
myth
life
consciousness
archetype
metaphor
mystery
the
serpent
religion
hero
God
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